Books read in 2015

(in reverse order to which I read them)

1. 1 The Inflectionist Review Anthology of Poetry - John Sibley Williams & A. Molotkov (Editors) (poetry)
2.     Bunny - Selima Hill (poetry)
3.    What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People - Joe Navarro (non fiction)
4.    The Notebook - Ágota Kristóf (fiction)
5.    Talking to Ourselves - Andrés Neuman (fiction)
6.     Jutland - Selima Hill (poetry)
7.     Mondeo Man - Luke Wright (poetry)
8.     Red Doc - Anne carson (poetry)
9.     Beauty/Beauty - Rebecca Perry (poetry)
10.     Crescendos - Jake Reynolds (poetry)
11.     Where is My Mask of an Honest Man? by Laura Del-Rivo (fiction, short stories)
12.     The Fire Station by Sarah Barnsley (poetry)
13.     That Smell and Notes from Prison - Sonallah Ibrahim (fiction)
14.     Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman and other poems - Grace Nichols (poetry)
15.     She Inserts the Key - Marianne Burton (poetry)
16.     Black Neon - Tony O'Neill (fiction)
17.     Actual Air - David Berman (poetry)
18.     Things to Make and Break - May-Lan Tan (fiction, short stories)
19.     Human Work: A Poet's Cookbook - Sean Borodale (poetry)
20.     The Age of Wire and String Fictions - Ben Marcus (fiction, short stories)
21.     Disinformation - Frances Leviston (poetry)
22.     At the Time of Partition - Moniza Alvi (poetry, re-read)
23.     Beautiful Girls - Melissa Lee Houghton (poetry, re-read)
24.     Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by U.K. Women Poets (poetry, re-read)
25.     House - Myra Connell (poetry)
26.     Poetry in Practice - Brian Keaney and Bill Lucas (non-fiction)
27.     The Merchant of Feathers - Tanya Shirley (poetry)
28.     The Taste of River Water - Cate Kennedy (poetry)
29.  UEA MA Creative Writing Anthologies 2015: Poetry (poetry)
30.     Native Guard - Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
31.     Loop of Jade - Sarah Howe (poetry)
32.     The Very Best of 52: a poem for every week of the year - Jonathan Davidson (editor) (poetry, re.read)
33.     Sooner or Later Frank - Jeremy Reed (poetry)
34.     Blue Movie - Bobby Parker (poetry - re read)
35.     Dolls - Tom Whelan (poetry)
36.     Things to Do Before you Leave Town - Ross Sutherland (poetry)
37.     Some Bright Elegance - Kayo Chingonyi (poetry)
38.     Circus Apprentice - Katherine Gallagher (poetry)
39.     Blood Work - Matthew Siegel (poetry)
40.     The Retrieval System - Maxine Kumin (poetry, re read)
41.     The Knowledge - Robert Peake (poetry, re-read)
42.     Sudden Collapses in Public Places - Julia Darling (poetry)
43.     Shibboleth - Michael Donaghy (poetry)
44.     Lifting the Piano With One Hand - Gaia Holmes (poetry)
45.     Making Nice - Matt Sumell (fiction, short stories)
46.     Wild Gratitude - Edward Hirsch (poetry)
47.     Trilobites & Other Stories - Breece D'J Pancake (fiction, short stories)
48.     Citizen: An American Lyric (poetry)
49.     Kith - Jo Bell (poetry, re read)
50.     See You in Paradise - J. Robert Lennon (fiction, short stories)
51.     Eliza and the Bear - Eleanor Rees (poetry)
52.     Physical - Andrew Macmillan (poetry)
53.     The Good Dark - Ryan Van Winkle (poetry)
54.     When God is a Traveller - Arundhathi Subramaniam (poetry)
55.     School of the Arts - Mark Doty (poetry)
56.     National Poetry Competition Winners' Anthology 2014 (poetry)
57.     Accurate Measurements - Adam White (poetry)
58.     The World Before Snow - Tim Liardet (poetry)
59.     Kim Kardashian's Marriage - Sam Riviere (poetry)
60.     The Organ Box - Matt Howard (poetry)
61.     The Knowledge - Robert Paeake (poetry)
62.     The Whole & Rain-domed Universe - Colette Bryce (poetry)
63.     The Very Best of 52: a poem for every week of the year - Jonathan Davidson (editor) (poetry)
64.     The Next Country - Idra Novey (poetry)
65.     Happiness - Jack Underwood (poetry)
66.     The Bluffer's Guide to Poetry - Nick Yapp (non fiction)
67.     Missing the Eclipse - Joan Hewitt (poetry)
68.     Beautiful Girls - Melissa Lee-Houghton (poetry)
69.     Tell Me the Truth About Love - W.H. Auden (poetry)
70.     My Family and other Superheroes - Jonathan Edwards (poetry)
71.     Moon Whales - Ted Hughes (poetry)
72.     Kumkum Malhotra - Preti Taneja (fiction)
73.     The Hitting Game - Graham Clifford (poetry)
74.     Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts (poetry)
75.     Langoustine: Fragments of a Philosophical Marine Romance - George Szirtes (poetry)
76.     A Radiance - Bethany W. Pope (poetry)
77.     Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson (poetry)
78.     Small Hands - Mona Arshi (poetry)
79.     Those People - Paul Stephenson (poetry)
80.     Monkey Grip - Helen Garner (fiction)
81.     The Zoo Father - Pascale Petiit (poetry - re-read)
82.     Under the Pier - Selena Godden (poetry)
83.     The Gold Cell - Sharon Olds (poetry)
84.     The Summer Son: A Novel - Craig Lancaster (fiction)
85.     Prayers for the Stolen - Jennifer Clement (fiction)
86.     You Good Thing - Dara Wier (poetry)
87.     Indwelling - Gillian Allnutt (poetry)
88.     Navigation - Jo Bell (poetry)
89.     Grain - John Glenday (poetry)
90.     Permission to Breathe - Michael Laskey (poetry)
91.     The Albertine Workout - Anne Carson (poetry)
92.     The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Michael Ondaatje (poetry)
93.     Skirrid Hill - Owen Sheers (poetry)
94.     Battleborn - Claire Vaye Watkins (fiction, short stories)
95.     Between Two Windows - Oli Hazzard (poetry)
96.     Blue Movie - Bobby Parker (poetry)
97.     Kith - Jo Bell (poetry)
98.     The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov (fiction, re-read)
99.     The Chicago Poems - Karl Sandburg (poetry)
100.     Prester John - John Buchan (fiction)
101.     The Korean Word For Butterfly - James Zerndt (fiction)
102.     Hallelujah for 50ft Women by Raving Beauties Hallelujah for 50ft Women: Poems About Women's Relationship to Their Bodies - edited by The Raving Beauties (poetry)
103.     Duetcetera - Ira Lightman (poetry)
104.     Gumbeaux - Kimberly Vargas (fiction)
105.     The Secret Life of Objects - Dawn Raffel (non fiction)
106.     The Awakening - Kate Chopin (fiction)
107.     Skelelittle - Ira Lightman (poetry)
108.     Party - Jackie Wills (poetry)
109.     One Dead Behind Us - Audre Lorde (poetry)
110.     The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia - David Stuart MacLean (non-fiction)
111.     The Half-Finished Heaven - Tomas Tranströmer- translated by Robert Bly (poetry)
112.     Science and Steepleflower - Forrest Gander (poetry)
113.     Trains of Winnipeg - Clive Holden (poetry)
114.     Disclaimer - Renee Knight (fiction)
115.     Fauna - Jacueline Bishop (poetry)
116.     Ten: The New Wave - edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (poetry)
117.     Soon Every House Will have One - Holly Hopkins (poetry)
118.     The Shared Surface - Jane Monson (poetry)
119.     What the Living Do - Marie Howe (poetry, re-read)
120.     Inventory - Linda Black (poetry)
121.     The Girl On the Train - Paula Hawkins (fiction)
122.     Touching Distances - Diary Poems - Anne Cluysenaar (poetry)
123.  Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence - Geoff Dyer (non fiction)
124.     After This Comes the Food - Sarah Perry (fiction)
125.     The Red Wardrobe - Sarah Corbett (poetry)
126.     The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
127.     Stop What You're Doing and Read This! - Various (non fiction)
128.     Woman's Head as a Jug - Jackie Wills (poetry)
129.     Odessa - Patricia Kirkpatrick (poetry)
130.     The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes (fiction)
131.     The Lichtenberg Figures - Ben Lerner (poetry)
132.     How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 - Joy Harjo (poetry)
133.     Life in a Box is a Pretty Life - Dawn Lundy Martin (poetry)
134.     The White Road and Other Stories - Tania Hershman (short stories)
135.     On Purpose - Nick Laird (poetry)
136.     Livid among the Ghostings - Anna Percy (poetry)
137.     My Soul to Take - Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (fiction)
138.     Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes (fiction)
139.     Human Remains - Elizabeth Haynes (fiction)
140.     In the Miso Soup - Ryū Murakami (fiction)
141.     The Whole Story and Other Stories - Ali Smith (fiction - short stories)
142.     A Responsibility to Awe: Poems - Rebecca Elson (poetry)
143.    The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty (fiction)
144.     Snow Calling - Agnieszk Studzinska (poetry)
145.     Vauxhall - Gabriel Gbadamosi (fiction)
146.     In the Bee Latitudes - "Annah Sobelman (poetry)
147.     Slow man - J.M. Coetzee (fiction)
148.     The Indian Bride - Karin Fossum (fiction)
149.     The Woods - Harlen Coben (fiction)
150.     The Farm - Tom Rob Smith (fiction)
151.     The Three - Sarah Lotz (fiction)
152.     The Retrieval System - Maxine Kumin (poetry)
153.     The Barking Thing - Suzanne Batty (poetry)

Books Read in 2014

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• 93 In the Bee Latitudes - ‘Annah Sobelman (poetry)
• 92) The Legend of Colton H. Bryant - Alexandra Fuller (non-fiction)
• 91) Maggie and Me - Damaien Barr (non-fiction)
• 90) The Gypsy and the Poet - David Morley (poetry)
• 89) Every Day is for the Thief - Teju Cole (fiction)
• 88) Notes From the Balcony - Lynn Woollacott (poetry)
• 87) Like Rabbits - Lynne Bryan (fiction)
• 86) Diary Of an Unsmug Married - Polly James (fiction)
• 85) Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists (fiction - short stories)
• 84) My Sister's Keeper - Bill Benners (fiction)
• 83) The Mathematics of Friedrich Gauss: Family Snapshots - D.W. Wilson (fiction)
• 82) All One Breath - John Burnside (poetry)
• 81) Beneath Stars Long Extinct - Ron Egatz (poetry)
• 80) Small Grass - Jacqueline Gabbitas (poetry)
• 79) Place - Jorie Graham (poetry)
• 78) The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler (fiction)
• 77) The Waterproof Bible - Andrew Kaufman (fiction)
• 76) Picture Me Gone - Meg Rossoff (fiction)
• 75) And After All This I Saw: Selections from the Work of Julian of Norwich - Edwin Kelly (poetry)
• 74) The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber (fiction)
• 73) Irene - Piere Lemaitre (fiction)
• 72) At the Time of Partition - Moniza Alvi (poetry)
• 71) Black Country - Liz Berry (poetry)
• 70) Wreaking - James Scudamore (fiction)
• 69) Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (fiction)
• 68) Thunderstruck and other Stories - Elizabeth McCracken (fiction - short stories)
• 67) Ballistics - D.W. Wilson (fiction)
• 66) The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov (fiction)
• 65) Strange Bodies - Marcel Theroux (fiction)
• 64) When I was Five I Killed Myself - Howard Buten (fiction)
• 63) Fauverie - Pascale Petit (poetry)
• 62) Zoo Father - Pascale Petit (poetry, re-read)
• 61) The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes (fiction)
• 60) Snapper - Brian Kimberling (fiction)
• 59) Imagined Sons - Carrie Etter (poetry)
• 58) Under the Skin - Michael Faber (fiction)
• 57) The Lake in the Woods - Tim O'Brien (fiction)
• 56) Moontide - Niall Campbell (poetry)
• 55) Comradely Greetings – Nadya Tolokonnikova (non-fiction)
• 54) This is Yarrow - Tara Bergin (poetry)
• 53) Parallax -Sinead Morrisey (poetry)
• 52) Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (fiction)
• 51) Sins of the Leopard - James Brooks (poetry)
• 50) The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion - Kei Miller (poetry)
• 49) The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson (fiction)
• 48) Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey (fiction)
• 47) Ties that Bind - Catherine Deveney (fiction)
• 46) Hoad and other Stories - Sarah Passingham (fiction, short stories)
• 45) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
• 44) The Universe Versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence (fiction)
• 43) Erosion - S.A. Hemmings (fiction)
• 42) Sic Transit Wagon and other stories - Barbara Jenkins (Fiction, short stories)
• 41) The White Lioness - henning Mankell (fiction)
• 40) The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin (fiction)
• 39) Hot Damn - Cat Woodward (poetry)
• 38) Candide - Voltaire (fiction)
• 37) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (fiction)
• 36) Sleeping Keys - Jean Sprackland (poetry)
• 35) Double Negative - Ivan Vladislavic (non fiction)
• 34) Planet-shaped Horse - Luke Kennard (poetry)
• 33) Bysuss - Jen Hadfield (poetry)
• 32) Division Street - Helen Mort (poetry)
• 31) Tenth of December - George Saunders (fiction - re-read)
• 30) Adventures in Form - edited by Tom Chivers (poetry)
• 29) Bevel - William Letford (poetry, re-read)
• 28) Barcelona - Philip Langeskov (fiction)
• 27) Love Me Do - Lydia Macpherson (poetry)
• 26) Gathering Evidence - Caoilinn Hughes (poetry)
• 25) Perfect -Rachel Joyce (fiction)
• 24) Strange Weather inTokyo - Hiromi Kawakami ( fiction)
• 23) Standard Twin Fantasy - Sam Riviere (poetry)
• 22) Forward Book of Poetry 2014 (poetry)
• 21) Yoga - Tom Warner (poetry)
• 20) Love, Nina, Despatches from Family Life - Nina Stibbe (non fiction)
• 19) Instant-Flex 718 - Heather Phillipson (poetry)
• 18) Enough About You - Notes Towards the New Autobiography - David Shields (non-fiction)
• 17) Ink's Wish - Sarah Law (poetry)
• 16) When the Killing's Done - T.C. Boyle (fiction)
• 15) Violet - Selima Hill (poetry - re-read)
• 14) The Marlowe Papers - Ros Barber (poetry)
• 13) Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
• 12) Truffle Beds - Katherine Pierpoint (poetry)
• 11) The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt (fiction)
• 10) Stag's Leap - Sharon Olds (poetry, re-read)
• 9) Splitfish - Kiran Millwood Hargrave (poetry)
• 8) The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer (fiction)
• 7) Conjure - Michael Donaghy (poetry)
• 6) The Paraffin Child - Stephen Blanchard (fiction)
• 5) Her Birth - Rebecca Goss (poetry)
• 4) The Museum of Disappearing Sounds - Zoe Skoulding (poetry)
• 3) Ice - Gillian Clarke (poetry)
• 2) Life: An Exploded Diagram - Mal Peet (fiction)
• 1) Fallen Land - Patrick Flannery (fiction)

BOOKS READ IN 2012

111) Maybe This Time - Alois Hotschning (fiction)

110) Search Procedures - Erin Moure (poetry)

109) Carrying My Wife - Moniza Alvi (poetry, re-read)

108) The Storm House - Tim Liardet (poetry, re-read)

107) The Bridle _ Meryl Pugh (poetry)

106) Stag's Leap - Sharon Olds (poetry)

105) Swimming Home - Deborah Levy (fiction)

104) Open Door - Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (fiction)

103) Portrait of My Lover as a Horse - Selima Hill (poetry)

102) The BBC International Short Story Competition 2012 (fiction, short stories)

101) Cosmic Ordering for Beginners - Barbel Mohr and Clemens Maria Mohr (non fiction)

100) Unleash Your Creativity - : Secrets of Creative Genius (52 Brilliant Ideas) - Rob Bevan and Tim Wright (non fiction)

99) Spider Bones - Kathy Reichs (fiction)

98) Little Gods - Jacob Polley (poetry)

97) Burying the Wren - Deryn Rees-Jones (poetry)

96) Stone in a Landslide - Maria Barbel (fiction)

95) Beside the Sea - Veronique Olmi (fiction)

94) The Beautiful Indifference - Sarah Hall (fiction, short stories)

93) Pelt - Sarah Jackson (poetry)

92) Nameless Earth - Robert Gray (poetry)

91) Swift - Jennie Feldman (poetry)

90) The Book of Blood - Vicki Feaver (poetry)

89) A Little Book of Meat - Selima Hil (poetry)

88) Lunar Moths - Jo Haslam (poetry)

87) 81 Austerities - Sam Riviere (poetry)

86) The Polish Boxer - Eduardo Halfon (fiction)

85) Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge - Harryette Mullen (poetry)

84) These Days - Leontia Flynn (poetry)

83) Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein (prose/poetry)

82) Cobweb Walking - Sara Banerji (fiction)

81) Arguing with Malarchy - Carola Luther (poetry)

80) Clueless Dogs - Rhian Edwards (poetry)

79) Grace - Esther Morgan (poetry)

78) The Underground Man - Mick Jackson (fiction)

77) Wild Abandon - Joe Dunthorne (fiction)

76) Profit and Loss - Leontia Flynn (poetry)

75) Fall - Amy Newman (poetry)

74) For the Good of the Earth and Sun Teaching Poetry - Georgia Heard (non fiction)

73) Misadventure - Richard Meier (poetry)

72) That Awkward Age - Roger McGough (poetry)

71) A Light Song of Light - Kei Miller (poetry)

70) The Keys of Babylon - Robert Minhinnick (fiction, short stories)

69) 26a - Diana Evans (fiction)

68) Maggot - Paul Muldoon (poetry)

67) The Wasteland and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot (poetry - re-read)

66) Ramshackle - Elizabeth Reeder (fiction)

65) The Opposite of Falling - Jennie Rooney (fiction)

64) Occupation - Angela France (poetry)

63) Down the Rabbit Hole -Juan Pablo Villalobos (fiction)

62) Jack Straw's Castle - Thom Gunn (poetry)

61) Salt Rain - Sarah Armstrong (fiction)

60) Jo Shapcott - Tender Taxes (poetry)

59) Jo Shapcott - Phrase Book (poetry)

58) Jo Shapcott - Electroplating the Baby (poetry)

57) Best American Poetry 1997 - edited by James Tate (poetry)

56) Broken Things - Padrika Tarrant (Fiction - short stories)

55) Of Mutability - Jo Shapcott (poetry - re-read)

54) Best American Poetry 1992 - edited by Charles Simic (poetry)

53) The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley (fiction)

52) The Last Falcon and Small Ordinance - Paul Perry (poetry)

51) It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be - Paul Arden (non fiction)

50) London Bridge - Simon Smith (poetry)

49) Anvil New Poets 2 (poetry)

48) Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie (fiction)

47) Waffles - Matthew Welton (poetry)

46) Before I go to Sleep - S.J. Watson (fiction)

45) Legato the Ju-Ju's Cure - Simon Parsons (poetry)

44) The Departure - Chris Hamilton Emery (poetry)

43) All That I Am - Anna Funder (fiction)

42) Glad of These Times - Helen Dunmore (poetry)

41) A Bowl of Warm Air - Moniza Alvi (poetry)

40) Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (fiction)

39) Carrying Rain - Karen Dennison (poetry)

38) Carrying My Wife - Moniza Alvi (poetry)

37) Sidereal - Rachael Boast (poetry)

36) Mangoes and Bullets - John Agard (poetry)

35) Selected Poems - Elizabeth Jennings (poetry)

34) The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (fiction)

33) Devil Bones - Kathy Reichs (fiction)

32) 206 Bones - Kathy Reichs (fiction)

31) A Smell of Fish - Matthew Sweeny (poetry)

30) Remember - Agnes Lehoczky (poetry)

29) The Dark Film - Paul Farley (poetry)

28) Flatlands - Victor Tapner (poetry)

27) This Line is not for Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry - edited by Jane Monson (poetry)

26) Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (fiction)

25) The Book of Matthew - Matthew Welton (poetry)

24) Intimates - Helen Farish (poetry)

23) Domestic Violence - Eavan Boland (poetry, re-read)

22) Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (fiction)

21) Stonepicker - Frieda Hughes (poetry)

20) Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson (fiction)

19) Spilt Milk - Sarah Maguire (poetry)

18) Homesick for the Earth: Selected Poems - Jules Superviele with versions by Moniza Alvi (poetry)

17) Ariel - Sylvia Plath (poetry - re-read)

16) We needed coffee but... - Matthew Welton (poetry)

15) The Knife Drawer - Padrika Tarrant (fiction)

14) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (fiction)

13) Wordsmithery: The Writer's Craft and Practice - Edited by Jayne Steel (non-fiction)

12) The Range-Finder's Field Glasses - Graham High (poetry)

11) Collected Poems 1968 - Roy Fisher (poetry)

10) Fiere - Jackie Kay (poetry)

9) Glad not to be the Corpse - Lydia Harris (poetry)

8) Appearances at the Bentinck Hotel - Tim Cockburn (poetry)

7) Divining for Starters - Carrie Etter (poetry)

6) Black Juice - Margo Lanagan (fiction - short stories)

5) Public Dream - Frances Leviston (poetry)

4) Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes (poetry - re-read)

3) Birmingham River - Roy Fisher (poetry)

2) Standard Midland - Roy Fisher (poetry)

1) Salt - Jeremy Page (fiction