reading through the ages

This page shows books I’ve read since January 2016. I hope, over the years to come, to read a book from each year. Ever.

2001 – …

• 2022: Miss Merkel: Mord Auf dem Friedhof by David Safier (Germany)
• 2021: The Great Troll War by Jasper Fforde (UK, audiobook)
• 2021: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK)
• 2021: Adas Raum by Sharon Dodua Otoo (UK/Germany)
• 2021: The Flicker Against the Light and Writing the Contemporary Uncanny by Jane Alexander (Scotland)
• 2021: Wie ich das chinesische Lager überlebt habe by Gulbahar Haitiwaji & Rozenn Morgat (China/France, translated by Claudia Steinitz and Rüenauver)
• 2021: Miss Merkel: Mord in der Uckermark by David Safier (Germany)
• 2020: The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde (UK)
• 2020: Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell (UK)
• 2019: Weg by Véronique Lasar (Luxembourg)
• 2019: Underland by Rober Macfarlane (England)
• 2019: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Lebanon/Canada/USA)
• 2019: Düsternbrook by Axel Milberg (Germany)
• 2019: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
• 2019: Metropol by Eugen Ruge (Germany)
• 2018: The Long Spring by Laurence Rose (England)
• 2018: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde (Wales, audiobook)
• 2018: Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (Argentina, translated by Megan McDowell)
• 2018: Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig (UK)
• 2017: Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature by Pamela Bedore (Canada, audiobook)
• 2017: To Kill the President by Sam Bourne (UK)
• 2017: Figure 120: A Memoir by J. H. Alexander (UK)
• 2017: In the Field by Jesse Loncraine (UK, audiobook)
• 2017: Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo (Nigeria, audiobook)
• 2017: Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (UK)
• 2017: The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad (Norway, audiobook)
• 2017: The Science of Mindfulness: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson (USA)
• 2017: Eine kurze Geschichte der böhmischen Raumfahrt by Jaroslaf Kalvar (Czech Republic and USA, translated by Barbara Heller)
• 2016: France, Story of a Childhood by Zahia Rahmani (France/Algeria, translated by Lara Vergnaud)
• 2016: The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville (England)
• 2016: Saga Vol.6 by Brian K. Vaughan (USA) and Fiona Staples (Canada)
• 2016: East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes against Humanity” by Philippe Sands (France/UK, audiobook)
• 2016: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Ghana/USA, audiobook)
• 2016: Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas by Jacqueline Rayner, Colin Brake, Richard Dungworth, Mike Tucker Cor Pas, Scott Handcock, Gary Russell (UK, audiobook)
• 2016: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
  by Ursula K. Le Guin (USA, audiobook)
• 2016: Music as a Mirror of History by Robert Greenberg (USA, audiobook)
• 2016: The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (UK)
• 2016: The Fall of the Gas-lit Empire: The Custodia of Marvels by Rod Duncan (UK, audiobook)
• 2016: The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes (UK)
• 2016: The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (UK)
• 2015: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf (UK)
• 2015: Saga Vol.5 by Brian K. Vaughan (USA) and Fiona Staples (Canada)
• 2015: The Book of Memory by Petinah Gappah (Zimbabwe, audiobook)
• 2015: The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter (England)
• 2015: Things can only get Feta by Marjory McGinn (UK)
• 2015: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria/USA)
• 2015: Doctor Who: The Drosten’s Curse by A.L. Kennedy (UK)
• 2015: Numero Zero by Umberto Eco (Italy, audiobook)
• 2015: The Fall of the Gas-lit Empire: Unseemly Science by Rod Duncan (UK, audiobook)
• 2015: Weinhebers Koffer by Michel Bergmann (Switzerland)
• 2015: Das veborgene Leben der Meisen by Andreas Tjernshaugen (Norway, translated by Paul Berf)
• 2015: Das Licht der Frauen by Żanna Słoniowska (Poland/Ukraine, translated by Olaf Kühl)
• 2015: Tentacle by Rita Indiana (Dominican Republic, translated by Achy Obejas)
• 2015: Altes Land by Dörte Hansen (Germany)
• 2015: Sieben leere Häuser by by Samanta Schweblin (Argentina, translated by Marianne Gareis)
• 2014: Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor (UK)
• 2014: Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation by Keith Houston (England)
• 2014: Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie (Canada/USA)
• 2014: Saga Vol.4 by Brian K. Vaughan (USA) and Fiona Staples (Canada)
• 2014: Saga Vol.3 by Brian K. Vaughan (USA) and Fiona Staples (Canada)
• 2014: So, anyway by John Cleese (UK, audiobook)
• 2014: Six Degrees of Assassination by M.J. Arlidge (UK, audiobook)
• 2014: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (USA)
• 2014: The Fall of the Gas-lit Empire: The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter by Rod Duncan (UK, audiobook)
• 2014: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Canada)
• 2014: A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba (Japan, translated by Jocelyne Allen)
• 2014: Cottbus: Geschichten und Anekdoten: Der Star im Sternchen by Helmut Routschek (Germany)
• 2013: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (3rd edition) by Robert Greenberg (USA, audiobook)
• 2013: The Circle by Dave Eggers (USA)
• 2013: Cross and Burn by Val McDermid (UK, audiobook)
• 2013: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (USA, audiobook)
• 2013: Robert Fisk on Algeria by Robert Fisk (UK)
• 2012: Artful by Ali Smith (UK)
• 2012: Saga Vol.1 by Brian K. Vaughan (USA) and Fiona Staples (Canada)
• 2012: 52: A year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom by Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings (Canada/UK/classroom)
• 2012: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (UK, audiobook)
• 2012: Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting through the Storm by Thich Naht Hanh (Vietnam)
• 2011: Among Others by Jo Walton (Wales/Canada, audiobook)
• 2011: The Martian by Andy Weir (USA, audiobook)
• 2011: Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman (UK)
• 2011: In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichtes: Roman einer Familie by Eugen Ruge (Germany)
• 2010: Story Teller: The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock (UK, audiobook)
• 2010: Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street by Indrek Hargla (Estonia, translated by Christopher Moseley)
• 2010: Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde (UK)
• 2009: The Help by Kathryn Stockett (USA, audiobook)
• 2009: Risk Assessment (Torchwood #13) by James Goss (UK)
• 2009: My Driver by Maggie Gee (UK)
• 2008/2009/2010: The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (USA, audiobook)
• 2008: Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean by Robert Garland (UK, audiobook)
• 2008: Cold Hearts by Gunnar Staalesen (Norway, audiobook, translated by Don Bartlett)
• 2008: Torchwood: Almost Perfect by James Goss (UK)
• 2008: A Darker Domain by Val McDermid (UK, audiobook)
• 2008: The Art of Meditation by Matthieu Ricard (France, translated by Sherab Chödzin Kohn)
• 2007: A Bad Birdwatcher’s Companion by Simon Barnes (England, audiobook)
• 2007: The Sexual Life Of An Islamist In Paris by Leila Marouane (Algeria/France, translated by Alison Anderson)
• 2007: Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin (USA)
• 2007: The History of World Literature by Grant L. Voth (USA, audiobook)
• 2006: My Soul To Take by Yrsa Sigurðardottir (Iceland, translated by Bernard Scudder and Anna Yates)
• 2006: World War Z by Max Brooks (USA)
• 2006: Disobedience by Naomi Aldermann (UK, audiobook)
• 2006: Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher by Walter Moers (Germany, audiobook)
• 2006: Voices by Ursula K. LeGuin (USA)
• 2005: Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardottir (Iceland, translated by Bernard Scudder)
• 2005: The Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin (England, audiobook)
• 2005: Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver (UK)
• 2005: Eichmann and the Holocaust (Penguin Great Ideas) by Hannah Arendt (Germany/USA)
• 2005: Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas by Robert Greenberg (USA, audiobook)
• 2005: My Cleaner by Maggie Gee (UK)
• 2005: Der Unterhändler der Hanse: Ein Hansekrimi by Thomas Prinz (Germany)
• 2004: Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin (USA)
• 2004: Die Liebe eines Mörders by Ruth Rendell (UK, translated by Eva L. Wahser)
• 2004: RunRabbitRun by Nadja Sennewald (Germany)
• 2003
• 2002: Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor (England)
• 2002: The Scar by China Miéville (UK)
• 2002: Unter Markenmenschen by Birgit Rabisch (Germany)
• 2001: The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett (England, audiobook)
• 2001: Spiel auf vielen Trommeln by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland, translated by Esther Kinsky)
• 2001: Der Sommer der Schmetterlinge by Adriana Lisboa (Brasil, translated by Enno Petermann)

1901 – 2000

• 2000: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (UK)
• 1999 /2001: The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout (Algeria, translated by Marjolijn de Jager)
• 1999 /2020: Schau mich an by Elif Shafak (Turkey/UK, translated by Gerhard Meier)
• 1998: The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones (Wales, audiobook)
• 1998: The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, MD (USA/Tibet)
• 1998: Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals 1962 – 1966 by Thich Naht Hanh (Vietnam, translated by Mobi Warren)
• 1997
• 1996: Johannisnacht by Uwe Timm (Germany)
• 1995 /2013: Bach and the High Baroque by Robert Greenberg (USA, audiobook)
• 1994: The Language Instinct: How the mind creates language by Steven Pinker (USA, audiobook)
• 1994: The Tin Princess by Philip Pullmann (UK, audiobook)
• 1993
• 1992
• 1991 /2010: The Liar by Stephen Fry (UK, audiobook)
• 1990: Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel by Lee Maracle (First Nations Canada)
• 1990: The Magic Flute by Alan Spence (Scotland)
• 1989: Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch by Michael Ende (Germany)
• 1989/2000: Imago by Octavia E. Butler (USA)
• 1988: A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark (Scotland, audiobook)
• 1988: Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel (England)
• 1988: Der Mondbambus by Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnam, translated by Petra Mecklenburg, Vo-Dinh Mai and Mobi Ho)
• 1988/2000: Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler (USA)
• 1987/2000: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (USA)
• 1986
• 1985: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks (England)
• 1985: The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman (UK, audiobook)
• 1984: Bloodchild by Octavia Butler (USA)
• 1983 /1995: The Nuremberg Trial by John and Ann Tusa (UK, audiobook)
• 1983: Kalpa Imperial: Das grösste Imperium, das es nie gegeben hat by Angélica Gorodischer (Argentinia, translated by Karin Will)
• 1982: The Running Man by Stephen King (USA)
• 1981
• 1980 /2017: Cosmos by Carl Sagan (USA, audiobook)
• 1980: Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (USA, audiobook)
• 1979: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (USA, audiobook)
• 1979: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (England)
• 1978
• 1977 (- 2006): Chrestomanci Series by Diana Wynne Jones (Wales)
• 1976 /2011: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (UK, audiobook)
• 1975
• 1974
• 1973: The Princess Bride by William Goldman (USA)
• 1973: Rendezvous with Rama by Artur C. Clarke (UK, audiobook)
• 1972
• 1971: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (USA, audiobook)
• 1970 /2012: Ringworld by Larry Niven (USA, audiobook)
• 1970: Indoctrinaire by Christopher Priest (England)
• 1969: The Godfather by Mario Puzo (USA, audiobook)
• 1968: Nova by Samuel R. Delany (USA)
• 1967: Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron (UK, audiobook)
• 1966: The Moon is a harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (USA)
• 1965: Dune by Frank Herbert (USA, audiobook)
• 1964
• 1963: The Truce by Primo Levi (Italy, translated by Stuart Woolf)
• 1963: The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley (USA)
• 1963: The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner (England)
• 1962: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (USA, audiobook)
• 1961: Asteroidenjäger by Carlos Rasch (Germany)
• 1960: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner (England)
• 1959: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (USA)
• 1959: Atomvulkan Golkonda by A. and B. Strugatzki (Sovjet Union, translated by Willi Berger)
• 1958: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italy, audiobook, translated by Archibald Colquhoun)
• 1958: The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley (USA)
• 1957
• 1956
• 1955
• 1954: Year of the Big Thaw by Marion Zimmer Bradley (USA)
• 1954: Märchen für große und kleine Kinder by Friedrich Wolf (Germany)
• 1953/2011: The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (UK, audiobook)
• 1952
• 1951
• 1950
• 1949 /1952: King Solomon’s Ring: New light on animal ways by Konrad Lorenz (Austria, translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson)
• 1948
• 1947 /1958: If this is a Man by Primo Levi (Italy, translated by Stuart Woolf)
• 1946: Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl (Austria, translated by Ilse Lasch)
• 1945
• 1944
• 1943
• 1942: The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie (England)
• 1941: Evil under the Sun by Agatha Christie (England)
• 1940
• 1939: And then there were none by Agatha Christie (England)
• 1938
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• 1920: Verses of a V.A.D. by Vera Brittain (England)
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• 1914: Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah (UK)
• 1914: The Daughters of the Vicar by D.H. Lawrence (England)
• 1913
• 1912
• 1911: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (England/USA)
• 1910
• 1909
• 1908
• 1907: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (England)
• 1906
• 1905
• 1904
• 1903: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Russia, audiobook, translation by unknown)
• 1902
• 1901: The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit (England)
• 1901: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells (England, audiobook)

1801 – 1900

• 1900
• 1899
• 1898: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (England, audiobook)
• 1897: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (England, audiobook)
• 1897: Dracula by Bram Stoker (Ireland, audiobook)
• 1896: The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (England, audiobook)
• 1895: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (Russia, audiobook, translation by unknown)
• 1895: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (England, audiobook)
• 1894: The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling (England, audiobook)
• 1893
• 1892: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (USA)
• 1891:
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• 1888:
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• 1886: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson (Scotland, audiobook)
• 1885
• 1884
• 1883
• 1882: An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (Norway, audiobook, translated by unknown)
• 1881: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (Norway, audiobook, translated by unknown)
• 1880
• 1879: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (Norway, audiobook, translated by unknown)
• 1879: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by R.L. Stevenson (Scotland)
• 1878
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• 1868: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (England)
• 1867
• 1866
• 1865
• 1864: Voyage au Centre de la Terre by Jules Verne (France)
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• 1831: The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince (Bermuda, UK)
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• 1818: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (England, audiobook)
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1701 – 1800

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• 1787: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (England; I’ve read the version available on Project Gutenberg with only 1787 mentioned at the end but no year of actual publishing of that particular edition.)
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• 1759: Candide or Optimism by Voltaire (France, translated by John Butt)
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• 1722: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (England)
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1601 – 1700

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• 1606: The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (England)
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• 1603 (or later): King Lear by William Shakespeare (England)
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01 – 100 CE

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• 98: Die Germania by Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Paul Stefan)
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500 – 401 BCE

• 406: Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles (translated by Ian Johnston, audiobook)
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• 428
• 429: Oedipus the King by Sophocles (translated by Ian Johnston, audiobook)
• 430
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• 441: Antigone by Sophocles (translated by Ian Johnston, audiobook)
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before 2000 BCE

• 23rd century BCE: Inana and Ebih by Enheduanna (Sumerian city-state of Ur, translation here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080518180849/http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr132.htm)

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