Pickpocketing Normski (Part One)

Technically, I lifted this from Virtual Stoa but, British blogging being British blogging, the trail always leads back to Normski.* The rules are quite simple:

'You copy the list [of books] from the last person in the chain, delete the names of the authors you don't have on your home library shelves and replace them with names of authors you do have. Bold the replacements.'

My revision of Normski's list is as follows:

Fiction - always plump first for the make believe when you can.

1. Bernard McLaverty

2. Mikhail Bulgakov

3. Carl Hiaasen

4. Raymond Carver

5. Grace Paley

6. Ian McEwan

7. Patrick Hamilton

8. P.G. Wodehouse

9. Fyodor Dostoevsky

10. Marguerite Yourcenar

Non-Fiction

1. David McLellan

2. Maximilien Rubel

3. Studs Terkel

4. bell hooks

5. Primo Levi

6. George Orwell

7. C.L.R. James

8. Ralph Miliband

9. Eduardo Galeano

10. David Widgery

Mmm, looking at both lists suggests that we wouldn't have much to talk about by way of either fiction or non-fiction. It also reminds me that I need to read A Coin In Nine Hands again.

* Less an online variant of 'Six Degrees of Separation' as more of a 'One Link From Normski' way of life.