Books Read


Read in 2016 (incomplete)

Read in 2015

Stats: 49 Total, 22/26 male/female (1 anthology), 17 in translation, 7 poetry, 9 Graphic novels.

2014, 2013: missing

Read in 2012

  • Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear, Javier Marias
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
  • Metropole, Ferenc Karinthy
  • The Sixties, Jenifer Diski
  • The Arrival, Shaun Tan
  • I, City, Pavel Brycz
  • My Revolutions, Hari Kunzu
  • The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
  • Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
  • César Aira, Ghosts
  • The Night Bookmobile, Audrey Niffenegger
  • Ten Tales Tall & True, Alasdair Gray.
  • Asterios Polyps, David Mazzucchelli
  • The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Dubravka Ugresic
  • Florida, Christine Schutt
  • Bonsai, Alejandro Zambra
  • Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
  • Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy
  • Selected Stories, Robert Walser
  • Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus
  • The Bug, Ellen Ullman
  • Reticence, Jean-Philippe Toussaint
  • Men in Space, Tom McCarthy
  • Everyday Life, Lydie Salvayre
  • The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
  • Everything and Nothing, Jorge Luis Borges
  • Vicky Swanky is a Beauty, Diane Williams
  • The Museum of Useless Efforts, Cristina Peri Rossi
  • What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, Damion Searls
  • Vacant Possession, Hilary Mantel.
  • No One, Gwenaëlle Aubry
  • Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal

Stats: 32 total, 17/15 male/female, 14 in translation, 0 poetry, 3 graphic novels.

2007-2011: missing

Read in 2006

  • The Daedalus Book of Absinthe, Phil Baker
  • Hardboiled/Hard Luck, Banana Yoshimoto
  • A Smell of Fish, Matthew Sweeny
  • Abbducted: How people came to believe they were kidnapped by aliens, Susan Clancy
  • Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala
  • Snow, Orhan Pamuk
  • Wrong About Japan, Peter Carey
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • Honored Guest, Joy Williams
  • The Peoples Act of Love, James Meek
  • Facts About the Moon, Dorianne Laux
  • Cutty, One Rock, August Kleinzahler
  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
  • The State of the Prisons, Sinead Morrisey
  • Potential Stranger, Killarney Clary
  • I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train, Peter Hobbs
  • Lone Wolf and Cub 1: The Assassin's Road, Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima
  • Lone Wolf and Cub 2: The Gateless Barrier,Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima
  • Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
  • Lone Wolf and Cub 3:The Flute of the Fallen Tiger, Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima
  • Quiver, Deren Rees-Jones
  • Lone Wolf and Cub 4: The Bell Warden, Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima
  • The Good Neighbour, John Burnside
  • Take Me With You, Polly Clark
  • Thank You for Not Reading, Dubravka Ugresic
  • Controlled Burn, Scott Wolvern
  • Lone Wolf and Cub 5: Black Wind, Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima
  • Lolita, Victor Nabokov
  • We Were Pedestrians, Gerald Woodward
  • Lone Wolf and Cub 6: Lanterns for the Dead, Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima
  • My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Daisy Fried
  • Quicksand Beach, Kate Bingham

Stats: 32 total 20/12 male/female, 9 in translation, 11 poetry, 6 graphic novels.

Read in 2005

  • The Light Trap, John Burnside
  • Civilisation & Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
  • The Full Indian Rope Trick, Colette Bryce
  • The Time of Our Singing, Richard Powers
  • The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
  • Breaking News, Ciaran Carson
  • Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places, Deborah Levy
  • Written on the Body, Jeannette Winterson
  • The Whole Story and other stories, Ali Smith
  • Epileptic, David B.
  • In Defence of Adultery, Julia Copus
  • Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
  • Field Study, Rachel Seiffert
  • Blood and Soap, Linh Dinh
  • Roberts Corpus, Michael Symons
  • Assorted Fire Events, David Means
  • The Book of Orgasms, Nin Andrews
  • In Praise of Shadows, Junchiro Tanizaki
  • Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson
  • The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp
  • Little Black Book of Stories, A.S. Byatt
  • The School of Whoredom, Pietro Aretino
  • These Days, Leontia Flynn
  • Stolen Love Behaviour, John Stammers
  • Schooling, Heather McGowan
  • Slow Air, Robin Robertson
  • A Heart So White, Javier Marías
  • Mirror, Window, Jessica Abel
  • Minsk, Lavina Greenlaw
  • We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
  • Groundwater, Matthew Hollis
  • Asleep, Banana Yoshimoto
  • Intimates, Helen Farish
  • Paradise, A.L. Kennedy
  • After the Plague, T.C. Boyle
  • Monogamy, Adam Phillips
  • In Doctor No's Garden, Henry Shukman
  • The Origins of the Final Solution, Christopher Browning
  • The Perfect Egg, Aldo Buzi
  • Little, David Truer
  • The Point of Splitting, Sally Read
  • Black Hole, Charles Burns
  • Wasting Game, Phillip Gross
  • Other Electricities, Ander Monson
  • The People's Act of Love, James Meek
  • The Accidental, Ali Smith
  • Legion, David Harsent
  • Rent Girl, Michelle Tea
  • Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
  • My Life in CIA, Harry Matthews
  • The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, August Kleinzahler
  • Berlin: City of Stones, Jason Lutes

Stats: 52 total, 29/23 male/female, 7 in translation, 14 poetry, 5 graphic novels.