Below are the links, in alphabetical order by title, to all the adult books I have read whilst blogging at This Reading Life. For the books I read during my 11 years at Brona’s Books, please visit the Brona’s Books tab on the menu.
A.
After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz
(A) After Story | Larissa Behrendt
All the Lovers in the Night | Meiko Kawakami
All Summer in a Day | Ray Bradbury
(A) All That Swagger | Miles Franklin
Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(A) The Animals in That Country | Laura Jean McKay
Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout
B.
Beautiful World, Where Are You? | Sally Rooney
(A) Benang: From the Heart | Kim Scott
The Bicentennial Man | Isaac Asimov
The Birds and other stories | Daphne du Maurier
Blue Postcards | Douglas Bruton
The Bombay Prince | Sujata Massey
The Book of Form and Emptiness | Ruth Ozeki
(A) Born Into This | Adam Thompson
Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel
Burning Questions | Margaret Atwood
(A) A Bush Honeymoon | Laura Palmer-Archer
(A) The Butterfly Man | Heather Rose
C.
The Cat Who Saved Books | Sōsuke Natsukawa
(A) Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens | Shankari Chandran
Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future | Svetlana Alexievich
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding | Fyodor Dostoevsky
(A) The Coast | Eleanor Limprecht
(A) Cold Enough For Snow | Jessica Au
(A) Cold Light | Frank Moorhouse
The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart | Chesil
Committed Writings | Albert Camus
Common Ground | Naomi Ishiguro
The Congress | Jorge Luis Borges
Coromandel Sea Change | Rumer Godden
(A) The Countess From Kirribilli | Joyce Morgan
D.
(A) Dark Palace | Frank Moorhouse
The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey
Dead-end Memories | Banana Yoshimoto
Dearly: Poems | Margaret Atwood
(A) A Difficult Young Man | Martin Boyd
Digging For Richard III | Mike Pitts
A Distant Mirror | The Calamitous 14th Century | Barbara Tuchman
E.
Elizabeth Finch | Julian Barnes
Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction | Brian Nelson
(A) Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers | Helen Vines
(A) The Evening of the Holiday | Shirley Hazzard
(A) Everything Feels Like the End of the World | Else Fitzgerald
F.
Finn Family Moomintroll | Tove Jansson
(A) Fire Front | edited Alison Whittaker
First Person Singular | Haruki Murakami
(A) Fishing For Lightning | Sarah Holland-Batt
Four Letters of Love | Niall Williams
G.
(A) Goodnight Vivienne, Goodnight | Steven Carroll
H.
H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs | Beth Ann Fennelly
(A) Homeland Calling | edited Ellen van Neervan
HMS Surprise | Patrick O’Brian
The House of Asterion | Jorge Luis Borges
(A) How To Be Remembered | Michael Thompson
(A) how to make a basket | Jazz Money
I.
(A) Infidelity and Other Affairs | Kate Legge
The Inseparables | Simone de Beauvoir
(A) Into the Loneliness | Eleanor Hogan
The Island of Missing Trees | Elif Shafak
J.
The Jew’s Beech | Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
K.
Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro
L.
(A) The Labyrinth | Amanda Lohrey
The Last White Man | Mohsin Hamid
Laura: A Journey into the Crystal | George Sand
(A) Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Bernadette Brennan
Let Me Tell You What I Mean | Joan Didion
The Library of Babel | Jorge Luis Borges
(A) Limberlost | Robbie Arnott
(A) Little Plum | Laura McPhee-Browne
The London Scene | Virginia Woolf
(A) Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics: Quarterly Essay 88 | Katharine Murphy
Lucy by the Sea | Elizabeth Strout
M.
(A) The M Word: How To Survive Thrive in Menopause | Ginni Mansberg
Maigret and the Minister | Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Tramp | Georges Simenon
Maigret Goes to School | Georges Simenon
Marcus Aurelius Meditations | translated by Gregory Hays
Master and Commander | Patrick O’Brian
Me, Antman & Fleabag | Gayle Kennedy
Med: A Cookbook | Claudia Roden
Midnight Chicken (& other recipes worth living for) | Ella Risbridger
The Mirror and the Light | Hilary Mantel
Miss Carter and the Ifrit | Susan Alice Kerby
(A) The Moving Finger | Mary Gaunt
(A) My Heart is a Little Wild Thing | Nigel Featherstone
(A) My Love Must Wait | Ernestine Hill
My Name is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout
My Phantoms | Gwendoline Riley
(A) Myself When Young | Henry Handel Richardson
N.
No. 91/92: A Parisian Bus Diary | Lauren Elkin
(A) No Document | Anwen Crawford
(The Annotated) Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen & David M. Shapard
(A) Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here | Heather Rose
Nothing Holds Back the Night | Delphine de Vigan
O.
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution | China Miéville
Oh William! | Elizabeth Strout
(A) Old Seems to be Other People | Lily Brett
On the Black Hill | Bruce Chatwin
(A) On Shirley Hazzard | Michelle de Kretser
Orwell’s Roses | Rebecca Solnit
(A) Otherland | Maria Tumarkin
P.
The Paris Bookseller | Kerri Maher
The Passenger: Japan | Europa Editions
(A) The Pea Pickers | Eve Langley
People From My Neighbourhood | Hiromi Kawakami
(A) The Performance | Claire Thomas
(A) Phosphorescence | Julia Baird
Pointed Roofs | Dorothy M. Richardson
Post Captain | Patrick O’Brian
Q.
R.
The Red-Haired Woman | Orhan Pamuk
(A) A Room Made of Leaves | Kate Grenville
S.
(A) Salonika Burning | Gail Jones
The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey
The Second Branch of the Mabinogi | Translator: Sioned Davies
(A) Scary Monsters | Michelle de Kretser
She and Her Cat | Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa
(A) The Shortest History of the Soviet Union | Shelia Fitzpatrick
The Sign of the Four | Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sin of Abbé Mouret | Émile Zola
A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin | Mark Galeotti
Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon | Émile Zola
The Space Between the Stars | Indira Naidoo
Spam Tomorrow | Verily Anderson
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars | Francesca Wade
Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel
Summer Diary: The Herbogowan | Rumer Godden
(A) The Sun Walks Down | Fiona McFarlane
The Sweetness of Water | Nathan Harris
T.
(A) The Teal Revolution | Margot Saville
This Changes Everything: The Honest Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause | Niki Bezzant
(A) This Devastating Fever | Sophie Cunningham
This is Happiness | Niall Williams
(A) Throat | Ellen Van Neerven
(A) To the Ends of the Earth | Susanna De Vries
Tokyo Express | Seichō Matsumoto
The Tortoise and the Hare | Elizabeth Jenkins
Two Stories | Leonard & Virginia Woolf
U.
V.
Vesper Flights | Helen Macdonald
Virginia Woolf: Great Lives | Nigel Nicolson
W.
(A) The Wild Oats of Han | Katharine Susannah Prichard
(A) The Wingmaker | Mette Jakobsen
(A) Wolf Hall Companion: The People, The Places, The History | Lauren Mackay
The Woman in the Purple Skirt | Natsuko Imamura
X.
Y.
(A) Yuiquimbiang | Louise Crisp