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