Just took a new photo of my private Genji library, ready to get started on my first chapter post for the year - quite a spread, eh... #TheTaleOfGenji

Hurray!

My first new review for this year's #JanuaryInJapan has me looking at Fumiko Hayashi's 'Floating Clouds' (translated by Lane Dunlop, published by Columbia University Press), a novel of dreary lives in post-war Japan: tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/f...

As you may (or may not) be aware, round these parts the first month of the year is #JanuaryInJapan, in which J-Lit is front and foremost in our minds (not that it isn't usually!).

After seventeen full years of blogging, how did 2025 go? Find out in my annual State of the Blog Address ;) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/t...

If numbers aren't your thing, keep on walking, but if you're partial to some stats, come this way for my look at what *you* all read on the blog last year :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/y...

The highlight(s) of the blogging year - the 2025 Tony's Reading List Awards! tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/t...

Part Two of my review of the year looks back at the best books from July to December :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t...

Part One of my yearly wrap-up looks at the best books from January to June :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/t...

My final monthly wrap-up posts tells what I was up to in December on the blog :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/d...

When you’re chronically ill, the holidays hit different. They’re exhausting, isolating and lonely. It’s important to set and hold boundaries. Make your own traditions and find ways to cultivate joy. Here’s to another Chronic Illness Christmas: www.disabledginger.com/p/another-ch...

Inspired by a reread of 'The Book of Coventry' (edited by Raef Boylan, published by Comma Press), I knocked up my Christmas present to you all, 'Duffy's Dog', a story of fear, loathing and mutts on the mean streets of Stoke Aldermoor in the 1980s ;) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/d...

My final review post for the year continues my Genji obsession as I take a look at the essays included in the 'Criticism' section of Dennis Washburn's translation :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...

My final Genji chapter-by-chapter post for the year looks at Chapter 18, 'Matsukaze', as a familiar face makes the move in the direction of the big bad city and I get yet another book for my shelves... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/t...

Never got around to doing this during #GermanLitMonth, but here's a family photo of my Christa Wolf collection - the link will take you to all my reviews, too :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/category/chr...

We're in Melbourne today for a look at Elliot Perlman's 'Three Dollars', a novel of life in the neo-liberal nineties... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/t...

A bit of reading and a spot of exercise - my look at Haruki Murakami's 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running' (translated by Philip Gabriel): tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/w...

New on the blog, my review of 'Exclusive! Dispatches from The Paris End' - a collection of essays by Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds and Oscar Schwartz, courtesy of @GiramondoBooks :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/e...

Back to Genji today, after a bit of a break, with a look at Chapter 17, 'Eawase', in which we... look at some paintings? tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/t...

"A new republic of books that transcends boundaries" - today we're announcing the shortlists for our Translation Prizes 2025. Nine prizes will be awarded at the ceremony in February next year, including the inaugural John Calder Translation Prize.

The first December review on the blog sees me spending some time in a very big (imaginary) house in the country, in the ever-engaging company of Gerald Murnane ;) My take on 'A Million Windows', published by @GiramondoBooks: tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/a...

My final review for #GermanLitMonth is an early Heinrich Boll novel, And Never Said a Word (translated by Leila Vennewitz): 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/a...

My monthly wrap-up post for November is out, rounding up all my #GermanLitMonth reviews :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/n...

Rounding off this year's #GermanLitMonth reviews, all hail the undisputed Queen of GLM, Christa Wolf - see my review of 'Leibhaftig' ('In the Flesh') here :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/l...

Week 3 of #GermanLitMonth and I'm reading Volker Weidermann on Thomas Mann: peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...

#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...

For #GermanLitMonth, a writer who deserves more attention, Gert Hofmann, and his novel, Our Conquest, exploring the end of the second world war through the eyes of a child: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/o...

Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...

Another racy cover for #GermanLitMonth, but this time the book is more sordid than erotic - how a self-proclaimed pervert brought down the Berlin Wall in Thomas Brussig's 'Helden wie wir' ('Heroes Like Us') :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/h...

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More Mann for #GermanLitMonth today, with the rest of the stories from 'Unordnung und frühes Leid' ('Disorder and Early Suffering') - see what I made of them at the usual place :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/u...

More than a shaggy-dog story? I kick off #GermanLitMonth's Thomas Mann Week with a look at 'Herr und Hund' ('A Mann and His Dog'), in which the writer shows a softer side of his character (for the most part...): tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/h...

With the start of Thomas Mann week tomorrow for this year's #GermanLitMonth, I was reminded of a four-part discussion I had with @LizzySiddal in 2017 about his novel 'Buddenbrooks' - we had a lot to say! lizzysiddal.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/b...

Need some cheering up for #GermanLitMonth? Here's Thomas Bernhard to brighten up your day :) Wait a minute... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/f...

"He cited Anton Hur as 'a superstar translator' — one whose name has become synonymous with great translation, and thus helps drive sales." Aww luff you guys 💜 @honfordstar.bsky.social

In week 2 of #germanlitmonth it's all about The City. I've read this beautiful novella set in Rome by FCDelius translated by Jamie Bulloch : peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/g...

#NovNov #GermanLitMonth @stujallen.bsky.social Readers need patience for a Bernhardian narrative, but fortunately mine lasted until (none the wiser about who dunnit, I got to the end. Klausen (2002), by Andreas Maier, 2010 translation by Kenneth J Northcott anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/11/k...

For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!

My second review for #GermanLitMonth is from another of my favourite German-language writers, Peter Stamm - In a Deep Blue Hour translated by Michael Hofmann: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/i...

New review today: A strange little tale for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Paulus Hochgatterer findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/g...

Fear and loathing in downtown Vienna for #GermanLitMonth today, with Elfriede Jelinek's 'Die Klavierlehrerin' ('The Piano Teacher'): tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d...

#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/g...

#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/g...

My review of 'Demian' by Hermann Hesse for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-demian

My second review for #GermanLitMonth's Genre Week takes us to Germany (via Austria) for Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Frankfurter Vorlesungen' ('Frankfurt Lectures'), a series of talks the writer gave way back when :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/f...

Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for #GermanLitMonth. beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/w...

Currently on my 2nd read doing double duty for #GermanLitMonth and #NovellaNovember Arno Camenisch's Goldene Jahre (Golden Years) has the gentle humour and quirky voice that I loved in @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul

My first book for #germanlitmonth. I've not followed the suggested schedule as this was calling me from the bookcase and I'm so pleased to have read it: peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/g...

My first review for #GermanLitMonth is the latest novel from one of my favourite contemporary German writers - Daniel Kehlmann - The Director (translated by Ross Benjamin) about the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/t...

First up for #GermanLitMonth, I start Genre Week off with a bit of poetry from Goethe - 'Erotic Poems', translated by David Luke. And when I say 'erotic'... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/e...