Saturday 7 January 2017

Suggestions of books to read for those of a left-wing outlook

Here is a list of books (fiction)  that people who 'follow' me on Facebook have suggested would be a good read for people of leftwing disposition!

1984
Orwell
20000 streets under the sky
Patrick Hamilton
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
All Things Betray Thee
Gwyn Thomas
Alone in Berlin
Hans Fallada
An Inspector calls
Priestley
Another Country
James Baldwin
Barbary Shore
Norman Mailer
Barry town Trilogy
Roddy Doyle
Berger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
Bidden to the Feast
Jack Jones
Bone
Daniel Woodrell-Winters
Border Country
Raymond Williams
Candide
Voltaire
Carpentaria
Alexis Wright
Catch-22
Heller
Children of the Arbat
Anatoly Rybakov
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
B.S. Johnson
Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Cities of Salt
Abdelrahman Munif
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton
Complicity
Iain Banks
Comrade Tulayev
Serge
Cornelieus Quartet
Michael Moorcock
Death Ship
Traven
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Down and out ‪In Paris and London
Orwell
Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
Flatland
Edwin A Abbott
Fontamara
Ignazio Silone
Germinal
Émile Zola
Gods Bits Of Wood
Ousmane Sembene
Hawk by Yasir kemal
Yasir kemal
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Highrise
JG Ballard
History of Mr Polly
HG Wells
Homage to Catalonia
Orwell
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
How to fly with broken wings
Jane Elson
IN Jail with Nazim Hikmet
Orhan Kemal
In the Fog of A Season's End
Alex La Guma
In the Thirties
Edward Upward
Intellectual Life of the Working Class
Jonathon Rose
Iron City
Lloyd Brown
Iron Heel
Jack London
Jew Boy
Simon Blumenfeld
Jews Without Money
Michael Gold
Jude the Obscure
Hardy
Kestrel for a Knave
Barry Hines
Kiddar's Luck
Jack Common
King Lear
Shakespeare
La Condition humaine
Andre Malraux
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
Les Miserable
Victor Hugo
Leviathan
Paul Auster
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
lord of the flies
William Golding
Love of Worker Bees
Alexandra Kollontai
Love on the Dole
Walter Greenwood
Mars Trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell
Men in the Sun
Ghassan Kanafani
Middlemarch
Eliot
Midnight in the Century
Serge
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
Nausea
Sartre
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga
News from nowhere
William Morris
No Home But the Struggle
Edward Upward
Number 11
Jonathan Coe
Orientalism
Edward Said
People of the abyss
Jack London
Perdition
Jim Allen
Petals of Blood
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Piano Player
Kurt Vonnegut
Pig Earth
Berger
Portrait of the Artist
Joyce
Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Red/Green/Blue Mars Trilogy
Stanley Robinson
Regeneration Trilogy
Pat Barker
Rivethead
Ben Hamper
Road to Wigan Pier
Orwell
Robert Kelvin Trilogy
David Mercer
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Sillitoe
Scifi
China Mieville
Scots Quair trilogy
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Slaughterhouse-5
Kurt Vonnegut
South Riding
Winifred Holtby
Strumpet City
Plunkett
Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Surface Detail
Iain Banks
Ten Days that Shook The World
John Reed
Tess of the D'Urbevilles
Hardy
The Adventurers
Margot Heinemann
The Black Sheep
Balzac
The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and other stories
Hama Tuma
The Catastrophist
Ronan Bennett
The Classic Slum
Robert Roberts
The Dark Side of Love
Rafik Schami
The Death Ship
B Traven
The Devil on the Cross
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin
The Earth Beneath
Harold Heslop
The Emigrants
Wilhelm Moberg
The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Georgio Bassani
The Goatibex Constellation
Pavel Iskander
The God of Small Things
Roy
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
The Good Soldier Svejk 
Hasek
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
The King of a Rainy Country
Brigid Brophy
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Vladimir Voinovitch
The Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee
The Life of the Automobile
Ilya Ehrenburg
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
The Mother
Gorky
the narrow road to the deep north
Richard Flanagan
The Player of Games
Iain M Banks
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tressell
The rape of the fair country
Alexander Cordell
The Redundancy of Courage
Timothy Mo
The Road to Wigan Pier
Orwell
The Rotten Elements
Edward Upward
The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig
The Shape of a Pocket
Berger
The Space Merchants
Pohl and Kornbluth
The Star Fraction
Ken McLeod
The Stars Look Down
A. J. Cronin
The Tempest
Shakespeare
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
B Traven
The Trial and-or short stories
Franz Kafka
The Tulip Touch
Anne Fine
The Water Babies
Charles Kingsley
The White Bird Passes
Jessie Kesson
The Wolf Wilder
Katherine Rundell
The years of rice and salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Their Labour's Trilogy
Berger
This Sporting Life
David Storey
To kill a mocking bird
Harper Lee
Trash
Andy Mulligan
Under Fire
Herii Barbusse
Under The Frog
Tibor Fischer
Union Street
Pat Barker
USA
Dos Passos
Voyage from yesteryear
James p hogan
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We Live
Lewis Jones
We Want Everything
Nanni Balestrini
What a Carve Up
Jonathan Coe
Wildwood
Jan Needle
Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercey
No title mentioned
Alexander Baron
No title mentioned
Arnold Wesker
No title mentioned
Barbara Kingsolver
No title mentioned
Bernard Kops
No title mentioned
Bryony Lavery
No title mentioned
Caryl Churchill
No title mentioned
Charles Dickens
No title mentioned
China Mieville
No title mentioned
Dashiel Hammet
No title mentioned
David Hare
No title mentioned
Edward Bond
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George Orwell
No title mentioned
Ghassan Kanafani
No title mentioned
Henning Mankell
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Howard Brenton
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Ian M Banks
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James Kelman
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Jean Claude Izzo
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Jim Allen
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John McGrath
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Jose Saramago
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Margaret Atwood
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Mrs Gaskill
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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Octavia Butler
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Robert Blincoe
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Sara Paretsky
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Simin Daneshvar
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Trevor Griffiths
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Walter Mosley