September 2019: Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

1991, Carcanet Press, 233 pages. Written in English, read in English.

October 2019: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

David Bowie Book Club: An Origin Story

A few years before David Bowie died, a gallery titled “David Bowie Is…” was touring the world, and at its stop in Ontario, a list of David Bowie’s favourite books — or at least 100 books favoured by David Bowie, has surfaced. At least this is what The Guardian…

November 2019. Inside the Whale and other essays by George Orwell

August 2019: The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett

June 2019. Money by Martin Amis

1980, Vintage Books, 454 pages. Written in English, read in English.

July 2019: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

2008, Faber and Faber, 335 pages. Written in English, read in English.

You get quite a lot of information from the get go with this novel’s lengthy title — its protagonist is an Oscar Wao, you…

April 2019: Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

1995, Fourth Estate, 368 pages. Written in English, read in English.

There are some works of fiction that start, on the first page, and then roll along at a natural pace, arriving at the last page without you, the reader, noticing…

April 2019: The Coast of Utopia Trilogy by Tom Stoppard

2002, Faber and Faber, 336 pages. Written in English, read in English.

May 2019: The Coast of Utopia Trilogy: Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage by Tom Stoppard