Jen Craig
Highlights of 2023
Vigdis Hjorth - Is Mother Dead
Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet Days of Discipline
Annie Ernaux -
The Sitter - Angela O’Keeffe
Paul Dalgarno - A Country of Eternal Light
2024
Grimmish
More
Vigdis Hjorth
Fleur Jaeggy
Lisa Robinson The Baudelaire Fractal
The Tunnel - William Gass
Collected Stories - Clarice Lispector
Cesar Aira
Martin Shaw
http://www.thebooksdesk.com/
Highlights 2023 from Shaw authors :
Jen Craig
Pip Adam
Angela O’Keefe - The sitter
Other highlights
Tomas Nevinson - Javier Marias
Emily Perkins - Lioness
Looking forward to
Max Easton - Paradise Estate
Politica - Yumna Kassab
Lee Klein
Middlemarch
Jane Eyre
Dracula
Silas Marner
The Year/Tramp Thomas Espedal
I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal
Travels with Charley - Steinbeck
Looking forward to
19th century Lit
New Enard - The Annual Dinner of the Gravediggers Guild
Vernon Subutex
Molly - Blake Butler
Werner Herzog - Memoir
Have a Bleedin Guess - Paul Hanley
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
My Favorite Thing is Monsters Volume 2 - Emil Farris
We Go Liquid - Christian TeBordo
Kevin Kohn
Best books of 2023
Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward
All of Sergio De La Pava
2024
Percival Everett - James
Rodrigo Fresan - Melville
Adam Levin - The Instructions Bar Mitzvah edition
Ben Slotky
https://longleafreview.com/slotky/
Best books of 2023
Maurizio De Giovanni
Raymond Carver
Tim O’Brian - America Fantastica
Flannery O’Connor
James Ellroy
Paul Dalgarno
Melissa Lucashenko - Edenglassie
In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
Salonika Burning - Gail Jones
The Drivers Seat - Muriel Spark
Danielle Laidley - Don’t Look Away
Boy Friends - Micheal Pedersen
2024
Audition - Pip Adam
The Sitter - Angela O’Keefe
Serengotti - Eugen Bacon
Double Happiness - Rochelle Siemienowicz
The Great Undoing Charlene Allsopp
Diane Josefowicz
https://www.dianejosefowicz.com/
New book L'AIR DU TEMPS (1985)
James Rosewarne
top 10 from 2023
Thus Bad Begins- Javier Marias
Honoured Guest- Joy Williams
Mysteries- Knut Hamsun
Lewis Percy- Anita Brookner
Berta Isla- Javier Marias
Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri
La Lucina- Antonio Moresco
Professor Anderson's Natt- Dag Solstad
Trick- Domenico Starnone
When I Was Mortal- Javier Marias
Three 2023 re-reads which were even more remarkable 2nd and 3rd time round.
The Dog- Jospeh O'Neill
Peace Talks- Tim Finch (I really can't recommend this one enough)
Novel 11, Book 18- Dag Solstad
And the book I'm looking forward to most in 2024 is Tomas Nevinson by Javier Marias.