It’s the end of the year and I have started tying up the old files and opening up new files for the coming year. But first I thought I would highlight my very subjective Best Reads list for the year 2015. I have to post it fast lest I change my mind and start reordering the titles.
Wanna argue?
2015
- The Obstacles — Eloy Urroz
- The Dalkey Archive — Flann O’Brien
- Mercier et Camier — Samuel Beckett
- Submission — Michel Houellebecq
- Despair – Vladimir Nabokov
- Runaway Horses — Yukio Mishima
- The Ambassadors — Henry James
- Sapiens — Uval Noah Harari
- Salamander — Thomas Wharton
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman — John Fowles
- The Man Who Was Thursday — C. K. Chesterton
- Black Boy — Richard Wright
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter — Mario Vargas Llosa
- Numero Zero — Umberto Eco
- Venus On the Half-Shell — Kilgore Trout
- A Clue To the Exit — Edward St. Aubyn
- The Interrogation — J. M. G. Le Clézio
- City of Night — John Rechy
- The Great American Novel — Philip Roth
- Why Darwin Matters — Michael Shermer
- Lucky Jim — Kingsley Amis
- Thérèse Raquin — Emile Zola
- The Ragazzi — Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Martereau — Nathalie Sarraute
- Castle To Castle — Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Not read this year, but I loved Thérèse Raquin! I like it more than most of the Rougon-Macquart novels. The Man Who Was Thursday was an interesting read.
My three favorites from this year are:
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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