booklist for the year 2016

off to richard and stass’s - see you in the wen in the new year

themes journals/ diaries /disguised (auto)biographies - journals1889-1949- andre gide, bergman’s autobiography the magic lantern, deer hunting with god - baigent, searching for robert johnson - guralnick, our village- mitford, mardi and the journey thither - herman melville, valis and radio free albemuth - philip k. dick, anna akhmatova (biography) - haight, lesek kolakowski pamphlet, narrative of my captivity among the souix indians - fanny kelly, the art of growing old - john cowper powys, beneath the visiting moon - david grubb, agota kristof - the notebook, the watcher and the red deer - richard perry, jean genet - our lady of the flowers (introduction by sartre and dips), allen ginsberg biography - barry miles, anna kavan, landscapes - john berger, hugh brody - the other side of eden, a precocious autobiography - yevgeny yevtushenko,

theory and utopia (some of) history and class consciousness - lukacs, marx in his own words - ernst fischer (introduction), on violence - hannah arendt, metapolitics - alain badiou, after derrida - nicholas royle, echolalias - daniel hiller-roazen, the revolution of everyday life - vaneigem, a history of reading, mimesis, music and the irish literary imagination, the fable of the bees, styles of radical will - susan sontag (first few essays), marxism and form - frederic jameson (adorno and benjamin essays so far), raymond williams (critical perspectives) - terry eagleton, metapolitics - alain badiou, , into unknown england: selections from the social explorers, a history of the chinese cultural revolution - jean daubier, utopia - thomas more (in its anniversary year) and so also jacques ranciere - on the shores of politics, jean jacques rousseau - political economy in discourses and social contract (introduction and dips), utopia: mitos y formos: colloquium 17-20 jan 1990 ed. yvette centeno (papers in french and english),pleroma - hamacher (introduction), history and utopia - e.m. cioran, the restoration of order - milan simecka (and his piece in communism the TLS reader - and bohumil hrabal's), theories and narrative -alex callinicos.

the french and the portuguese cesar birroteau -balzac, the search of the absolute - balzac, jesus christ in flanders - balzac (the human comedy project rolls on), eca de quiroz - the sin of father amaro, jose saramago - blindness, the double - jose saramago, guy de maupassant - short stories, portugal: 50 years of dictatorship,

science fiction makes a return the commited men - m. john harrison, frankenstein unbound - brian aldiss, best sciencefiction of the year - volume 6 - aldiss and harrison, the day of forever - j.g.ballard, the invention of morel - adolfo bioy casares,

catching up on heritage themes thomas hardy - far from the madding crowd, the white goddess - robert graves, into unknown england: selections from the social explorers, mill on the floss and essays by george eliot, the gamekeeper at home - richard jefferies (bought, dipped), the survey of london (everyman hardback edition) - john stow (1598),

random heap chess - stefan zweig, roger scruton -a short history of philosophy, the ask - lipsite, the rampage - miroslav holub, introduction to pascal's provincial tales, silence and christian history - diarmard macculloch, the portable twentieth-century russian reader - ed. clarence brown (leant to sean), the feeling of things- adam caruso, the acquisitive society - r.h. tawney, instituta benjamenta - robert walser, three critical pieces (from the penal colony) - franz kafka (translated clement greenberg), introduction to idiom of the people - james reeves, the foundation pit - andrei platonov, austerity - kerry anne mendoza, edna o´brien - august is a wicked month, gangster girl (thriller- part), the shadow and its shadow (surrealist writings on film).