2022 in Books.
~Every link leads to an entry with basic information about the book, my favourite quotes and my review.
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥♥♥ The Second Plane ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Martin Amis (7.5/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Second Plane. (8/10)
♡ The Voice of the Lonely Crowd. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Wrong War. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind. (7.5/10)
♡ Iran and the Lord of Time. (7/10)
♡♡♡ What Will Survive of Us. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Conspiracy Theories, and Takfir. (7.5/10)
♡ Bush in Yes-Man's-Land. (7.5/10)
♡ Demographics (6/10)
♡♡♡ On the Move with Tony Blair. (7.5/10)
♡ An Islamist's Journey. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ September 11. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture ( PART 1--- PART 2), by George Steiner (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Great Ennui. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Season in Hell. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In a Post-Culture. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tomorrow. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice by Zak Ebrahim (with Jeff Giles). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Sheri Fink. (7.5/10)
♥ Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer (7.5/10):
♡ Famine, Affluence, and Morality. (7.5/10)
♡ The Singer Solution to World Poverty. (7/10)
♡ What Should a Billionaire Give-And What Should You? (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Paddack Letter by Aaron Paddack.
♡♡♡ The Macy Letter by Jethro Macy.
♡♡♡ Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex by Owen Chase. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Annotation to Owen Chase's Narrative by Herman Melville
♡♡♡ The Boy's Story: 'Desultory Sketches' by Thomas Nickerson (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Letter by Thomas Nickerson to Leon Lewis.
♡♡♡ The Captain's Story (excerpt from Letterbook of USF Constellation) by Charles Goodwin Ridgely.
♡♡♡ Excerpt from Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes by Charles Wilkes.
♡♡♡ Excerpt from Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq. by Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet.
♡♡♡ An Account of the Loss of the Essex, Pamphlet 579 (London: The Religious Tract Society) by Thomas Chappel.
♡♡♡ Excerpt from Journal of the Surry by Edward Dobson.
♡♡♡ Extracts: Memories and Apocrypha.
♥♥♥ Why We Work by Barry Schwartz. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog (translated by Martje Herzog and Alan Greenberg) (9/10):
+♡♡♡ Tribute to Lotte Eisner. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Columbine ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Dave Cullen. (8/10)
♥ Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders by Christopher Goffard (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Accusations. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Healing Sergeant Warren. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Riders. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The $40 Lawyer. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Choice. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hidden Man. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Prisoner. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Framed. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Exile. (8/10)
♡ The Rookie. (7.5/10)
♡ Border Warrior. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Dirty John. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Deserter's Son. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How She Found Him. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Old Men and the Sea. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Voices from Chernobyl ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Svetlana Alexievich. (10/10)
♥ Chromophobia by David Batchelor. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Essays (PART 1---PART 2) by Wallace Shawn (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Quest for Superiority. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ After the Destruction of the World Trade Center. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Morality. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An "American" Publishes a Magazine. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Patriotism. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Interview with Noam Chomsky. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Bush Proposes Preemptive War. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Invasion of Iraq Is Moments Away. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Up to Our Necks in War. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Israel Attacks Gaza. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Why I Call Myself a Socialist. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Myself and How I Got Into the Theatre. (7.5/10)
♡ Reading Plays. (7.5/10)
♡ Aesthetic Preferences. (8/10)
♡ Interview with Mark Strand. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Writing About Sex. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire by Kassandra Luciuk and Nicole Marie Burton. (7.5/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove. (7.5/10)
♥ The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. (7/10)
♥ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The House of Mirth ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Edith Wharton. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Jaws by Peter Benchley. (7.5/10)
♥ The Beguiled (originally A Painted Devil) by Thomas Cullinan. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Out of the Deeps (a reworking of The Kraken Wakes) by John Wyndham. (7.5/10)
♥ Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) (illustrated by Russell H. Tandy). (7.5/10)♧
♥ The Lost World by Michael Crichton. (7/10)♧
♥ Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. (6.5/10)
♥ Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Europeans by Henry James. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Shooter by Caroline Pignat. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel). (8/10)
♥ All That Sang by Lydia Perović. (7/10)
♥ Detective Story by Imre Kertész (translated by Tim Wilkinson). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Summer by Edith Wharton. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (translated by Ebba Segerberg). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador by Horacio Castellanos Moya (translated by Lee Klein). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco (translated by Ann Goldstein). (8/10)
♥ The Silence by Don DeLillo. (3/10)
♥ The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun (translated by Sora Kim-Russell). (6.5/10)
♥ Garden State by Rick Moody. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Circus of Dr. Lao ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Charles G. Finney (illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Louise Heal Kawai). (7.5/10)
♥ The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima (translated by Stephen Dodd). (8/10)
♥ The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Walkabout (originally The Children) by James Vance Marshall. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell. (7.5/10)
♥ Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente. (6.5/10)
♥ All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie. (7.5/10)
♥ A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons. (7/10)♧
♥♥♥ Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot). (8/10)♧
♥♥♥ Invasion of the Body Snatchers (originally The Body Snatchers) by Jack Finney. (7.5/10)
♥ Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. (6.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Devils in Daylight by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (translated by J. Keith Vincent). (7.5/10)
♥ The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story by Glenway Wescott.. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Shrek! by William Steig. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry (illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger). (9/10)
♥ Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. (4/10)♧
♥♥♥ Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner (translated by Cyrus Brooks, illustrated by Walter Trier). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston (illustrated by Peter Boston). (8.5/10)♧
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Peril at End House by Agatha Christie. (8/10)☁
♥ Thirteen at Dinner (originally Lord Edgeware Dies) by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥ Murder on the Orient Express (aka Murder in the Calais Coach) by Agatha Christie. (8.5/10)
♥ Three Act Tragedy (aka Murder in Three Acts) by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥ Death in the Air (originally Death in the Clouds) by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥ The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (narrated by Stephen Fry). (10/10)♫☁
♥ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (narrated by Stephen Fry). (9/10)♫
♥♥♥ Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler (illustrated by Fritz Wegner). (9/10)☁
♥ Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur by Mordecai Richler (illustrated by Dušan Petričić). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky. (8.5/10)☁
♥ Little Toot on the Thames by Hardie Gramatky. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg. (7.5/10)
♥ Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg. (7/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
♫ --> Audio book.
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ The Second Plane by Martin Amis (7.5/10):☼
♡ In the Palace of the End. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Last Days of Muhammad Alta. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me by Various (7.5/10):☼
♡♡♡ Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Camera Obscura by Basil Copper. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen DeFord. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Not With a Bang by Damon Knight. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Party Games by John Burke. (7.5/10)
♡ X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Knife by Robert Arthur. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cage by Ray Russell. (8/10)
♡♡♡ It by Theodore Sturgeon. (8/10)
♡ Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James. (7.5/10)
♡ Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters. (7.5/10)
♡ The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tough Town by William Sambrot. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Troll by T.H. White. (8.5/10)
♡ Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott. (7.5/10)
♡ One of the Dead by William Wood. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Real Thing by Robert Specht. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake. (8/10)
♡ The Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Candidate by Henry Slesar. (7.5/10)
♥ Six Scary Stories by Various (selected by Stephen King) (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Wild Swimming by Elodie Harper. (8/10)
♡ Eau-de-Eric by Manuela Saragosa. (7.5/10)
♡ The Spots by Paul Bassett Davies. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Unpicking by Michael Button. (7.5/10)
♡ La Mort de l'Amant by Stuart Johnstone. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bear Trap by Neil Hudson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Through the Woods: Stories by Emily Carroll (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ In Our Neighbor's House. (8/10)
♡ A Lady's Hands Are Cold. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ His Face All Red. (8/10)
♡♡♡ My Friend Janna. (7.5/10)
♡ The Nesting Place. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ In Conclusion. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The World of Jeeves ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3--- PART 4), by P.G. Wodehouse (8/10):
♡♡♡ Jeeves Takes Charge. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves in the Springtime. (8/10)
♡ Scoring Off Jeeves. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch (aka Jeeves the Blighter). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Aunt Agatha Takes the Count (aka Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Artistic Career of Corky (aka Leave It to Jeeves). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Chump Cyril. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Aunt and the Sluggard. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Comrade Bingo. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Great Sermon Handicap. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Purity of the Turf. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Metropolitan Touch. (8.5/10)
♡ The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Bingo and the Little Woman. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Without the Option. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Fixing It for Freddie. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Clustering Round Young Bingo. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Impending Doom. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Song of Songs. (7.5/10)
♡ Episode of the Dog Mcintosh. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Spot of Art. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Kid Clementina. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Love That Purifies. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Old School Chum. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Indian Summer of an Uncle. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ordeal of Young Tuppy. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Bertie Changes His Mind. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves Makes an Omelette. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Greasy Bird. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Supertoys Trilogy by Brian Aldiss (8/10):
♡♡♡ Supertoys Last All Summer Long. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Supertoys When Winter Comes. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Supertoys in Other Seasons. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories Told for Children by W.D. Howells (illustrated by Gina DiMarco) (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Christmas Every Day. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Turkeys Turning the Table. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Pumpkin-Glory. (7.5/10)
♡ Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Great Ghost Stories by Various (selected by John Grafton) (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards. (7.5/10)
♡ To Be Taken With a Grain of Salk by Charles Dickens. (7.5/10)
♡ Dickon the Devil by J.S. LeFanu. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Judge's House by Bram Stoker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Ghost Story by Jerome K. Jerome. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8.5/10)
♡ The Rose Garden by M.R. James. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bone to His Bone by E.G.Swain. (7.5/10)
♡ The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E.F. Benson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Complete Fairy Tales ( The Happy Prince--- A House of Pomegranates), (illustrated by Walter Crane & Jacomb Hood and Charles Ricketts & Charles H. Shannon) Oscar Wilde (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Happy Prince. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Nightingale and the Rose. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Selfish Giant. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Devoted Friend. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Remarkable Rocket. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Young King. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Birthday of the Infanta. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Fisherman and His Soul. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Star-Child. (7.5/10)
♥ How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa. (7/10):
♡♡♡ How to Pronounce Knife. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Paris. (7.5/10)
♡ Slingshot. (7/10)
♡ Randy Travis. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mani Pedi. (7.5/10)
♡ Chick-A-Chee! (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Universe Would Be So Cruel. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Edge of the World. (7.5/10)
♡ The School Bus Drive. (7/10)
♡ You Are So Embarrassing. (7/10)
♡ Ewwrrrkk. (6/10)
♡ The Gas Station. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Far Distant Thing. (7.5/10)
♡ Picking Worms. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Shut Up You're Pretty: Stories by Téa Mutonji (7.5/10):
♡ Tits for Sigs. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Parchment Paper. (7.5/10)
♡ The Event. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Down the Lakeshore. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ If Not Happiness. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ This is Only Temporary. (8.5/10)
♡ Phyllis Green. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ten-Year Reunion. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Theresa is Getting Married. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Boy From My Youth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Common Room. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Men, Tricks, and Money. (7.5/10)
♡ The Waitress. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Shut Up You're Pretty. (8/10)
♡ Women Talking. (7/10)
♡ Old-Fashioneds. (7.5/10)
♡ Sober Party. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tilapia Fish. (8/10)
♥ The Tent by Margaret Atwood (7/10):☼
♡♡♡ Life Stories. (8/10)
♡ Clothing Dreams. (6.5/10)
♡ Bottle. (7/10)
♡ Impenetrable Forest. (6.5/10)
♡ Encouraging the Young. (7/10)
♡ Voice. (7/10)
♡ No More Photos. (7/10)
♡ Orphan Stories. (6.5/10)
♡ Gateway. (6/10)
♡♡♡ Bottle II. (7.5/10)
♡ Winter's Tales. (6.5/10)
♡ It's Not Easy Being Half Divine. (6/10)
♡ Salome Was a Dancer. (6/10)
♡ Plots for Exotics. (5/10)
♡ Resources of the Ikarians. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Our Cat Enters Heaven. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Chicken Little Goes Too Far. (7.5/10)
♡ Thylacine Ragout. (5.5/10)
♡ Three Novels I Won't Write Soon. (6/10)
♡ Take Charge. (7/10)
♡ Post-Colonial. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Heritage House. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Horatio's Version. (7.5/10)
♡ King Log in Exile. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Faster. (8/10)
♡ Eating the Birds. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Something Has Happened. (7.5/10)
♡ Nightingale. (7.5/10)
♡ Warlords. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Tent. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Time Folds. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tree Baby. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ But It Could Still. (7.5/10)
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Tragedie of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
♥ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. (7/10)
♥♥♥ As You Like It by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ The Barber of Seville or The Useless Precaution by Pierre Beaumarchais (translated by David Coward). (8/10)
♥ The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais (translated by David Coward). (8.5/10)
♥ The New Tartuffe: or, The Guilty Mother by Pierre Beaumarchais (translated by David Coward). (7.5/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ Rhyme Stew by Roald Dahl (illustrated by Quentin Blake) (8/10):
♡♡♡ Dick Whittington and His Cat. (8/10)
♡♡♡ St Ives. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Hand in the Bird. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Tortoise and the Hare. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Price of Debauchery. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Physical Training. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Emperor's New Clothes. (8.5/10)
♡ A Little Nut-Tree. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Dentist and the Crocodile (7.5/10)
♡ Hot and Cold. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. (7.5/10)
♡ Hey Diddle Diddle. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mary, Mary. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hansel and Gretel. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Aladdin and the Magic Camp (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Preludes. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Gerontion. (7.5/10)
♡ Sweeney Among the Nightingales. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Waste Land. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ash-Wednesday. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Journey of the Magi. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Marina. (7.5/10)
♡ Landscapes. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Two Choruses from 'The Rock'. (7.5/10)
♥ Bilbo's Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien (llustrated by Pauline Baynes). (8.5/10)♧
♥ The Tent by Margaret Atwood (7/10):☼
♡ The Animals Reject Their Names and Things Return to Their Origins. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bring Back Mom: An Invocation. (8/10)
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Through the Woods: Stories by Emily Carroll. (7.5/10)**
♥ Daphne Byrne by Laura Marks, Kelley Jones, and Michelle Madsen. (7/10)
♥ The Courtyard by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows. (7/10)♧
♥ Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda Strong. (7/10)
♥♥♥ A Flight of Angels by Various (illustrated by Rebecca Guay). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire by Kassandra Luciuk and Nicole Marie Burton. (7.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
** --> Short stories collection, or has short stories included in the book. Refer to the Short Stories header above for break-down of individual stories.
PREVIOUS YEARS:
2009-2010/ 2010/ 2011/ 2012/ 2013/ 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017/ 2018/ 2019/ 2020/ 2021
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥♥♥ The Second Plane ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Martin Amis (7.5/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Second Plane. (8/10)
♡ The Voice of the Lonely Crowd. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Wrong War. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind. (7.5/10)
♡ Iran and the Lord of Time. (7/10)
♡♡♡ What Will Survive of Us. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Conspiracy Theories, and Takfir. (7.5/10)
♡ Bush in Yes-Man's-Land. (7.5/10)
♡ Demographics (6/10)
♡♡♡ On the Move with Tony Blair. (7.5/10)
♡ An Islamist's Journey. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ September 11. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture ( PART 1--- PART 2), by George Steiner (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Great Ennui. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Season in Hell. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In a Post-Culture. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tomorrow. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice by Zak Ebrahim (with Jeff Giles). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Sheri Fink. (7.5/10)
♥ Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer (7.5/10):
♡ Famine, Affluence, and Morality. (7.5/10)
♡ The Singer Solution to World Poverty. (7/10)
♡ What Should a Billionaire Give-And What Should You? (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Paddack Letter by Aaron Paddack.
♡♡♡ The Macy Letter by Jethro Macy.
♡♡♡ Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex by Owen Chase. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Annotation to Owen Chase's Narrative by Herman Melville
♡♡♡ The Boy's Story: 'Desultory Sketches' by Thomas Nickerson (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Letter by Thomas Nickerson to Leon Lewis.
♡♡♡ The Captain's Story (excerpt from Letterbook of USF Constellation) by Charles Goodwin Ridgely.
♡♡♡ Excerpt from Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes by Charles Wilkes.
♡♡♡ Excerpt from Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq. by Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet.
♡♡♡ An Account of the Loss of the Essex, Pamphlet 579 (London: The Religious Tract Society) by Thomas Chappel.
♡♡♡ Excerpt from Journal of the Surry by Edward Dobson.
♡♡♡ Extracts: Memories and Apocrypha.
♥♥♥ Why We Work by Barry Schwartz. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog (translated by Martje Herzog and Alan Greenberg) (9/10):
+♡♡♡ Tribute to Lotte Eisner. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Columbine ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Dave Cullen. (8/10)
♥ Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders by Christopher Goffard (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Accusations. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Healing Sergeant Warren. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Riders. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The $40 Lawyer. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Choice. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hidden Man. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Prisoner. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Framed. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Exile. (8/10)
♡ The Rookie. (7.5/10)
♡ Border Warrior. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Dirty John. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Deserter's Son. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How She Found Him. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Old Men and the Sea. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Voices from Chernobyl ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Svetlana Alexievich. (10/10)
♥ Chromophobia by David Batchelor. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Essays (PART 1---PART 2) by Wallace Shawn (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Quest for Superiority. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ After the Destruction of the World Trade Center. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Morality. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An "American" Publishes a Magazine. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Patriotism. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Interview with Noam Chomsky. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Bush Proposes Preemptive War. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Invasion of Iraq Is Moments Away. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Up to Our Necks in War. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Israel Attacks Gaza. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Why I Call Myself a Socialist. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Myself and How I Got Into the Theatre. (7.5/10)
♡ Reading Plays. (7.5/10)
♡ Aesthetic Preferences. (8/10)
♡ Interview with Mark Strand. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Writing About Sex. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire by Kassandra Luciuk and Nicole Marie Burton. (7.5/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove. (7.5/10)
♥ The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. (7/10)
♥ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The House of Mirth ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Edith Wharton. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Jaws by Peter Benchley. (7.5/10)
♥ The Beguiled (originally A Painted Devil) by Thomas Cullinan. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Out of the Deeps (a reworking of The Kraken Wakes) by John Wyndham. (7.5/10)
♥ Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) (illustrated by Russell H. Tandy). (7.5/10)♧
♥ The Lost World by Michael Crichton. (7/10)♧
♥ Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. (6.5/10)
♥ Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Europeans by Henry James. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Shooter by Caroline Pignat. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel). (8/10)
♥ All That Sang by Lydia Perović. (7/10)
♥ Detective Story by Imre Kertész (translated by Tim Wilkinson). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Summer by Edith Wharton. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (translated by Ebba Segerberg). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador by Horacio Castellanos Moya (translated by Lee Klein). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco (translated by Ann Goldstein). (8/10)
♥ The Silence by Don DeLillo. (3/10)
♥ The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun (translated by Sora Kim-Russell). (6.5/10)
♥ Garden State by Rick Moody. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Circus of Dr. Lao ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Charles G. Finney (illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Louise Heal Kawai). (7.5/10)
♥ The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima (translated by Stephen Dodd). (8/10)
♥ The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Walkabout (originally The Children) by James Vance Marshall. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell. (7.5/10)
♥ Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente. (6.5/10)
♥ All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie. (7.5/10)
♥ A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons. (7/10)♧
♥♥♥ Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot). (8/10)♧
♥♥♥ Invasion of the Body Snatchers (originally The Body Snatchers) by Jack Finney. (7.5/10)
♥ Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. (6.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Devils in Daylight by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (translated by J. Keith Vincent). (7.5/10)
♥ The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story by Glenway Wescott.. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Shrek! by William Steig. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry (illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger). (9/10)
♥ Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. (4/10)♧
♥♥♥ Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner (translated by Cyrus Brooks, illustrated by Walter Trier). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston (illustrated by Peter Boston). (8.5/10)♧
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Peril at End House by Agatha Christie. (8/10)☁
♥ Thirteen at Dinner (originally Lord Edgeware Dies) by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥ Murder on the Orient Express (aka Murder in the Calais Coach) by Agatha Christie. (8.5/10)
♥ Three Act Tragedy (aka Murder in Three Acts) by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥ Death in the Air (originally Death in the Clouds) by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥ The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (narrated by Stephen Fry). (10/10)♫☁
♥ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (narrated by Stephen Fry). (9/10)♫
♥♥♥ Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler (illustrated by Fritz Wegner). (9/10)☁
♥ Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur by Mordecai Richler (illustrated by Dušan Petričić). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky. (8.5/10)☁
♥ Little Toot on the Thames by Hardie Gramatky. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg. (7.5/10)
♥ Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg. (7/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
♫ --> Audio book.
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ The Second Plane by Martin Amis (7.5/10):☼
♡ In the Palace of the End. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Last Days of Muhammad Alta. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me by Various (7.5/10):☼
♡♡♡ Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Camera Obscura by Basil Copper. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen DeFord. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Not With a Bang by Damon Knight. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Party Games by John Burke. (7.5/10)
♡ X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Knife by Robert Arthur. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cage by Ray Russell. (8/10)
♡♡♡ It by Theodore Sturgeon. (8/10)
♡ Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James. (7.5/10)
♡ Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters. (7.5/10)
♡ The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tough Town by William Sambrot. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Troll by T.H. White. (8.5/10)
♡ Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott. (7.5/10)
♡ One of the Dead by William Wood. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Real Thing by Robert Specht. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake. (8/10)
♡ The Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Candidate by Henry Slesar. (7.5/10)
♥ Six Scary Stories by Various (selected by Stephen King) (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Wild Swimming by Elodie Harper. (8/10)
♡ Eau-de-Eric by Manuela Saragosa. (7.5/10)
♡ The Spots by Paul Bassett Davies. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Unpicking by Michael Button. (7.5/10)
♡ La Mort de l'Amant by Stuart Johnstone. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bear Trap by Neil Hudson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Through the Woods: Stories by Emily Carroll (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ In Our Neighbor's House. (8/10)
♡ A Lady's Hands Are Cold. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ His Face All Red. (8/10)
♡♡♡ My Friend Janna. (7.5/10)
♡ The Nesting Place. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ In Conclusion. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The World of Jeeves ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3--- PART 4), by P.G. Wodehouse (8/10):
♡♡♡ Jeeves Takes Charge. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves in the Springtime. (8/10)
♡ Scoring Off Jeeves. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch (aka Jeeves the Blighter). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Aunt Agatha Takes the Count (aka Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Artistic Career of Corky (aka Leave It to Jeeves). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Chump Cyril. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Aunt and the Sluggard. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Comrade Bingo. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Great Sermon Handicap. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Purity of the Turf. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Metropolitan Touch. (8.5/10)
♡ The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Bingo and the Little Woman. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Without the Option. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Fixing It for Freddie. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Clustering Round Young Bingo. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Impending Doom. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Song of Songs. (7.5/10)
♡ Episode of the Dog Mcintosh. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Spot of Art. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Kid Clementina. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Love That Purifies. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Old School Chum. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Indian Summer of an Uncle. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ordeal of Young Tuppy. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Bertie Changes His Mind. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves Makes an Omelette. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jeeves and the Greasy Bird. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Supertoys Trilogy by Brian Aldiss (8/10):
♡♡♡ Supertoys Last All Summer Long. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Supertoys When Winter Comes. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Supertoys in Other Seasons. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories Told for Children by W.D. Howells (illustrated by Gina DiMarco) (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Christmas Every Day. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Turkeys Turning the Table. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Pumpkin-Glory. (7.5/10)
♡ Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Great Ghost Stories by Various (selected by John Grafton) (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards. (7.5/10)
♡ To Be Taken With a Grain of Salk by Charles Dickens. (7.5/10)
♡ Dickon the Devil by J.S. LeFanu. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Judge's House by Bram Stoker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Ghost Story by Jerome K. Jerome. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8.5/10)
♡ The Rose Garden by M.R. James. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bone to His Bone by E.G.Swain. (7.5/10)
♡ The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E.F. Benson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Complete Fairy Tales ( The Happy Prince--- A House of Pomegranates), (illustrated by Walter Crane & Jacomb Hood and Charles Ricketts & Charles H. Shannon) Oscar Wilde (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Happy Prince. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Nightingale and the Rose. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Selfish Giant. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Devoted Friend. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Remarkable Rocket. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Young King. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Birthday of the Infanta. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Fisherman and His Soul. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Star-Child. (7.5/10)
♥ How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa. (7/10):
♡♡♡ How to Pronounce Knife. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Paris. (7.5/10)
♡ Slingshot. (7/10)
♡ Randy Travis. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mani Pedi. (7.5/10)
♡ Chick-A-Chee! (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Universe Would Be So Cruel. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Edge of the World. (7.5/10)
♡ The School Bus Drive. (7/10)
♡ You Are So Embarrassing. (7/10)
♡ Ewwrrrkk. (6/10)
♡ The Gas Station. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Far Distant Thing. (7.5/10)
♡ Picking Worms. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Shut Up You're Pretty: Stories by Téa Mutonji (7.5/10):
♡ Tits for Sigs. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Parchment Paper. (7.5/10)
♡ The Event. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Down the Lakeshore. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ If Not Happiness. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ This is Only Temporary. (8.5/10)
♡ Phyllis Green. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ten-Year Reunion. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Theresa is Getting Married. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Boy From My Youth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Common Room. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Men, Tricks, and Money. (7.5/10)
♡ The Waitress. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Shut Up You're Pretty. (8/10)
♡ Women Talking. (7/10)
♡ Old-Fashioneds. (7.5/10)
♡ Sober Party. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tilapia Fish. (8/10)
♥ The Tent by Margaret Atwood (7/10):☼
♡♡♡ Life Stories. (8/10)
♡ Clothing Dreams. (6.5/10)
♡ Bottle. (7/10)
♡ Impenetrable Forest. (6.5/10)
♡ Encouraging the Young. (7/10)
♡ Voice. (7/10)
♡ No More Photos. (7/10)
♡ Orphan Stories. (6.5/10)
♡ Gateway. (6/10)
♡♡♡ Bottle II. (7.5/10)
♡ Winter's Tales. (6.5/10)
♡ It's Not Easy Being Half Divine. (6/10)
♡ Salome Was a Dancer. (6/10)
♡ Plots for Exotics. (5/10)
♡ Resources of the Ikarians. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Our Cat Enters Heaven. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Chicken Little Goes Too Far. (7.5/10)
♡ Thylacine Ragout. (5.5/10)
♡ Three Novels I Won't Write Soon. (6/10)
♡ Take Charge. (7/10)
♡ Post-Colonial. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Heritage House. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Horatio's Version. (7.5/10)
♡ King Log in Exile. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Faster. (8/10)
♡ Eating the Birds. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Something Has Happened. (7.5/10)
♡ Nightingale. (7.5/10)
♡ Warlords. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Tent. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Time Folds. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tree Baby. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ But It Could Still. (7.5/10)
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Tragedie of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
♥ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. (7/10)
♥♥♥ As You Like It by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ The Barber of Seville or The Useless Precaution by Pierre Beaumarchais (translated by David Coward). (8/10)
♥ The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais (translated by David Coward). (8.5/10)
♥ The New Tartuffe: or, The Guilty Mother by Pierre Beaumarchais (translated by David Coward). (7.5/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ Rhyme Stew by Roald Dahl (illustrated by Quentin Blake) (8/10):
♡♡♡ Dick Whittington and His Cat. (8/10)
♡♡♡ St Ives. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Hand in the Bird. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Tortoise and the Hare. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Price of Debauchery. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Physical Training. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Emperor's New Clothes. (8.5/10)
♡ A Little Nut-Tree. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Dentist and the Crocodile (7.5/10)
♡ Hot and Cold. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. (7.5/10)
♡ Hey Diddle Diddle. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mary, Mary. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hansel and Gretel. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Aladdin and the Magic Camp (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Preludes. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Gerontion. (7.5/10)
♡ Sweeney Among the Nightingales. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Waste Land. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ash-Wednesday. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Journey of the Magi. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Marina. (7.5/10)
♡ Landscapes. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Two Choruses from 'The Rock'. (7.5/10)
♥ Bilbo's Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien (llustrated by Pauline Baynes). (8.5/10)♧
♥ The Tent by Margaret Atwood (7/10):☼
♡ The Animals Reject Their Names and Things Return to Their Origins. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bring Back Mom: An Invocation. (8/10)
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Through the Woods: Stories by Emily Carroll. (7.5/10)**
♥ Daphne Byrne by Laura Marks, Kelley Jones, and Michelle Madsen. (7/10)
♥ The Courtyard by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows. (7/10)♧
♥ Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda Strong. (7/10)
♥♥♥ A Flight of Angels by Various (illustrated by Rebecca Guay). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire by Kassandra Luciuk and Nicole Marie Burton. (7.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
** --> Short stories collection, or has short stories included in the book. Refer to the Short Stories header above for break-down of individual stories.
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