JANUARY

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Constitutional (short stories) by Helen Simpson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd

FEBRUARY

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Close Range (short stories) by Annie Proulx
Rapture (poems) by Carol Ann Duffy

MARCH

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (reread, aloud with my son)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Paradise Lost by John Milton


APRIL

Spies by Michael Frayn
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters


MAY

So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre


JUNE

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John T. Hul


JULY

A Factory of Cunning by Philippa Stockley
Theft by Peter Carey


AUGUST

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
On Writing by Stephen King


SEPTEMBER

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (reread – comfort read!)
half of Untold Stories by Alan Bennett


OCTOBER

A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Vanishing of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell


NOVEMBER

Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (biography) by Claire Tomalin
When We Were Bad (not yet published) by Charlotte Mendelson

DECEMBER

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (had to read it for a cultural radio program)
The Accidental by Ali Smith
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini