Only listing the new ones.
The Uncle's Story - Witi Ihimaera - Have finished this, thought the Vietnam sections were generally the best. Some immensely moving passages and some jarringly awkward writing. A necessary book. Plz make a movie and cast Cliff Curtis as Sam Mahana.
Interstellar Pig - William Sleator - This one is completely new to me. I'd not even heard of him until recently. Very excited.
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories - Vladimir Nabokov - Snapped up this 2ndhand Penguin Classics edition. Have not read any of his short stories before. Excited!
Light - M. John Harrison - Guaranteed to be within the top three reads for 2010, for me. Terribly beautiful, indeed sublime. I haven't actually made a habit of reading space fiction, so I I was bewildered/overwhelmed on several occasions - but also Harrison's style demands that, and the patience paid off. I'll be thinking about the ideas in this novel for a long time. And dreaming about melting into fractals.
Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi - Wish I owned a copy. The pictures are amazing. Leroi has this hilarious droll tone throughout. There's the attention-grabbing title and a chapter about sexual attraction that I found boring, but he writes very lucidly - even compassionately - about genetic mutations and depictions/interpretations of them down the ages.
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra - I am 189 pages into this. SO DAMN GOOD.
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