Excited? At first I imagined a whole new year with a fabulous new pool of books to read, but then I realized that I had too many titles leftover from 2014 that we still vying for my interest. So, although I did switch around a few titles, my January reading list looks very familiar. Note also that I have reduced the size of the pool by 20% as a nod to the reality that I am slowing down and need to focus more on my reading … git ‘er done, so to speak.
I start the new year out with three books being actively read: The Dalkey Archive by Flann O’Brien, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles. Due to the length of a couple of those novels, I will probably intersperse a few lighter novels along the way
- They Were Counted — Miklós Bánfy *
- G. — John Berger *
- Group Portrait With Lady — Heinrich Böll
- The Women — T. C. Boyle *
- The Big Money — John Dos Passos
- A Bad Man — Stanley Elkin *
- Independence Day — Richard Ford *
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman — John Fowles *
- Where You Once Belonged — Kent Haruf
- The Interrogation — J. M. G. Le Clézio *
- Middle C — William H. Gass *
- A Pair of Blue Eyes — Thomas Hardy *
- The Old Capital — Yasunari Kawabata
- The Drop — Dennis Lehane *
- California — Edan Lepucki *
- Defiance — Carole Maso
- The Dalkey Archive — Flann O’Brien
- Doomed — Chuck Palahniuk *
- Martereau — Nathalie Sarraute
- The Room — Hubert Selby Jr *
- The Book of Other People — Zadie Smith *
- Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
- Salamander — Thomas Wharton *
- Black Boy — Richard Wright
- Thérèse Raquin — Émile Zola
There’s also a reading pool for the entire year but again, I am looking at all the books I didn’t read in 2014 before making a strong advance on new books for 2015.
Hang onto Thérèse Raquin! It’s a great read.
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