Books Read 2011

  1. Franz Kafka. Diaries 1910–1923. tr. Joseph Kresh and Martin Greenberg.
  2. Marguerite Duras. The Lover. tr. Barbara Bray.
  3. Jacques Bonnet. Phantoms on the Bookshelves. tr. Sian Reynolds.
  4. Marguerite Duras. Moderato Cantabile. tr. Richard Seaver.
  5. James Hawes. Excavating Kafka.
  6. Edgar Allan Poe. The Cask of Amontillado.
  7. Sean Manning. Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book.
  8. Gerald Murnane. Barley Patch.
  9. Simone de Beauvoir. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. tr. James Kirkup.
  10. Simone de Beauvoir. Diary of a Philosophy Student Vol. 1, 1926–1927. tr. Barbara Klaw.
  11. André Gide. Strait is the Gate. tr. Dorothy Bussy.
  12. Simone de Beauvoir. The Prime of Life. tr. Peter Green.
  13. Stephen Fry. Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music.
  14. William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying.
  15. Herman Melville. Bartleby the Scrivener.
  16. Bernard-Henri Lévy. Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century.
  17. Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma. tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff.
  18. Umberto Eco. Confessions of a Young Novelist.
  19. Paul Glennon. The Dodecahedron or A Frame for Frames.
  20. Geoff Dyer. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition.
  21. Geoff Dyer. Working the Room.
  22. Geoff Dyer. Paris, Trance.
  23. Geoff Dyer. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi.
  24. Rebecca West. The Essential Rebecca West.
  25. John Berger. Bento’s Sketchbook.
  26. Margaret Atwood. The Penelopiad.
  27. Richard Wollheim. Art and Its Objects.
  28. Masha Tupitsyn. Laconia: 1,200 Tweets on Film.
  29. John Berger. From A to X: A Story in Letters.
  30. Elaine Scarry. On Beauty and Being Just.
  31. Geoff Dyer. The Missing of the Somme.
  32. Peter Handke. The Weight of the World. tr. Ralph Manheim.
  33. Peter Handke. Across. tr. Ralph Manheim.
  34. Jaron Lanier. You Are Not a Gadget.
  35. Warwick Cairns. In Praise of Savagery.
  36. David L. Ulin. The Lost Art of Reading.
  37. Aiskhylos, Sophokles, Euripides. An Oresteia. tr. Anne Carson.
  38. Lars Iyer. Spurious.
  39. Peter Stamm. Seven Years. tr. Michael Hofmann.
  40. Vyacheslav Pyetsukh. The New Moscow Philosophy. tr. Krystyna Anna Steiger.
  41. Robert Scholes. Paradox of Modernism.
  42. A. L. Barker. A Source of Embarrassment.
  43. Robert Walser. Jakob von Gunten. tr. Christopher Middleton.
  44. J. M. Ledgard. Submergence.
  45. Herman Melville. Benito Cereno.
  46. Ivan Turgenev. First Love. tr. Constance Garnett.
  47. Mark Twain. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg.
  48. Joseph Conrad. The Duel.
  49. *Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles.
  50. Anton Chekhov. My Life. tr. Constance Garnett.
  51. Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
  52. Sholem Aleichem. Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance. tr. Hannah Berman.
  53. Leo Tolstoy. The Devil. tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude.
  54. Kate Chopin. The Awakening.
  55. Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilych. tr. Ian Dreiblatt.
  56. Italo Svevo. The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl. tr. L. Collison-Morley.
  57. Christopher Morley. Parnassus on Wheels.
  58. Reiner Stach. Kafka: The Decisive Years. tr. Shelley Frisch.
  59. J. M. Coetzee. Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000–2005.
  60. Samuel Beckett. Mercier and Camier.
  61. Susan Sontag. Under the Sign of Saturn.
  62. Simon Glendinning. Derrida: A Very Short Introduction.
  63. Samuel Beckett. Molloy.
  64. Samuel Beckett. Malone Dies.
  65. Samuel Beckett. The Unnamable.
  66. Tom McCarthy. Tintin and the Secret of Literature.
  67. J. M. Coetzee. Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986–1999.
  68. Teju Cole. Open City.
  69. Annie Dillard. Living by Fiction.
  70. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Elective Affinities. tr. David Constantine.
  71. Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The Judge and the Hangman. tr. Joel Agee.
  72. Jenny Erpenbeck. Visitation. tr. Susan Bernofsky.
  73. Thomas Bernhard. Old Masters. tr. Ewald Osers.
  74. Heinrich von Kleist. Betrothal in San Domingo. tr. David Constantine.
  75. Michael Levenson. Modernism.
  76. Henrik Ibsen. A Doll House.
  77. Nadine Gordimer. The Pickup.
  78. Helen Small. The Long Life.
  79. César Aira. How I Became a Nun. tr. Chris Andrews.

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