I suddenly recalled that there'd been none of these this year, and missed them. Here are my top 25 authors read this year (authors instead of books as I've included two picks from several:
Love Hotel (Jane Unrue) Nights at the Circus & The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter) The Ravishing of Lol Stein & The Vice Consul & The Malady of Death (Maguerite Duras) I Love Dick (Chris Kraus) The School of the Sun (Ana Maria Matute) Pallaksch, Pallaksch (Liliane Giraudon) Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion) The Vet's Daughter & The Skin Chairs (Barbara Comyns) GoGo Monster (Taiyo Matsumoto, comic) Passages (Ann Quin) Becalmed (JK Huysmans) Malpertuis (Jean Ray) The Trumpets of Jericho (Unica Zurn) Nijigahara Holograph (Inio Asano) Damned Right (Bayard Johnson) Distant Light (Antonio Moresco) LA MEDUSA (Vanessa Place) Kill Manual (Cassandra Troyan) Netsuke (Rikki Ducornet) Bath House (Hans Henny Jahnn) Jim (Jim Woodring, comic) Armed With Madness (Mary Butts) Prehistoric Times (Eric Chevillard) Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ed Steck)
Love Hotel (Jane Unrue)
Nights at the Circus & The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)
The Ravishing of Lol Stein & The Vice Consul & The Malady of Death (Maguerite Duras)
I Love Dick (Chris Kraus)
The School of the Sun (Ana Maria Matute)
Pallaksch, Pallaksch (Liliane Giraudon)
Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion)
The Vet's Daughter & The Skin Chairs (Barbara Comyns)
GoGo Monster (Taiyo Matsumoto, comic)
Passages (Ann Quin)
Becalmed (JK Huysmans)
Malpertuis (Jean Ray)
The Trumpets of Jericho (Unica Zurn)
Nijigahara Holograph (Inio Asano)
Damned Right (Bayard Johnson)
Distant Light (Antonio Moresco)
LA MEDUSA (Vanessa Place)
Kill Manual (Cassandra Troyan)
Netsuke (Rikki Ducornet)
Bath House (Hans Henny Jahnn)
Jim (Jim Woodring, comic)
Armed With Madness (Mary Butts)
Prehistoric Times (Eric Chevillard)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ed Steck)