Last year I made a New Year Resolution to record all the books I read. My good intentions rather predictably came to nothing, so here is a list of my favourites I remember reading. I’d love your recommendations for 2019.
Fiction
My Name is Leon – Kit de Waal
Barkskins – Annie Proulx
The Handmaiden’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
One Week in December – Sebastian Faulks
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street – Hilary Mantel
So Much for That – Lionel Shriver
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Sing Unburied Sing – Jesmyn Ward
Non- Fiction
Getting Things Done – David Allen
Becoming – Michelle Obama
Roots – Alex Haley
Comfort Food Diaries – Emily Nunn
Mindhunter – Jack Abbot
This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
Christian
As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Eugene Peterson
Eye Can Write – Jonathan Bryan
Love Henri – Henri Nouswen
Now and Then – Frederic Buechner
Journey to the Manger – Paula Gooder
Emlyn says:
A few from my 2017 and 2018 lists:
Home: J Swinney
How it works – The Cat: Ladybird
A Legacy of Spies: John le Carré
The key of all unknown: K A Hitchins
By a departing light: Ian Jennings
Becoming friends of time: John Swinton
Empire of the Sun: JG Ballard
Some of these were re-reads. I’ll leave you to work out which were fiction/non-fiction/Christian!