2011 Reading List
1. Short Stories, Augusto Monterroso (Guatemala)
2. Oblivion, Stories, David Foster Wallace (US)
3. Aphrodite’s Hat, Polly Samson (UK)
4. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yiyun Li (China / US)
5. Bleeding London, Geoff Nicholson (UK)
6. Bedlam Burning, Geoff Nicholson (UK)
7. Stories of Mr Kenner, Bertold Brecht (Germany)
8. Allah is Not Obliged, Ahmadou Kourouma (Ivory Coast)
9. The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura,
Irmtraud Morgner (Germany)
10. Mischief, Chris Wilson (UK)
11. The End of the Land, David Grossman (Israel)
12. A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan)
13. Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro (Canada)
14. Nielegalne związki, Grażyna Plebanek (Poland)
15. Nasza klasa, Tadeusz Słobodzianek (Poland)
16. Touba and the Meaning of Night, Shahrnush Parsipur (Iran)
17. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (India)
18. The Bridport Prize 2006 (UK)
19. The Bridport Prize 2008 (UK)
20. Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Vol 1 (UK)
21. Night, Vedrana Rudan (Croatia)
22. So Much For That, Lionel Shrivel (US)
23. Witness the Night, Kishwar Desai (India)
24. Gabriel’s Angel, Mark A Radcliffe (UK)
25. I Think of You, short stories, Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt)
26. The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt)
27. Intuition, Allegra Goodman (US)
28. Milość po polsku, Manuela Gretkowska (Poland)
29. The Door, Magda Szabo (Hungary)
30. The Armies, Evelio Rosero (Colombia)
31. The Art of Being Dead, Stephen Clayton (UK)
32. Solar, Ian McEwen (UK)
33. From Here to There, 16 True Tales of Immigration to Britain. Penguin Prize Anthology
(UK)
34. Be My Knife, David Grossman (Israel)
35. Lost City Radio, Daniel Alarcón (Peru)
36. The Memory of Love, Aminata Forna (Sierra Leone / UK)
37. Queen of the South, Arturo Perez-Reverte (Spain)
38. The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis (UK)
39. Poles Apart, Polly Courtney (UK)
40. Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (US)
41. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (US)
42. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Lola Shoneyin (Nigeria)
43. The Long Island, Andrea Levy (UK)
44. Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote, Ahmadou Kourouma (Ivory Coast)
45. Dreaming of Baghdad, Haifa Zangana (Iraq)
46. The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Hoomad Majd (Iran / US)
47. The Arrangement, Elia Kazan (Greece / US)
48. Faust, Ivan Turgenev (Russia)
49. Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II, Jason Berry and
Gerald Renner (US)
50. A Russian Novel, Emmanuel Carrére (France)
51. Gargling with Tar, Jáchym Topol (Czech Republic)
52. The Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (South Africa)
53. Stasiland, Anna Funder (Australia)
54. The American Granddaughter, Inaam Kachachi (Iraq)
55. Haiti Noir, ed. Edwige Danticat (Haiti)
56. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (Hungary)
57. Big Girls Don’t Cry. The Election That Changed Everything for American Women,
Rebecca Traister (US)
58. The Temple of Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima (Japan)
59. The Sun By Night, Benjamin Kwayke (Ghana)
60. Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Mo Yan (China)
61. The Way of the Women, Marlene van Niekerk (South Africa)
62. The Museum of Eterna’s Novel, Macedonio Fernández (Argentina)
63. The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson (UK)
64. African Psycho, Alain Mabanckou (Congo)
65. Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman (US / Poland)
66. Light Fell, Evan Fallenberg (Israel)
67. Lubiewo, Michal Witkowski (Poland)
68. Sea of Poppies, Amitav Gosh (India)
69. My Animal Life, Maggie Gee (UK)
70. Woman at War, Dacia Maraini (Italy)
71. Who Goes There?, John W. Campbell (US)
72. The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (US)
73. ‘Exhalation’, Ted Chiang (US)
74. Uwikłanie, Zygmunt Miłoszewski (Poland)
75. Sonieczka, Ludmila Ulickaya (Russia)
76. Kobiety ich Mężczyzn, Sofija Andruchowycz (Ukraine)
77. The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Wang Anyi (China)
78. Trans, Manuela Gretkowska (Poland)
79. The Engineer of Human Souls, Josef Skvorecky (Czech Republic)
80. The Essential Young, ed. Anthony Storr (UK)
81. Synchronicity, C. G. Jung (Switzerland)
82. The Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (US)
83. Eclipse One: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Australia)
84. Eclipse Two : New Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Australia)
85. Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist (Sweden)
86. The City & the City, China Miéville (UK)
87. The Chrysalids, John Wyndham (UK)
88. Ahatanhel, Natalia Sniadanko (Ukraine)
89. Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (US)
90. The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow (UK, US)
91. Black Glass, Short Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (US)
92. Milość od ostatniego wejrzenia, Vedrana Rudan (Croatia)
93. Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King (US)
94. Hunger, Mohamed el-Bisatie (Egypt)
95. Obsoletki, Justyna Bargielska (Poland)
96. The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Jane Rogers (UK)
97. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop, Bakari Kitwana (US)
98. Madame Prosecutor, Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture
of Impunity, Carlo Del Ponte (Italy)
99. A Cupboard Full of Coats, Yvette Edwards (UK)
100. Being Like Abbas el Abd, Ahmed Alaidy (Egypt)
101. In a Strange Room, Dalmon Galgut (South Africa)
102. The Last Hundred Days, Patrick McGuiness (UK)
103. Frišta, Petra Procházková (Czech Republic)
104. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (South Africa)
105. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russia)
106. Kallocain, Katrin Boyle (Sweden)
107. Robopocalypse, Daniel R. Wilson (US)
108. Memory in the Flesh, Ahlam Mosteghanemi (Algeria)
109. Ugrofińska wampirzyca, Noémi Szécsi (Hungary)
110. Zrób sobie raj, Mariusz Szczygieł (Poland)
111. Zabójca z miasta moreli. Reportaże z Turcji Witold Szabłowski (Poland)
112. Wired for War. The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, P.W.Singer
(US)
113. A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge (US)
114. A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge (US)
115. Śmierć w Starych Dekoracjach, Tadeusz Różewicz (Poland)
116. AA Gill is Away, AA Gill (UK)
117. Damage, Josephine Hart (UK)
118. You Must Set Forth At Dawn, Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
119. Villain, Shuichi Yoshida (Japan)
120. Thirteen Hours, Deon Meyer (South Africa)
121. Saints and Sinners, Edna O’Brien (Ireland)
122. The Chalk Circle Man, Fred Vargas (France)
123. Matka Odchodzi, Tadeusz Różewicz (Poland)