2023 in Review

Books on shelves, never time to read them, concerted effort to read them, different kind of reading, slow, spend time with a book

Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu Translated by Sean Cotter Started in November 2023, finished in December 2023 The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories Tove Ditlevsen Translated by Michael Favala Goldman Started in December 2023, finished in December 2023 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Started in December 2023, finished in January 2024 High-Rise J.G. Ballard Started in December 2023, finished in December 2023 The Years Annie Ernaux Translated by Alison L. Strayer Started in October 2023, finished in November 2023 Foster Claire Keegan Started in October 2023, finished in October 2023 An Omelette and a Glass of Wine Elizabeth David Started in October 2023, finished in February 2024 The Makioka Sisters Jun’ichirō Tanizaki Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker Started in September 2023, finished in October 2023 Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation Rachek Cusk Started in October 2023, finished in October 2023 The Magus John Fowles Started in September 2023, finished in September 2023 Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand’s Best Writers Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Maurice Duggan, Janet Frame, Patricia Grace and Owen Marshall Edited by Bill Manhire Started in August 2023, finished in September 2023 In Search of Lost Time Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah Marcel Proust Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff , Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright Started in July 2023, finished in August 2023 The Cursed Bus and other writings Jameson Alex West Started in July 2023, finished in July 2023 Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov Translated by Angela Rodel Started in July 2023, finished in July 2023 Ulysses James Joyce Started in April 2023, finished in July 2023 The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses Harry Blamires Started in April 2023, finished in July 2023 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh Started in June 2023, finished in June 2023 The Story of Art Without Men Katy Hessel Started in May 2023, finished in June 2023 On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry William H. Gass Started in May 2023, finished in May 2023 Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason Started in April 2023, finished in April 2023 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver Started in March 2023, finished in April 2023 Life: A User’s Manual Georges Perec Translated by David Bellos Started in March 2023, finished in April 2023 For a Little While Rick Bass Started in February 2023, finished in March 2023 The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg Translated by Dick Davis Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023 6 Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions Anton Chekhov Started in January 2023, finished in February 2023 Audiobook Wild Honey The Seagull Ivanov The Cherry Orchard Three Sisters Uncle Vanya Stella Maris Cormac MacCarthy Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023 Stoner John Williams Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023 Coventry Rachel Cusk Started in January 2023, finished in February 2023 The Passenger Cormac MacCarthy Started in January 2023, finished in January 2023 Liberation Day: Stories George Saunders Started in December 2022, finished in January 2023 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain George Saunders Started in November 2022, finished in January 2023