JANUARY
Karl O. Knausgaard, A Time for Everything (2004, trans. James Anderson)
William T. Vollmann, Whores for Gloria (1991)
Magda Szabo, The Door (1987, trans. Len Rix)
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon (2017)
Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages (1952)
Luis Fernando Verissimo, Borges and the Eternal Orangutans (2000, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
FEBRUARY
A.S. Byatt, Possession (1990)
Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street (1973)
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
MARCH
Kevin Birmingham, The Most Dangerous Book (2014)
Sheila Hodges, Gollancz: The Story of a Publishing House (1978)
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (1951, trans. Grace Frick)
Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
APRIL
J. Robert Lennon, Mailman (2003)
Claire Harman, Murder By the Book (2018)
Daniel Pennac, Better than Life (1992, trans. David Homel)
J. R. Ackerley, My Dog Tulip (1956)
Omar Mouallem, Praying to the West (2021)
MAY
John Baxter, A Pound of Paper (2002)
Margerie Bonner, The Shapes that Creep (1946)
Percival Everett, God’s Country (1994)
Reinaldo Arenas, Singing from the Well (1982, trans. Andrew Hurley)
Isabella Tree, Wilding (2018)
JUNE
Robert Aickman, Painted Devils (1979)
Chris Bachelder, Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (2004)
Philippe Beaussant, Rendezvous in Venice (2003, trans. Paul Buck and Catherine Petit)
Javier Marias, Venice, an Interior (1988, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults (2019, trans. Ann Goldstein)
Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
Thomas F. Madden, Venice: A New History (2012)
Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts (2018, trans. Jhumpa Lahiri)
JULY
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889)
Marius Kociejowski, A Factotum in the Book Trade (2022)
Tiziano Scarpa, Venice Is a Fish (2000, trans. Shaun Whiteside)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883)
Giovanni Guareschi, My Secret Diary (1958, trans. Frances Frenaye)
César Aira, Artforum (2014, trans. Katherine Silver)
P. G. Wodehouse, Louder and Funnier (1932)
Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist (2009) (re-read)
AUGUST
Yoko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth (2018, trans. Margaret Mitsutani)
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (1994, trans. Stephen Snyder)
Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile (2012, trans. Melanie Mauthner)
Philip Roth, The Facts (1988)
Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer (1979)
Charles Portis, Gringos (1991)
Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton (2012)
Bruce Chatwin, Utz (1988)
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907)
SEPTEMBER
Philip Roth, Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
Hershel Parker, Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative (2012)
Victor Pelevin, The Helmet of Horror (2005, trans. Andrew Bromfield)
Kate Beaton, Ducks (2022)
Malcolm Bradbury, Mensonge (1987)
OCTOBER
Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021)
Jason Guriel, On Browsing (2022)
Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland (2022)
Ander Monson, Predator (2022)
M. R. James, The Haunted Dolls’ House (2008)
Stephen King, Misery (1987)
NOVEMBER
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938)
Larry McMurtry, Books (2008)
Helen DeWitt, The English Understand Wool (2022)
César Aira, The Famous Magician (2013, trans. Chris Andrews)
Steven Millhauser, The King in the Tree (2003)
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995, trans. Jay Rubin)
Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet (2022)
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (1945)
DECEMBER
P. G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (1925)
Daniel Sada, One Out of Two (2002, trans. Katherine Silver)
David Shields, The Very Last Interview (2022)
Georges Perec, Life a User’s Manual (1978, trans. David Bellos)
Tom Bissell, Magic Hours (2012)
Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties (2022)
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) (re-read)
Philip Roth, The Prague Orgy (1985)
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SOME NUMBERS NOW
Fiction: 47/76 (62%)
Non-fiction: 29/76 (38%)
Books in translation: 21/76 (28%)
Pre-2000: 38/76 (50%)
Post-2000: 38/76 (50%)
Most-read author: Philip Roth (5)
Favourite fiction: Cannery Row, The Ghost Writer, Gringos, Memoirs of Hadrian, A Time for Everything
Favourite non-fiction: Life Among the Savages, The Most Dangerous Book, The Nineties, Predator, Venice: A New History
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PUBLICATION DATES
2022: 9
2020s: 2
2010s: 14
2000s: 13
1990s: 8
1980s: 10
1970s: 5
1950s: 4
1940s: 2
1930s: 2
1920s: 2
1910s: 1
1900s: 1
1800s: 3