Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
a gorgeous book
Tag: novel
The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
some things are worth dying for – what is worth killing for?
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
a truly phenomenal novel but Scotty still depressed
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
some notes on a gorgeous novel
I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
very very very good novella from 2016
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
i’ve found my local indie press
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
Mariana by Monica Dickens
a serviceable though chaste 1940s bildungsroman
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
Normal People by Sally Rooney
rooney rooney
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
it’s the most wonderful book of the year
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
some creepy southern Gothic…
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
i found a book in the street
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
a very good contemporary novel
Maurice by E. M. Forster
a snobbish delight
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
there ain’t no fool like a holy fool
Street of Thieves by Mathias Enard
another ruddy belter from enard who i love
Journey To The End of the Night by Céline
accidentally read a book by a nazi
Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
infamous for the wrong reasons…
Arkady by Patrick Langley
hipster dystopia / hipstopia / better than that sounds
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Max Porter Works In Publishing
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a big, serious novel all about big, serious things. It is intelligent, articulate, humaneContinue Reading
In Ballast to the White Sea (A Scholarly Edition) by Malcolm Lowry
The biggest tragedy in Malcolm Lowry’s life (in his own opinion) was when the lakeside shack he lived in burnedContinue Reading
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
I’m going to be honest, I did not get what the point of Molloy was. Oooh, it was Beckettian; itContinue Reading
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
Obnoxiously (the manner in which I do most things), I read Tarjei Vesaas’ The Birds because Karl Ove Knausgaard refersContinue Reading
Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
I don’t really feel I need to hide it any more – I love the novels of Graham Greene. ThisContinue Reading
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble is not a novelist I’ve read before. To be honest, I’m mainly aware of her for being withinContinue Reading
Filth by Irvine Welsh
Recently I’ve been very much enjoying Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong*’s Channel 4 police drama, Babylon. This under-watched TV showContinue Reading
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is, I must begrudgingly admit, a great Haruki Murakami novel. One ofContinue Reading
Simulating Cunnilingus On A Fried Egg Sandwich
The fridge didn’t have the food in to facilitate a fry up: no bacon, no sausage, no mushroom, no tomato.Continue Reading
Umbrella by Will Self
Will Self’s 2012 novel Umbrella, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that went to Bring Up The Bodies, is a sexy, war-y, JoyceanContinue Reading
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Wow. Fuck a diddle wank, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996) is a full blown literary compendium of joy. Deeply philosophical,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 