Reading List 2023

Last year, I started keeping a list of the books I had read. The list continues:  

• No Friend but the Mountains - Behrouz Boochani
• Birmingham: It's not Shit: Fifty things that delight about Birmingham - Jon Bounds, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith
• Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
• Under the Almond Tree - Laura McVeigh
• The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
• The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger - Suzanne Fortin 
• The Northern Monkey Survival Guide - Tim Collins
• The Mammoth Cheese - Sheri Holman
• Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
• The Time Keeper- Mitch Albom
• Still Alice - Lisa Genova
• French Children Don't Throw Food - Pamela Druckerman 
• The Resurrectionist - James Bradley
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
• Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy - Tim Moore
• Stand Up Ferran Burke - Steven Camden
• Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
• Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast - Charlie Connelly
• Gangsta Rap - Benjamin Zephaniah 
• Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
• Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
• Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
• The Women of Troy - Pat Barker
• The Keeper of Stories - Sally Page
• The Last Family in England - Matt Haig
• The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
• The Possession of Mr Cave - Matt Haig
• The Chalet School Christmas Story Book - Ruth Jolly and Adrienne Fitzpatrick (Ed)
• Blood and Gold: A Journey of Shadows - Mara Menzies
• Double Vision - Pat Barker

There was also some poetry but you don't (or I don't) read a whole book of that, as such, so they didn't make the list; plus there were a number of children's picture books in the mix which I haven't listed, although Michael Rosen's The Sad Book is definitely worth a mention, as is all-time favourite The Night Before Christmas which I read as a bedtime story to the children staying over on Christmas Eve, definitely as much because I wanted to as because they did! 

Having just finished the last of the ones above, yesterday I started reading On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato, but that one is really for next year's list.