2014 in Books Read
Posted in Alan Warner, Andrew Crumey, Andrew Greig, Diego Marani, Fantasy, Ian McDonald, Irène Némirovsky, Orhan Pamuk, Other fiction, Science Fiction, Scottish Fiction at 12:00 on 30 December 2014
The ones that stick in my mind most – for whatever reason – are:-
Signs of Life by M John Harrison
Mr Mee by Andrew Crumey
Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald
The Deadman’s Pedal by Alan Warner
A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon – but in especial Sunset Song
The Moon King by Neil Williamson
The Dogs and the Wolves by Irène Némirovsky
The Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani
HHhH by Laurent Binet
That Summer by Andrew Greig
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Way to Go by Alan Spence
Four SF/Fantasy novels, six Scottish ones (eight if the trilogy is separated) and no less than five translated works.
Tags: Alan Spence, Alan Warner, Andrew Crumey, Andrew Greig, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Diego Marani, Fantasy, Ian McDonald, Irène Némirovsky, Laurent Binet, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, M John Harrison, Neil Williamson, Orhan Pamuk, Other fiction, Science Fiction, Scottish Fiction