Tuesday 6 January 2015

Books Read in 2014

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  • 93 In the Bee Latitudes - ‘Annah Sobelman (poetry)
  • 92) The Legend of Colton H. Bryant - Alexandra Fuller (non-fiction)
  • 91) Maggie and Me - Damaien Barr (non-fiction)
  • 90) The Gypsy and the Poet - David Morley (poetry)
  • 89) Every Day is for the Thief - Teju Cole (fiction)
  • 88) Notes From the Balcony - Lynn Woollacott (poetry)
  • 87) Like Rabbits - Lynne Bryan (fiction)
  • 86) Diary Of an Unsmug Married - Polly James (fiction)
  • 85) Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists (fiction - short stories)
  • 84) My Sister's Keeper - Bill Benners (fiction)
  • 83) The Mathematics of Friedrich Gauss: Family Snapshots - D.W. Wilson (fiction)
  • 82) All One Breath - John Burnside (poetry)
  • 81) Beneath Stars Long Extinct - Ron Egatz (poetry)
  • 80) Small Grass - Jacqueline Gabbitas (poetry)
  • 79) Place - Jorie Graham (poetry)
  • 78) The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler (fiction)
  • 77) The Waterproof Bible - Andrew Kaufman (fiction)
  • 76) Picture Me Gone - Meg Rossoff (fiction)
  • 75) And After All This I Saw: Selections from the Work of Julian of Norwich - Edwin Kelly (poetry)
  • 74) The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber (fiction)
  • 73) Irene - Piere Lemaitre (fiction)
  • 72) At the Time of Partition - Moniza Alvi (poetry)
  • 71) Black Country - Liz Berry (poetry)
  • 70) Wreaking - James Scudamore (fiction)
  • 69) Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (fiction)
  • 68) Thunderstruck and other Stories - Elizabeth McCracken (fiction - short stories)
  • 67) Ballistics - D.W. Wilson (fiction)
  • 66) The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov (fiction)
  • 65) Strange Bodies - Marcel Theroux (fiction)
  • 64) When I was Five I Killed Myself - Howard Buten (fiction)
  • 63) Fauverie - Pascale Petit (poetry)
  • 62) Zoo Father - Pascale Petit (poetry, re-read)
  • 61) The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes (fiction)
  • 60) Snapper - Brian Kimberling (fiction)
  • 59) Imagined Sons - Carrie Etter (poetry)
  • 58) Under the Skin - Michael Faber (fiction)
  • 57) The Lake in the Woods - Tim O'Brien (fiction)
  • 56) Moontide - Niall Campbell (poetry)
  • 55) Comradely Greetings – Nadya Tolokonnikova (non-fiction)
  • 54) This is Yarrow - Tara Bergin (poetry)
  • 53) Parallax -Sinead Morrisey (poetry)
  • 52) Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (fiction)
  • 51) Sins of the Leopard - James Brooks (poetry)
  • 50) The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion - Kei Miller (poetry)
  • 49) The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson (fiction)
  • 48) Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey (fiction)
  • 47) Ties that Bind - Catherine Deveney (fiction)
  • 46) Hoad and other Stories - Sarah Passingham (fiction, short stories)
  • 45) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
  • 44) The Universe Versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence (fiction)
  • 43) Erosion - S.A. Hemmings (fiction)
  • 42) Sic Transit Wagon and other stories - Barbara Jenkins (Fiction, short stories)
  • 41) The White Lioness - henning Mankell (fiction)
  • 40) The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin (fiction)
  • 39) Hot Damn - Cat Woodward (poetry)
  • 38) Candide - Voltaire (fiction)
  • 37) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (fiction)
  • 36) Sleeping Keys - Jean Sprackland (poetry)
  • 35) Double Negative - Ivan Vladislavic (non fiction)
  • 34) Planet-shaped Horse - Luke Kennard (poetry)
  • 33) Bysuss - Jen Hadfield (poetry)
  • 32) Division Street - Helen Mort (poetry)
  • 31) Tenth of December - George Saunders (fiction - re-read)
  • 30) Adventures in Form - edited by Tom Chivers (poetry)
  • 29) Bevel - William Letford (poetry, re-read)
  • 28) Barcelona - Philip Langeskov (fiction)
  • 27) Love Me Do - Lydia Macpherson (poetry)
  • 26) Gathering Evidence - Caoilinn Hughes (poetry)
  • 25) Perfect -Rachel Joyce (fiction)
  • 24) Strange Weather inTokyo - Hiromi Kawakami ( fiction)
  • 23) Standard Twin Fantasy - Sam Riviere (poetry)
  • 22) Forward Book of Poetry 2014 (poetry)
  • 21) Yoga - Tom Warner (poetry)
  • 20) Love, Nina, Despatches from Family Life - Nina Stibbe (non fiction)
  • 19) Instant-Flex 718 - Heather Phillipson (poetry)
  • 18) Enough About You - Notes Towards the New Autobiography - David Shields (non-fiction)
  • 17) Ink's Wish - Sarah Law (poetry)
  • 16) When the Killing's Done - T.C. Boyle (fiction)
  • 15) Violet - Selima Hill (poetry - re-read)
  • 14) The Marlowe Papers - Ros Barber (poetry)
  • 13) Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
  • 12) Truffle Beds - Katherine Pierpoint (poetry)
  • 11) The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt (fiction)
  • 10) Stag's Leap - Sharon Olds (poetry, re-read)
  • 9) Splitfish - Kiran Millwood Hargrave (poetry)
  • 8) The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer (fiction)
  • 7) Conjure - Michael Donaghy (poetry)
  • 6) The Paraffin Child - Stephen Blanchard (fiction)
  • 5) Her Birth - Rebecca Goss (poetry)
  • 4) The Museum of Disappearing Sounds - Zoe Skoulding (poetry)
  • 3) Ice - Gillian Clarke (poetry)
  • 2) Life: An Exploded Diagram - Mal Peet (fiction)
  • 1) Fallen Land - Patrick Flannery (fiction)