Art Garfunkel famously keeps track of the books he has read since 1968. As of writing this, the count is 1327 (he does not add a review). I thought I could do something similar but I am adding short reviews of books as I read them, and I rake my brain over what I read over the last decades. This is, evidently, a work-in-progress: there are 566 reviews so far. Titles marked with a * are particular favorites.
Kristian Bang Foss: Manden der bar solen
A fascinating novel, especially for a historian like myself. Set around the late bronze age collapse, and uses what little we can know about this remote period (no written sources) quite faithfully (of course, a lot of stuff has to be imagined). You could probably argue that the events unfolding here could also be seen as a commentary on the present day — but if so, it is mainly in the selection of the subject matter, not in the execution thereof. I think I will read more from this author who is that rare bird in Danish literature that uses his considerable skills to write novels with wildly differing themes (as opposed to, say, reiterating his own fiction over and over again).