Progressive Geographies

These are the novels or non-fiction I read as a break from work-related reading in 2015. Not as many as previous years, which was mainly due to a slow start.

1. Daniel Coyle and Tyler Hamilton, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs (non fiction)
2. Fred d’Aguilar, The Longest Memory
3. Rebecca Hunt, Mr Chartwell
4. Simon Sebag Montefiore, One Night in Winter
5. Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident
6. Mark Kurlansky, Birdseye (non-fiction)
7. Peter Temple, Truth (set in Melbourne)
8. Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara, Rabbit-Proof Fence
9. Arundati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story (non-fiction)
10. Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain
11. Christopher Lee, Lord of Misrule (autobiography)
12. Honoré Balzac, The Marriage Contract
13. Michael Connolly, The Black Echo
14. James Hamilton-Patterson, Seven Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds (non-fiction)
15. Hari Kunzru, The Impressionist
16. Eric Rasmussen, The Shakespeare Thefts (non-fiction)
17. Marcus Rediker, Outlaws of the Atlantic (non-fiction)
18. Edmund White, Caracole
19. Abdelrahman Munif, Cities of Salt
20. Rob Kitchin, Stumped 
21. William Golding, Pincher Martin
22. Julian Barnes, Staring at the Sun
23. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (memoir)
24. Ian McEwan, The Children Act
25. Alan Bennett, The Madness of George III (play)
26. Hervé Guibert, À l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie
27. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and other plays
28. A.L. Kennedy, Day
29. William Boyd, Restless
30. Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk
31. Ali Smith, The Accidental
32. Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
33. James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
34. Kate Atkinson, Life after Life
35. Rebecca Hunt, Everland
36. Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
37. Val McDermid, The Skeleton Road
38. Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice (again – in advance of the film, which I didn’t like)
39. Annie Proulx, Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories
40. Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
41. John Williams, Stoner
42. Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood
43. Vladimir Nabakov, Bend Sinister
44. J. Robert Lennon, Familiar
45. Greg Baxter, Munich Airport
46. Chibundu Onuzo, The Spider King’s Daughter
47. Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass’s Skin
48. Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone
49. A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories
50. Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
51. Michael Moorcock, Mother London
52. Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary
53. Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
54. Valerie Martin, Property
55. Andrea Levy, Small Island
56. Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
57. Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
58. Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones
59. Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
60. Serge Livrozet, De la prison à la révolte: Essai-témoinage (memoir)
61. Tom Sperlinger, Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation (non-fiction)
62. Benoît Peeters, Derrida (biography)
63. Emile Zola, The Earth

I particularly liked H is for Hawk, Everland, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Familiar and Bel Canto, and thought the Derrida biography was terrific.  I have another pile to take on holiday in a few days…

These lists tend to generate some questions or suggestions – while I am grateful for both, I say a bit about this here.