Read and Appreciated in 2004
A Year’s Best List
- Prince of Foxes, Samuel Shellabarger
- Tales of Mean Streets, Arthur Morrison
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven
- The Asphalt Jungle, W.R. Burnett
- 1982, Janine, Alasdair Gray
- The Book of Survival, Anthony Greenbank
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930, George Herriman
- Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
- Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot
- Olympic Games, Leslie What
- Gazelle, Rikki Ducornet
- At War, Flann O’Brien
- The Church, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- One-Way, Didjer Van Cauwelaert
- Punk: Young, Loud & Snotty, Steven Wells
- Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha, Dr. Ben Reitman
- We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Marc Spitz & Brendan Mullen
- The Stain, Rikki Ducornet
- Underworld, Don DeLillo
- The Black City, George Sand
- Frek and the Elixir, Rudy Rucker
- Others’ Paradise, Paul Leppin
- Rendezvous in Black, Cornell Woolrich
- House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, Yasunari Kawabata
- Piano, Jean Echenoz
- Firing the Cathedral, Michael Moorcock
- Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami
- First Snow on Fuji, Yasunari Kawabata
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
- Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, Jim Tully
- Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Alasdair Gray
- South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
- The Sea-Hawk, Rafael Sabatini
- The Best of Xero, Dick Lupoff, editor
- I, Shithead: A Life in Punk, Joey Keithley
- The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
- Tom Sawyer Abroad, Mark Twain
- Tom Sawyer, Detective, Mark Twain
- The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
- Dumb Luck, Gary Baseman
- Parisian Sketches, J. K. Huysmans
- Between Lives, Dorothea Tanning
- The Cat’s Pajamas and Other Stories, James Morrow
