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

1. The Obstacles — Eloy Urroz
2. The Dalkey Archive — Flann O’Brien
3. Mercier et Camier — Samuel Beckett
4. Submission — Michel Houellebecq
5. Despair – Vladimir Nabokov
6. Runaway Horses — Yukio Mishima
7. The Ambassadors — Henry James
8. Sapiens — Uval Noah Harari
9. Salamander — Thomas Wharton
10. The French Lieutenant’s Woman — John Fowles
11. The Man Who Was Thursday — C. K. Chesterton
12. Black Boy — Richard Wright
13. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter — Mario Vargas Llosa
14. Numero Zero — Umberto Eco
15. Venus On the Half-Shell — Kilgore Trout
16. A Clue To the Exit — Edward St. Aubyn
17. The Interrogation — J. M. G. Le Clézio
18. City of Night — John Rechy
19. The Great American Novel — Philip Roth
20. Why Darwin Matters — Michael Shermer
21. Lucky Jim — Kingsley Amis
22. Thérèse Raquin — Emile Zola
23. The Ragazzi — Pier Paolo Pasolini
24. Martereau — Nathalie Sarraute
25. Castle To Castle — Louis-Ferdinand Céline