Books I've Read

Books Read 

2013

May
Cupboard Love by Laura Lockington
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes 

April
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

March
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas
The Frequency of Souls by Mary Kay Zuravleff
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and 20 Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Buddha is Dead by Manu Bazzano

February 

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Fast Diet by Dr Michael Mosley

 
January

Pure by Andrew Miller
Bio Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research, edited by Ra Page
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 

2012

December 
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 
Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas
Y by Marjorie Celona
Lizzy Harrison Loses Control by Pippa Wright
Artful by Ali Smith
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
 

November

The Information James Gleick 


October
The Hidden Reality Brian Greene 

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt 

September
The Lives She Left Behind by James Long 
All the anxious girls on earth: Stories by Zsuzsi Gartner

Cold Granite by Stuart Mcbride
The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
 
August 

Ferney by James Long
The Dancers Dancing by Eilis Ni Dhuidbne
There But For The by Ali Smith
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
The Fear Index by Robert Harris

July 

Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway 

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

June

Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Murder of Halland by Pia Jull
Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

April

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd

March

Jubilee by Shelley Harris
Electrified Sheep by Alex Boese

The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue


February 

Kepler by John Banville
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
This Cake is For the Party by Sarah Selecky

 
January

The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil 
The Newton Letter by John Banville
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Best Australian Short Stories: A Ten Year Collection by various authors
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

2011

January
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Secret Cure by Sue Woolfe
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
Lowboy by John Wray
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott

February
The Start of the End of it All by Carol Emshwiller
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Heroes and Villains Angela Carter
Zero History by William Gibson
The Observations by Jane Harris
Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller

March
C by Tom McCarthy
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
Experimental Heart by Jennifer Rohn
The Daylight and the Dust: Collected Stories by Janet Frame
The Devil's Music by Jane Rusbridge

April
The Devil's Mask by Christopher Wakling
There is No Other by Jonathan Papernick
The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain by Barbara Strauch
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
The Heart's Elliptical Orbit by Alyson Sarah Hallett

May 
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
The White Family by Maggie Gee
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn

June
Natural Obsessions by Natalie Angier
Vaquita by Edith Pearlman
2009 Pushcart Prize anthology
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

July
A Better Angel by Chris Adrian
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

August
About Grace by Anthony Doerr 
A Town By the Sea by Chris Paling
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi


September
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
Collected Stories by Carol Emshwiller

October
Swimming Home Deborah Levy
Pee on Water by Rachel Glaser

November

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

Paris Metro Tales edited by Helen Constantine

December

Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Necessity of Certain Behaviors by Shannon Cain
Embassytown by China Mieville
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway