Reading Scotland 2022
Posted in Fantasy, Poetry, Science Fiction, Scottish Fiction, Scottish Literature at 12:00 on 29 December 2022
These are the Scottish books I read this year, in order of reading. 14 by men, 13 by women. Two were SF and one had a fantasy element. Two were non-fiction and another contained poetry.
Death is a Welcome Guest by Louise Welsh
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The Comforters by Muriel Spark
Red, Cherry Red by Jackie Kay
Braking Day by Adam Oyebanji
Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig
The Gourlay Girls by Margaret Thomson Davis
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
The Perpetual Curate by Mrs Oliphant
The Thistle and the Grail by Robin Jenkins
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
Something Like Breathing by Angela Readman
To Be Continued by James Robertson
Lobsters on the Agenda by Naomi Mitchison
Morning Tide by Neil M Gunn
The Good Times by James Kelman
Phoebe Junior by Mrs Oliphant
Robinson by Muriel Spark
Midwinter by John Buchan
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Clydesiders at War by Margaret Thomson Davis
Scottish Ghost Stories edited by James Robertson
Ancestral Machines by Michael Cobley
Islanders by Margaret Elphinstone
Billionaires’ Banquet by Ron Butlin
