Best of 2023
Posted in Scottish Literature, Scottish Fiction, My ParSec reviews, Other fiction, Reading Reviewed, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 27 December 2023
These are in order of reading; 18 in total, 9 by women, 10 by men, 8 by Scots (italicised,) 4 translations, 1 SF/Fantasy. The links are to the reviews on here:-
Paradise Reclaimed by Halldór Laxness
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
For the Good Times by David Keenan
The Infinities by John Banville
A Would-Be Saint by Robin Jenkins
Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell
Beethoven’s Assassins by Andrew Crumey (my review was published in ParSec 8 and will appear here in due course.)
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Cybele, with Bluebonnets by Charles L Harness
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
My present read (Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie) may be an addition to this list (but then again it may not.)
Tags: Fantasy, fiction, Literary Fiction, Other fiction, Science Fiction, Scottish Fiction, SF, ParSec 8, Trasnlated Fiction