30 Books Read 2025 

January 

1. The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman

2. Tales from the Café - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3. Violeta - Isabel Allende 

February

4. Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store - Robin Sloan 

5. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus 

March 

6. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

7. 253 - Geoff Ryman

April 

8. Before Your Memory Fades -  Toshikazu Kawaguchi

9. Klara and The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

May 

10. Bookshops and Bonedust - Travis Baldree 

11. Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie 

12 The Mao Of Bones - Kate Mosse 

June 

13, The Marriage Bureau For Rich People  - Farahad Zawa

14. Recursion - Blake Crouch 

July

15.  The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes - Suzanne Collins 

16. V2 - Robert Harris 

17. Before We Say Goodbye - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

18. A Family Matter - Claire Lynch 

August 

19. Weirdo - Sara Pascoe 

20. Here One Moment - Liane Moriarty 

21. Exposure - Helen Dunmore 

September 

22. Guilty By Definition - Susie Dent 

23. My Sister The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite 

October 

24. Clytemnestra - Costanza Casati

25. Identically Different: Why you can Change Your Genes (NF) Tim Spector 

November

26.  The City And It's Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami 

27. Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?  Damilola Blackburn 

December 

28. The Rose Field - Philip Pullman 

29. Rescue - Anita Shreve 

30. Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Read 

 25 Books Read 2024 

January 

1. The Second Sleep - Robert Harris 

2. The Bullet That Missed  -  Richard Osman

3. Without Warning and Only Sometimes - Kit de Waal

4. The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafaq

February

5. Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree 

6. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallet 

March 

7. The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley

8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

April 

9. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

May 

10. The Couple at No 9 - Claire Douglas 

June 

11. The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah 

12. Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women - Angela Carter 

July

13. Storyland - Amy Jeffs 

14. Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson 

August 

15. Masters of Death - Olivie Blake

16. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 

September 

17. Yellow Face - R.F. Kuang

18. What You Are Looking For Is In The Library  - Michiko Aoyama

October 

19, Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield

20. The Ghost Ship - Kate Mosse 

November

21. The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright 

22. Erringby - Gill Darling 

December 

23. The Secret Dairies Of Charles Ignatius Sancho - Paterson Joseph 

24. Snow Country - Sebastian Faulks 

25. A Fatal Grace - Louise Penny 

 22 Books read in 2023 

January 

1. The Man who Died Twice - Richard Osman 

2. The Guest List - Lucy Foley 

3. A Concise Chinese -English Dictionary For Lovers - Xiaolu Guo

February 

4. Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi 

5. 1989 - Val McDermid 

March 

6. The Philosopher's Pupil - Iris Murdoch 

April 

7. The Housekeeper sand the Professor - Yoko Ogawa 

8. Normal People - Sally Rooney 

May 

9. On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

June 

(Started reading The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas) 

July 

10. The Keeper of Stories - Sally Page 

11. Wrong Place Wrong Time - Gillian McAllister 

August 

12. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

13. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens 

14. What Writer's Read - Pandora Sykes 

September 

15, Still Life - Sarah Winman 

16. Still Life - Louise Penny 

October 

17. Weyward - Emilia Hart 

18. The City of Tears - Kate Mosse 

November 

19. Life Ceremony - Sayaka Murata 

20. Small Steps - Louis Sachar 

December 

21. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 

22. The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta 

24 Books read in 2022...

 

January

1. The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

2. The Behaviour of Moths - Poppy Adams  

 

February

3. This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay 

 

March

4. Our Tragic Universe - Scarlet Thomas

5. Redhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler 

April

6. IQ84 Book 1 - Haruki Murakami

7. Dance with Death - Barbara Nadel 

 

May

8. IQ84 Book 2 - Haruki Murakami

9. IQ84 Book 3 - Haruki Murakami

 

June

10. Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi 

 

July

11. The Mother Code - Carol Stivers 

12.  The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern 

13.  The Flight - Julie Clark 

 

August

14. The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

15. Four Thousand Weeks (NF) Oliver Burkeman

16. Happy (NF) Derren Brown 

 

September

17. The Whole Day Through - Patrick Gale 

18. Mrs. England - Stacey Halls 

 

October

19. 1979 - Val McDermid 

20. The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino

 

November

21. The Chase - Alejo Carpenter 

22. The Winds Twelve Quarters - Ursula K. Le Guin

 

December

23. Mythos  - Greek Myths Retold - Stephen Fry 

24. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? (NF) Dr. Julie Smith 

 

20 Books read in 2021...

 

January

1. Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman

 

February

2. Let Me Lie – Claire Mackintosh

 

March

3.Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee

 

April

4. A History of the World in 21 Women - (NF) Jenni Murray

5. Vox – Christina Dalcher

 

May

6. Diamond Star Halo – Tiffany Murray

7. The War of Art – (NF) Steven Pressfield

 

June

8.The Familiars – Stacey Halls

 

July

9.A Patchwork Planet – Anne Tyler

10. 81  Days of Wonder – Tom Winter  

 

August

11. She Was the Quiet One – Michelle Campbell

12. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers

 

September

13. Sunny Side Up (NF) - Susan Calman

 

October

14.The Midnight Library – Matt Haig

15. The Dutch House – Ann Patchett  

 

November

16. The Cardturner – Louis Sachar

17. The Comet Sweeper (Biography of Caroline Hershel) - Claire Brock

 

December

18. Antarctica – Claire Keegan

19. White Hunger – Aki Ollikainen

20. Climate Justice (NF) Mary Robinson  

 

 

29 Books read in 2020...

 

January

1. Bookworm – Lucy Mangan

2. Testimony – Anita Shreve

3.The Gap of Time – Jeanette Winterson 

 

February

4. Found – Erin Kinsley

5. The Burning Chambers – Kate Mosse

6.The Psychology of Tine Travel – Kate Mascarenhas

 

March

7.Henry and Cato – Iris Murdoch

8. The Weight of Water –Anita Shreve

9. The Examined Life (NF) Stephen Grosz

 

April

10. Sabbath (NF) Nicola Slee

11. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler

12. Exquisite – Sarah Stovell

13. Everything, Everything – NicolaYoon  

 

May

14. What is the Bible (NF) -Rob Bell

15. The Finkler Question – Harold Jacobson

16. Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng

 

June

17. The Hare with Amber Eyes (NF) - Edmund de Waal

18. Testosterone Rex  (NF) Cordelia Fine

 

July

19. White Houses – Amy Bloom

20. Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Everisto

 

August

21. Once Upon a River – Diane Setterfield

22. The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve

23. Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi  

 

September

24. Gardens of the Dead – William Brodrick

 

October

25. Nuns and Soldiers – Iris Murdoch

 

November

26. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

27. The Vanishing Act -  Mette Jacobsen

 

December

28. Tiger Hills – Sarita Mandana

29. The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne  

 31 Books Read in 2019 

January

  1.  Different Class – Joanne Harris 

  2.  One of us is Lying – Karen M. McManus 

February

  3.  American Gods – Neil Gaiman

March

  4. Women and Power  (NF) – Mary Beard

  5. Soft Voices Whispering – Adrienne Dines 

April
   6.  Ease – Patrick Gale 
   7.  Out of Bounds – Val McDermid
   8.  Sympathy for Jonah (NF) D.B Blower 

May
 9.   An Accidental Man– Iris Murdoch

10.  Slade House – David Mitchell 

June 
 11.  A Word Child – Iris Murdoch
 12.  Astray – Emma Donoghue 

July
13.  Where My Heart Used To Beat – Sebastian Faulks
14.  The Essential Difference – (NF) Simon Baren Cohen
15.  Elizabeth Is Missing – Emma Healey
16.  The After Wife – Cass Hunter
17.  84K – Claire North    

  
August
18.  The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
19.  The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
20.  The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz
21.  Together – Julie Cohen
22.  How Not to be a Boy – (Memoir) Robert Webb 

September
23.  The Spiral Staircase –(Memoir) Karen Armstrong
24.  Where or When? – Anita Shreve 

October
25.  Frankisstein – Jeanette Winterson
26.  The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
27.  Friendly Fire – Patrick Gale 

November
28. Vinegar Girl – Anne Tyler
29. The Book of Dust : The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman

December
30.  The Gospel of Loki – Joanne M. Harris
31.  The Mistletoe Bride and other Haunting Tales – Kate Mosse