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 

Books Read 2018

         

            

41 Books read in 2018...

January

1.   Black Sheep and Prodigals (NF) – Dave Tomlinson

2.   The Minaturist – Jessie Burton

3.   The Comforters – Muriel Spark

February

4.   At My Mother’s Knee and Other Low Joints (Memoir)  - Paul O’Grady

5.   The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh

6.   Commonwealth - Ann Patchett

7.   The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes

March

8.    Diversify (NF) - June Sarpong

9.    A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch

10.  The Dreaming Stones – Sarah Harrison

11.  Trans Voices (Becoming who you are) (NF) - Declan Henry

12.  The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage  - Phillip Pullman

April

 13.  Frida (The Biography of Frida Kahlo) – Hayden Herrera

 14.  The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North

 15.  The Devil Rides Out (Memoir) - Paul O’Grady

 16.  The  Murder Room - P.D. James

May

 17.  The Unicorn – Iris Murdoch

 18.  Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

 19.  Still Standing (Memoir) Paul O’Grady

 20.  Northanger Abbey – Val McDermid

June

 21.  Open the Cage Murphy - (Memoir) Paul O’Grady

 22.  The Last Time They Met – Anita Shreve

 23.  The Abbess of Crewe – Muriel Spark

 24.  Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race (NF) – Reni Eddo-Lodge

 25.  The Heart Goes Last- Margaret Atwood

 26.  Undivided (Memoir) Vicky Beeching

July

 27.  The Versions of Us – Laura Barnett

 28.  Iris Murdoch and the Common reader (NF) – Liz Dexter

 29.  The Night Guest – Fiona McFarlane

 30.  Foxglove Summer – Ben Aaronovitch

 31.  The Restaurant of Love Regained – Ito Ogawa  

August

 32.  Bitter Chocolate – Lesley Lokko

 33.  The Time of the Angels – Iris Murdoch

September

 34.  Loitering With Intent – Muriel Spark

 35.  Going Up to Sotheby’s and Other Poems – Muriel Spark

October

 36.  To Rise Again at a Decent Hour – Joshua Ferris

 37.  A Far Cry From Kensington – Muriel Spark

November

 38.  Bruno’s Dream – Iris Murdoch

 39.  Caraval – Stephanie Garber

December

 40.  Light on Snow – Anita Shreve

 41.  Hidden Nature (Memoir) Alys Fowler

Books Read 2017

32 Books read in 2017...

January

1. The Tenderness of Wolves – Steff Penney

2. Spectacles (Memoir) – Sue Perkins

3. I Let You Go – Claire Mackintosh

February

4. Four Meals – Meir Shalev

5. The Psychopath Test (NF) -  Jon Ronson

6. The Girl On The Train – Paula Hawkins

7. A Spool Of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler

March

8. The Impressionist – Hari Kunzru

9. Broken Homes – Ben Aaronovitch

April

10. The Mermaid Chair – Sue Monk Kidd

11. The Long Earth – Stephen Baxter & Terry Pratchett

12. Re-enchanting the Activist (NF) - Keith Hebden

May

13. Oh Dear Sylvia – Dawn French

14. I am Malala – (Memoir) Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb

15. The Midnight Palace – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

16. Ultimate Confidence  (NF) - Marissa Peer

June

17. A Perfectly Good Man – Patrick Gale

18. Quiet (NF) -  Susan Cain

19. The Power – Naomi Alderman

July

20. Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure – Joanne Harris

21. Montmorency and the Assassins – Eleanor Updale

August

22. The Embers of Heaven – Alma Alexander

23. The Children’s Book – A.S.Byatt 

September

24. Nod – Adrian Barnes

25. In a Strange Room – Damon Galgut

October

26. Where’d You Go Bernadette? Maria Semple

 November

27. Mr. Chartwell – Rebecca Hunt
28. The Eureka Principal (NF) Colin Turner

December

29. Blue Remembered Earth – Alistair Reynolds

30. Blue Eyed Boy – Joanna Harris

31. A Wedding in December – Anita Shreve

32. A Slipping Down Life Anne Tyler