Books read in 2017

196) The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Tóibín (fiction)

195) Murder Bear - W.N. Herbert (poetry)

194) Bottle - Ramona Herdman (poetry)

193) The Price of Water in Finistère - Bodil Malmsten (non fiction)

192) The End of the Alphabet - Claudia Rankine (poetry)

191) Starlight on Water - Helena Nelson (poetry)

190) Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow - Ted Hughes (poetry, re-read)

189) That Eye, the Sky - Tim Winton (fiction)

188) A Herring Famine - Adam O'Riordan (poetry)

187) Ideal Cities - Erika Meitner (poetry)

186) The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx - Tara Bergin (poetry)

185) What I Was - Meg Rosoff (fiction)

184) Understudies for Air - Daisy Lafarge (poetry)

183) Mancunia - Michael Symmons Roberts (poetry)

182) Cur - Martin Malone (poetry)

181) Nox - Anne Carson (poetry)

180) Selfie with Waterlilies - Paul Stephenson (poetry)

179) Nothing Here Is Wild, Everything Is Open - Tania Hershman (poetry)

178) Elizabeth Jennings: Selected Poems - Elizabeth Jennings (poetry)

177) Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit (poetry)

176) The sky is cracked - Sarah L. Dixon (poetry)

175) Ideal Cities - Erika Meitner (poetry)

174) The Likeness - Martha Kapos (poetry)

173) The Darkness of Snow - Frank Ormsby (poetry)

172) The God Baby - Hilda Sheehan (poetry)

171) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe (fiction)

170) Terms and Conditions - Tania Hershman (poetry)

169) Primers: Volume Two (poetry)

168) All My Mad Mothers - Jacqueline Saphra (poetry)

167) To Sweeten Bitter - Raymond Antrobus (poetry)

166) Eyrie - Tim Winton (fiction)

165) The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood - Hilda Sheehan (poetry)

164) In the Winter Dark - Tim Winton (fiction)

163) Grief is the Thing With Feathers - Max Porter (poetry, re-read)

162) The Knifethrower's Wishlist - Nicola Warwick (poetry)

161) I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith (fiction)

160) The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1) - Graeme Simsion (fiction)

159) Winter Migrants - Tom Pickard (poetry)

158) The Nameless Places - Richard Lambert (poetry)

157) A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler (fiction)

156) Seasonal Disturbances - Karen McCarthy Woolf (poetry)

155) Moonrise - Meirion Jordan (poetry)

154) Dirt - William Letford (poetry)

153) On Balance - Sinéad Morrissey (poetry)

152) No More Milk - Karen Craigo (poetry)

151) Would Like to Meet - Polly James (fiction)

150) Carry Yourself Back to Me - Deborah Reed (fiction)

149) A Year Without Apricots - Kate Foley (poetry)

148) The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker (fiction)

147) Antinopolis - Elizabeth Parker (poetry)

146) Slate Rising - Alison Hill (poetry)

145) Gig - Roger McGough (poetry)

144) Nothing Personal - Sibyl Ruth (poetry)

143) Hunger - Knut Hamsun (fiction)

142) The Dig & Hotel Fiesta - Lynn Emanuel (poetry)

141) Strawberries and Black Pudding - Joyce Mansour (poetry)

140) The Number Poems - Matthew Welton (poetry)

139) Fence - Tim Cresswell (poetry)

138) The Silvering - Maura Dooley (poetry)

137) Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being - Henning Mankell (non fiction)

136) The Months - Susan Wicks (poetry)

135) The Sorrows of an American - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)

134) Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals - Patricia Lockwood (poetry)

132) The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)

131) Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters - Agnes Lehoczky (poetry)

130) Tonguit - Harry Giles (poetry, re-read)

129) Bird Sisters - Julia Webb (poetry, re-read)

128) Measures of Expatriation - Vahni Capildeo (poetry)

127) I Saw a Man - Owen Sheers (fiction)

126) Astéronymes - Claire Trévien (poetry)

125) Breath - Tim Winton (fiction)

124) The Unaccompanied - Simon Armitage (poetry)

123) Mouthy - Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan (poetry)

122) Our Animal - Meredith Stricker (poetry)

121) Still Life with Feeding Snake - John Burnside (poetry)

120) Identity Papers - Ian Seed (poetry)

119) Dirt Music - Tim Winton (fiction)

118) If I'm Scared We Can't Win - Emily Berry, Anne carson, Sophie Collins (poetry)

117) Life as It - Daneen Wardrop (poetry)

116) Except by Nature - Sandra Alcosser (poetry)

115) The Wall - William Sutcliffe (fiction)

114) Jackself - Jacob Polley (poetry)

113) Waiting for Bluebeard - Helen Ivory (poetry, re-read)

112) Bird-Woman - Em Strang (poetry)

111) See You Soon: Poems - Laura McKee (poetry)

110) Rather be the Devil - Ian Rankin (fiction)

109) Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger (fiction, short stories)

108) Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong (poetry)

107) The Dogs That Chase Bicycle Wheels - Ilse Pedler (poetry)

106) The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them - Stephen Burt (poetry, non-fiction)

105) Looking For Trouble - Charles Simic (poetry)

104) Knocks - Emily Stewart (poetry)

103) Five Sextillion Atoms - Jayne Benjulian (poetry)

102) Wintering - Megan Snyder-Camp (poetry)

101) Blood Sugar Canto - Ire'ne Lara Silva (poetry)

100) Void Studies - Rachael Boast (poetry)

99) Zeppelins - Chris McCabe (poetry)

98) A World Where News Travelled Slowly - Lavinia Greenlaw (poetry, re-read)

97) A Tug of Blue - Eleanor Hooker (poetry)

96) Communing - Ben Banyard (poetry)

95) Occupation - Angela France (poetry)

94) The Occupant - Jane Draycott (poetry)

93) A northern spring - Frank Ormsby (poetry)

92) Everything is Scripted - James Giddings (poetry)

91) Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire (poetry)

90) Terry Street - Douglas Dunn (poetry)

89) The Fabulous Relatives - Stephen Smith (poetry)

88) Savage - Rebecca Tamás (poetry)

87) Brother of the More Famous Jack - Barbara Trapido (fiction)

86) Inquisition Lane - Matthew Sweeney (poetry)

85) Tell Mistakes I Love Them - Stephen Daniels (poetry)

84) Bastard Out Of Carolina - Dorothy Allison (fiction)

83) Incarnation - Clare Pollard (poetry)

82) Stranger, Baby - Emily Berry (poetry)

81) Foxlowe - Eleanor Wasserberg (fiction)

80) Nine Horses - Billy Collins (poetry, re read)

79) Beans in Snow - Jennifer Copley (poetry)

78) Anima - Mario Petrucci (poetry)

77) Gone Fishing with Samy Rosenstock - Toadhouse (poetry)

76) Every Little Sound - Ruby Robinson (poetry)

75) Supreme Being - Matha Kapos (poetry)

74) Euclid's Harmonics - Jonathan Morley (poetry)

73) Slant Light - Sarah Westcott (poetry)

72) To the Left of Time - Thomas Lux (poetry)

71) One With Others: [a little book of her days] - C.D. Wright (poetry, re-read)

70) Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau (Fiction - short stories)

69) Momentary Stars - Edward Vanderpump (poetry)

68) The Shape of a Forest - Jemma L. King

67) The Dead Sea Poems - Simon Armitage (poetry)

66) That Little Something - Charles Simic (poetry)

65) Ghost of the Fisher Cat - Afric McGlinchey (poetry)

64) Eclipse - Kim Lasky (poetry)

63) Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (poetry)

62) A Spillage of Mercury - Neil Rollinson (poetry)

61) A Career in Accompaniment - Alex Reed (poetry)

60) Anchored - Lorna Shaughnessy (poetry)

59) Dreaming of Our Better Selves - Marion Tracy (poetry)

58) The Man With Night Sweats - Thom Gunn (poetry)

57) CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders (fiction, short stories)

56) Settle - Theresa Muñoz (poetry)

55) Ghosts - Anna Wigley (poetry)

54) Brother - Matthew Dickman & Michael Dickman (poetry)

53) Which Reminded Her, Later: Family Snapshots - Jon McGregor (fiction)

52) Henry and Susie are Missing - Hilda Sheehan (poetry)

51) If I Talked Everything My Eyes Saw - Natacha Bryan (poetry)

50) The Mole in the Mountain - Cressida Lindsay (fiction)

49) The Back Door Man - Dave Buschi (fiction)

48) The Book of Tides - Angela Readman (poetry)

47) The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (non fiction)

46) Complicity - Tom Sastry (poetry)

45) The Swan Machine - Dean Parkin (poetry)

44) Contemporary British Poetry and the City - Peter Barry (non fiction)

43) Waiting For Spring - R.J. Keller (fiction)

42) The Bricks that Built the Houses - Kate Tempest (fiction)

41) Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life - Sherwood Anderson (Fiction, short stories)

40) The Enchantment Of Lily Dahl - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)

39) Singing Underwater by Susan Wicks (poetry)

38) The Glass Age - Cole Swensen (poetry)

37) Meeting the British - Paul Muldoon (poetry)

36) Bolt Down This Earth - Gram Joel Davies (poetry)

35) From A to X: A Story in Letters - John Berger (fiction)

34) In Doctor No's Garden - Henry Shukman (poetry)

33) Saints of the Shadow Bible (Inspector Rebus, #19) - Ian Rankin (fiction)

32) The Plural Space - Matthew Mahaney (poetry)

31) Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector Rebus, #20) - Ian Rankin (fiction)

30) Youth - J.M. Coetzee (fiction)

29) Mending the Ordinary - Liz Lefroy (poetry)

28) Ways of Seeing - John Berger (non fiction)

27) Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas (play/poetry)

26) Nine Horses - Billy Collins (poetry)

25) West South West - Erin Moure (poetry)

24) New European Poets -Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer (poetry)

23) The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies (fiction)

22) Species of Spaces and Other Pieces - Georges Perec (non fiction)

21) The Elephant Tests - Matt Merritt (poetry)

20) Twenty Four Preludes And Fugues On Dmitri Shostakovich - Joanna Boulter (poetry)

19) The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris - Edmund White (non fiction)

18) Edgelands - Paul Farley and Michael Symmonds Roberts (non fiction)

17) The Ruined Elegance: Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (poetry)

16) Carillonneur - Agnes Lehoczky (poetry)

15) Flatrock - Fran Lock (poetry)

14) The Land Between - Wendy Mulford (poetry)

13) Amazon - Catherine Ayres (poetry, Re read)

12) Geography for the Lost -Kapka Kassabova (poetry)

11) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King (non fiction)

10) Tonguit - Harry Giles (poetry)

9) Mrs Uomo's Yearbook - Danielle Hope (poetry)

8) Profit and Loss - Leontia Flynn (Poetry)

7) Before I die - Jenny Downham (fiction, YA)

6) The Cabal and Other Stories - Ellen Gilchrist (fiction, short stories)

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

4) Species - Mark Burnhope (poetry)

3) Lustful Feminist Killjoys - Anna Percy & Rebecca Audra Smith (poetry)

2) Deepstep Come Shining - C.D. Wright (poetry, re read)

1) Acts of God - Ellen Gilchrist (fiction, short stories)