2024
- Why I Write by George Orwell
- Selected Stories by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
- The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
- A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
- Catchlights by Niamh Prior
- Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus
- A Bronx Summer by Frances Browner
2023
- Hearts & Bones by Niamh Mulvey
- Open Up by Thomas Morris
- Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissey
- Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- The Grass Ceiling by Eimear Ryan
- Cora Staunton by Eimear Ryan
- Monkey by Wu Ch'êng-ên translated by Arthur Waley
- Love in a Time of War by Lara Marlowe
- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
- Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion read by Devon Sovari
- Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins
- The Lock Up by John Banville
- All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt
- In My Father's House by Seán Dunne
- Centenary At Jalna by Mazo de La Roche
- Son by William Keohane
- Hereafter by Vona Groarke
- Reread 'Four Sides Full' by Vona Groarke
- The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh
- Nora by Nuala O'Connor
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- The Singularities by John Banville read by Nicholas Guy-Smith
- April in Spain by John Banville
2022
- The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
- Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
- The Pathless Country by James Harper
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
- The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
- The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
- Drumshanbo by Conor McManus
- Cain by José Saramago
- Iris by John Bayley
- Party in the Blitz by Elias Canetti, translated by Michael Hofmann
- A Woman in Berlin published anonymously but believed to be by Marta Hiller, translated by Philip Boehm
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Rosemary Edmonds
- Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabakov
- The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
- Holding Her Breath by Eimear Ryan
- Happy Birthday Dear Alice & Stella By Starlight..plays by Bernard Farrell
- The Stone Raft by José Saramago translated from Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
- Small Memories, A Memoir by José Saramago translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
- Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
- Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
- Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, edited by Maria Johnston & Conor Linnie
2021
- The Gambler/Bobok/A Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
- The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
- The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
- The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
- Auto da Fé by Elias Canetti
- The Play of the Eyes by Elias Canetti
- The Torch in my Ear by Elias Canetti
- The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- The South by Colm Tóibín
- Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
2019/2020
2018
2017
- A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
- Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mintry
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- Marie Grubbe by Jens Peter Jacobsen; translated by Mikka Haugaard
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; translated by Charlie Louth [repeated reading]
- Works and Days by Hesiod; translated by A.E. Stallings
- Symposium by Plato; translated by Robin Waterfield
- Medea and Other Plays by Euripides; translated by James Morwood
- If Not, Winter Fragments of Sappho; translated by Anne Carson
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- The Gnostics by Sean Martin
- The White Goddess by Robert Gaves
- Handiwork by Sara Baume
- Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky translated by Sandra Smith
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; translated by Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor
- The Blue Guitar by John Banville
- Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
- Goodbye to all That by Robert Graves
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
- The Man Within by Graham Greene
- The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov; translated by Michael Glenny
- The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
- H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
- The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories edited by Stephen Alter and Wimal Dissanayake
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
- Wordy by Simon Schama
- Koh-I-Noor by William Dalrymple and Anina Anand
- The Cantankerous Molly Darling by Alvy Carragher
- The Odyssey by Homer; translated by Emily Wilson
- The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
- The Illiad by Homer; translated by Robert Fitzgerald
- Blind by Joginder Paul; translated by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Hina Nandrajog
2018
- Banaras by Diana L. Eck
- The Age of Anger, a history of the present by Pankaj Misha
- Freedom in Exile, autobiography of The Dalai Lama
- Molly Keane, A Life by Sally Phipps
- Four Sides Full, A Personal Essay by Vona Groarke
- The Story of India by Michael Wood
- The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes by Jamyang Norbu
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Russian Short Stories - Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Korolenko, Chekhov, Chirikov, Andreyev, Kuprin, Gorky and Sologub, Translated by Rochelle Townsend
- The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
- Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
- Women & Power by Mary Beard
- Everything is Wonderful by Sigrid Rausing
2017
- Beckett's Dying Words by Christopher Ricks
- Granta - New Irish Writing #135 [Colin Barrett, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Lucy Caldwell, John Connell, Emma Donoghue, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Siobhán Mannion, Mary O'Donoghue, Sally Rooney, Donal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and William Wall]
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Exile by Çiler İlhan
- On The Banks - Cork City in Poems and Songs edited by Alannah Hopkin
- The Language Hospital by John Murphy
- India, A Concise History by Francis Watson
- White Mountain by Robert Twigger
- M-Train by Patti Smith
- Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang read by Pik-Sen Lim
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- Sacred Tibet by Philip Rawson
- Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte read by Patricia Routledge
- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes read by Richard Morant
- Murder in the Museum by John Rowland
- Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (read by Miriam Margolyes)
- The Holy City by Patrick McCabe (read by Humphrey Bower)
- Aeneid Book VI by Virgil, Translation by Seamus Heaney
- Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li (read by Paul English) - a brilliant read
- Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (Read by Hector Elizondo, Kyle Colerider-Krugh)
- Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg (read by James Faulkner)
- Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood (read by Lorelei King)
- Robert Tressell, Dubliner; Author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Bryan MacMahon
- Second Fiddle by Mary Wesley (audio-book read by Anna Massey)
- Jumping the Queue by Mary Wesley (audio-book read by Anna Massey)
- Pompeii by Mary Beard (audio-book read by Phyllida Nash)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré (audio-book read by Michael Jayston)
- Pulse by Julian Barnes (audio-book read by David Rintoul)
- The George Bernard Shaw Collection (audio-book read by Kate Burton and Shirley Knight)
- Jeeves in the Offing (audio-book read by Ian Carmichael)
- Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard - a howl!
- Dante The Divine Comedy translated by Clive James
- Poetry Ireland Review - Issue 115 - Edited by Vona Groarke
- Gitanjali - Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore - I heard an interesting programme on BBC Radio 4 on this poet and just happened upon the book in Waterstones recently.
- Collected Poems by W. B Yeats
- I Could Read the Sky by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke
- Liffey Swim by Jessica Traynor - I attended a one day poetry workshop with Jessica during 2015
- Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon
- Poems that make Grown Men Cry - Edited by Anythony and Ben Holden
- Muse by Gerry Murphy
- The Place Inside by Matthew Geden
- Books Ireland magazine
- Southword
- Selected Poems by Rumi
- English Literature and the Classics - Collected by G. S. Gordon - 1912 picked it up in an interesting second hand book shop in Cork - The Time Traveller's Bookshop.
- Autumn Journal by Louis MacNiece
- The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes (audio-book narrated by Timothy West & Prunella Scales) - the first of the audio books where I now want to get a copy of the physical book.
- Leaving Home by Anita Brookner (audio-book narrated by Joanna David)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Clipper audio-book - beautifully narrated by Atossi Leoni)
- Lustrum by Robert Harris (narrated by Oliver Ford-Davies)
- I Refuse by Per Petterson
- All of Us - The Collected Poems - Raymond Carver
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Stepping Stones - interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll
- Selected Prose by Derek Mahon
- I'm Your Man, The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
- A biography of Jack B Yeats by Hilary Pyle
- Uncle Fred in Springtime by PG Wodehouse
- Hanging with the Elephant by Michael Harding
- Academy Street by Mary Costello
- History of the Rain by Niall Williams - my favourite book this year
- How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
- Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Scenes from a Receding Past by Aidan Higgins
- Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
- The Lonesome Road by Gabriel Fitzmaurice
- Lake Geneva by Gerald Dawe
- Spill simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
