A Book, Read is a series that chronicles the books I read over the year.  They aren’t intended to be reviews – I once did that, but I don’t any more.

So.  Here they are.

2017

A Book, Read

1. 2 January 2017 – Chew, Agnes – The Desire for Elsewhere
2. 29 January 2017 – Vila-Matas, Enrique – Because She Never Asked
3. 3 February 2017 – Bolaño, Roberto – Between Parentheses
4. 6 February 2017 – Modiano, Patrick – So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood
5. 7 February 2017 – Kapuściński, Ryszard – Shah of Shahs
6. 8 February 2017 – Hrabal, Bohumil – Too Loud a Solitude

2016

A Book, Read

1. 28 January 2016 – Hobb, Robin – Fool’s Assassin
2. 9 February 2016 – Wood, James – How Fiction Works
3. 14 February 2016 – Alexievich, Svetlana – Zinky Boys
4. 14 February 2016 – de Beauvoir, Simone – The Woman Destroyed
5. 28 February 2016 – García Márquez, Gabriel – News of a Kidnapping
6. 1 March 2016 – Auster, Paul – Leviathan
7. 7 March 2016 – Hobb, Robin – Fool’s Quest
8. 8 March 2016 – Auster, Paul – Sunset Park
9. 14 March 2016 – Kundera, Milan – The Festival of Ignorance
10. 15 March 2016 – Bester, Alfred – The Demolished Man
11. 28 March 2016 – Eliot, T S – Murder in the Cathedral
12. 30 March 2016 – Ríos, Julián – The House of Ulysses
13. 2 April 2016 – Lerner, Ben – Leaving the Atocha Station
14. 10 April 2016 – Amado, Jorge – The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray
15. 19 April 2016 – Rey Rosa, Rodrigo – Severina
16. 21 April 2016 – Bolaño, Roberto – The Return
17. 23 April 2016 – Bolaño, Roberto – The Secret of Evil
18. 25 April 2016 – Bolaño, Roberto – A Little Lumpen Novelita
19. 12 May 2016 – Alexievich, Svetlana – Voices from Chernobyl
20. 15 May 2016 – Bolaño, Roberto – Amulet
21. 17 May 2016 – Sebald, W. G. – Austerlitz
22. 17 May 2016 – Modiano, Patrick – The Search Warrant
23. 18 May 2016 – Abe, Kobo – Four Stories
24. 18 May 2016 – Gracia Armendariz, Juan – The Plimsoll Line
25. 22 May 2016 – Ovejero, Jose – Nothing Ever Happens
26. 25 May 2016 – Roth, Joseph – Perlefter
27. 25 May 2016 – Cook, Glen – The Last Chronicles of the Dread Empire – I – Reap the East Wind
28. 25 June 2016 – Martin, George R R – A Song of Ice and Fire – I – A Game of Thrones
29. 4 July 2016 – Martin, George R R – A Song of Ice and Fire – II – A Clash of Kings
30. 6 July 2016 – Martin, George R R – A Song of Ice and Fire – III Part 1 – Steel and Snow
31. 6 July 2016 – Proust, Marcel – Pleasures and Regrets
32. 17 July 2016 – Mieville, China – Perdido Street Station
33. 19 July 2016 – Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich – The Communist Manifesto
34. 19 July 2016 – Martin, George R R – A Song of Ice and Fire – III Part 2 – Blood and Gold
35. 21 July 2016 – Bolaño, Roberto – Antwerp
36. 21 July 2016 – Bolaño, Roberto – Distant Star
37. 23 July 2016 – Pinter, Harold – Mountain Language
38. 23 July 2016 – Pinter, Harold – Old Times
39. 23 July 2016 – Pinter, Harold – The Caretaker
40. 23 July 2016 – Seamus, Heaney – Selected Poems 1965 – 1975
41. 15 August 2016 – Stoppard, Tom – Plays Volume 5
42. 23 August 2016 – Sanderson, Brandon – Mistborn – I – The Final Empire
43. 23 August 2016 – Sanderson, Brandon – Mistborn – II – The Well of Ascension
44. 23 August 2016 – Touissant, Jean-Phillippe – Self-Portrait Abroad
45. 24 August 2016 – Hessel, Stephane – Indignez-Vous!
46. 24 August 2016 – Tidhar, Lavie – Osama
47. 25 August 2016 – Echenoz, Jean – Lightning
48. 26 August 2016 – Houellebecq, Michel – Whatever
49. 6 September 2016 – Luiselli, Valeria – The Story of My Teeth
50. 5 October 2016 – Sanderson, Brandon – Mistborn – III – The Hero of Ages
51. 6 October 2016 – Bolaño, Roberto – A Little Lumpen Novelita (2nd time this year!)
52. 10 October 2016 – Mann, Thomas – Death in Venice
53. 11 October 2016 – Perec, Georges – An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
54. 12 October 2016 – Toussaint, Jean-Phillippe – The Bathroom
55. 13 October 2016 – Yan, Mo – Change
56. 14 October 2016 – Handke, Peter – A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
57. 15 October 2016 – Gide, Andre – The Fruits of the Earth
58. 10 November 2016 – Knausgaard, Karl Ove – My Struggle – I – A Death in the Family
59. 11 November 2016 – Perec, Georges – the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise
60. 18 November 2016 – Bellow, Saul – Humboldt’s Gift
61. 20 November 2016 – Pynchon, Thomas – Bleeding Edge
62. 22 November 2016 – Ormsby, Mike – Never Mind the Balkans, Here’s Romania

A Book, Abandoned

1. 23 February 2016 – Eco, Umberto – The Prague Cemetery
2. 27 March 2016 – Erikson, Steven – House of Chains
3. 27 March 2016 – Simmons, Dan – Muse of Fire

2015

1. 1 January 2015 – Naipaul, V. S. – Half a Life
2. 3 January 2015 – Naipaul, V. S. – Magic Seeds
3. 4 January 2015 – Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa – Weep Not, Child
4. 12 January 2015 – Bolaño, Roberto – The Return
5. 13 January 2015 – Roth, Joseph – The Emperor’s Tomb
6. 14 January 2015 – Modiano, Patrick – Honeymoon
7. 18 January 2015 – Gemmell, David – Waylander II
8. 19 January 2015 – Miller, Henry – The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
9. 20 January 2015 – Bolaño, Roberto – Distant Star
10. 21 January 2015 – Gemmell, David – The King Beyond the Gate
11. 22 January 2015 – Hamsun, Knut – Tales of Love and Loss
12. 24 January 2015 – Camus, Albert – Exile and the Kingdom
13. 25 January 2015 – Aira, César – The Hare
14. 25 January 2015 – Gemmell, David – Sword in the Storm
15. 27 January 2015 – Murakami, Haruki – Kafka on the Shore
16. 2 February 2015 – Puig, Manuel – Eternal Curse on the Reader of these Pages
17. 7 February 2015 – Ryan, Anthony – Blood Song
18. 10 February 2015 – Weeks, Brent – The Way of Shadows
19. 13 February 2015 – Greene, Graham – Monsieur Quixote
20. 14 February 2015 – Vila-Matas – Bartleby & Co.
21. 21 February 2015 – Vila-Matas – Montano’s Malady
22. 22 February 2015 – Weeks, Brent – Shadow’s Edge
23. 23 February 2015 – Vila-Matas – Never Any End to Paris
24. 26 February 2015 – Modiano, Patrick – Afterimage
25. 27 February 2015 – Modiano, Patrick – Suspended Sentences
26. 28 February 2015 – McClellan, Brian – Promise of Blood
27. 28 February 2015 – Böll, Heinrich – 18 Stories
28. 3 March 2015 – Modiano, Patrick – Flowers of Ruin
29. 8 March 2015 – Zarraluki, Pedro – The History of Silence

Note – I read more books than this throughout the year, but sadly abandoned the posts.  At some stage I hope to at least list the books.