2013

The books of fiction I have read in 2013 sorted alphabetically by title (* indicates re-read):

1. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
2. Bend Sinister – Vladimir Nabokov
3. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
4. Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
5. Cabot Wright Begins – James Purdy
6. The Country of Pointed Firs – Sarah Orne Jewett
7. Dear Life: Stories – Alice Munro
8. Every Man Dies Alone – Hans Fallada
9. The Faces of Justice – Sybille Bedford (non-fiction)
10. Fobbit – David Abrams
11. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
12. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
13. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
14. HHhH – Laurent Binet
15. How Should a Person Be? – Sheila Heti
16. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
17. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
18. Justice: Stories – Larry Watson
19. A Legacy – Sybille Bedford
20. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
21. The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
22. Malloy – Samuel Beckett
23. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
24. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
25. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
26. One of Ours – Willa Cather
27. The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
28. The Plague – Albert Camus
29. The Rehearsal – Eleanor Catton
30. The Shooting Party – Isabel Colegate
31. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
32. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
33. The Tenth of December – George Saunders
34. The Testament of Mary – Colm Toibin
35. The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy
36. Tinkers – Paul Harding
37. Yellow Birds – Kevin Powers

TBR Shortlist (from which my next read may or may not come)

Stitches – David Small
Fall On Your Knees – Anne-Marie Macdonald
The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches – Bret Harte
A Fringe of Leaves – Patrick White

House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

TBR Supplemental Shortlist (books on hand that I want to read sooner rather than later):

The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Native Son – Richard Wright
The Ambassadors – Henry James
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Wherever You Go – Joan Leegant
The Trial – Franz Kafka*
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

Australian Literature TBR:

Mr. Scobie’s Riddle – Elizabeth Jolley (Reading Matters)
Five Bells – Gail Jones (Reading Matters)
That Deadman Dance – Kim Scott (Reading Matters, Whispering Gums, ANZLitLovers)
Drylands – Thea Astley (Whispering Gums, ANZLitLovers)
(I will be soliciting more recommendations.)

Books not on hand, but on my TBR for sooner rather than later:
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sea – John Banville
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
The Magic Barrel – Bernard Malamud
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It – Maile Meloy
Light Lifting – Alexander MacLeod
Literary Conference – Cesar Aira
Stoner – John Williams
Voss – Patrick White
The Innocents Abroad – Mark Twain
Elsie Venner – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Flight of Icarus – Raymond Queneau

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