Now that the teaching year has ended here, I've begun my programme of self-rejuvenation through fiction. So far, my summer holiday reading list includes the following novels:
- Patrick Süskind, Perfume (1985) [finished: probably the best novel I've read all year]
- Richard Flanagan, The Unknown Terrorist (2006) [finished]
- David Lodge, Changing Places (1975) [finished]
- David Lodge, Small World (1984) [finished]
- David Lodge, Nice Work (1988)
- David Lodge, Therapy (1995)
- David Lodge, Deaf Sentence (2008)
- Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones (2009)
- David Storey, Radcliffe (1963)
- William Golding, Rites of Passage (1980)
- Graham Swift, Last Orders (1996)
And also a couple of memoirs:
- Gillian Rose, Love's Work (1995)
- Rachel Weiss, Me, Myself and Prague: An Unreliable Guide to Bohemia (2008)
Regrettably, I haven't read many new novels this year. I definitely hope to read Peter Carey's latest,
Parrot and Olivier in America, as well as A. S. Byatt's
The Children's Book. Anyone got any other suggestions for good 2009 novels?
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