Books Read 2017

1. Smashed in the USSR: Fear and Loathing on the Steppes — Caroline Walton & Ivan Petrov  (January)
2. The Lesser Bohemians — Eimear McBride  (January)
3. The Sex Lives of English Women — Wendy Jones  (January)
4. The Lonely City — Olivia Laing  (January)
5. Nutshell — Ian McEwan  (January)
6. Grief Is The Thing With Feathers — Max Porter  (January)
7. The Essex Serpent — Sarah Perry  (February)
8. The London Train — Tessa Hadley  (February)
9. On Love — Charles Bukowski  (February)
10. First Love — Gwendoline Riley  (March)
11. The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays — Simon Leys  (March)
12. Remedy Is None — William McIlvanney  (April)
13. Future Sex — Emily Witt  (April)
14. Sins as Scarlet — Nicolas Obregon  (June)
15. Anything is Possible — Elizabeth Strout  (June)
16. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay — Elena Ferrante  (June)
17. The Story of The Lost Child — Elena Ferrante  (July)
18. Backbone Flute — Vladimir Mayakovsky  (July)
19. A Man in Love — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (July)
20. The Dying Animal — Philip Roth  (July) (again)
21. In Gratitude — Jenny Diski  (July)
22. The Tryst — Monique Roffey  (July)
23. The Power of Meaning — Emily Esfahani Smith (July)
24. Trysting — Emmanuelle Pagano  (August)
25. The Key — Junichiro Tanizaki  (August)
26. My Name Is Lucy Barton — Elizabeth Strout  (August)
27. Sabbath’s Theatre — Philip Roth  (September)
28. On the Suffering of the World — Arthur Schopenhauer  (September)
29. The Children Act — Ian McEwan  (September)
30. The Child in Time — Ian McEwan  (September)
31. Sylvia — Leonard Michaels  (October)
32. Portrait of a Mother as a Young Woman — Friedrich Christian Delius  (October)
33. Four Major Plays: A Doll’s House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder — Henrik Ibsen  (October)
34. Venus in Furs — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch  (October)
35. Bonjour Tristesse — Françoise Sagan  (October)
36. Christodora — Tim Murphy  (October)
37. The Shooting Party — Anton Chekhov  (October)
38. Levels of Life — Julian Barnes  (November)
39. Dunbar — Edward St. Aubyn  (November)
40. The Cut — Anthony Cartwright  (November)
41. Henry and June — Anais Nin  (November)
42. The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle  (December)
43. The Kingdom — Emmanuel Carrere  (December)
44. Tony & Susan — Austin Wright  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.