Ah somewhere to dump the list I've been keeping of all the books I've read in the last 12 months or so...

[b]Fiction I've read in 2019:[/b]

[list]
[*]The Ministry of Upmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy
[*]The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
[*]The Steel Remains - Richard K. Morgan 
[*]Collected Plays - Oscar Wilde (Includes Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, & Salome)
[*]Perdido Street Station - China Meiville
[*]The Welsh Fairy Book- William Jenkyn Thomas 
[*]Crime and Punishment - Froydor Dostoyevski
[*]The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
[*]On the Road - Jack Kerouac
[*]The Gold Finch - Donna Tartt
[*]The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
[/list]

[b]Non-fiction I've read in 2019:[/b]

[list][*]My Life - Leon Trotsky
[*]The Island of Knowledge - Marcelo Gleiser
[*]Chartism - Edward Boyle
[*]Neanderthal Man - Svante Paabo
[*]Power Systems - Noam Chompsky
[*]Illustrated History of the USSR - Kontantin Trarnovsky
[*]Rasputin - Frances Welch
[*]Danse Macabre - Stephen King
[*]Quest for Franklin - Noel Wright
[*]Audition - Michael Shurtleff
[/list]

My current piece of fiction that I am reading is The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin and my current non-fiction that I am reading is Seneca's On the Shortness of Life.

Favourite thing I've read all year? Probably The Wise Man's Fear, but since its a sequel, my favourite new fiction I've read is either The Song of Achilles or The Goldfinch although Lathe of Heaven may well usurp both of these as Ursula K. Le Guin is amazing. 

Favourite non fiction? Probably Quest for Franklin, but its old and real out of date and just plain wrong a lot so don't read it unless your already well versed in the history of the Franklin Expedition. Frances Welch's Rasputin biography was pretty damn good as well, short and engaging read, well referenced but not overly academic.