Wednesday, 18 December 2024

The books I read in 2024


Svetlana Alexievich, Boys in Zinc
Eric Ambler, A Kind of Anger
Paul Auster, Baumgartner
Alexander Baron, The Human Kind
Dino Buzzati, The Singularity
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
Fernando Cervantes, Conquistadores
Len Deighton, Mexico Set
Len Deighton, London Match
Guy Delisle, Hostage
Guy Delisle, Jerusalem
Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie, The Use of Photography
Brecht Evens, The Wrong Place
György Faludy, My Happy Days in Hell
Agustín Fernández Mallo, The Book of All Loves*
Jon Fosse, Melancholy I–II
Jon Fosse, A Silent Language
Anna Funder, Stasiland
Eduardo Galeano, Football in Sun and Shadow
Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club
Michael Gilbert, Games Without Rules
Robert Harris, Fatherland
Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries
Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol
Sven Holm, Termush
Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains
Dorothy B Hughes, In a Lonely Place
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Train
Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day
Stanislaw Len, The Futurological Congress
Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Baron Bagge
Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Count Luna
Alexander Lernet-Holenia, I was Jack Mortimer
Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
Dick Lochte, Sleeping Dog
Amin Maalouf, On Identity
Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Groucho Marx, Groucho & Me
Seicho Matsumoto, Point Zero
Roger McGough, The Collected Poems
Will McPhail, In
Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe
Edogawa Rampo, The Black Lizard
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Nicholas Royle, Shadow Lines
Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium
Nigel Townson, The Penguin History of Modern Spain
Martin Walker, The Resistance Man
Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep
Seishi Yokomizo, The Devil's Flute Murders

* Book of the year