28 books organised by setting and genre.
Books read 2014 | Books read 2015 | Books read 2016 | Books read 2017 | Books read 2018 | Books read 2019 | Past reads (pre-2014)
Africa
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- Stay with me, Ayobami Adebayo Contemporary. Ilesa, Nigeria.
Asia
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- A horse walks into a bar, David Grossman (Translated from the Hebrew) Present day. Israel.
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy Present day/retrospective. India.
Australia
- HISTORICAL FICTION
- The unmourned (The Monsarrat Series #2), Meg Keneally 1825. Parramatta, New South Wales.
- The last days of Ava Langdon, Mark O’Flynn 1974. Katoomba, New South Wales.
- First person, Richard Flanagan Present day/retrospective. Gulf country, Queensland, Australia; and an outer Melbourne suburb Australia.
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- An isolated incident, Emily Maguire Contemporary. Fictional country town of Strathdee in Australia.
Europe
- HISTORICAL FICTION
- The Essex serpent, Sarah Perry 1893. London.
- The unseen, Roy Jacobsen (Translated from the Norwegian) Early 20th Century. Barrøy Island, Norway.
- MYSTERY/ CRIME FICTION
- Snowblind (Dark Iceland #1), Ragnar Jonasson (Translated from the Icelandic) Contemporary. Siglufjörður, Iceland.
- Yesterday, Felicia Yap Alternative reality. Cambridge, England.
- In a dark, dark wood, Ruth Ware Contemporary. England.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION
- The girl before, JP Delaney Contemporary. London.
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- Five rivers met on a wooded plain, Barney Norris Contemporary. Salisbury, England.
- Fallow, Daniel Shand Contemporary. Scottish Highlands.
International waters
- HISTORICAL FICTION
- The north water, Ian McGuire 1859. From Hull, England through the North Atlantic Sea to North-west Passage.
Multi-continent
- HISTORICAL FICTION
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi Late 18th Century to present day. Ghana Africa; and Mississippi and Harlem USA.
North America
- HISTORICAL FICTION
- Barkskins : a novel, Annie Proulx 17th Century to 20th Century. Canada and USA.
- The sport of kings, C.E. Morgan 1770s to mid-2000s. Kentucky USA.
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- The Grownup, Gillian Flynn Contemporary. Unstated place somewhere in the USA.
- Little deaths, Emma Flint 1965. Queens, New York, USA.
- The sleepwalker, Chris Bohjalian Contemporary. Vermont USA.
- A book of American martyrs, Joyce Carol Oates Contemporary. Ohio, USA.
- The Twelve lives of Samuel Hawley : a novel, Hannah Tinti Contemporary. Massachusetts, USA.
- The mare, Mary Gaitskill Contemporary. New York State, USA.
- History of wolves, Emily Fridlund Contemporary. Minnesota USA.
- NON-FICTION
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J. D. Vance 20th Century/ present day. Ohio, USA.
South America
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- Fever dream : a novel, Samanta Schweblin (Translated from the Spanish) Contemporary, Argentina.