Friday 13 January 2017

BOOKS READ IN 2016

  • 166) Ground Water - Matthew Hollis (poetry, re read)
  • 165) The Blindfold - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)
  • 164) Sunshine - Melissa Lee-Houghton (poetry)
  • 163) Acts of God - Ellen Gilchrist (fiction, short stories)
  • 162) Ghosts - Anna Wigley (poetry)
  • 161) Bearings - Isobel Dixon (poetry)
  • 160) Domestic Interior - Stephanie Brown (poetry)
  • 159) Jam - Cliff Yates (poetry)
  • 158) Book of Bones - Kathy Gee (poetry)
  • 157) nothing more to it than bubbles - Jane Burn (poetry)
  • 156) Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (fiction)
  • 155) The Swell - Jessica Mookherjee (poetry)
  • 154) Catch - Fiona Sampson (poetry)
  • 153) The World's Two Smallest Humans - Julia Copus (poetry)
  • 152) Some Perfect Year - Cameron Gearen (poetry)
  • 151) Amazon - Catherine Ayres (poetry)
  • 150) Serious Concerns - Wendy Cope (poetry)
  • 149) What Just Happened - Sara Berkeley Tolchin (poetry)
  • 148) Pictures from an Exhibition - Maureen Duffy (poetry)
  • 147) Memorandum: Poems for the Fallen - Vanessa Gebbie (poetry)
  • 146) The Keys to the Jail - Keetje Kuipers (poetry)
  • 145) The Terrible - Daniel Sluman (poetry)
  • 144) The Stonegate Devil - Carole Bromley (poetry)
  • 143) Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter (poetry)
  • 142) The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly - Sun-mi Hwang (fiction)
  • 141) The Game Parade - Maurice Spillane (poetry)
  • 140) The Most Beautiful Thing - Satya Robyn (fiction)
  • 139) Fragile Houses - Nina Lewis (poetry)
  • 138) Coyote - Colin Winnette (fiction)
  • 137) Girl on a Train - A.J. Waines (fiction)
  • 136) This Changes Things - Claire Askew (poetry)
  • 135) Small Nuclear Family - Mel Pryor (poetry)
  • 134) The Mother's Tongue - Heid E. Erdrich (poetry)
  • 133) Bee Journal - Sean Borodale (poetry, re-read)
  • 132) Almanacs - Jen Hadfield (poetry)
  • 131) Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie (fiction)
  • 130) The Illusion of Separateness - Simon Van Booy (fiction)
  • 129) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
  • 128) My Sunshine Away - M.O. Walsh (fiction)
  • 127) Lapidary - Rosamund Stanhope (poetry)
  • 126) Asylum - Janet Simon (poetry)
  • 125) Snowdrops - A.D. Miller (fiction)
  • 124) The Art of Falling - Kim Moore (poetry)
  • 123) Old School - Tobias Wolff (fiction)
  • 122) Pessimism for Beginners - Sophie Hannah (poetry, re-read)
  • 121) Wife - Tiphanie Yanique (poetry)
  • 120) An Ocean in Iowa - Peter Hedges (fiction)
  • 119) Weeds and Wild Flowers - Alice Oswald (poetry, re-read)
  • 118) What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)
  • 117) The Case of the Imaginary Detective - Karen Joy Fowler (fiction)
  • 116) Spacecraft - John McCollough (poetry)
  • 115) Handwriting - Michael Ondaajte (poetry)
  • 114) Crowd Sensations - Judy Brown (poetry)
  • 113) Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn (fiction)
  • 112) The Sea - John Banville (fiction)
  • 111) The Flower and the Plough - Rachel Piercey (poetry)
  • 110) The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (fiction)
  • 109) The Lighthouse - Alison Moore (fiction)
  • 108) The Forward Book of Poetry 2017 (poetry)
  • 107) He Wants - Alison Moore (fiction)
  • 106) Kink and Particle - Tiffany Atkinson (poetry, re-read)
  • 105) Little Usherette - Michael Scott (poetry)
  • 104) Say Something Back - Denise Riley (poetry)
  • 103) The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You - Paul Farley (poetry, re-read)
  • 102) The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle (fiction)
  • 101) Falling Awake - Alice Oswald (poetry)
  • 100) The Treekeeper's Tale - Pascale Petit (poetry)
  • 99) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler (fiction)
  • 98) Doors Opening - Sally Festing (poetry)
  • 97) Articles of Twinship - Peter Wallis (poetry)
  • 96) Bad Influence Girl - Janet Rogerson (poetry)
  • 95) The Sea House - Esther Freud (fiction)
  • 94) Dark Pool Ripple - Mike Saunders (poetry)
  • 93) Shed - Martin Figura and Natty Peterkin (poetry)
  • 92) Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell (fiction)
  • 91) Our Tragic Universe - Scarlett Thomas (fiction)
  • 90) Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster (fiction)
  • 89) Boyhood - J.M. Coetzee (non fiction)
  • 88) One - Sarah Crossan (fiction)
  • 87) The End of the World Running Club - Adrian J. Walker (fiction)
  • 86) Girl in the Dog-tooth Coat by Zelda Chappel (poetry)
  • 85) Groundings by Nicola Warwick (poetry)
  • 84) No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort (poetry)
  • 83) The Skin Diary by Abegail Morley (poetry)
  • 82) Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Milwood Hargrave (fiction)
  • 81) Emergency Poet by Deborah Alma (poetry)
  • 80) The Beechwood Airship Interviews by Dan Richards (non fiction)
  • 79) Hometown - Carrie Etter (fiction)
  • 78) Scar - Carrie Etter (poetry)
  • 77) The Forward Book of Poetry 2015 (poetry)
  • 76) Torn Awake by Forrest Gander (poetry)
  • 75) Catulla et al by Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)
  • 74) Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (fiction)
  • 73) Tilt by Jean Sprackland (poetry)
  • 72) This Can't Be Life by Dana Ward (poetry)
  • 71) The Stripping Point by Brian Henry (poetry)
  • 70) Daredevils by Shawn Vestal (fiction)
  • 69) Kink and Particle by Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)
  • 68) Long Haul Travellers - Sheenagh Pugh (poetry)
  • 67) Redgrove's Wife - Penelope Shuttle (poetry, re read)
  • 66) Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot (poetry)
  • 65) The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie (poetry)
  • 64) Dr Zeeman's Catastrophe Machine by Martin Figura (poetry)
  • 63) On the Saltmarsh - Ruth Valentine (poetry)
  • 62) Here and Now by Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee (non fiction)
  • 61) Bones Never Lie - Kathy Reichs (fiction)
  • 60) Dissolve to L.A. - James Trevelyan and Enma Wright (poetry)
  • 59) Snow Child - Abegail Morley (poetry)
  • 58) Primers: Volume One - Maureen Cullen, Lucy Ingrams, Katie Griffiths (poetry)
  • 57) Myrtle - Ruth Wiggins (poetry)
  • 56) salt. - Nayyirah Waheed (poetry)
  • 55) So Many Moving Parts - Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)
  • 54) Long Time No See - Hannah Lowe (non fiction)
  • 53) True Tales of the Countryside - Deborah Alma (poetry)
  • 52) The Soho Leopard - Ruth Padel (poetry)
  • 51) Deep Lane - Mark Doty (poetry)
  • 50) Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds: Poems - Eleanor Lerman (poetry)
  • 49) The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster (fiction)
  • 48) Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster (fiction)
  • 47) Alphabet - Inger Christensen (poetry)
  • 46) Virgin: A History Of Virgin Records - Terry Southern (non fiction)
  • 45) Leviathan - Paul Auster (fiction)
  • 44) Deep Field - Mark Doty (poetry)
  • 43) Bones of the Lost - Kathy Reichs (fiction)
  • 42) Skin Divers - Anne Michaels (poetry, re read)
  • 41) The Plucking Shed - Jill McEvoy (poetry)
  • 40) Cathedral - Raymond Carver (fiction, short stories, re-read)
  • 39) The Print Museum - Heidi Williamson (poetry)
  • 38) The Life and Death of Sophie Stark - Anna North (fiction)
  • 37) The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster (fiction)
  • 36) Not in This World - Tracey Herd (poetry)
  • 35) Curves to the Apple: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, Reluctant Gravities - Rosmarie Waldrop (poetry)
  • 34) The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)
  • 33) Antler - John Clegg (poetry)
  • 32) Loudness - Judy Brown (poetry)
  • 31) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (fiction)
  • 30) How We Light - Nick Sturm (poetry)
  • 29) A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (fiction)
  • 28) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (fiction, re-read)
  • 27) Actual Cloud - Dalton Day (poetry)
  • 26) Out of Everywhere - Maggie O'Sullivan (editor) (poetry)
  • 25) The Music of Chance - Paul Auster (fiction)
  • 24) The Gathering - Ann Enright (fiction)
  • 23) Kid - Simon Armitage (poetry, re-read)
  • 22) The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham (fiction)
  • 21) The Remains - Annie Freud (poetry)
  • 20) The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut (fiction)
  • 19) Shingle Street - Blake Morrison (poetry)
  • 18) Elephant and Other Stories - Raymond Carver (fiction, short-stores, re-read)
  • 17) Oracle Night - Paul Auster (fiction)
  • 16) In the Kingdom of Men - Kim Barnes (fiction)
  • 15) A Country Called Home - Kim Barnes (fiction)
  • 14) Paul Klee: Painting Music - Hajo Düchting (non fiction)
  • 13) With Deer - Aase Berg (poetry)
  • 12) The Fifteen Minute Rule - Caroline Buchanan (non fiction)
  • 11) Selected Poems - Denise Riley (poetry)
  • 10) The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures... - C.D. Wright (poetry/essay)
  • 9) The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (fiction)
  • 8) The Cherry Tree Cafe - Heidi Swain (fiction)
  • 7) Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings - Matsuo Bashō (poetry)
  • 6) The Bird Artist - Howard Norman (fiction)
  • 5) Passing - Nella Larsen (fiction)
  • 4) The Life and Works of Chagall - Nathaniel Harris (non fiction)
  • 3) The Terrors - Tom Chivers (poetry)
  • 2) Red Dust Road - Jackie Kay (non fiction)
  • 1) The Last Pilot - Ben Johncock (fiction)

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