I taught several classes this year, which allowed me to reread a lot of fantastic essays and short fiction from old masters (Kafka, Hoffamann, Borges, O'Connor, Marquez, Cortazar, and countless others), but impeded my complete book reading. I also started a few giant tomes, specifically Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy and Roberto Bolano's 2666, both of which I will hopefully finish in some future year.
Well, onwards and upwards (and more reading in the future).
Books I finished in chronological order (*s are rereads):
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
- Chronicles – Bob Dylan
- Little Things – Jeffery Brown
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Wells Tower
- NOON 2001
- Reality Hunger – David Shields
- NOIR – Robert Coover
- NOON 2010
- Twenty Grand – Rebecca Curtis
- Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
- Magic For Beginners – Kelly Link
- Books: A Memoir – Larry McMurtry
- Nightwork – Christine Schutt
- The Spot – David Means
- Apex Hides the Hurt – Colson Whitehead
- All the Living – C. E. Morgan
- Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson*
- Billy Hazelnuts 2 – Tony Millionaire
- Seven Nights – Jorge Luis Borges
- The Green Child – Herbert Read
- Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico – Javier Marias
- The Literary Conference – Cesar Aira
- Patriotism – Yukio Mishima
- Ghosts – Cesar Aira
- Tales of Desire – Tennessee Williams
- Mystery and Manners – Flannery O’Connor
- Do Not Disturb – Muriel Spark
- Here Comes Another Lesson – Stephen O’Connor
This feels like too few books to bother with further breakdown, as I did in previous years.
Well, onwards and upwards (and more reading in the future).
