Thursday, January 02, 2020

The Books I Read in 2019


The books I finished in 2019, not counting stuff that's been in-progress, dip-in-and-outs, essays, stories, poems, etc. etc... If it weren't for movies and the Internet this list would probably be three times as long, but you do what you can do.

In order from Jan to Dec '19 —

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Counter-Clock World
by Philip K. Dick
1967

The Torrents of Spring
by Ernest Hemingway
1926

Un an après
[One Year Later]
by Anne Wiazemsky
2015

Nouvelles en trois lignes
[News in Three Lines / Novellas in Three Lines]
by Félix Fénéon
(translated by Luc Sante)
1906

McGlue
by Ottessa Moshfegh
2014

La Place de l’Étoile
by Patrick Modiano
(translated by Frank Wynne)
1968

La ronde de nuit
[The Night Watch]
by Patrick Modiano
(translated by Patricia Wolf, revised by Frank Wynne)
1969

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood
by Karina Longworth
2018

Roderick Hudson {First Edition Version}
by Henry James
1875

Der Tod in Venedig
[Death in Venice]
by Thomas Mann
(translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter)
1912

The Power of the Dog
by Don Winslow
2005

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
by Herman Melville
1855

Angels
by Denis Johnson
1983

Le mythe de Sisyphe
[The Myth of Sisyphus]
by Albert Camus
(translated by Justin O’Brien)
1940/1955

1: Études de mœurs: Scènes de la vie privée: 4: La bourse
[1: Studies of Manners: Scenes from Private Life: 4: The Coinpurse]
by Honoré de Balzac
(translated by Clara Bell)
1832 / heavily revised in 1842

1: Études de mœurs: Scènes de la vie privée: 5: Modeste Mignon
[1: Studies of Manners: Scenes from Private Life: 5: Modeste Mignon]
by Honoré de Balzac
(translated by Clara Bell)
1844

Small Fry
by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2018

Galactic Pot-Healer
by Philip K. Dick
1969

There Will Be No Quiet
by Stanley Donwood
2019

The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
2019

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
2018

The Poorhouse Fair
by John Updike
1959/1977 (slight revision + intro added)

Where the Sirens Live
by Francesca Coppola
2019

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
by William Shakespeare
1603

Sled or Die
by Bob Walles
2019

Creatives
by Bob Walles and Tad Kimball
2019

Zuckerman: Vol. 8: The Human Stain (The American Trilogy: Vol. 3)
by Philip Roth
2000

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