ON READING

“I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read” - Stephen King

I’ve been reading books for as long as I can remember. While science fiction and fantasy were my mainstays as a youngster, more thrillers, dramas, historical fiction novels, and non-fiction titles entered my reading list as time passed.

Favourite Novels

It isn’t easy to pick a favourite, but if I had to, it would be from this list (in no particular order):

  • Magician - Raymond E. Fiest
    and the sequels, Silverthorn & Darkness at Sethanon

  • Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett <<< Probably my favourite

  • Shike - Robert Shea

  • The Godfather - Mario Puzo

  • Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

  • The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen R. Donaldson
    Lord Foul's Bane, The Illearth War, The Power that Preserves

  • Dune - Frank Herbert

  • Shogun - James Clavell

  • Hyperion - Dan Simmons
    and Fall of Hyperion, Endymion & Rise of Endymion

 

Reading List 2025

The Dwarves - Markus Heitz

(AB) - Audiobook

 

Reading List 2024

In Too Deep - Lee Child
Detective - Arthur Hailey
(AB) Hunters of Dune - Kevin J Anderson & Brian Herbert
Triple - Ken Follett
(AB) A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J Maas
Everyone this Christmas Has a Secret - Benjamin Stevenson
The Kill List - Frederick Forsythe
Did I Ever Tell You This? - Sam Neill
(AB) A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Maas
The Sentinel - Lee Child
(AB) A Hole in the Sky - Peter F. Hamilton
(AB) Invisible Boys - Holden Sheppard
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
(AB) Paul of Dune - Kevin J Anderson & Brian Herbert
Centurion - Simon Scarrow
(AB) Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
A Most Wanted Man - John le Carre
(AB) Dune - Frank Herbert
The Sigma Protocol - Robert Ludlum
(AB) The Ruin - Dervla McTiernan
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
Gump & Co - Winston Groom
(AB) Treasure and Dirt - Chris Hammer
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Romulus, My Father - Raimond Gaita
(AB) The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton
Proxima - Stephen Baxter
The Ambler Warning - Robert Ludlum
Everyone on this Train is a Suspect - Benjamin Stevenson
Being Henry - Henry Winkler
(AB) Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
The Parsifal Mosaic - Robert Ludlum
(AB) Chapterhouse Dune - Frank Herbert
Better Off Dead - Lee Child
Making it So: A Memoir - Sir Patrick Stewart
The Day of The Jackal - Frederick Forsythe
Armour of Light - Ken Follett
Holly - Stephen King
(AB) Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Fairy Tale - Stephen King
(AB) Moonwar - Ben Bova
(AB) Moonrise - Ben Bova
(AB) God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
Stalin’s Wine Cellar - John Baker