Books Read By Year

My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Dark Pines by Will Dean

Sealed by Naomi Booth

Vox by Christina Dalcher

Red Snow by Will Dean

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

Forever by Judy Blume

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Would You Rather? by Katie Heaney

Wilful Disregard by Lena Andersson

Calypso by David Sedaris

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

The Incurable Romantic by Frank Tallis

The New Me by Halle Butler

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Acts of Infidelity by Lena Andersson

The Death Of Grass by John Christopher

Suicide Club by Rachel Heng

Almost Love by Louise O'Neill

Alanna - The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Strange Weather In Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Supper Club by Lara Williams

You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne

Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Severance by Ling Ma

The Girl In Red - Christina Henry

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Body Lies by Jo Baker

The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine

Chase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen

The Wave by Morton Rhue

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

How To Disappear by Sharon Roat

Nothing Good Can Come From This by Kristi Coulter

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Would Like To Meet by Rachel Winters

Excavation by Wendy Ortiz

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa

The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Exercises In Control by Annabel Banks

What Red Was by Rosie Price

Weather by Jenny Offill

The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Bunny by Mona Awad

Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

Rest And Be Thankful by Emma Glass

A Kind Of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth

Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Squirm by Richard Curtis

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

The Other Americans by Leila Lalami

Exit Management by Naomi Booth

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

Tampa by Alison Nutting

The Rats by James Herbert

The Places I've Cried In Public by Holly Bourne

Jillian by Halle Butler

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin

Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger

Braised Pork by An Yu

The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer

Expectation by Anna Hope

I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

True Story by Kate Petty

Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

In The Cut by Susanna Moore

Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh

Luster by Raven Leilani

Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch

The Apartment by Teddy Wayne

Pizza Girl Jean Kyoung Frazier

Pew by Catherine Lacey

Where The Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko

The End Of The Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada

Diary Of A Murderer by Kim Young-ha

The Hole by Hye-young Pyun

I Have The Right To Destroy Myself by Young-Ha Kim

The Voice In My Ear by Frances Leviston

You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South

These Women by Ivy Pochoda

Little Scratch by Rebecca Watson

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephon

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Indelicacy by Amina Cain

Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason

I Will Never See The World Again by Ahmet Altan

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

Good Morning, Destroyer Of Men's Souls by Nina Renata Aron

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

Being Lolita by Alisson Wood

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was A Girl by Jeannie Vanasco

Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew

The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean

Absorbed by Kylie Whitehead

There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura

Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

Acts Of Desperation by Megan Nolan

Wilful Disregard by Lena Andersson

Consent by Vanessa Springora

The Falconer by Dana Czapnik

Klara & The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère

You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

Having And Being Had by Eula Biss

Whiteout Conditions by Tariq Shah

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Harris

Temporary by Hilary Leichter

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley

Assembly by Natasha Brown

Panty by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

The Woman In The Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin

Fear Street: The First Evil by R L Stine

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Come Closer by Sara Gran

Bear by Marian Engel

The Hitchhiker by R L Stine

Permafrost by Eve Baltasar

Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler

Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

Femlandia by Christina Dalcher

Paul by Daisy Lafarge

True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

Dead Relatives by Lucie McKnight Hardy

My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman

A Touch Of Jen by Beth Morgan

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

The End Of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg

Reprieve by James Han Mattson

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

The Last House On Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Fit by Sammy Wright

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

They by Kay Dick

Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun

Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell

Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell

To The Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

The Odyssey by Lara Williams

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

Mother For Dinner by Shalom Auslander

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel

The Doloriad by Missouri Williams

Manhunt by Gretchen Felcker-Martin

Last One At The Party by Bethany Clift

You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman

Survive The Night by Riley Sager

Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown

The Mist by Stephen King

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Louise Erdrich by The Sentence

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

The Atmospherians by Alex McElroy

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

Woman Eating by Clare Kohda

Cleopatra & Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

Girl In Snow by Danya Kukafka

One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau

They Walked Like Men by Clifford Simak

The Swimmers by Julia Otsuka

Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson

Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch

The Body In Question by Jill Ciment

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Foe by Iain Reid

Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard

Blood, Sweat & Chrome by Kyle Buchanan

Children Of Paradise by Camilla Grudova

Boulder by Eve Baltasar

The Trees by Percival Everett

The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka

The Old Woman With The Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo

Idol by Louise O'Neill

We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

Maud Martha by Gwendoline Brooks

Lights Out In Lincolnwood by Geoff Rodkey

The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager

Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge

Landscape With Invisible Hand by M T Anderson

Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Mrs March by Virginia Feito

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

Malagash by Joey Comeau

In The End It Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga

Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau

The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin

She Lies In Wait by Gytha Lodge

Little Sister by Gytha Lodge

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

New Waves by Kevin Nguyen

The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzberg

Act Of God by Jill Ciment

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

Waiting For Ted by Marieke Bigg

13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl by Mona Awad

Parasite by Mira Grant

They Came To Slay by Thom James Carter

The Book Of The Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran

Common Decency by Susannah Dickey

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Death Of A Bookseller by Alice Slater

Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh

Morbid Obsessions by Frankie Mirren and Alison Rumfitt

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Migration by Helen Marshall

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Weasels In The Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

The Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Tender by Ariana Harwicz

Yellowface by R F Kuang

Idol, Burning by Rin Usami

Oh Honey by Emily R Austin

Help I Am Being Held Prisoner by Donald E Westlake

Call Me A Cab by Donald E Westlake

Double Feature by Donald E Westlake

How To Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

The Guest by Emma Cline

Kick The Latch by Kathryn Scanlon

Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck

I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel

Penance by Eliza Clark

Termush by Sven Holm

Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Catboy by Benji Nate

Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Dr No by Percival Everett

Sounds Like Fun by Bryan Moriarty

The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan

Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns

A Helping Hand by Celia Dale

Y/N by Esther Yi

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

Patricia Wants To Cuddle by Samantha Allen

We Spread by Iain Reid

Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto

Weather Underwater by Kaisa Saarinen

Mouth To Mouth by Antoine Wilson

Afterword by Nina Schuyler

Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom

For You And Only You by Caroline Kepnes

Acts Of Service by Lillian Fishman

I Am Homeless Is This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

The Girl In The Video by Richard David Wilson

Chaingang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors by Aravind Jayan

The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

The Plague & I by Betty McDonald

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

The Running Man by Stephen King

The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

Child Of God by Cormac McCarthy

Pageboy by Elliot Page

Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

ReadMe.txt by Chelsea Manning

Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek

The List by Yomi Adegoke

Death Valley by Melissa Broder

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

My Husband by Maud Ventura

This Is Where We Live by Kate Hardie

How To Be A French Girl by Rose Cleary

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

The Fog by James Herbert

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Rental Person by Shoji Morimoto

Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Sliver by Ira Levin

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin

A House With Good Bones by T Kingfisher

Under The Skin by Michel Faber

The Pharmacist by Rachelle Atalla

Cleaner by Brandi Wells

Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

Chlorine by Jade Song

The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet

Cheri by Jo Ann Beard

You Could Be So Pretty by Holly Bourne

Straight by Chuck Tingle

Holly by Stephen King

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

A Guest In The House by Emily Carroll

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto

Maeve Fly by C J Leede

A Haunting On The Hill by Elizabeth Hand

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith

Good Girls Don't Die by Christina Henry

The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin

D by Michel Faber

This Is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

People Collide by Isle McElroy

Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling

Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman

African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou

Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

The Consultant by Im Seong-Sun

Scrap by Calla Henkel

Piglet by Lottie Hazell

The Last Passenger by Will Dean

The Spy In The House Of Love by Anaïs Nin

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter

Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg

All Fours by Miranda July

James by Percival Everett

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

Lord Jim At Home by Dinah Brooke

Hard Copy by Fien Veldman

The Small Hand by Susan Hill

Clown In A Cornfield by Adam Cesare

Private Rites by Julia Armfield

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Lost In The Garden by Adam Leslie

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez

 Swanna In Love by Jennifer Belle

Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman

The Last Word by Taylor Adams

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher

For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On Thy Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie

Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine

Salvation Spring by T C Parker

The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston

The Ministry Of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Brat by Gabriel Smith

As Young As This by Roxy Dunn

Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes

Thunderhead by Miranda Darling

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Everyone I Know Is Dying by Emily Slapper

The Bridegroom Was A Dog by Yoko Tawada

A Scarab Where The Heart Should Be by Marieke Bigg

Woodworm by Layla Martínez

The Boy Meets Girl Massacre by Ainslie Hogarth

Tress Of The Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán

Lobster by Guillame Lecasble

Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood

Cannibals by Shinya Tanaka

Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram

The Man I Became by Peter Verhelst

The Therapist by Nial Giacomelli

Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru

The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell

The Human War by Noah Cicero

The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho Yeeun

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette

Youthjuice by E K Sathue

The Mark by Fríða Ísberg

Cecilia by K-Ming Chang

Politics On The Edge by Rory Stewart

Above Us The Sea by Ania Card

I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson

How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Wake Up And Open Your Eyes by Clay Mcleod Chapman

The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei

Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

The Black Orb by Kim Ewhan

The Baby Is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

Now Is Not The Time To Panic by Kevin Wilson

The Frugal Wizard's Handbook For Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson

Thinner by Stephen King

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

Bad Habit by Alana S Portero

Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono

Crypt Of The Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter

The Salt Flats by Rachelle Atalla

Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson

Yr Dead by Sam Sax

Guillotine by Delilah S Dawson

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

The Unfortunates by J K Chukwu

Bloom by Delilah S Dawson

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica

Isaac by Curtis Garner

Land Of Milk And Honey by C Pam Zhang

Jackal by Erin E Adams

Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan

William by Mason Coile

Cuckoo by Callie Kazumi

The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Old Soul by Susan Barker

Negative Space by B R Yeager

Blob by Maggie Su

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

On The Clock by Claire Baglin

Tranny by Laura Jane Grace

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa

The Edges by Angelo Tijssens

Sky Daddy by Kate Folk

Carrion Crow by Heather Parry

Moon Of The Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten

Pig by Matilde Pratesi

The King In Yellow by Robert W Chambers

Troll by Johanna Sinisalo

Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker

The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf

American Rapture by CJ Leede

The Troubled Deep by Rob Parker

May You Have Delicious Meals by Junko Takase

Overgrowth by Mira Grant

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht

Kill Your Darling by Clay Macleod Chapman

Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan

Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Perfections by Vincenzo Latronico

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Stalker by Paula Bomer

Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata

This House Isn't Haunted But We Are by Stephen Howard

Model Home by Rivers Solomon

Females by Andrea Long Chu

Broken Biscuits by Adam Farrer

Tilt by Emma Pattee

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix

My Manservant And Me by Hervé Guibert

Antiboy by Valentijn Hoogenkamp

Colony by Annika Norlin

Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford.

The Carnivorous Plant by Andrea Mayo

The Off-Season by Jodie Robins

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly

The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

We Hexed The Moon by Mollyhall Seeley

Woodworking by Emily St James

Name by Constance Debré

Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin

It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

Bad Manners by Amy Beashel

Gunk by Saba Sams

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

On The Calculation Of Volume by Solvej Balle

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

Let The Bad Times Roll by Alice Slater

Calls May Be Recorded For Training And Monitoring Purposes by Katarina Volckmer

Pathemata by Maggie Nelson

Audition by Katie Kitamura

The Room Is Impossible To Eat by Nicol Hochholczerova

Herculine by Grace Byron

Checking Out by Meryem El-Mehdati

Never Flinch by Stephen King

House of Idyll by Delilah Dawson

Shy Girl by Mia Ballard

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Life Cycle of a Moth by Rowe Irvin

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

Katabasis by R F Kuang

Scarlet Morning by N D Stevenson

Spent by Alison Bechdel

OkPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

The Crustaceon by Jang Jinyeong

Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman

Good Boy by Neil McRobert