What are your Three Favourite Books of 2014 so far?

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Know I can't do it in the sense of coming up with a trio of books (fiction or otherwise) published in the last year (unlike the films thread on ILE). Come up with a top three later tho'.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:44 (eleven years ago)

Top three that I've read this year, in a couple of genres.

Fiction:

Peter Weiss - The Aesthetics of Resistance
Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann
Celine - North

Poetry:

Trakl - Selected Poems
Brecht - Complete Poems
Petrarch - Songs & Sonnets

Non-fiction (only one thing but so good its noted):

Marina Tsvetaeva - A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:55 (eleven years ago)

Robin Wood - Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
Morrissey - Autobiography
Donal Ryan - The Spinning Heart

everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 24 July 2014 10:41 (eleven years ago)

i can do exactly 3 of new this year that I've read, but all are recommended

Rivka Galchen - American Innovations
Adam Begley - Updike
Evan Osnos - Age of Ambition

johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 July 2014 12:01 (eleven years ago)

New this year:

Andres Neuman - Talking to Ourselves
Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle, Book 3
Leslie Jamison - The Empathy Exams

New to me:

Fiction:
Imogen Binnie - Nevada
Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room

Non-fiction and autofiction:
James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son
David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Eileen Myles - Inferno

one way street, Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:34 (eleven years ago)


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