Click on the link to read the review :)
123 - The Fix by Nick Earls
122 - Popular Music by Mikael Niemi
121 - Open Door by Iosi Havilio
120 - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3)
119 - Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
118 - The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
117 - Der Engel schwieg by Heinrich Böll
116 - Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler
115 - Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig
114 - Das Erdbeben in Chili by Heinrich von Kleist
113 - Die Marquise von O... by Heinrich von Kleist
112 - Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
111 - Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
110 - Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde by F.C. Delius
109 - Die schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf
108 - Der Schuß von der Kanzel by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
107 - Das Schloß by Franz Kafka (Act One, Act Two, Act Three, Director's Cut)
106 - Bahnwärter Thiel & Der Apostel by Gerhart Hauptmann
105 - Und sagte kein einziges Wort by Heinrich Böll
104 - All the Lights (Die Nacht, die Lichter) by Clemens Meyer
103 - Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht by Alois Hotschnig
102 - A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
101 - All That I Am by Anna Funder
100 - Die Elixiere des Teufels by E.T.A. Hoffmann
99 - That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
98 - Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
97 - Jenseitsnovelle by Matthias Politycki
96 - The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
95 - The White Trail by Fflur Dafydd
94 - Violin Lessons by Arnold Zable
93 - Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
92 - Spirit of Progress by Steven Carroll
91 - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
90 - Sorekara (And Then) by Natsume Soseki
89 - Scraps of Heaven by Arnold Zable
88 - Mathias Bichler by Lena Christ
87 - Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka
86 - Erinnerungen einer Überflüssigen by Lena Christ
85 - Die Glücksritter by Joseph von Eichendorff
84 - Leutnant Gustl & Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
83 - Frau Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane
82 - Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
81 - Literary Theory - A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
80 - The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
79 - Novelle by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
78 - Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
77 - Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
76 - Die Leute von Seldwyla (Band 1) by Gottfried Keller
75 - Der Schimmelreiter by Theodor Storm
74 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
73 - Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
72 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
71 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
70 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
69 - Adam Bede by George Eliot
68 - Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
67 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
66 - The Lost Life by Steven Carroll
65 - The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
64 - The Reasons I Won't Be Coming by Elliot Perlman
63 - Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau by F.C. Delius
62 - Sartoris by William Faulkner
61 - Silence by Shusaku Endo
60 - Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot
59 - Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Goethe
58 - The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
57 - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
56 - Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
55 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button... by F. Scott Fitzgerald
54 - Tomorrow Pamplona by Jan van Mersbergen
53 - Unwiederbringlich by Theodor Fontane
52 - Praise by Andrew McGahan
51 - The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
50 - My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
49 - The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
48 - When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
47 - Storm's Short Stories and Novellas by Theodor Storm
46 - Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
45 - The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 - Liebe deinen Nächsten by Erich Maria Remarque
43 - The Spare Room by Helen Garner
42 - The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
41 - 1988 by Andrew McGahan
40 - The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
39 - Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
38 - Du Côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust
37 - Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
36 - Plumb by Maurice Gee
35 - Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
34 - The Rope of Man by Witi Ihimaera
33 - Kafka's Short Stories by Franz Kafka
32 - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
31 - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
30 - Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
29 - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
28 - The Rector & The Doctor's Family by Margaret Oliphant
27 - Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
26 - The Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll
25 - Autofiction by Hitomi Kanehara
24 - The Man Who Painted Agnieszka's Shoes by Dan Holloway
23 - Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
22 - Sanctuary by Edith Wharton
21 - Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
20 - An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
19 - Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
17 - Rabbit, Run by John Updike
14 - Plays and Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
12a - Three men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
11 - The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan10 - An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
9 - Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
8 - Solar by Ian McEwan
7 - The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
6 - The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
5 - The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
4 - An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope
3 - Amerika by Franz Kafka
2 - The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
1 - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
What an amazing reading list ! Let me know when you've read and reviewed Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury' please Tony, it's one of the most difficult but most rewarding novels I've ever read.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I probably won't. Unfortunately, I've had to limit myself in what I review this year, and 'The Sound and the Fury' is one of those which missed out :(
ReplyDeleteIt is a fascinating book, more for how it's written than for what it is written about. It's the first time I've read it, so it was a constant struggle to understand exactly what was happening (to whom, when...), and Quentin didn't help...
I think it's a book that needs a second reading anyway to really appreciate it :)
Hi Tony,
ReplyDeleteI'm a new visitor to your blog and I was browsing through some of this year's reviews. I would have liked to read your review for "The Woman in White" because it's a book I really enjoyed, but the page can't be displayed for some reason. The same goes for "Wuthering Heights".
I did, however, read your thoughts on "My Name is Red" and it only confirmed my suspicions. I have been going around in circles about giving Pamuk's books a try but I think I'm going to wait for the right book.
Looking forward to your post on the best and worst books of this year.
Thanks Delia :) These reviews are available - unfortunately, I think I've got a problem where I've highlighted several posts with one hyperlink, but only the first one comes up (e.g. if you click on the reviews for Books 68 and 73, you'll find the two you're looking for). Thanks for letting me know :)
ReplyDeleteI've read them now, thanks. I thought Fosco was the most intriguing character as well, it's nice to see your review echoed my thoughts. I couldn't help admire him, in spite of his evil ways.
ReplyDeleteI have "The Moonstone" on my TBR list, that's a book to be read next year for sure.
As for Wuthering Heights, I loved the book and the movie too.
Fosco is certainly an interesting character :) I read 'The Moonstone' (many moons ago!), and I'd love to reread it at some point.
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