oh god, i could ramble forever about my favourite books
some perennial favourites include

all of bret easton ellis but especially glamorama
all of jeanette winterson but especially sexing the cherry
all of kazuo ishiguro but especially when we were orphans
all of jon mcgregor
all of jonathon coe but especially the house of sleep
all of margaret atwood
all of david mitchell
all of isabel allende but especially of love and shadows
if on a winter's night a traveller - calvino
eunioa - christian someone i think
the unbearable lightness of being - kundera
the aberystwith books by malcom pryce - detective fiction with a postmodern twist
audrey niffenegger's ones
the master and margarita - bulgakov
death and the penguin - kurkov

non fiction:
the art of looking - alan fletcher
watching the english - kate fox
all points north - simon armitage

um, i think i should stop now. sorry.
( evil pixie, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 17:32, 4 replies)

Ah! Eunoia!
Thanks for the reminder. That was on my list of things to read, but keeps getting forgotten. It's now in my amazon basket.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 17:41, closed)

are you e. e. cummings?

( .Yeti., Thu 5 Jan 2012, 18:06, closed)

I read Hotel du Lac
a few years back. I'm not sure why I finished it as I'm sure I was suffering more from the dullness of the book than the protagonist was in her life.
Maybe that was the point of the writing style.

Edit: I could have sworn that you had Anita Brookner in the list. My bad.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 18:23, closed)

Glamorama
agree. What a brilliantly erratic book. Loved it, although it gave me anxiety from time to time.
(technocore, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 5:05, closed)