Read and Appreciated in 2004
A Year’s Best List
- Krazy & Ignatz 1931-1932, George Herriman
- The Jinx, Théophile Gautier
- Some Thing Black, Jacques Roubaud
- Some Prefer Nettles, Junichiro Tanizaki
- Summerlong, Peter Beagle
- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
- McTeague, Frank Norris
- I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick, Emmanuel Carrère
- The Misanthrope, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
- Vicious: Too Fast to Live…, Alan Parker
- Maus I & II, Art Spiegelman
- The Essential Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Stable Strategies and Others, Eileen Gunn
- Expressionist Texts, Mel Gordon, editor
- Poor Things, Alasdair Gray
- The Ends of our Tethers, Alasdair Gray
- The Monstrous and the Marvelous, Rikki Ducornet
- The Wisdom of Life, Arthur Schopenhauer
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Inquisitory, Robert Pinget
- Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk, Smart Art
- Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms, Suzy McKee Charnas
- The Mystery of the Texas Twister, Michael Moorcock
- Selected Stories, Robert Walser
- The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
- No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
- The Great Shadow, Mário de Sá-Carneiro
- The Robber, Robert Walser
- The Class, Hermann Ungar
- Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
- The Trolley, Claude Simon
- Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser
- The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
- Coloring Outside the Lines: A Punk Rock Memoir, Aimee Cooper
- The Maimed, Hermann Ungar
- Men and Cartoons, Jonathan Lethem
- With the Flow, J.K. Huysmans
- Confessions of Zeno, Italo Sveno
- Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat
- Incidences, Daniil Kharms
- Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz
- Blindsight, Hervé Guibert
- Palafox, Eric Chevillard
- Boredom, Alberto Moravia
