Dude. I’ve been meaning to post this since January, but lost access to Ye Blog. You can all stop holding your breath now. Here’s what I read in 2017. Starred if I especially enjoyed it.
*The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
The Portable Veblen – Elizabeth McKenzie
Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison
*You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine – Alexandra Kleeman
Get in Trouble – Kelly Link
Magic for Beginners – Kelly Link
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank – Nathan Englander
*Clock Without Hands – Carson McCullers
*The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
*Parasites Like Us – Adam Johnson
*Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – David Shafer
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia – Mohsin Hamid
*Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
The Ask – Sam Lipsyte
*The Epiphany Machine – David Burr Gerrard
*Train – Pete Dexter
Bellefleur – Joyce Carol Oates
The Last Days of California – Mary Miller
Gold Fame Citrus – Claire Vaye Watkins
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
*Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut
*The Small Backs of Children – Lidia Yuknavitch
Private Citizens – Tony Tulathimutte
*The Mark and the Void – Paul Murray
The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
Tight White Collar – John L’Heureux
The Alchemist – Paolo Coelho
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing – Eimear McBride
Guide for the Perplexed – Dara Horn
Get back to me when you’ve finished reading these and we’ll chat. In the meantime, here’s a photo of a Chinese duncecap!
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