What has the frog been reading lately? (since February 2017, in fact…)
Dream of Fair to Middling Women – Samuel Beckett
The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
The Pound Era – Hugh Kenner (non-fiction)
The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild – John Ironmonger
Rare Singles – Benjamin Myers
The Voyage Home – Pat Barker
Long Island – Colm Tóibín
Mourning Diary – Roland Barthes (non-fiction)
The Heart in Winter – Kevin Barry
Dolce Vita Confidential – Shawn Levy (non-fiction)
Post Office – Charles Bukowski
Barcelona – Mary Costello
Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje
Tough without a Gun – Stefan Kanfer (biog)
Table for Two – Amor Towles
Homer’s Odyssey – Simon Armitage
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
What Will Survive of Us – Howard Jacobson
Some Sort of Genius – Paul O’Keeffe [non-fiction]
Being Various – Lucy Caldwell (ed.)
A Long Long Way – Sebastian Barry
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
The Tattoo Collector – Tim Tim Cheng [poetry]
no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song – Kat Lehmann [poetry]
The Brueghel Moon – Tamaz Chiladze
Strange Husbandry – Lorcán Black [poetry]
The Black Snow – Paul Lynch
Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
The City and its Uncertain Walls – Haruki Murakami
In Which – Denise Duhamel [poetry]
An Arbitrary Light Bulb – Ian Duhig [poetry]
Constructing a Witch – Helen Ivory [poetry]
Held – Anne Michaels
Orbital – Samantha Harvey
Gliff – Ali Smith
So Many Ways to Begin – Jon McGregor
rock flight – Hasib Hourani [poetry] unfinished
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Songbook – Joshua Idehen [poetry]
The Four Books – Yan Lianke
Agimat – Romalyn Ante [poetry]
Even the dogs – Jon McGregor
Signs, Music – Raymond Antrobus [poetry]
Bluff – Danez Smith [poetry] unfinished
Baumgartner – Paul Auster
The Keelie Hawk – Kathleen Jamie [poetry]
North Woods – Daniel Mason
Petersburg Tales – Nikolai Gogol
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman – Denis Thériault
Love, etc – Julian Barnes
Town & Country – New Irish Short Stories – ed. Kevin Barry
Statements – Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona (plays)
Sky Mall – Eric Kocher [poetry]
Lapwing – Hannah Copley [poetry]
Real Time – Amit Chaudhuri
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams – Sylvia Plath (unfinished)
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore – Paul Muldoon [poetry] (unfinished)
Prophet Song – Paul Lynch
May Day – Jackie Kay [poetry]
Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín
Belief Systems – Tamar Yoseloff [poetry]
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays – Federico Garcia Lorca [plays]
Laughable Loves – Milan Kundera
Meanwhile in Dopamine City – DBC Pierre (unfinished)
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea – Mark Haddon [poetry]
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
This Other Eden – Paul Harding
No Map Could Show Them – Helen Mort [poetry]
Collected Stories – Peter Carey
Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton
Getting Through – John McGahern
Eleanor Among the Saints – Rachel Mann [poetry] (unfinished)
Sojourn – Amit Chaudhuri
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing – Eimear McBride
The Silence – Gillian Clarke [poetry]
High Ground and other stories – John McGahern
The Paper Men – William Golding
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
egg / shell – Victoria Kennefick [poetry]
The Humbling – Philip Roth
Nothing but the night – John Williams
Wildlife – Richard Ford
Baby Schema – Isabel Galleymore [poetry]
The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason
The Forward Book of Poetry 2024 [poetry]
The Years, Months, Days – Yan Lianke
Nemesis – Philip Roth
Sturge Town – Kwame Dawes [poetry]
Liberation Day – George Saunders
No one belongs here more than you – Miranda July
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden – Denis Johnson
Guernica – James Attlee [non-fiction]
The Hot Gates – William Golding [non-fiction]
Crow – Ted Hughes [poetry] (unfinished)
Coming Through Slaughter – Michael Ondaatje
The Woman Who Rode Away – D.H.Lawrence
Thom Gunn – selected by August Kleinzahler [poetry]
Monsieur – Lawrence Durrell
Kid – Simon Armitage [poetry]
To Hell on a Fast Horse – Mark Lee Gardner [non-fiction]
Stories and Texts for Nothing – Samual Beckett
Reality and Other Stories – John Lanchester
Mostly Hero – Anna Burns
Dante and the Lobster – Samuel Beckett
Come Rain or Come Shine – Kazuo Ishiguro
Giacomo Joyce – James Joyce
Rivers of the Unspoilt World – David Constantine
This Fruiting Body – Caleb Parkin [poetry]
Life on Other Planets – Matt Cook
Proof of Life on Earth – Degna Stone [poetry]
Isaac and the Egg – Bobby Palmer
The Stranger ion the Boat – Mitch Albom
Antarctica – Claire Keegan
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges
Shy – Max Porter
Lessons – Ian McEwan
A Horse at Night – Amina Cain [non-fiction]
Kick the Latch – Kathryn Scanlan
The Art of Falling – Kim Moore [poetry]
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
C+nto – Joelle Taylor [poetry]
Bewilderment – Richard Powers
All the Men I never Married – Kim Moore [poetry]
Close Range: Wyoming Stories – Annie Proulx
Ship’s Log – David Punter [poetry]
The Dominant Animal – Kathryn Scanlan
Demolition – Neil Rollinson [poetry]
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man – Paul Newman [non-fiction]
The Forward Book of Poetry 2023
Elizabeth Finch – Julian Barnes
Armada – Brian Patten [poetry]
Case Study – Graeme Macrae Burnet
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Exile and the Kingdom – Albert Camus
Trio – William Boyd
Novelist as Vocation – Haruki Murakami
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain – Robert Olen Butler
Starve Acre – Andrew Michael Hurley
Perfume River – Robert Olen Butler
The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
Snow Country – Sebastian Faulks
The Winter Soldier – Daniel Mason
Late City – Robert Olen Butler
Ox-Eye – Anne Rouse [poetry]
Contacts – Mark Watson
The Kingdoms – Natasha Pulley (unfinished)
Lean Fall Stand – Jon McGregor
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth – Daniel Mason
Tea at the Midland – David Constantine
Lockdown Journal – Hamish Wilson [poetry]
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Field – Robert Seethaler
The Angels of L19 – Jonathan Walker
In the Night Wood – Dale Bailey
The Dressing-Up Box – David Constantine
The Kids – Hannah Lowe [poetry]
Lampedusa – Steven Price
First Person Singular – Haruki Murakami
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
In a Strange Room – Damon Galgut
Darkness Visible – William Golding
Krapp’s Last Tape and other shorter plays – Samuel Beckett
Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson
That Old Country Music – Kevin Barry
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
Hot Stew – Fiona Mozley
The Cat and the City – Nick Bradley
The Aeneid – Virgil
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro (unfinished)
The Lying Life of Adults – Elena Ferrante
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic – Simon Armitage [poetry]
Mayflies – Andrew O’Hagan
Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Evaristo
Galatea 2.2 – Richard Powers (unfinished)
At Night All Blood Is Black – David Diop
Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier
Songdogs – Colum McCann
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
The Death of Francis Bacon – Max Porter
The Iliad – Homer
Summer – Ali Smith
Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
Night Boat to Tangier – Kevin Barry
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World – Elif Shafak
Apeirogon – Colum McCann
The Secret Sharer – Joseph Conrad
The…Narcissus – Joseph Conrad
Flights – Olga Tokarczuk
Joseph Conrad: the Major Phase – Jacques Berthoud [non-fiction]
A Month in Siena – Hisham Matar [non-fiction]
Ravelstein – Saul Bellow
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
John Crow’s Devil – Marlon James
Primeval and Other Times – Olga Tokarczuk
Love and Other Thought Experiments – Sophie Ward
The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
Selected Poems – Lawrence Durrell [poetry] unfinished
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
Randomly Moving Particles – Andrew Motion [poetry]
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
About Grace – Anthony Doerr
in the event – John Birtwhistle [poetry]
Sag Harbor – Colson Whitehead
Paper Aeroplane – Simon Armitage [poetry]
Everyman – Philip Roth
Men Without Women – Ernest Hemingway
The Gallows Pole – Benjamin Myers
Selected Poems – Denise Riley [poetry] unfinished
Black Car Burning – Helen Mort
Selected Poems 1923-1958 – e.e.cummings [poetry] unfinished
The Collected Poems – Robert Frost [poetry] unfinished
Grand Union – Zadie Smith
Lanny – Max Porter
The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
The Offing – Benjamin Myers
The Shell Collector – Anthony Doerr
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
Homie – Danez Smith [poetry] unfinished
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
In the Lateness of the World – Carolyn Forché [poetry]
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Memory Wall – Anthony Doerr
Thirteen Ways of Looking – Colum McCann
Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
Solar Cruise – Claire Crowther [poetry] unfinished
The Journalist – Harry Matthews
Road Trip – Marvin Thompson [poetry]
I Married a Communist – Philip Roth
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Rendang – Will Harris [poetry]
Tenth of December – George Saunders
Desire – Haruki Murakami
The Porpoise – Mark Haddon
The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
Split – Juana Adcock [poetry]
Machines Like Me – Ian McEwan
Dreams – Sigmund Freud
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Here We Are – Graham Swift
Tangling with the Epic – Dawes & Kinsella [poetry] unfinished
On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
Paris Echo – Sebastian Faulks
The Confession – Jessie Burton (unfinished)
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Footnotes to Water – Zoë Skoulding [poetry]
Tall Tales and wee stories – Billy Connolly [non-fiction]
Deluge – Charlotte Ansell [poetry] unfinished
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
After Me Comes The Flood – Sarah Perry [2020]
Flèche – Mary Jean Chan [poetry]
The Order of the Day – Éric Vuillard
Before the coffee gets cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Tradition – Jericho Brown [poetry]
The Wall – John Lanchester
Melmoth – Sarah Perry
After the Formalities – Anthony Anaxagorou [poetry]
The Cockroach – Ian McEwan
Circe – Madeline Miller
Mantissa – John Fowles (re-read)
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Gravity Wave – Peter Sirr [poetry]
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free – Andrew Miller
Unknown Soldier – Seni Seneviratne [poetry]
Nocturnes – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Diary of a Bookseller – Shaun Bythell [non-fiction]
The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here – Vidyan Ravinthiran [poetry, unfinished]
Spring – Ali Smith
Border Districts – Gerald Murnane [unfinished]
Tokyo Ueno Station – Yu Miri
Granta 147 “40th Birthday Special” – Sigrid Rausing (ed.)
Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
The Lost Sailors – Jean-Claude Izzo
Hand & Skull – Zoë Brigley [poetry]
Deaf Republic – Ilya Kaminsky [poetry]
Erato – Deryn Rees-Jones [poetry]
Upstate – James Wood
Surge – Jay Bernard [poetry]
Everything Under – Daisy Johnson
The Salt Path – Raynor Winn [non-fiction]
Granta 146 “The Politics of Feeling” – Sigrid Rausing (ed.)
Philip Larkin: Poems – selected by Martin Amis [poetry]
The Only Story – Julian Barnes
Turning for Home – Barney Norris
The Illegal Age – Ellen Hinsey [poetry]
Granta 145 “Ghosts” – Sigrid Rausing (ed.)
The Reservoir Tapes – Jon McGregor
Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami
As Slow As Possible – Kit Fan [poetry]
Granta 144 “Generic Love Story” – Sigrid Rausing (ed.)
Birthday Letters – Ted Hughes [poetry]
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear – James Shapiro [non-fiction]
Feral – Kate Potts [poetry]
Milkman – Anna Burns [2019]
Mythos – Stephen Fry
The Distal Point – Fiona Moore [poetry]
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris – Georges Perec
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Granta 143 “After the Fact” – Sigrid Rausing (ed.)
If Cats Disappeared From The World – Genki Kawamura
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Spring – David Szalay
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – Jon McGregor
If We Were Villains – M. L. Rio
playtime – Andrew McMillan [poetry] (unfinished)
The Bedlam Stacks – Natasha Pulley
Granta 142 “Animalia” – Sigrid Rausing (Ed.)
The History of Bees – Maja Lunde
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth – William Boyd
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods – Tishani Doshi [poetry]
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Darke – Rick Gekoski
The Displaced Children of Displaced Children – Faisal Mohyuddin [poetry]
Silent House – Orhan Pamuk
Venus as a Bear – Vahni Capildeo [poetry]
Ricantations – Loretta Collins Klobah [poetry]
Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami
A Ted Hughes Bestiary – Alice Oswald (ed.) [poetry]
The Sparsholt Affair – Alan Hollinghurst
Nowhere Nearer – Alice Miller [poetry]
House of Names – Colm Tóibín
Phone – Will Self
Granta 141 – various authors
Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
The Long Take – Robin Robertson [poetry hybrid]
The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne (unfinished)
History of Wolves – Emily Fridlund
Three Poems – Hannah Sullivan [poetry]
Midwinter Break – Bernard MacLaverty
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
The Stencil Room – David Smith [poetry]
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster (re-read)
Calling a Wolf a Wolf – Kaveh Akbar [poetry]
Homesick for Another World – Ottessa Moshfegh
Shrines of Upper Austria – Phoebe Power [poetry]
The Many – Wyl Menmuir
Who Is Mary Sue? – Sophie Collins [poetry]
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (re-read)
The Refugees – Viet Thanh Nguyen
Staying Alive – Neil Astley (ed.) [poetry]
Reservoir 13 – Jon McGregor
The Outsider – Albert Camus (re-read)
The Woman on the Stairs – Bernhard Schlink
Dubliners – James Joyce (re-read)
Granta 140 – various authors
Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness – Simon Kinch
Lord of the Flies – William Golding (re-read)
Winter – Ali Smith [2018]
Hello, your promise has been extracted – Ahren Warner [poetry]
Elmet – Fiona Mozley
Weemoed – Tim Dooley [Poetry]
The Last Lesson of Mrs De Souza – Cyril Wong
The Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan
A Watchful Astronomy – Paul Deaton [poetry]
All We Saw – Anne Michaels [poetry]
Away from the Welsh Speaking Sea – Hamish Wilson [poetry]
Autumn – Ali Smith
Joy – Sasha Dugdale [poetry]
The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
An English Guide to Birdwatching – Nicholas Royle
The Noise of a Fly – Douglas Dunn [poetry]
Mama Amazonica – Pascale Petit [poetry]
The Man Who Walked Through Walls – Marcel Ayme (translated by Sophie Lewis)
The Temporary Gentleman – Sebastian Barry
The Last Gunfight – Jeff Guinn
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett (re-read)
The Power – Naomi Alderman
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry
The Pier Falls – Mark Haddon
Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
A Horse Walks into a Bar – David Grossman
Mothering Sunday – Graham Swift
Night Train to Lisbon – Pascal Mercier
Granta 139 – various authors
Thirteen Reasons Why – by Jay Asher
The Tobacconist – by Robert Seethaler
All That Man Is – by David Szalay
Making an Elephant – by Graham Swift
His Bloody Project – by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Quicksand – by Steve Toltz
Tomorrow – by Graham Swift
All For Nothing – by Walter Kempowski
The Sellout – by Paul Beatty
All the light we cannot see – by Anthony Doerr
The Loney – by Andrew Michael Hurley
Not Forgetting The Whale – by John Ironmonger
Train Dreams – by Denis Johnson
Slade House – by David Mitchell
Anything by Haruki Murakami
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – by Claire North
Anything by Graham Swift
The Secret History – by Donna Tartt
The Bellweather Revivals – by Benjamin Wood
Rock,Paper, Scissors – by Naja Marie Aidt
All the Birds in the Sky – by Charlie Jane Anders
The Luminaries and The Rehearsal – by Eleanor Caton
The Solitude of Prime Numbers – by Paolo Giordano
Pond – Claire-Louise Bennett
The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
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