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Better read than dead: how Geoff Dyer got to know his bookshelves better

As 2018 ends, the author reveals the books he has finally got round to reading this year – hardy survivors, he explains, of years of house moves and bookshelf clear-outs

What do the following books, from my list of books read in 2018, have in common? The House in Paris (Elizabeth Bowen), I Will Bear Witness (Victor Klemperer), The All of It (Jeannette Haien), Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger), Son of the Morning Star (Evan S Connell), The Death of the Heart (Bowen), Alamein to Zem Zem (Keith Douglas), Burger’s Daughter (Nadine Gordimer), What Maisie Knew (Henry James).

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