Original Blog

The blog of Dominic De Jonge.

Books I particularly liked

I will keep it to only my favourite books.

fiction

  • Love Story by Erich Segal
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett (every single one)
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (up to the So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
  • Shōgun by James Clavell
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Inferno by Dante
  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

non-fiction

  • Twelve Years a Slave by David Wilson
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore