Books Read 2018

1. Metroland — Julian Barnes  (January)
2. All Is Silence — Manuel Rivas  (January)
3. The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath  (January)
4. Limonov — Emmanuel Carrere  (January)
5. The Looking-Glass Sisters — Gøhril Gabrielsen  (January)
6. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning — Alan Sillitoe  (February)
7. Silence — Shusaku Endo  (February)
8. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner — Alan Sillitoe  (February)
9. Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson  (February)
10. Fragments from My Diary — Maxim Gorky  (March)
11. The Days of Abandonment — Elena Ferrante  (March)
12. The End of the Affair — Graham Greene  (March)
13. A Scattering — Christopher Reid  (March)
14. Lost and Found — Jules Montague  (April)
15. Outline — Rachel Cusk  (April)
16. We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  (April)
17. The Plains — Gerard Murnane  (April)
18. Sympathy — Olivia Sudjic  (April)
19. Birthday Letters — Ted Hughes  (May)
20. Packing My Library — Alberto Manguel  (May)
21. The Nothing — Hanif Kureishi  (May)
22. My Name is Leon — Kit De Waal  (May)
23. Everyman — Philip Roth  (May) (again)
24. 12 Rules for Life — Jordan Peterson  (June)
25. Left in Dark Times — Bernard-Henri Levy  (June)
26. Transit — Rachel Cusk  (June)
27. The Plot Against America — Philip Roth  (July)
28. A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better — Benjamin Wood  (July)
29. Conversations With Friends — Sally Rooney  (July)
30. Kudos — Rachel Cusk  (July)
31. Story of the Eye — Georges Bataille  (July)
32. Crudo — Olivia Laing  (August)
33. The Double — Fyodor Dostoyevsky  (August)
34. Pitch Dark — Renata Adler  (August)
35. The Trick to Time — Kit De Waal  (September)
36. Sentenced to Life — Clive James  (September)
37. The Lost — Claire McGowan  (October)
38. Temptation — Vesna Main  (October)
39. Special Delivery — Iselin C. Hermann  (October)
40. The Only Story — Julian Barnes  (October)
41. Last Exit to Brooklyn — Hubert Selby Jr.  (October)
42. Six Foot Six — Kit De Waal  (October)
43. The Long Take — Robin Robertson  (October)
44. Everything Under — Daisy Johnson  (October)
45. The Last Wolf — Laszlo Krasznahorkai  (November)
46. Judas — Amos Oz  (November)
47. Elevation — Stephen King  (November)
48. Big Magic — Elizabeth Gilbert  (November)
49. Men Explain Things — Rebecca Solnit  (November)
50. The Outrun — Amy Liptrot  (December)
51. Boyhood Island — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (December)
52. Blue Light Yokohama 3 — Nicolas Obregon  (December)
53. The Adversary — Emmanuel Carrere  (December)
54. White Teeth — Zadie Smith  (December)
55. The Song of Lunch — Christopher Reid  (December)
56. Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.