All The Books We Read In 2015

…because we forget. And because finishing books is great, whether we review them here or not, and should occasion stickers and gold stars.

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Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

Paradise Lost – John Milton

The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall – Ann Brontë

Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey

Inferno – Dante Alighieri

Anton Chekhov – Three Sisters

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

A Death In The Family – Karl Ove Knausgaard

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

The Quiet American – Graham Greene

A Change Of Climate – Hilary Mantel

La Dame Aux Camelias – Alexandre Dumas

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

Brighton Rock – Graham Greene

A Room Of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf

Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens

Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel

Everyday Is Mother’s Day – Hilary Mantel

Shirley – Charlotte Bronte

Novel On Yellow Paper – Stevie Smith

The Wolf Border – Sarah Hall

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith

Eleven – Mark Watson

Hard Times – Charles Dickens

The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters

Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

Summer – Edith Wharton

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

Purgatorio – Dante Alighieri

Adventures in Human Being – Gavin Francis

The Dubliners – James Joyce

The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower – Marcel Proust

The Mystery Of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

Venetia – Georgette Heyer

Sylvester – Georgette Heyer

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell

Shark – Will Self

Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy – Lawrence Sterne

The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens

Dorian – Will Self

Satin Island – Tom McCarthy

Stoner – John Williams

Clarissa – Samuel Richardson

Beowulf – Some Anglo-Saxon dude

Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

Travels With My Aunt – Graham Greene

Writing Home – Alan Bennett

Down And Out in Paris And London – George Orwell

Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov

The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton

How To Be Both – Ali Smith

A Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym

Dune – Frank Herbert

Lanark – Alisdair Gray

Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis

The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes

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Tess of the D’Urbevilles – Thomas Hardy

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Le Grandes Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Harvest – Jim Crace

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

The Spirit Level – Wilkinson & Pickett

Buddha, vol 2 – The Four Encounters – Osama Tezuka

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Antigone – Sophocles

Hot Water – P.G. Wodehouse

Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

The Circle – Dave Eggers

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carre

1984 – George Orwell

The Lowland – Jhumpa Lahiri

Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

Here – Richard McGuire

Emma – Jane Austen

My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare

Puck of Pook’s Hill – Rudyard Kipling

Daytripper – Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba

How To Build A Girl – Caitlin Moran

How to be Both – Ali Smith

Wise Children – Angela Carter

The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton

Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L. Sayers

The Singing Sands – Josephine Tey

Walking To Hollywood – Will Self

Please, Mister Postman – Alan Johnson

Pamela – Samuel Richardson

The Crimson Rooms – Katherine McMahon

The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey

The Man of the Crowd – Edgar Allan Poe

The Flaneur – ed. Keith Tester

The Invisible Flaneuse – eds. D’Souza & McDonough

A View of the Harbour – Elizabeth Taylor

The Ladies’ Paradise – Emile Zola

Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens

A Spool Of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler