City Secrets: books, the essential insider’s guide – Mark Strand (ed.)

Weirdly included in a series of travel books, this is a collection of "overlooked" books as recommended by a selection of publishers, booksellers and general literary types. I had a lot of fun going through with a pencil behind my ear and keeping track of the following;

Books I Have Read
Coming Through The Slaughter – Michael Ondaatje
A Dance To The Music of Time – Anthony Powell
The Elected Member – Bernice Reubens
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – William Blake
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
The Warden – Anthony Trollope
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

Books I Want To Read
The Burnt Orange Heresy – Charles Willeford
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept – Elizabeth Smart
Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal
Diary of a Provincial Lady – E.M. Delafield
The Disenchanted – Bud Schulberg
Gogol’s Wife and other stories – Tommaso Landolfi
Inventor of the Disposable Culture: King Camp Gillette 1855-1932 – Tim Dowling
A Mathematician’s Apology – GH Hardy
McTeague – Frank Norris
A Month in the Country – JL Carr
Traps – Friedrich Durrenmatt
True Tales from the annals of Crime and Rascality – Saint Clair McKelway
Additional Dialogue: The Letters Of Dalton Trumbo

Books I Already Have But Haven't Got Around To Yet
The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale of the Antilles - Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Sword of Honour Trilogy – Evelyn Waugh
What A Carve Up! – Jonathon Coe