this year, I’ve been reading:

• The Collected Stories of Grace Paley Grace Paley
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson
• A Girl is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride
• 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
• White Teeth Zadie Smith
• The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett
• Jingo Terry Pratchett
• Nine Princes in Amber Roger Zelazny
• Feet of Clay Terry Pratchett
• Men at Arms Terry Pratchett
• Moby Dick Herman Melville
• Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett
• A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray
• The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks