Lucky Jim is a favorite of mine, ever since I read it in college. Kingsley Amis's description of a hangover being like a huge raw egg rolling around inside Jim's skull has stayed vivid with me for years.
The Old Devils, which won the Booker Prize, was a great novel about friendship, fame, identity, and booze. The Green Man was entertaining, although veered alarmingly into science fiction there at the end. The Alteration, an alternate history imagining England if there had been no Protestant Reformation, was a quick read that gave a lot to ponder.
Amis wrote novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Those I have read are in red. Those currently on my TBR shelf are in blue. Many are out of print.
1947 Bright November (poems)
1953 A Frame of Mind (poems)
1954 Fantasy Portraits (poems)
1954 Lucky Jim
1955 That Uncertain Feeling
1956 A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956
1957 Socialism and the Intellectuals (a Fabian Society pamphlet)
1958 I Like it Here
1960 Take A Girl Like You
1960 New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
1960 Hemingway in Space (short story, Punch Dec. 1960)
1962 My Enemy's Enemy (short stories)
1962 The Evans County
1963 One Fat Englishman (reviewed here)
1965 The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest)
1965 The James Bond Dossier
1965 The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (as Lt. Col. William "Bill" Tanner)
1966 The Anti-Death League (Burgess favorite)
1968 Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure (as Robert Markham)
1968 I Want It Now
1968 A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957-1967
1969 The Green Man
1970 What Became of Jane Austen? and Other Questions
1971 Girl, 20
1972 On Drink (reviewed here)
1973 The Riverside Villas Murders
1974 Ending Up
1974 Rudyard Kipling and his World
1975 The Crime of the Century
1976 The Alteration
1978 Jake's Thing
1979 Collected Poems 1944-78
1980 Russian Hide-and-Seek
1980 Dear Illusion: Collected Short Stories
1983 Every Day Drinking (reviewed here)
1984 How's Your Glass? (reviewed here)
1984 Stanley and the Women
1986 The Old Devils
1988 Difficulties With Girls
1990 The Folks That Live on the Hill
1990 The Amis Collection
1991 Memoirs
1991 Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories
1991 We Are All Guilty
1992 The Russian Girl
1994 You Can't Do Both
1995 The Biographer's Moustache
1997 The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage
2001 The Letters of Kingsley Amis, Edited by Zachary Leader
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Last updated on February 24, 2018.
I haven't read Kingsley, but I've read Martin. I'll have to fix that. :-) (Time's Arrow is amazing, if you haven't read it yet.)
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Money is the only MA book I've read so far, but I plan to read others. I'll start with Time's Arrow.
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