BEST READS OF 2019

In no order – my favourite reads of 2019:

Stillicide – Cynan Jones
Do Not Pass Go – Joel Lane
Tampa – Alissa Nutting
Outline – Rachel Cusk
Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History – Tony Rettman
The Reddening – Adam Nevill
The Resurrection Man – Eoin McNamee
The Country Will Bring Us No Peace – Matthieu Simard
The Psalm Killer – Chris Petit
Caught – Henry Green
Broken Ghost – Niall Griffiths
Happy Like Murderers – Gordon Burn
Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son – Gordon Burn
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland – Patrick Radden Keefe
Flowers of the Sea – Reggie Oliver
Moonstomp – Tim Wells
The Dollmaker – Nina Allan
The Black Country – Kerry Hadley-Pryce
The Terror – Dan Simmons
Plume – Will Wiles
The Offing – Benjamin Myers
Wounds – Nathan Ballingrud
Water Shall Refuse Them – Lucie McKnight Hardy
Machine – Susan Steinberg
Doggerland – Ben Smith
I Am The River – T.E. Grau
Lanny – Max Porter
Orison For A Curlew – Horatio Clare
For The Good Times – David Keenan
Modern Nature – Derek Jarman
All the Fabulous Beasts – Priya Sharma
The Migration – Helen Marshall
The Idea of North – Peter Davidson