What I read in 2019

As befits the author of a book about book lists, here is what I'm already calling my traditional list of all the books I read in 2019 for pleasure (not including the ones which I read/half-read/skimmed for work would be too long and dull). They are listed in the order in which I read them and my favourites are marked with an asterisk.

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

Pushing the Boundaries by Derek Pringle

The Evenings by Gerard Reve

* Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Midwinter Break by Bernard Maclaverty

* Black Tudors by Miranda Kauffman

Snow by Marcus Sedgwick

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote

* Home Fires by Kamila Shamsie

Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

* How to Live, a life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell

The Making of The Wind in the Willows by Peter Hunt

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell

Arcadian Ballads by James Reeves

To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

A Ladybird book about Pirates

* White Horses by Eric Ravilious and Jo Dempsey

Family Group by Fougasse

The Green Ship by Quentin Blake

Comet in Moominland by Tove Jannson

Bookworm by Lucy Mangan

Rooms of Their Own by Nino Strachey

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Train Songs: Poetry of the Railway edited by Don Paterson and Sean O’Brien

* Flash for Freedom by George McDonald Fraser

* Old Baggage by Lissa Evans

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Earthfasts by William Mayne

Ravensgill by William Mayne

Red Shift by Alan Garner

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

* The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Portrait of Britain 2

The Running Hare: The secret life of farmland by John Lewis-Stempel

Those Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Wilder Life by Wendy McLure

The Wall by John Lanchester

Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem

In the Land of Giants by Max Adams

The Mizzy by Paul Farley

Constant Readers by Quentin Blake

Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston

Red Thread by Charlotte Higgins

Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Sour by Mark Diacono

* The City and the City by China Mieville

Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel

* The Box of Delights by John Masefield (annual re-read)

Short works

The Verger and The Facts of Life by Somerset Maugham

What We Talk About When We Talk About The Tube by John Lanchester