The bolded entries are the ones I liked best. The choices are slightly different from the ones featured in My Notable Twenty-Five because I read more after the post date or felt warmer (or colder) towards some.
Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Making It Up – Penelope Lively
Firmin: The Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife – Sam Savage
Brother Man – Roger Mais
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Sea – John Banville
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice – A.S. Byatt
The Architect of the Roman Empire – Thomas Rice Holmes
The Hills were Joyful Together – Roger Mais
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami
Memory in Death – J.D. Robb
Dance of the Gods – Nora Roberts
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Shroud – John Banville
Ticknor – Sheila Heti
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Bet Me – Jennifer Crusie
Eugenie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
Hot Night – Shannon Mckenna
Charlie All Night – Jennifer Crusie
Strange Bedpersons – Jennifer Crusie
Getting Rid of Bradley – Jennifer Crusie
What The Lady Wants – Jennifer Crusie
Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
The Immoralist – Andre Gide
Seduction and Betrayal* – Elizabeth Hardwick
King Dork – Frank Portman
The Fox in the Attic – Richard Hughes
The Unknown Masterpiece – Honoré de Balzac
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Endymion Spring – Matthew Skelton (yuck)
We Always Treat Women Too Well – Raymond Queneau
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Scandal in Spring – Lisa Kleypas
All U Can Eat – Emma Holly (Yes, I am chagrined at having read a book with such letter abuse.)
Chess Story – Stefan Zwieg
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes
Great Granny Webster – Caroline Blackwood
Come Closer – Sara Gran
The History of Reading – Alberto Manguel
Manservant and Maidservant – Ivy Compton-Burnett
Kingdoms of Elfin – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Mapping the Mind – Rita Carter
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
Woman in the Dark – Dashiell Hammett
Phantoms in the Brain – V.S. Ramachandran
Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Other Electricities – Ander Monson
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Defence Speeches – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Conrad’s Fate – Diana Wynne Jones
Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Atlas – Jorge Luis Borges
Reading Cicero – Catherine Steel
Dreamtigers – Jorge Luis Borges
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Power of Three – Diana Wynne Jones
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom – Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Art and Life – John Ruskin
A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul – Paul M. Churchland
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
[...] Imani gives her list here with favorites highlighted, and here she says she’s never read a bad book (this year). [...]
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