Books read in 2020

139) Broken Greek - Pete Paphides (non fiction)

138) The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

137) How to Wash a Heart - Bhanu Kapil (poetry)

136) Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz (poetry)

135) Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life (non fiction)

134) Princess Anne - Katharine L. Oldmeadow (fiction, re read)

133) The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark (fiction)

132) Perrault's Fairy Tales - Charles Perrault (fiction, short stories, re read)

131) Barn 8 - Deb Olin Unferth (fiction)

130) My Darling from the Lions - Rachel Long (poetry)

129) Day Four - Sarah Lotz (fiction)

128) The Shooting Gallery - Carrie Etter (poetry)

127) Lost at the Fair - W. Perring (fiction, picture book, re read)

126) Mock orange - Anne Osbourn (poetry)

125) The Bears' Picnic - Stan and Jan Berenstain (fiction, picture book, re read)

124) Bunnikin's Picnic Party - A.J Macgregor (fiction, picture book, re read)

123) My Name is Why - Lemn Sissay (non fiction)

122) Wild Persistence - Katrina Naomi (poetry)

121) Intimates - Helen Farrish (poetry)

120) Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean - Sugar Magnolia Wilson (poetry)

119) Shine, Darling - Ella Frears (poetry)

118) Witches, Warriors, Workers - eds Fran Lock and Jane Burn (poetry)

117) The Carrying - Ada Limon (poetry)

116) In the Lateness of the World - Carolyn Forché (poetry)

115) Instructions for My Imposter - Kathleen McGookey (poetry)

114) Solar Cruise - Claire Crowther (poetry)

113) When the Trees Fall - Jane Clarke (poetry)

112) Vixen - Rosie Garland (fiction)

111) Scion - Sue Rose (poetry)

110) Lament - Briony Bax (poetry)

109) Murder in the Dark - Margaret Atwood (fiction, short stories)

108) One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake - Tua Forsstrom (poetry)

107) Be With - Forrest Gander (poetry)

106) Love And/Or the Storm - Jonny Wiles (poetry)

105) Dressing for the Afterlife - Maria Taylor (poetry)

104) The Faithful Look Away - Melissa Lee-Houghton (fiction)

103) The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton (fiction, re read)

102) Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me - Kate Clanchy (non fiction)

101) More Than You Were - Christina Thatcher (poetry)

100) The Shaking City - Cath Drake (poetry)

99) Bombs On Aunt Dainty - Judith Kerr (non fiction)

98) I Hate and I Love - Catullus (poetry)

97) Between the Stops - Sandi Toksvig (non fiction)

96) The Rose Metal Field Guide to Prose Poetry (poetry)

95) Feck Perfuction - James Victore (non fiction)

94) Love Minus Love - Wayne Holloway-Smith (poetry)

93) Tiger Girl - Pascale Petit (poetry)

92) Just Ask the Universe - Michael Samuels (non fiction)

91) I love the Bones of You - Christopher Eccleston (non fiction)

90) My Thoughts Exactly - Lily Allen (non fiction)

89) Rendang - Will Harris (poetry)

88) After Fame - Sam Riviere (poetry)

87) Interior With Sudden Joy - Brenda Shaughnessy (poetry)

86) Night Wanderers - C.J. Flood (fiction)

85) Where Were You Robert? - Hans Magnus Enzensberger (fiction)

84) The River's Song - Jacqueline Bishop (fiction)

83) Amy and Isabelle - Elizabeth Strout (fiction)

82) Cloudstreet - Tim Winton (fiction)

81) Antisemetic for Homesickness - Romalyn Ante (poetry)

80) Primers Volume Five (poetry)

79) A Better Me - Gary Barlow (non fiction)

78) A Fold in the River - Philip Gross (poetry)

77) Little Kings - Peter Kahn (poetry)

76) The Nerve of It - Lynn Emanuel (poetry)

75) Monica's Overcoat of Flesh - Geraldine Clarkson (poetry)

74) Magnolia, 木蘭 - Nina Mingya Powles (poetry)

73) Face It - Debbie Harry (non fiction)

72) Unlocked - Sue Butler (poetry)

71) The Remedies - Katharine Towers (poetry)

70) The Artist's Daughter - Kimiko Hahn (poetry)

69) Flood - Clare Shaw (poetry)

68) Remember, Body - C.P. Cavafy (poetry)

67) The Little Book of Passage - Franca Mancinelli (poetry)

66) A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson (poetry)

65) The Air Year - Caroline Bird (poetry, re read)

64) Call and Response - Rachel Spence (poetry)

63) On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (fiction)

62) I'm OK, I'm Pig - Kim Hyesoon (poetry, re read)

61) Lasagne - Wayne Holloway-Smith (poetry)

60) Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)

59) Luxe - Amy Key (poetry, re read)

58) Why? And Other Questions - Robin Houghton (poetry)

57) Litany of a cardiologist - Denise Bundred (poetry)

56) Apple, Fallen - Olga Dermott-Bond (poetry)

55) About Leaving - Ian Glass

54) Tenter - Susie Campbell (poetry)

53) Body, Remember - Wes Lee (poetry)

52) Fruitcake - Selima Hill (poetry)

51) Shine, Darling - Ella Frears (poetry)

50) Sanatorium - Abi Plamer (poetry)

49) The Games - Harry Josephine Giles (poetry)

48) Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods - Tishani Doshi (poetry)

47) Plainwater - Anne Carson (essay/poetry)

46) Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel (fiction)

45) Letters Home - Jennifer Wong (poetry)

44) Bones on Ice - Kathy Reichs (fiction)

43) Homie - Danez Smith (poetry)

42) Boys in Trees - Carly Simon (non fiction)

41) I'm Stupid, But I'm Not That Stupid - Selima Hill (poetry)

40) Green Migraine - Michael Dickman (poetry, re read)

39) Deluge - Charlotte Ansell (poetry)

38) Footnotes to Water - Zöe Skoulding (poetry)

37) This Is How We Lost Each Other - Karese Burrows (poetry)

36) Split - Juana Adcock (poetry)

35) Don't Try This at Home - Angela Readman (short stories)

34) Much Left Unsaid - Finola Scott (poetry)

33) Milk Tooth - Martha Sprackland (poetry)

32) and what if we were all allowed to disappear - Tania Hershman (poetry)

31) When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen (poetry)

30) Hinge - Alycia Pirmohamed (poetry)

29) Haverscroft - S. A. Harris (fiction)

28) A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor - John Berger (non fiction)

27) Beautiful Place - Amanthi Harris (fiction)

26) My Shrink is Pregnant - Katie Griffiths (poetry)

25) Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout (fiction)

24) Hash - Torgny Lindgren (fiction)

23) My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout (short stories)

22) Silent Years - Alasdair Paterson (poetry)

21) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë (fiction)

20) Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje (poetry/fiction)

19) Horse-man - Em Strang (poetry)

18) Basic Nest Architecture - Polly Atkin (poetry)

17) Apple Water - Raine Geoghegan (poetry)

16) In Nearby Bushes - Kei Miller (poetry)

15) Finished Creatures (issue 2) - edited by Jan heritage (poetry)

14) If All the World and Love Were Young - Stephen Sexton (poetry)

13) That Lonsesome Valley - Melissa Lee houghton (fiction)

12) Truth Street - David Cain (poetry)

11) Wings made from the muscle of a river - Neil Richards (poetry)

10) Significant Other - Isabel Galleymore (poetry)

9) Isn't Forever - Amy Key (poetry)

8) Cuckoo - Nichola Deane (poetry)

7) The Aesthetics of Breath - Charles G Lauder Jr (poetry)

6) Interference Effects - Claire Dyer (poetry)

5) Nine Inches - Tom Perrotta (short stories)

4) Smoothie - Claudia Toutoungi (poetry)

3) Devoured - Anna Mackmin (fiction)

2) Tigress - Jessica Mookherjee (poetry)

1) sad boy/detective - Sam Sax (poetry)