Your best reads of 2011?
I've seen lots of these compilations lately and I'd very much like
to know Clouders' best reads of 2011.
Here are suggested 'best' categories, although you might have others:
New (published in 2011)
Catch-up (book you've been meaning to read for a long time)
Re-read
Discovery (author you've not not read before)
To get the ball rolling:
New: Great House by Nicole Krauss
Catch-up: The Gathering by Anne Enright
Re-read: The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Discovery: Short stories of Alice Munro
Here are suggested 'best' categories, although you might have others:
New (published in 2011)
Catch-up (book you've been meaning to read for a long time)
Re-read
Discovery (author you've not not read before)
To get the ball rolling:
New: Great House by Nicole Krauss
Catch-up: The Gathering by Anne Enright
Re-read: The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Discovery: Short stories of Alice Munro
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New: If sticking to the rules, Premiership Psycho by CM Taylor. If allowed a little license (since technically published end 2010 and read by me Jan 2011) then Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis;
Catch up: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (thanks, Barry!)
Re-read: Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Discovery: William Gibson, specifically Zero History
Catch up: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Re-read: The best a man can get by John O'Farrell
Discovery: Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
And the best out of all of those was quite definitely the David Almond.
New: Gerry Fenge’s novel about Wellesley Tudor Pole, which I really enjoyed. 'Today I’m Alice' by Alice Jamieson.
Catch up book: The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger.
Re read: David Pelzer’s trilogy, ‘The Boy Called ‘it’, ‘The Lost Boy’ and ‘A Man Called David’... I read the first book previously, but read it again so I could properly link it to the second and third.
Discovered books: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Also, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. The Black Cat being my favourite – Apparently EAP loved cats!
Catch-Up: Invitation to the Waltz - Rosamond Lehmann
Re-read: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Discovery: Michelle Lovric - "The Undrowned Child"
'The Barchester Chronicles. Anthony Trollope. I had only read the first two books in the series have beenread reading the succeeding four books and I am now two hundred pages though 'The Last Chronicle of Barset. /'
.New Grub Street' by Gissing I had recommended this book to word clouders,
At the moment I am also reading a jolly murder mystery by Kate Atkinson and it is more than a page turner.I
At the beginning of the year, or maybe the end of last year I read 'The complete shorter fiction of Wilkie Collins which would be my recommendation for the year - but it is out of print.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows).
Catch Up- Damsel in Distress (I'm working my way through PG Wodehouse)
Re-read- Leonardo Da Vinci The Flights of the Mind (research mainly but it's a great book)
The Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon (probably my favourite book of the year)
Re-read: Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
I'm absolutly loving Daughter of Smoke and Bone one of the best books I've read in a very long time.
Catch-up - The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. I half expected to be disappointed, because so many people have recommended Hemingway. But everything about it sang to me: a perfect story.
Re-read - Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. A book that resonates as much today as it did during the cold war. And it's funny.
Discovery - Not content with inspiring most of the writers on the cloud, that Debi Alper woman writes fiction that's so good, I'm blindingly jealous. Nirvana Bites is scarily funny, and at times, funnily scary. And then there are the bits that are just plain scary... I also have an uncanny feeling that I've met all the main characters. The best contemporary novel I've read in years.
Catch up: The Steig Larrson Millenium triology. Really looking forward to TGWTDT film! Will make a pleasant change to visit the flicks on Boxing Day as oppossed to the usual slobbing around eating the penny toffee Quality Streets.
Re-read: Hmmm, I've never re-read a book. Maybe I should start!
New Discovery: Karen Rose. A slight deviation to what I would normally read - but I'm hooked!
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