'Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leafs a flower,
But only so a hour,
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay'.
Robert Frost
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe.
My Side of the Mountain - Jean George.
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac
The Player of Games - Iain M Banks
Nearly everything by Terry Prachett
The Rebus novels by Ian Rankin
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters - Julian Barnes
Iced - Ray Snell
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Høeg
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Herbert Selby Jr
The Collector Collector - Tibor Fischer
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Wanderers - Richard Price
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee