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2019 Reading List

January

  • The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig (2010)
  • Negotiating With The Dead by Margaret Atwood
  • The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  • Toll by Matt Gemmell (2018)
  • Unreasonable Behaviour by Don McCullin
  • The War of The Worlds by HG Wells [Audio]
  • Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

February

  • Cassandra Darke by Posey Simmons
  • Casino Royale by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie
  • Live And Let Die by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 by Anthony Beevor
  • Moonraker by Ian Fleming [Audio]

March

  • Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon [Audio]
  • Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
  • The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (2010)
  • Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming [Audio]

April

  • Forsaken by Lewis Grassic Gibbon [Audio]
  • From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • Dr No by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • Goldfinger by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
  • For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • Thunderball by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
  • The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming [Audio]

May

  • Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
  • Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming [Audio]
  • The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande [Audio]
  • Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown

June

  • Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
  • The Apollo Missions by David Barker
  • This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
  • One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us To The Moon by Charles Fishman [Audio]
  • Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
  • Evolution: A Visual Record by Robert Clark
  • The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You by Rob Walker

July

  • Murmur by Will Eaves
  • Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
  • The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
  • Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
  • Moon dust: In search of the men who fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
  • The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
  • Heaven’s Net is Wide by Lian Hearn [DNF]
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

August

  • Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War by Max Hastings [Audio]
  • Invisible Women: Exposing data bias in a world designed by men by Caroline Criado Perez
  • The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
  • Tokyo storefronts: The Artworks of Mateusz Urbanowicz

September

  • In Praise of Walking by Shane O’Mara
  • You. Only Better by Nicholas Bate [DNF]
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • Val McDermid: My Scotland

October

  • Art Deco Britain : Buildings of the Inter-war years by Elain Harwood
  • Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars
  • The Enchridion by Epictetus
  • Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie [Audio]
  • Jeff Bridges: Pictures Volume 2
  • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre (2018)

November

  • Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie [Audio]
  • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Nine Suitcases by Bella Zsolt
  • Carrying The Fire by Michael Collins [Audio]

December

  • Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba
  • Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú
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