Letters

Here's a fun, if slightly anoraky game. Take all the letters of the alphabet and give the name of a novelist and one of their novels which you have read for each letter. Here's mine.

Amis, Kingsley: Lucky Jim
Buchan, John: Greenmantle
Camus, Albert: The Plague
Dostoevsky, Feodor: The Brothers Karamazov
Elroy, James: American Tabloid
Fitzgerald, F Scott: The Great Gatsby
Grossmith, George and Weedon: Diary of a Nobody
Houellebecq, Michel: Platform
I -
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Kurkov, Andrey: The Case of the General's Thumb
Lawrence, DH: Sons and Lovers
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: 100 Years of Solitude
Nabakov, Vladimir: Lolita
O'Brien, Flann: The Third Policeman
Peacock, Thomas Love: Nightmare Abbey
Q -
Rankin, Ian: Black and Blue
Sade, Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de: Justine
Trollope, Anthony: Phineas Phinn
U -
Voltaire, Francois-Marie: Candide
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
X -
Yerofeev, Venedikt: Moskva-Petushki
Zola, Emile: Nana

From this you may deduce that I have never read anything by Ishiguro or Isherwood, Updike or – well, I can't even think of any Xs (anonymous works don't count, do they?) or Qs.

It might be more fun, and more revealing to do the same with a group of writers whose works I have missed out on. Or, failing that, books. Watch this space.