Hi folks, it’s time for my yearly summary of books read over the past year. (I know Easter is an odd time to do a yearly review, but I started doing then one year, so now I have to keep doing it at this time or my year gets all thrown off. )
Had a big year this year. Pretty sure this is the most books I’ve read in a single 12 month period. Total for this year was 38 books.
Here’s the list, in alphabetical order by Author surname:
| Author | Title |
| Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Friday Black |
| Isabel Allende | The House of the Spirits |
| Belinda Bauer | Snap |
| Anna Burns | Milkman |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger |
| Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang |
| Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Mark Z Danielewski | House of Leaves* |
| Nick Drnaso | Sabrina |
| Graham Greene | The Power and the Glory |
| Andrew Sean Greer | Less |
| Imogen Hermes Gowar | The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock |
| Maria Dahvana Headley | The Mere Wife |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun | The Happy Marriage |
| Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar | The Map of Salt and Stars |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible |
| Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian |
| The McElroys | The Adventure Zone: Here there be Gerblins |
| Sophie Mackintosh | The Water Cure |
| Kate Mayfield | The Parentations |
| Hope Mirrlees | Lud-in-the-Mist |
| Ottessa Moshfegh | My Year of Rest and Relaxation |
| Naomi Novik | Spinning Silver |
| Michael Ondaatje | Warlight |
| Orphan Pamuk | A Strangeness in My Mind |
| Sarah Perry | Melmoth |
| Dorothy Porter | The Monkey’s Mask |
| Kevin Powers | The Yellow Birds |
| Ransom Riggs | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children |
| Leone Ross | Come Let Us Sing Anyway |
| Nafkote Tamirat | The Parking Lot Attendant |
| Olga Tokarczuk | Flights |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things* |
| Non-Fiction | |
| Clementine Ford | Boys Will be Boys |
| Don Norman | The Design of Everyday Things |
| Tara Westover | Educated |
The * designates books that have been read previously.
Managed to get a few more books from South American authors this year, as well as a few more translated books. I’d like to try to read more translated things in the coming year. I also note that only half of these books were by non-male writers, so I probably need to put a bit more of a concerted effort into that.
I’m vaguely thinking of putting together one of those maps pages where people note countries they have visited, except I’ll use it to note whether I have read something by someone from each country.
Anyway, have a look through the list, let me know if there’s anything you’d like to try, or if you have any suggestions!