Books Read 2016

1. My Universities — Maxim Gorky  (January)
2. The Zone — Sergei Dovlatov  (January)
3. Home of the Gentry — Ivan Turgenev  (January)
4. So Long, See You Tomorrow — William Maxwell  (January)
5. Clever Girl — Tessa Hadley  (January)
6. Separate Flights — Andre Dubus  (February)
7. Adultery and Other Choices — Andre Dubus  (February)
8. Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev — Maxim Gorky  (February)
9. Redeployment — Phil Klay  (March)
10. Laidlaw — William McIlvanney  (March)
11. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams — Stephen King  (March)
12. They Came Like Swallows — William Maxwell  (March)
13. Fear of Dying — Erica Jong  (April)
14. Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair — Pablo Neruda  (April)
15. Midwinterblood — Marcus Sedgwick  (May)
16. My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante  (May)
17. Patrimony — Philip Roth  (May)
18. Wonder Boys — Michael Chabon  (May)
19. Blue Light Yokohama — Nicolas Obregon  (June)
20. Still Writing:The Perils and Pleasures of the Creative Life — Dani Shapiro  (June)
21. The Papers of Tony Veitch — William McIlvanney  (July)
22. Gilead — Marylyne Robinson (July)
23. Strange Loyalties — William McIlvanney  (July)
24. Martin John — Anakana Schofield  (July)
25. At Hawthorn Time — Melissa Harrison  (August)
26. The Little Red Chairs — Edna O’Brien  (August)
27. Marie — Madeleine Bourdouxhe  (August)
28. Seven Brief Lessons On Physics — Carlo Rovelli  (August)
29. Tampa — Alissa Nutting  (August)
30. A Summer Affair — Ivan Klima  (September)
31. The Noise of Time — Julian Barnes  (September)
32. Gorsky — Vesna Goldsworthy  (September)
33. Country Girl — Edna O’Brien  (September)
34. Confessions of a Mask — Yukio Mishima  (October)
35. I Remember — Joe Brainard  (November) (again)
36. His Bloody Project — Graeme Macrae Burnet  (November)
37. The Vegetarian — Han Kang  (November)
38. The Engagement — Chloe Hooper  (December)
39. The Story of a New Name — Elena Ferrante  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.