20111231

YOU WATCH AND YOU DESPAIR. OR YOU DESPAIR AND YOU WATCH.

What I've read and re-read this year (disclaimer: might have forgotten about some. Also: for the Swedish list, go here):

Margaret Atwood - Moral disorder
Margaret Drabble - The waterfall
Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you.
Sylvia Plath - The bell jar
Lorrie Moore - Who will run the frog hospital?
Alice Munro - Too much happiness
Ali Smith - The accidental
Sue Miller - The senator's wife
A.M. Homes - The safety of objects
A.M. Homes - Music for torching
Truman Capote - Summer crossing
Etgar Keret - The nimrod flip-out
Alison Lurie - Foreign affairs
Melissa Bank - The girl's guide to hunting and fishing
Gabriel Josipovici - Contre-Jour
Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes
Jennifer Egan - A visit from the goon squad
Imre Kertész - Detective story
Michael Cunningham - The hours
Shirley Jackson - We have always lived in the castle
John Fowles - The magus
John Fowles - The collector
Anita Brookner - Look at me
Lydia Davis - The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Lewis Carroll - Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Patti Smith - Just kids
Françoise Sagan - Bonjour tristesse
Françoise Sagan - A certain smile
Doris Lessing - The diaries of Jane Somers
Doris Lessing - Ben, in the world