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