Read and Appreciated in 2004
A Year’s Best List
- The Notebook, Agota Kristof
- The Proof, Agota Kristof
- The Third Lie, Agota Kristof
- Cosmos, Witold Gombrowicz
- Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
- Pornografia, Witold Gombrowicz
- The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1, Fowler, Murphy, Notkin, Smith, editors
- The Limits of Vision, Robert Irwin
- Midsummer Night, Uwe Timm
- Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
- Contempt, Alberto Moravia
- The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
- Love & Loss—A Story About Life, Death & Rebirth, Jane Bay
- The Arabian Nightmare, Robert Irwin
- Locos: A Comedy of Gestures, Felipe Alfau
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Foam of the Daze, Boris Vian
- Possessed, or the Secret of Myslotch, Witold Gombrowicz
- I Spit on Your Graves, Boris Vian
- The Glass Bees, Ernest Jünger
- Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories, Boris Vian
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr.
- The Key, Junichir? Tanizaki
- Only an Alligator, Steve Aylett
- Diary of a Mad Old Man, Junichir? Tanizaki
- Chicago: City on the Make, Nelson Algren
- On the Natural History of Destruction, W.G. Sebald
- Chasm: A Weekend, Dorothea Tanning
- Heartsnatcher, Boris Vian
- All Riot on the Western Front, Winston Smith
- A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
- Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
- The Fox in the Attic, Richard Hughes
- The Dedalus Book of English Decadence: Vile Emperors and Elegant Degenerates, James Willsher, editor
- After Nature, W.G. Sebald
- Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig
- The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, Breece D’J Pancake
- Koroko, Natsume Soseki
- Trans-Atlantyk, Witold Gombrowicz
- Young Lonigan, James T. Farrell
- Payback, Gert Ledig
- Parasites Like Us, Adam Johnson
- Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer, Antonio D’Ambrosio, editor
- Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle, Robert McNab
