This year: a cloudy poem

2017 Reading List

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
The North Water by Ian McGuire
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
The Girl Before by JP Delaney
From the Dead by Mark Billingham
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
1. Buried by Mark Billingham
2. The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
4. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
5. Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta
3. Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
6. The Weathering by Lucy Wood
7. Sport of Kings by C.E.Morgan
8. The Unseen World by Liz Moore
9. Moonglow by Michael Chabon
10. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
11. What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
12. Death Message by Mark Billingham
13. Bloodline by Mark Billingham
14. Spill, simmer, falter, wither by Sara Baume
15. Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

2016 Reading List

Lifeless by Mark Billingham
The Wonder by Emma Donaghue
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
End of Watch by Stephen King
The Burning Girl by Mark Billingham
White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Lazybones by Mark Billingham
The Girls by Emma Cline
Nicotine by Nell Zink
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
The Fall Guy by James Lasdun
The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
The All of It by Jeanette Haien
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
The Fever by Megan Abbott
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
The Secret Place by Tana French
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
The Emerald Lie by Ken Bruen
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty
In the Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty
When Mary Becomes Cosmic by David Richo
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
The Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen
The Poet's Tale by Paul Strohm
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
Between You and Me by Mary Norris
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin
Anam Cara by John O'Donahue
The Guilty by David Baldacci
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
Plague Land by S.D.Sykes
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
The Cold, Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
High Dive by Jonathan Lee
Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo
Tender by Belinda Mckeon
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
Code Talker by Joseph Bruhac
Asking for It by Louise O'Neill
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Coffee Story by Peter Salmon
Euphoria by Lily King
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Lower River by Paul Theroux
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
The Past by Tessa Hadley
Oreo by Fran Ross
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship and Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
The Green Road by Ann Enright
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Reader for Hire by Raymond Jean
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stores by Lucia Berlin
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Sierstad
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Door by Magda Szabo
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

2016 Audiobooks

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
The Hidden LIfe of Trees by Max Wohllben
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Into the Magic Shop by James Doty
The Meursalt Investigation by Kamel Daoud
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
A Year of Marvellous Ways by Susan Winman
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, read by Neela Vaswani
What I Talk about when I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami, read by Ray Porter
Redeployment by Phil Klay, read by Craig Klein
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, read by Will Damron and Julia Whelan
Lila by Marilynne Robinson, read by Maggie Hoffman
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, read by Alex Jennings
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, read by Peter Francis James
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison, read by Dan O'Grady
The Courage to Create by Rollo May, read by Sean Pratt
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, read by Frazer Douglas

Thursday, September 1, 2016

a cloudy poem