Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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My reading highlights from 2024 up until to the end of June. Loosely based on a venerable tag whose creator has long gone from BookTube. I talk at varying lengths about lots of books and authors. Here's a rough list in the order mentioned:

Thunderclap by Laura Cummings
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector translated by Benjamin Moser
Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
My Friends by Hisham Matar
The Last Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud (also Love After Love)
The Voyage Home by Pat Barker
The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst by Katie Lumsden
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
Home Child by Liz Berry
Human Acts by Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Welcome to St Hell by Lewis Hancox
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes translated by Ann Goldstein
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (also Matrix)
Not a River by Selva Almada translated by Annie McDermott (also Brickmakers)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner
Poyums by Len Pennie
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
Blossomise by Simon Armitage illustrated by Angela Harding
The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel translated by Rosalind Harvey
Brotherless Nights by VV Ganeshananthan
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz