My greatest year abroad challenge is to catch up on almost a decade of reading. For somebody bent on becoming a writer, I’ve been dreadfully neglectful of the essence of my craft for too long. So it’s time I put my nose to the grindstone and got reading, if I’m ever to get to the stage where I can be happy with any novel of my own. Here’s my list for the year. I’ll tick them off as I go along:
King Solomon’s MinesThe WizardThe Lost WorldThe Ghost KingsMontezuma’s DaughterToo Few for DrumsRebelThe Virgin and the GypsyFlashmanThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeMoby DickSergeant Verity and the Imperial DiamondMarie- My Zulu, Myself
- Treasure Island
- The Viking
- Things Fall Apart
White FangChild of StormAllan’s WifeThe Boy SlavesMughalShadow of the MoonDominionMaiwa’s RevengeThe People of the MistThe OutrunDirty Havana TrilogyAmerican GodsCarribee- The Last Horseman
- She
- Segu
- Americanah
- Prisoner of Paradise
- The Tea Planter’s Wife
- Finished
- Flashman’s Lady
- Flashman and the Great Game
- Copperhead
- Indalo
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Allan Quatermain
- For the Term of His Natural Life
- Heart of Darkness
- The Cossack
- Three Sisters
- King of the Khyber Rifles
- Trade Wind
- Bayonets along the Border
- The Knife of Never Letting Go
- My Driver
- Zemindar
- Cutting for Stone
- Seven Days for an Eternity
- Confessions of a War Child
- The Pharaoh’s Daughter
- The Crescent Moon Kingdoms
- The Last Armada
- Saladin
- Last of the Mohicans
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Lady of Skye
- Full Tilt
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Winter King