20101230

THERE IS REALLY NOTHING MORE TO SAY - EXCEPT WHY. BUT SINCE WHY IS DIFFICULT TO HANDLE, ONE MUST TAKE REFUGE IN HOW

What I've read and re-read this year:

BOOKS IN ENGLISH
Margaret Atwood - The edible woman
Margaret Atwood - The tent
Margaret Atwood - Good bones
Margaret Atwood - The robber bride
Margaret Atwood - The handmaid's tale
Margaret Atwood - The year of the flood
Margaret Atwood - Lady oracle
Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood - Bodily harm
Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates - My sister my love
Joyce Carol Oates - The falls
Joyce Carol Oates - Rape a love story
Scarlett Thomas - The end of Mr. Y
Scarlett Thomas - PopCo
Doris Lessing - The fifth child
Margaret Drabble - The millstone
Margaret Drabble - The waterfall
Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep
Curtis Sittenfeld - The man of my dreams
Curtis Sittenfeld - American wife
Lorrie Moore - A gate at the stairs
Short stories by Lorrie Moore from The collected stories
Iris Murdoch - The bell
Short stories by Katherine Mansfield
Marisha Pessl - Special topics in calamity physics
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are not the only fruit
Brunonia Barry - The lace reader
Zoë Heller - Notes on a scandal
Aoibheann Sweeney - Among other things, I've taken up smoking
Alex Garland - The beach
Alex Garland - The tesseract
Alex Garland - The coma
Charles Webb - The graduate
J.D. Salinger - The catcher in the rye
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Sadie Jones - The outcast
Donna Tartt - The secret history
Laurence Rees - Auschwitz
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never let me go
Mohsin Hamid - The reluctant terrorist
Steven Hall - The raw shark texts

BOOKS IN SWEDISH
Ann Heberlein - Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva
Linda Skugge - Det här är inte en bok
Linda Skugge - Saker under huden