Books Read 2019

1. “How Saints Die” — Carmen Marcus  (January)
2. “Pulse” — Julian Barnes  (January)
3. “The Lonely Witness” — William Boyle  (January)
4. “Far From True” — Linwood Barclay  (January)
5. “Rather Be The Devil” — Ian Rankin  (February)
6. “The Porcupine” — Julian Barnes  (February)
7. “Monsieur” — Emma Becker (February)
8. “Maggie & Me” — Damian Barr (February)
9. “The Murder of Halland” — Pia Juul  (March)
10. “The Easter Parade” — Richard Yates  (March) (again)
11. “Knots and Crosses” — Ian Rankin  (April)
12. “Black-Eyed Susans” — Julia Haeberlin  (April)
13. “Madame Bovary” — Gustave Flaubert  (April)
14. “Mrs Sartoris” — Elke Schmitter  (April)
15. “Common People” — Various  (May)
16. “Talking It Over” — Julian Barnes  (May)
17. “Paper Ghosts” — Julia Haeberlin  (May)
18. “Silent Scream” — Angela Marsons  (May)
19. “Stop Doing That Shit” — Gary John Bishop  (May)
20. “Sister, Sister” — Sue Fortin  (May)
21. “To The Back of Beyond” — Peter Stamm  (May)
22. “Is Monogamy Dead?” — Rosie Wilby  (May)
23. “Insomniac City” — Bill Hayes  (May)
24. “Goodbye, Things” — Fumio Sasaki  (June)
25. “Notes to Self” — Emilie Pine  (June)
26. “Only The Ocean” — Natasha Carthew  (June)
27. “Acts of Infidelity” — Lena Anderson  (June)
28. “The Good Son” — Paul McVeigh  (July)
29. “Constellations” — Sinéad Gleeson  (July)
30. “The Opposite of Loneliness” — Marina Keegan  (July)
31. “Troubling Love” — Elena Ferrante  (July)
32. “Notes on a Nervous Planet” — Matt Haig  (July)
33. “Train Dreams” — Denis Johnson  (July)
34. “All The Blood Is Red” — Leone Ross  (July)
35. “The Artistic Life” — Mark SaFranko  (August)
36. “The Park Bench” — Chabouté  (August)
37. “The Assault” — Harry Mulisch  (August)
38. “Peach” — Emma Glass  (August)
39. “Come Let Us Sing Anyway” — Leone Ross  (August)
40. “He’s Done Ever So Well for Himself” — Justin David  (August)
41. “Drug Story” — u. v. ray  (August)
42. “Daddy’s Girl” — Debbie Drechsler  (September)
43. “The Summer of Love” — Debbie Drechsler  (September)
44. “Threads” — Nathan Evans & Justin David  (September)
45. “Lowborn” — Kerry Hudson  (September)
46. “Made in Scotland” — Billy Connolly  (September)
47. “Cnut” — Nathan Evans  (September)
48. “Paul Moves Out” — Michel Rabagliati  (September)
49. “Paul Goes Fishing” — Michel Rabagliati  (September)
50. “Cleveland” — Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant  (September)
51. “Alone” — Chabouté  (September)
52. “Snow” — Maxence Fermine  (September)
53. “Normal People” — Sally Rooney  (September)
54. “AutoFellatio: A Memoir” — James Maker  (September)
55. “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” — Ottessa Moshfegh  (September)
56. “In The City of Love’s Sleep” — Lavinia Greenlaw  (October)
57. “Scrapbook” — Adrian Tomine  (October)
58. “32 Stories” — Adrian Tomine  (October)
59. “The Pale Ones” — Bartholomew Bennett  (November)
60. “A Choice of Whitman’s Verse” — Walt Whitman  (November)
61. “Of Mice and Men” — John Steinbeck  (November)
62. “Hard Labor” — Don Winter & Fred Voss  (November)
63. “Love, etc” — Julian Barnes  (November)
64. “Before She Met Me” — Julian Barnes  (November)
65. “Northern Boy” — Iqbal Hussein  (November)
66. “Stone in a Landslide” — Maria Barbal  (November)
67. “The Fast 800” — Dr Michael Mosley  (November)
68. “New York City in 1979” — Kathy Acker  (November)
69. “The Reader” — Raymond Jean  (November)
70. “How to be Alone” — Lane Moore  (December)
71. “Stillness is the Key” — Ryan Holiday  (December)
72. “Walk Through Walls” — Marina Abramović  (December)
73. “The Flame” — Leonard Cohen  (December)
74. “The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A Fuck” — Sarah Knight  (December)
75. “The Years” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
76. “Lullaby” — Leïla Slimani  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.