Here we go again. I console myself with the fact that a) I do read more each year when I make these lists, and b) I do actually read some of these books. It’s a selection from Year’s Best compilations, unread books from previous lists of mine, suggestions of friends, and ideas from Andy Miller’s excellent The Year of Reading Dangerously.
- Don DeLillo | Zero K
- Iris Murdoch | The Sea, The Sea
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Oliver Ready transl.) | Crime and Punishment
- Dave Eggers | What is the What
- Dave Eggers | Heroes of the Frontier
- Rebecca Solnit | Hope in the Dark
- Dexter Palmer | Version Control
- China Miéville | The Census-Taker
- Alexander Weinstein | Children Of The New World
- Brian Evenson | A Collapse Of Horses: A Collection Of Stories
- Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Gene: An Intimate History
- Han Kang | The Vegetarian: A Novel
- Ann Patchett | Commonwealth
- Stephen Asma | Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
- Shaun Hendy | Silencing Science
- Philip Larkin | Collected Poems
- Michael King | Moriori: a People Rediscovered
- Breece D’J Pancake | The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake
- Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita
- Joris-Karl Huysmans | Against Nature
- Isabel Allende | Zorro
- Arthur Golden | Memoirs of a Geisha
- Hannah Arendt | Origins of Totalitarianism