This page is an ongoing list of everything I read during the year. As I go along, I will link to my reviews or other writing about these books.

10. Serge Joncour, Wild Dog (France, 2018 tr. 2020). Re-read: I liked it in places, but I’m not sure it hangs together as a whole. [***]

9. Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness (England, 2024). A working-class narrator rails against the contemporary world and masculinity. The ending is especially striking. [***]

8. Gavin Francis, The Bridge Between Worlds (Scotland, 2024). A fascinating exploration of bridges, combining memoir, history, culture and more besides. [****]

7. Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing (England, 1951). First volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, chronicling its protagonist’s school days. We didn’t really click, this book and I. [***]

6. Peter Stamm, The Sweet Indifference of the World (Switzerland, 2018 tr. 2020). The lives of a writer and actor mirror and blur into each other. [***]

5. Michel Nieva, Dengue Boy (Argentina, 2023 tr.2025). A novel that destroys itself with gleeful abandon. [****]

4. Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters (Sri Lanka/Australia, 2021). Back-to-back, past and future novellas of prejudice and migration. [***]

3. Andrey Kurkov, Grey Bees (Ukraine, 2018 tr. 2020). I read this for my book group, and I just wasn’t in the mood for it. [***]

2. Charles Boyle, Invisible Dogs (England, 2024). Fictitious diary of a writer travelling in a country whose authorities tell one story, but where another truth is apparent. [***]

1. Katja Oskamp, Half Swimmer (Germany, 2003 tr. 2024). Snapshots from the life of a girl trying to find her place in 1980s GDR. [***]