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Books Read 2015

1/3/2016

 
  1. Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott  (January)
  2. The Lover — Marguerite Duras   (January)
  3. To Rise Again At A Decent Hour — Joshua Ferris   (January)
  4. Genie and Paul — Natasha Soobramanien  (January)
  5. Ghosting — Jonathan Kemp   (February)
  6. Broken Vessels — Andre Dubus   (February)
  7. Perfect Lives — Polly Samson   (February)
  8. The Russian Master & Other Stories — Anton Chekhov   (February)
  9. Father Sergius — Leo Tolstoy   (February)
  10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Alexander Solzhenitsyn  (March)
  11. The Suitcase — Sergei Dovlatov   (March)
  12. Pushkin Hills — Sergei Dovlatov   (March)
  13. My Childhood — Maxim Gorky   (March)
  14. Eugene Onegin — Aleksandr Pushkin   (March)
  15. The Compromise — Sergei Dovlatov   (April)
  16. Notes From Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky   (May)
  17. Petersburg Tales — Nikolai Gogol   (May)
  18. The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoevsky   (May)
  19. At Night — Alex Quick   (May)
  20. First Love and Other Stories — Ivan Turgenev (June)
  21. Don’t Try This At Home — Angela Readman  (June)
  22. Pimp — Iceberg Slim  (June)
  23. All That Is — James Salter (July)
  24. Old School — Tobias Wolff  (July)
  25. The Ecliptic — Benjamin Wood  (July)
  26. Too Loud a Solitude — Bohumil Hrabal  (July)
  27. Life Drawing — Robin Black  (August)
  28. All Dogs Are Blue — Rodrigo de la Souza  (August)
  29. A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing — Eimear McBride  (August)
  30. Layla — Nina De La Mer  (August)
  31. The Hair of Harold Roux — Thomas Williams  (September)
  32. The Gentleman from San Fran. & Other Edits — Ivan Bunin  (September)
  33. My Apprenticeship — Maxim Gorky  (September)
  34. Dolores Claiborne — Stephen King  (October)
  35. The Palace Thief — Ethan Canin  (October)
  36. The Best British Short Stories — Nicholas Royle ed.  (October)
  37. Revival — Stephen King  (November)
  38. The Prank — Anton Chekhov  (November)
  39. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy  (December)
  40. Contempt — Alberto Moravia  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.

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