You can see the list from the first half of the year here. Those that I read in the second half of the year were (some brief thoughts follow):
Amitay Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
- Rob Kitchin, Killer Reels
- Malcolm Bradbury, To the Hermitage
- Ox-Tales – Fire (short-story collection)
- Ox-Tales – Water
- Ox-Tales – Air
- Ox-tales – Earth
- Julia Leigh, Disquiet
- Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
- Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Bernhard Schlink, Homecoming
- J.M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
- Andrew Miller, Pure
- Roberto Bolaño, 2666
- Dominic Pettmann, In Divisible Cities (open access from Punctum Books)
- Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
- A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
- Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or, Life in the Woods
- Sebastian Faulks, Charlotte Grey
- Marilynne Robinson, Home
- Gustav Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet
- Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
- Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
- Roberto Bolaño, The Skating Rink
- Julian Barnes, Pulse (short stories)
- Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven
- Patricia Duncker, The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge
- Julian Barnes, England, England
- Jennifer Egan, short story sampler (Emerald City, The Invisible Circus, Look at Me & A Visit From the Goon Squad) and A Black Box
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
- Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal
- Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
- A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
- Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
- Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot
- Honoré de Balzac, introduction to the Comedie Humaine and At The Sign of the Cat and Racket
- Rose Tremain, The Road Home
- C.J. Sansom, Dominion
Probably the best work of literature – Roberto Bolaño, 2666, which I finally got round to. It was worth the wait, though the fourth book was very hard work.
Most peculiar, but good, book – Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String
Biggest surprise to me – Rose Tremain, The Road Home (a very moving account of immigration within the EU). I’ve started working through the Orange Prize winners (I’ve been doing this with Booker Prize winners for a while) as an attempt to discover more writing by women.
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