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