Saturday 6 April 2019

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)