Books Read in 2019 - a record

• 156) The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh (fiction)
• 155) Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon (poetry)
• 154) The Ward by Louisa Campbell (poetry)
• 153) The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (fiction)
• 152) Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris (non fiction)
• 151) Fortune Cookie by Jenna Clarke (poetry)
• 150) Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls, Mark Andrew Webber (Illustrator) (poetry)
• 149) I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WENDING by Wayne Holloway-Smith (poetry)
• 148) The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter (poetry)
• 147) Disko Bay by Nancy Campbell (poetry)
• 146) The End of Everything by Megan Abbott (fiction)
• 145) Translating Mountains by Yvonne Reddick (poetry)
• 144) The Distal Point by Fiona Moore (poetry)
• 143) All the Naked Daughters by Anna Kisby (poetry)
• 142) As Slow As Possible by Kit Fan (poetry)
• 141) The Illegal Age by Ellen Hinsey (poetry)
• 140) Solo for Mascha Voice/Tenuous Rooms by Jack Underwood (poetry)
• 139) Jinx by Abigail Parry (poetry)
• 138) The End of the West by Michael Dickman (poetry)
• 137) Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood (Illustrations), Dan Richards (non fiction)
• 136) The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton (fiction)
• 135) Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan (poetry)
• 134) Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (fiction)
• 133) Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller (poetry)
• 132) Explosives Licence by Jonathan Totman (poetry)
• 131) Get the Guy by L.A. Rich (non fiction)
• 130) Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (non fiction)
• 129) Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever (fiction, short stories)
• 128) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (fiction)
• 127) What Are You After? by Josephine Corcoran (poetry)
• 126) MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book by John Rember (non fiction)
• 125) Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson (fiction)
• 124) Familiars by Linda Rose Parkes (poetry)
• 123) The Becoming of Lady Flambe by Holly Magill (poetry)
• 122) Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (fiction)
• 121) My Converted Father by Sarah Law (poetry)
• 120) Faber New Poets 12 by Declan Ryan (poetry)
• 119) Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima (fiction, short stories)
• 118) Rapture (New Irish Voices #1) by Roisin Kelly (poetry)
• 117) Faber New Poets 15 by Sam Buchan-Watts (poetry)
• 116) playtime by Andrew McMillan (poetry)
• 115) The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry (poetry)
• 114) Kiss In The Hotel Joseph Conrad And Other Stories by Howard Norman (fiction, short stories)
• 113) Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real by Padraig Regan (poetry)
• 112) Human Wishes by Robert Hass (poetry)
• 111) Blackbird, Bye Bye by Moniza Alvi (poetry)
• 110) Depths by Henning Mankell (fiction)
• 109) The Theatre of Confection by pauline suett barbieri (poetry)
• 108) The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman (fiction, short stories)
• 107) A Bag of Hands by Mather Schneider (poetry)
• 106) Noose and Hook by Lynn Emanuel (poetry)
• 105) In Her Shambles by Elizabeth Parker (poetry)
• 104) Black Bicycle by Lesley Quayle (poetry)
• 103) After Eden by Stella Wulf (poetry)
• 102) Good Stock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin (poetry)
• 101) When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Díaz (poetry)
• 100) Moon Over Melbourne and Other Poems by Yu Ouyang (poetry)
• 99) Dirty Laundry by Deborah Alma (poetry)
• 98) The Bitters by Susie Campbell (poetry)
• 97) he True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story by Rusty Morrison (poetry)
• 96) No Art: Poems by Ben Lerner (poetry)
• 95) A Bargain with the Light by Jacqueline Saphra (poetry)
• 94) A Hurry of English by Mary Jean Chan (poetry)
• 93) stack by James Davies (poetry)
• 92) Suffolk Bang by Adam Warne (poetry)
• 91) Wound by Richard Scott (poetry)
• 90) Soho by Richard Scott (poetry)
• 89) Alarum by Wayne Holloway-Smith (poetry)
• 88) small white monkeys by Sophie Collins (non fiction)
• 87) A Watchful Astronomy by Paul Deaton (poetry)
• 86) A Knowable World by Sarah Wardle (poetry)
• 85) Big Bones by Laura Dockrill (fiction)
• 84) Fox Unkennelled by Myfanwy Fox (poetry)
• 83) Mayakovsky's Revolver by Matthew Dickman (poetry)
• 82) Self-Portrait with the Happiness by David Tait (poetry)
• 81) Dying Notes by Reuben Woolley (poetry)
• 80) Fields Away by Sarah Wardle (poetry)
• 79) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poetry)
• 78) The Wound Register by Esther Morgan (poetry)
• 77) Cumshot in D Minor by Melissa Lee-Houghton (poetry)
• 76) Primers Volume 3 edited by Jane Commane (poetry)
• 75) Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan (poetry)
• 74) Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir (poetry)
• 73) Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore (poetry)
• 72) Weemoed by Tim Dooley (poetry)
• 71) We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (non fiction)
• 70) A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin (fiction)
• 69) Orpheus in the Park: Poems by Rose Solari (poetry)
• 68) A Communion Of Breath by Derek Harper (poetry)
• 67) Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay (poetry)
• 66) The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw (poetry, re-read)
• 65) The days that Followed Paris by Paul Stephenson (poetry)
• 64) Somewhere Between Rose and Black by Claire Walker (poetry)
• 63) Asylum by Sean Borodale (poetry)
• 62) All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra (poetry, re-read)
• 61) House by Myra Connell (poetry, re-read)
• 60) Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power (poetry)
• 59) I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast by Melissa Studdard (poetry)
• 58) Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar (poetry)
• 57) Seal Wife by Kitty Coles (poetry)
• 56) In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird (poetry)
• 55) So Glad I'm Me by Roddy Lumsden (poetry)
• 54) British Museum by Daljit Nagra (poetry)
• 53) The Forward Book of Poetry 2018 by Various (poetry)
• 52) God Loves You by Kathryn Maris (poetry)
• 51) The Ice Factory by Philip Gross (poetry)
• 50) Enough of Green by Anne Stevenson (poetry)
• 49) Cry Baby by Gareth Writer-Davies (poetry)
• 48) The Devil's Tatoo by Brett Evans (poetry)
• 47) Uninvited Guests by Gill Lambert (poetry)
• 46) The Son by Carrie Etter (poetry)
• 45) Record and Play by Degna Stone (poetry)
• 44) Every Salt Advance by Andrew McMillan (poetry)
• 43) The Moon is a Supporting Player by Andrew McMillan (poetry)
• 42) The Knowledge Weapon by Annette C. Boehm (poetry)
• 41) You've never seen a doomsday like it by Kate Garrett (poetry)
• 40) White is a Color by Rosemarie Waldrop (poetry)
• 39) Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith (poetry)
• 38) The Hoopoe at the Execution, Villebois by Tom Kelly (poetry)
• 37) All We Saw by Anne Michaels (poetry)
• 36) ShallCross by C.D. Wright (poetry)
• 35) Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins (poetry)
• 34) fAt aRouNd tHe MiddLe by Jane Burn (poetry)
• 33) Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar (poetry)
• 32) Glass by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough (poetry)
• 31) How to be a Poet by Jo Bell (non fiction)
• 30) The Pocket Poetry Book of Anger by Sarah Miles (poetry)
• 29) Swims by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (poetry)
• 28) Natural Phenomena by Meryl Pugh (poetry)
• 27) Then Suddenly-- by Lynn Emanuel (poetry)
• 26) Metropoetica by Ingmāra Balode (poetry)
• 25) Assembly Lines by Jane Commane (poetry)
• 24) A Slither of Air by Alison Lock (poetry)
• 23) Flies by Michael Dickman (poetry)
• 22) There Is an Anger that Moves by Kei Miller (poetry)
• 21) You are mistaken by Sean Wai Keung (poetry)
• 20) Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine (poetry)
• 19) Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli (non fiction)
• 18) Caldbeck by Jenny Pagdin (poetry)
• 17) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (fiction)
• 16) Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs (fiction)
• 15) Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott (poetry, re-read)
• 14) Grace by Esther Morgan (poetry, re-read)
• 13) Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy (poetry, re-read)
• 12) BOOM! by Carolyn Jess-Cooke (poetry)
• 11) Ten: Poets of the New Generation by Karen McCarthy Woolf (poetry)
• 10) little armoured by Rebecca Perry (poetry)
• 9) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (non fiction)
• 8) Ticker-Tape by Rishi Dastidar (poetry)
• 7) Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly (poetry)
• 6) lemon, egg, bread by Laura Elliott (poetry)
• 5) The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson (non fiction)
• 4) Joy by Sasha Dugdale
• 3) Hyem by Robyn Bolam (poetry)
• 2) LaRose by Louise Erdrich (fiction)
• 1) Sphinx by Cat Woodward (poetry)