I turned 26 at the weekend, and through all the cries of, 'How does it feel to be on the wrong side of your twenties?' and, 'It's all downhill from now!' I got to thinking about what it means to get older and to become an 'adult.'

The Crow Road - Iain Banks
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell
Human Remains - Elizabeth Haynes
Espedair Street - Iain Banks
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Mangle Street Murders (The Gower Street Detective, #1) - M. R. C. Kasasian
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) - Robert Galbraith
A Change of Climate - Hilary Mantel
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with it - Owen Jones
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) - Robert Galbraith
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1) - Mary Renault
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) - Robert Galbraith
In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster