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