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.