Alta Ifland's Blog: Notes on Books - Posts Tagged "top-ten"

1. Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage (2011) [Hungarian]
2. Alessandro Piperno, The Worst Intentions [Italian]
3. Dezsö Kosztolányi, Kornel Esti (2011) [Hungarian]
4. Steven Millhausaer, The Barnum Museum [American]
5. Alina Bronsky, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (2011) [Russian-German]
6. Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio [American]
7. Brian Evenson, The Wavering Knife [American]
8. Olga Grushin, The Line & The Dream Life of Sukhanov [Russian-American]
9. Yiyun Li, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl [Chinese-American]
10. Thomas Bernhard, Extinction [Austrian]

The first date is the English publication; the second is the original, where available

1. The Golovlyovs (1975, 1880) by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Russian)
2. The Plaster Angel (2010) by Dezsö Kosztolányi (Hungarian)
3. An Ermine in Czernopol (2011, 1966) by Gregor von Rezzori (Austrian)
4. Seven Gothic Tales (1994, 1934) by Isak Dinesen (Danish/Kenyan)
5. Dangerous Laughter (2008) by Steven Millhauser (American)
6. Five Spice Street (2009) by Can Xue (Chinese)
7. The Twelve Chairs (2011, 1928) by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov (Russians)
8. My Brilliant Friend (2012, 2011) by Elena Ferrante (Italian)
9. War and War (2006, 1999) by László Krasznahorkai (Hungarian)
10. 70 Acrylic 30 Wool (2012, 2011) by Viola di Grado (Italian)

(These are books I read in 2013; they were not necessarily published this year.)

1. The Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov (Russians)
2. The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell (British)
3. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (Italian)
4. There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister s Husband and He Hanged Himself by Ludmila Petrushevskaya (Russian)
5. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (British)
6. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (British)
7. The Canvas by Benjamin Stein (German)
8. The New York Stories by John O'Hara (American)
9. The Door by Magda Szabó (Hungarian)
10. Almost Never by Daniel Sada (Mexican)
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1. The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza (2013, Italian)
2. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (2005, Italian)
3. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (2014, Italian)
4. The Bridge over the Neroch by Leonid Tsypkin (2012, Russian)
5. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2006, British)
6. Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim (1995, 1919, British)
7. Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott (2003, 1984, American)
8. Kinder than Solitude by Yiyun Li (2014, American-Chinese)
9. Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke (2009, Austrian)
10. The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tampinar (2014, Turkish)