Books from January 2012
Until now my entries of all the books I read have sat in the virtual future, but it looks like livejournal changed their timestamp functionality. If this is appearing in your feed, I'm sorry. Today I'm playing catch-up.
Kobo Abe - Secret Rendezvous (trans. Juliet Carpenter) Chinua Achebe - Arrow of God J. G. Ballard - The Crystal World Djuna Barnes - Nightwood Samuel Beckett - Stories and Texts for Nothing Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward Terry Bisson - In the Other Room and Other Likely Stories and Talking Man Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent Thomas Disch - 334 Eric Hobsbawm - The Age of Capital and The Age of Revolution Margaret Killjoy - Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction Leena Krohn - Tainaron Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (trans. Michael Kandel and Christine Rose) Janna Levin - Madmen Dream of Turing Machines I. Lukodyanov and E. Voiskunsky - The Crew of the Mekong (trans. Leonard Stoklitsky) Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks (trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter) Richard Matheson - I Am Legend Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melnibone and Sailor on the Seas of Fate Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death Joanna Russ - Extra(ordinary) People J. D. Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters Hubert Selby, Jr. - Last Exit To Brooklyn Peter Straub - Koko and Shadowland Theodore Sturgeon - Sturgeon in Orbit Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - The Gilded Age Various - Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 5 (ed. Jonathan Strahan) Various - Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 6 (ed. Jonathan Strahan) Various - Dystopian Visions (ed. Roger Elwood) Various - He's On Top (ed. Rachel Kramer Bussel) Various - Interzone: the First Anthology (ed. John Clute, Colin Greenland and David Pringle) Various - Interzone: the Second Anthology (ed. John Clute, David Pringle and Simon Ounsley) Various - Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (ed. Ellen Datlow) Various - The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction (ed. Ellen Datlow) Manly Wade Wellman - The Old Gods Waken and Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Stories Kate Wilhelm - Somerset Dreams and The Clewiston Test