If you like the Sun Also Rises - then For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms are pretty straightforward.
J G Ballard's Supercannes or Cocaine Nights are pretty good.
Kate Furnivall's The Russian Concubine.
Iain Banks - The Crow Road and Whit, also the Player of Games if you like SF
In addition Daisy Hay's The Young Romantics is a pretty good biography of Byron, Keats and Shelly
I do not recommend James Joyce r Virginia Wolf or any other exhausting books and of course Tolstoy's shorter novels, not War and Peace and Dostoevsky's all and if I should prolong the list Rousseau, though it sounds unbecomingly strange, and some Indian philosophical / spiritual treatises since they may transport you to a different exotic land and fan the fire of your imagination away from the usual. The choice of books is a difficult job and I want books to put me in a transitional state and let me emerge differently out of the cocoon of the familiarity.
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