I'm going to a big "book market", to help out my father with his stand (he's a collector/trader). I'll have plenty of time to browse the other stands while I'm there, so I've been making a list of writers/books to keep my eyes open for.

If anyone can add writers/books that you think I might find interesting, much appreciated. (keep in mind that I live in the Netherlands so the amount of english writers/books will be limited, so not too obscure ones that I have a chance of finding please)

I'll be looking for the following;
Douglas Adams
Chuck Palahniuk
Hunter S. Thompson
Luke Reinhart

Catch 22
The Hobbit

Also looking for books on philosophy and religion (especially Buddhism)

Dutch/Flemish writers; (in case any other dutch speaking people see the thread)
Bob den Uyl
Belcampo
Herman Brusselmans
Richard Klinkhamer



Oh sweet, thanks Euda.

If you take a look at the recommended reading thread that's stickied, you'll find a wide variety of excellent authors.

Good luck.

I'll recommend Hitching a Ride with Buddha.

For me the top book in english is Dune by Frank Herbert, Its not for everyone but if you like it you love it.

As for philosophy try Sophie's World for good European philosophy, written by gardner.

Thats my 2 cents, cheers

I'll look into that.

I actually bought catch-22 at thrift store today.
*scraps one of the list*

The Road would would be worth a glance for at the secondhand shops.

I like walter mosley and some douglas coupland.

read "down to this" by shaunessey bishop stahl

Irvine Welsh is pretty cool for the "o shit i cant believe i just read this" addictive, filthy and mindbogglingly brilliant style. Go for Trainspotting; seriously, once you get past the Scottish dialect (which might be hard at first, seeing as most native English speakers have problems) then it really just flows. I found reading it out loud like a play helped... lots of his other books are equally sick and gripping, too.

Haruki Murakami is pretty awesome. He's written loads of stuff, and those who've read most of 'em say they're all pretty consistent. I've really enjoyed "Kafka on the Shore" though, and "Norwegian Wood" is well regarded. He may well have been translated into Dutch, too.

Kurt Vonnegut. Judging by who you have on your list, I reckon you'd really like his shizzle. Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions would be well worth grabbing, if you see 'em.

Bill Bryson is good for fairly light, amusing, travel-based stories. Great for bedtime reading, in my opinion.

If you see any of the short story books by Roald Dahl, then grab! He's the master of the short story. Another good 'un for bed time, or when you just want a book that's easy to pick up n put down.

Khaled Hoseini has hit it big with like...... everyone, at the moment in the U.K, I bet you could find a copy of The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns, neither of which i've read, but both are meant to be superb.

Douglas Coupland is pretty cool for "edgy" stuff. Generation X is pretty fuckin' readable, it oozes this kinda.... abrupt, classy, slightly pretentious nineties post-teenage-angst. Very interesting read, although not much happens, it's just just weird how Coupland develops the characters.

Definitely just check out the big recommendations list, much better suggestions than I could give there...

Kurt Vonnegut
I like his stuff.

I'll echo the Coupland recommendation. His works are always entertaining and have that quality feeling of the 90's in Canada. Excellent sense of humour and darkly excellent.

I bought the dutch translation of the Cather in the Rye and the complete the Cleric Quintet series (in english).

I really lack the attention span to browse a shitload of stalls, but most of them didn't have interesting books anyway so. I'm glad I found some interesting books. I haven't read anything by those writers before so I hope it's good.