Sunday 1 January 2012

2012 Reading List

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125 - Rivalry - A Geisha's Tale by Nagai Kafu
124 - The 210th Day by Natsume Soseki
123 - Volcano by Shusaku Endo
122 - The Sheep Man's Christmas by Haruki Murakami
121 - Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
120 - Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
119 - Japan's First Modern Novel - Ukigumo by Marleigh Ryan
118 - Ukigumo (Drifting Cloud) by Shimei Futabatei
117 - Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
116 - The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
115 - Accabadora by Michela Murgia
114 - My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
113 - Frozen Dreams by Wahei Tatematsu
112 - The Old Man and his Sons by Heðin Brú
111 - Long Days by Maike Wetzel
110 - A History of the World by Andrew Marr
109 - Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
108 - Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Grimm's Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
107 - Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
106 - Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom
105 - Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst (I Spy, with my Little Eye) by Birgit Vanderbeke
104 - Kein Ort. Nirgends (No Place on Earth) by Christa Wolf
103 - Sommerhaus, später (Summerhouse, Later) by Judith Hermann
102 - Herztier (The Land of the Green Plums) by Herta Müller
101 - Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen by Heinrich Heine
100 - Hermann und Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
99 - Stone Tree by Gyrðir Elíasson
98 - L'Adultera by Theodor Fontane
97 - Kabale und Liebe (Love and Intrigue) by Friedrich Schiller
96 - When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo
95 - Bergkristall (Mountain Crystal) by Adalbert Stifter
94 - Brigitta by Adalbert Stifter
93 - Where I Left My Soul by Jérôme Ferrari
92 - Ungefähre Landschaft (Unformed Landscape) by Peter Stamm
91 - Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
90 - Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth
89 - Angst (Fear) by Stefan Zweig
88 - The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
87 - À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs by Marcel Proust
86 - The Creator by Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
85 - The Promise of Iceland by Kári Gíslason
84 - The Gate by Natsume Soseki
83 - Art in Nature by Tove Jansson
82 - Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristín Ómarsdóttir
81 - Recipes for Sad Women by Héctor Abad
80 - Cold Sea Stories by Paweł Huelle
79 - Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss
78 - Independent People by Halldór Laxness
77 - Five Russian Dog Stories, translated by Anthony Briggs
76 - The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
75 - Beginning Theory by Peter Barry
74 - Alves & Co. and Other Stories by Eça de Queiroz
73 - The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Aymé
72 - The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
71 - Die Ringe des Saturn (The Rings of Saturn) by W.G. Sebald
70 - The Ghost of Neil Diamond by David Milnes
69 - The Blue Fox by Sjón
68 - The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
67 - Faithful Ruslan by Georgi Vladimov
66 - Flowers of Grass by Takehiko Fukunaga
65 - Dubliners by James Joyce (link is to 2009 review)
64 - Necropolis by Santiago Gamboa
63 - Twice in a Lifetime by Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson
62 - Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
61 - Bord de Mer (Beside the Sea) by Véronique Olmi
60 - Petersburg by Andrei Bely
59 - Modern Japanese Literature edited by Donald Keene
58 - The Frost on his Shoulders by Lorenzo Mediano
57 - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
56 - Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
55 - Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom
54 - New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
53 - Legacy by Larissa Behrendt
52 - The Whispering Muse by Sjón
51 - The Islands by Carlos Gamerro
50 - The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
49 - The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori
48 - Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) by Günter Grass
47 - Dukla by Andrzej Stasiuk
46 - The Book of Answers by C.Y. Gopinath
45 - Sieben Jahre (Seven Years) by Peter Stamm
44 - The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
43 - The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
42 - Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga
41 - The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
40 - Happiness is Possible by Oleg Zaionchkovsky
39 - Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman
38 - Coventry by Helen Humphreys
37 - Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
36 - Alice by Judith Hermann
35 - Hate - A Romance by Tristan Garcia
34 - Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld
33 - Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz
32 - Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad
31 - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
30 - From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón
29 - Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
28 - Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
27 - Heimsuchung (Visitation) by Jenny Erpenbeck
26 - The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
25 - The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
24 - Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
23 - A Family Supper & A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro
22 - The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
21 - Aquis Submersis by Theodor Storm
20 - The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg
19 - Grete Minde by Theodor Fontane
18 - The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17 - Mr. Scobie's Riddle by Elizabeth Jolley
16 - The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
15 - The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14 - Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
12a - In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts by Eugen Ruge
12 - Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
11 - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
10 - Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
9 - Das Gemeindekind by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
8 - Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
7 - Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot
6 - Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
5 - Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
4 - Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
3 - Nachdenken über Christa T. by Christa Wolf
2 - The Seamstress by María Dueñas
1 - The Lake by Yoko Ogawa