Books of the Year

Here's my favourite fiction and non-fiction books for every year of my adult life. I didn't read much fiction in my late 20s and early 30s, so I only have non-fiction for those years. You can see how many reading tastes have changed over the years.

YearMy AgeFictionNon-Fiction
8618The Book of Skulls by Robert SilverbergIn Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbin
8719The Cosmic Puppets by Philp K DickSurely You're Joking My Feynman by Richard Feynman
8820Witchwater Country by Garry KilworthBare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller
8921The Glamour by Christopher PriestHoward Hughes: The Final Years by James Phelan
9022Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas HardyPapillon by Henri Charrière
9123Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Newtonian Casino by Thomas A. Bass
9224The Crow Road by Iain BanksAll Played Out by Pete Davies
9325The Dice Man by Luke RhinehartFever Pitch by Nick Hornby
9426Complicity by Iain BanksAn Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
9527Empire of the Sun by J G BallardRock Bottom by Paul Merson
9628The Football Factory by John KingThe Arrow Of Time by Peter Coveney/Roger Highfield
9729
Tales from the Boot Camps by Steve Claridge
9830
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
9931
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
0133
Bill W. A Biography by Robert Thomsen
0234
Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab
0335Fathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevA Fish Caught In Time by Samantha Weinberg
0436The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Calendar by David Ewing Duncan
0537In A Good Light by Clare ChambersShopped by Joanna Blythman
0638Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierTouching the Void by Joe Simpson
0739The Editor's Wife by Clare ChambersA Million Little Pieces by James Frey
0840Filth by Irving WelshA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0941The Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonEnemy Number One by Patrick Veitch
1042The Champion by Tim BindingA History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
1143Waterland by Graham SwiftBringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
1244Skagboys by Irving WelshPrisoner 13498 by Robert H. Davies
1345One Day by David NichollsThe Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
1446The Goldfinch by Donna TarttHitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
1547Missing, Presumed by Susie SteinerThe Everything Store by Brad Stone
1648Watching Edie by Camilla WayHow to Invest in Gold & Silver by Don Durrett
1749Seven Days of Us by Francesca HornakThe Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
1850Jane Doe by Victoria Helen StoneMinecraft by Daniel Goldberg
1951Slaughterhouse Prayer by John KingEvil Has a Name by Audible Original
2052A History of Loneliness by John BoyneThe Great University Con by David Craig
2153The People at Number 9 by Felicity EverettFall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston

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