I’ve been contemplating hosting a reading week for one of my favourite authors this Feb, but couldn’t decide who to go for. I narrowed it down to a shortlist of Paul Auster, Iain Banks (with or without the ‘M’) and J G Ballard.
Thank you to everyone who voted in my poll last week. The results are in and after an initial surge for Banks, Auster gradually overtook him – so Paul Auster Reading Week it will be, running from Feb 17-23 over half term.
I’ve made a graphic below, which you can copy and size as you wish – Don’t worry, I’ll share it again nearer the time. (The font I used is called American Typewriter which I thought was apt).

I read many of his books in the 1990s and noughties, and now I have the perfect excuse to revisit some of them, plus there are a handful I’ve got on the shelf, but am yet to read.
I hope you’ll consider joining me in celebrating the work of this great American author.
I’m in! Just have to choose what to read.
Well, I voted for Ballard but I thought I might be in a minority! I did read some Auster decades ago, but don’t think I really got him. I’ll have a go at joining in if I can! 😀
I loved his early books but stopped reading him after man in the dark I did buy 4 3 2 1 thou so may read that my favourite has always been Auggie wren Christmas story and the film he made with Wayne Wang about it
Great stuff though more for the husband than me. I might point him your way when it’s the Week!
I got into his books about twenty years ago, read nearly everything he’d written, worried that I’d run out of his books, and then read little else by him until I read some of his more recent shorter works. There are still a few I haven’t read so count me in. I may well re-read something by him though.
Looking forward to it! I think it’ll be time for the New York Trilogy.
OOoo. I’ve got a lot of reading lined up for early 2020 but this would be good fun. I’ll try!