Literature │My Year in Books

By Zehra Cranmer

Dear avid reader, I have compiled a list of a few books that I came across this year, some new, some old, some humorous, disastrous, shocking, bewildering and enchanting. Smith’s autobiography was awe inspiring, Bolano’s 2666 was incredible whilst Forster’s novels forces one to laugh out and guffaw, so do take a look at this list and take a pick or two, or three. I wish you all a very happy new year, I hope it opens us all up to a new world through the written world, may it be mind altering, heart moving and full of imagination.

      


Patti Smith’s Just Kids
Bolano’s 2666
Amy Sackville’s The Still Point
Denis Mackail Greenery Street
Agatha Christie’s Murder at the Vicarage
Jonathan Franzen  Freedom
Knut Hamsun Mysteries
E.M.Forster’s Howards End
E.M. Forster’s A Room With a View
Daphne Du Maurier’s Birds & Other Stories
John Grogan’s Marley and Me
Helene Hanff’s 84, Charring Cross Life
Caroline Smailes’  Like Bees to Honey
Iris Murdoch The Bell
Vita Sackville –West’s All Passion Spent