An ever shifting, confirmation bias inflected collection in no particular order.
- Memoirs of Hadrian (Margaret Yourcenar)
- A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (Patrick Leigh Fermor)
- The Places In Between (Rory Stewart)
- The Patrick Melrose Novels (Edward St. Aubyn)
- Venice (Jan Morris)
- Cultural Amnesia (Clive James)
- The Rings of Saturn (W.G. Sebald)
- The Impressionist (Hari Kunzru)
- Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
- Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Laurie Lee)
- The Sea (John Banville)
- The Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- The Bridge (Iain Banks)
- Small Gods (Terry Pratchett)
- Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
- Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
- The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
- Brooklyn (Colm Toibin)
- The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
- The Silver Age (James Lasdun)
- The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
- Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
- Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
- The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
- The Glass Bead Game (Herman Hesse)
- The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
- Mrs Bridge (Evan S. Connell)
