My name is Rachael Mead and I am a book addict.
In 2017 I have committed to not buying any books; new or secondhand. This is not easy. To illustrate how difficult I’m finding this cold turkey business I’m keeping a record of the books I wanted to buy but managed to resist. This is meant to make me feel like I’m achieving something but may end up functioning as a shopping list for 2018 if I fail to kick the habit.
Books I wanted in 2017 but didn’t buy
- To The River – Olivia Laing
- Mortal Trash – Kim Addonizio
- P
oet’s Companion– Doriane Laux & Kim AddonizioFound this on my shelves. - Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace – D.T. Max
- Girl with the Curious Hair – David Foster Wallace
- Ways of Seeing – John Berger
- The Paris Review Interviews I
- The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
- Can’t and Won’t: Stories – Lydia Davis
- Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995-2014 – Alice Munro
- Selected Stories 1968-1994 – Alice Munro
- The Tree – John Fowles
- The Gender of Suicide: Knowledge, Production, Theory and Suicidology – Katrina Jaworski
- The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair – Joël Dicker (translated by Sam Taylor)
- The Mirror Thief – Martin Seay
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Iain Reid
- Fear – Dirk Kurbjuweit (translated by Imogen Taylor)
- The End of the Alphabet – Claudia Rankine
- Flâneuse : Women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London – Lauren Elkin
- Ecoza – Helen Moore
- 4321 – Paul Auster
- Insomniac City – Bill Hayes
- The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
- The Outrun – Amy Liptrot
- The Green Bell – Paula Keogh
- Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast – Megan Marshall
- The Song of Trees – David George Haskell
- The Transmigration of Bodies – Yuri Herrera
- Signs Preceding the End of the World – Yuri Herrera
- The Book – Keith Houston
- The Nix – Nathan Hill
- The Lighthouse Road – Peter Geye
- Wintering – Peter Geye
- George Washington – Adam Fitzgerald
- The Dead Ladies Project – Jessa Crispin
- Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto – Jessa Crispin
- How I Became a North Korean – Krys Lee
- Shrill – Lindy West
- Where the Trees Were – Inga Simpson
- The Crying Place – Lia Hills
- Penguin Modern Poets 3 (Malika Booker, Sharon Olds & Warsan Shire)
The Art of Memoir – Mary Karr– I was given a copy of this as a gift. Yay for lovely people who read lists and love memoir.4321 – Paul Auster– I wrote this as number 21 so I’ve just not bought it twice.- Things That Helped – Jessica Friedmann
- In Two Minds – Gordon Parker
- Lit – Mary Karr
- The Last Garden – Eva Hornung
- The Long Run – Catriona Menzies-Pike
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
- On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes – Alexandra Horowitz
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – Alan Sillitoe