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This year I set myself a target of reading a book a week, and at the halfway point I’m right on schedule with 26 books in 26 weeks. 16 were non-fiction, 14 were by women, 6 were translated, and 4 were over 1,000 years old (The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon is in all four categories). The complete list: 1. The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore 2. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 3. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards 4. Now Go by Karl Thomas Smith 5. How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra 6. Ness by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood 7. Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind by Hayao Miyazaki 8. H Is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald 9. Rose/House by Arkady Martine 10. Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson 11. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Martin Hammond 12. Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell 13. The Lass And The Quine by Ashley Douglas 14. Hekate by Nikita Gill 15. Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis 16. A Simpler Life by The School Of Life 17. Underground Maps Unravelled by Maxwell J Roberts 18. The Little Book Of Humanism by Andrew Copson and Alice Roberts 19. Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit 20. Essays In Idleness and Hōjōki by Kenkō and Chōmei, translated by Meredith McKinney 21. Death In Ten Minutes by Fern Riddell 22. The Epic Of Gilgamesh, translated by Andrew George 23. I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom 24. The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, translated by Meredith McKinney 25. The Book Of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane 26. Whose Story Is This? By Rebecca Solnit