I started keeping a list of everything I read in 2018, mainly because I found myself forgetting which books in a series I’d already read! Anyway just for interest here’s the list of everything I read in 2019, in the order in which I read it. The most memorable writers were Sarah Perry, Jo Walton, Jane Harris, Chris Brookmyre, and Kate Atkinson.
| Stephen | King | The Outsider |
| Christopher | Wallace | The Resurrection Club |
| Colin | Dexter | Inspector Morse: The Jewel That Was Ours |
| Posy | Simmonds | Cassandra Darke |
| MR | Carey | Someone Like Me |
| Ben | Schott | Jeeves and the King of Clubs |
| Erin | Kelly | He Said, She Said |
| Richard | Laymon | Night Show |
| Bridget | Collins | The Binding |
| Sarah | Perry | Melmoth |
| Anthony | Horowitz | Moriarty |
| Graham | Masterton | Dead Men Whistling |
| Adam | Silvera | They Both Die at the End |
| Samantha | Harvey | The Western Wind |
| Nathan | Filer | The Shock of the Fall |
| Siri | Hustvedt | The Blazing World |
| Stephen | King | Lisey’s Story |
| Jo | Walton | My Real Children |
| Graham | Masterton | The Pariah |
| K.J. | Parker | Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City |
| Richard | Laymon | All Hallows Eve |
| David | Quantick | All My Colours |
| Jane | Harris | Gillespie and I |
| Michael | Wehunt | Greener Pastures |
| Steve | Hamilton | The Lock Artist |
| Jo | Walton | Farthing |
| Ruth | Ware | In a Dark Dark Wood |
| Jeffrey | Deaver | The Burial Hour |
| Jo | Walton | Ha’penny |
| Caitlin | Moran | How to Be a Woman |
| John | Connolly | The Woman in the Woods |
| Laura | Carlin | The Wicked Cometh |
| Sophie | Hannah | Did You See Melody |
| Alison | Littlewood | The Hidden People |
| Scarlett | Thomas | Our Tragic Universe |
| Dan | Simmons | Summer of Night |
| Gregory | Normington | The Devil’s Highway |
| John | Connolly | A Time of Torment |
| Paul | Tremblay | A Head Full of Ghosts |
| Kate | Atkinson | Started Early, Took My Dog |
| Kelley | Armstrong | City of the Lost |
| Tuula | Karjalainen | Tove Jansson: Work and Love |
| Graeme | Macrae Burnet | His Bloody Project |
| Jane | Harris | The Observations |
| David | Almond | Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories |
| Kate | Atkinson | Transcription |
| Stephen | Fry | Moab is my Washpot |
| Sally | Rooney | Normal People |
| Kate | Morton | The Forgotten Garden |
| Tom | Franklin | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
| Alan | Bradley | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie |
| Christopher | Brookmyre | Black Widow |
| Stephen | King | The Institute |
| Andrew | Martin | The Necropolis Railway |
| Catherine | O’Flynn | What Was Lost |
| Kate | Atkinson | Human Croquet |
| Christopher | Brookmyre | Fallen Angel |
| Sarah | Moss | Signs for Lost Children |
| Viv | Albertine | Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys |
| Zadie | Smith | On Beauty |
| Laura | Barnett | The Versions of Us |
| Dennis | Lehane | Prayers for Rain |
| Julian | Barnes | The Sense of an Ending |
| Kate | Atkinson | A God in Ruins |
| Francoise | Sagan | Bonjour Tristesse |
| Tove | Jansson | The Summer Book |
| Laura | Purcell | Bone China |
| Lee | Child | Killing Floor |
| Paul | Auster | City of Glass |
| Dave | Shelton | Thirteen Chairs |
| Paul | Cornell | The Lights Go Out in Lychford |