TheBookchemist | Top 10 Books I Read in 2019 @TheBookchemist | Uploaded January 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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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: youtube.com/watch?v=YyO0N5RiQ00&t
17) Machen - The White People & Other Stories
16) Zafon - The Prisoner of Heaven
15) Smith - Autumn: youtube.com/watch?v=n19cErX2UrI
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: youtube.com/watch?v=UJqDU0g-lK8
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780143106869?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Jason-and-the-Argonauts-by-Apollonius-Aaron-Poochigian-translator-Benjamin-Acosta-Hughes/9780143106869/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
R: youtube.com/watch?v=USqSTu0bfAs
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780679731368?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Flauberts-Parrot-by-Julian-Barnes/9780099540588/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Bester - The Demolished Man
R: youtube.com/watch?v=sc8GByXpIuw
IB: indiebound.org/book/9781596879881?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Demolished-Man-by-Alfred-Bester/9781857988222/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

DeLillo - Running Dog
R: youtube.com/watch?v=emne2Y1VG0s
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780679722946?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Running-Dog-by-Don-DeLillo/9780330524889/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Lethem - The Feral Detective
R: youtube.com/watch?v=MS0vkG_W1zI
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780062859075?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Feral-Detective-by-Jonathan-Lethem-author/9781786497512/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
R: youtube.com/watch?v=yQpLDoWx1Hs
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780307389732?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Love-in-the-Time-of-Cholera-by-Gabriel-Garca-Mrquez/9780141189208/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Maupassant - A Parisian Affair & Other Stories
R: youtube.com/watch?v=PEVlcl58Qhs
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780140448122?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Parisian-Affair-and-Other-Stories-by-Guy-de-Maupassant-Sin-Miles/9780140448122/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Melville - Moby Dick
R: youtube.com/watch?v=IvUcasP6BLM&t
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780142437247?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Moby-Dick-or-The-Whale-by-Herman-Melville-Tom-Quirk/9780142437247/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
R: youtube.com/watch?v=YhKywW4r2W0
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780375714795?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Leopard-by-Giuseppe-Tomasi-di-Lampedusa-Archibald-Colquhoun-Gioacchino-Lanza-Tomasi/9780099512158/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters
R: youtube.com/watch?v=UHp5snq8wGc
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780393339819?aff=TheBookchemist
BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Code-of-the-Woosters-by-P-G-Wodehouse/9781841591001/?a_aid=TheBookchemist

Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
R: youtube.com/watch?v=8dxcg610sTY
IB: indiebound.org/book/9780143034902?aff=TheBookchemist

BW: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Shadow-of-the-Wind-by-Carlos-Ruiz-Zafn-author/9781474609883/?a_aid=TheBookchemist


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