Books Read 2010

  1. *Julian Barnes. The Lemon Table.
  2. Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway.
  3. Michael Cunningham. The Hours.
  4. Virginia Woolf. A Writer’s Diary.
  5. Moyra Davey. The Problem of Reading.
  6. Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse.
  7. Lewis Buzbee. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop.
  8. J. M. Coetzee. Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life.
  9. J. M. Coetzee. Youth: Scenes From a Provincial Life II.
  10. J. M. Coetzee. Summertime.
  11. Aldo Buzzi. A Weakness for Almost Everything.
  12. Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time to Keep Silence.
  13. Michael Dirda. Readings.
  14. Cyril Connolly. The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus.
  15. Yiyun Li. The Vagrants.
  16. Virginia Woolf. The Waves.
  17. Rick Gekoski. Tolkien’s Gown.
  18. Alberto Manguel. A Reader on Reading.
  19. Anne Michaels. Fugitive Pieces.
  20. David Shields. Reality Hunger: A Manifesto.
  21. Zadie Smith. Changing My Mind.
  22. Franz Kafka. Letter to My Father. tr. Howard Colyer.
  23. Louis Begley. Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head.
  24. Franz Kafka. The Trial.
  25. David Shields. The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead.
  26. Adam Thirlwell. Politics.
  27. David Foster Wallace. This Is Water.
  28. Tom McCarthy. Remainder.
  29. Penelope Fitzgerald. The Blue Flower.
  30. John Williams. Stoner.
  31. Michael Alexander (translator). The First Poems in English.
  32. Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. [Sections I, II, III]
  33. Robert D. Richardson. First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process.
  34. Seamus Heaney. Beowulf.
  35. Jorge Luis Borges. Death and the Compass, The South, The Dead Man, Funes, the Memorious.
  36. Aristotle. Poetics.
  37. Philip Larkin. Collected Poems.
  38. Umberto Eco. The Poetics and Us, Borges and My Anxiety of Influence.
  39. Edith Grossman. Why Translation Matters.
  40. Cervantes. Don Quixote. tr. Edith Grossman.
  41. *Jorge Luis Borges. The Library of Babel.
  42. Stevie Smith. Selected Poems.
  43. Leonard Woolf. Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911.
  44. Vladimir Nabokov. Despair.
  45. David Pierce. Reading Joyce.
  46. *James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
  47. James Joyce. Ulysses.
  48. Declan Kiberd. Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living.
  49. Jean-Patrick Manchette. Three to Kill.
  50. Honoré de Balzac. Treatise on Elegant Living.
  51. Sarah Hall. How to Paint a Dead Man.
  52. James Joyce. Dubliners.
  53. Louis Begley. Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters.
  54. Gabriel Josipovici. The Singer on the Shore.
  55. Gabriel Josipovici. What Ever Happened to Modernism?
  56. Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader Vol. I.
  57. *Franz Kafka. Dearest Father. tr. Hannah and Richard Stokes.
  58. Maurice Blanchot. Orpheus’ Gaze.
  59. Gabriel Josipovici. The Lessons of Modernism.
  60. Gabriel Josipovici. Touch.
  61. Dag Solstad. Shyness and Dignity.
  62. Dag Solstad. Novel 11, Book 18.
  63. Gabriel Josipovici. Writing and the Body.
  64. Edgar Allan Poe. The Pit and the Pendulum.
  65. *Franz Kafka. The Castle.
  66. Simon Critchley. Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction.
  67. Andrei Codrescu. The Poetry Lesson.
  68. Saul Bellow. Dangling Man.
  69. *Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary. tr. Lydia Davis.
  70. Hugh Kenner. Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians.
  71. Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
  72. Saul Bellow. The Victim.
  73. Marguerite Duras. The Malady of Death.
  74. Ričardas Gavelis. Vilnius Poker.
  75. Max Brod. Franz Kafka: A Biography.

2 thoughts on “Books Read 2010”

  1. Hello. Good evening.

    I just discovered your marvellous blog after reading The Brooknerian. What a reservoir of knowledge and literary appreciation in here! I cannot help but marvel at your impeccable choice of writers and your literary taste. Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism? is somewhat harsh on the English writers but perhaps, it could be counter-balanced with John Carey’s The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880–1939?

    The novelist, Sybille Bedford once said that Cyril Connolly’s The Unquiet Grave – A Word Cycle by Palinurus was her all time favourite book. I also keep this book by Connolly on my bedside table along with Logan Pearsall Smith’s ‘Afterthoughts’ and ‘The Note-Books of Samuel Butler’ edited by Henry Festing Jones. There is nothing better than reading a book such as these for its wit, its warmth, and for its sound advice before drifting into sleep.

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    1. I’m pleased that you enjoy my blog. Thank you for the kind words and taking time to comment.

      It’s some time since I read Connolly’s book but I remember liking it a fair bit.

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