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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