Books read – 2010

1. Laughing torso –  Nina Hamnett
2. Very Posy – Posy Simmonds
3. Midnight in the garden of good and evil – John Berendt
4. Stalin: a political biography – Isaac Deutscher
5. Dead air -Iain Banks
6. Berlin blues – Sven Regener
7. Grey granite – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
8. The last of her kind – Sigrid Nunez
9. Capitalist realism: is there no alternative? – Mark Fisher
10. My life and other unfinished business – Dolly Parton
11. For Rouenna – Sigrid Nunez
12. Hello America – J.G. Ballard
13. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
14. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
15. The trial – Franz Kafka
16. The second oldest profession: spies and spying in the twentieth century – Philip Knightley
17. Austerity Britain 1945-1951 – David Kynaston
18. Marching to the fault line: the Miners’ Strike and the battle for industrial Britain – Francis Beckett and David Hencke
19. Homicide: a year on the killing streets – David Simon
20. GB84 – David Peace
21. Miracles of life – J.G. Ballard
22. The spies of Warsaw – Alan Furst
23. Charlotte Brontë: a passionate life – Lyndall Gordon
24. The dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin
25. The day of creation – J.G. Ballard
26. Until the final hour – Traudl Junge
27. The group – Mary McCarthy
28. My Àntonia – Willa Cather
29. The death of grass – John Christopher
30. The year of the flood – Margaret Atwood
31. Their eyes were watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
32. To serve them all my days – R.F. Delderfield
33. The age of reason – Jean Paul Sartre
34. The gate of angels – Penelope Fitzgerald
35. Home – Marilynne Robinson
36. A woman in Berlin – Anonymous
37. The grass is singing – Doris Lessing
38. Ivan’s war – Catherine Merridale
39. Outside of a dog – Rick Gekoski
40. Conversations with Edward Said – Tariq Ali
41. Exodus – Leon Uris
42. Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada
43. The death of Uncle Joe – Alison Macleod
44. Company parade – Storm Jameson
45. Twentieth-century German poetry: an anthology – ed. Michael Hofmann
46. Love in winter – Storm Jameson
47. The story of Gösta Berling – Selma Lagerlöf
48. None turn back – Storm Jameson
49. The Russian interpreter – Michael Frayn
50. The birds fall down – Rebecca West
51. Hallucinations: life in the postmodern city – Elizabeth Wilson
52. The Great War and modern memory – Paul Fussell
53. The hard facts of the Grimm’s fairy tales – Maria Tatar