Bookshelf 2008

Allan Dwan - The Last Pioneer [8?] Peter Bogdanovich
Born Yesterday [6+] Gordon Burn
Crisis [8] Hamilton Jordan
=Deliverance [9] James Dickey
The Edge of Running Water [7] William M Sloane
Francis Bacon in the 1950s [6+] Michael Peppiatt
Frenzy* [5] Arthur LaBern
Getting to Know the General [8] Grahame Greene
The Great God Pan [6+] Arthur Machen
Hegemony or Survival [8] Noam Chomsky
I Am the Cheese [7] Robert Cormier
In Siberia [8] Colin Thubron
Jack London - A Life [7] Alex Kershaw
James Benning [8] Barbara Pichler & Claudia Slanar (eds.)
=The Kraken Wakes [8] John Wyndham
Late Victorian Holocausts [7] Mike Davis
Lincoln - A Foreigner's Quest [7] Jan Morris
Miracles of Life [7+] J G Ballard
Monsieur Hire's Engagement [6] Georges Simenon
Negative Space [8+] Manny Farber
=On the Road [8] Jack Kerouac
Planet of Slums [8] Mike Davis
The Postman Always Rings Twice [7] James M Cain
=Red Harvest [7] Dashiell Hammett
Renegade [8] Mark E Smith
The Road to Oxiana [9] Robert Byron
Robinson In Space [8] Patrick Keiller
=The Tremor of Forgery [8] Patricia Highsmith
=Ubik [9] Philip K Dick
=Vanity of Duluoz [5] Jack Kerouac

* aka Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square
= re-reading

9/10 : Deliverance; The Road to Oxiana and Ubik
8+/10 : Negative Space
8/10 : Crisis; Getting to Know the General; Hegemony or Survival; In Siberia; James Benning; The Kraken Wakes; On the Road; Planet of Slums; Renegade; Robinson In Space and The Tremor of Forgery