Reading
My reading informs my writing and my life too I guess. You can read more about it on my blog, under the tag MY READING, but here’s a list of some of the things I’ve really loved over the years.
Above: My 2015 Book of the Year.
Details of my favourite reading for the years:
2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Poetry Books winners through the years
Non-Fiction winners through the years
Fiction winners through the years
Multiple Winners
(these must be writers I really like!)
Non-Fiction
Robert Macfarlane (2)
Fiction
Richard Ford (4)
W.G Sebald (3)
Cormac McCarthy (2)
David Malouf (2)
Alistair McLeod (2)
Gerald Murnane (2)
Marilynne Robinson (2)
Paul Auster (2)
Poetry
Kevin Hart (2)
John Tranter (2)
Laurie Duggan (2)
Robert Adamson (2)
Mark Tredinnick (2)
Brook Emery (2)
[…] Wise words. There’s a case against too much of this and I don’t pretend to speak with authority. Simply put, my book of the year was Overstory by Richard Powers, a story for our times. You can read others I liked, and lists from previous years here at my poetry pages here. […]
My Book of the Year | thinking about poetry
December 23, 2019 at 2:47 pm