Read and Appreciated in 2003
A Year’s Best List
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
- The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton
- The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington
- The Troika, Stepan Chapman
- The Tyrant, Michael Cisco
- Goose of Hermogenes, Ithell Colquhoun
- Deadwood, Pete Dexter
- The Fan Maker’s Inquisition, Rikki Ducornet
- In the Shadow of Islam, Isabelle Eberhardt
- The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford
- Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet
- Fruits of the Earth, Andre Gide
- An American Dream, Norman Mailer
- The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
- The Scar, China Miéville
- Firing the Cathedral, Michael Moorcock
- V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd
- Meetings with Remarkable Trees, Thomas Pakenham
- Petrolio, Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
- Monstruary, Julian Rios
- Monsieur Zenith the Albino, Anthony Skene
- The Coral Sea, Patti Smith
- Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer
- Molesworth, Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
- “The Library” (in Leviathan 3), Zoran Živković
K. J. Bishop’s critically-acclaimed first novel The Etched City will be reprinted in 2004 by Bantam Dell (United States) and Pan/Macmillan (United Kingdom). Her story “We the Enclosed” will appear in Leviathan 4: Cities in 2004.
Copyright © 2003 by K. J. Bishop.





