Saturday, December 31, 2022

Everything I Read in 2022

 


Hello all, 

I hope you're all off to do something exciting this New Year's Eve. I, as usual, will be staying in like the grumpy old git that I am. However, I thought I'd post the full list of everything I read in 2022, which includes some articles and short stories as well as actual books. You can find my choice of 'Best of' in this blog...this one...here

Explodobok: The World of 80s Actions Movies According to Smershpod by John Rain

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse, collected by Fujiwara no Teika (trans Peter Macmillan)

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

The Stromboul Train byGraham Greene

Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yū

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashima

In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Hōjōki by Kamo no Chōmei

Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse - Geoffrey Bownas/Anthony Thwaite [Eds/Trans]

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata

The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Lady Murasaki

All The Poems Contained Within Will Mean Everything to Everyone by Joe Dunthorne

Between The Lights by E F Benson

Financing Finnegan by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmam

Killing Floor by Lee Child

Tomorrow by Joseph Conrad

I Murdered My Library by Linda Grant

Pictures Don't Lie by Katherine MacClean

The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P Djèlí Clark

On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth

What is History, Now?  by Helen Carr/Suzannah Lipscomb

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First World War Poetry Criticism by James Campbell

Arias and Raspberries by Harry Secombe

Strawberries and Cheam by Harry Secombe

Echoes of the Jazz Age by F Scott Fitzgerald

After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys

Sex: Lessons from History by Fern Riddell

The U S Constitution : A Very Short Guide by David J Bodenhamer

What The Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo by Pascale Petit

The British Constitution: A Very Short Guide by Martin Loughlin

The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution by Richard Beeman

Gold by Rumi (trans Helah Liza Garfori)

Friedrich Ebert 1871-1925 A Social Democratic Statesman by Walter Mühlhausen

The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

Fair Play by Tove Jansson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

The Long Game: 1996-2003 The Inside Story of How The BBC Brought Back Doctor Who by Paul Hayes

I Have Crossed An Ocean by Grace Nichols

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (trans Frances Riddle)

Aspects by John M Ford

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Happiness Patrol by Graeme Curry

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung [trans Anton Hur]

The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe by E M Rose

Heaven by Meiko Kawakami

The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot

First Language: Poems by Ciarán Carson

'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms by Naoko Abe

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History by Alex Von Tunzelmann

The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse (trans Damion Searls)

Five Books by Anna Blandiana [Trans Paul Scott Derrick/Viorica Patea

Pit Lullabies by Jessica Traynor

Is I Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse (trans Damion Searls)

Music for the Dead and Resurrected byValzhyna Mort

Extracting The Stone of Madness by Alejandra Piznarik

A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse (trans Damion Searls)

John Berryman: Poems selected by Michael Hoffman by John Berryman

Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme

Attack and Decay by Andrew Cartmel

Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard

Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Goddodin: Lament for the Fallen by Gillian Clarke [Trans]

Druids - A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe

The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Writings from Ancient Egypt Anonymous (trans Toby Wilkinson)

Unsuitable for Females': The Rise of the Lionesses and Women's Football in England by Carrie Dunn

The Changeling by Clare Pollard

Travelling Light by Tove Jansson

Inversions by Iain M Banks

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Tale of Sinuhe by Anonymous (trans R P Wilkinson)

The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer

Jung - A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens

Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide by Maggie Hyde

Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide by Laurence Gane

Demian by Herman Hesse

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnett

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician by Leo Ruickbie

The Trees by Percival Everett

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

Faustus, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Colony by Maggie Magee

Entered from The Sun by George Garrett

Letters from Klara by Tove Jansson

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks

Call for the Dead by John le Carre

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys

Idylls by Theocritus

Frogs by Aristophanes

The Eclogues and The Georgics by Virgil [Cecil Day Lewis, Trans]

Sonnets from the Portugese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Prophet Against Slavery by David Lester

The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga

Look to Winward by Iain M Banks

A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu

Women of the Harlem Renaissance by Marissa Constantiou [Ed]

Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti

A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland

The Invisible Man by H G Wells

The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde

The Classic Horror Stories by H P Lovecraft

The Metropolitan Critic by Clive James

The Winter Book by Tove Jansson

Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson

Europe, Love Me Back by Rakhshan Rizwan

Licence Renewed by John Gardner

All Systems Read: Murderbot, Book 1 by Martha Wells

Three Poets of the First World War by Jon Stallworthy / Jane Potter [Ed]

The Middle Parts of Fortune - Somme and Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning

Survivors' Songs by Jon Stallworthy

The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney by Michael Hurd

The Western Front by Nick Lloyd

Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time by Terrance Dicks

Disenchantment by C E Montague

The Thought-Fox and Other Poems by Ted Hughes

Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse (trans Damion Searls)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Candide by Voltaire

The Dying Gaul and Other Writings by David Jones

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Rasselas by Samuel Johnson

Bibliomaniac by Robin Ince

Rumi: Selected Poems by Rumi (trans R A Nicholson)

Dark Goals by Luciano Wernicke


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