December 2013: Suggested Reading

I have previously explained that although I suggest a new book each day that should be worth reading, I often have not read it myself and therefore cannot truly recommend it other than based on what I have heard or read or possibly the reputation of the author. Being an inveterate list maker I keep all these suggestions at hand when I make up my own reading lists. It’s sometimes funny when I look back at much older suggestions and cannot remember what I was thinking when I made the recommendation. Oh well, they can’t all be winners.

Still, these are the titles I highlighted during December. I have marked those I have read in blue so I might be able to make further comments if you are interested in reading one of those books yourself.

(Blue = I Read It)

12-01-13 – The Yearling — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlins
12-02-13 – The Singapore Grip — J. G. Farrell
12-03-13 – Aloft— Chang-rae Lee
12-04-13 – Le Voyeur — Alain Robbe-Grillet
12-05-13 – The Yellow Rain — Julio Llamazares
12-06-13 – White Teeth — Zadie Smith
12-07-13 – Kitchen — Banana Yoshimoto
12-08-13 – Gertrude and Claudius — John Updike
12-09-13 – Chronicle in Stone — Ismail Kadare
12-10-13 – Flying to America — Donald Barthelme
12-11-13 – Lavinia — Ursula K. Le Guin
12-12-13 – Wearing Dad’s Head – Barry Yourgrau
12-13-13 – Wolf Dreams — Yasmina Khadra
12-14-13 – Imperial — William T.  Vollmann
12-15-13 – Two On a Tower — Thomas Hardy
12-16-13 – Zeroville — Steve Erickson
12-17-13 – Operation Wandering Soul – Richard Powers
12-18-13 – Act of the Damned — António Lobo Antunes
12-19-13 – Duane’s Depressed — Larry McMurtry
12-20-13 – The Subjection of Women — John Stuart Mill
12-21-13 – It Can’t Happen Here — Sinclair Lewis
12-22-13 – The View from the Seventh Layer — Kevin Brockmeier
12-23-13 – The House of Blue Mangoes — David Davidar
12-24-13 – The Interrogation — J. M. G. Le Clézio
12-25-13 – No Name — Wilkie Collins
12-26-13 – The Guiltless — Hermann Broch
12-27-13 – Les Derniers jours – Raymond Queneau
12-28-13 – Battle Cry – Leon Uris
12-29-13 – Tomorrow In the Battle Think of Me— Javier Marías
12-30-13 – ‘ / ( ) – Frederick Mark Kramer
12-31-13 – Pragmatism — William James