Books Read in 2021

 

• 1) The Actual - Inua Ellams (poetry)
• 2) The Air Year - Caroline Bird (poetry, re read)
• 3) Antiemetic for Homesickness - Romalyn Ante (poetry, re read)
• 4) How to Wash a Heart - Bhanu Kapil (poetry, Re read)
• 5) The Coming-Down Time - Robert Selby (poetry)
• 6) Love and Other Thought Experiments - Sophie Ward (fiction)
• 7) Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (fiction)
• 8) Floating, Brilliant, Gone - Franny Choi (poetry)
• 9) The Book of Jobs: Poems - Kathryn Maris (poetry)
• 10) I Want! I Want! - Vicki Feaver (poetry)
• 11) My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh (fiction)
• 12) How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps - John Bird (non fiction)
• 13) A Song For Dark Times - Ian Rankin (fiction)
• 14) Pepper Seed - Malika Booker (poetry)
• 15) Widowish - Melissa Gould (non fiction)
• 16) Pocket Bowie Wisdom (non fiction)
• 17) Lifted - Bill Manhire (poetry)
• 18) Another Planet - Tracey Thorn (non fiction)
• 19) Self Portrait in Green - Marie NDiaye (non fiction/fiction)
• 20) Juul Kraijer - Ina Fuchs (non Fiction, art)
• 21) The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (fiction)
• 22) The School on Heart's Content Road - Carolyn Chute (fiction)
• 23) Lumen - Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)
• 24) Lifted - Bill Manhire (poetry, re read)
• 25) The Windows of Graceland - Martina Evans (poetry)
• 26) Cut the Black Rabbit - Benjamin Cusden (poetry)
• 27) We Swim to the Shark - Georgie Codd (non fiction)
• 28) Eat or We Both Starve - Victoria Kennefick (poetry)
• 29) Beautiful Nowhere - Louisa Campbell (poetry)
• 30) When I Think of My Body as a Horse - Wendy Pratt (poetry)
• 31) Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler (fiction)
• 32) The Atlas of Lost Beliefs - Ranjit Hoskote (poetry)
• 33) Inmates - Sean Borodale (poetry)
• 34) Wasted Rainbow - Caleb Parkin (poetry)
• 35) The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin (fiction)
• 36) The Secrets of Us - Lucinda Berry (fiction)
• 37) These Queer Merboys - Serge Neptune (poetry)
• 38) The Attitudes - Katie Griffiths (poetry)
• 39) Pandemonium - Andrew McMillan (poetry)
• 40) The Neighbourhood - Hannah Lowe (poetry)
• 41) Say Cucumber - Lucia Dove (poetry)
• 42) Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger (non fiction)
• 43) Yield - Claire Dyer (poetry)
• 44) The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch (non fiction)
• 45) Beautiful Nowhere - Louisa Campbell (poetry, re read)
• 46) Her Lost Language - Jenny Mitchell (poetry)
• 47) A Bright Ray of Darkness - Ethan Hawke (fiction)
• 48) Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher (non fiction)
• 49) Poor - Caleb Femi (poetry)
• 50) Boy in Various Poses - Lewis Buxton (poetry)
• 51) My Mother Was an Upright Piano - Tania Hershman (fiction)
• 52) Museum of Ice Cream - Jenna Clake (poetry)
• 53) Honorifics - Cynthia Miller (poetry)
• 54) How to Carry a Fire - Christina Thatcher (poetry)
• 55) A - Sophie Robinson (poetry)
• 56) The Wolf Road - Richard Lambert (YA fiction)
• 57) Comic Timing - Holly Pester (poetry)
• 58) The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout (fiction)
• 59) There's a Hole in My Bucket - Royd Tolkien (non fiction)
• 60) Tennis Lessons - Susannah Dickey (fiction)
• 61) Ponti - Sharlene Teo (fiction)
• 62) Play Lists - Jessica Mookherjee (poetry)
• 63) Max Porter - The Death of Francis Bacon
• 64) Fathom - Rebecca Gethin (poetry)
• 65) Hydra - Molly Ellen Pearson (poetry)
• 66) Štupartská’s Daughter - Elizabeth Jane Timms (poetry)
• 67) The Beauty of Living Twice - Sharon Stone (non fiction)
• 68) Soft Science - Franny Choi (poetry)
• 69) NR30 - Doug Jones (poetry)
• 70) Knowing This Has Changed My Ending - Alex MacDonald (poetry)
• 71) Where I'd Watch Plastic Trees Not Grow - Hannah Hodgson (poetry)
• 72) One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets - Jacqueline Saphra (poetry)
• 73) Terminarchy - Angela France (poetry0
• 74) Volcano - Elosham Vog (poetry)
• 75) Rotten days in Late Summer - Ralf Webb (poetry)
• 76) A God at the Door - Tishani Doshi (poetry)
• 77) Materials for Building a City - Elliot C. Mason (poetry)
• 78) Anchorage - Lorraine Marriner (poetry)
• 79) Gaps - Jenny Danes (poetry)
• 80) Spacecraft - John McCullough (poetry)
• 81) Meanwhile, Trees - Mark Waldron (poetry)
• 82) On Narrowness - Claire Crowther (poetry)
• 83) The Frost Fairs - John McCullough (poetry)
• 84) Ephybos - Kostya Tsloakis (poetry)
• 85) Lung Iron - Daniel Fraser (poetry)
• 86) and they are covered in gold light - Amy Acre (poetry)
• 87) C+nto and Othered Poems - Joelle Taylor (poetry)
• 88) Songs My Enemy Taught Me - Joelle Taylor (poetry)
• 89) Ripe - Isabelle Baafi (poetry)
• 90) Feverfew - Anna Saunders (poetry)
• 91) Fleet - Jane Burn (poetry)
• 92) The Story of No - Emma Hammond (poetry)
• 93) A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering - Dawn Lundy Martin (poetry)
• 94) The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell (fiction)
• 95) My Tin Watermelon - Peter Daniels (poetry)
• 96) physis - Nicolas Pesques (poetry)
• 97) A Year in the New Life - Jack Underwood (poetry)
• 98) The Book of Orgasms - Nin Andrews (poetry)
• 99) Olive Again - Elizabeth Strout (poetry)
• 100) Distance Writing - Margaret Seymour (poetry)
• 101) I Think I Might be Autistic - Cynthia Kim (non fiction)
• 102) All the Names Given - Raymond Antrobus (poetry)
• 103) Strangers - Rebecca Tamas (non fiction)
• 104) The Continued Clsure of the Blue Door - Vik Shirley (poetry)
• 105) Glass - Emily Cooper (poetry)
• 106) The Oscillations - Kate Fox (poetry)
• 107) Single Window - Daniel Sluman (poetry)
• 108) The Gold Rush - Craig Martin Getz (poetry)
• 109) Wow - Bill Manhire (poetry)
• 110) Cosmonaut - A.E. De Vaul (poetry)
• 111) The Sun is Open - Gail McConnell (poetry)
• 112) All the Men I Never Married - Kim Moore (poetry)
• 113) The Kids - Hannah Lowe (poetry)
• 114) Atlantis - Mark Doty (poetry)
• 115) How to Think Like David Bowie - Jonathan Tindale (non fiction)
• 116) Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird (poetry)