this year, I’ve been reading:
- Ahead of All Parting Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Idiot Elif Batuman
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Agatha Christie
- The Doll's House Neil Gaiman
- A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
- Boy Friends Michael Pedersen
- One Dark Window Rachel Gillig
- The Vegetarian Han Kang
- Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter
- And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
- Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz
- The Collected Stories Grace Paley
- The Round House Louise Erdrich
- A Girl is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson
- Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta
- Across The Wall Garth Nix
- Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman
- After Beowulf Nicole Markotić
- Beowulf Marijane Osborn
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World Elif Shafak
- The Dark Between The Trees Fiona Barnett
- How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division Elif Shafak
- A Closed and Common Orbit Becky Chambers
- The Mere Wife Maria Dahvana Headley
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching Ursula K. Le Guin
- Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus
- This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Nicole Perlroth
- Feminisms Lucy Delap
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
- A View of the Harbour Elizabeth Taylor
- Fiere Jackie Kay
- Gate of the Sun Elias Khoury
- Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
- Sea Monsters Chloe Aridjis
- The Forevers Chris Whitaker
- Dante and the Lobster Samuel Beckett
- Small Things Like These Claire Keegan
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez
- Foster Claire Keegan
- Giacomo Joyce James Joyce
- The Magic Toyshop Angela Carter
- Ti Amo Hanne Ørstavik
- Misjustice Helena Kennedy
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin
- Death Goes on Skis Nancy Spain
- How to Stop Time Matt Haig
- Tin Princess Philip Pullman
- Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
- The Book Thief Markus Zusak
- The Dud Avocado Elaine Dundy
- Overruled Sam Fowles
- The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson
- 100 Poems Seamus Heaney
- Dark Matter Blake Crouch
- The Weather in the Streets Rosamond Lehmann
- Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
- Middlemarch George Eliot
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage
- A New Kind of Science Stephen Wolfram
- Beowulf Edwin Morgan
- Beowulf J. R. R. Tolkien
- Beowulf Maria Dahvana Headley
- Beowulf Meghan Purvis
- Beowulf, Dragon Slayer Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies Jo Lloyd
- Deep Water Patricia Highsmith
- Fake Law The Secret Barrister
- Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo
- The Secret Barrister The Secret Barrister
- A Mystic Dream of 4 Iggy McGovern
- The Imagination Chamber Philip Pullman
- Memento Mori Muriel Spark
- Heartstopper Alice Oseman
- Heartstopper Volume Two Alice Oseman
- The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
- Frost In May Antonia White
- The Stars H. A. Rey
- Beowulf Seamus Heaney
- Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Should All be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Faces in the Water Janet Frame
- I, Robot Isaac Asimov
- Heartburn Nora Ephron
- Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Paradise Lost John Milton
- The Salt Path Raynor Winn
- Matter Iain M. Banks
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft
- At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop
- The Illustrated Etymologicon Mark Forsyth
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
- Money Jacob Goldstein
- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Marianne Cronin
- Snuff Terry Pratchett
- To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
- On the Road Jack Kerouac
- American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
- Thud! Terry Pratchett
- Call Us What We Carry Amanda Gorman
- Night Watch Terry Pratchett
- Revenger Alastair Reynolds