A List of My Unread Books

Page updated Sept. 2021

~~Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love, Loss and Consolation by Rachel Clarke~~
~~Real Estate by Deborah Levy~~
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
~~Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle~~
Expectations by Anna Hope
~~A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself by Peter Ho Davies~~
The History of the World In 100 objects by Niall Ferguson
~~Haven’t They Grown by Sophie Hannah~~
~~The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability~~
~~Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler~~
~~When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut~~
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Ponti by Sharlene Teo
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
The Dead Lake by Hamad Ismailov
The Blue Room by Hanne Ostavik
Nothing but Blue Sky by Katherine McMahon
Better Living Through Criticism by A. O. Scott
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
~~What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez~~
~~Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zarate~~
~~The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan~~
~~A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar~~
~~The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold~~
The Convent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold
~~You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann~~
~~Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann~~
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill
~~A Golden Age by Tahmina Anam~~
One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
I have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary by John Higgs
The Choice by Edith Eger
~~Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers (audio book)~~
The Women by T. C. Boyle
The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
~~The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herr~~era
~~Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan~~
The Uncoupling by Cauvery Madhavan
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Daddy by Emma Cline
Melmouth by Sarah Perry
A Radical Romance by Alison Light
Nobody is ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
Days without End by Sebastian Barry
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
~~Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro~~
Uncovering Lives by Alan Elms
Untold Story by Monica Ali
Cheri and the Last of Cheri by Colette
Forever Stardust by Will Brooker
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
~~Great Works by Tom Lubbock~~
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
A Face to the World by Laura Cumming
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
~~The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha~~
Maisons des Ecrivains by Erica Lennard
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
Life as a Unicorn by Amrou al-Kadhi
The Crossing by Samar Yazbek
Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi
Hurdy Gurdy by Christopher Wilson
Time by Eva Hoffman
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Flush by Virginia Woolf
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
The 21-day Immunity Plan by Dr Aseem Malhotra
Lake Como by Srdjan Valjarevic
Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
Feed Your Family for £20 a Week
Mothers by Jacqueline Rose
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Girl by Edna O’Brien
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
How to Grow a Grown-up by Dominique Thompson
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Burn by Patrick Ness
Art History: A Critical Introduction by Michael Hatt
Ulysses by James Joyce
Clive James on Television
~~Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds~~
~~Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing~~
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Centre of Consciousness by Mark Solms
Reading Autobiography by Sidonie Smith
~~Writing Lives by Midge Gillies~~
~~The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley~~
Mayhem: a Memoir by Sigrid Rausing
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
House of Stone by Novoyo Rosa Tshuma
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Life Class by Pat Barker
Ghost Road by Pat Barker
The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe
The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner
Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddartha Mukherjee
The Organised Mum Method by Gemma Bray
The Plague/La Peste by Albert Camus
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages in Literary London 1910 -1939 by Katie Roiphe
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Zabat-Zinn (audio book)
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag (audio bk)
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (audio bk)
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (audio bk)
Freud by Anthony Storr
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers (audio)
We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche
One Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
The Orwell Diaries by George Orwell
The Diaries of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
The Letters of Sylvia Plath
The Diaries of Sylvia Plath
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko
Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner
Here we Are by Graham Swift
Found by Erin Kinsley
Wolf Brother by Michele Paver
Singer in the Night by Olja Savicevic
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Winners by Julio Cortazar
Death in Venice and other stories by Thomas Mann
Severance by Ling Ma
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Thinking about Art by Penny Huntsman
The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag
~~A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen~~
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
Narrating Illness and Disability ed. by G. Thomas Cosner
Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Border: a Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
Smile as they Bow by Nu Nu Yi
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
The Successor by Ismail Kadare
Then they Came for Me by Maziar Bahari
~~The Dry by Jane Harper~~
~~The Employees by Olga Ravn~~
Time Lived, Without its Flow by Denise Riley
The Little Book of Bhavan by Leah Weiss
The Things you only See when you Slow Down by Haemin Sumin
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
The Sleeping Buddha by Hamida Ghafour
Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali
Words in a French Life by Kristin Espinasse
Squeaky Wheels by Suzanne Kamata
The Wych Elm by Tana French
Outer Order Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnovic
Small Places, Large Issues by Thomas Hylland
Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
Dancer by Colum McCann
Actress by Anne Enright
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Make Time: How to Focus on what Matters every Day by Jake Knapp
The Book you Wish your Parents had Read by Philippa Perry
Pig Tales: a Novel of Lust and Transformation by Marie Darrieussecq
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
The World between Two Covers: Reading the Globe by Ann Morgan
You will Hear Thunder by Anna Makhatova
The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Read this if you want to take great photos by Henry Carroll
The Photographers Playbook by Jason Fulford
Outdoor London by Eleanor Ross
Under Major Domo Minor by Patrick Dewitt
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
Ways of Going Home by Alejanodro Zambra
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
The Walworth Beauty by Michele Roberts
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
A Woman looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt
Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine
The Infatuations by Javier Marias
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
All the Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell
Natural History by Justina Robson
The Wonderful Weekend Book by Elspeth Thompson
Caravaggio by Helen Langdon
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Every Third Thought by Robert McCrum
Literature and the World by Stefan Helgesson and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
World Cinema: A Critical Introduction by Shekhar Deshpande and Meta Mazaj
Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ben Hutchinson
The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens
Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley
Tracy Emin book
Singing in the Rain by Rachel Kelly
Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus by Jessica Abel
Life in the English Country House by Mark Girouard
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
French Short Stories by Robert Coward
Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories
Short Stories in Spanish
Short Stories in Italian
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric B. Weitz
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Lives of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Conscious Creativity by Philippa Stanton
The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Stevenson
With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix
The Paris Review Interviews Vol 1
The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
Affinity by Sarah Waters
The Woman who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Period Piece by Gwen Ravarat
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Restless Cities ed by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart
The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
The 199 steps by Michel Faber
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
A Woman of Firsts by Edna Adan Ismail
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
Happiness by Design by Paul Dolan
Fame by Daniel Kehlemann
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Berlin by Jason Lutes
Bitter Orange by Clare Fuller
Keeping a Journal You Love by Sheila Bender
Read This Next by Sandra Newman & Howard Mittelmark
Mythos by Stephen Fry
We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
~~Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys~~
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
~~Flames by Robbie Arnott~~
David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
The Night Circus by Ursula Kovalyk
The Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Surviving Lockdown by David Cohen
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
What the F*** is Normal by Francesca Martinez
The Comfort of Others by Kay Langdale
Love for Lydia by H. E. Bates
Harry Potter British Library Exhibition book
~~Edith’s Diary by Patricia Highsmith~~
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Half a Life by Darin Strauss
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Paris by Edward Rutherford
~~Commonwealth by Ann Patchett~~
The Art of Not Falling Apart by Christina Patterson
Get me the Urgent Biscuits by Sweetpea Light
The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Dance to the Music of Time Vol 1 by Anthony Powell
One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Alex Cox’s Introduction to Film
The Big Push by Cynthia Enloe
Quiet by Susan Cain
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
From Black Land to Fifth Sun by Brian Fagan
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray
Collected Poems by T. S. Elliot
London Labour and the London Poor by George Mayhew
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
How To Talk so Teens will Listen by Adele Faber
The Little Book of Self-Care by Mel Noaks
A Manual for Heartbreak by Cathy Rentzenbrink
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
Home Organization for Busy People by Janice Gray
Recharge by Julie Montagu
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
The Art of Stopping Time by Pedram Shojai
~~The Circle by Dave Eggers~~
~~Ways of Looking by Ossian Ward~~
The Barsetshire Chronicles by Anthony Trollope
The Anti-Romantic Child by Priscilla Gilman
The Collected Works of E. M. Dellafield
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Written Lives by Javier Marias
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser
The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
Sister Sebastian’s Library by Phil Whittaker
Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
~~Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion~~
Respectable by Linsey Hanely
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany Daniel
Kindle book on Journalling
The First Woman by Jennifer Mukumbi
Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles by Amy Licence
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Elizabeth: The Lost Years by John Guy
The Life Project by Helen Pearson
The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
~~Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton~~
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves by Sarah B. Pomeroy
Weep Not Child by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
Annie’s Box by Randall Keynes
Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towes
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
Thomas and Mary by Tim Parks
Nothing but Fear by Knud Romer
The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
A Fortunate Man by John Berger
The Afterlife is Where we Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death and Poverty in Guinea Bissau by Jonina Einarsdottir
Watching the English by Kate Fox
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Salador Dali museum catalogue
~~The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz~~
Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe
A London Child of the 1870s by Mary Hughes
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Music for Torching by A. M. Holmes
The Golden Bough by George Frazer
How to Read Contemporary Art by Michael Wilson
The Clever Guts Diet by Michael Moseley (Plus couple of other self-help/parenting on kindle)
Bowie’s Books by John O’Connell
From the Oven to the Table by Diana Henry
The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater
Toast by Nigel Slater
The Gift by Edith Eger
Leap Year by Helen Russell
Junk by Melvin Burgess
The Memory Police
Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti
Valentina by S. E. Lynes
Girl Up by Laura Bates
The Bronte Myth by Lucasta Miller
On the Map by Simon Garfield
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
Winnicott by Adam Phillips
The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
Reading like a Writer by Francine Prose
How Novels Work by John Mullan
How Fiction Works by James Wood
Un Appartement a Paris by Guillaume Musso
A Florence Diary by Diane Athill
Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloekner
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
~~Intimations by Zadie Smith~~
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
How to Live on 24hrs a Day by Arnold Bennett
Poems that Make Grown Men Cry
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Milk by Elif Shafak
The Blackheath Seance Parlour by Alan Williams
The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harris
Mr Penumbra’s 24 hr Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Dissolution by C. J. Sampson
The Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Karl Ove Knaussgard’s My Struggle Book 2
The Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Habits of the House by Fay Weldon
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Harvest by Jim Crace
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
Beyond the Pleasure Principle/The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
419 by Will Ferguson
What the Most Successful do on the Weekend by Laura Vanderkaum
Life! Death! Prizes by Stephen May
The Detective’s Daughter by Lesley Thomson
Keeping Secrets by Sue Gee
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
Nigella Lawson book: Cook, Eat, Repeat
The Diary of Anne Frank (new edn)
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Maus II by Art Spiegelman
The 10,000 Doors of January by Alix Harrow
The Old Drift by Namwalli Serpell
The Narrow Land by Christine Hickey
India Song by Marguerite Duras
Two Songs by William Trevor
A World of Difference: An Anthology, edited by Lydia Prescott
Teaching Autobiography
The 1,000-yr Old Boy by Ross Wexford
The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly
Longbourn by Jo Baker
Frieda Kahlo’s Diary
What’s it all About by Julian Baggini (plus 2 others on kindle)
Philosophy: The Basics
My Age of Anxiety by Scott Sossel
Happiness by Richard O’Connor
This too shall Pass by Julia Samuel
The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Scapegoat by Katharine Quarmby
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila
I was told there’d be cake by Sloane Crosley
The Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope
1222 by Anne Holt
The Cultural Nature of Human Development by Barbara Rogoff
Psychoanalysis outside the Clinic by Stephen Groff
Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom
Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Why we Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel by Lisa Zunshine
Interrupted Lives by Andrew Motion
Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
Love, Sex, Death and Words by John Sutherland
Daily Life in Victorian London: An Extraordinary Anthology by Lee Jackson
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A is for Angelica by Iain Broome
When did you Last see your Father by Blake Morrison
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Thursdays in the Park by Hilary Boyd
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
The Age of Absurdity by Michael Foley
Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
This Bleeding City by Alex Preston
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
Telling Lives by Marianne Horsdal
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Pilcrow by Adam Mars Jones
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Longevity Project by Howard Friedman and Lesley Martin
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Conversations with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
Paris Wife by Paula McLain
~~Weather by Jenny Offill~~
~~Lost Art edited by Jennifer Mundy~~
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Purpose of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
Starman by Paul Trynka
The Life and Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
Euphoria by Lily King
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
Monogamy by Sue Miller
Mary Oliver poetry collection
Emily Dickinson poetry collection
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
~~The Colour of Time by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral~~
Edie by Jean Stein
Victorian Lady Travellers by Dorothy Middleton
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
1001 Wonderful Things
~~The Yacoubian Building by Ala Al Aswany~~
Virginia Woolf: work inspired by her writing (tate)
Bruegel: The Complete Paintings by Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen
Vogue 100 Highlights: National Portrait Gallery
Pets in Portraits by Robin Gibson
Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards by Lucinda Hawkesley
Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas
The Gossamer Thread by John Marzillier
The Cazalet Chronicles – Light Years (Book 1) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Bringing up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
On Writing by Stephen King
Cujo by Stephen King
The Expats by Chris Pavone
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Arnem
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dry by Augustin Burroughs
The Sober Diaries by Clare Pooley
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Jansen
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
~~The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith~~
~~Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane~~
Half Blood Blues by Esi Eduygan
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Agebe
~~Ali and Nino by Kurban Said~~
~~Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid~~
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
One of Them by Musa Okwonga
~~The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell~~
Digital Photography Complete Course by David Taylor
Born to be Mild by Rob Temple
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
~~The Line of Beauty by Allan Hollinghurst~~
The Devil that Danced on the Water by Aminatta Forna
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
~~Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford~~
We, The Survivors by Tash Aw
~~Ramble Book by Adam Buxton~~
Ficciones by Borges
~~Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell~~
~~At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell~~
The Quickening by Rhiannon Ward
You by Caroline Kempnes
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
Sunset over the Empire by Caryl Phillips
~~The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross~~
~~Piranesi by Susanna Clarke~~
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
~~Charles Dickens: A life by Claire Tomalin~~
~~Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich~~
Paula by Isabelle Allende
Paula, Michael and Bob by Gerry Agar
La Familla Grande by Camille Couchner
~~How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski~~
~~Henry VIII by Guy John~~
~~The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu~~
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
The Year of the End by Anne Theroux
12:23 by Eoin McNamee
Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Edward VI: The Last Boy King by Stephen Alford
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age by John Woolf
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
~~The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy~~
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohleben
The Room Where it Happened by John Bolton
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams
~~The Glass Hotel by Emily St Mandel~~
~~Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood~~
~~How to Live. What to Do by Josh Cohen~~
A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
My Left Leg and Frieda Kahlo by Emily Rapp
The Mermaid and the Conch by Monique Roffey
Diary of a Short Sighted Adolescent by Mircea Eliade
The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Mythology of the British Isles by Geoffrey Ashe
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
~~Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev~~
~~Heavy Light by Horatio Clare~~
~~A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa~~
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautz
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Text is Myself: Women’s Life Writing and Catastrophe by Miriam Fuchs
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson
Roasting Tin Around the World by Rukhmini Iver
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
~~A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio~~
~~The Employees by Olga Ravn~~
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That by Susie Hodge
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
Water Music by T. C. Boyle
~~At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop~~
~~Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan~~
Interrupted Lives by Andrew Motion
~~Consent by Annabel Lyon~~
Si c’est un homme by Primo Levi
Diary of an MPs Wife by Sasha Swire
Ex Libris
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Red Pill by Hari Hunzru
~~The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez~~
The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst
Deceived with Kindness by Angelica Garnett
Visual Culture by Richard Howells and Joaquim Negreiros
~~Moonstone by Sjon~~
~~Old Baggage by Lissa Evans~~
Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon
To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era by Mary Lowenthal Felstiner
~~Still Life by Louise Penny~~
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf
The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
Disturbing the Body : Speculative Memoir about Disrupted Bodies anthology
~~Golden Hill by Francis Spufford~~
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
~~The Pursuit of Art by Martin Gayford~~
~~Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga~~
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Minor Detail by Adiana Shibli
~~The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto~~
Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
~~Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck~~
All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
Interfaces by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith
~~The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller~~
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor
American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
Signifying Bodies by G. Thomas Couser
Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
The Loney by Andrew Hurley
The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
~~The Nose by Gogol~~
Mend the Living/Reparar les Vivants by Maylis de Kerangal
Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
~~Lee Miller by Amy Bouhassane~~
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Maggie and Me by Damian Barr
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Madness of Grief by Richard Coles
The Trip to Echo Springs by Olivia Laing
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