The Grand Guyana Gap Year Reading List

Surprisingly, since I love reading and always have a book on the go, I came out to Guyana armed only with three books (Youth and Heart Of Darkness, in one volume, by Joseph Conrad, The Oxford Book Of Exploration, by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, and Lonely Planet's South America on a Shoe-String), but over the course of my time here Simon and I seem to have accumulated a number more, so we are rarely short. Below, then, is the complete list of books we have, (a list which I have also stuck up on my bedroom wall, and which I am slowly ticking off), and my progress so far (plus, if any inspire you, there are the Amazon links too - I know, I have far better things I should be doing...). Since Simon and I have quite different tastes (although I'll read anything), and because a lot of the time we just have to take what we can get, it's quite a range, but there's a good few classics in there:

• Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab (Read)
  
• Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Read)
  
• Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (Read)
  
• I, Claudius - Robert Graves (Read)
  
• Death And The Penguin - Andrey Kurkov (Read)
  
• The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene (Read)
  
• Have I Got Views For You - Boris Johnson (Read)
  
• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Read)
  
• Papillion - Henri Carriere (Read)
  
• Travel Writing - Don George (Read)
  
• The Red Tent - Anita Diamant (Read)
  
• War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy (Read)
  
• The Oxford Book Of Exploration - Robin Hanbury-Tenison (Partially read)
  
• Youth and Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Previously read)
• The Complete Works - William Shakespeare (Partially read)
• Notes From A Big Country - Bill Bryson (Read)
• Immediate Action - Andy McNab (Not yet read)
• Against All Odds - Chuck Norris (Not yet read)
• Paddy Mayne - Hamish Ross (Read)
• Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis (Not yet read)
• The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe - Douglas Adams (Read)
• The Beach - Alex Garland (Read)
• Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk (Not yet read)
• The Case Of The General's Thumb - Andrey Kurkov (Read)
• A Matter Of Death and Life - Andrey Kurkov (Read)
• Penguin Lost - Andrey Kurkov (Read)
• A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - Gil Courtemanche (Read)
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco (Read)
  
• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (Read)
• Death in the Andes - Mario Vargas Llosa (Read)
  
• Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernières (Read)
• The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Not yet read)
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco (Read)
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Not yet read)
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Read)
• Cancer Ward - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (Now reading)
• Castaway - Lucy Irvine (Not yet read)
• The Blood Price - Jon Evans (Not yet read)
• An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears (Read)
• Rendevous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke (Read)
• Rama II - Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee (Read)
  

Some of the above we brought out with us, others we have been sent; some we nabbed from the Project Trust flat in Georgetown (we'll return them one day, we promise!) and from the school library, and still others have been lent to us by friends in Guyana. But, of course, if anyone has more books than they know what to do with, then feel free to send them our way!