I like to keep track of my reading – in my paper calendar, and on this site. I did the same in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
(updated monthly)
Title | Author | Date finished |
Scenes from Early Life | Philip Hensher | 4/01/19 |
Die Gewitterschwimmerin | Franziska Hauser | 7/01/19 |
The Sing of the Shore | Lucy Wood | 9/01/19 |
The Edge of the World | Michael Pye | 14/01/19 |
1599 | James Shapiro | 21/01/19 |
The Maze at Windermere | Gregory Blake Smith | 26/01/19 |
Less | Andrew Sean Greer | 29/01/19 |
An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | 2/02/19 |
Calm the F**k Down | Sarah Knight | 2/02/19 |
The Porpoise | Mark Haddon | 6/02/19 |
A Long Island Story | Rick Gekoski | 9/02/19 |
Last Train From Liguria | Christine Dwyer Hickey | 11/02/19 |
Happiness | Aminatta Forna | 15/02/19 |
Slack-Tide | Elanor Dymott | 16/02/19 |
The Realms of Gold | Margaret Drabble | 18/02/19 |
Accordion Crimes | Annie Proulx | 24/02/19 |
The Other Americans | Laila Lalami | 26/02/19 |
Late in the Day | Tessa Hadley | 1/03/19 |
Altes Land | Doerte Hansen | 3/03/19 |
The Far Field | Madhuri Vijay | 7/03/19 |
The Needle’s Eye | Margaret Drabble | 10/03/19 |
Heimsuchung | Jenny Erpenbeck | 12/03/19 |
This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You | Jon McGregor | 14/03/19 |
Gingerbread | Helen Oyeyemi | 16/03/19 |
The Wall | John Lanchester | 18/03/19 |
The Hare With Amber Eyes | Edmund De Waal | 24/03/19 |
The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | 31/03/19 |
The Ice Age | Margaret Drabble | 03/04/19 |
Spring | Ali Smith | 05/04/19 |
A Place for Us | Fatima Farheen Mirza | 07/04/19 |
The Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood | 12/04/19 |
Nature’s Mutiny | Philip Blom | 14/04/19 |
Fallout | Sadie Jones | 18/04/19 |
La Belle Sauvage | Philip Pullman | 19/04/19 |
Bangkok Wakes to Rain | Pitchaya Sudbantihad | 21/04/19 |
Neemah | Sarah Blake | 22/04/19 |
Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | 26/04/19 |
The Peppered Moth | Margaret Drabble | 28/04/19 |
Empire Falls | Richard Russo | 03/05/19 |
The Son | Philip Meyer | 07/05/19 |
Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford | 10/05/19 |
Herkunft | Sasa Stanisic | 12/05/19 |
Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie | 14/05/19 |
Private Life | Jane Smiley | 18/05/19 |
Lady Oracle | Margaret Atwood | 21/05/19 |
Period Power | Maisie Hill | 21/05/19 |
Olive, Again | Elizabeth Strout | 26/05/19 |
Summerland | Michael Chabon | 29/05/19 |
Abide With Me | Michael Chabon | 29/05/19 |
&Sons | David Gilbert | 02/06/19 |
Hiking with Nietzsche | John Kaag | 02/06/19 |
The Burgess Boys | Elizabeth Strout | 04/06/19 |
Doggerland | Ben Smith | 05/06/19 |
Wonderboys | Michael Chabon | 08/06/19 |
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free | Andrew Miller | 09/06/19 |
Gun Island | Amitav Ghosh | 11/06/19 |
Motherhood | Sheila Heti | 17/06/19 |
Middlemarch | George Eliot | 20/06/19 |
The Floating World | C. Morgan Babst | 22/06/19 |
Das Achte Leben | Nino Haratischwili | 06/07/19 |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | 08/07/19 |
The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead | 09/07/19 |
Sweet Sorrow | David Nicholls | 12/07/19 |
Telegraph Avenue | Michael Chabon | 17/07/19 |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | 20/07/19 |
Fleischmann is in Trouble | Taffy Brodesser-Akner | 24/07/19 |
Ducks, Newburyport | Lucy Ellmann | 09/08/19 |
Ask Again, Yes | Mary Beth Keane | 12/08/19 |
The Most Fun We Ever Had | Claire Lombardo | 16/08/19 |
Inland | Tea Obreht | 18/08/19 |
The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford | 20/08/19 |
Hame | Annalena McAfee | 07/09/19 |
Once Upon A River | Diane Setterfield | 09/09/19 |
Girl, Woman, Other | Bernard Evaristo | 13/09/19 |
Hormonal | Eleanor Morgan | 13/09/19 |
Akenfield | Ronald Blythe | 16/09/19 |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books | Leah Price | 17/09/19 |
Frankissstein | Jeanette Winterson | 21/09/19 |
Weather | Jenny Offill | 22/09/19 |
The Dutch House | Ann Patchett | 24/09/19 |
Hamnet | Maggie O’Farrell | 28/09/19 |
The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | 29/09/19 |
Transcendent Kingdom | Yaa Gyasi | 03/10/19 |
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox | Maggie O’Farrell | 05/10/19 |
Do Less | Kate Northrup | 06/10/19 |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan | 10/10/19 |
Trust Exercise | Susan Cho | 12/10/19 |
A Single Thread | Tracy Chevalier | 13/10/19 |
The River Capture | Mary Costello | 17/10/19 |
The Song of the Lark | Willa Cather | 20/10/19 |
Instructions for a Heatwave | Maggie O’Farrell | 22/10/19 |
The Others’ Gold | Elizabeth Ames | 26/10/19 |
Academy Street | Mary Costello | 28/10/19 |
The Confession | Jessie Burton | 01/11/19 |
10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Elif Shafak | 04/11/19 |
Orfeo | Richard Powers | 07/11/19 |
Circe | Madeline Miller | 11/11/19 |
The Corner That Held Them | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 16/11/19 |
The Starless Sea | Erin Morgenstern | 20/11/19 |
Sudden Traveller | Sarah Hall | 21/11/19 |
The Great Level | Stella Tillyard | 23/11/19 |
Mrs Everything | Jennifer Weiner | 25/11/19 |
The Transcriptionist | Amy Rowland | 27/11/19 |
Starling Days | Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | 29/11/19 |
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England | Ian Mortimer | 02/11/19 |
The Heavens | Sarah Newman | 05/12/19 |
The Familiars | Stacey Halls | 07/12/19 |
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock | Imogen Hermes Goward | 14/12/19 |
Juja | Nino Haratischwili | 20/12/19 |
In Love With George Eliot | Kathy O’Shaughnessy | 23/12/19 |
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | Claire Tomalin | 26/12/19 |