To assess your literary leanings and acquire a BIBLIOTHERAPY, mark ONE book that you have read from each of the ten categories.

If you have read more than one in a section mark the book which created the biggest impact on your psyche at the time.

The criteria for each section have been decided by the Chief BIBLIOTHERAPIST in accordance with ancient and secret, genre indexing.

Total the number of categories you score in and select your BIBLIOTHERAPY .

The 'A' List:

Category A

       Frankenstein,     Mary Shelley

       Don Quixote,     Cervantes

       Tristram Shandy,     Laurence Sterne

        Persuasion,     Jane Austen  

        Jungle Book,     Rudyard Kipling  

        Treasure Island,     Robert Louis Stevenson

        The Woman in White,     Wilke Collins

        Vanity Fair,     William Thackery

Category B

        Generation X,     Douglas Coupland  

        Hi Fidelity,     Nick Hornby

        Trainspotting,     Irvine Welsh  

        The Dice Man,     Luke Rhinehard  

        Foucault's Pendulum,     U. Eco  

        The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts,     Louis de Bernières  

        The Magus,     John Fowles  

        A Prayer for Owen Meany,     John Irving  

        Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,     D. Adams

        Shikasta,     D. Lessing

Category C

        The Teachings of Don Juan,     Carlos Castaneda  

        The Prophet,     Kahlil Gibran  

        A Guide for the Perplexed,     E.F.Schumacher  

        The Tibetan Book of Living And Dying,     Sogyal Rinpoche  

        Zen Mind, Beginners Mind,     Shunryu Suzuki  

        The Rebel,     Albert Camus  

        Nausea,     John Paul Sartre  

        The Glass Bead Game,     H. Hesse  

        The Outsider,     Colin Wilson    

Category D

        Lord of the Rings,     J.R.R. Tolkein

        On the Road,     J. Kerouac

        Catcher in the Rye,     J.D. Salinger  

        Catch 22,     J. Heller

Category E

        All Quiet on the Western Front,     E. M. Remarque  

        As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning,     Laurie Lee

        Lord of the Flies,     William Golding

        1984,     George Orwell  

        Metamorphosis and Other Stories,     Franz Kafka

        Apartheid. A History,     Brian Lapping  

        The Greening of America,     Charles A. Reich

        For whom the Bell Tolls,     E. Hemmingway  

        Exodus,     Leon Uris  

 Category F

        Oranges are not the Only Fruit,     Jeanette Winterson  

        The Female Eunuch,     Germaine Greer  

        Gone With the Wind,     Margaret Mitchell  

        I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,     H. Green  

Category G

        Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,     Robert Pirsig

        The Tao of Physics,     Fritjof Capra

        Stalking the Wild Pendulum,     I. Bentov  

        Chaos,     James Gleick  

        Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman?     R. Feynman  

Category H

        Fear of Freedom,     Erich Fromm

        Toward a Psychology of Being,     Abraham Maslow  

        The Meaning of Happiness,     Alan Watts  

        The Mechanism of Mind,     Edward de Bono  

        The Divided Self,     R.D. Laing

        History of Western Philosophy,     Bertrand Russell  

        The Selfish Gene,     R. Dawkins  

Category I

        The Kon-Tiki Expedition,     Thor Heyerdahl  

        The Sea and the Jungle,     H. M. Tomlinson  

        The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,     S. T. Coleridge  

        The Captain's Verse,     Pablo Neruda

        Poems,    John Donne

Category J

        I Ching  

        The London A – Z

        Final Exit,     D. Humphry  

        The Code of the Woosters,     P. G. Wodehouse

         Watership Down,    Richard Adams

        An Omelette and a Glass of Wine,     E. David  

        The Pauper's Cookbook,      Jocasta Innes  

        Self-Sufficiency,     John Seymour  

Select your category score:

0-3                4-7                    8-10

Home