Top 10 Books I Read in 2019

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My full top 20, with links to my reviews (if I filmed it). The top 11 (!) is in alphabetical rather than numerical order so as not to spoil you the immense fun of watching the video :D other than the reviews, you'll find links to buy these books on IndieBound or Blackwell's; in an affiliate of both websites.

20) Perry - The Essex Serpent
19) Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries & Other Stories
18) Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night:    • Tender Is the Night by FS Fitzgerald ...  
17) Machen - The White People & Other Stories
16) Zafon - The Prisoner of Heaven
15) Smith - Autumn:    • Autumn by Ali Smith REVIEW  
14) Various authors - Milano (Italian short story collection published by Sellerio)
13) Tomatis - Il laboratorio (only available, to my knowledge, in Italian - a great pity: it is a wonderful novel about academic life, as relevant today as it was in the mid 60s)
12) Zafon - The Angel's Game

Apollonius of Rhodes - Jason & the Argonauts (translated by Aaron Poochigian)
R:    • Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97801...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
R:    • Flaubert's Parrott by Julian Barnes R...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97806...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Bester - The Demolished Man
R:    • The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester R...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97815...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

DeLillo - Running Dog
R:    • Running Dog by Don DeLillo REVIEW  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97806...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Lethem - The Feral Detective
R:    • The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethe...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97800...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
R:    • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabrie...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97803...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Maupassant - A Parisian Affair & Other Stories
R:    • Guy de Maupassant: Is Fiction an Old ...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97801...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Melville - Moby Dick
R:    • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville REVIEW  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97801...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
R:    • The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lam...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97803...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters
R:    • The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodeho...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97803...
BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
R:    • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz...  
IB: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97801...

BW: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...


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