It was a record year for book reading, with a goal of 25 books compared to 35 read. Certainly long assignments and a book club in Dubai helped. I also bought rather too many books – my new rule for 2015 is not to have more than four pages of unread books on my Kindle.

1. The witch doctor of Um Suqueim, by Craig Hawes
2. Islam, a short history, by Karen Armstrong
3. 21 Reasons you think you don’t have time to write, by Mette Ivie Harrison
4. The Forty Rules of Love, by Elif Safak
5. Guns, Germs & Steel, by Jared Diamond
6. Symposium, by Plato
7. Akendewa, by Jean-Patrick Ehouman
8. One story of entrepreneurship in Africa, by Ashley Heacock
9. The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, by D. A. Carson
10. The Christian Husband, by Colin Hamer
11. Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux
12. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
13. The Gnostic gospels of Thomas, Mary & John
14. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
15. Peoples and Empires, by Anthony Pagden
16. Brideshead revisited, by Eveyln Waugh
17. Stringer, by Anjan Sundaram
18. The Beach, by Alex Garland
19. No Ordinary book, by Philip Saunders
20. The Bible
21. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
22. Goldfinger, by Ian Fleming
23. Fatherhood, by Tony Payne
24. The Qu’ran
25. La Vie comme elle va, by Israel Yoroba Guebo
26. How to be well-read, by John Sutherland
27. Cross and Crescent, by Colin Chapman
28. The Message of 2 Timothy, by John Stott
29. Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life, by Artur Domosławski
30. The Iraqi Christ, by Hassan Blasim
31. The Gospel for Muslims, by Steve Bell
32. To the letter: A journey through a vanishing world, by Simon Garfield
33. Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
34. Thinking fast and slow, by Daniel K
35. Le Continent des nuages, by William Tedje Ahouma