January 1, 2017 by lizzysiddal
Today I am celebrating the reclamation of my reading sofa with an illustrated anthology of writing about the pleasures of reading. The German title translates as Read and Let Read. Similarities between the the reader on the dust jacket and myself are entirely coincidental, though as I can slouch once more in my reading nook, I am as happy as the proverbial ….
I hope 2017 proves to be an excellent reading year for us all
Imperium - Christian Kracht
The Infatuations - Javier Marías
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
Summerhouse, Later - Judith Hermann
Mona Lisa - Alexander Lernet-Holenia
I Was Jack Mortimer - Alexander Lernet-Holenia
So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
I Am No One - Patrick Flanery
I Called Him Necktie - Milena Michiko Flašar
Summer Before The Dark - Volker Weidermann
The Weight of Things - Marianne Fritz
When the Professor Who Got Stuck in the Snow - Dan Rhodes
Who Is Martha? - Marjana Gaponenko
A Whole Life - Robert Seethaler
Vienna Tales
Passenger 23
The Gap of Time - Jeanette Winterson
Coffin Road - Peter May
The Book of St Andrews
Pure - Andrew Miller
The Man in the High Castle - Philipp K Dick
A Doppelganger with Aquis Submersus - Theodor Storm
Confusion - Stefan Zweig
Late Fame - Arthur Schnitzler
We Are Doing Fine - Arno Geiger
Fly Away, Pigeon - Melinda Nadj Abonji
Erebos - Ursula Poznanski
Flood of Fire - Amitav Ghosh
The Rain Maiden and Other Fairy Tales - Theodor Storm
This Brave Balance - Ruselka Reh
The Secret of The Water Knight - Ruselka Reh
August - Christa Wolf
They divided the Sky - Christa Wolf
Wallenstein - Friedrich von Schiller
Schillers Frauen - Joseph Kiemeier-Debre
Schillers Bitt- und Bettelbriefe - ed. Christiana Engelmann
The Robbers - Friedrich von Schiller
Playthings - Alex Pheby
The Last Bear - Mandy Haggith
The New Sorrows of Young W - Ulrich Plenzdorf
Red: The Natural History of The Redhead - Jackie Colliss Harvey
The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma
Faust - A Tragedy in Two Parts - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Thing About Prague - Rachel Weiss
The Emperor of Ice-Cream - Dan Gunn
The Chimes - Anna Smail
Lila - Marilynne Robinson
Whispering Shadows - Jan Philipp Sendker
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin - Georges Simenon
On Glasgow and Edinburgh - Robert Crawford
Jellyfish - Janice Galloway
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
While The Women are Sleeping - Javier Marias
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Alice In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Hottest Dishes of The Tartar Cuisine - Alina Bronsky
Delirium - Laura Restrepo
The Dark Heart of the Night - Leonora Miano
101 Detectives - Ivan Vladislavic
Don't Try This at Home - Angela Readman
June - Gerbrand Bakker
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
Crime Fiction - A Very Short Introduction - Richard Bradford
Viper Wine - Hermione Eyre
The Girl on The Train - Paula Hawkins
Goetheglut - Bernd Köstering
Wallenstein - Friedrich Schiller
Silence - Mechthild Bormann
In the Beginning was the Sea -Thomas Gonzalez
Munich Airport - Greg Baxter
The Ludwig Conspiracy - Oliver Pötzsch
Rise - Karen Campbell
Will & Tom - Matthew Plampin
The Blue Horse - Philip Miller
The Lie - Helen Dunmore
Crime Novel - Petri Tamminen
The Brotherhood of Book Hunters - Raphael Jerusalmy
A Tabby Cat's Tale - Han Dong 
Family Heirlooms - Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares 
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Table of Less Valued Knights - Marie Phillips 
The Franchise Affair - Josephine Tey 
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen 
Glass - Alex Christoffi 
Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes 
Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts - Teresa Solana 
The Miniaturist - Jesse Burton 
The Temporary Gentleman - Sebastian Barry 
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro 
Under The Tripoli Sky - Kamal Ben Hamada
The Blue Room - Hanne Orstavik 
The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov
The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht
Greenbanks - Dorothy Whipple 
Whisky Galore - Compton MacKenzie
The Collini Case - Ferdinand von Schirach (2013)
The Girl Who Wasn't There - Ferdinand von Schirach (2015)
Love, Revenge and Buttered Scones - Bobbie Darbyshire (2010)
Losing It! - Helen Lederer (2015)
A Time of Gifts -Patrick Leigh Fermor (1977)
Mr Darwin's Gardener - Kristina Carlson (2013)
Dept of Speculation - Jenny Offill (2014)
The Pierced Heart - Lynn Shepherd (2014)
Runaway - Peter May (2015)
Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami (2014)
Eyrie - Tim Winton (2014)
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (1956)
This Is Where I Am - Karen Campbell (2013)
The Battle of the Books - Jonathan Swift (1704)
[…] just posted on the reasons for my first book choice of the year over at my home blog, I’d love to hear your stories […]
Ooh, a reading sofa… 🙂 Happy New Year!
Happy new year – that does look like a cosy nook!
That sofa DOES look comfy. Hope you love your first book and that you have a wonderful reading year in 2017!
What a great way to kick off 2017! You look so comfy. 🙂 Here’s to many great books and reading experiences this new year.
I have sofa envy! That looks like a super comfy place to read. That sounds like a perfect book to start 2017 off on! Happy New Year!
Love the photo! Looks like a comfy reading spot. And the book sounds like a good one to start out the year with!
Enjoy it and Happy New Year!
Sue
Book By Book: First Book of 2017
Lovely way to kick off the day – its been so miserable here it was a perfect excuse just to read….
I love how you match the cover of the book! Have a happy reading!!!
Vonnie’s First Book
Fun! I hope you enjoy your first book of 2017. I’m sharing mine here: http://www.brookeblogs.com/the-first-book-of-the-year-2017/
Great place to read.