These are the novels I’ve read so far in 2013 (the picture is of some of them):
John Grisham, The Pelican Brief- Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughter-House Five
- Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
- Patrick McGrath, Spider
- Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City
- Robert Harris, The Fear Index
- Sebastian Faulks, Pistache
- Max Brooks, World War Z
- John Banville, The Sea
- Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
- Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
- A.S. Byatt, Possession
- Louis de Bernières, A Partisan’s Daughter
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (in Nigeria)
- Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn
- Tim Bowler, Shadow
- Tom McCarthy, C
- Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (again)
- E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News (while on the way to Newfoundland)
- Ian McEwan, The Innocent
- Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door
- Anita Desai, The Zigzag Way
- Brett Easton Ellis, Less than Zero (just before the trip to LA)
- Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief
- A.S. Byatt, Angels & Insects
- Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden
- Sebastian Faulks, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (non-fiction)
- A.S. Byatt, The Biographer’s Tale
- Kamila Shamsie, Broken Music
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
- C.J. Sansom, Winter in Madrid
- Michael Ondatjee, In the Skin of a Lion
- Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
- Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man
- Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
- Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
- William Wharton, Shrapnel
- Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth
- Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
- Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
- Ian McEwan, Black Dogs (again)
- Stella Tillyard, Tides of War
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (again)
- Julia Leigh, The Hunter
- Iain Banks, Walking on Glass
- Don DeLillo, Falling Man
- Rob Kitchin, Stiffed
- Colm Tóibín, The Master
- David Markson, This is Not a Novel
(for previous years see 2011 part 1 and part 2; 2012 part 1 and part 2)
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Thanks for taking a read of Stiffed. Sticks out like a sore thumb in your list of literary fiction! I’m up around the same number, but with a very different selection – http://theviewfromthebluehouse.blogspot.ie/p/book-reviews.html – though I’ll probably slow down in second half of the year as there’s a pile of academic books that need to be read (though I get the sense you’re working your way through that in similar volumes).
Thanks Rob. yes, pretty different from what I usually read but I enjoyed it and made a nice change. Very different from your earlier novels too.
Glad to know you got to Falling Man by Don Delilo. What did you think? Some people i know (from a college course in which we read the novel) felt it was too disrespectful towards 9/11 tragedy with what they perceived to be an overly flippant and cynical take on the event and its effect on the characters. I wasn’t convinced by that criticism but that’s just me.
Also curious to know your thoughts on World War Z, especially in relation to the movie.
I don’t tend to read novels in that way, and so don’t say much about them. I read them and move on. I’m reading them precisely because they are not academic books, as one of several things I do that I don’t overanalyse. I read World War Z because I wanted to read it before the film was out – I’ve not yet seen the film, but sounds like it is some way from the book. Falling Man was okay, but not DeLillo’s best – Cosmopolis I liked much more, but didn’t think much of the movie.
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