Vincennes Contextless List of Books 2021
Vincennes Review of Books 2021 is here!
Key:
* = Excellent, highly recommend
~ = Actively bad, do not recommend
First reads
Priestdaddy — Patricia Lockwood *
Figuring — Maria Popova ~
Severance — Ling Ma
Mothball Day — Matthew D’Cruz
The Lying Life of Adults — Elena Ferrante
An Artificial Revolution — Ivana Bartoletti
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (2nd ed) — ed. Michael Levenson
Square Haunting — Francesca Wade *
How Democracy Ends — David Runciman
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories — Stephen Crane
In Praise of Walking — Shane O’Mara ~
No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood
Family Lexicon — Natalia Ginzburg *
Daisy Miller and An International Episode — Henry James *
Cheap Modernism — Lise Jaillant
Tomorrow — Elizabeth Russell Taylor
The Hangover — Jonathon Shears
Valentine — Elizabeth Wetmore ~
Drinking: A Love Story — Caroline Knapp
Our Rainbow Queen — Sali Hughes
Black Buck — Mateo Askaripour
Exciting Times — Niamh Dolan
Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters *
The Sleepwalkers — Christopher Clark
Acts of Desperation — Megan Nolan
Accabadora — Michela Murgia
Childhood — Tove Ditlevsen
Youth — Tove Ditlevsen
Dependency — Tove Ditlevsen
Gatsby’s Oxford — Christopher A. Snyder
O Pioneers! — Willa Cather
The Cipher — Kathe Koja
Economics: The User’s Guide — Ha-Joon Chang
The Small Hours — Susie Boyt
The Satyricon — Petronius
Her — H.D.
The New Bloomsday Book — Harry Blamires
The Great Gatsby and Modern Times — Ronald Berman *
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume II — ed. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker
Listen Like You Mean It — Ximena Vengoechea ~
Jacob’s Room — Virginia Woolf
Tools for Conviviality — Ivan Illich
The Most Dangerous Book — Kevin Birmingham *
Just Enough Research — Erika Hall
Paradise Lost — David Brown
Through the Wheat — Thomas Boyd
All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque *
Careless People — Sarah Churchwell *
You Ruin It When You Talk — Sarah Manvel
The Vegetable — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Вroadway Вabiеs Ѕay Gооdnight — Мark Stеyn
Roadside Picnic — Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Tractatus Logicio-Philosophicus — Lugwig Wittgenstein
The Deluge — Adam Tooze
Good Choices — Bonny Brooks
The Jazz Age — Arnold Shaw
In Lieu of a Memoir — Tadgh Muller
The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses — ed. Sean Latham
Trainspotting — Irvine Welsh *
Outline — Rachel Cusk
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble — Zac Bissonnette
The Chosen and the Beautiful — Nghi Vo
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665 — Samuel Pepys
Rereads
The Beautiful And Damned — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Odyssey — Homer (tr. Emily Wilson)
Ulysses — James Joyce *
Trimalchio — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Horse and His Boy — C. S. Lewis
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald *
The Bible (King James Version) *
Reviews: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006
Lists of books read: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
