Hotel Splendid - Marie Redonnet
The Golden Fruits - Nathalie Sarruate
A Lover’s Discourse - Roland
Barthe
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning -
René Girard
Plus two Czech books.
Untranslated.
Veronika Korjagina’s - Nepřišel čas (The Time Hasn’t
Come) made a huge impression on me, as did Marek Torčík’s - Rozložíš
paměť (Memory Burn),
“I hope they get translated
someday.”
Green Equinox - Elizabeth Mavor
Prophet - Helen Macdonald and Sin
Blaché
Wish I Was Here - M. John
Harrison
Thunderstone - Nancy Campbell
My Child, The Algorithm – Hannah Silva
Songs for Olympia - Tomoé Hill
(which sounds like pretentious wank so I will probably like it.)
Fabulae: How it Begins – Isabella
Streffen
The Jay, the Beech, the
Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things With My Kids – Richard Smyth (I hate this just
for its twee title. I’m sure it is fine but…)
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Strangers at the Port, Lauren Aimee
Curtis
Bad Diaspora Poems, Momtaza Mehri
– One I’ve actually read. It’s very good.
Cousins, Aurora Venturini –
translated by Kit Maude
Bright Lights, Big City – Jay
McInerney
The Notebook - Ágota Kristóf
The Illiterate - Ágota Kristóf - translated by Nina Bogin
A Month in Siena – Hisham Matar
The Memoir – Hisham Matar
Tenderness – Alison Macleod
Keat’s Odes - Anahid Nersessian
PWA: Looking AIDS in the Face,
Oscar Moore
This Ragged Grace – Octavia Moore
Penance – Eliza Clark
Down The Drain – Julia Fox
Teatro Grottesco – Thomas Ligotti
(writer doesn’t tell us if this is translated or in the original Italian.)
The Inconsolables – Michael Wehunt
The Ark Sakura - Kōbō Abe
Secret Rendezvous - Kōbō Abe
I can’t work out Leo Robson’s
choices except he talks about Adam Mars-Jones and Milan Kundara reads, which includes
Laughable Loves, Lantern Lecture and Caret.
Kick the Latch – Kathryn Scanlan
Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in the
Time of Plague – Christopher Neve
Arrangements in Blue – Amy Key
Local Fires – Joshua Jones
Brother Poems – Will Harris
Brutes – Dizz Tate
August Blue – Deborah Levy
Eastmouth and Other Stories –
Alison Moore
“…and everything I can find by M.
John Harrison.”
In Ascension – Martin MacInnes
Ultra-Processed People - Dr Chris
van Tulleken
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
(Love this book. Sorry.)
A Dance To the Music of Time –
Anthony Powell (it’s a twelve book series. I’m reading it this year. Finally.)
Cain - José Saramago
In The Ditch - Buchi Emecheta
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Franny and Zooey – J D Salinger
Ordinary Notes – Christina Sharpe
(Read this. Liked it a lot. I suspect not everyone’s cup of tea.)
The Lights – Ben Lerner
Suppose a Sentence – Brian Dillon
The Journal: 1837-1961 – Henry David
Thoreau
Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
Notes Made While Falling – Jenn Ashworth
The Office of Historical
Corrections – Danielle Evans
Real Life – Brandon Taylor
Pity – Andrew McMillan
The Blue Light - Hussein
Barghouthi – translated by Fady Joudah
The Delivery - Margarita García
Robayo – translated by Megan McDowall (Charco Press! Hurrah!!)
Jeff in Venice, Death in
Varanasi – Geoff Dyer (Audiobook)
Experience – Martin Amis
The Father – Sharon Olds (I love
Sharon Olds)
Ararat - Louise Glück
Home Before Dark – Susan Cheever
Letters Between A Father and A
Son – V. S. Naipaul
A Man’s Place – Anne Ernaux
Clever Girl – Tessa Hadley
Interesting Times – Eric Hobsbawm
(Read this. It’s his autobiography. Rather good. If you like that sort of thing.)
A Calculus of Power – Peter Gowan
Humanism and Terror – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Die Fackel in Ohr – Elias Canetti
(This was chosen by a German - Anton
Jäger – so…I’ve left it in.)
Land and Sea – Carl Schmitt
Margery Kempe – Robert Glück (One
for Kiran there.)
My Friends - Hisham Matar
Hereafter: The Telling Life of
Ellen O’Hara – Vona Groarke
Haruko/Love Poems – June Jordan
Death in Irish Prehistory –
Gabriel Cooney
On Trampolining – Rebecca Perry –
“…a short lyric essay.”
Times Square Red, Times Square
Blue – Samuel R. Delany
The Wall – Marlen Haushofer
Second-Hand Time – Svetlana Alexievich
The Ladies Paradise – Emile Zola
The Pillow Book - Sei Shōnagon
Legacy of Ashes – Tim Weiner
Family Life – Akhil Sharma
The Marriage Question - Claire Carlisle
The Blue Book – Amitava Kumar
Nightbitch – Rachel Yodar
Client Centred Therapy – Carl Rogers
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
Shorter Views – Samuel R. Delany
Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud
Out of Place – Edward Said
The Stone House – Yara Hawari
Memory for Forgetfulness –
Mahmoud Darwish
The Hundred Years War on Palestine – Rashid Khalidi
“The poems of Najwan Darwish”
Notes from the Henhouse – Elspeth
Barker
Lord Jim at Home – Dinah Brooke
Great Granny Webster – Caroline Blackwood
The Fate of Mary Rose – Caroline Blackwood
Good Night Sweet Ladies - Caroline
Blackwood
Turtle Diary, No Love Lost –
Rachel Ingalls
The Cost of Living – Deborah Levy
Simple Passion – Anne Ernaux
Lives of the Wives – Camila Ciuraru
Death of a Bookseller – Alice Slater
Vehicle – Jen Calleja
How High? That High – Diane Williams
The Middle of the Journey –
Lionel Trilling
Embers - Sándor Márai
The Purloined Clinic – Janet Malcolm
The Silent Woman – Janet Malcolm
In the Freud Archive – Janet Malcolm
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of
Andy Africa - Stephen Buoro
Where We Come From: Rap, Home
& Hope in Modern Britain - Aniefiok Ekpoudom (Forthcoming)
Sonnets for Albert – Anthony Joseph
– Read this! It’s an excellent poetry collection.
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Long Live the Post Horn! – Vigdis
Hjorth
Dud Avacado – Elaine Dundy
The Old Man and Me – Elaine Dundy
Daisy Miller – Henry James
The Artificial Girl – Irmgard Keun
Do The Windows Open? – Julie Hecht
A Lost Lady – Willa Cather
Blackouts – Justin Torres
Arrangements in Blue – Amy Key
Pulling the Chariot Out of the
Sun – Shane McCrae
How To Say Babylon – Safiya Sinclair
Bread and Circuses – Airea D.
Matthews
How To Communicate – John Lee
Clark
The Tiny Journalist – Naomi Shahib
Nye
Things You Might Find Hidden in
my Ear – Mosah Abu Toha
To The Realization of Perfect
Helplessness – Robin Coste Lewis
Bluest Nude – Amy Codjoe
Pig – Sam Sax
Up Late – Nick Laird
They Call It Love: The Politics
of Emotional Life – Alva Gotby
Black on Both Sides: A Radical History
of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton
So Much for Life – Mark Hyatt
Exhausted on the Cross – Najwan Darwish
– translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
