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18 December 2011
All-year favorite books
1. Don Quixote, tr. John Rutherford
2. Chronicle of My Mother by Inoue Yasushi, tr. Jean Oda Moy
3. The Ubu Plays by Alfred Jarry, tr. Cyril Connolly and Simon Watson Taylor
4. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, tr. Anthea Bell
5. Chess by Stefan Zweig, tr. Anthea Bell
6. Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories by Kōno Taeko, tr. Lucy North and Lucy Lower
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
8. On Translation by Paul Ricoeur, tr. Eileen Brennan
9. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, tr. Margaret Jull Costa
10. Stasiland by Anna Funder
11. The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
I've selected 11 books for my favorites list (6 fiction, 4 nonfiction, and a volume of plays) out of 57 books read, down from 80 last year. My total of fiction read outnumbered the nonfiction, 38 to 12. Male writers outnumbered female writers, 45 to 10. My most read authors were Murakami Haruki (6 books) and Javier Marías (4). Total of translations read was 40, mostly from the Japanese (13), Spanish (9), and German (7).
Books read in 2011
20 December 2010
Favorite reads of the year 2010
1. Mon by Natsume Sōseki, tr. Francis Mathy
2. The Wild Geese by Mori Ōgai, tr. Kingo Ochiai and Sanford Goldstein
3. Piercing by Murakami Ryū, tr. Ralph McCarthy
4. Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki Junichirō, tr. Edward G. Seidensticker
5. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
6. Death in Midsummer by Mishima Yukio, tr. Edward G. Seidensticker et al.
7. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
8. The Jaguar by João Guimarães Rosa, tr. David Treece
9. The Hare by César Aira, tr. Nick Caistor
10. The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño, tr. Chris Andrews
11. Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, tr. Paul Blackburn
12. Tres by Roberto Bolaño, tr. Erica Mena, unpublished translation
Books read in 2010:
http://booktrek.blogspot.com/2010/05/rises-reading-diary-2010.html
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