I didn’t read many outstanding books in 2003! :( David Finn’s How to Visit a Museum (nonfiction) and Barbara Gowdy’s The Romantic (fiction) were this year’s favourites. And I also rather liked Boris Akunin’s mystery The Winter Queen, but that’s about it. All three I read close to the end of the year :\ A total of 26 books is not that much either… I can do better!
Further statistics: more than a third of my books were nonfiction (8). 17 of them were written by female authors, 8 male and there’s 1 institutional publication. 9 copies were or became Bookcrossing books.
- Nationaliteit: geen. (My American Fictionary), Dubravka Ugrešić (1993, nonfiction)
- Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Dubravka Ugrešić (2002, nonfiction)
- Een ladder op de aarde, Hélène Nolthenius (1968)
- Jerzy Kosinski: a Biography, James Park Sloan (1996, nonfiction)
- De duivel en het meisje (The Devil and Miss Prym), Paulo Coelho (2000)
- The Italian Girl, Iris Murdoch (1964); my first ever wild release for Bookcrossing
- Een hotel op het dak van de wereld (Hotel on the Roof of the World), Alec Le Sueur (1999, nonfiction)
- Reis naar het ongerijmde (Scar Tissue), Michael Ignatieff (1994)
- In the Presence of the Enemy, Elizabeth George (1996)
- Oesters, Rascha Peper (1991)
- Huurders en onderhuurders, Hella Haasse (1971)
- Rico’s vleugels, Rascha Peper (1993)
- The Imaginary Girlfriend, John Irving (1996, nonfiction)
- De prijs van de bruid (The Bride Price), Buchi Emecheta (1976)
- De tienduizend dingen, Maria Dermoût (1955)
- In the Forest, Edna O’Brien (2002)
- Hotel Terminus, Kristien Hemmerichs (2003)
- De zwijgende vader, Jill Stolk (1992)
- De Tanimbar legende, Aya Zikken (1992)
- Lopen met Van Lennep, [Jacob van Lennep] (1823/2000, nonfiction )
- De geest overwint: 8 december 1941 – 15 augustus 1945, St. Indisch Monument ([1988], nonfiction)
- How to Visit a Museum, David Finn (1985, nonfiction)
- The Romantic, Barbara Gowdy (2003)
- Sleuteloog, Hella Haasse (2002)
- De afgewende stad, Hélène Nolthenius (1994)
- The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin (1998)
Tried, but gave up on: De schepping: autobiografie van god (The Life of God, As Told By Himself), Franco Ferrucci (1989)
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