As far as I can piece it together, here's what I read this year, in no special order, and with a few especially good graphic novels thrown in:
- Station Island - Seamus Heaney ***
- The Collected Poetry of Alan Ginsberg ***
- Marcovaldo - Italo Calvino ****
- The Enigmatic Lett - Georges Simenon ***
- Love Of Seven Dolls - Paul Gallico ***
- Pictures Of Fidelman - Bernard Malamud ***
- On The Road - Jack Kerouack ****
- The Heart Of The Matter - Graham Greene *****
- Beowulf - Seamus Heaney Translation *****
- Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad ****
- A House For Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul ****
- The Power And The Glory - Graham Greene *****
- The Culture Industry - Theodor Adorno ****
- Mythologies - Roland Barthes *****
- Venus In Furs - Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch *****
- The Collected Father Brown - GK Chesterton *****
- The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens *****
- Nicholas Nickelby - Charles Dickens *****
- The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years - Chingiz Aitmatov ***
- The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann *****
- Doktor Faustus - Thomas Mann *****
- Death In Venice and other stories - Thomas Mann *****
- Zot! - Scott McCloud *****
- Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me - Javier Marias ****
- Written Lives - Javier Marias *****
- All Souls - Javier Marias ****
- Madam Crowl's Ghost And Other Short Stories - Sheridan Le Fanu ****
- Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu ****
- The Ceremonies - TED Klein **
- Shadowlands - Peter Straub ***
- Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata *****
- Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata ***
- Austerlitz - WG Sebald ****
- Red Lights - Georges Simenon ****
- Maigret and the Ghost - Georges Simenon ****
- Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids -Kenzaburo Oe ****
- Great Apes - Will Self ***
- My Idea Of Fun - Will Self ****
- The Book Of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa *****
- St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves - Karen Russell **
- Goldberg: Variation - Gabriel Josipovici ***
- Mr. Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood *****
- Goodbye To Berlin - Christopher Isherwood ****
- The Lambs Of London - Peter Ackroyd ***
- The Eagle's Throne - Carlos Fuentes ***
- The Old Gringo - Carlos Fuentes **
- Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert *****
- Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry ***
- The People Of Paper - Salvador Plascencia **
- Gentlemen Of The Road - Michael Chabon ***
- The Virgin In The Ice - Ellis Peters ****
- The Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaarder *****
- The Black Dossier - Alan Moore and Kevin O' Neill *****
- The Rabbi's Cat 2 - Joann Sfar *****
- Klezmer 1 - Joann Sfar *****
- Onitsha - JMG Le Clezio *****
- A Life's Music - Andrei Malkine *****
- Ilium - Dan Simmons ****
- Good-bye - Yoshihiro Tatsumi ****
- The Street Of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz *****
- Snake Catcher - Naiyer Masud *****
- Essays In Love - Alain De Botton **
- Written On The Body - Jeanette Winterson ***
- Kappa - Ryunosoke Akutagawa ***
- Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K Jerome ***
- Hot Water - PG Wodehouse ***
- Money For Nothing - PG Wodehouse ***
- The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury *****
- Inside Mr Enderby - Anthony Burgess *****
- Enderby Outside - Anthony Burgess *****
- Mozart And The Wolf Gang - Anthony Burgess *****
- The Magician - Somerset Maugham *****
- Sweeney Astray - Seamus Heaney ****
- Mysteries Of Winterthurn - Joyce Carol Oates ***
- Candide - Voltaire *****
- Zadig - Voltaire *****
- Seven Days At The Silberstein's - Etienne Leroux ***
- Selected Essays - John Berger ****
- The Legends Of Khasak - OV Vijayan ****
- Lock 14 - Georges Simenon ****
- A Man's Head - Georges Simenon *****
- The Collected Ghost Stories of MR James ******
- The Collected Poetry Of Cavafy ***
Bit of a slow year, but I'm learning to accept that my pace of reading has slown down a bit with all the tribulations of adult life and whatnot.
1 comment:
You must lend me Written Lives.
Also, I really want to count this but it makes me a bit dizzy. Are those FLOWER bullets? JP?!
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