In a bid to make this blog consist entirely of lists here’s a rundown of the 33 books I read last year:
January
Via Delle Oche by Carlo Lucarelli
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
February
The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden
The Locked Room by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
March
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sins for Father Knox by Josef Skvorecky
Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in its Downfall by Luke Haines
Crime Fiction by John Scaggs
Cop Killer by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
The Terrorists by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
April
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
May
The Beautiful Game by David Conn
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
June
The Odyssey by Homer
July
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide by Stephen Burn
August
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
September
2666 by Roberto Bolano
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
October
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Manual of Detection by Jedebiah Berry
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Wages of Wins by David Berri, Martin Schmidt and Stacey Brook
November
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
Carry on, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
December
America’s Game by Michael MacCambridge
Tainted Blood by Arnaldur Indridason
My favourites were The Brothers Karamazov, Darkmans and John Henry Days. Least favourites, without a doubt, were Kill Your Friends and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, both execrable.
Some stats:
- Two of the books were by women, though three were co-authored by a woman
- Nine of the books were non-fiction
- Fourteen were translations
- Seven of the books were published before 1944
- Three of the books were published in 2009
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