Andrew J. Parkinson

Andrew J. Parkinson lives and writes in Vancouver, Canada.

Contact e-mail: andrew "at" andrewjparkinson.net

2026 ———————————————————————

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Runaway, Alice Munro

All the lovers of the night, Mieko Kawakami

Surviving Vancouver, Michael Kluckner

A visit from the goon squad, Jennifer Egan

The maidens, Alex Michaelides

The fishermen, Chigozie Obioma

2025 ———————————————————————

Siete mejores cuentos - Costa Rica

Pura vida, Sara Alva

The marriage plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

The Pegnitz junction, Mavis Gallant

Woes of the true policeman, Roberto Bolaño

The art of fiction, David Lodge

Dr No, Percival Everett

The devotion of suspect X, Keigo Higashino

On island, Pat Carney

Coexistence, Billy-Ray Belcourt

A manuscript of ashes, Antonio Muñoz Molina

Our evenings, Alan Hollinghurst

The proof of my innocence, Jonathan Coe

The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Mordechai Richler

I who have never known men, Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz

How to pronounce knife, Souvankham Thammavongsa

After Elias, Eddy Boudel Tan

The garden of evening mists, Tan Twan Eng

Yellowface, R. F. Kuang

The Buddha in the attic, Julie Otsuka

Big Swiss, Jen Beagin

Fallen angels, Noël Coward

Normal people, Sally Rooney

Imre: a memorandum, Edward Prime-Stevenson

The cunning man, Robertson Davies

The swimmers, Julie Otsuka

2024 ———————————————————————

4 3 2 1, Paul Auster

Waiting for the barbarians, J.M. Coetzee

About love, and other stories, Anton Chekhov

A death in Tokyo, Keigo Higashino

A philosophy of walking, Frédéric Gros

Free love, Tessa Hadley

Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo

Snow, John Banville

Mr Loverman, Bernardine Evaristo

Earthlings, Sayaka Murata

The forgotten waltz, Anne Enright

Study for obedience, Sarah Bernstein

The handmaid’s tale, Margaret Atwood

Lie with me, Philippe Besson

The professor, Lauren Nossett

On writing, Stephen King

The enigma of arrival, V.S.Naipaul

A murder of quality, John le Carré

The lake, Banana Yoshimoto

The little death, Michael Nava

The boat who wouldn’t float, Farley Mowat

Mapp and Lucia, E. F. Benson

Will you please be quiet, please? Raymond Carver

The lock-up, John Banville

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

The summer of Kim Novak, Haakan Nesser

The secret history, Donna Tartt

The magic mountain, Thomas Mann

Murder 101, Maggie Barbieri

Egon Schiele, Reinhard Steiner

The Ivies, Alexa Donne

Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen

Dear committee members, Julie Schumacher

Notes from the underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Short Stories, vol I, Ernest Hemingway

2023 ———————————————————————

Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami

Georges Simenon

The blue room; Maigret hesitates; Maigret at the crossroads; My friend Maigret;

Maigret has doubts; The bar on the Seine; Maigret and Monsieur Charles;

The patience of Maigret; Maigret goes to school; Maigret goes home;

Inspector cadaver; The yellow dog; Maigret and the old lady, a man’s head; 

Maigret and the Madman of Bergerac

Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt, J. R. Jewitt

In a German pension, Katherine Mansfield

Fresh complaint, Jeffrey Eugenides

The man who fell to earth, Walter Tevis

Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart

Confusion, Stefan Zweig

July’s people, Nadine Gordimer

Evil and the mask, Fuminori Nakamura

The past, Tessa Hadley

The two Hotel Francforts, David Leavitt

And thereby hangs a tale, Jeffrey Archer

Fear, Stefan Zweig

Void moon, Michael Connelly

Wilderness tips, Margaret Atwood

Love and summer, William Trevor

The infatuations, Javier Marías

This is not who we are, Zachary Shore

His bloody project, Graeme Macrae Burnet

Carol, Patricia Highsmith

A murder is announced, Agatha Christie

Butter honey pig bread, Francesca Ekwuyasi

We want what we want, Alix Ohlin

Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

Heavenly date and other flirtations, Alexander McCall Smith

Strange weather in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami

Worry stones, Joanna Lilley

While the women are sleeping, Javier Marías

The mystery of Henri Pick, David Foenkinos

Tokyo Ueno station, Yu Miri

Queer, Frank Wynne

The promise, Damon Galgut

Station eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

2022 ———————————————————————

Portraits of a marriage, Sandor Marai

Night boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry

Klee Wyck, Emily Carr

Pulse, Julian Barnes

Summer lightning, P. G. Wodehouse

Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So

Oaxaca journal, Oliver Sachs

Swimming home, Deborah Levy

Binge, Douglas Coupland

Breasts and eggs, Mieko Kawakami

After the Sun, Jonas Eika

The silence, Don DeLillo

The Topeka school, Ben Lerner

The night ocean, Paul la Farge

The pregnant widow, Martin Amis

The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

Cult X, Fuminori Nakamura

The story of a shipwrecked sailor, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Harrow, Joy Williams

The burning plain and other stories, Juan Rulfo

Civilwarland in bad decline, George Saunders

Cathedral, Raymond Carver

The black monk and other stories, Anton Chekov

Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway

Homesickness, Colin Barrett

E.J. Hughes paints British Columbia, Robert Amos

The ten loves of Nishino, Hiromi Kawakami

The honjin murders, Seishi Yokomizo

Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake

No one belongs here more than you, Miranda July

The hole, Hiroko Oyamada

The gentlemen’s guide to vice and virtue, Mackenzi Lee

Bridget Jones’s diary, Helen Fielding

The gathering, Anne Enright

The short, the long and the tall, Jeffrey Archer

Thus bad begins, Javier Marías

2021 ———————————————————————

The lonesome bodybuilder, Yukiko Motoya

Player one, Douglas Coupland

A month in the country, J. L. Carr

Reginald in Russia and other stories, Saki

Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Catapult, Emily Fridlund

A little history of Canada, H. V. Nelles

Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald

Moonstone – The Boy Who Never Was, Sjón

Mo said she was quirky, James Kelman

Guns, germs and steel, Jared Diamond

The third reich, Robert Bolaño

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

Swimming in the monsoon sea, Shyam Selvadurai

Faceless killers, Henning Mankell

What we talk about when we talk about love, Raymond Carver

The gun, Fuminori Nakamura

The inimitable Jeeves, P G Wodehouse

Of love and other demons, Gabriel García Márquez

The early stories of Truman Capote, Truman Capote

Going to meet the man, James Baldwin

This is how you lose her, Junot Díaz

Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

South of the border, west of the Sun, Haruki Murakami

Invisible dead, Sam Wiebe

Martin Bauman, David Leavitt

The Abbess of Crewe, Muriel Spark

Sleep no more, P. D. James

Memorial, Bryan Washington

In youth is pleasure, Denton Welch

Sailing alone around the world, Joshua Slocum

The finishing school, Muriel Spark

An embarrassment of mangoes, Ann Vanderhoof

Shenzheners, Xue Yiwei

A place called Winter, Patrick Gale

First person singular, Haruki Murakami

Aiding and abetting, Muriel Spark

Dirty beasts, Roald Dahl

The thief, Fuminori Nakamura

Your inner hedgehog, Alexander McCall Smith

The page turner, David Leavitt

Untamed shore, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

2020 ———————————————————————

Strange pilgrims, Gabriel García Márquez

On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Original Prin, Randy Boyagoda

Hear us o Lord from Heaven Thy dwelling place, Malcolm Lowry

It can’t happen here, Sinclair Lewis

The emissary, Yoko Tawada

The plague, Albert Camus

The rebel angels, Robertson Davies

Convenience store woman, Sayaka Murata

Amok and other stories, Stefan Zweig

Lionel Asbo, Martin Amis

Diary of a mad old man, Junichiro Tanizaki

The transmigration of bodies, Yuri Herrera

Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger

Inside a pearl, Edmund White

The sense of an ending, Julian Barnes

Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner

I don’t expect anyone to believe me, Juan Pablo Villalobos

A boy at the edge of the world, David Kingston Yeh

The lathe of heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin

Flow my tears, the policeman said, Philip K. Dick

Lot, Bryan Washington

The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven, Sherman Alexie

Such a lonely, lovely road, Kagiso Lesego Molope

Call for the dead, John le Carré

Roseanna, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

Here the dark, David Bergen

Desert of the heart, Jane Rule

The memory police, Yoko Ogawa

Troubling love, Elena Ferrante

Marry me: a romance, John Updike

Rashomon and other stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Half a life, V. S. Naipaul

Enlightenment now, Steven Pinker

The west beyond the west, Jean Barman

Tell tale, Jeffrey Archer

2019 ————————————————————————

Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon

Myself Through Others, David Watmough

Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

White Noise, Don DeLillo

Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin

Oblivion, David Foster Wallace

The Gate, Natsume Soseki

Pastoralia, George Saunders

A Bit on the Side, William Trevor

Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia E. Butler

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories, Joy Williams

Fifth Business, Robertson Davies

Short Cuts, Raymond Carver

Blind willow, sleeping woman, Haruki Murakami

The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer

The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje

The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro

Soucouyant, David Chariandy

Ninety-nine Stories of God, Joy Williams

I’ll sell you a dog, Juan Pablo Villalobos

Signs preceding the end of the world, Yuri Herrera

The chocolate war, Robert Cormier

Outer dark, Cormac McCarthy

The waste land, T. S. Eliot

No great mischief, Alistair MacLeod