Vincennes Contextless List of Books 2019
Vincennes Review of Books 2019 is here!
Key:
* = Excellent, highly recommend
~ = Actively bad, do not recommend
First reads
White Tears–Hari Kunzru
Talk–Elizabeth Stokoe
Nothing Feels Good–Andy Greenwald *
The Confidence Game–Maria Konnikova
A Gentleman in Moscow–Amor Towles
Dept. of Speculation–Jenny Offill
Melody–Jim Crace
London: The Biography–Peter Ackroyd ~
Rosewater–Tade Thompson
Conversations With Friends–Sally Rooney
Competing Against Luck–Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
Zoo City–Lauren Beukes
The Day The Sun Died–Yan Lianke
Quicksand–Nella Larsen
Passing–Nella Larsen
The Bishop and Other Stories–Anton Chekov
Hild–Nicola Griffith
The Rest is Noise–Alex Ross *
Sand, Oil and Dollars–Alan D. Ashmole
Fangirls–Hannah Ewens *
Nothing But People–Arnold Gingrich
Language Unlimited–David Adger *
The Friend–Sigrid Nunez ~
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle–Stuart Turton
The Swimming Pool Library–Alan Hollinghurst
Three–Ann Quin *
A Hypocritical Reader–Rosie Šnajdr
The Tsar of Love and Techno–Anthony Marra
The Prick–Mazin Saleem *
Nine Perfect Strangers–Liane Moriarty
Because Internet–Gretchen McCulloch *
Dodgers–Bill Beverly
The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald–Kirk Curnutt
Beloved Infidel–Sheilah Graham and Gerrold Frank *
The Seabird’s Cry–Adam Nicolson
Bel Canto–Ann Patchett
The Lonely Londoners–Sam Selvon *
Sounds Like London–Lloyd Bradley
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights Volume 1
Inspired–Marty Cagan
Why Iris Murdoch Matters–Gary Browning
Convenience Store Woman–Sayaka Murata *
The Diary Of Samuel Pepys 1663
Rereads
The Prince–Niccolo Machiavelli
The Unicorn–Iris Murdoch
The Italian Girl–Iris Murdoch
Lucky Jim–Kingsley Amis
The End of the Affair–Graham Greene
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe–C. S. Lewis
The Bible (New International Version)
Previously: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
