Books read in 2017

196) The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Tóibín (fiction)195) Murder Bear - W.N. Herbert (poetry)194) Bottle - Ramona Herdman (poetry)193) The Price of Water in Finistère - Bodil Malmsten (non fiction)192) The End of the Alphabet - Claudia Rankine (poetry)191) Starlight on Water - Helena Nelson (poetry)190) Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow - Ted Hughes (poetry, re-read)189) That Eye, the Sky - Tim Winton (fiction)188) A Herring Famine - Adam O'Riordan (poetry)187) Ideal Cities - Erika Meitner (poetry)186) The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx - Tara Bergin (poetry)185) What I Was - Meg Rosoff (fiction)184) Understudies for Air - Daisy Lafarge (poetry)183) Mancunia - Michael Symmons Roberts (poetry)182) Cur - Martin Malone (poetry)181) Nox - Anne Carson (poetry)180) Selfie with Waterlilies - Paul Stephenson (poetry)179) Nothing Here Is Wild, Everything Is Open - Tania Hershman (poetry)178) Elizabeth Jennings: Selected Poems - Elizabeth Jennings (poetry)177) Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit (poetry)176) The sky is cracked - Sarah L. Dixon (poetry)175) Ideal Cities - Erika Meitner (poetry)174) The Likeness - Martha Kapos (poetry)173) The Darkness of Snow - Frank Ormsby (poetry)172) The God Baby - Hilda Sheehan (poetry)171) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe (fiction)170) Terms and Conditions - Tania Hershman (poetry)169) Primers: Volume Two (poetry)168) All My Mad Mothers - Jacqueline Saphra (poetry)167) To Sweeten Bitter - Raymond Antrobus (poetry)166) Eyrie - Tim Winton (fiction)165) The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood - Hilda Sheehan (poetry)164) In the Winter Dark - Tim Winton (fiction)163) Grief is the Thing With Feathers - Max Porter (poetry, re-read)162) The Knifethrower's Wishlist - Nicola Warwick (poetry)161) I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith (fiction)160) The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1) - Graeme Simsion (fiction)159) Winter Migrants - Tom Pickard (poetry)158) The Nameless Places - Richard Lambert (poetry)157) A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler (fiction)156) Seasonal Disturbances - Karen McCarthy Woolf (poetry)155) Moonrise - Meirion Jordan (poetry)154) Dirt - William Letford (poetry)153) On Balance - Sinéad Morrissey (poetry)152) No More Milk - Karen Craigo (poetry)151) Would Like to Meet - Polly James (fiction)150) Carry Yourself Back to Me - Deborah Reed (fiction)149) A Year Without Apricots - Kate Foley (poetry)148) The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker (fiction)147) Antinopolis - Elizabeth Parker (poetry)146) Slate Rising - Alison Hill (poetry)145) Gig - Roger McGough (poetry)144) Nothing Personal - Sibyl Ruth (poetry)143) Hunger - Knut Hamsun (fiction)142) The Dig & Hotel Fiesta - Lynn Emanuel (poetry)141) Strawberries and Black Pudding - Joyce Mansour (poetry)140) The Number Poems - Matthew Welton (poetry)139) Fence - Tim Cresswell (poetry)138) The Silvering - Maura Dooley (poetry)137) Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being - Henning Mankell (non fiction)136) The Months - Susan Wicks (poetry)135) The Sorrows of an American - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)134) Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals - Patricia Lockwood (poetry)132) The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)131) Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters - Agnes Lehoczky (poetry)130) Tonguit - Harry Giles (poetry, re-read)129) Bird Sisters - Julia Webb (poetry, re-read)128) Measures of Expatriation - Vahni Capildeo (poetry)127) I Saw a Man - Owen Sheers (fiction)126) Astéronymes - Claire Trévien (poetry)125) Breath - Tim Winton (fiction)124) The Unaccompanied - Simon Armitage (poetry)123) Mouthy - Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan (poetry)122) Our Animal - Meredith Stricker (poetry)121) Still Life with Feeding Snake - John Burnside (poetry)120) Identity Papers - Ian Seed (poetry)119) Dirt Music - Tim Winton (fiction)118) If I'm Scared We Can't Win - Emily Berry, Anne carson, Sophie Collins (poetry)117) Life as It - Daneen Wardrop (poetry)116) Except by Nature - Sandra Alcosser (poetry)115) The Wall - William Sutcliffe (fiction)114) Jackself - Jacob Polley (poetry)113) Waiting for Bluebeard - Helen Ivory (poetry, re-read)112) Bird-Woman - Em Strang (poetry)111) See You Soon: Poems - Laura McKee (poetry)110) Rather be the Devil - Ian Rankin (fiction)109) Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger (fiction, short stories)108) Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong (poetry)107) The Dogs That Chase Bicycle Wheels - Ilse Pedler (poetry)106) The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them - Stephen Burt (poetry, non-fiction)105) Looking For Trouble - Charles Simic (poetry)104) Knocks - Emily Stewart (poetry)103) Five Sextillion Atoms - Jayne Benjulian (poetry)102) Wintering - Megan Snyder-Camp (poetry)101) Blood Sugar Canto - Ire'ne Lara Silva (poetry)100) Void Studies - Rachael Boast (poetry)99) Zeppelins - Chris McCabe (poetry)98) A World Where News Travelled Slowly - Lavinia Greenlaw (poetry, re-read)97) A Tug of Blue - Eleanor Hooker (poetry)96) Communing - Ben Banyard (poetry)95) Occupation - Angela France (poetry)94) The Occupant - Jane Draycott (poetry)93) A northern spring - Frank Ormsby (poetry)92) Everything is Scripted - James Giddings (poetry)91) Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire (poetry)90) Terry Street - Douglas Dunn (poetry)89) The Fabulous Relatives - Stephen Smith (poetry)88) Savage - Rebecca Tamás (poetry)87) Brother of the More Famous Jack - Barbara Trapido (fiction)86) Inquisition Lane - Matthew Sweeney (poetry)85) Tell Mistakes I Love Them - Stephen Daniels (poetry)84) Bastard Out Of Carolina - Dorothy Allison (fiction)83) Incarnation - Clare Pollard (poetry)82) Stranger, Baby - Emily Berry (poetry)81) Foxlowe - Eleanor Wasserberg (fiction)80) Nine Horses - Billy Collins (poetry, re read)79) Beans in Snow - Jennifer Copley (poetry)78) Anima - Mario Petrucci (poetry)77) Gone Fishing with Samy Rosenstock - Toadhouse (poetry)76) Every Little Sound - Ruby Robinson (poetry)75) Supreme Being - Matha Kapos (poetry)74) Euclid's Harmonics - Jonathan Morley (poetry)73) Slant Light - Sarah Westcott (poetry)72) To the Left of Time - Thomas Lux (poetry)71) One With Others: [a little book of her days] - C.D. Wright (poetry, re-read)70) Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau (Fiction - short stories)69) Momentary Stars - Edward Vanderpump (poetry)68) The Shape of a Forest - Jemma L. King67) The Dead Sea Poems - Simon Armitage (poetry)66) That Little Something - Charles Simic (poetry)65) Ghost of the Fisher Cat - Afric McGlinchey (poetry)64) Eclipse - Kim Lasky (poetry)63) Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (poetry)62) A Spillage of Mercury - Neil Rollinson (poetry)61) A Career in Accompaniment - Alex Reed (poetry)60) Anchored - Lorna Shaughnessy (poetry)59) Dreaming of Our Better Selves - Marion Tracy (poetry)58) The Man With Night Sweats - Thom Gunn (poetry)57) CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders (fiction, short stories)56) Settle - Theresa Muñoz (poetry)55) Ghosts - Anna Wigley (poetry)54) Brother - Matthew Dickman & Michael Dickman (poetry)53) Which Reminded Her, Later: Family Snapshots - Jon McGregor (fiction)52) Henry and Susie are Missing - Hilda Sheehan (poetry)51) If I Talked Everything My Eyes Saw - Natacha Bryan (poetry)50) The Mole in the Mountain - Cressida Lindsay (fiction)49) The Back Door Man - Dave Buschi (fiction)48) The Book of Tides - Angela Readman (poetry)47) The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (non fiction)46) Complicity - Tom Sastry (poetry)45) The Swan Machine - Dean Parkin (poetry)44) Contemporary British Poetry and the City - Peter Barry (non fiction)43) Waiting For Spring - R.J. Keller (fiction)42) The Bricks that Built the Houses - Kate Tempest (fiction)41) Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life - Sherwood Anderson (Fiction, short stories)40) The Enchantment Of Lily Dahl - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)39) Singing Underwater by Susan Wicks (poetry)38) The Glass Age - Cole Swensen (poetry)37) Meeting the British - Paul Muldoon (poetry)36) Bolt Down This Earth - Gram Joel Davies (poetry)35) From A to X: A Story in Letters - John Berger (fiction)34) In Doctor No's Garden - Henry Shukman (poetry)33) Saints of the Shadow Bible (Inspector Rebus, #19) - Ian Rankin (fiction)32) The Plural Space - Matthew Mahaney (poetry)31) Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector Rebus, #20) - Ian Rankin (fiction)30) Youth - J.M. Coetzee (fiction)29) Mending the Ordinary - Liz Lefroy (poetry)28) Ways of Seeing - John Berger (non fiction)27) Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas (play/poetry)26) Nine Horses - Billy Collins (poetry)25) West South West - Erin Moure (poetry)24) New European Poets -Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer (poetry)23) The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies (fiction)22) Species of Spaces and Other Pieces - Georges Perec (non fiction)21) The Elephant Tests - Matt Merritt (poetry)20) Twenty Four Preludes And Fugues On Dmitri Shostakovich - Joanna Boulter (poetry)19) The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris - Edmund White (non fiction)18) Edgelands - Paul Farley and Michael Symmonds Roberts (non fiction)17) The Ruined Elegance: Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (poetry)16) Carillonneur - Agnes Lehoczky (poetry)15) Flatrock - Fran Lock (poetry)14) The Land Between - Wendy Mulford (poetry)13) Amazon - Catherine Ayres (poetry, Re read)12) Geography for the Lost -Kapka Kassabova (poetry)11) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King (non fiction)10) Tonguit - Harry Giles (poetry)9) Mrs Uomo's Yearbook - Danielle Hope (poetry)8) Profit and Loss - Leontia Flynn (Poetry)7) Before I die - Jenny Downham (fiction, YA)6) The Cabal and Other Stories - Ellen Gilchrist (fiction, short stories)5) How (Not) to Get Your Poetry Published - Helena Nelson (non-fiction)4) Species - Mark Burnhope (poetry)3) Lustful Feminist Killjoys - Anna Percy & Rebecca Audra Smith (poetry)2) Deepstep Come Shining - C.D. Wright (poetry, re read)
1) Acts of God - Ellen Gilchrist (fiction, short stories)http://visualpoetics.com