What I Am Reading
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King
2017
June
Jane Austin At Home – Lucy Worsley
Burnt Shadows – Kamila Shamsie
Rest – Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
A Secret History – Donna Tartt
July
Born to Run – Christopher McDougal
The Summer Before the War – Helen Simonson
Eavesdropping on Jane Austin’s England – Roy and Lesley Adkins
The Rule of Law – Tom Bingham
The Outcasts of Time – Ian Mortimor
August
The Witchfinder’s Sister – Beth Underdown
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
How to be a Heroine – Samantha Ellis
Rebecca – Dame Daphne du Maurier (for bookclub)
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
September
Good Me, Bad Me – Ali Land
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future – Johan Norberg
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (bookclub)
October
The Victorians – A.N. Wilson (book research)
Burial Rights – Hannah Kent
The English – A Social History – Christopher Hibbert (book research)
January 2018
Station Eleven – Emily St John Madel
Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey
February
The Last Hours – Minette Walters
Good Me, Bad Me – Ali Land
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
March
Arthur and George – Julian Barnes
I’m Travelling Alone – Samuel Bjork
The Great Leveler – Walter Scheidel
April
The World Broke in Two – Bill Goldstein
Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker
Bookworm – A Memoir of Childhood Reading – Lucy Mangan
May
His Blooody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet (for bookclub)
How to Write Like Tolstoy – Richard Cohen
June
The Best of AA Gill
The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry
Matilda Wife of the Conqueror and First Queen of Normandy – Tracey Borman
The Horseman – Tim Pears
Eleanor Oliphent Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
July
The Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan
The Silent Companions – Laura Purcell
Swan Song – Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
October
Appetite – Philip Kazan
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
Melmoth – Sarah Perry
The House of Ghosts W.C. Ryan
A Night To Remember – Walter Lord
The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker