Not all novels, and many more biographies in here then previous years, but these were the (mainly) non-work books I read in 2016.

1. John Fowles, Daniel Martin 
2. Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (non-fiction)
3. Helga Schneider, Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS (memoir)
4. Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection
5. Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
6. Walter Benjamin, Radio Benjamin (non fiction – radio broadcasts)
7. George Eliot, Adam Bede (again – first time since A-level)
8. Christian Meier, Caesar (biography)
9. David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (non-fiction)
10. Ian Rankin, The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories
11. Keri Hulme, The Bone People
12. Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
13. Reinhard Mehring, Carl Schmitt: A Biography
14. William Golding, Rites of Passage
15. José Saramago, The Notebook (diaries)
16. Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
17. Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
18. Henrik Ibsen, Four Major Plays
19. Patrick Baert, The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual
20. Simon Jenkins, A Short History of England
21. A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
22. Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
23. Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many
24. Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
25. Edmund White, Genet (biography)
26. Robin Sloan, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
27. Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World (non-fiction)
28. Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest
29. Philippa Langley and Michael Jones, The King’s Grave: The Search for Richard III (non-fiction)
30. Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
31. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
32. Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise
33. John Banville, The Untouchable
34. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
35. Iris Murdoch, The Philosopher’s Pupil
36. Ellis Peters, Monk’s Hood
37. Benedict Anderson, A Life Beyond Boundaries (memoir)
38. James Shapiro, 1606: The Year of Lear (biography)
39. Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (memoir)
40. Iain Sinclair, London Orbital (non fiction)
41. Umberto Eco, Numero Zero
42. Robert Harris, Dictator
43. Diana Fuss, The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them (non-fiction)
44. John Berger and Jean Mohr, A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (non-fiction)
45. Sebastian Faulks, Where my Heart used to Beat
46. Han Kang, The Vegetarian
47. Tendai Huchu, The Maestro, The Magistrate and the Mathematician
48. George Monbiot, How did we get into this mess? (non-fiction)
49. Jonathan Frantzen, Purity
50. China Mieville, King Rat
51. Emile Zola, Germinal
52. Tiphaine Samoyault, Barthes: A Biography
53. J.G. Ballard, High Rise
54. Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness
55. John Rees and Lindsey German, A People’s History of London (non-fiction)
56. Gustav Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Anthony (again)
57. David Farrell Krell, Son of Spirit: A Novel
58. Ian Rankin, Standing in Another Man’s Grave
59. Alex Scarrow, A Thousand Suns
60. Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914 (non-fiction)
61. Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing