My Useful Hobbies

I have always been of the opinion that no one can become a good translator, editor, or writer without reading a lot, for after all that’s where the style comes from. Below you will find a list of the books I’ve read in English, or rather a list of those ones whose titles and authors that I have been able to remember. There should also be at least as many in Russian and Ukrainian, the difference being my English reading focuses largely on “light” stuff whereas most of my Russian and Ukrainian reading tends to consist of more serious things. Aside from this, I also have to admit I have a soft spot for some periodicals, such as “National Geographic”, “Newsweek”, and others. Another hobby of mine is the regional varieties of English. In particular, I ‘ve done quite a bit of research on Australian English.

Author Title
John Fowles “The Ebony Tower”
- “Eliduc”
- “The Enigma”
Arthur Herzog “The Swarm”
James Aldridge “The Last Inch”
John Cheever “The Brigadier and the Golf Widow”
John Steinbeck “Cup of Gold”
Patricia Highsmith “The Tremor of Forgery”
Bill Pronzini “Undercurrent”
John Legg “Guns of Arizona”
Elmore Leonard “The Gold Coast”
Stephen King “Rage”
- “The Shining”
- “Salem’s Lot”
- “The Tommyknockers”
- “The Long Walk” (in part)
Robert Mc Cammon “Mystery Walk”
James Adams “Secret Armies”
Whitney Stine “The Third Generation”
Dean Koonz “Midnight”
- “The Bad Thing”
Bram Stoker “Dracula”
Wilbur Smith “Power of the Sword”
- “Hungry as the Sea”
- “Wild Justice”
- “A Falcon Flies”
- “Cry Wolf”
- “Eagle in the Sky”
- “The Dark of the Sun”
- “A Time to Die”
Shirley Conran “Savages”
Nevada Barr “A Superior Death”
Larry Mc Murtry “Lonesome Dove”
Sidney Sheldon “Rage of Angels”
- “Windmills of the Gods”
John Mc Donald “Slam the Big Door”
- “Cinnamon Skin”
- “The Turquoise Lament”
Richie Tankersley Cusick “The Mall”
Bryce Courtenay “Tandia”
John Grisham “The Firm”
Robert Houston “Ararat”
Peter James “Truth”
Robert Tanenbaum “Depraved Indifference”
Tom Clancy “Red Storm Rising”
Catherine Cookson “The Fenwick Houses”
- “A Nice Bloke”
- “Pure as the Lily”
- “Bill Bailey”
J.A. Jance “Tombstone Courage”
Raymond Williams “People of the Black Mountains”
Diane Mott Davidson “Dying for Chocolate”
Freda Bright “Singular Women”
Sam Llewelyn “Gurney’s Revenge”
Juliette Benzoni “Catherine and Arnaut”
Harold Carlton “Labels”
Elizabeth George “A Great Deliverance”
Gary Devon “Lost”
Anne Rivers Siddons “Outer Banks”
John Gordon Davis “Typhoon”
John Galsworthy “The Forsythe Saga”, part 3.
Steve Thayer “The Weatherman”
Carolyn Keene “Tropic of Fear”
James S. Rand “Run for the Trees”
J.S. Hitchcock “The Witches’ Hammer”
Lance Horner “The Black Sun”
Maureen Lee “Dancing in the Dark”
- “The House by Princess Park” (in part)
- “Laceys of Liverpool”
Bernard Knight “The Sanctuary Seeker”
- “The Crowner’s Quest”
- “The Tinner’s Corpse”
George Andrews “Extraterrestrials among Us”
Keith Tutt “Unexplained Natural Phenomena”
John Irving “The World According to Garp”
John Connolly “The Killing Kind”
Tim Cockey “Hearse of a Different Color”
Sally Wright “Pride and Prejudice”
Phillip Margolin “Wild Justice”
- “The Burning Man”
Arthur Conan Doyle “Sherlock Holmes Mysteries” (collected stories)
Mary Shelly “Frankenstein”
Leslie Glass “Judging Time”
R. Karl Largent “The Baja Conspiracy”
Ridley Pierson “Parallel Lies”
- “The Pied Piper”
Marien Horrigan,
Phillip Imbrogno “Contact of the 5-th Kind”
Jessica March “Temptations”
Jean-Cristophe Grange “Flight of the Storks”
- “Blood-Red Rivers”
The Viner brothers “Twenty Four Hours with Moscow Police”
Alan Watts “UFO Visitations”
Peter Luck “This Fabulous Century”
Eric Ambler “Send No More Roses”
Douglass Clegg “The Infinite” (in part)
Rider Haggard “King Solomon’s Mines”
James Joyce “The Dubliners”
Arthur Hailey “The Wheels”
Harry Asher “The Profiler”
Graham Greene collected stories
Lisa See “The Flower Net”
Clive Cussler “The Mediterranean Caper”
- “Australian Short Stories” (collected stories)
Jack Curtis “Conjure Me”
- “The Confessor”
Zack Wild two novels
Herman Hesse “Narciss and Goldmund”
Hammond Innes “The Black Tide”
Phil Lovesey “Where the Ashes Burn” -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez “The General in His Labyrinth”
William Diehl “Chameleon”
Isaac Asimov “Nine Tomorrows”
Len Deighton “MAMista”
Curt Sutherly “UFO Mysteries”
Richard Doyle “Imperial 109”
Nicolas Hudson “Modern Australian Usage”
Clive Cussler “Cyclops” (in part)
Clive Cussler “Dragon”
Ken Follet “Lie Down with Lions”
Wilbur Smith “Men of Men”
Marc Olden “Giri”
Wilbur Smith “The Sound of Thunder”
Dan Brown “The Da Vinci Code”
Hammond Innes “Isvik”
Ram Oren “The Mark of Cain”
Anthony Hyde “China Lake”
James Lee Burke “Purple Cane Road”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon “The Shadow of the Wind”
James Lee Burke “Dixie City Jam”
Wilbur Smith “The Seventh Scroll”
Richard Bachman “The Regulators”
Patrick Robinson “The Shark Mutiny”
Han Suyin “Till Morning Comes”
Ray Connolly “Sunday Morning”
James Lee Burke “A Stained White Radiance”
Robert Goddard “Caught in the Light”
Peter Robinson “Dry Bones That Dream”
Hammond Innes “The High Stand”
Hammond Innes “Air Bridge”
Michael Connelly “The Black Ice”
Michael Connelly “Lost Light”
James Le Burke “Heaven’s Prisoners”
Paulo Coelho “The Devil and Miss Prym”
John Case “The Genesis Code”
James Patterson “Step on a Crack”
Douglas Clegg “The Halloween Man”
Robert Goddard “Out of the Sun”
Ken Follet “Whiteout”
Harlan Coben “Just One Look”
James Patterson “Mary, Mary”
Terence Strong “Conflict of Lions”
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