Reading Scotland 2015
Posted in Allan Massie, Andrew Greig, Christopher Brookmyre, Iain (M) Banks, John Galt, Ken MacLeod, Scottish Fiction, Scottish Literature at 12:00 on 29 December 2015
A lot of my Scottish reading this year was prompted by the list of 100 best Scottish Books I discovered in February. Those marked below with an asterisk are in that 100 best list. (In the case of Andrew Greig’s Electric Brae I read it before I was aware of the list and for Robert Louis Stevenson his novella was in the book of his shorter fiction that I read.)
Electric Brae by Andrew Greig*
A Sparrow’s Flight by Margaret Elphinstone
The Guinea Stamp by Annie S Swan
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
The White Bird Passes by Jessie Kesson*
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan*
Flemington by Violet Jacob*
Tales From Angus by Violet Jacob
Annals of the Parish by John Galt
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Change and Decay in All Around I See by Allan Massie
The Hangman’s Song by James Oswald
Wish I Was Here by Jackie Kay
The Hope That Kills Us Edited by Adrian Searle
Other stories and other stories by Ali Smith
Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi*
The Gowk Storm by Nancy Brysson Morrison*
No Mean City by H McArthur and H Kingsley Long*
Shorter Scottish Fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson*
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett*
Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
Fair Helen by Andrew Greig
The Dear, Green Place by Archie Hind*
Fur Sadie by Archie Hind
Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown*
Stepping Out by Cynthia Rogerson
Open the Door! by Catherine Carswell*
The Silver Darlings by Neil M Gunn*
Scotia Nova edited by Alistair Findlay and Tessa Ransford
After the Dance: selected short stories of Iain Crichton Smith
John Macnab by John Buchan
Another Time, Another Place by Jessie Kesson
Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith*
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan*
Poems Iain Banks Ken MacLeod
Mistaken by Annie S Swan
Me and Ma Gal by Des Dillon*
Tea with the Taliban: poems by Owen Gallagher
A Choosing by Liz Lochhead
The Cone Gatherers by Robin Jenkins*
Born Free by Laura Hird*
the first person and other stories by Ali Smith
That makes 42 books in all (plus 2 if the Violet Jacob and Archie Hind count double.) None were non-fiction, 3 were poetry, 2 SF/Fantasy, 19 + (4x½ + 3 doublers) by men, 13 + (3 doublers and 1 triple) by women, 2 had various authors/contributors.
Tags: Alexander Trocchi, Allan Massie, Andrew Greig, Anne Donovan, Annie S Swan, Archie Hind, Catherine Carswell, Christopher Brookmyre, Cynthia Rogerson, Des Dillon, George Mackay Brown, H McArthur and H Kingsley Long, Iain Banks, Iain Crichton Smith, Jackie Kay, James Oswald, Jessie Kesson, John Buchan, John Galt, Ken MacLeod, Laura Hird, Liz Lochhead, Margaret Elphinstone, Michel Faber, Muriel Spark, Nancy Brysson Morrison, Neil M Gunn, Owen Gallagher, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robin Jenkins, Tobias Smollett, Violet Jacob
Peggy Ann
14 January 2016 at 01:26
Good job, Jack! Lots of great books and excellent reviews. Thanks so much!
jackdeighton
14 January 2016 at 19:43
Peggy,
Glad you liked it.
More to come this year.