2020 Reading List
1. Louis de Bernieres – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
2. Nicanor Parra – Antipoems
3. Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
4. Sally Rooney – Conversations With Friends
5. Dominic Goncalves - The Cruising Kid
6. Rachel Cusk – Outline
7. Lorrie Moore – Terrific Mother
8. Elizabeth Strout – My Name is Lucy Barton
9. Rachel Cusk – Transit
10. Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six
11. Simon Critchley – Memory Theatre
12. Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
13. Kirsten Sims – Balthazar the Great
14. Helen Simpson – Motherhood
15. At the Pond – Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond
16. Natalia Ginzberg – Family Lexicon
17. Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
18. Mario Vargas Llosa – Death in the Andes
19. Isabel Allende – The Long Petal of the Sea
20. Samanta Schweblin – Mouthfull of Birds
21. J.K Rowling – The Casual Vacancy
22. Stephen King – If it Bleeds
23. Anthony Axelrad – Learning to Say No
24. Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The World Goes On
25. Jenny Offil – Weather
26. Ben Goodman – True to Form
27. Naoise Dolan – Exciting Times
28. Sayaka Murata – Convenience Store Woman
29. Rory Power – Wilder Girls
30. Sally Rooney – Mr Salary
31. Rhett Sinnema – The Nowhere Junction (Artemis Book 2)
32. Anita Brookner – Hotel du Lac
33. Jorge Amado – Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
34. Kent Haruf – Eventide
35. Ernest Hemingway – Pursuit of Happiness (short)
36. Ottessa Moshfegh – My Year of Rest and Relaxation
37. Samanta Schweblin – Little Eyes
38. Jenny Offill – Dept. of Speculation
39. Yuri Herrera – Signs Preceding the End of the World
40. Fernanda Melchor – Hurricane Season
41. Deborah Levy – Swimming Home
42. John W Campbell – Who Goes There?
43. Rachel Cusk – Kudos
44. Yoko Ogawa - The Memory Police
45. Carlo Rovelli – Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
46. Miguel Cervantes - Don Quixote
47. Gabriela Cabezon Camara - Slum Virgin
48. Ed Atkins – Old Food
49. Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge
50. Esme Weijun Wang – The Collected Schizophrenias
51. Russell Brand – My Booky Wook 2
52. Hernan Diaz – In the Distance
53. Angie Cruz - Dominicana
54. Eley Williams – Atrib. And other stories
55. Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain
56. William Trevor – Last Stories
57. Miguel Bonnefoy – Black Sugar
58. Colum Mcann – Apeirogon
59. John Banville – Snow
60. Alice Munro – Lives of Girls and Women
61. Julian Barnes – the Sense of an Ending
62. Ernest Cline – Ready Player Two
63. Louis de Bernieres – the Autumn of the Ace
64. Marilyne Robinson – Gilead
2021 Reading List
1. Maggie Nelson – The Argonauts
2. Banana Yoshimoto – N.P
3. Augustin Fernandez Mallo – Nocilla Lab
4. Emily St John Mandel - Station Eleven
5. Anthony Bordain – Medium Raw
6. Ottessa Moshfegh – Eileen
7. Kurt Vonnegut - Time Quake
8. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - The Discomfort of Evening
9. George Saunders – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
10. Leila Slimani – Lullaby
11. Miguel Bonnefoy – Octavio’s Journey
12. Dan Simmons – A Winter Haunting
13. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
14. John Williams - Stoner
15. Emma Jane Unsworth – Animals
16. Miranda Popkey – Topics of Conversation
17. Stephen King – Later
18. Roberto Bolaño – Distant Star
19. Mario Vargas Llosa – The Bad Girl
20. Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential
21. Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
22. Elif Batuman – The Idiot
23. Machado de Assis – Epitaph of a Small Winner
24. Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
25. Sigrid Nunez – The Friend
26. Katharina Volckmer – The Appointment
27. Elaine Dundy – The Dud Avocado
28. Susan Cain - Quiet
29. Rhett Sinnema – Apex
30. Tove Ditlevsen - The Copenhagen Trilogy
31. Matthew McConaughey – Greenlights
32. David Goggins – Can’t Hurt Me
33. Frank Peretti – This Present Darkness
34. Dominic Goncalves – The Shabby Gift of Disillusionment
35. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
36. Stephen King – Billy Summers
37. Wesley Ingle – Fight Cancer
38. Phillipe Georget – Summertime, All the Cats are Bored
39. Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
40. Frank Herbert – Dune
41. Richard Ford – Rock Springs
42. James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
43. Dave Grohl – The Storyteller
44. Emily St John Mandel - The Glass Hotel
45. Rory Van As - A Semiotic Investigation of the Graphic Imagery of Tattoos
46. Banana Yoshimoto – Asleep
47. Richard Powers - The Overstory
48. Jean Kyoung Frazier - Pizza Girl
49. Rodrigo Fuentes – Trout, Belly Up
50. Deborah Levy – Hot Milk
51. Kurt Vonnegut – Breakfast of Champions
52. Jenny Offill – Last Things
53. Ali Smith - Autumn
2022 Reading List
1. Harurki Murakami - First Person Singular
2. Mary Gaitskil - Bad Behaviour
3. Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob
4. Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives
5. Milan Kundera - Identity
6. Kurt Vonnegut - Man Without Country
7. Eli Goldstone - Strange Heart Beating
8. Kurt Vonnegut - Godbless you, Mr Rosewater
9. Karl Ove Knausgaard - The Morning Star
10. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5
11. Katharine Smyth - All the Lives We Ever Lived
12. Stephen King - On Writing
13. Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
14. Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
15. Kurt Vonnegut - If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
16. Stephen King - Joyland
17. Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility
18. Sheila Heti - Pure Colour
19. Richard Powers - Bewilderment
20. Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls
21. Emily St John Mandel - The Singer's Gun
22. Damon Galgut - The Promise
23. Emily Henry - People We Meet on Vacation
24. Alain Botton - The Course of Love
25. Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein
26. Frightened Rabbit - The Work
27. Stuart Dooley - Flying With Broken Wings
28. Anonymous - Diary of an Oxygen Thief
29. Milli Hill - Give Birth Like a Feminist
30. Geetanjali Shree - Tomb of Sand
31. Mary Lawson - A Town Called Solace
32. Patti Smith - Year of the Monkey
33. Emily St John Mandel – Last Night in Montreal
34. Patti Smith - Just Kids
35. Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
36. Carsten Jensen - The First Stone
37. Emily St John Mandel - The Lola Quartet
38. George Saunders – Congratulations, by the way
39. Stephen King - Fairy Tale
40. Sigrid Nunez – What are you Going Through
41. Claire-Louise Bennet - Checkout 22
42. Andy Weir - Artemis
43. George Saunders - Liberation Day
44. Emily Henry - Beach Read
45. Alejandro Zambra - Chilean Poet
46. Julia Leigh - The Hunter
47. Muriel Barbery - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
48. Javier Marias - All Souls
49. Mariana Enriques - The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
50. Tessa Hadley - Sunstroke
51. Matt Bell - Refuse to be Done
52. Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger