The Horse’s Mouth Joyce Cary
Driving Over Lemons Chris Stewart
The Discomfort of Evening Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Autumn Ali Smith
Nina Simone’s Gum Warren Ellis
Stoner John Williams
The Overstory Richard Powers
Tintin: Herge and his Creation Harry Thompson
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole
The Moon and Sixpence Somerset Maughm
Modern Nature Derek Jarman
The Bone Clocks David Mitchell
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce
The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben
Good Pop Bad Pop Jarvis Cocker
Collected Poems for Children Charles Causley
Soil, Soul, Society Satish Kumar
Bait Box Stew: Graham Clarke’s Cornwall Graham Clarke
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land’s End Various
Second Place Rachel Cusk
Seashaken Houses Tom Nancollas
Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates
A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines
Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell
The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti Cosey Fanni Tutti
Shuna’s Journey Hayao Miyazaki
Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish Bob Gilbert

Reading wise, this was actually a good year for me (all those hours on the bus), and then I speak to my volunteers at the Oxfam bookshop: several of them have read over 100 books this year. Proper books, too (I always sneak in a graphic novel and poetry book to up the numbers).

Previously on Barnflakes
Cat on Books
Books I’ve read this year, 2019
Books of the Year 2011