Thursday, December 30, 2021

Best Reads of the Year

Best fiction I read this year:
1. The Mahabharata trans. Ramesh Menon
2. Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
3. Sinai Tapestry by Edward Whittemore
4. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
HM:
Madame Bovary Lydia Davis trans.
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
5 best non-fiction I read this year:
The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand
The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Packenham
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

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