For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series.
As the introduction explained, the books were chosen from those on my books-read lists that I hadn't written about before. I thought it might be instructive to contrast the books I did write about for each year. Before 2007, I wrote elsewhere and almost all reviews are now behind paywalls or offline due to webzines becoming defunct. After 2006, I wrote exclusively on this blog, barring Tao Lin's first novel which I found on Wayback Machine; included because I like the review's title.
2007
JM Coetzee β Diary of a Bad Year
Tao Lin β Eeeee Eee Eeee
2008
Jeanette Winterson β The Stone Gods
Thomas Glavinic β Night Work
2009
Dag Solstad β Novel 11, Book 18
Jonathan Littel β The Kindly Ones
Jean Echenoz β Ravel
Nick Cave β The Death of Bunny Munro
JM Coetzee β Summertime
2010
Gabriel Josipovici β What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Paul Celan / Ingeborg Bachmann β Correspondence
Mathias Γnard β Zone
Thomas Bernhard β My Prizes
2011
Peter Handke β Across, Repetition, and The Afternoon of a Writer
Judith Hermann β Alice
Pascal Quignard β The Roving Shadows
Geoff Nicholson β The Lost Art of Walking
Jeffrey Lewis β The Meritocracy Quartet
Thomas Bernhard β Victor Halfwit
Samuel Beckett β Letters 1941-1956
2012
Lars Iyer β Dogma
Gabriel Josipovici β Infinity
Edouard LevΓ© β Suicide
Karl Ove Knausgaard β My Struggle vol. 1
SinΓ©ad Murphy β The Art Kettle
Enrique Vila-Matas β Dublinesque
Karl Ove Knausgaard β A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven
Nicolas Cauwe β Easter Island: The Great Taboo
Paul Auster β Winter Journal
2013
Lars Iyer β Exodus
Karl Ove Knausgaard β My Struggle vol. 2
Miguel de Beistegui β Proust as Philosopher
Michel Laub β Diary of the Fall
Reiner Stach β Kafka: The Years of Insight
2014
Γgota KristΓ³f β The illiterate
Karl Ove Knausgaard β My Struggle vol. 3
Lars Iyer β Wittgenstein Jr
Tao Lin β Taipai
Georges Bataille β Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art
2015
Jen Craig β Panthers and the Museum of Fire
Jeff Fort β The Imperative to Write
Gabriel Josipovici β Migrations
Ellis Sharp β Lamees Najim
Jill Stauffer β Ethical Loneliness
2016
Thomas Bernhard β Goethe Dies
Charlie Hill β Stuff
Karl Ove Knausgaard β My Struggle vol. 5
2017
Enrique Vila-Matas β Vampire in Love
Mathias Γnard β Compass
Gabriel Josipovici β In a Hotel Garden
Rainer J. Hanshe and Federico Gori β Shattering the Muses
Karl Ove Knausgaard β Autumn
Peter Handke β To Duration
2018
JM Coetzee β The Childhood and Schooldays of Jesus
Sarah Kofman β Smothered Words
Gabriel Josipovici β The Cemetery in Barnes
Dante β Vita Nuova
TJ Clark β Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come
2019
Josef Czapski β Lost Time: Lectures on Proust
Kirsty Gunn β Caroline's Bikini
Γgota KristΓ³f β Yesterday
Mary Costello β The River Capture
Lars Iyer β Nietzsche and the Burbs
2020
JM Coetzee β The Death of Jesus
Sam Pink β The Ice Cream Man and other stories
Gert Hofmann β Veilchenfeld
Willem Styfhals β No Spiritual Investment in the World
2021
Peter Holm Jensen β The Moment
Sam Riviere β Dead Souls
Darren Allen β Drowning is Fine
Karl Ove Knausgaard β The Morning Star
2022
Jerry Z. Muller β Professor of Apocalypse
Jean-Luc Champerret β The Lascaux Notebooks
Franz Kafka β The Aphorisms
2023
Ellis Sharp β Month of the Drowned Dog
Lars Iyer β My Weil
Jen Craig β Wall
Kevin Hart β Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative
Richard Ford β Be Mine
Thank you very much for this. It was a very enjoyable series, and I love having all the entries in one place.
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