Facebooks - VIII (bonus round)

Because 10 books a day for a week turned out not to be quite enough either!

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The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
Wiliam Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - John Carey
Jim Davis - John Masefield
"The Fighting Business" [childhood history compendium, feat. Light Brigade on the front cover. No idea what its real title was]
The Road Stops at Nowhere - Denis Beckett
Messiah - (GF Handel and) Charles Jennens (and others)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
Collected Poems - WB Yeats
Bamboo - William Boyd
Annals of the Former World - John McPhee [not started]

Facebooks - VII

The Complete Librettos of - WS Gilbert
Beau Geste - PC Wren
Engineers of the Soul - Frank Westerman
Five Go to Smuggler's Top - Enid Blyton
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution - Simon Schama
Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
Collected Poems - WH Auden [in progress]
Ancient Egyptian Literature (3 vols.) - Miriam Lichtheim
Asterix [all] - R Goscinny & A Uderzo

Facebooks - VI

Collected Poems - Roger McGough
The Three Musketeers (and several of the sequels) - Alexandre Dumas        [in English, for the record]
The Complete MAUS - Art Spiegelman
Consider The Lobster: and other essays - David Foster Wallace
The Unquiet Grave - 'Palinurus' (Cyril Connolly)
Complete Works - Oscar Wilde [the poetry is mostly terrible, but I                didn't know that then]
Whale (or any other) Adventure - Willard Price
Translations - Brian Friel
Regeneration / The Eye in the Door / The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
'Books v. cigarettes' - George Orwell

Facebooks - V

Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions - Martin Amis
The Cripple of Inishmaan - Martin McDonagh
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler [abandoned]
'The Book of Emma' [in Small Hours] - Lachlan Mackinnon
The Psalms - 'David'
Markings - Dag Hammarskjöld (transl. WH Auden)
Rorke's Drift - James Bancroft [I think; but possibly another work.             They all look the same] / The Day of the Dead Moon - David Rattray     [audiobook]
Three Men in a Boat / on the Bummel - Jerome K Jerome
Vertigo - WG Sebald
Lost Oasis: A Desert Adventure - Robert Twigger

Facebooks - IV

A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar
How Fiction Works - James Wood
Living Dangerously: The Autobiography of... - Ranulph Fiennes
The Viceroy of Ouidah - Bruce Chatwin
'Art' - Yasmina Reza
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
The Broken Word - Adam Foulds
Solo - Rana Dasgupta
Growing - Leonard Woolf
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson

Facebooks - III

Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence / Anglo-English      Attitudes - Geoff Dyer [I don't remember which came first. Most              probably read concurrently]
God Is Not Great: the case against religion - Christopher Hitchens
Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
Chinaman: the Legend of Pradeep Mathew - Shehan Karunatilaka [in      manuscript]
Apocalypse Now (Redux) script - John Milius
Histories - Herodotus [partial]
John Clare: A Biography - Jonathan Bate [unfinished]
In Ethiopia with a Mule - Dervla Murphy
Collected Poems - Zbigniew Herbert
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie

Facebooks - II

Because Tuesday's child is also full of books.

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Leonard Woolf: A Life - Victoria Glendinning
The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry - ed. The Enthusiast (Ian Sansom     and others)
An Historical Relation of Ceylon... (etc.) - Robert Knox
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Iliad - Homer
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Shah of Shahs - Ryszard Kapuściński
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Collected Short Stories - Roald Dahl
The Libertine - Stephen Jeffreys

Facebooks - I

So, this thing is going round that you name ten books that had a major impact on you.

Ten books is not enough.

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The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
Oscar Wilde - Richard Ellmann
One of the many biographies of The Doors [I will endeavour to recall         the particular volume]
The New English Hymnal - various
Tintin [all of] - Hergé
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis - Wendy Cope
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto - David Shields
The Collected Stories of... - Lydia Davis

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Notes / Self-imposed Rules:

1) No particular order of importance.
2) Links are to editions read, where possible.
3) One book per author.
4) -ish. Book stipulated is either first read or first enjoyed.