Books I've Read



Books Read 
2019
August


The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan




July 


A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel
 
June


White Houses by Amy Bloom
Lost Connections by John Hari
Gut by Guilia Enders
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend


May


The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
Women by Chloe Caldwell
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
 
April
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley 
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
March
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
 
Feb
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Altered Traits: The science of meditation by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
 
Jan
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
 
2018
December
Found and Lost by Alison Leslie Gold
I'll Sell You A Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis by Elaine Morgan
Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth
October
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry 
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
September
Cemetery in Barnes by Gabriel Josipovici
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
August
Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown 
The Heart of A Dog by Mikhael Bulgakov
On Immunity by Eula Biss
July
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life Peter Godfrey Smith
April
You Play The Girl by  Carina Chocano
March
The Heretics by Will Storr
The Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
Interior by Angela Saini
February
Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet by Dallas Campbell (Simon & Shuster, 2017)

Ask an Astronaut by Tim Peake (Century, 2017)

A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson (Century, 2017)

January
The Field Guide to Reality by Joanna Kavenna 
With The End In Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix
Women and Power by Mary Beard   

2017
December

 Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio
Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir
Solitude by Michael Harris

November

 Staring at the Sun by Irving Yalom
Ten Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly
Lincoln in The Bardo by George Saunders

 October
The Accordionist by Fred Vargas
An Experiment on Leisure by Marion Milner
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

 September

How We Feel by Giovanni Frazzetto
Fever Dream by
Come To The Edge by Joanna Kavenna

August

 The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Kaminski and I by Daniel Kehlmann
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

July

 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard 

June
Restoration by Rose Tremain
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone 

 May
A Girl with A Gun by Amy Stewart

 March
Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
Poetry and Pedagogy, edited by Jean Retallack and Juliana Spahr

 Feb
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
Attack of the Difficult Poems by Charles Bernstein


 Jan
The Death and Return of the Author by Sean Burke
Metafiction by Patricia Waugh
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Cane by Jean Toomer
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
Collected Short Prose by Samuel Beckett
Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice
Big Pharma by Ben Goldacre
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld
Temps Glacieres by Fred Vargas (F)
2016 
December
Are We Alone Here by Peter Orner
Lifted by Bill Manhire

November
UnderMajorDomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
The Geography of Time by Robert Levine 
Splitting the Second by Tony Jones
The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbrano
Body Time by Gay Gaer Luce
Broken Harbour by Tana French
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Likeness by Tana French

October 
Into The Woods by Tana French 
Nod by Adrian Barnes  

September
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth

August
The Many Selves of Katharine North by Emma Geen

July
Vigilante by Shelley Harris  

June 
Gut by Guilia Enders   
Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey

May
Cure by Jo Marchant
The Places That Scare You Pema Chodron
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgewick 
Missing Out by Adam Phillips 
The Journey and the Guide by Maitreyabandhu 

April
Thicker Than Blood: Friendship on the Buddhist Path by Maitreyabandhu

Tastes Like Fear by Sarah Hilary
On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell
No Other Darkness by Sarah Hilary
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Hotel by Joanna Walsh
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
 
March

 The Fragment: An Incomplete History edited by William Tronzo
Manifesto Collage
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick 
January
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
New & Selected Poems by Kim Addonizio
Get Into Trouble by Kelly Link
2015 
December

 Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
The Lie by Helen Dunmore


november
The Eternal City: Poems by Kathleen Graber

 Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
The Falafel King Is Dead by Sara Shilo


 october

 Honeydew by Edith Pearlman

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande  

 September

 Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
My Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller
Rising Strong by Brene Brown

August

 Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Meridian by David Rose
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Live Alone and Like it by Marjorie Hillis
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

 July

 The First Bad Man by Miranda July
On Elisabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
An Open Heart by the Dalai Lama
Solitude by Anthony Storr

 June

 Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? by Ajahn Brahm
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

 May
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
The Circle by Dave Eggars
The Peripheral by William Gibson
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

 April

 Journal Of A Solitude by May Sarton
The Night Guest by Fiona MacFarlane

 March
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

February
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
My Name is Mina by David Almond
Skellig by David Almond
2014
December
Dime-Store Alchemy by Charles Simic
Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
 
November
Speedboat by Renata Adler
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Aren't We Sisters? by Patricia Fergusion
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide

 October
The Cartographer Tries to Map A Way To Zion by Kei Miller

 August
Gulp by Mary Roach

June

 The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
An Acre of Barren Ground by Jeremy Gavron 
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen 
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
The Silent Wife ASA Harrison

May
Brick Mother by SJ Bradley
Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter
Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offil

April
Together We Can Bury It by Kathy Fish
Navigation by Jo Bell
The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood by Hilda Sheehan
The Fact of a Doorframe by Adrienne Rich
 
March
Death In The Family by Karl Ove Knaussgard
Petit Mal by DBC Pierre 
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz

February
Looking Out of Broken Windows by Dan Powell

 January
Generosity by Richard Powers
 
2013
Dec

 The Ocean At the End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Thousand by Kevin Guilfoile
Canada by Richard Ford
The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology By Caroline Paul & Wendy MacNaughton

Oct

 Lazarus is Dead by Richard Beard
TransAtlantic Colum McCann

Sept

 Are you My Mother? Alison Bechdel
Unexploded Alison MacLeod
Vault David Rose

August

 Man's Search for Meaning Victor Frankl
Frankenstein's Cat Emily Anthes

June
The State of Me Nasim Marie Jaffrey
The Falling Sky Pippa Goldschmidt
Henry and June Anais Nin
With the Kisses of His Mouth by Monique Roffey
A Little Stranger by Kate Pullinger 

May
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
What Lies Within by Tom Vowler
Cupboard Love by Laura Lockington
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes 

April
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

March
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas
The Frequency of Souls by Mary Kay Zuravleff
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and 20 Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Buddha is Dead by Manu Bazzano

February 

 Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Fast Diet by Dr Michael Mosley

  
January

Pure by Andrew Miller
Bio Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research, edited by Ra Page
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 
2012
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

June

 Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Murder of Halland by Pia Jull
Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

April

 The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd

 March

 Jubilee by Shelley Harris
Electrified Sheep by Alex Boese

The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue


February 

 Kepler by John Banville
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
This Cake is For the Party by Sarah Selecky

 
January

 The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil 
The Newton Letter by John Banville
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Best Australian Short Stories: A Ten Year Collection by various authors
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
2011
January
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Secret Cure by Sue Woolfe
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
Lowboy by John Wray
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott

February
The Start of the End of it All by Carol Emshwiller
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Heroes and Villains Angela Carter
Zero History by William Gibson
The Observations by Jane Harris
Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller

March
C by Tom McCarthy
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
Experimental Heart by Jennifer Rohn
The Daylight and the Dust: Collected Stories by Janet Frame
The Devil's Music by Jane Rusbridge

April
The Devil's Mask by Christopher Wakling
There is No Other by Jonathan Papernick
The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain by Barbara Strauch
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
The Heart's Elliptical Orbit by Alyson Sarah Hallett

 May 
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
The White Family by Maggie Gee
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn

 June
Natural Obsessions by Natalie Angier
Vaquita by Edith Pearlman
2009 Pushcart Prize anthology
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

 July
A Better Angel by Chris Adrian
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

 August
About Grace by Anthony Doerr 
A Town By the Sea by Chris Paling
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
September
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
Collected Stories by Carol Emshwiller

 October
Swimming Home Deborah Levy
Pee on Water by Rachel Glaser
November
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Paris Metro Tales edited by Helen Constantine

December
Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors by Shannon Cain
Embassytown by China Mieville
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway

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