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Here are 15 books that caught my interest lately.
Fresh, off-beat, quirky or curious titles that might deserve more attention:
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01: LEONARD COHEN, „The Favorite Game“, 248 pages, 1963.
02: JAC JEMC, „My only Wife“, 194 pages, 2012.
03: JANET HOBHOUSE, „The Furies“, 312 pages, 1992.
04: ELIZABETH FORSYTHE HAILEY, „A Woman of independent Means“, 304 pages, 1978. [Mainstream / Chic-Lit?]
05: EDUARDO GALEONO, „The Book of Embraces“, 288 pages, 1989. [Fragments; Uruguay]
06: ERNEST RAYMOND, „We, the Accused“, 509 pages, 1935. [True Crime? Journalism?]
07: ALBERTO BARRERA TYSZKA, „The Sickness“, 192 pages, 2006. [Venezuela]
08: LARA FERGUS, „My Sister Chaos“, 204 pages, 2010.
09: MERCÈ RODOREDA, „A Broken Mirror“, 226 pages, 1985. [Spain]
10: PAUL RUSSELL, „War against the Animals“, 358 pages, 2003.
11: MURIEL SPARK, „The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie“, 137 pages, 1961.
12: WILLIAM TREVOR, „Reading Turgenev“, ca. 252 pages, 1991.
13: PATRICK WHITE, „Happy Valley“, 317 pages, 1939.
14: JOHN HENRY MACKAY, „The Hustler“, 312 pages, 1926.
15: KEITH WALDROP, „Light while there is Light. An American History“, 208 pages, 1993. [Memoir]
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Here are five books that made me curious enough to buy them…?
No: I needed money for Christmas presents last month and didn’t buy any books for myself. But here are things I WANT to buy soon:
01: LEE MAYNARD, „Crum“, 170 pages, 2001.
02: JAMES SCHUYLER, „What’s for Dinner?“, 211 pages, 1978.
03: STIG SAETERBAKKEN, „Through the Night“, 150 pages, 2012. [Norway]
04: HERMANN UNGAR, „The Class“ / „Die Klasse“, 176 pages, 1927. [set in Prague, written in German]
05: GERD BRANTENBERG, „Egalia’s Dauthers. A Satire of the Sexes“, 270 pages, 1977. [Feminist Science Fiction; Norway].
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…and finally, here are three books that I read – and that were really good:
4 of 5 stars: ÉDOUARD LEVÉ, „Autoportrait“, 120 pages, 2005. [Memoir / Art Novel / post-modern literary Collage; France]
4 of 5 stars: SEBASTIAN HAFFNER, „Defying Hitler“ / „Die Geschichte eines Deutschen“, 309 pages, 1939. [Memoir; Germany]
4 of 5 stars: TERI TERRY, „Slated“, 448 pages, 2012. [competent, but not very exciting Young Adult dystopia that I read for a ZEIT article]
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related Posts:
- my 20 Best Books of 2013 (Link)
- my 20 Best Books of 2012 (Link)
- my 20 Best Books of 2011 (Link)
- Summer Reading – 60 books for the next couple of months! (Link)
- Still unread: books I plan to read (pretty soon?) (Link)
- 40 disappointing Literary Classics (Link)
- Essay: “Futter für die Bestie – Literaturkritik in digitalen Zeiten” (Link, German)
and:
- Underdog Literature, December 2013 (Special Best-of-2013 Edition, Link)
- Underdog Literature, November 2013 (Special Young Adult Edition, Link)
- Underdog Literature, October 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature, September 2013 (Special Crime Fiction Edition, Link)
- Underdog Literature, August 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: July 2013 (Special German Edition, Link)
- Underdog Literature: June 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: May 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: April 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: March 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: February 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: January 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: December 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: November 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: October 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: September 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: August 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: July 2012 (Special German Edition, Link)
- Underdog Literature: June 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: May 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: April 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: March 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: February 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: January 2012 (Link)
