Books I read
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Note: Where there are two years given, the first is the date of first publication and the second is the translation publication date.
2025
Tokyo Express
by Seicho MATSUMOTO (1958 / 2023)
The Notebook: A History Of Thinking On Paper
by Roland ALLEN (2023)
Pedigree
by Patrick MODIANO (2014)
The Devil’s Flute Murders
by Seishi YOKOMIZO (2004 / 2015)
2024
The Sanatorium
by Sarah PEARSE (2021)
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow
by Gabrielle ZEVIN (2022)
The Decagon House Murders
by Yukito AYATSUJI (1987 / 2020)
In The Café Of Lost Youth
by Patrick MODIANO (2007 / 2016)
Saint X
by Alexis SCHAITKIN (2020)
Land Of Milk And Honey
by C Pam ZHANG (2023)
Scattered All Over The Earth
by Yoko TAWADA (2018 / 2022)
I’m A Fan
by Sheena PATEL (2022)
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
by Patrick MODIANO (1988 / 2014)
Grass
by Sheri S TEPPER (1989)
A Certain Hunger
by Chelsea G SUMMERS (2019)
Y/N
by Esther YI (2023)
Portrait Of A Thief
by Grace D LI (2022)
Hell Bent
by Leigh BARDUGO (2023)
Just Like Home
by Sarah GAILEY (2022)
The Queen Of The Damned
by Anne RICE (1988)
Blackouts
by Justin TORRES (2023)
The Gilda Stories
by Jewelle GOMEZ (1991)
2023
The Last Children Of Tokyo
by Yoko TAWADA (2014 / 2018)
Tender Is The Flesh
by Agustina BAZTERRICA (2017 / 2020)
The Vampire Lestat
by Anne RICE (1985)
Mrs S
by K PATRICK (2023)
Interview With The Vampire
by Anne RICE (1976)
Woman, Eating
by Claire KOHDA (2022)
Idol, Burning
by Rin USAMI (2020 / 2022)
White Ivy
by Susie YANG (2020)
Jettatura
by Théophile GAUTIER (1856 / 2020)
Ghost Girl, Banana
by Wiz WHARTON (2023)
Weasels In The Attic
by Hiroko OYAMADA (2022)
Acceptance
by Jeff VANDERMEER (2014)
Slash Them All
by Antoine MAILLARD (2022)
Consent: A Memoir
by Vanessa SPRINGORA (2020 / 2021)
The Echo Wife
by Sarah GAILEY (2021)
Babel
by R F KUANG (2022)
Owlish
by Dorothy TSE (2020 / 2023)
Scene Of The Crime: A Novel
by Patrick MODIANO (2021 / 2023)
The Poe Clan Vol. 2
by HAGIO Moto (1972–1976 / 2022)
The Magicians
by Lev GROSSMAN (2009)
Great Circle
by Maggie SHIPSTEAD (2021)
Sea Of Tranquility
by Emily St John MANDEL (2022)
Authority
by Jeff VANDERMEER (2014)
Crying In H Mart
by Michelle ZAUNER (2021)
Matrix
by Lauren GROFF (2021)
The Anomaly
by Hervé LE TELLIER (2020 / 2022)
Lonely Castle In The Mirror
by Mizuki TSUJIMURA (2017 / 2021)
Annihilation
by Jeff VANDERMEER (2014)
2022
The Wych Elm
by Tana FRENCH (2018)
Catherine House
by Elisabeth THOMAS (2020)
Family Record
by Patrick MODIANO (1977 / 2019)
Cold Enough For Snow
by Jessica AU (2022)
Takeaway: Stories From A Childhood Behind The Counter
by Angela HUI (2022)
Sundays In August
by Patrick MODIANO (1986 / 2017)
Letters To Camondo
by Edmund DE WAAL (2021)
Invisible Ink: A Novel
by Patrick MODIANO (2019 / 2020)
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St John MANDEL (2020)
Interior Chinatown
by Charles YU (2020)
The Dutch House: A Novel
by Ann PATCHETT (2019)
Why Karen Carpenter Matters
by Karen TONGSON (2019)
On Chapel Sands: My Mother And Other Missing Persons
by Laura CUMMING (2019)
Life After Life
by Kate ATKINSON (2013)
The Temple House Vanishing
by Rachel DONOHUE (2020)
There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job
by Kikuko TSUMURA (2015 / 2020)
The Invisible Circus
by Jennifer EGAN (1994)
Real Life: A Novel
by Brandon TAYLOR (2020)
Lullaby
by Leïla SLIMANI (2016 / 2018)
Swann’s Way: In Search Of Lost Time, Volume 1
by Marcel PROUST (1913 / 2013)
William C CARTER ed.
Never Mind
by Edward ST AUBYN (1992)
Piranesi
by Susanna CLARKE (2020)
Will And Testament
by Vigdis HJORTH (2016 / 2019)
2021
Ninth House
by Leigh BARDUGO (2019)
Betrayals: A Novel
by Charles PALLISER (1994)
My Dark Vanessa: A Novel
by Kate Elizabeth RUSSELL (2020)
The Unburied
by Charles PALLISER (1999)
Otherworld Barbara, Volume 2
by Moto HAGIO (2002–2005 / 2017)
Afropean: Notes From Black Europe
by Johny PITTS (2019)
The Poe Clan Vol. 1
by Moto HAGIO (1972–1976 / 2019)
The Aosawa Murders
by Riku ONDA (2004 / 2020)
The Old Is Dying And The New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism To Trump And Beyond
by Nancy FRASER (2019)
Feminism For The 99%: A Manifesto
by Cinzia ARRUZZA, Tithi BHATTACHARYA and Nancy FRASER (2019)
2020
The Corner That Held Them
by Sylvia Townsend WARNER (1948)
Lean Out
by Dawn FOSTER (2016)
Darkly: Black History And America’s Gothic Soul
by Leila TAYLOR (2019)
The End Of Policing
by Alex S VITALE (2017)
My Autobiography Of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir
by Jenn SHAPLAND (2020)
The Ministry Of Nostalgia
by Owen HATHERLEY (2016)
A Broken Mirror
by Mercè RODOREDA (1974 / 2017)
Paris Nocturne
by Patrick MODIANO (2003 / 2015)
Lie With Me: A Novel
by Philippe BESSON (2017 / 2019)
Bone China
by Laura PURCELL (2019)