Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) – Philip ROTH
I managed to pick this up cheap the other day, and after all the fuss about Roth winning the Man Booker International Prize earlier in the year, I was curious […]
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) – Junot DÍAZ
One of the things I love about second-hand bookstores is that you can find things for cheap that you might have been unsure about buying. The Brief Wondrous Life of […]
The Marriage Plot (2011) – Jeffrey EUGENIDES
Jeffrey Eugenides’ previous novel, Middlesex, rightly won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 – it’s an excellent novel, and you should all check it out if you haven’t already. But that […]
The Sisters Brothers (2011) – Patrick deWITT
The Sisters Brothers stood out on this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist this year for me mainly because it is published by Granta. I’ve only just properly started reading their […]
Less Than Zero (1985) – Bret Easton ELLIS
No doubt, Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for writing American Psycho, a novel that carries an R18+ rating in this country, and I believe is still illegal to buy […]
The Corrections (2001) – Jonathan FRANZEN
You may be surprised to learn that, at work, we are still selling several copies of Franzen’s new(ish) novel, Freedom, every week. Cheers, Oprah. But then someone gave me The […]
Caleb’s Crossing (2011) – Geraldine BROOKS
I should start by saying, I’ve never read Geraldine Brooks before. And never really had any intention of doing so. I always though her books appealed only to a particular […]
Invisible (2009) – Paul AUSTER
There’s a recurring theme with the books I’ve been reading lately – they’re the only ones written in English in Kinokuniya that sound more interesting than Twilight or the hundreds […]
Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) – Audrey NIFFENEGGER
I loved The Time Traveller’s Wife. Truly, it is one of the best science fiction novels of the past ten years, and definitely one of the greatest love stories ever […]
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963) – Walter TEVIS
After several important, heavy novels, I’ve gone back to some mid-20th century science fiction as a bit of a break. Since The Man Who Fell to Earth was reissued in […]
