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'I could see men of all colors bouncing along in the boxcar. We stood up. We laid down. We piled around on each other. We used each other for pillows.'

'Bound for Glory' by Woody Guthrie.

'In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wisewoman, queen.'

'The Mists of Avalon' by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

'That afternoon three soldiers came to the village. They scattered the goats and chickens. They went to the palm-frond bar and ordered a calabash of palm-wine. They drank amidst the flies.'

'Stars of the New Curfew'by Ben Okri. Ben Okri won the Booker Prize in 1991. He is a fabulous writer originally from Nigeria.

'I was sitting in my office, my lease had expired and McKelvey was starting eviction proceedings.'

'Pulp' by Charles Bukowski. If William Burroughs had written a pseudo-crime novel...

'The primroses were over.'

'Watership Down' by Richard Adams.

'Granted: I am an inmate of a mental {hospital;} my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his {sight;} there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.'

'The Tin Drum' by Gunter Grass. A great novel by this German Nobel Prize-winner about a boy who willfully stunts his growth at age three and commincates only through his drum.

'Soon it would be too hot.'

'The Drowned World' by JG Ballard. An interesting apocalyptic novel.

'The irreducile strangeness of the universe was first made manifest to Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday, when a despondent angel named Raphael, a being with luminous white wings and a halo that blinked on and off like a neon quoit, appeared and told him of the days to come.'

'Towing Jehovah' by James Morrow. This is a hilarious and irreverent book about how to dispose of the two-mile long body of the Creator using a supertanker.

'Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you?'

'Beautiful Losers' by Leonard Cohen. He sings, (sort of) he writes poetry, this is his signature novel.

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.'

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. My all-time favourite {book;} if you like South American fantastic literature, do check it out.

'Here's how it started. I'd never said a word. Not one word.'

'Journey to the End of the Night' by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. A humourous look at war through the eyes of one who doesn't want to participate. If you liked Catch-22...

'They're all dead now.'

'Fall on Your Knees' by Annemarie MacDonald. The only novel (so far) by this Canadian poet, actress, playwright and TV personality. A history of a family.

'Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.'

'Tropic of Cancer' by Henry Miller. Based upon his chaotic life with his wife June.

'From the officers' billet in the Hotel Majestic to the Bar Royal the coast road describes a single extended curve three miles long.'

'Das Boot' by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim. If you liked the movie, the book is always better. The other side of the story to 'The Cruel Sea'.

'Lieutenant-Commander George Eastwood Ericson, R.N.R., sat in a stone-cold, draughty, corrugated-iron hut beside the fitting-out dock of Fleming's Shipyard on the River Clyde.'

'The Cruel Sea' by Nicholas Monsarrat. A gut-wrenching look at serving aboard an escort ship during WWII. Written by someone who was there.

'The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.'

'The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane.

'She stands in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.'

'The English Patient' by Michael Ondaatje. Again, if you liked the movie...

'My name is Jordan. This is the first thing I saw.'

'Sexing the Cherry' by Jeanette Winterson. A great post-modern novel by this British writer.

'It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long.'

'Le Morte D'Arthur' by Sir Thomas Malory. All great reads if you like Arthurian fiction.

'The last drops of the thundershower had hardly ceased falling when the Pedestrian stuffed his map into his pocket, settled his pack more comfortably on his tired shoulders, and stepped out from the shelter of a large chestnut tree into the middle of the road.'

'Out of the Silent Planet' by CS Lewis.

'You have requested, my dear friend, to bestow some of that leisure, which Providence has blessed the decline of my life, in registering the hazards and difficulties which attended its commencement.'

'Rob Roy' by Sir Walter Scott.

'The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick {Boy;} he wis trembling.'

'Trainspotting' by Irvine Welsh. If you've seen the movie, the 'Sick Boy' is a dead giveaway... A book to satisfy anyone's curiosity about drug addiction.

'On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Sumnulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.'

'The Once and Future King' by TH White. The basis for the Disney film 'The Sword in the Stone'.

'When she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right opposite the Town Hall Annexe.'

'The Collector' by John Fowles. An eerie, disturbing insight into the mind of a creep who kidnaps and keeps captive his dream girl.

'Jose Palcios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.'

'The General in his Labyrinth' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Loosely based upon the life of Simon Bolivar.