What follows is a list of paperback and hardback books I was grateful to read in 2019.
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Death of a Naturalist By Seamus Heaney
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
How the World Thinks by Julian Baggini
Lanny by Max Porter
Prefecture D by Hideo Yokoyama
The Shoemaker and his Daughter by Conor Cleary
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
Grief is the thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Narrow Road to the Interior and other Writings by Matsuo Basho ... translated by Sam Hamil
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
1,000 Poems from the Manyoshu by Otomo no Yakamochi
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
Arabs by Tim Mcintosh-Smith
This list does not include the books downloaded and read on my Kindle. I enjoyed them all, from poetry to hard hitting reporting, history and storytelling.
Colin MylesP.S.
Have a great year of reading in 2020