End of Year Special Part 3

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.