What I’ve read so far this year.
Thanks to lockdown and furlough, I have ploughed through more books in 2 months than I have the last few years. I only have myself to blame for the lack of reading post uni. I prioritised everything but one of the few escapes I adore. After busy days at work and then training, I often just sat down and put Netflix on mindlessly in the background instead of turning pages in a fictional escape.
I’m using Goodreads to keep track of everything I read and want to. That and saving books for later on Amazon! But, I also wanted to share it on here. It’s a solid month by month list of what I’ve read and I’ll continue to update it throughout the year. I’ll link to my reviews where applicable, but if you’ve got any questions – you know where I am! Just ask.
January
- The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse – Charlie Mackesy
February
March
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
- Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris
April
- Vox – Christine Dalcher
- Normal People – Sally Rooney
May
- Exciting Times – Naoise Dolan
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Q – Christine Dalcher
- Attachments – Rainbow Rowell
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
- City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
June
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
- Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Evaristo
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
- Blood Orange – Harriet Tyce
- Talking with Psychopaths and Savages – Christopher Berry-Dee
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- The Librarian of Auschwitz – Antonio Iturbe
July
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Everything I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton
- Conversations With Friends – Sally Rooney
- Currently reading – The Descent of Man – Grayson Perry, and she must be mad – Charley Cox
