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
