This is categorically not a list of my ‘best books’ of 2014. Very few of the titles I’ve read in the last 12 months were even published this year. This is simply a list of what I’ve read with no judgement implied (although I strongly maintain life;s too short to read crap books, so by default they’re all pretty good).
With my day-job having moved to a different office, I’m fortunate and grateful that I no longer spend an hour a day on public transport. The downside is that the half hour trip each way to and from work was time I spent reading up to the end of June and consequently, I’ve done rather less reading this year than I would have liked.
These are the books I’ve read, which have informed and entertained me this year, and some will have no doubt had an influence – conscious or otherwise – on my writing.
Ben Jeffery – Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism
Raymond Chandler – Farewell, My Lovely
Jonny Glynn – The Seven Days of Peter Crumb
Ian Rankin – The Naming of the Dead
Henry Sutton – Kids’ Stuff
Aifric Campbell – On the Floor
Gavin Lambert – The Goodbye People
JG Ballard – The Drought
Douglas Coupland – Generation X
Paolo Sorrentino – Everybody’s Right
Samuel Beckett – Three Novels: Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Various – Clinical, Brutal 2: Incisive Writing with Guts
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
Mickey Spillane – Mike Hammer Omnibus Vol 1: I, The Jury / My Gun is Quick / Vengeance is Mine
Lisa Dabrowski – Dr Sadistic’s House of Whorrors
Martin Crimp – Attempts on Her Life
Chuck Palahniuk – Damned
Malcolm Mc Neill – Reflux
Charlie Wells – Fags and Lager
Beau Rice – Tex
Stewart Home – The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones
Stuart Bateman – Grind
Jonathan Crary – 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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