Muriel Spark Reading Challenge

Hi all,

I have rather abruptly decided that I wanted to read all (or most) of Muriel Spark's books over the next few years after realising how amazing she was and how shameful it was that I had yet to read one of her books. I, of course, had to make it official with a list (I love lists!) and a logo. Muriel Spark is one of Scotland's most talented novelists and I have been missing out on her books so I am really looking forward to this. 

Below are the books I intend to read. I don't know if anyone else wants to join me in this endeavour, it can be just for a few books if her complete works look a bit daunting! I'll update this list as and when I read the books.

FICTION:

1957    The Comforters [My thoughts here]

1958    Robinson

1959    Memento Mori

1960    The Ballad of Peckham Rye

The Bachelors

1961    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1963    The Girls of Slender Means

1965    The Mandelbaum Gate

1968    The Public Image

1970    The Driver's Seat [My thoughts here]

1971    Not to Disturb

1973    The Hothouse by the East River

1974    The Abbess of Crewe

1976    The Takeover

1979    Territorial Rights

1981    Loitering with Intent

1984    The Only Problem

1988    A Far Cry from Kensington

1990    Symposium

1996    Reality and Dreams

2000    Aiding and Abetting

2004    The Finishing School

OTHER WORKS:

1950    Tribute to Wordsworth [edited by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford]

1951    Child of Light [a study of Mary Shelley]

1952    The Fanfarlo and Other Verse

1952    Selected Poems of Emily Brontë

1953    John Masefield [biography]

1953    Emily Brontë: her life and work [by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford]

1953    My Best Mary [a selection of letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, edited by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford]

1954    The Brontë letters

1957    Letters of John Henry Newman [edited by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford]

1958    The Go-away Bird [short stories]

1961    Voices at Play [short stories and plays]

1963    Doctors of Philosophy [play]

1967    'Collected Poems'
'Collected Stories'

1982    'Bang-bang You're Dead' [short stories]

1982    'Going up to Sotheby's' [poems]

1992    'Curriculum Vitae' [autobiography]

2001    'Complete Short Stories'

2004    'All the Poems'