Vincennes Big List of Books 2024
Vincennes Review of Books 2024 is here!
Key:
* = Excellent, highly recommend
~ = Actively bad, do not recommend
First reads
Nobber-Oisín Fagan
Turn Life’s Milkshakes into Lemonade-Flynt Flossy
How to Do Nothing-Jenny Odell
A Net for Small Fishes-Lucy Jago
A Guide Through Finnegans Wake-Edmund L. Epstein *
Finnegans Wake-James Joyce *
The Other Half-Charlotte Vassell ~
Systems Ultra-Georgina Voss *
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?-Chris Payne *
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain-Victoria MacKenzie *
Kind of a Big Deal-Saul Austerlitz
This is Why You Dream-Rahul Jandial *
Beyond Black-Hilary Mantel *
Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction-Lewis Wolpert
O Sing Unto the Lord-Andrew Gant
Cancer: A Very Short Introduction-Nick James
Number Go Up-Zeke Faux *
The Country Life-Rachel Cusk *
None of this Rocks-Joe Trohman *
Milton’s Creation-Harry Blamires
Paradise Lost-John Milton *
The Charisma Myth-Olivia Fox Cabane
Undue Influence-Anita Brookner
The Brain: A Very Short Introduction-Michael O’Shea
The Friction Project-Robert I. Sutton & Huggy Rao
The Sun Walks Down-Fiona McFarlane
From Back Porch to Front Seat-Beth L. Bailey
A Most Unusual Demise-Katherine Black
Call Me By Your Name-André Aciman ~
The Good Soldier-Ford Madox Ford *
Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction-Mark Lorch
The Ballad of Peckham Rye-Muriel Spark
Our Share of Night-Mariana Enriquez *
White Teeth-Zadie Smith
Underworld-Don DeLillo *
Tree of Smoke-Denis Johnson *
Terrible Honesty-Ann Douglas *
The Sympathizer-Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Quiet American-Graham Greene
Winesburg, Ohio-Sherwood Anderson *
The Cell: A Very Short Introduction-Terence Allen & Graham Cowling
London Belongs to Me-Norman Collins *
The Little Book of Malt Whiskies-Derek Cooper
The Black Dahlia-James Ellroy
The Talented Mr Ripley-Patricia Highsmith
Rereads
Lucky Jim-Kingsley Amis *
A Handful of Dust-Evelyn Waugh *
This Side of Paradise-F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bible (New International Version) *
