Tuesday 6 January 2015

Books Read in 2014

  • Last first...

  • 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)

2 comments:

Tim Love said...

I've read quite a few of those, though not all this year - Her Birth, The Shock of the Fall, Truffle Beds (I thought Katherine Pierpoint was going to do big things), Bevel, Adventures in Form, Division Street (a disappointment), Bysuss (another disappointment), Sleeping Keys, The Great Gatsby, Parallax, Moontide (too soon), Disgrace

Julia said...

Yes I agree about Moontide! And whatever happened to Katherine Pierpoint? Maybe she is a slow burner.