Books

Books I loved in...

 
...2022
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Oh William by Elizabeth Strout
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
Still Life by Sarah Winman 
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Klara and the Moon by Kazuo Ishiguro
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan
 
...2021
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt 
The Audacity by Katherine Ryan
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Inner Engineering by Sadhguru
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
The Wisdom of Yoga by Stephen Cope
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
Flying on the Inside by Rachel Gotto 
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Here is Where We Meet by John Berger
The Art of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
Old Friend from Far Away by Natalie Goldberg
Hitching for Hope by Ruairí McKiernan
Breath by James Nestor
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
Educated by Tara Westover
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Silence in the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Quiet. The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee (eds.)
 
...2020 
Handiwork by Sara Baume
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
Constellations. Reflections from Life by Sineád Gleeson
On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Last Stories by William Trevor
The Source by Dr Tara Swart
The Infinite Way by Joel Goldsmith
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
That Sense of Wonder by Francesco Dimitri
 
...2019
Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
The Way Home by Mark Boyle
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Cancer Whisperer by Sophie Sabbage
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Lifeshocks by Sophie Sabbage
Dying to be Me by Anita Moorjani
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund

...2018
Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr Joe Dispenza
Zelda. A Biography by Nancy Milford
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Seeing Ourselves. Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello
Country Girl. A Memoir by Edna O'Brien

...2017
10% Happier by Dan Harris
The Girls by Emma Cline
Iris. A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume
The Reconstructionist by Josephine Hart
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Deceived with Kindness. A Bloomsbury Childhood by Angelica Garnett
Patrimony by Philip Roth
Something to Hide by Penny Perrick
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
The Vanishing Man. In Pursuit of Velázquez by Laura Cumming
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
In Search of a Beginning. My Life with Graham Greene by Yvonne Cloetta / Marie-Françoise Allain
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong
Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Ich Habe Auch Gelebt! Briefe einer Freundschaft by Astrid Lindgren & Louise Hartung

...2016
Lalu Lalula, Arme Kleine Ophelia by Fanny Morweiser
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
Nada by Carmen Laforet
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Miss Emily by Nuala Ní Chonchuir

...2015
Hanging with the Elephant by Michael Harding
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Girl Missing From the Window by Paul O'Reilly
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell

...2014
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Staring at Lakes by Michael Harding
Stoner by John Williams
Time Present and Time Past by Deirdre Madden

...2013
Nothing is Black by Deirdre Madden
Living in the Light by Shakti Gawain
In the Mind's Eye by Lucy Grealy
The Vein of Gold by Julia Cameron
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of her Life and Work
An Experiment in Leisure
by Marion Milner
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Swimming Home
by Deborah Levy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Damage
by Josephine Hart
Authenticity by Deirdre Madden
A World of Our Own by Frances Borzello
Herzzeit: Ingeborg Bachmann - Paul Celan. Der Briefwechsel 

...2012
Embracing Uncertainty by Susan Jeffers 
Night by Edna O'Brien
Shoot the Damn Dog by Sally Brampton
A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
Man with a Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford
On Not Being Able To Paint by Marion Milne
The Sea Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
The Light Years
by Elizabeth Jane Howard

...2011
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginides
The Loft by Marlen Haushofer
The Reenchantment of Art by Suzi Gablik
The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1931 - 1934
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan 

Books on art:
Mysteries of the Rectangle by Siri Hustvedt
Art and Fear. Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland
About Looking and Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Aesthetics. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art by Anne Sheppard
On Photography by Susan Sontag
The Artist's Way and Vein of Gold by Julia Cameron
Colour. A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and Drawing on the Artist Within by Betty Edwards
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska

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