2021
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dearly by Margaret Atwood (poetry)
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (poetry)
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor
Skybound by Rebecca Loncraine
French Braid by Anne Tyler
The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart
Character by Robert McKee
The Creative Writing Coursebook Edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs
The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Scary Monsters by Michelle De Kretser
Here Comes the Miracle by Anna Beecher
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny by Ann Marks
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, a Memoir by Paula McLain
More Miracle Than Bird by Alice Miller
Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
London: A Novel by Edward Rutherford
Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
Vivian Maier: Developed by Ann Marks
Inadvertent (Why I Write) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Piranesi by Susanna Clark
The First Five Books of Poems by Louise Gluck
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Picture Book by Jo Baker
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
When The Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks
A Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax and Provocation by Antoinette LaFarge
The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi
V is for Victory by Lissa Evans
A Swimming in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The Stranding by Kate Sawyer
The Stories of Tobias Wolff by Tobias Wolff
Nightbitch: A Novel by Rachel Yoder
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Sing to It: Stories by Amy Hempel
Do Not Deny Me: Stories by Jean Thompson
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Less by Andrews Sean Greer
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Book of Costume by Millia Davenport
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung (a re-read)
Poems: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop
Living by Fiction by Annie Dilliard
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (awaiting arrival)
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (a rereading)
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Gnozi Adichie
The Overstory by Richard Powers
John Cheever: A Vision of the World Edited by Julian Barnes
Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal ****
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
The Unnatural History Museum by Viktor Wynd
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. ****
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Early Levy: Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
The Unloved by Deborah Levy
Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy
A Discarded Life: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters
Silence: A Novel by Shusako Endo
Whereabouts: A Novel by Lahiri Jhumpa
In Other Words by Lahiri Jhumpa
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dilliard
Henri-Cartier Bresson: His Archive of 390 Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum
A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson
Pages for Her by Sylvia Brownrigg
Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Letters to Comondo by Edmund de Waal
Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
The Tobaccanist by Robert Seethaler
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bereniers
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia by Clare Phillips
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane
The Lost Soul by Olga Tokcarzuk
Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement by Gaston Bachelard, translation by Edith and Frederick Ferrell
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls ***
The Clearing: A Memoir of Art, Family and Mental Health by Samantha Clark. *****
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro Kazuro
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (WOW)
The Far Pavillions by M.M. Kaye
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Overseas by Beatriz Williams
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Winter by Ali Smith
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Weather by Jenny Offill
Trio by William Boyd
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
The Madman’s Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartique: The Invention of Happiness (Photographs)
2020
Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars and Beyond
by Christopher Wanjek
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Axe Handles by Gary Snyder
The Telling by Jo Baker
East Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Parade by Dave Eggers
Self Portrait by Celia Paul
Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Sawai Strong Washburn
The Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Been To and Will Never Visit by Judith Schalansky
Experience by Martin Amis
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
The Night Portrait by Laura Morelli
Life Drawing by Robin Black
The Tree and the Vine by Dola de Jong
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The World is My Home by James Michner
Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams
The Golden Hour Beatriz Williams
Bluethroat Morning by Jacqui Lofthouse
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
A Year of Marvelous Ways by Sarah Winman
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria by Ki Longfellow
The Boy Who Saw in Colours by Lauren Robinson
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Confession by Jessie Burton
When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
March: A Love Story in a Time of War by Geraldine Brooks
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer
Caravan by James Mitchner
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
I Always Loved You by Robin Oliviera
Hedy’s War by Jenny Lecoat
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See by A. Kendra Greene
Afterimage by Helen Humphreys
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Seize the Day by Saul Bellows
The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger
The Island of Sea Women by Lise See
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Smai Schalk
The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
The Second Midnight by Andrew Taylor
Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery and A Very Strange Adventure by Lissa Evans
Ingo by Helen Dunmore
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist 5 by Michael Chabon
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship by Walter Benjamin
The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith
Game of Secrets by Dawn Tripp
Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Journal of Katherine Mansfield
Mudlarking by Laura Maiklem
Fred Herzog: Modern Colour by David Campany
Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows edited by Richard Cahan
Neri Oxman: Mediated Matter by Neri Oxman
Good Morning Monster by Catherine Gildiner
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shriley Hazzard
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Nobel Writers on Writing by Ottar G. Draugsvold
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Once Uppon a River by Diane Setterfield
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Conner
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
The Paris Hours by George Alex
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grown Ups by Anne Tyler
The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler
If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler
River of Ink by Paul M. M. Cooper
The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Spencer’s List by Lissa Evans
London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov
When We Were Brave by Suzanne Kelman
Wayfinding by Michael Bond
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elizabeth Gifford
From Where You Dream by Robert Glen Butler
The Tears of Things by Schwenger
Secrets of the Sea House by Elizabeth Gifford
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 by Molly Peacock
2019
Devotion by Patti Smith
The Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler
The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Enigma by Robert Harris
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
The Nursery by Asia MacKay
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Zoo Station by David Downing
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay by Christopher Benfey
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
Eureka by Anthony Quinn
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sealwoman’s Gift by Sally Magusson
The Past by Tessa Hadley
Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor
The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World by Jordan Shapiro
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Journal of Solitude by May Sarton
One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
Blackout by Connie Willis
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Seeing Further by Bill Bryson
Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker
Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life by Dani Shapiro
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
Unexploded by Alison Macleod
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard
Georgia by Dawn Tripp
Journey To Mount Tamalpais by Etel Adnan
Monsieur Ka by Vesna Goldsworthy
One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
The Velocity of Being by Maria Popova
Figuring by Maria Popova
Women Travellers Edited by Marry Morris
Smile of the Wolf by Tim Leach
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
Letters From Iceland by W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Vanessa and Her Sisters by Priya Parmar
Little by Edward Carey
I was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon
On Sheep by Axel Linden
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese
White Houses by Amy Bloom
The Master by Colm Tóibín
2018
At the Same Time by Susan Sontage
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford
No Time to Spare by Ursula LeGuin
The Happiness of Getting It Down Right: The Letters of Frank O’Conner and William Maxwell by William Maxwell
My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories by Frank O’Conner
The Cemetery in Barnes: A Novel by Gabriel Josipovici
The Teller and the Tale: Essays on Literature and Culture by Gabriel Josipovici
Love is Blind by William Boyd
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Eductated by Tara Westover
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Restless by William Boyd
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterly by Annabel Abb
Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer by Alan Powers
Three Japanese Stories (Penguin Classics)
Once in Europa by John Berger
Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings and Prints of Charles Ritchie by Peter Turchi
Lilac and Flag by John Berger
Photocopies by John Berger
Fires by Raymond Carver
The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
Where I’m Calling From by Ramond Carver
The Essays: A Selection by Michel De Montaigne
The Child that Books Built: A Life in Reading by Frances Spufford
Living on Paper by Iris Murdoch
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Confabulations by John Berger
The Shrimp and the Anemone by L.P. Hartley
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Consolations by David Whyte
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford
Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch
If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths
Why I Write by George Orwell
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
A Place of Safety by Martin Nathan
Writing: Self and Relexivity by Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson
Landscapes by John Berger
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Chosen by Victoria Hislop
The Diary of Mary Watts by Mary Watts
Portraits by John Berger on Artists
Bentos Sketchbook by John Berger
and our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger
The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin
Fame by Andy Warhol
Why I’m Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
From A to X by John Berger
England and Other Stories by Graham Swift
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Afloat by Guy de Mauspassant
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Probelm of Death by Mark O’Connell
Book Towns by Alex Johnson
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Merivel by Rose Tremain
The Librarian by Sally Vickers
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
G by John Berger
The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang
The Story, Love, Loss and the Lives of Women, 100 Great Short Stories Chosen by Victoria Hislop
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyuan Li
Taft by Ann Patchett
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Run by Ann Patchett
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
The Time Between by Marcello Fois
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nickel Mountain by John Gardner
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty
A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
The Good Son by Paul McVeigh
Grace Paley The Collected Stories
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
All For Nothing by Walter Kempowski
You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolf
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
On Literature by Umberto Eco
The End of Alzheimer’s by Dr Dale Bredesen
The Wave In the Mind by Ursula Le Guin
Feel Free by Sadie Smith
A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F. John
The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
4321 by Paul Auster
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
The Travelling Bag by Susan Hill
Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
The Mermaid and Mrs. Handcock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
The Evenings by Gerard Reve
The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Like Death by Guy De Maupassant
The American Lover by Rose Treman
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
2017
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Rereading: Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola
Men Witihout Women by Haruki Murakami
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
On Not Being Able to Paint by Joanna Field
The Woolgrower’s Companion by Joy Rhoades
In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
Rereading: Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Missing Link: How Handwriting Made Us Who We Are by Philip Hensher
Rereading: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Hokusai: Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds by Matthi Forrer
Total War and Historical Change: Europe in 1914-1955
At the Back of the North Wind and other Stories by George MacDonald
The Writer’s Voice by Al Alvarez
The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects by John Tingey
Inkblots: Hermann Roschach, His Iconic Test and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls
Deserter by Charles Glass
When The War is Over by John Holmes and William Holmes
Americans in Paris by Charles Glass
Nella Last in the 1950’s Edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson
The View From the Corner Shop: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime Edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson
Prisoners and Partisans by Malcolm Tudor
RAF Evaders by Oliver Clutton-Brock
The God of Small Things by Aurundhati Roy
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Love and War in London: The Mass Observation Wartime Diary of Olivia Cockett
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Words are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books by Ursula Leguin
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Captain’s Alphabet by Jonny Hannah
Euphoria by Lily King
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (rereading after many years and it is still so relevant and inspiring)
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
Margaret Mee’s Amazon: Diaries of an Artist Explorer
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
11.22.63 by Stephen King
Swimming Home by Mary-Rose Maccoll
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Edgar and Lucy by Victor Lodato
The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge
The Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
A Butterfly Journey: Maria Sibylla Merian. Artist and Scientist
How To Read Water by Tristan Gooley
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Two Lives by William Trevor
The Shadowland by Elizabeth Rostova
The End of the Afair by Graham Greene
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Swimming Lessons by Clare Fuller
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohleben
The Stones Speak by Thorbergur Thordarson
Madoc The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America by Gwyn A. Williams
A Vocation and a Voice: Stories by Kate Chopin
London Lies Beneath by Stella Duffy
The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
The Girl From Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
The Liberation by Kate Furnivall
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
The Idea of North by Peter Davidson
Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums Edited by The Economist
The Comet Seekers By Helen Sedgwick
Their Finest by Lissa Evans
The Walkers Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs by Tristan Gooley
London in Fragments: A Mudlark’s Treasures by Ted Sandling
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
The White Road by Edmund de Waal
Round the Bend by Nevil Shute
2016
Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka
The Story Teller by Walter Benjamin
Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson by Miles Russell
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Wrench by Primo Levi
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Restoration by Rose Tremain
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
The Gustav Sonata by Jo Baker
The Historical Novel (The New Critical Idiom) by Jerome de Groot
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
West with the Night by Beryl Markum
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Winter by Christopher Nicholson
Toward the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn
Noonday by Pat Barker
Stitches by Anne Lamott
Another World by Pat Barker
Shadow Tab by Louise Erdrich
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Border Crossing by Pat Barker
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
Hard Laughter by Anne Lamott
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr
V is for Vengence by Sue Grafton
Voyage of the Beagle by James Taylor
The Strangeness of My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
The Daylight Gate by Jeannette Winterson
A Life by Guy Maupassant
Weight by Jeannette Winterson
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor
The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
When I Was A Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
Union Street by Pat Barker
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
News from Nowhere by William Morris
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor
An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton
The Irresponsible Self by James Wood
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
Started Early Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Lillian’s Story by Kate Grenville
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Clara by Janice Galloway
Love by Tony Morrison
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
How to Be a Writer by Barbara Baig
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative by Lawrence Weschler
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
2015
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Overnight to Innsbruck by Denyse Woods
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
We Are Not Ourselves by Mathew Thomas
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Epitaph of A Small Wonder by Machado de Assis
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Blue Touch Paper by David Hare
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
From A to X by John Berger
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
Landfalls by Naomi Williams
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
The Novel Cure by Ella Berthound
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Here Is Where We Meet by John Berger
The Train by Georges Simenon
The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
Shop Talk by Philip Roth
Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The Possessed by Elif Bautman
The Great American Novel by Philip Roth
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
The Innocence of Objects by Orhan Pamuk
I Can’t Begin to Tell You by Elizabeth Buchan
The Need for Better Regulation of Outter Space by Pippa Goldschmidt
Keeping an Eye Open by Julian Barnes
How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
How To Be Both by Ali Smith
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark
Us by David Nicholls
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen by Mark Nepo
On Further Reflection by Jonathan Miller
What Comes Next and How To Like It by Abigail Thomas
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Conner
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Conner
Wild Child by T.C. Boyle
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Brokeback Mountain and other Stories by Annie Proulx
Woman Hollering Creek and other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears
One Summer, America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
From the Forest: The Search for Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales by Sara Maitland
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri