Monday 18 December 2023

The books I read in 2023

Nuar Alsadir, Animal Joy

Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders

Nicholson Baker, A Box of Matches

Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters

Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

Richard Brautigan, In watermelon sugar

Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Gerald Brenan, South from Granada

Natasha Brown, Assembly

Dino Buzzati, Catastrophe and Other Stories

Dino Buzzati, A Love Affair

Jen Calleja, Vehicle

Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris

Jeremy Cooper, Brian 

Michael Crummey, River Thieves

Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Len Deighton, Berlin Game

Len Deighton, SS-GB

Maureen Duffy, Capital

Victor E Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

Mathias Enard, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild

CS Forester, Plain Murder

Jon Fosse, Morning and Evening 

Jon Fosse, A Shining

Jon Fosse, Trilogy

Willem Frederik Hermans, The Darkroom of Damocles

Willem Frederik Hermans, An Untouched House

Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days

Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go

Florian Huber, Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Anna Kavan, Ice

Claire Keegan, Foster

Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence

Thea Lenarduzzi, Dandelions

Norman Lewis, The Tomb in Seville

AJ Liebling, Between Meals

Léo Malet, 120 rue de la Gare

Léo Malet, The Rats of Montsouris

Adam Mars-Jones, Box Hill

Robert McLiam Wilson & Donovan Wylie, The Dispossessed

Laurent Mauvignier, The Birthday Party

Clemens Meyer, While We Were Dreaming

Jan Morris, Spain

Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

Magdalen Nabb, The Innocent

Cesare Pavese, The Beautiful Summer

Rebecca Pawel, The Summer Snow

David Piper, Trial by Battle

Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearl

Edogawa Rampo, Beast in the Shadows

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever

Olga Ravn, The Employees

Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron*

Joe Sacco, Palestine

Leonardo Sciascia, The Knight and Death

Leonardo Sciascia, The Wine-Dark Sea

Georges Simenon, Death Threats

Georges Simenon, The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret

John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Peter Watts, Denmark Street

EB White, Here is New York

Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island

Alejandro Zambra, The Private Life of Trees

Nell Zink, Avalon (67)

 

* Book of the year

Tuesday 3 January 2023

The books I read in 2022

Matthieu Aikins, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
Eric Ambler, The Mask of Demetrios
Kjell Askildsen, Everything Like Before
Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Dominique Barbéris, A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray
Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
Julian Barnes, Keeping an Eye Open
Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen
Kirsty Bell, The Undercurrents
Michael Bracewell, Souvenir
Jorge Carrión, Bookshops
Nick Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
Teju Cole, Open City
Moyra Davey, Index Cards
Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Claudia Durastanti, Strangers I Know
Geoff Dyer, The Last Days of Roger Federer
Brecht Evens, The City of Belgium
Jon Fosse, Aliss at the Fire
Camilla Grudova, The Doll’s Alphabet
Gregor Hens, Nicotine
Marit Kapla, Osebol
David Keenan, For the Good Times
David Keenan, Industry of Magic & Light
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Martin Limón, The Joy Brigade
Cameron McCabe, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
Ross Macdonald, Meet Me at the Morgue
Seichō Matsumoto, Tokyo Express
Ana María Matute, The Island
Haruki Murakami, T
Magdalen Nabb, The Marshal at the Villa Torrini
PJ O’Rourke, Holidays in Hell
Musa Okwonga, One of Them
Pete Paphides, Broken Greek
Richard Powers, Bewilderment
Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy
Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Philippe Sands, East West Street
Uwe Schütte, Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany
Leonardo Sciascia, The Moro Affair
Richard Sennett, Building and Dwelling
George Sims, The Last Best Friend*
Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams, Diego Garcia
Natsume Sōseki, Sanshirō
Rupert Thomson, Barcelona Dreaming
Charlotte Van den Broeck, Bold Ventures
Janwillem van de Wetering, The Perfidious Parrot
Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room
Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves
Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai (52)

* Book of the year