I have finished the last book on my shelves that I acquired in 2021, but am not blogging it for the time being. It is only two months since I finished off the 2020 acquisitions. I’ll never wear down the pile completely, but at least there are fewer books that have been hanging around unread for many years.

• Last book acquired in 2021, read in October 2025
• Last books acquired in 2020, read in August 2025 (Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, Light in My Blood and The Crawling Wood)
• Last book acquired in 2019, read in April 2025 (Joan and Peter)
• Last book acquired in 2018, read in November 2024 (The Geraldines)
• Last book acquired in 2017, read in January 2024 (Rule of Law: A Memoir)
• Last book acquired in 2016, read in August 2023 (Autism Spectrum Disorders Through the Lifespan)
• Last book acquired in 2015, read in November 2022 (Rauf Denktaş, a Private Portrait)
• Last books acquired in 2014, read in October 2021 (The Empire of Time and Crashland)
• Last book acquired in 2013, read in October 2020 (Helen Waddell)
• Last book acquired in 2012, read in May 2020 (A Sacred Cause: The Inter-Congolese dialogue 2000-2003)
• Last book acquired in 2011, read in October 2019 (Luck and the Irish)
• Last book acquired in 2010, read in January 2019 (Heartspell)
• Last book acquired in 2009, read in December 2016 (Last Exit to Babylon)

My pile of unread books from 2022 is larger, and also has quite a lot about Kosovo thanks to a project that I started but was unable to finish. Starting off the list are:

• Wag the Dog: The Mobilization and Demobilization of the Kosovo Liberation Army, by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder and Wolf-Christian Paes – the shortest book of those that I acquired in 2022 and have not yet read
• An Island Called Moreau, by Brian Aldiss – the sf book that has lingered longest unread on my shelves
• Dragon’s Teeth: Tales from North Kosovo, by Ian Bancroft – the non-fiction book that has lingered longest unread on my shelves
• The enchantments of flesh and spirit, by Storm Constantine – the top unread book of those I acquired in 2022
• Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity, by Carla del Ponte with Chuck Sudetic – the top unread book about Kosovo of those I acquired in 2022
• The Good Wife of Bath, by Karen Brooks – the non-genre book that has lingered longest unread on my shelves

There are fifty books on the 2022 list, and I tend to get through them at about four every month, so I suspect I’ll be doing a post looking back at my 2022 books and forward to those I acquire in 2023 somewhere around this time next year.