Wednesday 23 February 2022

All the books I read in 2020 and 2021

Kobo Abe, The Ruined Map

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Svetlana Alexievich, Chernobyl Prayer

Svetlana Alexievich, Second-hand Time

Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen

Daniel Anselme, On Leave

Bernardo Atxaga, Nevada Days

Yukito Ayatsuji, The Decagon House Murders

Dorothy Baker, Young Man with a Horn

Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat

Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

Quentin Bates, Cold Comfort

David Bellos, Jacques Tati

Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

Matt Benton Rees, The Fourth Assassin

Laurent Binet, Civilisations

Cara Black, Murder on the Champ de Mars

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, The Passenger

Kate Briggs, This Little Art

Craig Brown, One Two Three Four

Dino Buzzati, Poem Strip

Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe

Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder and Me

Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus

Colin Cotterill, Six and a Half Deadly Sins

Gioacchino Criaco, Black Souls

Frédéric Dard, The Executioner Weeps

Frédéric Dard, Crush

Augusto De Angelis, The Murdered Banker

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence

David Diop, At Night All Blood Is Black

Garry Disher, Bitter Wash Road 

Garry Disher, The Dragon Man

Garry Disher, Port Vila Blues

Stuart Douglas, Shuggie Bain

David Downing, Jack of Spies

Geoff Dyer, See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

Mathias Enard, Zone

Annie Ernaux, The Years

Agustín Fernández Mallo, The Things We’ve Seen

Jon Fosse, The Other Name (Septology I-II)*

Jon Fosse, I is Another (Septology III-V)*

Jon Fosse, A New Name (Septology VI-VII)*

Jon Fosse, Scenes from a Childhood

Alan Furst, Under Occupation

Gaito Gazdanov, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

Rainald Goetz, Rave

Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights

Phil Harrison, The Age of Static

John Hersey, Hiroshima

Andrew Humphreys, Raving upon Thames

Denis Johnson, The Stars at Noon

Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis, The Boy in the Suitcase

Ryszard Kapuściński, The Emperor

David Keenan, This is Memorial Device

Philip Kerr, Hitler’s Peace

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle 6

Karl Ove Knausgaard & Fredrik Ekelund, Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

Benjamin Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café

Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear

Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream

Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

Seicho Matsumoto, A Quiet Place

Fernanda Melchior, Hurricane Season

Clemens Meyer, Bricks and Mortar

Leonard Michaels, The Nachman Stories

Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel

Shigeru Mizuki, Showa 1926-39

Patrick Modiano, Missing Person

Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular

Magdalen Nabb, The Monster of Florence

Cees Nooteboom, Roads to Santiago

Howard Norman, The Northern Lights

James O’Brien, How to Be Right

Andrew O’Hagan, Mayflies

David Olusuga, Black and British

Eliot Pattison, The Lord of Death

David Peace, Tokyo Redux

Roberto Perone, The Second Life of Inspector Canessa

Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

Leo Perutz, Saint Peter’s Snow

Arthur Phillips, The King at the Edge of the World

Chris Power, A Lonely Man

Ian Rankin, A Song for the Dark Times

Robin Robertson, The Long Take

Marilynne Robinson, Jack

Nicholas Royle, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector

Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

Leonardo Sciascia, A Simple Story 

Anna Seghers, Transit

Jorge Semprun, The Long Voyage

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

Soji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Georges Simenon, Sunday

Georges Simenon, Death Threats

Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory

Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Masako Togawa, The Lady Killer

Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

William Trevor, Last Stories

Janwillem van de Wetering, The Sergeant’s Cat

Hilde Vandermeeren, The Scorpion’s Head

Luis Fernando Verissimo, The Spies

Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris

Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

Peter Wahloo, The Lorry

Edmund White, The Flâneur

Timothy Williams, Big Italy

Qiu Xiaolong, Enigma of China

Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo, The Inugami Curse

Shuichi Yoshida, Villain

Nell Zink, Doxology (120)


* Book(s) of the year(s)