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Here's the reading list, as promised. All the books here were recommended by readers of this blog in the comments section of this post – thank you for your suggestions. I've tried to arrange them into rough groups (again, no doubt imperfectly) for usefulness. 

I'm currently reading two novels: My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante and Life after life, by Kate Atkinson and I noticed these popped up in the list a few times – so I'm looking forward to checking out more of these reading ideas throughout the year. Hope you find this list useful, and happy reading!

+++ novels +++

The world without us - Mireille Juchaus 
A Man called Ove – Fredrik Backman
The Clasp - Sloane Crosley
The pursuit of love – Nancy Mitford
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Fault in our stars – John Green
Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
Clifton Chronicles – Jeffrey Archer
A strangeness in my mind – Orhan Parmuk
Life after life – Kate Atkinson
My brilliant friend (part 1 of the Neapolitan novels) – Elena Ferrante
The Invention of Wings – Ann Monk Kidd
Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
Dalva – Jim Harrison
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
Catherine, the Great – Robert K. Massie
In the unlikely event – Judy Blume
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
NW by Zadie Smith
Remainder – Tom McCarthy
The Vegetarian – Han Kang
The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
Tower of Thorns - Juliet Marillier
The Bear – Claire Cameron
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
The Preacher's Bride – Jody Hedlund
The Fates and Furies and Arcadia - Lauren Groff
Love Walked In and Falling Together – Marisa de los Santos
The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
Euphoria - Lily King
The Bride of Lammermoor – Sir Walter Scott
The Cave – Jose Saramango
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
Mr. Norrel and Jonathan Strange - Susanna Clarke
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena – Anthony Marra
A Book of Silence – Sara Maitland
Mr Penumbra's 24 Hr Book Store – Robin Sloan
The London Train and Married Love – Tessa Hadley
Knit one, Pearl one - Gil McNeil
The Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows

+++ mystery/thriller/speculative/fantasy +++

The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Cold Earth – Sarah Moss
Messenger of Truth: a Maisie Dobbs novel – Jacqueline Winspear
Bazaar of bad dreams – Steven King
Agatha Christie books of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot
I'm Travelling Alone – Samuel Bjork
Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
Leviathan Wakes – James S.A. Corey
Obernewtyn Chronicles series – Isobelle Carmody
Girl on the train - Paula Hawkins
Think Twice – Lisa Scottoline

+++ non-fiction +++

The Pantograph Punch (NZ arts and culture website)
Body and mind – Keith Campbell
Travels with Herodotus – (Polish journalist) Ryszard Kapuściński
The Art of Travel - Alain De Botton
The man who planted trees – Jean Giono (nature writing)
Letters from Marianne Williams (1800s NZ missionary)
Becoming a writer - Dorothea Brande
Homeward Bound: why women are embracing the new domesticity - Emily Matchar
Outsiders – Gerard Hindmarsh
Women who run with the wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Pursuit of Unhappiness - Paul Watzlawick
Dear Sugar – Cheryl Strayed
La Isla Secreta – Xavier Moret (about Iceland)
The Wild Places – Robert Macfarlane
Moa: The Life And Death Of New Zealand's Legendary Bird – Quinn Berentson
Quake Cats - Craig Bullock
The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District –James Rebanks

+++ poetry +++

Teaching my mother how to give birth - Warsan Shire
Rapture – Carol Ann Duffy

+++ memoir/autobiography +++

M Train – Patti Smith
Goat Song – Brad Kessler
My family and other animals – Gerald Durrell
Births Deaths Marriages – Georgia Blain
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
Island Home – Tim Winton
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
Tove Jansson's Letters
The hospital by the river: a story of hope – Catherine Hamlin

+++ younger + older readers +++

Sam and Dave dig a hole – Mac Barnett
Out of Time - Jen McLaughlin
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkein
Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer - R Riordan
Fairyland series - Cathrynne M Valente
Happy Times in Noisy Village – Astrid Lindgren
Boy – Roald Dahl
Miss Peregrine's school for Peculiar Children series – Ransom Riggs