Stuff that I read or re-read this year.
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
Invisible by Paul Auster
Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya (Story) and Akira Hanasaki (Art)
Miss Buncle’s Book by DE Stevenson (Persephone)
Man In The Dark by Paul Auster
The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
False Impression by Jeffrey Archer
The Magician by Somerset Maugham
Theatre by Somerset Maugham
Then and Now by Somerset Maugham
The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Junichiro
Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki Junichiro
Abandon The Old Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Graphic novel)
Shike by Robert Shea
Leviathan by Paul Auster
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spigelman (Graphic novel)
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
Liza of Lambert by Somerset Maugham
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Miss Pettigrew Lives A Single Day by Winifred Watson (Persephone)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
How Oscar Became Wilde by Elliot Engel
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski (Persephone)
Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
I Have Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
Raffles Place Ragtime by Philip Jeyaretnam
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
High Wages by Dorothy Whipple (Persephone)
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple (Persephone)
Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Sorrows Of Young Werther by Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe
The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Portrait Of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Year In Japan by Kate T. Williamson (an illustrated book)
Kennedy’s Brain by Henning Mankell
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima
Abandoned:
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Meeting Mr Kim by Jennifer Barclay
In The Country Of Last Things by Paul Auster
One Day by David Nicholls
