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.

Year	My Age	Fiction	Non-Fiction
86	18	The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg	In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbin
87	19	The Cosmic Puppets by Philp K Dick	Surely You're Joking My Feynman by Richard Feynman
88	20	Witchwater Country by Garry Kilworth	Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller
89	21	The Glamour by Christopher Priest	Howard Hughes: The Final Years by James Phelan
90	22	Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy	Papillon by Henri Charrière
91	23	Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson	The Newtonian Casino by Thomas A. Bass
92	24	The Crow Road by Iain Banks	All Played Out by Pete Davies
93	25	The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart	Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
94	26	Complicity by Iain Banks	An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
95	27	Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard	Rock Bottom by Paul Merson
96	28	The Football Factory by John King	The Arrow Of Time by Peter Coveney/Roger Highfield
97	29		Tales from the Boot Camps by Steve Claridge
98	30		Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
99	31		The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
01	33		Bill W. A Biography by Robert Thomsen
02	34		Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab
03	35	Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev	A Fish Caught In Time by Samantha Weinberg
04	36	The Secret History by Donna Tartt	The Calendar by David Ewing Duncan
05	37	In A Good Light by Clare Chambers	Shopped by Joanna Blythman
06	38	Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier	Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
07	39	The Editor's Wife by Clare Chambers	A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
08	40	Filth by Irving Welsh	A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
09	41	The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton	Enemy Number One by Patrick Veitch
10	42	The Champion by Tim Binding	A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
11	43	Waterland by Graham Swift	Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
12	44	Skagboys by Irving Welsh	Prisoner 13498 by Robert H. Davies
13	45	One Day by David Nicholls	The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
14	46	The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt	Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
15	47	Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner	The Everything Store by Brad Stone
16	48	Watching Edie by Camilla Way	How to Invest in Gold & Silver by Don Durrett
17	49	Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak	The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
18	50	Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone	Minecraft by Daniel Goldberg
19	51	Slaughterhouse Prayer by John King	Evil Has a Name by Audible Original
20	52	A History of Loneliness by John Boyne	The Great University Con by David Craig
21	53	The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett	Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston