[issybird]

I'm going with a ten-best list*, split between fiction and non-fiction, in no particular order.

Fiction:

Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernières
Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself Being The Autobiography Of A Really Good Man, Henry H. Bashford
Dirty Snow, Georges Simenon

Non-fiction:

Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves, David Crane
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Max Hastings
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads, Tim Cope
A Woman in the Polar Night, Christiane Ritter
The Parade's Gone By, Kevin Brownlow

*Unusually for me, I re-read several books this year, mostly because of book clubs and the great war centenary. Only new reads qualified for this list.