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* yet to finish
*McMafia - Misha Glenny
The Rights of the Reader - Daniel Pennac
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Austerity Britain: Smoke in the Valley - David Kynaston
The Believers - Zoe Heller
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Fowler's End - Gerald Kersh
God's Own Country - Ross Raisin
Ascent - Jed Mercurio
Diary of a Bad Year - JM Coetzee
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
*Fiction Works - James Wood
*A Void - Georges Perec, trans. Gilbert Adair
*Glister - John Burnside
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
*Watchmen - Alan Moore
*The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M.Coetzee
David Golder - Irene Nemirovsky
*Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
Troubles - J.G. Farrell
*From A to X in Letters - John Berger
The Death of Grass - John Christopher
The Victorian Chaise-Longe - Marghanita Laski
Akenfield - Ronald Blythe
A Little Piece of Ground - Elizabeth Laird
The Child that Books Built - Francis Spufford
Not in Front of the Grown Ups - Alison Lurie
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage
*Gate of the Sun - Elias Khoury
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Leviathan, or The Whale - Philip Hoare
A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carre
Indignation - Philip Roth
*Pity the Nation - Robert Fisk
Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
Heartlands - Anthony Cartwright
Lush Life - Richard Price
*The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
*Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
Home - Marilyn Robinson

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Andrew: Had I written a review for A Most Wanted Man, which I read recently, I pretty much would have said what you did--about the book and LeCarre.

posted by copyedit52 at 9:20 am (EST) on Aug 20, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries, Andrew. It's a very nice compliment. I've enjoyed your reviews of "The Victorian Chaise-Longue" and the Nemirovsky books, plus "Ascent", so much that I thumbs-upped them in my favorite way...adding them to my wish list!

Cheers
RMD

posted by richardderus at 6:13 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2009

Thank you for your nice comments. I got started by doing reviews for myself as an aide-memoire really, then put them on LT, then I discovered the blogospere, and the rest as they say is history - it's addictive though ...

posted by gaskella at 4:50 am (EST) on May 17, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I liked your review of 'Troubles', and will promote it up my TBR mountain - I really enjoyed the 'Siege of Krishnapur'. I do fuller write-ups on my blog - do come and visit http://gaskella.blogspot.com
Cheers
Annabel

posted by gaskella at 5:14 am (EST) on May 15, 2009

Thanks for the compliment. I don't feel I read a lot compared to some of the readers on LT; I just have 40 or so years of reading behind me! I wish I had more time for reading. And I'm glad you enjoyed "The Siege of Krishnapur;" I actually liked "Troubles," the first of the trilogy (by when Farrell wrote it, not by historical time) better and I encourage you to read it. I thought "The Singapur Grip" was the weakest, but I'm thinking of rereading it now that I've learned a little bit more about WW II in the Pacific from "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945" by David M. Kennedy. Happy reading!

posted by rebeccanyc at 8:51 am (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

but you ain't got no library?!

posted by blackhornet at 11:08 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2009

Hi, I've had [The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao] on my wishlist for a while now. Have you read it yet?

posted by bigbaddom at 3:56 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

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