so just copied the list out of where I had it recorded have left out most of the books I'm part of the way through. have included Howard Zinn since I've read 600 pages of 680 so I think I can count that as this year. May still finish it. Think I may also have Richard Koloda's book on Albert Ayler done over next few days too. but these are the ones I've done so far. i think they were put in as I started them so may not have been completed in this order. I still have a stack of books out of the library taht I am hoping to finish and i have been buying books from charity shops a few times a week which should keep me going next year.
Jane Jacobs The Death & Life of Great American CitiesIbram X Kendi Stamped From The Very BeginningAnita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/“ “ “ “ But Gentlemen Marry Brunettesbell hooks Sisters of The YamThomas King The Inconvenient IndianIan Cobain Cruel BritanniaNell Irvin Painter History of White PeopleKehinde Andrews Back To Black George Schuyler Black No MoreMarlon James A Short History of 7 KillingsCarl Sagan Demon Hauntyed WorldIbram Kendi 400 SoulsRoma Agrawal BuiltCarol Anderson White RagePauline Hopkins Of One BloodNelson Algren Never Come MorningOwen Hatherley Clean Living Under Difficult CircumstancesChris Albertson BessieRuby Hamad White Tears/Brown ScarsAudre Lorde Zami : A New Spelling of My NameWalter Rodney The Groundings With My BrothersAngela Davis An AutobiographyEmma Dabiri What White People Can Do NextKoa Beck White FeminismWalter Rodney The Russian Revolution :A View from the Third WorldEmma Dabiri Don’t Touch My HairRafia Zakaria Against White Feminism Chandra Talpade Moharty Feminist freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics and HopeMark Lanegan Sing Backwards and WeepJeffrey Boake Musical Truth Toni Morrison The Bluest EyeBeverly Daniel Tatum Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The CafeteriaNick Estes et al; Red Nation RisingVron Ware Beyond The PaleBrian Klaas CorruptibleGreil Marcus The Shape Of Things To ComeRafia Zakaria The Upstairs WifeThomas King The Truth About Stories: A Native NarrativePeter barry beginning TheoryPaul Gilroy There Ain’t No Black In The Union JackDavid Treuer Heartbeat Of Wounded KneeDavid Toop Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound Sue Steward Salsabell hooks Teaching To TransgressNikole Hannah-Jones 1619 ProjectPriyamvada Gopal Insurgent EmpireShirley Jackson The Haunting Of Hill HouseSutton E Griggs Imperium In ImperioSusan Cousins Overcoming Everyday RacismSonke Neizel Soldaten Augusto Boal Games For Actors and Non ActorsWill Sergeant Bunnyman a Memoirbell hooks Feminiust Theory From Margin To CentreKate Lister Harlots, Whores and HackaboutsHoward Mandel Miles, Ornette, CecilElijah Lawal ClapbackLenny Kaye Lightning StrikingHarry Sword Monolithic UndertowRoxanne Dunbar Ortiz& Dina Gilio-Whitaker. "All the real Indians died off" : and 20 other myths about Native AmericansNikki Kendall Hood Feminism : notes from the women white feminists forgotGraham Lock Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony BraxtonHoward Zinn A People’s History of the United StatesEoin O’Broin HomeStuart Hall Representation George Yancy On RaceGlen Matlock I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol Nancy Fraser Capitalism : a conversation in critical theoryKatrine Marcal Mother of Invention Ben Shephard After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen Robert Forster Grant & IMichael Lewis The Fifth RiskEric Klinenberg A Palace For the Peoplebell hooks Where We Stand: Class MattersJohanna Katrin Fridriksdottir Valkyrie: the women of the Viking worldDavid Harvey A Brief History of Neoliberalism Oein DeBharduin Why The Moon TravelsVine Deloria Jr God Is RedSuzanne Simard Finding The Mother Tree: uncovering the wisdom and intelligence of the forestRobert Hare Without Conscience: the disturbing world of the psychopaths among usRyan Walsh Astral Weeks the Secret History of 1968Steven Connor Paraphernalia : the curious lives of magical thingsBarry Adamson Above The City Beneath The StarsScott Ellsworth The Ground Breaking: the Tulsa Race Massacre and an American city's search for justiceTricky Hell Is Round The CornerKid Congo Powers Some New Kind of Kick Niall Ó Dochartaigh Deniable Contactbell hooks Be Boy BuzzNeil Gaiman The Wolves In The WallsRobbie Krieger Set The Night On Fire
I'm about 1/3 of the way into this The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the RipperHallie Rubenhold, so hope to get that done.
& a bit less into this A history of the world in seven cheap things : a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planetRaj Patel,
really want to get into this West of the Revolution : an uncommon history of 1776 Claudio Saunt
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
I collate the books I actually finish here:
https://www.instagram.com/one_word_book_reviews/
― bain4z, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
lol nice
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
* - loved this particularly+ - book club pick
Earthlings, Sayaka Murata*Capitães da Areia, Jorge Amado+Song Of Achilles, Madeline MillerRoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World, Billy BraggL'Ordre du Jour, Éric VuillardMoon Tiger, Penelope LivelyMolesworth, Geoffrey Williams & Ronald SearleAll The Marvels, Douglas Wolk*Jerusalem, Alan MooreA Will To Kill, RV Raman33 1/3: ABBA Gold, Elisabeth VincentelliFreshwater, Akwaeze EmeziOs Vivos E Os Outros, José Eduardo ÁgualusaDiário de Leituras, Alberto Manguel*O Susto, Agustina Bessa-Luís+Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford*Frank: The Voice, James KaplanAmerica Over The Water, Shirley CollinsUnquenchable Thirst, Rachel PollackUnder The Glacier, Haldor LaxnessThe Housing Lark, Sam SelvonA Bid For Fortune, Guy BoothbyJogos De Azar, José Cardoso PiresTudo Pode Ser Roubado, Giovanna MadalossoConsumidos Pelo Fogo, Jaume CabréUma Noite Não São Dias, Mário Zambujal+A Fatal Crossing, Tom Hindle*O Senhor d'Além, Teresa VeigaCold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons+The Vanishing Half, Brit BennettThe Awkward Black Man, Walter MosleyThe Plotters, Un-Su Kim*The Hard Crowd, Rachel KushnerHollywood In The 40's, Charles Highham & Joel Greenberg*No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
Started but gave up on:Os Perigos do Imperador, Ruy CastroPenguin Book Of The British Short StoryThe Dawn Of Everything, David Graber & David WengrowThe Box Man, Kobo Abe
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
2022.01 Virtual Light - William Gibson2022.02 Idoru - William Gibson2022.03 All Tomorrow’s Parties - William Gibson2022.04 Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy2022.05 The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - Thomas Hardy2022.06 Wessex Tales (1888) - Thomas Hardy2022.07 Life’s Little Ironies (1894) - Thomas Hardy2022.08 Stalingrad - Vasily Grossman2022.10 Stalingrad - Antony Beevor2022.09 21 Intros About Charles Dickens 2022.11 The Sight Of You - Holly Miller2022.12 The Comforts Of Madness - Paul Sawyer2022.13 Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison2022.14 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Attwood2022.15 Anthem - Ayn Rand2022.16 The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin2022.17 A Tale Of Two Cities (Weekly Version) - Charles Dickens2022.18 Ange Pitou (Short Version) - Dumas2022.19 Ninety-Three - Hugo2022.20 Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear2022.21 Love and Rockets Volume 1 - Jaime Hernandez2022.22 Macbeth - William Shakespeare2022.23 By The Pricking Of These Thumbs - Agatha Christie2022.24 Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury2022.25 Seasons 1 Autumn - Ali Smith2022.26 Seasons 2 Winter - Ali Smith2022.27 Seasons 3 Spring - Ali Smith2022.28 Seasons 4 Summer - Ali Smith2022.29 A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) - Thomas Hardy2022.30 The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy2022.31 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
(usual mix of public domain books and amazon deals, arranged around rough monthly themes)
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
Failed to finish a lot of things this year, but read most of these
Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise BennettThe Last Days of Roger Federer - Geoff DyerWe Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-nehisi CoatesWhy Bowie Matters - Will BrookerBlackstar Theory - Leah KardosWe Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley JacksonBeautiful World, Where Are You - Sally RooneyO Pioneers! - Willa CatherThe Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley RobinsonPigs Might Fly - Mark BlakeJust Kids - Patti SmithThe Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove DitlevsenLightning Striking - Lenny KayeSouvenir - Michael BracewellCosmogony - Lucy IvesThis is Tomorrow - Michael BirdDisaster Mon Amour - David ThomsonThe Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society - Andy MillerTearing Down the Wall of Sound - Mick BrownHomogenic - Emily Mackay A Line in the World - Dorthe Nors
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
Patrick Leigh Fermor – Between the Woods and the WaterAnthony Hope – The Prisoner of ZendaGene Wolfe – Caldé of the Long Sun, Exodus from the Long SunRichard Stark – The Sour Lemon ScoreWilliam Shakespeare – HamletWilliam G. Lycan – Philosophy of LanguageJ. R. R. Tolkien – Le seigneur des anneaux (tr. F. Ledoux), The SilmarillionThomas Ligotti – Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, My Work Is Not Yet Done, Noctuary, Teatro GrottescoRay Russell – Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic StoriesEllen Datlow ed. – Darkness: Two Decades of Modern HorrorMichael Moorcock – Elric of Melniboné: The Elric Saga, vol. 1Marcel Proust – Le Côté de Guermantes II, Sodome et GomorrheRobert Jordan – The Fires of HeavenClive Barker – Books of Blood, vol. 1-3Noël Carroll – The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the HeartMargaret Weis and Tracy Hickman – Dragons of Spring DawningMervyn Peake – Titus GroanStanley Cavell – The World ViewedShirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill HouseRichard Moran – Authority and EstrangementChristopher Prendergast – Living and Dying with Marcel ProustEugen Weber – France, Fin de SiècleSamuel Beckett – ProustArthur C. Danto – The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of ArtGuy Gavriel Kay – The Fionavar TapestryJack Vance – Tales of the Dying Earth
Lots of DNFs that were nevertheless worthwhile. Many of these were books that I didn’t necessarily plan to read in full anyway (academic books, anthologies).
Stanley Cavell – The Claim of Reason, Themes out of SchoolKendall Walton – Mimesis as Make-BelieveMary Mothersill – Beauty RestoredA. D. Smith – Problems of PerceptionC. Thi Nguyen – Games: Agency as ArtArthur Machen – The White People, and Other Weird StoriesEric S. Rabkin ed. – Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and StoriesM. R. James – Casting the RunesJ. R. R. Tolkien – Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. Humphrey Carpenter)David G. Hartwell ed. – Masterpieces of Fantasy and WonderFyodor Dostoyevsky, tr. Ignat Avsey – The Karamazov Brothers
― jmm, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the DayCormac McCarthy - Blood MeridianDon Delillo - White NoiseCharles Dickens - David CopperfieldJohn Darnielle - Devil HouseHerman Melville - Moby DickDavid Mitchell - Cloud AtlasCormac McCarthy - The RoadJohn Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The ColdJohn Le Carré - Call For The DeadJohn Le Carré - Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyPhilip Roth - Portnoy's ComplaintJ.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the RingGraham Greene - Our Man In HavanaVladimir Nabokov - Lolita
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
Great thread, really interesting and eclectic lists
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
i never really go back and think about what i enjoyed or change what i read to match that. i probably should.
from my list casterbridge, two cities, sight of you, and autumn.
is there a new year's resolution thread for reading? everything on mine feels soooo long.
― koogs, Thursday, 29 December 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link
I'm mostly a lurker here, but I've really enjoyed reading these lists, and past years' lists, for recommendations. I read more in 2022 than any previous year; finally got into a good daily rhythm of finding time in the evenings, and avoiding getting sucked into watching TV or scrolling Twitter. Books with * are ones I particularly enjoyed.
Charles Willeford - The Burnt Orange HeresyAaron Copland - What to Listen for in MusicJohn le Carré - The Spy Who Came In from the Cold*Kim Stanley Robinson - New York 2140Jack Viertel - The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are BuiltUrsula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of EarthseaMuriel Spark - The Driver's SeatHenry Jaglom - My Lunches with OrsonRobert Simonson - 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail CanonGeorge Eliot - Middlemarch*Patrick Wyman - The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the WorldMuriel Spark - SymposiumAgatha Christie - A Murder Is Announced
David Graeber & David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity*John Franklin Bardin - The Deadly PercheronScott Eyman - Cary Grant: A Brilliant DisguiseP.G. Wodehouse - Something FreshDava Sobel - Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimePatrick O'Brian - Master and CommanderGraham Greene - The ComediansCarlo Ginzburg - The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century MillerJohn Dickson Carr - The Hollow ManJoan Didion - Where I Was FromEvelyn Waugh - ScoopElmore Leonard - City Primeval
Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle for LeibowitzAdam Tooze - The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931Rex Stout - Where There's a WillJeff Tweedy - How to Write One SongUrsula K. Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan*Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient ExpressElmore Leonard - 52 PickupAntal Szerb - Journey by MoonlightCharles Willeford - SideswipeGeorge Orwell - Homage to CataloniaEdith Wharton - The House of MirthUrsula K. Le Guin - The Farthest Shore
Otto Friedrich - City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940'sDave Hutchinson - Europe in AutumnElizabeth Taylor - Mrs. Palfrey at the ClaremontDavid Graeber - Debt: The First 5,000 YearsChester Himes - A Rage in HarlemUrsula K. Le Guin - Tehanu*Rex Stout - GambitHelen DeWitt - Lightning RodsJohn Williams - StonerSarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed FirsFrancis Spufford - Red Plenty*Barbara Comyns - Who Was Changed and Who Was DeadElmore Leonard - GlitzDavid Grann - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Dorothy B. Hughes - Ride the Pink HorseNed Sublette - Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo*Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About ThisUrsula K. Le Guin - Tales from Earthsea John Wyndham - The Day of the TriffidsArkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic*Bethany C. Morrow - MemJohn Williams - Butcher's Crossing*Alec Nevala-Lee - Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Ross Macdonald - The ChillGreg Milner - Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded MusicGeorge Eliot - Silas MarnerPhilip K. Dick - Time Out of JointJean Rhys - After Leaving Mr. MackenzieSimon Garfield - Just My Type: A Book about FontsUrsula K. Le Guin - The Other Wind
Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain*Seishi Yokomizo - The Honjin Murders Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist RuinsAgatha Christie - Lord Edgware DiesSteve Swayne - How Sondheim Found His SoundPatrick O'Brian - H. M. S. Surprise Elmore Leonard - StickGeorge R. Stewart - Earth AbidesWilliam Gibson - Pattern Recognition
John McPhee - The Control of NatureMax Salazar - Mambo Kingdom: Latin Music in New YorkPatrick O'Brian - The Mauritius CommandOtto Friedrich - The End of the World: A HistoryC.V. Wedgwood - The Thirty Years War*Josephine Tey - Brat FarrarHelen DeWitt - The Last Samurai
Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the SpyUrsula K. Le Guin - Dancing at the Edge of the WorldCaroline Criado Pérez - Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for MenPatrick O'Brian - Desolation IslandDavid Maurer - The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence ManEliott Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel*Eric Hobsbawm - The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall*Barbara Pym - Less Than Angels
Ursula Le Guin - Rocannon's WorldJim Thompson - Pop. 1280Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger AckroydPatrick O'Brian - The Fortune of War*Chester Himes - The Real Cool KillersHilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies*Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of DustKim Stanley Robinson - Red MarsGary Giddins - Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star, The War Years 1940-1946Elmore Leonard - SwagJim Thompson - The Killer Inside MeMuriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Donald Westlake - The Ax*Mike Davis - City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los AngelesPatrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's MatePierre Bayard - Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie MysteryUrsula Le Guin - Planet of ExileMargaret Millar - Beast in ViewKim Stanley Robinson - Green MarsJohn Le Carre - Call for the DeadLawrence Block - The Burglar Who Liked to Quote KiplingDaniel Davies - Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our WorldEllen Willis - Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock MusicStanislaw Lem - The Star Diaries
Elmore Leonard - The SwitchPatrick O'Brian - The Ionian MissionDonald Westlake - Somebody Owes Me MoneyPatricia Highsmith - The Cry of the OwlKim Stanley Robinson - Blue Mars*Ursula Le Guin - City of IllusionsColson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys*Lawrence Block - The Burglar Who Studied SpinozaDorothy B. Hughes - The Expendable ManJohn Le Carre - A Murder of QualityEdith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
― Ari (whenuweremine), Thursday, 29 December 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
^that's one sweet list!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 29 December 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
Indeed. Looks like you may have just won ILB!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 December 2022 04:27 (one year ago) link
yeah that's inspiring for sure
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 December 2022 05:53 (one year ago) link
a bunch of big books, a slew of smaller ones, a couple of rereads and even a few knocked off my to-read pile:
cervantes - don quixoteariosto - orlando furiosomalory - le morte darthurjohn cowper powys - a glastonbury romancewyndham lewis - the human agealdous huxley - ape & essencehg wells - the island of doctor moreauolaf stapledon - siriusolaf stapledon - odd johnolaf stapledon - the flamesjohn wyndham - consider her ways & othersjohn wyndham - the seeds of timeray bradbury - the illustrated manray bradbury - the golden apples of the sunray bradbury - the machineries of joyalfred bester - the dark side of the earthrobert sheckley - the robert sheckley omnibusroger zelanzy - this immortalrichard brautigan - dreaming of babylonchandler/parker - poodle springsraymond chandler - playbackraymond chandler - the little sisterraymond chandler - the big sleepthomas pynchon - inherent vicefrank norris - mcteaguegeorge gissing - the nether worldliam o'flaherty - skerrettoxford classic irish short storieselizabeth bowen - the heat of the dayivy compton-burnett - more women than menhenry green - blindnessmichael innes - there came both mist and snowmichael innes - appleby on araratmichael innes - a private viewmichael innes - the gay phoenixmichael innes - honeybath's havenjosephine tey - brat farrarjosephine bell - the port of london murdersfreeman wills crofts - the caskfreeman wills crofts - the cheyne mysteryfreeman wills crofts - the loss of the jane vospere phillips oppenheim - moran chambers smilede phillips oppenheim - the strange boarders of palace crescentsimenon - the shadow fallsalain robbe-grillet - the erasersallain/souvestre - fantomasgombrowicz - pornografiakundera - the farewell partyjiří gruša - the questionnaireadolfo bioy casares - asleep in the sunpinget - mahu, or the materialpinget - the inquisitoryperec - threeperec - "53 days"andré gide - the counterfeitersthomas mann - stories of three decadeskatherine mansfield - the complete stories ofanna kavan's new zealand
& closing out the year with christina stead's otherwise uncollected shorter fiction ocean of story
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 29 December 2022 08:20 (one year ago) link
i think it was you who last year extolled the virtues of reading multiple books by the same author together. hence the slew of hardy in mine.
― koogs, Thursday, 29 December 2022 10:39 (one year ago) link
Despite having a pretty horrendous year at work, I did OK with reading. But still, holy crap at whenuweremine's list.
** = re-reads.
Laura Mulvey - Citizen KaneDavid Crystal - Rediscover GrammarDerek Raymond - I Was Dora SuarezGreg Tate - Flyboy in the ButtermilkPaul Shepheard - What is Architecture?**JB Priestley - English JourneyPatricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About ThisLuis Bunuel - My Last SighAudrey Schulman - Theory of BastardsAdam Thorpe - On Silbury HillMark Lanegan - Sing Backwards and WeepJames Shapiro - 1599Patricia Lockwood - PriestdaddyKushwant Singh - Train to PakistanIan Nairn - OutrageTS Eliot - Four Quartets**JB Priestley - Bright DayWilliam Goldman - Adventures in the ScreentradeYvonne Tasker - Silence of the LambsDavid Thomson - The Big SleepJeff Tweedy - Let's Go (So We Can Come Back)Jim Thompson - The GetawayLee Child - Die TryingRobin Wall Kimmerer - Gathering MossJames Shapiro - The Year of Lear**Antony Sher - Year of the KingHannah Gadsby - 10 Steps to NanetteLee Child - TripwireHarriet Walter - Actors on ShakespeareEdward St. Aubyn - Never MindEd Guerrero - Do the Right ThingHan Kang - The VegetarianSimon Callow - Being an ActorEdward St. Aubyn - Bad NewsBohumil Hrabal - I Served the King of EnglandRichard Stark - The Man with the Getaway FaceTim Winton - Dirt MusicCicely Berry - The Actor and the TextEdward St. Aubyn - Some HopePaul Theroux - The Kingdom By the Sea**Joe Moran - If You Should FailDonald E. Westlake - The AxRalph Ellison - Invisible ManDavid Winner - Brilliant OrangeRivka Galchen - Little LaboursEdward St. Aubyn - Mother's MilkEdward St. Aubyn - At LastErnest Hemingway - A Moveable FeastWarren Ellis - Nina Simone's GumRobert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde**John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men**Robert Macfarlane - The Old Ways**Geoff Dyer - Paris TranceShunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's MindSean Carroll - The Big PictureMark Epstein - Thoughts Without A ThinkerJonathon Green - Days in the LifeF. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the NightVajragupta - The Triratna Story
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 29 December 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
just recently found my missing copy of the bunuel autobiography... needs a revisit!
xpost: more a habit than anything else, though i often find value sticking with an author for a multi-book run. two of your listed hardys i've yet to read, then no more new hardy for me.
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 29 December 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
Ari’s list would take approximately 4 1/2 years of my life. It’s a drag being a slow reader.
― Chris L, Thursday, 29 December 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
cervantes - don quixoteariosto - orlando furiosomalory - le morte darthur
Dang, that is a hefty start to the year
― jmm, Thursday, 29 December 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
I suppose I should have included the books I "read" by listening to them read in their entirety on Phobe Judge's excellent podcast, "Phoebe Reads a Mystery":
Agatha Christie/The Mysterious Affair at StylesArthur Conan Doyle/The Hound of the BaskervillesWilkie Collins/The MoonstoneAgatha Christie/The Murder on the LinksAnna Katherine Green/The Leavenworth CaseBram Stoker/DraculaAgatha Christie/The Secret Adversary
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 29 December 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
I have a $50 gift card to spend and am carefully reading this thread for inspirations. Might drop it on an overpriced Junji Ito book, idk.
― jmm, Thursday, 29 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek LivesGoethe - Elective AffinitiesChristopher Hill - The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some ContemporariesMichael Inwood - Heidegger: A Very Short IntroductionLauren Berlant - Cruel OptimismGoethe - Italian JourneyLytton Strachey - Eminent VictoriansEdward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume IITacitus - The HistoriesPeter Wohlleben - The Inner Life of AnimalsJohn Boardman - The Oxford History of Classical ArtFrantz Fanon - The Wretched of the EarthOsip Mandelshtam - Selected PoemsAndreas Malm - How to Blow Up a PipelineProcopius - The Secret HistoryThe Quest of the Holy Grail (Prose Launcelot)David Crystal - The Stories of EnglishLucretius - On the Nature of the Universe, Ronald Melville TranslatorWill Eisner - A Contract with God and Other Tenement StoriesThe Epic of Gilgamesh (Prose and Verse translations in Penguin)D.H. Lawrence, - Women in LoveWilliam Hazlitt - Selected Writings (Penguin ed from 1970s including scandalous Liber Amoris)Jonathan Barnes, - Early Greek Philosophy Christopher Marlowe - The Complete PlaysJoe Sacco - PalestineJS Mill - On LibertyWilliam Carlos Williams - The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939Tom Paulin - The Day Star Of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical StylePaul Woods - The Curious life and work of Scott WalkerAnne Baring - The Myth of the GoddessThomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet CastleMichael Brooks - 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our TimeBen Judah, - This is London: Life and Death in the World CityAnton Chekhov - The Essential Tales of Chekhov
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 29 December 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
Max Aub - Field of HonourJesse K. Baer - Midwestern Infinity DoctrineAndrei Bely - PetersburgDaniel Benjamin & Eric Sneathen (ed.) - The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual CultureThomas Bernhard - CorrectionAdolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel and Other StoriesKarel Čapek - Travels in the NorthKarel Čapek - War with the NewtsVictoria Chang - Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and GriefAmit Chaudhuri - Odysseus AbroadRafael Chirbes - CremationNorma Cole - Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems, 1988-2008Wanda Coleman - Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American SonnetsCid Corman - LivingdyingMarie Darrieussecq - Pig TalesMarie Darrieussecq - Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-BeckerJeremy M. Davies - FancyLydia Davis - The End of the StoryNatalie Diaz - Postcolonial Love PoemDasa Drndic - EEGTongo Eisen-Martin - Heaven is All GoodbyesStanley Elkin - The Dick Gibson ShowStanley Elkin - Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and CriersAnnie Ernaux - A Woman's StorySesshu Foster - World Ball NotebookRenee Gladman - The ActivistRenee Gladman - CalamitiesJuan Goytisolo - QuarantineJudy Grahn - The Judy Grahn ReaderJim Harrison - The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New PoemsTerrance Hayes - LightheadHarmony Holiday - Negro League BaseballFanny Howe - London-roseFanny Howe - Night PhilosophyHua Hsu - Stay TrueKenneth Irby - OrexisKenneth Irby - CatalpaTove Jansson - Fair PlayElfriede Jelinek - The Piano TeacherNoelle Kocot - God's Green EarthClarice Lispector - Soulstorm: StoriesGarielle Lutz - The Gotham GrammarianGarielle Lutz - DivorcerSabrina Orah Mark - Wild MilkBernadette Mayer - Work and DaysPatrick Modiano - HoneymoonGeoffrey G. O'Brien - Experience in GroupsPier Paolo Pasolini - Roman PoemsGeorges Perec - W, or the Memory of ChildhoodSarah Schulman - After DeloresSarah Schulman - EmpathySarah Schulman - Rat BohemiaIsaac Bashevis Singer - A Crown of Feathers and Other StoriesWole Soyinka - Shuttle in the CryptMaria Stepanova - In Memory of MemoryMartine Syms - Shame SpaceStacy Szymaszek - The Pasolini BookStacy Szymaszek - three novenasYoko Tawada - Memoirs of a Polar BearOlga Tokarczuk - The Books of JacobNick Twemlow - Palm TreesJean Valentine - Home Deep Blue: New and Selected PoemsElio Vittorini - Conversations in SicilyLewis Warsh - One Foot Out the Door: The Collected Stories of Lewis WarshJonathan Williams - Amen Huzza SelahJoy Williams - HarrowAlejandro Zambra - Bonsai
― zak m, Thursday, 29 December 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
for a second i thought this was the ILM tracks/albums of 2022 nomination thread and i was very confused
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 December 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
Non-Fiction
Ackroyd, Wilkie CollinsArendt, Between Past and FutureArendt, On RevolutionArendt, The Human ConditionArendt, The Origins of TotalitarianismAscati, A Counter-History of Crime FictionBenjamin, Illuminations Bloom (ed.), Gothic HorrorCallaghan, Assigned: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Sapphire and SteelChristie, An AutobiographyClover, Men, Women, and ChainsawsDaniels, Living in FearDylan, The Philosophy of Modern SongFisher, The Weird and the EerieHendrix & Poggiali, These Fists Break BricksHobsbawm, The Age of CapitalHobsbawm, The Age of EmpireHobsbawm, The Age of ExtremesHowarth, So Deadly, So Perverse, v. 1Howarth, So Deadly, So Perverse, v. 3Hutton, The WitchJarnow, Big Day ComingKannas, Giallo!Koven, La Dolce MorteKröger and Anderson, Monster, She WroteRzepka, Detective FictionSpade, Mutual AidStandage, The Writing on the WallTwigger, Angry White PyjamasWarner, No Go the Bogeyman
Mystery Novels
Allingham, Death of a Ghost Allingham, Flowers for the JudgeAllingham, The Fashion in ShroudsBrackett, No Good From a CorpseBrand, Fog of DoubtBrand, Green for DangerBrand, Heads You LoseBrand, The Crooked WreathBrand, Tour de ForceCarr, Hag’s NookCarr, The Bowstring MurdersCarr, The Mad Hatter MysteryCarr, The Plague Court MurdersChristie, An Appointment with DeathChristie, And Then There Were NoneChristie, Cards on the TableChristie, Death in the Clouds Christie, Five Little PigsChristie, Hallowe’en PartyChristie, Lord Edgware DiesChristie, Murder in MesopotamiaChristie, Murder is EasyChristie, One Two Buckle My Shoe Christie, Peril at End HouseChristie, Poirot InvestigatesChristie, Sad Cypress Christie, The Moving FingerChristie, The Murder of Roger AckroydChristie, The Murder on the LinksChristie, The Mysterious Affair at StylesChristie, The Sittaford MysteryMitchell, The Saltmarsh MurdersPunshon, Death Comes to CambersPunshon, The Dusky HourQueen, The Greek Coffin MysteryRoscoe, Murder on the Way!Van Dine, The Bishop Murder CaseVan Dine, The Greene Murder CaseVan Dine, The Scarab Murder CaseVázquez Montalbán, Off SideVázquez Montalbán, South Seas
Other Novels
Amis, The Green ManBrackett and Bradbury, Lorelei of the Red MistCollins, The Haunted HotelConrad, VictoryHodgson, The Ghost PiratesMasterton, Charnel HouseMasterton, Family PortraitMasterton, The ManitouMasterton, The PariahMasterton, The Wells of HellMcDowell, Cold Moon over BabylonRampo, The Hunter of the Grotesque Ray, MalpertiusSimenon, The People Opposite
Short Story Collections and Anthologies
Anderson (ed.), The Women of Weird TalesBenson, A,C. and Benson, R.H., Ghosts in the HouseBenson, E.F., Night TerrorsBurrage, The Waxwork and Other StoriesCrawford, For the Blood Is the Life and Other StoriesDalby and Pardoe (eds.), Ghosts and Scholarsde la Mare, Out of the DeepDoyle, The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan DoyleEdwards (ed.), Foreign BodiesErnst, Doctor SatanGilchrist, I Am Stone Grabinski, The Dark DomainHartley, The Travelling Grave and Other StoriesJames, M.R., Collected Ghost StoriesJames, The Ghost Stories of Henry JamesKipling, Tales of Horror and Fantasy Lawrence, Nights of the Round Table Lee, HauntingsLewis, Tales of the GrotesqueMalden, Nine GhostsManwaring (ed.), Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger ClimesMiller (ed.), Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of BritainRampo, The Black Lizard and Beast in the ShadowsRampo, The Early Cases of Akechi KogoroRampo, The Edogawa Rampo ReaderRay, Ghouls in My Grave Ray, My Own Private SpectresRay, Seven TalesRolt, Sleep No MoreScott, Randalls RoundSwain, The Stoneground Ghost TalesWakefield, They Return at Evening
― Brad C., Thursday, 29 December 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
Goddamn, man! I love it.
That’s the kind of reading I wanna do next year. (The Volume.)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
Chronologically:
Vladimir Nabokov, LolitaJoan Didion, Where I Was FromKazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the SunFrank Conroy, Stop-TimeJohn Darnielle, Devil HouseRobert Gottlieb, GarboBrad Watson, Miss JaneEvelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, A Handful of DustGail Stekelee and Randy Frost: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and The Meaning of ThingsErnest Hemingway, The Sun Also RisesDonald A. Wollheim, Arthur Sara (ed.), The 1981 World's Best SFPatti Smith, M TrainTim Lawrence, Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992The Best of Margaret St. ClairOnes I haven't yet mentioned on ILB:Helen Rappaport, After The RomanovsLucy Woodhead, Shopping, Seduction and Mr. SelfridgeHenry Finder, Giles Harvey (ed.) The 40s--The Story of A Decade (New Yorker anthology)Back to ones I've mentioned on ILB:Michaiah Johnson, The Space Between WorldsBob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
― dow, Friday, 30 December 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link
D'oh! How could I leave outGraham Greene, The End of the Affair
― dow, Friday, 30 December 2022 07:09 (one year ago) link
I finished Holy Ghost by Richard Koloda last night. Very recommended. Plus got to see most of My Name Is Albert Ayler though could do with Swedish subtitles.
Started another thing a couple of days ago Through The Language Glass by Guy Deutscher but will be a while before I finish it.
& forgot a few which weren't in the list I copied out but were on the library site under loan history or on shelves I passed so not sure why they were skipped. Eric Charry Mande MusicDamo Suzuki I Am Damo Suzuki bell hooks Communion
― Stevolende, Friday, 30 December 2022 07:51 (one year ago) link
go ahead. tell me how many books you read this year. take a lil artful photo of your bookstack. upload a screenshot of a notes app listing your fave reads of 2022 pic.twitter.com/WMdHkhkdhk— jeremy poxon (@JeremyPoxon) December 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 December 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
Here's what I got through November:
January
Janet Malcolm - In the Freud ArchivesAlbert Cosser - Proud BeggarsWallace Stegner - Crossing to SafetyRobert Bresson - Notes on the CinematographerPatrick Modiano - Such Fine BoysAlpheus Thomas Mason - The Supreme Court from Taft to WarrenDylan Jones - Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New RomanticsLyndall Gordon - Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate LifeDenis Donaghue - Speaking of BeautyJames Wilcox - Guest of a SinnerJoan Didion - Play It As It LaysDenis Donaghue - Walter Pater: Lover of Strange SoulsThomas Savage - The Power of the Dog
February
Matthew Sturgis - Oscar Wilde: A Life* Oscar Wilde - An Ideal HusbandW.G. Sebald - VertigoVictor Sebestyen - 1946: The Making of the Modern WorldShirley Hazzard - The Bay of NoonViet Thanh Nguyen - The SympathizerRobert Gottlieb - GarboThomas Hardy - Far from the Madding CrowdRenata Adler - SpeedboatDeirdre Adair - Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A MemoirDeirdre Adair - Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
March
George Meredith - Diana of the CrosswaysJay Parini - Borges and Me: An EncounterMartin Amis - Inside StoryGarrett M. Graff - Watergate: A New HistoryHarold Bloom - Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of CriticismItalo Calvino - The WatcherLouis Menand - The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold WarBobbie Ann Mason - In CountryJeffrey Frank: The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings TwiceBarbara Pym - Quartet in AutumnKembrew McLeod - Parallel LinesHanif Abdurraqib - A Little Devil in America
April
John Le Carré - SilverviewStephen Spender - Love-Hate RelationsJoan Richardson - How to Live, What to Do: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace StevensNigel Williamson - Borges: A LifeAlejandro Zamba - Ways of Going HomeRuth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and DustRoger Lowenstein - Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War* Henry James - The AmericanRon Brownstein - Rock Me on the Water: The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and PoliticsHenry Green - BlindnessJeremy Atherton Lin - Gay Bar: Why We Went OutE.M. Forster - Three Cheers for DemocracyDaniel Mendelsohn - Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
May
Andrew Holleran - Nights in Aruba* William Shakespeare - Twelfth NightManuel Rivas - The Carpenter's PencilJulia Briggs - Virginia Woolf: An Inner LifeVolker Ullrich - Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45Julia Briggs - Virginia Woolf: An Inner LifeGwendoline Riley - Sick NotesJohn Dryden -- All For LoveKingsley Amis - The AlterationMichael Koresky - Films of EndearmentLytton Strachey - Eminent VictoriansSarah Bakewell - How to Live, or a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answerJeremy Peters - Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
June
Albert Murray - The Omni-AmericansSiegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of an Infantry OfficerSebastian Barry - Days Without EndSylvia Townsend Warner - Mr. Fortune's MaggotV.S. Pritchett - ChekhovCarol Polsgrove - It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?Bob Spitz - Led Zeppelin* James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManSherwood Anderson - Poor WhiteSteven Hahn - A Nation Under Our Feet* Henry James - The Aspern Papers
July
William Shakespeare - Richard IIIChristopher Isherwood - Christopher and His KindRoy Foster - On Seamus HeaneyDavid Cantwell - The Running Kind: Listening to Merle HaggardPeter S. Canellos - The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial HeroEdmund White - A Previous LifeJ.C. Ackerley - My Father and MyselfColette - The Pure and the ImpureAndrew Marantz - Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American ConversationJohn Rechy - After the Blue Hour* Alexandre Dumas père - The Count of Monte CristoJosephine Wilkinson - Louis XIV: The Power and the GloryDavid Levering Lewis - The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
August
Elizabeth Sewell - The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural HistoryIsabelle Eberhardt - The Oblivion SeekersChristopher Hibbert - The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519Gavin Lambert - The Goodbye PeopleWilliam Shakespeare - King JohnEdmund White - The Unpunished Vice: A Life of ReadingElizabeth Taylor - The Soul of KindnessTété-Michel Kpomassie - An African Goes to Greenlande.e. cummings - The Enormous RoomN. D. B. Connolly - A World More ConcreteNick Seabrook - One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in AmericaPenelope Fitzgerald - InnocenceJunichiro Tanizaki - Some Prefer NettlesOttessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
September
Tim Lawrence - Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983* Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'UrbervillesHannah Arendt - Men in Dark TimesGeoff Dyer - The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other EndingsWalter Stahr - Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital RivalJean Rhys - Good Morning, MidnightJavier Marías - All SoulsJavier Marías - The InfatuationsChristopher Ricks - TennysonRichard Brody - Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc GodardHilary Mantel - Fludd
October
Hilary Mantel - A Place of Greater SafetyGreil Marcus - Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great GatsbyPat Barker - The Women of TroyBeowulf (Seamus Heaney)Annie Ernaux - A Man's PlaceAnnie Ernaux - HappeningDorothy Baker - Cassandra at the Wedding* Edith Wharton - The House of MirthPhilip Roth - I Married a CommunistLuke Mogelson - The Storm Is Here: An American CrucibleJavier Marías - A Heart So WhiteGay Talese - Thy Neighbor's WifeLorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
November
Timothy D. Snyder - The Road to UnfreedomElizabeth Bowen - The Little GirlsRobert Crawford - Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste LandLeonard Sciascia - The Day of the OwlBob Dylan - The Philosophy of Bob DylanWallace Stegner - Crossing to SafetyHilary Mantel - A Change of ClimateTom Breihan - The Number OnesMaggie O'Farrell - HamnetPeter Brooks - Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of NarrativeColette - Chéri and The End of ChériWilliam Shakespeare - Cymbeline
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 December 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
That's good going. I was thinking A Place Of Greater Safety was 700 pp+ cos I have a copy I need to read. & I think a few others there are similar length. So getting them done with others in the same month is good going. x10. I think I was taking great chunks of nights through a lot of the year to read this year. & slowed down massively when i started getting up early for the course.
― Stevolende, Friday, 30 December 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
I am in awe of the number of books some of you manage to read in a year.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 30 December 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
I'm single and walk a lot.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
That in itself is impressive to me. If I regularly read while walking I'd be in constant danger of tripping or running into things.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 30 December 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
Yeah, remember what happened to Stephen King. Alfred's probably smarter about it, since he hasn't mentioned any accidents yet.One more I forgot, added because it's well worth mentioning anyway: JL Borges, A Universal History of Infamy, as translated by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. My take was posted on a thread well worth mentioning anyway: Borges translation?
― dow, Friday, 30 December 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
So that makes 21 in 52 weeks. I like the pace, but looking at my Collier Brothers pile, figuring my likely lifespan, h'mm.
― dow, Friday, 30 December 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
And several of those weren't even from the pile, but the library, and personal loans.
― dow, Friday, 30 December 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
i once ran the numbers on the rough number of books i would be able to read in my remaining years and to cut to the chase i dont recommend doing that
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 30 December 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
Aaand current discussion of music bios on WAYR? finally reminds me that I also should have listed Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson's Me and Sister Bobbie, with each life story told in alternating chapters, building some suspense, though Willie's dispatches are often deft rehash from his many previous books, far as I can tell. Hers are almost complete unknowns to me, and often startling at the very least.
― dow, Friday, 30 December 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
Yeah, remember what happened to Stephen King. Alfred's probably smarter about it, since he hasn't mentioned any accidents yet.
6:20 a.m., few cars, residential neighborhood with cul-de-sacs.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 December 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
I though you meant you were listening to audiobooks
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 30 December 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
never have
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 December 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
That is somehow much more charming
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 30 December 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob DylanThe Adventures of Augie March - Saul BellowWe Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland - Fintan O'TooleMemento Mori - Muriel SparkSlayground - Richard StarkSideswipe - Charles WillefordSecondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Svetlana AlexievichCuba: An American History - Ada FerrerThe Passion According to G.H. - Clarice LispectorThe Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy CasaresTeenager - Bud SmithEither/Or - Elif BatumanNorco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History - Peter HoulahanNormal People - Sally RooneyThe Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern - Robert MorrisonLow Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York - Lucy SanteDeadwood - Pete DexterBecoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom - Derecka PurnellKudos - Rachel CuskCockfighter - Charles WillefordEve's Hollywood - Eve BabitzMason & Dixon - Thomas PynchonCamera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century - Dana StevensTransit - Rachel CuskWagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music - Alex RossWhen We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin LabatutOutline - Rachel CuskHarlem Shuffle - Colson WhiteheadArctic Dreams - Barry Lopez
― Chris L, Friday, 30 December 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
The nice discoveries: Bei Dao (just a few pages to finish), Heine's prose, Starnone's fiction, Aubrey's portraits, and I have 'discovered' Shakespeare after being mis-taught it at school. On the boil Latin American fiction (via Onetti and Di Benedetto) is a thing you can never go wrong with (as oposed to Vargas Llosa, the only book that really bored me). I didn't read lots but I read big at times (it informed this poll: Like the 20th Century Never Happened) and right now I am finishing part two of Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries, which is really wonderful, one of the finest books ever bought out by NYRB.
Raymond Chandler - The Big SleepJohn Aubrey - Brief LivesJoseph Conrad - The Secret AgentUrsula Le Guin - The DispossesedDomenico Starnone - TiesNatalia Ginzburg - The Dry HeartWilliam Congreve - IncognitaThe Poems of Wilfred OwenAntonio Lobo Antunes - Act of the DammedHazlitt - On TheatreWilliam Shakespeare - OthelloWolfgang Hilbig - The InterimWilliam Shakespeare - Antony and CleopatraVarious - The Tragic History of the SeaAntonio Moresco - Distant LightJuan Carlos Onetti - The ShipyardWilliam Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's DreamAntonio Di Benedetto - The SilentiaryVasily Grossman - Life & FateCesare Pavese - The Beautiful SummerHomer - War Music (tr Christopher Logue)Xavier de Maistre - Journey Around my RoomPeter Stamm - The Sweet Indifference of the WorldWole Soyinka - A Shutter in the CryptMario Vargas Llosa - Conversation in the Cathedral*Hermann Burger - BrennerHalldor Laxness - Indepedent PeopleJoy Williams - HarrowVladimir Sharov - Before & DuringChristina Stead - The Man Who Loved ChildrenPat Califia - Public Sex: The Culture of Radical SexHelen DeWitt - The English Understand WoolHeinrich Heine - Travel Pictures Bei Dao - City Gate, Open Up*Uwe Johnson - Anniversaries Part Two*
* unfinished/to finish
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 31 December 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
Brenner is also lovely, a one of a kind book.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 31 December 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
I have Brenner and keep meaning to put it in the queue. Stoked to see Life & Fate on your list -- I think I read it eleven years ago or so and that long set piece where they're defending House 6/1 never leaves me, what a book
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 31 December 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Lola OlufemiThe Moon in Its Flight Gilbert SorrentinoThe Twilight Zone Nona FernándezRole Models John WatersBegin Again: Collected Poems Grace PaleyWhat Belongs to You Garth GreenwellAnimal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation Nuar AlsadirGarth Marenghi’s TerrorTome Garth MarenghiThe Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav NijinskyReader for Hire Raymond JeanYou Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] Andrew HankinsonFairy Tale Stephen KingSilences Tillie OlsenThe Road to the City Natalia GinzburgThe Enchanted Glass Tom NairnUlysses James JoyceDevil House John DarnielleChavs Owen JonesBad Behavior Mary GaitskillManhunt Gretchen Felker-MartinThe Impostor Silvina OcampoFrantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs Taban Lo LiyongTwenty-two Days or Half a Lifetime Franz FühmannThe Harpy Megan HunterParty im Blitz Elias CanettiThe Cheap-Eaters Thomas BernhardThree Lives Gertrude SteinTender Buttons Gertrude SteinCain's Jawbone E. Powys MathersTerminal Boredom Izumi SuzukiBird in a Cage Frédéric DardPowers of Darkness Valdimar Asmundsson,Bram Stoker,Hans De RoosGirl, Woman, Other Bernardine EvaristoBeowulf A New Translation Seamus HeaneyStation Eleven Emily St John MandelHarrow Joy WilliamsThe Changeling Joy Williams+Vols 1 & 2 of the complete original stories of Maupassant Sorry for horrible formatting, I’m on phone & can’t fix. Managed about half what I’ve been used to reading these last few years — obv the numbers don’t matter except insofar as they reflect less time for reading, which in this case directly stems from dismal life shit — nonetheless a v good year for reading if nothing else, I will remember this summer for the heatwave and finally reading UlyssesNo rereads on the list which I feel can’t be right but I guess it is (audiobooks in bed don’t count else Stephen King’s cell would appear 50 times) I didn’t finish the descent by Jeff long or Paul Morley’s Dylan book; I’ll go back to the latter at some point probably
― pilk/pall revolting odors (wins), Saturday, 31 December 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
Also this list is backwards, experiments in imagining otherwise is the last thing I read and in many ways the perfect thing to read going into a new year, although in other ways the new year thing is antithetical to what it’s about
― pilk/pall revolting odors (wins), Saturday, 31 December 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
lorrie moore - anagramslonnie elder iii - ceremonies in dark old menroth - the human stainjudd apatow - sicker in the headmeghan o'rourke - the invisible kingdommichael eric dyson - jay-z: made in americacalvin trillin - remembering dennyscarlett thomas - 41-lovenoel coward - private livesjoyce carol oates - sexyjoyce carol oates - the (other) youjoyce carol oates - the tattooed girljoyce carol oates - because it is bitter, and because it is my heartdonna tartt - the secret historychris clarey - federer bioadam levin - mount chiporchista khakpour - sickshawn levy - de niro biothe realm of appearances -matthew wong art bookross douhat - the deep placesanne tyler - a slipping down life
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 31 December 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
C&P from my end of year blog, hope you don't mind.
PG Wodehouse - Heavy Weather (1933) **** (amazing that this and Summer Lightning take place within two weeks, such intricate, flawless plotting)Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism (2009) **** (still essential, wish he were around to give us an update)David Nobbs - Pratt à Manger (2006) **½ (dregs of the Henry Pratt series, still worth reading)Jonathan Coe - Middle England (2018) *** (diminishing returns in the Rotters Club series, some parts excellent, some parts should have been cut)Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (1946) ****½ (yes, I should have read this years ago, I know)Eric Hobsbawm - Age of Extremes The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994) ****Taylor Downing - 1942: Britain at the Brink (2022) ** (just not what I was looking for here)Terry Teachout - Duke (2013) ** (some parts are excellent, unfortunately spoiled by his bizarre insistence on tutting at Ellington for not being a classical composer)PG Wodehouse - Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935) **** (some of the best Blandings stories, Mr Mulliner stories are fine but not up to same standard)Ted Gioia - The History of Jazz, Second Edition (2021) **½ (interesting as an overview of what the consensus (to be challenged) is, devoting more of the book to Winton Marsalis than all non-US Jazz is pretty inexcusable, also he is very sniffy about free jazz and has apparent contempt for hip-hop)Alex Ross - The Rest Is Noise (2007) ***½ (very good overview of 21st century classical music, which I am still not really into after reading)PG Wodehouse - Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) ***½ (some stories are excellent, not enough Blandings for me though)Louis Menand - The Free World (2021) **** (excellent primer on cold war era culture and thought, have just finished this and am letting it sink in)Edward Joffe - Hancock's Last Stand (1998) *½ (on Tony Hancock's last months from someone who was there, would expect any showbiz memoir to be more engaging than this)
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 31 December 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGZbT2jp97A
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 December 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
"Stoked to see Life & Fate on your list" -- your enthusiasm for W&P was also lovely to see, and since L&F is modelled on it..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 1 January 2023 11:19 (one year ago) link
Fatal Vision - Joe McGinnissThe 1975 Annual World's Best SF - Donald A Wollheim edSlow Horses - Mick HerronSadie When She Died - Ed McBainConsider Phlebas - Iain M BanksA Morbid Taste for Bones - Ellis PetersThe Postman Always Rings Twice - James M CainThe Death of Grass - John ChristopherDeep Water - Patricia HighsmithThe Moving Toyshop - Edmund CrispinDenim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Michael HandTime Unchained - Ivan Howard edMy Face for the World to See - Alfred HayesAstounding: John Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, L. Ron Hiubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction - Alec Nevala-LeeTrue Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee - Abraham RiesmanThe Player of Games - Iain M BanksThe Dark Hours - Michael ConnellyA New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s - Mike BarnesThe Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag and other stories - Robert A. HeinleinAll of the Marvels - Douglas WolkThe Daughter of Time - Josephine TheyTitus Groan - Mervyn PeakeA Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life - George Saunders et alAll Out War: The Full Story of Brexit - Tim ShipmanMaigret in Court - Georges SimenonSongs of Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe - Thomas LigottiThe Unsettled Dust - Robert AickmanThe Maltese Falcon - Dashiel HammettCop Hater - Ed McBainThe Simulacra - Philip K DickMagpie Murders - Anthony HorowitzThe Old Man and the Sea - Ernest HemingwayThe Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony BerkeleyA Very English Scandal - John PrestonLooking Backwards, from the Year 2000 - Mack Reynolds
Only a few 'graphic novels' this year:The Eternals Omnibus - Jack KirbyX-Men: Grand Design Vols 1-3 - Ed PiskorFantastic Four: Grand Design - Tom ScioliEsther's Notebooks: Tales from my ten-year-old Life - Riad SattoufThe Amazing Spider-Man: New Ways to Die - Waid, Slott, Romita Jr et alSaga Vols 1-5 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona StaplesThe Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire - John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell et alReckless - Ed Brubaker and Sean PhillipsReckless: A friend of the Devil - Ed Brubaker and Sean PhillipsEssential Fantastic Four Vol 6 - Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, John Buscema, Joe Sinnott et alEssential Fantastic Four Vol 7 - Gerry Conway, Len Wein, Rich Buckler, John Buscema, Joe Sinnott et alEssential Fantastic Four Vol 8 - Roy Thomas, Bill Mantlo, Gerry Conway, Rich Buckler, John Buscema, Joe Sinnott et alAlay-Oop - William Gropper
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 1 January 2023 11:25 (one year ago) link
Michael HANNJosephine TEY
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 1 January 2023 11:30 (one year ago) link
Stoked to see Life & Fate on your list
Just purchased this recently. Looking forward to it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 1 January 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
A star for the ones I really liked
Schwob - Imaginary Lives*Vonnegut - Cat's CradleLaxness - Iceland's Bell*Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro*Jane Austen - EmmaSebald - AusterlitzSoseki - Kokoro*Lem - The CyberiadVargas Llosa - La Casa Verde*Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles*Kadaré - The Three-Arched BridgeSchwob - Le Livre de MonelleFlaubert - Salammbô*Carrington - The Hearing Trumpet*Robinson - LilaHuysmans - À Rebours*Shakespeare - Macbeth*Carr - A month in the country*Miyazawa - Les Astres JumeauxFaber - Under the SkinWilliams - Butcher's Crossing*Saer - El EntenadoChaze - Black Wings Has My Angel*Lampedusa - The Leopard*Kadaré - The Palace of DreamsKerouac - Big SurKristof - L'analphabèteMann - The Magic Mountain (re-read)
Not counting 3 non-fiction things (Michela Wong, Rebecca Solnit, Lucille Peytavin)
― Nabozo, Sunday, 1 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Magic Mountain obviously many stars
just finished the Howard Zinn A People's History of The United States so definitely got that counted as 2022. Liminal time etc.Quite enjoyed it and will be looking at what I can get from its bibliography.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 1 January 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
Harriet the Spy - Louise FitzhughThe Corner That Held Them - Sylvia Townsend WarnerSmall Things Like These - Claire KeeganFoster - Claire KeeganThe Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre DumasWays of Living - Gemma SeltzerElder Race - Adrian TchaikovskyChildren of Time - Adrian TchaikovskyKim Jiyoung Born 1982 - Nam-Joo ChoMona - Pola OloixaracMaigret Travels South - Georges SimenonBiased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do - Eberhardt, Jennifer L.Machine - Elizabeth BearThe Island of Missing Trees - Elif ShafakBy the Sea - Abdulrazak GurnahThe Books of Jacob - Olga TokarczukKokoro - Natsume SōsekiGo, Went, Gone - Jenny ErpenbeckGun, with Occasional Music - Jonathan LethemThe Custom of the Country - Edith WhartonNotes from the Burning Age - Claire NorthBeyond the Hallowed Sky - Ken MacleodThe God of Small Things - Arundhati RoyMrs. Dalloway - Virginia WoolfThe Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber and David WengrowSemiosis - Sue BurkeSongs of a Dead Dreamer - Thomas LigottiBlack Spartacus - Sudhir HazareesinghThe Accidental Tourist - Anne TylerGalaxias - Stephen BaxterMother of Invention - Katrine MarçalRed Shift - Alan GarnerThe Dutch House - Ann PatchettO Caledonia - Elspeth BarkerApril in Spain - John BanvilleThe Anomaly - Hervé Le TellierThe Means of Escape - Penelope FitzgeraldSeeing - Jose SaramagoThe Blazing World - Siri HustvedtSecond Place - Rachel CuskPurgatory Mount - Adam RobertsBurntcoat - Sarah HallBlack Teacher - Beryl GilroyThe Wall - Marlen HaushoferMrs March - Virginia FeitoThe Thing Itself - Adam RobertsAll Souls - Javier MaríasThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another - Ainissa RamirezHow Do You Live? - Genzaburo YoshinoHe, She and It - Marge PiercyEversion - Alasdair ReynoldsSea of Tranquility - Emily St John MandelWhat Are You Going Through - Sigrid NunezShards of Earth - Adrian TchaikovskyAssembly - Natasha BrownThe Friend - Sigrid Nunez
In progess:Debt - David Graeber
Did not finish:The Famished Road - Ben Okri
I've only obsessively catalogued my reads since 2008 but adding what I can remember from before then, in october I offically passed the milestone of 1000 books. I plan on doing more re-reading from now on.
― ledge, Monday, 2 January 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link
turns out i've missed a couple. not sure how.
Pandora's JarMother Of Invention
will double check its not just two
― koogs, Monday, 2 January 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
do wish that Mother of Invention was subtler and less overtly agendaed. might have got the message across better.I meant to read some of the source books from the bibliography to see if they were better argued.
― Stevolende, Monday, 2 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
As usual this year I failed to develop any disciplined reading patterns and spent too much time dissociating on the internet. But I did manage to read:
Osman, The Man Who Died TwiceRiley, Cold WaterFranzen, CrossroadsStafford, Counselling Skills in ActionBaddiel, Jews Don’t CountLe Guin, The Farthest ShorePratchett, Reaper ManSalinger, Franny and ZooeyHiggins, Kennedy for the DefenseMcIntyre, The Entropy EffectRiley, My PhantomsAmis, The Green ManFitzgerald, Men’s of EscapePratchett, Wyrd SistersLe Guin, TehanuBlock, 8 Million Ways To DieAtkinson, Case HistoriesAtkinson, One Good TurnTolkien, Fellowship of yadda yaddaChristie, After the FuneralHarris, A Season in ExileRosen, How to make children laughHammett, The Thin Man (unfinished due to boredom)Rimmer, Like Punk Never HappenedRaskin, The Westing Game
Unsentimental best: My PhantomsSentimental best: TehanuHad a chapter that caused me to cry more than any other book I’ve read: Case Histories
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link
nonfiction:Slavoj Zizek - Living in the End TimesJerome Carcopino - Daily Life in Ancient RomeAnne Hyde - Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed Descent Peoples and the Making of the American WestTerry Teachout - Pops: A Life of Louis ArmstrongSimon Winder - Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their HistoryJ. Storrs Hall - Where Is My Flying Car?Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
fiction:Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of DarknessJames M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings TwiceJames M. Cain - Double IndemnityJoshua Cohen - The NetanyahusKarl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle: Volume 4Elif Batuman - The IdiotPatrick Modiano - Paris NocturneJohn Darnielle - Universal HarvesterRainer Maria Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeJohn Wyndham - The Outward UrgeValeria Luiselli - Lost Children ArchiveLeonardo Sciascia - To Each His OwnErnest Hemingway - A Farewell to ArmsSam Selvon - The Housing LarkPatricia Highsmith - The BlundererMachado de Assis - The Alienist and Other Stories of 19th Century Brazil
poetry:Jimmy Santiago Baca - Martin & Meditations on the South ValleyPhilip Levine - The Simple TruthRobinson Jeffers - TamarDante - Inferno (trans. Robert Pinsky)
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 January 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link
Machado de Assis - The Alienist and Other Stories of 19th Century Brazil
― dow, Thursday, 5 January 2023 04:18 (one year ago) link
I liked it. I would like to read more by him. I added his novel "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas" to my wish list after finishing this one. The longest story "The Alienist" may have been one of the weaker ones, IMO. Or at least it seems to be the one that feels the most dated. It's a satire of the scientific pretensions of psychiatry in its early days, which from a contemporary perspective seems a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. It was probably more stinging at the time. The other shorter pieces were interesting, well-observed tales of society and psychology with a gentle satirical edge.
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
My resolution to not buy any more books lasted about 3 days. Just 'popped into' my local Oxfam book store and left with a bag-full: a couple of Antonia Whites, Antony Sher's Year of the King, Beryl Gilroy's Black Teacher, Marshall Berman's All That's Solid, Rose Macaulay's World is my Wilderness and, uh, the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 7 January 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
Going into Oxfam after new year's is probably the last thing I'd do if I wanted to stop buying books.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
Resistance is futile.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 7 January 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
yeah was running through my head to slow down buying books.But somehow wound up making the usual rounds. Did get some interesting stuff though
― Stevolende, Saturday, 7 January 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
The Humble Bundle deals are death for me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 7 January 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
Marshall Berman's All That's Solid
― dow, Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
I've never read it. Even when I was doing my lit degree I managed to avoid it, somehow. Glad to finally have it.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 8 January 2023 11:11 (one year ago) link
Amazing book.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link