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Books Read 2017

1/1/2018

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  1. Smashed in the USSR: Fear and Loathing on the Steppes — Caroline Walton & Ivan Petrov  (January)
  2. The Lesser Bohemians — Eimear McBride  (January)
  3. The Sex Lives of English Women — Wendy Jones  (January)
  4. The Lonely City — Olivia Laing  (January)
  5. Nutshell — Ian McEwan  (January)
  6. Grief Is The Thing With Feathers — Max Porter  (January)
  7. The Essex Serpent — Sarah Perry  (February)
  8. The London Train — Tessa Hadley  (February)
  9. On Love — Charles Bukowski  (February)
  10. First Love — Gwendoline Riley  (March)
  11. The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays — Simon Leys  (March)
  12. Remedy Is None — William McIlvanney  (April)
  13. Future Sex — Emily Witt  (April)
  14. Sins as Scarlet — Nicolas Obregon  (June)
  15. Anything is Possible — Elizabeth Strout  (June)
  16. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay — Elena Ferrante  (June)
  17. The Story of The Lost Child — Elena Ferrante  (July)
  18. Backbone Flute — Vladimir Mayakovsky  (July)
  19. A Man in Love — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (July)
  20. The Dying Animal — Philip Roth  (July) (again)
  21. In Gratitude — Jenny Diski  (July)
  22. The Tryst — Monique Roffey  (July)
  23. The Power of Meaning — Emily Esfahani Smith (July)
  24. Trysting — Emmanuelle Pagano  (August)
  25. The Key — Junichiro Tanizaki  (August)
  26. My Name Is Lucy Barton — Elizabeth Strout  (August)
  27. Sabbath’s Theatre — Philip Roth  (September)
  28. On the Suffering of the World — Arthur Schopenhauer  (September)
  29. The Children Act — Ian McEwan  (September)
  30. The Child in Time — Ian McEwan  (September)
  31. Sylvia — Leonard Michaels  (October)
  32. Portrait of a Mother as a Young Woman — Friedrich Christian Delius  (October)
  33. Four Major Plays: A Doll’s House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder — Henrik Ibsen  (October)
  34. Venus in Furs — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch  (October)
  35. Bonjour Tristesse — Françoise Sagan  (October)
  36. Christodora — Tim Murphy  (October)
  37. The Shooting Party — Anton Chekhov  (October)
  38. Levels of Life — Julian Barnes  (November)
  39. Dunbar — Edward St. Aubyn  (November)
  40. The Cut — Anthony Cartwright  (November)
  41. Henry and June — Anais Nin  (November)
  42. The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle  (December)
  43. The Kingdom — Emmanuel Carrere  (December)
  44. Tony & Susan — Austin Wright  (December)


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