Reading update (No. 1)

Some new reads, some re-reads and some reads which have been hanging about my bookcase for ages. In order, from top to bottom:

• Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World
• J.G Ballard, Crash
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Apricot Jam and Other Stories
• George W. Grayson & Samuel Logan, The Executioner's Men
• David Foster Wallace, The Pale King