2019 Update: I failed to read 52 novels in 52 weeks in 2018. I read 48. I would have succeeded if I hadn’t fallen horribly ill towards the end of the year.

I’ve set myself an ambitious target for 2018 – to read 52 novels within the year. My wife wasn’t too impressed when I told her. She reckons I must have too much time on my hands (she’s right of course).

(T) = Translation.

If you have any recommendations, preferably but not necessarily 20th century historical fiction, do let me know.

1	The Miniaturist	Jessie Burton	2014
2	The Godfather	Mario Puzo	1969
3	Life After Life	Kate Atkinson	2013
4	The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham	1951
5	Stoner	John Williams	1965
6	Ashes	Kathryn Lasky	2010
7	Lullaby	Leïla Slimani	2018 (T)
8	Charlotte	David Foenkinos	2017 (T)
9	1984	George Orwell	1949
10	The Outsider	Albert Camus	1942 (T)
11	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J K Rowling	1997
12	White Rose, Black Forest	Eoin Dempsey	2018
13	The Last Girl	Stephan Collishaw	2003
14	Sula	Toni Morrison	1973
15	Marathon Man	William Goldman	1974
16	Summer of My German Soldier	Bette Greene	1973
17	A Quiet Life	Beryl Bainbridge	1976
18	Crooked House	Agatha Christie	1949
19	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	1969
20	Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine	Gail Honeyman	2017
21	The Last Weynfeldt	Martin Suter	2017 (T)
22	Resistance	Owen Sheers	2007
23	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	2003
24	The Lost Family	Jenna Blum	2018
25	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003
26	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	1953
27	The Letter	Kathryn Hughes	2015
28	Days of Grace	Catherine Hall	2010
29	The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	2012
30	Grey Souls	Phillippe Claudel	2005 (T)
31	The Girl in Hyacinth Blue	Susan Vreeland	1999
32	Ring	Koji Suzuki	2003 (T)
33	Mr Peacock's Possessions	Lydia Syson	2018
34	Tulip Fever	Deborah Moggach	1999
35	Dark Matter	Michelle Paver	2010
36	Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	1938
37	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	1955
38	The North Water	Ian McGuire	2016
39	Postcards From a Stranger	Imogen Clark	2018
40	The Unseen	Katherine Webb	2011
41	The Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson	1959
42	Mudbound	Hillary Jordan	2008
43	The Boy Made of Snow	Chloe Mayer	2017
44	Tangerine	Christine Mangan	2018
45	I Love You Too Much	Alicia Drake	2018
46	Death and Nightingales	Eugene McCabe	1992
47	Far to Go	Alison Pick	2010
48	The Girl in the Photograph	Kate Riordan	2015
49	Cancer strikes, November 2018.
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