because heath gave me the very good idea of book recommendations:
heath
prose fiction: christoph ransmayr the last world: with an ovidian repertory / john fuller flying to nowhere
children's fiction: e nesbit story of the treasure seekers
non fiction: louis macneice the strings are false / eliot weinberger karmic traces
yen
prose fiction: cees nooteboom the following story / robert aickman the wine-dark sea
children's fiction: karen hesse out of the dust / russell hoban the mouse and his child
non fiction: wendy doniger the bedtrick / guy davenport seven greeks
su-lin
prose fiction: john fuller flying to nowhere / robert aickman the wine-dark sea
children's fiction: russell hoban the mouse and his child / margaret mahy the haunting
non fiction: james thurber the years with ross
julian
prose fiction: tibor fischer the thought gang / giovanni guraeshchi don camillo
children's fiction: russell hoban the mouse and his child / leon garfield the apprentices
non fiction: david foster wallace a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again / geof dyer but beautiful
poach
prose fiction: c.s. lewis till we have faces / richard powers the time of our singing
children's fiction: diana wynne jones charmed life / e.l. konigsburg the outcasts of 19 shuyler place
non fiction: francis spufford the child that books built
yvonne
prose fiction: w.g. sebald the rings of saturn / cees nooteboom in the dutch mountains
children's fiction: leon garfield the apprentices / susan cooper king of shadows
non fiction: roberto calasso the marriage of cadmus and harmon / francis spufford the child that books built