Dave Clarke

No Longer Bringing Science to the Masses ...

2024

1. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
2. The Red Handler by Johan Harstad
3. Autoportrait by Edouard Levé
4. A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré
5. My Heavenly Friend by Lucas Rijneveld
6. A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
7. Not a River by Selva Almada
8. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
9. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
10. White Nights by Ursula Honek
11. The Goldbug Variations by Richard Powers
12. What I'd Rather not Think About by Jente Posthuma
13. Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
14. Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo
15. These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson
16. Greek Lessons by Han Kang
17. The Sea Came at Midnight by Steve Erickson
18. Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
19. Erasure by Percival Everett
20. The Details by Ia Genberg
21. Not One Day by Anne Garréta
22. Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson
23. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
24. One Hundred Twenty-One Days by Michèle Audin
25. Homesickness by Murray Bail
26. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
27. Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers
28. The Solitary Twin by Harry Mathews
29. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
30. Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson
31. A Void by Georges Perec
32. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
33. Rubicon Beach by Steve Erickson
34. My Life in CIA by Harry Matthews
35. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
36. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
37. The Employees: A workplace novel for the 22nd century by Olga Ravn
38. Second Place by Rachel Cusk
39. Call for the Dead by John le Carré
40. Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
41. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
42. The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road) by Pat Barker
43. American Stutter 2019-2021 by Steve Erickson
44. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
45. Man-Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward
46. How to do Things with Forms: The OuLiPo and its Inventions by Chris Andrews
47. Last Orders by Graham Swift
48. Schindler's Arc by Thomas Keneally
49. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
50. Double Jeopardy by Jean Enchenoz
51. Amnesiascope by Steve Erickson
52. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
53. If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
54. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
55. The Faster I Walk the Smaller I am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold
56. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
57. ARC d'X by Steve Erickson

2023

1. Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
2. Un Amor by Sara Mesa
3. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov
4. The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
5. The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain) by Cormac McCarthy
6. The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga
7. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
8. Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse
9. Zeroville by Steve Erickson
10. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
11. A Shining by Jon Fosse
12. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
13. The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
14. Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan
15. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
16. All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria LLoyd-Barlow
17. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
18. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
19. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
20. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
21. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
22. Defiance by Carole Maso
23. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegen
24. My Struggle 5: Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgaard
25. Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau
26. The Box Man by Kobe Abe
27. The Voyage by Murray Bail
28. A System So Magnificent it is Blinding by Amanda Svensson
29. Camouflage by Murray Bail
30. Fire Down Below by William Golding
31. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
32. My Struggle 4: Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgaard
33. Armadillo by William Boyd
34. The Last Novel by David Markson
35. Vanishing Point by David Markson
36. This is not a Novel by David Markson
37. Reader's Block by David Markson
38. The Pages by Murray Bail
39. Standing Heavy by GauZ'
40. Willful Disregard by Lena Andersson
41. Close Quarters by William Golding
42. Boulder by Eva Baltasar
43. Rites of Passage by William Golding
44. The Boy Behind The Curtain by Tim Winton
45. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
46. The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
47. Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books by Marcel Bénabou
48. The White Book by Han Kang
49. Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi
50. The Finkler Question by Howard Jakobson
51. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
52. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
53. Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera
54. Normal People by Sally Rooney
55. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
56. The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
57. Loiterature by Ross Chambers
58. Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
59. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
60. G by John Berger
61. OuLiPo and the Mathematics of Literature by Natalie Berkman
62. Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead by Brad Osborn
63. 20 Lines a Day by Harry Mathews
64. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
65. W or The Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
66. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
67. A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
68. Things by Georges Perec
69. The Promise by Damon Galgut
70. I Remember by Georges Perec
71. Three by Georges Perec
72. The Maximalist Novel by Stefano Ercolino
73. Holiday by Stanley Middleton
74. The Orchard by Harry Mathews
75. English Magic by Uschi Gatward
76. Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec
77. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
78. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
79. Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
80. The Conversions by Harry Mathews
81. The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy
82. The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
83. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
84. Yello Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
85. I'm Gone by Jean Echenoz
86. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
87. My Struggle 3: Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard
88. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
89. The Journalist by Harry Mathews
90. Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
91. The Afterlives of Georges Perec by Rowan Wilken and Justin Clemens (Editors)
92. Something to Answer for by P. H. Newby
93. First Person by Richard Flanagan
94. Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
95. Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
96. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
97. Country Cooking and Other Stories by Harry Mathews
98. The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
99. Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
100. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
101. The Commedians by Graham Greene
102. Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
103. S by Many authors
104. The Lover by Margurite Duras
105. The Outsider by Albert Camus
106. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
107. Many Subtle Channels: in praise of potential literature by Daniel Levin Becker
108. Septology by Jon Fosse
109. The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
110. Tlooth by Harry Mathews
111. Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities by Erik Ketzan
112. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
113. How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
114. Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
115. In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
116. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
117. Computing Taste by Nick Seaver
118. The Gathering by Anne Enright
119. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
120. The Years by Annie Ernaux
121. Everything Like Before by Kjell Askildsen
122. The Sea by John Banville
123. The New American by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
124. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
125. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
126. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
127. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
128. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
129. Leaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez
130. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
131. Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth
132. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
133. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
134. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
135. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
136. Berge by Jan Kjærstad
137. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

2022

1. Happening by Annie Ernaux
2. Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton
3. Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
4. Armand V. by Dag Solstad
5. Osebol by Marit Kapla
6. Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
8. Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
9. The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
10. A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
11. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
12. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
13. The Art Lover by Carole Maso
14. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
15. Trilogy by Jon Fosse
16. Self-control by Stig Sæterbakken
17. A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go by Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec, and Jacques Roubaud
18. Siamese by Stig Sæterbakken
19. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
20. A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
21. The Discoverer by Jan Kjærstad
22. Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami
23. The Joke by Milan Kundera
24. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
25. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
26. Sa Femme by Emmanuele Bernheim
27. Tourism by Bernard Cohen
28. Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
29. C by Tom McCarthy
30. The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Barasa
31. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
32. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
33. Dear Reader by Paul Fournel
34. My Struggle 2: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard
35. Mother and Child by Carole Maso
36. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
37. The Magician of Vienna by Sergio Pitol
38. Many People Die Like You by Lina Wolff
39. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
40. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
41. Welcome to America by Linda Boström Knausgård
42. The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Desapin
43. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
44. The Appointment by Herta Müller
45. Bad Handwriting by Sara Mesa
46. The Conqueror by Jan Kjærstad
47. Distant Horizons by Ted Underwood
48. The Book of Proper Names by Amélie Nothomb
49. Replacement by Tor Ulven
50. The Family Clause by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
51. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
52. The Trial by Franz Kafka
53. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
54. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
55. Don't Leave Me by Stig Sæterbakken
56. Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
57. The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
58. Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan
59. Shape by Jordan Ellenberg
60. Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth
61. Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
62. The Child by Kersti A. Skomsvold
63. My Struggle 1: A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard

2021

1. Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Elmann
2. Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf
3. Invisible Hands by Stig Sæterbakken
4. The Shining by Stephen King
5. Big Sur by jack Kerouac
6. Anatomy. Monotony. by Edy Poppy
7. A House in Norway by Vigdis Hjorth
8. Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
9. Snow White by Donald Barthelme
10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
11. The Blue Room by Hanne Ørstavik
12. Break Every Rule by Carole Maso
13. The Last Days of My Mother by Sölvi Björn Sigurðsson
14. Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
15. The Employees: A workplace novel for the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn
16. Let Me Sleep Until This is Just a Dream by Ellisiv Stifoss-Hanssen
17. Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse
18. The Seducer by Jan Kjærstad
19. The Journey by Sergio Pitol
20. The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
21. The Room Lit by Roses by Carole Meso
22. The Polyglot Lovers by Lina Wolff
23. Among the Hedges by Sara Mesa
24. Through the Night by Stig Sæterbakken
25. This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale by Subimal Misra
26. Scar by Sara Mesa
27. Beauty is Compulsive: the Passion of Frida Kahlo by Carole Maso
28. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Agota Kristof
29. Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristín Ómarsdóttir
30. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
31. Aurelole by Carole Maso
32. Four by Four by Sara Mesa
33. Dolly City by Orly Castel-Bloom
34. Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold
35. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
36. The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller
37. Narrator by Bragi Ólafsson
38. The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
39. Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
40. At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
41. Ghost Dance by Carole Maso
42. Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
43. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
44. 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
45. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
46. The Ambassador by Bragi Ólafsson
47. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
48. Blindness by José Saramago
49. The Art of Flight by Sergio Pitol
50. My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
51. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
52. Carrie by Stephen King
53. Distant Reading by Franco Moretti
54. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
55. Brief Notes on the Art of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
56. Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
57. Let the old dead make room for the young dead by Milan Kundera
58. Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
59. Men in Space by Tom McCarthy
60. The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
61. The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana MacKenzie
62. The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter
63. Wishes by Georges Perec
64. Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight by David C. Krakauer (ed.)
65. Lie with me by Philippe Besson

2020

1. Macroanalysis by Matthew L. Jockers
2. Graphs Maps Trees by Franco Moretti
3. Reading Machines by Stephen Ramsay
4. Educated by Tara Westover
5. The Bestseller Code by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers
6. Dark Paradise by Rosa Liksom
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
8. Factfulness by Hans, Ola and Anna Rosling
9. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
10. Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
11. Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
12. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
13. The Oulipo and Modern Thought by Dennis Duncan
14. The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucan Rijneveld
15. Vertigo by Joanna Walsh
16. Chaos and Dynamical Systems by David P. Feldman
17. Purge by Sofi Okasanen
18. The Brahmadells by Jóanes Nielsen
19. Celestian Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
20. Remainder by Tom McCarthy
21. The Incompletes by Sergio Chejfec

2019

1. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2. Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
3. John Dies at the End by David Wong
4. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
5. The Plains by Gerald Murnane
6. Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by Boubacar Boris Diop
7. The Black Signs by Lars Mørch Finborud
8. My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
9. History. A Mess. by Sigrún Pálsdóttir
10. Stroke of Genius by Gideon Haigh
11. Wise Children by Angela Carter
12. Martha, Jack and Shanco by Caryl Lewis
13. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
14. Gasoline by Quim Monzó
15. The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
16. The Guinea Pigs by Ludvík Vaculók
17. The Model Thinker by Scott E. Page
18. Chrisie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson
19. Deep Ellum by Brandon Hobson
20. Night School by Zsófia Bán
21. The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
22. Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardosa
23. Natural Complexity by Paul Charbonneau
24. Viruses as Complex Adaptive System by Ricard Solé and Santiago F. Elena
25. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
26. OULIPO Pornobongo: Anthology of Erotic Wordplay by Various Authors
27. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
28. The White Book by Han Kang
29. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
30. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
31. Milkman by Anna Burns
32. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
33. The Raison King by Fredrik Sjöberg
34. Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark
35. The Misfortunates by Dimitri Verhulst
36. The Art of Flight by Fredrik Sjöberg
37. Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito
38. McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
39. Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
40. The Solitary Twin by Harry Mathews
41. Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou

2018

1. Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller by Guðbergur Bergsson
2. Agape̅ Agape by William Gaddis
3. Ava by Carole Maso
4. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
5. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
6. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
7. Transcription by Kate Atkinson
8. The Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacIntyre
9. Stoner by John Williams
10. Absolute Pandemonium by Brian Blessed

2017

1. Not Thomas by Sara Gethin
2. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
3. Blue Mondays by Arnon Grunberg
4. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
5. Soccermatics by David Sumpter
6. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
7. Enough About Love by Hervé Le Tellier
8. Log of the S.S the Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
9. The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg
10. The Tobacconist by Robert Seeethaler
11. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
12. A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
13. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
14. Phantom Pain by Arnon Grunberg
15. Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
16. His Bloody Project by Graeme McRae Burnet
17. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
18. The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe
19. Bardo or not Bardo by Antoine Volodine
20. La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
21. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
23. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
24. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
25. Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga
26. Of Darkness by Josefine Klougart
27. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
28. Tirza by Arnon Grunberg
29. In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi
30. The Abyss of Human Illusion by Gilbert Sorrentino
31. The American Woman in the Chinese Hat by Carole Maso
32. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
33. The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie
34. Sphinx by Anne Garréta
35. Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
36. Seasons of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
37. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
38. Upstaged by Jacques Jouet
39. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
40. Home by Toni Morrison
41. Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
42. The Clouds by Juan José Saer
43. Party Headquarters by Georgi Tenev
44. Rupert: A Confession by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
45. The Pets by Bragi Ólafsson
46. The Brother by Rein Raud
47. Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
48. The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven

2016

1. The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
2. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
3. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
4. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
5. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
6. Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel by Julián Ríos
7. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
8. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
9. Allah is not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma
10. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and other plays by Tennessee Williams
11. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
12. Topol by Topol
13. A Question of Power by Bessie Head
14. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
15. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
16. The Price of Water in Finistère by Bodil Malmsten
17. S. by J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
18. Constraining Change: Georges Perec and the Oulipo by Alison James
19. Going Down by David Markson
20. Landscape Painted With Tea by Milorad Pavić
21. A Social Guidebook to Sweden by Julien S. Bourrelle
22. Rowing Without Oars by Ulla-Carin Lindquist
23. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
24. Reading Games: An Aesthetics of Play in Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett and Georges Perec by Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja
25. The Last Novel by David Markson
26. Eyrie by Tim Winton
27. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
28. One of Us Is Sleeping by Josefine Klougart
29. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
30. Bone Ash Sky by Katerina Cosgrove
31. The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
32. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
33. Dodge Rose by Jack Cox
34. Review of Contemporary Fiction: Raymond Queneau/Carole Maso Issue (Vol XVII Fall 1997) by Various
35. The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays by Harry Mathews
36. Vertical Motion by Can Xue
37. Review of Contemporary Fiction: Georges Perec Issue (Vol XXIX Spring 2009) by Various
38. Springer's Progress by David Markson
39. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
40. Lies, First Person by Gail Hareven
41. Heat 14 by Various
42. Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz
43. Introducing Don DeLillo by Frank Lentricchia (ed)
44. Letters from The Antipodes by Michel Butor
45. The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach
46. Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec by Warren Motte (ed)
47. Jamilia by Chingiz Aïtmatov
48. Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford

2015

1. Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec
2. Winter Journeys by The OULIPO
3. What If? by Randall Munroe
4. The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
5. Critical Transitions in Nature and Society by Marten Scheffer
6. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
7. The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi
8. The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Skomsvold
9. The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
10. That Eye, The Sky by Tim Winton
11. Scission by Tim Winton
12. Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway by Siobhan Roberts
13. Minimum of Two by Tim Winton
14. Epitaph for a Dead Beat by David Markson
15. Kundera, or, The Memory of Desire by Eva Le Grand
16. English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
17. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
18. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
19. the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise by Georges Perec
20. Eunoia by Christian Bök
21. Cantatrix Sopranica L.: Scientific Papers by Georges Perec
22. La Boutique Obscure by Georges Perec
23. Sergio Leone: Something to do with Death by Christopher Frayling
24. Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
25. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
26. Cakes, Custard, and Category Theory by Eugenia Cheng
27. The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth
28. Vanishing Point by David Markson
29. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

2014

1. Dark Chatter by Andrew Branch
2. The Ballad of Dingus Magee by David Markson

2013

1. The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time by Bob Harris
2. Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
3. Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success by Madeline Levine
4. Spin Glasses and Complexity by Daniel L. Stein and Charles M. Newman
5. Epitaph for a Tramp by David Markson
6. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

2012

1. Grouped by Paul Adams
2. Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams by Mitchell Resnick
3. Linked by Albert-laszlo Barabasi

2011

1. Phase Transitions by Ricard Solé
2. Diversity and Complexity by Scott E. Page
3. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior by Deborah M. Gordon
4. Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
5. Thoughts of Sorts by Georges Perec
6. An Attempt to Exhaust a Place in Paris by Georges Perec
7. My Life in CIA by Harry Matthews (again)
8. Piled Higher and Deeper (Vols 1-4) by Jorge Cham
9. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
10. Where Do Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson
11. Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
12. The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done by Peter Miller
13. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives -- How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler
14. True Grit by Charles Portis
15. Point Omega by Don DeLillo
16. Privacy: A Manifesto by Wolfgang Sofsky
17. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

2010

1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
3. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
4. Ride the Black Cockatoo by John Danalis
5. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
6. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
7. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
8. Wanting by Richard Flanagan
9. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
10. An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
11. Breath by Tim Winton
12. In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
13. Shallows by Tim Winton
14. Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
15. Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna

2009

1. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
2. The First Man by Albert Camus
3. A Living Soul by P C Jersild
4. Wij by Elvis Peeters
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. by Mark Haddon
6. België voor beginnelingen by Bert Kruismans and Peter Perceval
7. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2008

1. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
2. Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
3. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (third time)
4. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
5. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
7. Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps
8. V by Thomas Pynchon
9. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
10. The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
11. Silence on the wire by Michal Zalewski
12. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
13. Learning to Teach in Higher Education by Paul Ramsden
14. Toen niemand iets te doen had by Toon Tellegen
15. The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
16. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

2007

1. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
2. Kaas by Willem Elsschot
3. Nooit Meer Slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans
4. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
5. Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
6. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
7. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
8. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dunbar
9. Princess Hoppy, or The Tale of Labrador by Jacques Roubaud
10. We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
11. The Lyric Encyclopadia of Raymond Queneau by Jane Alison Hale
12. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
13. The Turning by Tim Winton
14. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel de Landa
15. jPod by Douglas Coupland
16. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

2006

1. The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
2. Games People Play by Eric Berne
3. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
4. Emergence by Steven Johnson
5. The Geography of Thought : How Asians and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why by Richard Nisbett
6. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
7. The History of the World in 10.5 Chapters by Julian Barnes
8. Players by Don DeLillo
9. Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
10. End Zone by Don DeLillo
11. The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey

2005

1. The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
2. The Tinder Box by Minette Walters Total Rubbish
3. A Dog's Life by Paul Bailey
4. Elenor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
5. My Life in CIA by Harry Mathews
6. The Human Country by Harry Mathews
7. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau Again
8. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
9. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre Again
10. Dorian by Will Self
11. Last Love in Constantinople by Milorad Pavić
12. Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan

2004

1. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
2. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
3. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumul Hrabal
4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
5. The Names by Don DeLillo

2003

1. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
3. Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
4. Leviathan by John Birmingham
5. Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nobokov
6. Dirt Music by Tim Winton

2002

1. Chene et Chien by Raymond Queneau
2. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
3. Hortense in exile by Jacques Roubaud
4. The Orchard by Harry Mathews (reread)
5. Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews (reread)
6. Hortense is abducted by Jacques Roubaud
7. S: A Novel by Various (reread)
8. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffry Eugenides
9. Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante
10. Americana by Don DeLillo
11. This is not a novel by David Markson
12. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
13. A lovely tale of photography by Peter Nádás
14. Dump this book while you still can by Marcel Bénabou
15. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
16. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
17. Dancing Lessons for the Advanced Age by Bohumul Hrabal
18. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
19. The Assault by Harry Mullisch
20. Mao II by Don Delillo
21. X20 - A novel of (not) smoking by Richard Beard
22. Reader's Block by David Markson
23. De Griezels by Roald Dahl (in Dutch)
24. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
25. The Box Man by Kobo Abe
26. St Glinglin by Raymond Queneau
27. The Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud
28. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson (again)
29. Siglo 13 by Various
30. Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet by Roch C. Smith
31. Forever and a day by Milorad Pavić
32. Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
33. Too Many Men by Lily Brett
34. Our Beautiful Heroine by Jacques Roubaud
35. Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
36. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
37. Australia: The new new world (Granta 70) by Various
38. The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
39. Siglo 12 by Various
40. Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau by Jordan Stump
41. I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

2001

1. Ta Kaihau/The Windeater by Kerry Hulme
2. Ladies Almanac by Djuna Barnes
3. Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
4. Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
5. The Otterbury Incident by C. Day Lewis
6. The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
7. Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
8. If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (again)
9. Tiger's Eye by Inga Clendinnen
10. Jacques and his Master by Milan Kundera
11. The UnDutchables by Colin White and Laurie Boucke
12. Stories and Remarks by Raymond Queneau
13. Passion Fruit by Daniel Pennac
14. Hiroshima Mon Amour by Marguerite Duras
15. The Outsider by Albert Camus (again)
16. Poppy by Drusilla Modjeska
17. Collected Stories by Gillian Mears
18. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
19. The Damned Yard and other stories by Ivo Andric
20. The Bark Tree by Raymond Queneau
21. Siglo 11 (in 3D) by Various
22. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
23. Nadja by Andre Breton
24. Wrack by James Bradley
25. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson Alternatively, Whinging My Way Around Europe
26. The Writer by Zoran Zivkovic
27. The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau
28. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
30. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (again)
31. The Tomb of Boris Davidovic by Danilo Kis
32. The Inner Side of the Wind by Milorad Pavić

2000

1. The Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric
2. The Glass Heart by Katerina Cosgrove
3. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
4. How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
5. Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporary Literature by Warren Motte
6. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
7. Great Jones Street by Don Delillo
8. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
9. The Alphabet versus The Goddess: the conflict between word and image by Leonard Shlain
10. Double Jeopardy by Jean Echenoz
11. The Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
12. My Life, My Death By Pier Paolo Pasolini by Kathy Acker
13. Harry Mathews by Warren Leamon
14. Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel by Michel Foucault
15. Reads like a novel by Daniel Pennac
16. The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
17. The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
18. Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
19. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
20. For a New Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
21. Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe
22. Sa Femme or the other woman by Emmanuele Bernheim
23. Recollections of the Golden Triangle by Alain Robbe-Grillet
24. Libra by Don DeLillo
25. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
26. Painted Woman by Sue Woolfe
27. Playing Madam Mao by Lau Siew Mei
28. The Art of Happiness by The Dalia Lama
29. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
30. Queneau (Poetry) by Raymond Queneau
31. Immeasureable Distances by Harry Mathews
32. Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
33. The Magus by John Fowles
34. An endless adventure ... an endless passion ... an endless banquet: a Situationist Scrapbook by Various
35. What is Situationism? A Reader by Stewart Home (ed)
36. The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau
37. Raymond Roussel: Life, Death, and Works by Various
38. Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet
39. How I wrote certain of my books by Raymond Roussel
40. t-zero by Italo Calvino
41. Small Faces: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature by Warren Motte
42. Why I have not written any of my books by Marcel Bénabou
43. Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino
44. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
45. Concrete by Thomas Berhard
46. The Way Home: Selected Longer Prose by Harry Mathews
47. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
48. The Afternoon of Mr Andesmas by Marguerite Duras
49. White Noise by Don DeLillo
50. Remembrance of Things Past (Vol 2/12) by Marcel Proust
51. Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews
52. Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
53. The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
54. 10:30pm on a Summer Night by Marguerite Duras
55. The Conversions by Harry Mathews
56. Odile by Raymond Queneau
57. Topology of a Phantom City by Alain Robbe-Grillet
58. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
59. When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef
60. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
61. The Riders by Tim Winton
62. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
63. Selected Declarations of Dependence by Harry Mathews
64. The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet
65. Double-Wolf by Brian Castro
66. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
67. Remembrance of Things Past (Vol 1/12) by Marcel Proust
68. Moderato Cantable by Marguerite Duras
69. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
70. The Mint Lawn by Gillian Mears
71. The Square by Marguerite Duras
72. Immortality by Milan Kundera
73. Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee

1999

1. Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
2. Drift Street by Clare Mendes
3. Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien
4. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
5. Writing by Marguerite Duras
6. Heat 13 by Various
7. Siglo 9 by Various
8. 20 Lines a Day by Harry Mathews
9. The Road Movie Book by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark (Eds.)
10. The Grass Sister by Gillian Mears
11. A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley J. Grenz
12. Siglo 8 by Various
13. Siglo 7 by Various
14. Siglo 6 by Various
15. Rethinking Sex by R. W. Connell and G. W. Dowsett (Eds)
16. S: A Novel by Various (incl. Harry Mathews)
17. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
18. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
19. The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
20. Oulipo Compendium by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie (Eds)
21. Write to Kill by Daniel Pennac
22. Siglo 5 by Various
23. Siglo 4 by Various
24. Heat 12 by Various
25. From Atoms to Angels by Paul Walsh-Roberts
26. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
27. Borges in/and/on Film by Edgardo Cozarinsky
28. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
29. The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews
30. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams
31. Heat 11 by Various
32. Gritty Cities: Images of the Urban by Lynette Finch and Chris McConville (Eds.)
33. Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec (Reread)
34. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
35. Heat 10 by Various
36. Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner
37. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
38. Blackeyes by Dennis Potter
39. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
40. Heat 9 by Various
41. The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
42. Southerly (Autumn 1999) by Various
43. Underworld by Don DeLillo
44. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
45. Projections 4½ by Various
46. Heat 8 by Various
47. Remember the Tarantella by Finola Moorhead
48. Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera
49. The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
50. Heat 7 by Various
51. Heat 6 by Various
52. Heat 5 by Various
53. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
54. Heat 4 by Various
55. Siglo 3 by Various
56. Siglo 2 by Various
57. Siglo 1 by Various
58. A Christmas Carol (and other stories) by Charles Dickens
59. Projections 4 by Various
60. The Automatic Message (and other works) by André Breton et. al.
61. Georges Perec: Traces of his Passage by Paul Schwartz
62. Screenwriting by Raymond Frensham
63. Identity by Milan Kundera
64. The Poetics of Experiment: A Study of the Work of Georges Perec by Warren Motte Jr
65. Writing the Everyday: Australian Literature and the Limits of Suburbia by Various
66. Siglo 10 by Various
67. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
68. Heat 3 by Various
69. Mrs Feather and the Aesthetics of Survival by Lisa Merrifield
70. Tlooth by Harry Mathews
71. The Last Days by Raymond Queneau
72. Closed for Winter by Georgia Blain
73. The Blindman's Hat by Bernard Cohen
74. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
75. Ellis Island by Georges Perec (with Robert Bober)
76. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
77. Adam, One Afternoon by Italo Calvino
78. Heat 2 by Various
79. Westerly 43 (Summer 1998) by Various
80. The Orchard: A Remembrance of Georges Perec by Harry Mathews
81. The Winter Journey by Georges Perec
82. Tourism by Bernard Cohen
83. Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
84. Heat 1 by Various
85. How We Write by Mike Sharples
86. Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau
87. Projections 3 by Various
88. An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
89. Country Cooking and Other Stories by Harry Mathews
90. Film Scriptwriting by Swain and Swain
91. The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
92. Three Screenplays by Edward Burns
93. Moo by Jane Smiley
94. The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
95. The Journalist by Harry Mathews
96. A Shorter History of Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
97. Snowdome by Bernard Cohen
98. Projections 2 by Various
99. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
100. George Perec: A Life in Words by David Bellos
101. Children of Clay by Raymond Queneau
102. The Path to the Spider's Nest by Italo Calvino
103. Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
104. A Happy Death by Albert Camus
105. Time and the Hunter by Italo Calvino
106. In the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet
107. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
108. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
109. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
110. Oulipo Laboratory by Various
111. The Joke by Milan Kundera
112. Neither Victims nor Executioners by Albert Camus
113. Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
114. Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
115. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
116. The Rebel by Albert Camus
117. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
118. Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler
119. Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino
120. Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
121. The Scapegoat by Daniel Pennac
122. The Literature Machine by Italo Calvino
123. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Prior to 1999 (selection)

1. The Beach by Alex Garland
2. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
3. Jazz by Toni Morrison
4. The Prodigy by Herman Hesse
5. South of No North by Charles Bukowski
6. The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andric
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8. Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature by Warren Motte Jr (ed)
9. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
10. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
11. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
12. Hawaii by James A. Michener
13. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
14. Beloved by Toni Morrison
15. W or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
16. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
18. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
19. Hiam by Eve Sallis
20. The Prince by Machiavelli
21. The Plague by Albert Camus
22. A Confession by Tolstoy
23. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
24. Dubliners by James Joyce
25. Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung
26. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. Exiles by James Joyce
28. Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
29. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
30. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
31. Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic by Terry Jones (complete crap)
32. The War Poets: An Anthology
33. Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
34. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
35. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
36. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
37. Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
38. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
39. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
40. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
41. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
42. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
43. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
44. The Fall by Albert Camus
45. The Outsider by Albert Camus
46. Three by Georges Perec
47. Things by Georges Perec
48. Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
49. A Void by Georges Perec
50. A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
51. 53 Days by Georges Perec
52. Ulysses by James Joyce