All the Books we Read in 2016
…because we forget. And because finishing books is great, whether we review them here or not, and should occasion stickers and gold stars.
Sarah
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Santa Klaus Murder – Mavis Doriel Hay
A Shilling For Candles – Josephine Tey
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower – Marcel Proust
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Lila – Marilynne Robinson
Pointed Roofs – Dorothy Richardson
Compartment No. 6 – Rosa Liksom
Wolf Totem – Jiang Rong
Backwater – Dorothy Richardson
The Green Road – Anne Enright
Snow Blind – Ragnar Jonasson
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
Night Blind – Ragnar Jonasson
Honeycomb – Dorothy Richardson
Roseanna – Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
A Death in the Family – Karl Ove Knausgaard
Pomfret Towers – Angela Thirkell
The Tunnel – Dorothy Richardson
The Enchanted April – Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Vegetarian – Han Kang
Stammered Songbook, A Mother’s Book of Hours – Erwin Mortier
Interim – Dorothy Richardson
Swami and Friends – R K Narayan
The Land of Green Ginger – Winifred Holtby
The Bottle Factory Outing – Beryl Bainbridge
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Irmina – Barbara Yelin
Jar City – Arnaldur Indriðason
Like Water For Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Pétronille – Amélie Nothomb
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
Blackout – Ragnar Jónasson
A Tale For the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
Deadlock – Dorothy Richardson
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Revolving Lights – Dorothy Richardson
Running Like a Girl – Alexandra Heminsley
The Trap – Dorothy Richardson
Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada
Mr Fortune’s Maggot – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Oberland – Dorothy Richardson
The Loved One – Evelyn Waugh
Dawn’s Left Hand – Dorothy Richardson
Clear Horizon – Dorothy Richardson
Dimple Hill – Dorothy Richardson
March Moonlight – Dorothy Richardson
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
The Man Who Went Up In Smoke – Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
Outline – Rachel Cusk
Lucy
A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James
Jane and Prudence – Barbara Pym
Alice Thompson – The Book Collector
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
A House for Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
The Casual Vacancy – J. K. Rowling
Requiem For A Wren – Nevil Shute
A Man In Love – Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
The Room – Jonas Karlsson
A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Emotionally Weird – Kate Atkinson
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Liver – Will Self
Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
The name Of The Rose – Umberto Eco
The Year of Living Danishly – Helen Russell
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson
Unexploded – Alison Macleod
GB84 – David Pearce
The Wig My Father Wore – Anne Enright
Nora Webster – Colm Toibin
How Proust Can Change Your Life – Alain de Botton
The Arty Craft of Playmaking – Alan Ayckbourn
Sugar Hall – Tiffany Murray
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
The Journeyman Tailor – Gerald Seymour
The Gunpowder Plot – Antonia Fraser
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Slade House – David Mitchell
Chalcot Crescent – Fay Weldon
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
The Butt – Will Self
Autumn – Ali Smith
Feeding Time – Adam Biles
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Shamela – Henry Fielding
NW – Zadie Smith
His Bloody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Santa Klaus Murder – Mavis Doriel Hay
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