Booklist

Via Norm comes this entertaining, if fairly pointless, parlour game: pick a novelist to represent each letter of the alphabet and a book of theirs you’ve read (and enjoyed!). My list:

A: Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
B: John Buchan, Greenmantle
C: Albert Camus, L’Etranger
D: Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
E:
F: F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
G: Alasdair Gray, Lanark
H: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I: Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let You Go
J: Jerome K Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
K: James Kennaway, Tunes of Glory
L: Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
M: Andrei Makine, Le Testament Francais
N:
O: Flann O’Brien, At Swim Two Birds
P:
Q:
R: Joseph Roth: The Radetzky March
S: Stendhal: Le Rouge et Le Noir
T: Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
U:
V: Gore Vidal, Washington DC
W: PG Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
X: Pass!
Y:
Z: Emile Zola, Therese Raquin