Books Read in 2019 - a record

156) The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh (fiction)155) Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon (poetry)154) The Ward by Louisa Campbell (poetry)153) The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (fiction)152) Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris (non fiction)151) Fortune Cookie by Jenna Clarke (poetry)150) Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls, Mark Andrew Webber (Illustrator) (poetry)149) I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WENDING by Wayne Holloway-Smith (poetry)148) The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter (poetry)147) Disko Bay by Nancy Campbell (poetry)146) The End of Everything by Megan Abbott (fiction)145) Translating Mountains by Yvonne Reddick (poetry)144) The Distal Point by Fiona Moore (poetry)143) All the Naked Daughters by Anna Kisby (poetry)142) As Slow As Possible by Kit Fan (poetry)141) The Illegal Age by Ellen Hinsey (poetry)140) Solo for Mascha Voice/Tenuous Rooms by Jack Underwood (poetry)139) Jinx by Abigail Parry (poetry)138) The End of the West by Michael Dickman (poetry)137) Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood (Illustrations), Dan Richards (non fiction)136) The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton (fiction)135) Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan (poetry)134) Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (fiction)133) Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller (poetry)132) Explosives Licence by Jonathan Totman (poetry)131) Get the Guy by L.A. Rich (non fiction)130) Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (non fiction)129) Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever (fiction, short stories)128) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (fiction)127) What Are You After? by Josephine Corcoran (poetry)126) MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book by John Rember (non fiction)125) Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson (fiction)124) Familiars by Linda Rose Parkes (poetry)123) The Becoming of Lady Flambe by Holly Magill (poetry)122) Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (fiction)121) My Converted Father by Sarah Law (poetry)120) Faber New Poets 12 by Declan Ryan (poetry)119) Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima (fiction, short stories)118) Rapture (New Irish Voices #1) by Roisin Kelly (poetry)117) Faber New Poets 15 by Sam Buchan-Watts (poetry)116) playtime by Andrew McMillan (poetry)115) The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry (poetry)114) Kiss In The Hotel Joseph Conrad And Other Stories by Howard Norman (fiction, short stories)113) Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real by Padraig Regan (poetry)112) Human Wishes by Robert Hass (poetry)111) Blackbird, Bye Bye by Moniza Alvi (poetry)110) Depths by Henning Mankell (fiction)109) The Theatre of Confection by pauline suett barbieri (poetry)108) The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman (fiction, short stories)107) A Bag of Hands by Mather Schneider (poetry)106) Noose and Hook by Lynn Emanuel (poetry)105) In Her Shambles by Elizabeth Parker (poetry)104) Black Bicycle by Lesley Quayle (poetry)103) After Eden by Stella Wulf (poetry)102) Good Stock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin (poetry)101) When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Díaz (poetry)100) Moon Over Melbourne and Other Poems by Yu Ouyang (poetry)99) Dirty Laundry by Deborah Alma (poetry)98) The Bitters by Susie Campbell (poetry)97) he True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story by Rusty Morrison (poetry)96) No Art: Poems by Ben Lerner (poetry)95) A Bargain with the Light by Jacqueline Saphra (poetry)94) A Hurry of English by Mary Jean Chan (poetry)93) stack by James Davies (poetry)92) Suffolk Bang by Adam Warne (poetry)91) Wound by Richard Scott (poetry)90) Soho by Richard Scott (poetry)89) Alarum by Wayne Holloway-Smith (poetry)88) small white monkeys by Sophie Collins (non fiction)87) A Watchful Astronomy by Paul Deaton (poetry)86) A Knowable World by Sarah Wardle (poetry)85) Big Bones by Laura Dockrill (fiction)84) Fox Unkennelled by Myfanwy Fox (poetry)83) Mayakovsky's Revolver by Matthew Dickman (poetry)82) Self-Portrait with the Happiness by David Tait (poetry)81) Dying Notes by Reuben Woolley (poetry)80) Fields Away by Sarah Wardle (poetry)79) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poetry)78) The Wound Register by Esther Morgan (poetry)77) Cumshot in D Minor by Melissa Lee-Houghton (poetry)76) Primers Volume 3 edited by Jane Commane (poetry)75) Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan (poetry)74) Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir (poetry)73) Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore (poetry)72) Weemoed by Tim Dooley (poetry)71) We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (non fiction)70) A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin (fiction)69) Orpheus in the Park: Poems by Rose Solari (poetry)68) A Communion Of Breath by Derek Harper (poetry)67) Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay (poetry)66) The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw (poetry, re-read)65) The days that Followed Paris by Paul Stephenson (poetry)64) Somewhere Between Rose and Black by Claire Walker (poetry)63) Asylum by Sean Borodale (poetry)62) All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra (poetry, re-read)61) House by Myra Connell (poetry, re-read)60) Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power (poetry)59) I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast by Melissa Studdard (poetry)58) Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar (poetry)57) Seal Wife by Kitty Coles (poetry)56) In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird (poetry)55) So Glad I'm Me by Roddy Lumsden (poetry)54) British Museum by Daljit Nagra (poetry)53) The Forward Book of Poetry 2018 by Various (poetry)52) God Loves You by Kathryn Maris (poetry)51) The Ice Factory by Philip Gross (poetry)50) Enough of Green by Anne Stevenson (poetry)49) Cry Baby by Gareth Writer-Davies (poetry)48) The Devil's Tatoo by Brett Evans (poetry)47) Uninvited Guests by Gill Lambert (poetry)46) The Son by Carrie Etter (poetry)45) Record and Play by Degna Stone (poetry)44) Every Salt Advance by Andrew McMillan (poetry)43) The Moon is a Supporting Player by Andrew McMillan (poetry)42) The Knowledge Weapon by Annette C. Boehm (poetry)41) You've never seen a doomsday like it by Kate Garrett (poetry)40) White is a Color by Rosemarie Waldrop (poetry)39) Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith (poetry)38) The Hoopoe at the Execution, Villebois by Tom Kelly (poetry)37) All We Saw by Anne Michaels (poetry)36) ShallCross by C.D. Wright (poetry)35) Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins (poetry)34) fAt aRouNd tHe MiddLe by Jane Burn (poetry)33) Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar (poetry)32) Glass by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough (poetry)31) How to be a Poet by Jo Bell (non fiction)30) The Pocket Poetry Book of Anger by Sarah Miles (poetry)29) Swims by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (poetry)28) Natural Phenomena by Meryl Pugh (poetry)27) Then Suddenly-- by Lynn Emanuel (poetry)26) Metropoetica by Ingmāra Balode (poetry)25) Assembly Lines by Jane Commane (poetry)24) A Slither of Air by Alison Lock (poetry)23) Flies by Michael Dickman (poetry)22) There Is an Anger that Moves by Kei Miller (poetry)21) You are mistaken by Sean Wai Keung (poetry)20) Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine (poetry)19) Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli (non fiction)18) Caldbeck by Jenny Pagdin (poetry)17) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (fiction)16) Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs (fiction)15) Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott (poetry, re-read)14) Grace by Esther Morgan (poetry, re-read)13) Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy (poetry, re-read)12) BOOM! by Carolyn Jess-Cooke (poetry)11) Ten: Poets of the New Generation by Karen McCarthy Woolf (poetry)10) little armoured by Rebecca Perry (poetry)9) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (non fiction)8) Ticker-Tape by Rishi Dastidar (poetry)7) Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly (poetry)6) lemon, egg, bread by Laura Elliott (poetry)5) The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson (non fiction)4) Joy by Sasha Dugdale3) Hyem by Robyn Bolam (poetry)2) LaRose by Louise Erdrich (fiction)1) Sphinx by Cat Woodward (poetry)http://visualpoetics.com