JANUARY
Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)
Dorian Lynskey, The Ministry of Truth (2019)
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mr. Fortune’s Maggot (1927)
Horacio Castellanos Moya, Revulsion (1997, trans. Lee Klein)
Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel (2020)
Alberto Manguel, Stevenson Under the Palm Trees (2002)
Brian Burke (with Stephen Brunt), Burke’s Law (2020)
FEBRUARY
Javier Marías, Written Lives (1999, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels (1967)
George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021)
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)
George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996)
George Saunders and Lane Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (2000)
André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (2015)
Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This (2021)
MARCH
Mikhail Bulgakov, Black Snow (1967, trans. Michael Glenny)
Patrik Svensson, The Book of Eels (2019, trans. Agnes Broomé)
Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling (1966)
Jess Walter, The Cold Millions (2020)
Michel Houellebecq, Whatever (1994, trans. Paul Hammond)
Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic (2007)
APRIL
Frederick Exley, A Fan’s Notes (1968)
Tim Krabbé, The Vanishing (1984, trans. Claire Nicolas White)
Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill (2019)
Marguerite Yourcenar, Oriental Tales (1938, trans. Alberto Manguel)
John Sherwood, A Shot in the Arm (1982)
Harold Billings, M. P. Shiel: A Biography of His Early Years (2005)
MAY
Keith Houston, Shady Characters (2013)
J. Robert Lennon, Let Me Think (2021)
Josh Cook, The Least We Can Do (2021)
Deborah Cadbury, Chocolate Wars (2010)
Robert Lloyd Parry (ed.), Ghosts of the Chit-Chat (2020)
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Mike Michalowicz, Profit First (2017)
Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)
JUNE
Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library (2018)
Andrey Kurkov, The Gardener from Ochakov (2011, trans. Amanda Love Darragh)
Charles Portis, Norwood (1966)
Sarah Bakewell, How to Live (2010)
Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang (2011)
JULY
Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, Volume One: Fever and Spear (2002, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance and Dream (2004, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Three: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (2007, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris (1998)
Nicholas Royle, White Spines (2021)
John Williams, Butcher’s Crossing (1960)
Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England (1971, trans. Paul Wilson)
AUGUST
David Mason, The Pope’s Bookbinder (2013)
David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)
David Lodge, Small World (1984)
Piet Schreuders, The Book of Paperbacks (1981, trans. Josh Pachter)
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2013)
SEPTEMBER
Mark Doten, Trump Sky Alpha (2019)
Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump (2013, trans. K.A. Yoshida and David Mitchell)
Donald Barthelme, The King (1990)
Pierre Bayard, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? (1998, trans. Carol Cosman)
Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 1, 1819–1851) (1996)
Ashley Bristowe, My Own Blood (2021)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989)
OCTOBER
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
P.G. Wodehouse, The Girl in Blue (1970)
Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels (2021)
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
A.J.A. Symons, The Quest for Corvo (1934)
NOVEMBER
Robert Sullivan, Rats (2004)
J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country (1980)
W. Davenport Adams, By-Ways in Book-Land (1888)
Nicholson Baker, A Box of Matches (2003)
Grant Richards, Author Hunting (1934)
M.P. Shiel, The Lost Viol (1905)
Michael Chabon, Pops (2018)
DECEMBER
Walter Tevis, The Queen’s Gambit (1983)
Stephen King, Danse Macabre (1981)
Kevin Lowe, Champions (1988)
Javier Marías, Berta Isla (2017, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (1955)
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SOME NUMBERS NOW
Fiction: 46/77 (60%)
Non-fiction: 31/77 (40%)
Books in translation: 17/77 (22%)
Most-read author: Javier Marías (5)
Favourite fiction: Butcher’s Crossing, Hard Rain Falling, Let Me Think, A Month in the Country, Your Face Tomorrow
Favourite non-fiction: How to Live, The Pope’s Bookbinder, The Quest for Corvo, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
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PUBLICATION DATES
2021: 7
2020s: 4
2010s: 18
2000s: 11
1990s: 9
1980s: 9
1970s: 4
1960s: 6
1950s: 2
1930s: 4
1920s: 1
1900s: 1
1800s: 1