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The end of the year is approaching with fast steps. This year I haven’t been so active as a blogger as last year until recently – German Lit Month brought me back to the usual pace – and I have done more blog posts on poetry and translations than the year before; also I did more posts in German and one in Bulgarian too. Book blogging is a dynamic process and the focus of such places will always be subject to small unplanned changes, but I will keep also in the next year my habit to publish reviews of books that were interesting to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you already know when you follow this blog on a regular basis, my taste in books is rather eclectic. I am definitely not a person who is permanently scanning bestseller lists or is jumping in on discussions about books that were – usually for marketing reasons – the “talk of the town”. Therefore I avoided so far reviewing books by Houellebecq or<\/strong> Knausg\u00e5rd; it is difficult to not be influenced by the public discussion that focuses frequently on aspects that have very little to do with the literary quality of the books by such authors but a lot with their public persona and their sometimes very controversial opinions about certain topics. Not that the books by these authors are necessarily bad, but I prefer to read without too much background noise. So I will come also to these authors, but most probably not in the near future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My blog tries to be diverse, but without quota. But of course my choice is subjective and I am aware of the fact that probably most readers will find many authors\/books on this list that are completely unknown to them. If you look for just another blog that is reviewing again and again the same exclusively Anglo-saxon authors, then this might not be the best place for you. If you are eager to discover something new, then you are most welcome.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are no ads on this blog and this will also not change in the future. There is zero financial interest from my side to keep this blog alive, I do it just for fun. Please don’t send unsolicitated review copies if you are an author or a publisher. In rare cases I might accept a review copy when contacted first but only when I have already an interest in the book. All blog posts contain of course my own – sometimes idiosyncratic – opinion for what it is worth. In general I tend to write reviews on the positive side. When a book disappoints me, I tend to not write a review unless there is a strong reason to do otherwise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are the books presently on my “To-be-read”\u00a0pile; which means they are the one’s that i will most probably read and review within the coming months. But as always with such lists, they are permanently subject to changes, additions, removals. Therefore I (and also the readers of this blog) will take this list as an orientation and not as a strict task on which I have to work one by one.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jim al-Khalili: The House of Wisdom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryunosunke Akutagawa: Kappa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rabih Alameddine: The Hakawati<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinan Antoon: The Corpse Washer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toufic Youssef Aouad: Le Pain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abhijit Banerjee \/ Esther Duflo: Poor Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hoda Barakat: Le Royaume de cette terre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention of Morel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Max Blecher: Scarred Hearts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicolas Born: The Deception<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Brasch: Vor den V\u00e4tern sterben die S\u00f6hne<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph Brodsky: On Grief and Reason<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alina Bronsky: Just Call Me Superhero<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alina Bronsky: The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leila S. Chudori: Pulang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beqe Cufaj: projekt@party<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mahmoud Darwish: Memory of Forgetfulness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oei Hong Djien: Art & Collecting Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dimitre Dinev: Engelszungen (Angel\u2019s Tongues)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anton Donchev: Time of Parting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jabbour Douaihy: June Rain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael R. Dove: The Banana Tree at the Gate<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer DuBois: A Partial History of Lost Causes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isabelle Eberhardt: Works<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tristan Egolf: Lord of the Barnyard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deyan Enev: Circus Bulgaria<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenny Erpenbeck: The End of Days<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Leigh Fermor: Mani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Milena Michiko Fla\u0161ar: I called him Necktie<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Fromkin: A Peace to End All Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carlos Fuentes: Terra Nostra<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amitav Ghosh: In an Antique Land<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georg K. Glaser: Geheimnis und Gewalt (Secret and Violence)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georgi Gospodinov: Natural Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georgi Gospodinov: The Physics of Sorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Gowing: Edith and I<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Graeber: The Utopia of Rules<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knut Hamsun: Hunger<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludwig Harig: Die Hortensien der Frau von Roselius<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johann Peter Hebel: Calendar Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christoph Hein: Settlement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wolfgang Hilbig: The Sleep of the Righteous<\/strong><\/p>\n

Albert Hofmann \/ Ernst J\u00fcnger: LSD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hans Henny Jahnn: Fluss ohne Ufer (River without Banks) (Part II)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Franz Jung: Der Weg nach unten<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ismail Kadare: Broken April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ismail Kadare: The Palace of Dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Douglas Kammen and Katharine McGregor (Editors): The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia: 1965-1968<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rosen Karamfilov: Kolene (Knees)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Orhan Kemal: The Prisoners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irmgard Keun: Nach Mitternacht<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georg Klein: Libidissi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friedrich August Klingemann: Bonaventura\u2019s Nightwatches<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fatos Kongoli: The Loser<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theodor Kramer: Poems<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friedo Lampe: Septembergewitter (Thunderstorm in September)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naguib Mahfouz: The Cairo Trilogy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curzio Malaparte: Kaputt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sandor Marai: Embers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sean McMeekin: The Berlin-Baghdad Express<\/strong><\/p>\n

Multatuli: Max Havelaar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alice Munro: Open Secrets<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marie NDiaye: Three Strong Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irene Nemirovsky: Suite fran\u00e7aise\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben Okri: The Famished Road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laksmi Pamuntjak: The Question of Red<\/strong><\/p>\n

Victor Pelevin: Omon Ra<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georges Perec: Life. A User\u2019s Manual<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Perutz: By Night Under the Stone Bridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boris Pilnyak: Mahogany<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alek Popov: Black Box<\/strong><\/p>\n

Milen Ruskov: Thrown Into Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boris Savinkov: Memoirs of a Terrorist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eric Schneider: Zur\u00fcck nach Java<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Paul Schreber: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carl Seelig: Wandering with Robert Walser<\/strong><\/p>\n

Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anthony Shadid: House of Stones<\/strong><\/p>\n

Varlam Shalamov: Kolyma Tales<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raja Shehadeh: A Rift in Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alexander Shpatov: #LiveFromSofia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Werner Sonne: Staatsr\u00e4son?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrzej Stasiuk: On the Way to Babadag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahmet Hamdi Tanp\u0131nar: The Time Regulation Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pramoedya Ananta Toer: A Mute\u2019s Soliloquy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The Buru Quartet (4 vol.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lionel Trilling: The Middle of the Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iliya Trojanov: The Collector of Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bernward Vesper: Die Reise (The Journey)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Walser: Jakob von Gunten<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marguerite Yourcenar: Coup de Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Galina Zlatareva: The Medallion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arnold Zweig: The Case of Sergeant Grisha<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay tuned – and feel free to comment any of my blog posts. Your contributions are very much appreciated. You are also invited to subscribe to this blog if you like.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com, 2014-5. Unauthorized use and\/or duplication of this material without expressed and written permission from this blog\u2019s author and\/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.<\/strong><\/pre>\n
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