at the end of 2009, about a year or so since i stopped blogging - as such - i began, for my own reasons, keeping track of my reading, listing down all the books i managed to read all the way through. i have the lists, & still have this blog, so, what the hell.
call this my contribution to the yearend/new year discourse or whatevs.
2009 (in reverse)
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)
The Weight of Numbers, Simon Ings
The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Blood's a Rover, James Ellroy
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, Cesar Aira
Ghosts, Aira
The Skating Rink, Roberto Bolaño
The City & the City, China Mieville
Bartleby & Co., Enrique Villa-Matas
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Trial, Franz Kafka (Muir translation)
Last Evenings on Earth, Bolaño
Senselessness, Horacio Castellanos-Moya
Antipoems: How to Look Good & Feel Great, Nicanor Parra
Nazi Literature in the Americas, Bolaño
The Romantic Dogs, Bolaño
2666, Bolaño
2010 (near chronological)
Tokyo Year Zero, David Peace
American Tabloid, Ellroy
The Erasers, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Death in Spring, Mercedes Rodoreda
The Occupied City, Peace
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
In the Labyrinth, Robbe-Grillet
Jealousy, Robbe-Grillet
Poem Strip, Dino Buzzatti
White Jazz, Ellroy
The Castle, Kafka (Breon Mitchell translation)
The Wild Boys, William S. Burroughs
They're Cows, We're Pigs, Carmen Boullosa
The Driver's Seat, Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent, Spark
New Model Army, Adam Roberts
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, Mike Mignola & Duncan Fegredo
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
The Box Man, Kobo Abe
Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson
Steps, Jerzy Kosinski
Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes
The Recognitions, William Gaddis
A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How I Became a Nun, Aira
W, or, the Memory of Childhood, Georges Perec
A Void, Perec
Kitchen Confidential (audio), Anthony Bourdain
The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading, Nabokov
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (audio), David Foster Wallace
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Childhood, Nathalie Sarraute
Monsieur Pain, Bolaño
Antwerp, Bolaño
Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Iain Sinclair
Arriving in Avignon, Daniël Robberechts
Urn Burial, Thomas Browne
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
03, Jean-Christophe Valtat
Angels, Denis Johnson
The Literary Conference, Aira
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
2011 (chronological, more or less)
V., Pynchon (x Dec 2010 - 5 Jan 2011)
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt (x - 15 Jan 2011)
Repetition, Robbe-Grillet (Richard Howard trans., 15 - 19 Jan 2011)
The Mirror in the Well, Micheline Aharonian Marcom (23 - 26 Jan 2011)
Pierrot Mon Ami, Raymond Queneau (20 - 27 Jan 2011)
Reader's Block, Markson (30 - 31 Jan 2011)
Paris, France, Gertrude Stein (2 Feb 2011)
Ava, Carole Maso (3 - 12 Feb 2011)
The Trial, Kafka (Breon Mitchell trans., 19 - 21 Feb 2011)
Straw Dogs, John Gray (23 - 24 Feb 2011)
Hellblazer: Pandemonium, Jamie Delano & Jock (24 Feb 2011)
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes (NDP ed., 3 - 8 Mar 2011)
Nineteen Seventy-Four, Peace (x - 13 Mar 2011)
Life A User's Manual, Perec (13 Mar - 3 Apr 2011)
Things, Perec (12 - 15 Apr 2011)
A Man Asleep, Perec (15 - 17 Apr 2011)
The Pale King, Wallace (17 - 29 Apr 2011)
Suicide, Edouard Leve (29 - 30 Apr 2011)
War & War, Krasznahorkai (30 Apr - 8 May 2011)
The Cows, Lydia Davis (11 May 2011)
Mother London, Michael Moorcock (9 - 26 May 2011)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke (Dalkey Archives ed., 28 May - 1 Jun 2011)
A Naked Singularity, Sergio de la Pava (1 - 17 Jun 2011)
The Assistant, Walser (18 - 27 Jun 2011)
Zone, Mathias Énard (28 Jun - 8 Jul 2011)
Animalinside, Krasznahorkai (8 Jul 2011)
Achilles, Elizabeth Cook (8 - 9 Jul 2011)
The Robber, Walser (12 - 15 Jul 2011)
Mason & Dixon, Pynchon (16 Jul - 9 Aug 2011)
The Use of Speech, Sarraute (21 Aug 2011)
Personae, de la Pava (2 - 10 Sept 2011)
The Coming of the Terraphiles, Michael Moorcock (6 - 16 Sept 2011)
The Planetarium, Sarraute (29 Sept - 6 Oct 2011)
Ubik, Philip K. Dick (8 - 13 Oct 2011)
The Man in the High Castle, Dick (18 - 24 Oct 2011)
Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico (24 - 27 Oct 2011)
The Naked Eye, Yoko Tawada (27 - 31 Oct 2011)
Martereau, Sarraute (2 - 5 Nov 2011)
Cigarettes, Harry Mathews (7 - 15 Nov 2011)
Climbers, M. John Harrison (15 - 23 Nov 2011)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Dick (23 - 27 Nov 2011)
VALIS, Dick (27 Nov - 7 Dec 2011)
The Divine Invasion, Dick (7 - 11 Dec 2011)
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Dick (11 - 15 Dec 2011)
The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (17 - 23 Dec 2011)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (23 - 27 Dec 2011)
Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner (27 - 28 Dec 2011)
The Ticking is the Bomb, Nick Flynn (28 - 30 Dec 2011)
The Course of the Heart, Harrison (30 Dec 2011 - )
