I love books, I read a lot of fiction and sci-fi, but I also enjoy memoirs and graphic novels. Here I make lists of what I read each year. At the end of each year I write an overview of my favourite books, and, for the very best ones, there are “Book Everyone Should Read” posts on my Blog.

2019

1. Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
2. Lisa Halliday: Asymmetry
3. Mary Robinette Kowal: The Calculating Stars
4. Mary Robinette Kowal: The Fated Sky
5. Kara Cooney: When Women Ruled the World
6. Paula McLain: A Mind of Her Own
7. Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire
8. Sy Montgomery: How to Be a Good Creature
9. Louisa Hall: Trinity
10. Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit
11. Jane Yolen: Finding Baba Yaga
12. Seanan McGuire: Every Heart a Doorway
13. Victoria Schwab: This Savage Song
14. Simon Rich: Miracle Workers
15. Madhuri Shekar: Evil Eye
16. Alissa Nutting: Tampa
17. Martha Wells: All Systems Red
18. Rob Dircks: Where the Hell is Tesla?
19. Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few
20. Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
21. Sandhya Menon: When Dimple Met Rishi
22. N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate
23. Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein
24. Nnedi Okorafor: LaGuardia
25. Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This is How You Lose the Time War
26. Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire
27. N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky
28. John Scalzi: Lock In

2018

1. Masha Gessen: The Future is History
2. James S. A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes
3. Caitlin Moran: How to Build a Girl
4. Meg Wolitzer: The Interestings
5. Shana Knizhnik, Irin Carmon: Notorious RBG
6. Roxane Gay: Hunger
7. Naomi Alderman: The Power
8. André Aciman: Call Me By Your Name
9. Jeffrey Kluger: Apollo 8
10. Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
11. Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time
12. John Scalzi: Redshirts
13. Benjamin Alire Saenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
14. Jill Twiss: A Day in Life of Marlon Bundo
15. Natalia Holt: Rise of the Rocket Girls
16. Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles
17. Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala
18. Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
19. Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
20. Iliza Shlesinger: Girl Logic
21. Madeleine Albright: Fascism: A Warning
22. Madeline Miller: Circe
23. Nnedi Okorafor: Binti
24. Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion
25. Blake Crouch: Dark Matter
26. Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give
27. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
28. Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!
29. Ronan Farrow: War on Peace
30. Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want to Talk About Race
31. Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
32. Rhoda Belleza: Empress of a Thousand Skies
33. Jane Austen: Emma
34. John Scalzi: The Consuming Fire
35. Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
36. Angela Saini: Inferior
37. Jill Santopolo: The Light We Lost
38. Ursula K. Le Guin: Nine Lives
39. Terry Pratchett: Mort
40. N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season

2017

1. Han Kang: The Vegetarian
2. Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart
3. Jeff Chang: We Gon’ Be Alright
4. Toni Morrison: Beloved
5. Kate Chopin: The Awakening
6. Frank Herbert: Dune
7. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
8. Al Franken: Giant of the Senate
9. Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
10. Aziz Ansari: Modern Romance
11. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
12. Al Franken: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
13. Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny
14. Heinrich Harrer: Seven Years in Tibet
15. H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
16. Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Happened
17. Andy Weir: The Martian
18. Paul Beatty: The Sellout
19. Brian Greene: Light Falls
20. John Scalzi: The Collapsing Empire
21. Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey
22. Rupi Kaur: Milk and Honey
23. Andy Weir: Artemis
24. Lawrence Krauss: The Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far
25. John Scalzi: The Dispatcher
26. Yuval Noah Harari: Homo Deus
27. Carrie Fisher: The Princess Diarist
28. Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
29. Hope Jahren: Lab Girl
30. Kameron Hurley: The Stars Are Legion
31. George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo
32. Tiffany Haddish: The Last Black Unicorn

2015 – 2016

1. Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
2. Alice Munroe: Dear Life
3. Yannick Grannec: The Goddess of Small Victories
4. R. J. Palacio: Wonder
5. Elena Ferrante: My Brilliant Friend
6. Elena Ferrante: The Story of a New Name
7. Elena Ferrante: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
8. Elena Ferrante: The Story of the Lost Child
9. Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit
10. Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
11. David Vann: Aquarium
12. Zadie Smith: White Teeth
13. Graeme Simion: The Rosie Project
14. Milan Kundera: The Festival of Insignificance
15. Jeanette Winterson: Gut Symmetries
16. John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius
17. Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In
18. Jonas Jonasson: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
19. Juli Zeh: Gaming Instinct
20. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
21. Marguerite Duras: The Lover
22. Hilary du Pre and Piers du Pre: A Genius in the Family
23. Blair Tindall: Mozart in the Jungle
24. Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White
25. Vit Sliva: Navrsi