“Words, words, words.”
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
William Shakespeare
BOOKS READ THIS YEAR
– Submission by Michel Houllebecq: 7/10
– Good Bones by Margaret Atwood: 6/10
– The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark: 10/10 (re-read)
– Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Going To The Theatre by West End Producer: 8/10
– Walking to Greenham by Ann Pettitt: 7/10
– The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd: 7/10
– The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge: 10/10
– Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis: 9/10
– A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride: 8/10
– Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale: 8/10
– Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney: 5/10
– The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee: 6/10
– Queer and Catholic by Mark Dowd: 8/10
– The Universe versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence: 9/10
– The Pearl by John Steinbeck: 9/10
– A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf: 9/10
– Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde: 5/10
– Glass, Irony & God by Anne Carson: 3/10
– Reservoir Thirteen by Jon McGregor: 11/10 *****
– The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood: 9/10
– Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: 9/10
– 100 Prized Poems: 25 years of the Forward Books: 9/10
– There’s Only Two David Beckhams by John O’Farrell: 7/10
– Golden Hill by Francis Spufford: 9/10
– White Tears by Hari Kunzru: 6/10
– Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift: 10/10
– Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt: 8/10
– Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson: 9/10
– The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker: 5/10
– The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy: 8/10
– The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb: 8/10
– The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan: 10/10
– Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton: 8/10
– Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe: 10/10
– The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
– The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
– The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
– How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb
– The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
– Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
– My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Cultured AF 