I try to keep track of the books I read and when I read them. This is an ongoing list of the books I’m reading in 2016. There’s a similar list for 2015 and a data visualization of 2015.
Title | Author | Date |
Lies of Silence | Brian Moore | 01/01/16 |
Eistau | Ilja Trojanow | 02/01/16 |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 10/01/16 |
Fierce Attachments | Vivian Gornick | 14/01/16 |
The Little Red Chairs | Edna O’Brien | 16/01/16 |
Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 20/01/16 |
Purity | Jonathan Franzen | 24/01/16 |
Being Wrong | Kathryn Schulz | 30/01/16 |
Shylock is my Name | Howard Jacobson | 01/02/16 |
Lolly Willows | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 04/02/16 |
The Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare | 06/02/16 |
The Outrun | Amy Liptrot | 08/02/16 |
The Winter’s Tale | Shakespeare | 13/02/16 |
The People in the Trees | Hanya Yanagihara | 17/02/16 |
The Emperor Waltz | Philip Hensher | 22/02/16 |
The Odd Woman and the City | Vivian Gornick | 25/02/16 |
Dit is mijn hof | Chris de Stoop | 04/03/16 |
Ende gut | Sybille Berg | 06/03/16 |
Die Meisen von Uusimaa singen nicht mehr | Franz Friedrich | 11/03/16 |
Pfaueninsel | Thomas Hettiche | 18/03/16 |
Mothering Sunday | Graham Swift | 19/03/16 |
Heartburn | Nora Ephron | 20/03/16 |
A Word Child | Iris Murdoch | 26/03/16 |
The North Water | Ian McGuire | 27/03/16 |
Arctic Dreams | Barry Lopez | 04/04/16 |
The Sweet Shop Owner | Graham Swift | 07/04/16 |
I May Be Some Time | Frances Spufford | 11/04/16 |
The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 16/04/16 |
The Crimson Petal and the White | Michel Faber | 22/04/16 |
To the lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 26/04/16 |
At the edge of the orchard | Tracy Chevalier | 27/04/16 |
Dissident Gardens | Jonathan Letham | 28/04/16 |
The Excellent Lombards | Jane Hamilton | 30/04/16 |
Cold Spring Harbor | Richard Yates | 30/04/16 |
The Improbability of Love | Hannah Rothschild | 02/05/16 |
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths | Barbara Comyns | 04/05/16 |
The Kindness | Polly Samson | 06/05/16 |
The Turner House | Angela Flournoy | 07/05/16 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | 12/05/16 |
The Portable Veblen | Elizabeth McKenzie | 16/05/16 |
Last Chance to See | Adams, Carwardine | 16/05/16 |
When the Floods Came | Clare Morral | 20/05/16 |
The Shore | Sara Taylor | 21/05/16 |
The Sport of Kings | C.E. Morgan | 26/05/16 |
The Trees | Ali Shaw | 01/06/16 |
Serious Sweet | A.L. Kennedy | 04/06/16 |
The Sunlight Pilgrims | Jenni Fagan | 06/06/16 |
The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry | 09/06/16 |
The Ship | Antonia Honeywell | 13/06/16 |
The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton | 17/06/16 |
The Harry Quebert Affair | Joel Dicker | 19/06/16 |
The Bees | Laline Paull | 22/06/16 |
Barkskins | Annie Proulx | 03/07/16 |
The House on the Strand | Daphne du Maurier | 07/07/16 |
Sapiens | Yuval Noah | 15/07/16 |
Cold Earth | Sarah Moss | 19/07/16 |
The Invention of Nature | Andrea Wulf | 25/07/16 |
The Tidal Zone | Sarah Moss | 27/07/16 |
Eileen | Otessa Moshfegh | 31/07/16 |
The Girls | Emma Cline | 02/08/16 |
Golden Hill | Frances Spufford | 04/08/16 |
His Bloody Project | Graeme Macrae Burnet | 06/08/16 |
Young Hearts Crying | Richard Yates | 09/08/16 |
Work Like No Other | Virginia Reeves | 12/08/16 |
Hot Milk | Deborah Levy | 14/08/16 |
The Hourglass Factory | Lucy Ribchester | 18/08/16 |
All That Man Is | David Szalay | 21/08/16 |
Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeline Thien | 28/08/16 |
Delta Wedding | Eudora Welty | 04/09/16 |
Geen Zee Maar Water | Gijs Ijlander | 04/09/16 |
The Long View | Elizabeth Jane Howard | 18/09/16 |
If Bealestreet Could Speak | James Baldwin | 24/09/16 |
The High Places | Fiona Macfarlane | 28/09/16 |
To the Bright Edge of the World | Eowon Ivey | 02/10/16 |
Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | 08/10/16 |
Vis | Anton Vaelens | 08/10/16 |
Mama Day | Gloria Naylor | 16/10/16 |
The Lonely City | Olivia Laing | 23/10/16 |
Bruno’s Dream | Iris Murdoch | 27/10/16 |
Station Eleven | Emily StJohn Mandel | 29/10/16 |
Bright Precious Days | Jay McInerney | 02/11/16 |
Mrs Woolf’s Servants | Alison Light | 13/11/16 |
Swing Time | Zadie Smith | 18/11/16 |
Autumn | Ali Smith | 20/11/16 |
A Charmed Life | Mary McCarthy | 03/12/16 |
The Scapegoat | Daphne du Maurier | 10/12/16 |
Nutshell | Ian McEwan | 11/12/16 |
Moonglow | Michael Chabon | 22/12/16 |
The Living | Anjali Joseph | 25/12/16 |
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck | Sarah Knight | 26/12/16 |
Letti Park | Judith Hermann | 27/12/16 |
The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | 30/12/16 |