Friday 6 January 2012

Books read in 2011 (last first)

68) Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels ( fiction - re-read)

67) Selected Poetry - Jenny Joseph (poetry)

66) Signs Around a Dead Body - Deryn Rees-Jones (poetry)

65) Vintage Sea - Marion McCready (poetry)

64) The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Seabold (non fiction)

63) Releasing Stone - David Morley (poetry)

62) A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor (non-fiction)

61) Off Road to Everywhere - Philip Gross (poetry)

60) Aged Fourteen My Grandfather Runs Away to Sea - Matt Kirkham (poetry)

59) Another Use of Canvas - Angus Sinclair (poetry)

58) The History of Love - Nicole Krauss (fiction)

57) Ordering the Storm - How to Put Together a Book of Poems - Susan Grimm (ed.) (poetry)

56) Terry Street - Douglas Dunn (poetry)

55) Spacecraft Voyager 1: New and Selected Poems - Alice Oswald (poetry)

54) Four Poets - UEA Creative Writing anthology 2011 (poetry)

53) Break no Bones - Kathy Reichs (fiction)

52) Knots and Crosses - Ian Rankin (fiction)

51) Black Cat Bone - John Burnside (poetry)

50) When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman (fiction)

49) The Water Table - Philip Gross (poetry, re-read)

48) Deepstep Come Shining - C.D. Wright (poetry)

47) Kennedy's Brain - Henning Mankell (fiction)

46) Rapture - Carol Ann Duffy (poetry)

45) Book of Matches - Simon Armitage (poetry)

44) Full Indian Rope Trick - Colette Bryce (poetry)

43) Unseen - Mari Jungstedt (fiction)

42) The Wasteland and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot (poetry)

41) The Good Angel of Death - Andrey Kurkov (fiction)

40) Slattern - Kate Clanchy (poetry)

39) Something and Nothing - Lynn Woollacott (poetry)

38) Ghost Light - Joseph O'Connor (fiction)

37) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis - Wendy Cope (poetry, re-read)

36) A Sampler - Partrick Yarker (poetry)

35) Escaping the Cage - Kate Scott (poetry)

34) After the Fire, A Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld (Fiction)

33) The Heel of Bernadette - Colette Bryce (poetry)

32) Seeing Stars - Simon Armitage (poetry - re-read)

31) What the Water gave Me - Pascale Petit (poetry)

30) The Triggering Town, Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing - Richard Hugo (non fiction)

29) Dog Language - Chase Twichell (poetry)

28) Nasty Little Intro #1 - Hannah Jane Walker (poetry)

27) Miming Silence - Bernadette Cremin (poetry)

26) How Not to Get Your Poetry Published - Helena Nelson (non fiction)

25) Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts (poetry)

24) One Eye'd Leigh - Katherine Kilalea (poetry)

23) Ararat - Louise Gluck (poetry)

22) MUDe - John Redmond (poetry)

21) District and Circle - Seamus Heaney (re-read -poetry)

20) Enchantment - David Morley (poetry)

19) The Suitable Girl - Michelle Mcgrane (poetry)

18) A ha, 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit... - Jordan Ayan (non fiction)

17) The Wild Iris - Louise Gluck (poetry)

16) Electric Shadow - Heidi Williamson (poetry)

15) The Meanest Flower - Mimi Khalvati (poetry)

14) In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar (fiction)

13) Faber New Poets 6 - Annie Katchinska (poetry)

12) Faber New Poets 5 - Joe Dunthorne (poetry)

11) Faber New Poets 7 - Sam Riviere (poetry)

10) Shadow Tag - Louise Erdrich (fiction)

9) The Ghost Orchid - Michael Longley (poetry)

8) Legion - David Harsent (poetry)

7) Rachel Hore - The Memory Garden (fiction)

6) Double Vision - Pat Barker (fiction)

5) Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)

4) Captain Starlight's Apprentice - Kathryn Heyman (fiction)

3) Rain - Don Paterson (poetry)

2) Look We Have Coming to Dover  - Daljit Nagra (poetry)

1) Things We Didn't see Coming - Steven Amsterdam (fiction)