What Did I Read in 2021?

JANUARY (10)

• And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
• Confessions of a Forty-Something F*** Up – Alexandra Potter
• Holding – Graham Norton
• Intensive Care – Gavin Francis
• One To Watch – Kate Stayman London
• The Courage to Care – Christie Watson
• The Cows – Dawn O’Porter
• The Doll Factory – Elizabeth MacNeal
• The Push – Ashley Audrain
• The Shape of Darkness – Laura Purcell

FEBRUARY (15)

• Eudora Honeysett Is Quite Well, Thank You – Annie Lyons
• Girl A – Abigail Dean
• Ghosts – Dolly Alderton
• Q – Christina Dalcher
• Suicide Club – Rachel Heng
• The Duchess of Cambridge: A Decade of Modern Royal Style – Bethan Holt
• The Godmothers – Monica McInerney
• The Ickabog – J.K Rowling
• The Smallest Man – Frances Quinn
• NICK – Michael Farris Smith
• Luster – Raven Leilani
• Heal Me – Julia Buckley
• The Sanatorium – Sarah Pearse
• Don’t Want To Miss a Thing – Jill Mansell
• Bored and Brilliant – Manoush Zomorodi

MARCH (13)

• The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot – Marianne Cronin
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E Frankl
• How to Make a Dress – Jenny Packham
• The Library of the Dead – T.L Huchu
• The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner
• He Said, She Said – Erin Kelly
• The Cracks That Let the Light In – Jessica Moxham
• Saving Missy – Beth Morrey
• Breaking and Mending – Joanna Cannon
• Many Different Kinds of Love – Michael Rosen
• My Kind of Happy – Cathy Bramley
• The Last Goodbye – Fiona Lucas
• The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M Cain

APRIL (11)

• Peter 2.0 – Peter Scott-Morgan
• Hungry – Grace Dent
• The Sleeping Beauties – Suzanne O’Sullivan
• Girl in the Walls – AJ Gnuse
• In The Time We Lost – Carrie Hope Fletcher
• After You’d Gone – Maggie O’Farrell
• Brain Storm – Suzanne O’Sullivan
• Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Summer Job – Lizzy Dent
• Our Fathers – Rebecca Wait
• The Course of Love – Alain de Botton

MAY (12)

• Worst Idea Ever – Jane Fallon
• Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers
• Consent – Annabel Lyon
• The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams
• The End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird
• Life’s Too Short – Abby Jimenez
• Sudden Onset – Tom and Chris Dardick
• Last Night – Mhairi McFarlane
• Circus of Wonders – Elizabeth MacNeal
• The Cancer Ladies’ Running Club – Josie Lloyd
• Fat Cow, Fat Chance – Jenni Murray
• The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman – Julietta Henderson

JUNE (19)

• An Extra Pair of Hands – Kate Mosse
• Hold Still – Duchess of Cambridge
• And The Little One Said – Elizabeth Coffey
• Falling – TJ Newman
• Lip Loch – Ann Malley
• Song of the Robin – R.V Biggs
• Sandwiched – Laurie James
• The Master of Measham Hall – Abby Abney
• Nobel Life – Stefano Sandrone
• For the Love of Friends – Sara Goodman Confino
• The Plot – Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Mrs England – Stacey Halls
• The Way Back Almanac 2022 – Melinda Salisbury
• Unearthing the Secret Garden – Marta McDowell
• The Beat of Life – Reinhard Friedl
• Christmas Wishes at the Chocolate Shop – Jessica Redland
• The Inkeeper’s Daughter – Bianca Schwarz
• The Gentleman’s Daughter – Bianca Schwarz
• How to Save a Life – Eva Carter

JULY (19)

• Home – Maria Emmetti
• Reunion – R.V Biggs
• The Comfort Book – Matt Haig
• A Midwinter Match – Jane Lovering
• Dog Tales – Penelope Rich
• Shakespeare’s Stories – Samantha Newman
• Asking for a Friend – Helen Jacobs
• Broken – R.V Biggs
• Three Sisters – Heather Morris
• The Marlow Murder Club – Robert Thorogood
• Must Love Books – Shauna Robinson
• The Madness of Grief – Rev. Richard Coles
• Under the Whispering Door – TJ Klune
• The Girl in the Striped Dress – Ellie Mitwood
• Greece Actually – Sue Roberts
• Studio of the South – Martin Bailey
• Underbelly – Anna Whitehouse
• The Appeal – Janice Hallett
• I am the Sea – Matt Stanley

AUGUST (21)

• How to Kill Your Family – Bella Mackie
• The Windsor Knot – S.J Bennett
• Snowflakes Over the Starfish Cafe – Jessica Redland
• A Narrow Door – Joanne Harris
• A Home in the Sun – Sue Moorcroft
• Emily Noble’s Disgrace – Mary Paulson-Ellis
• The Man Who Died Twice – Richard Osman
• Make Do and Mend in Applewell – Lilac Mills
• The Spirit Engineer – AJ West
• Flowers of War – Llyr Gwyn Lewis
• The Maid – Nita Prose
• This Much Huxley Knows – Gail Aldwin
• Christmas at Fox Farm – Helen Pollard
• The Reading List – Sara Nisha Adams
• Generations – Bobby Duffy
• A Country Village Christmas – Suzanne Snow
• Corinth 2642AD – Bindiya Schaefer
• Green Rising – Lauren James
• Charm City Killers – Josh Petroksi
• The Dressmakers of Auschwitz – Lucy Adlington
• Oil and Dust – Jami Fairleigh

SEPTEMBER (27)

• If Wine Could Talk – Kara Joseph
• On Christmas Avenue – Ginny Baird
• The Bookbinder’s Daughter – Jessica Thorne
• Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult – Kyle McCord
• Christmas at Hope Hall – Pam Rhodes
• Help I’m Drowning – Sally Clarkson
• A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce – Massimo Montanari
• The Storyteller of Casablanca – Fiona Valpy
• The Village Inn of Secret Dreams – Alison Sherlock
• Eight – Fantastical Tales from Here, There and Everywhere – Poormina Manco
• The Kitchen Cabinet – Annie Gray
• A Hundred Years to Arras – Jason Cobley
• Per My Last Email – Stephanie K Wright
• In Another Light – AJ Banner
• Sunrise Over Pebble Bay – Delia Galton
• The Survivors – Alex Schulman
• My Best Friend’s Wedding – Tilly Tennant
• The Beautiful Fall – Hugh Breakey
• The Christmas Murder Game – Alexandra Benedict
• This Much is True – Miriam Margolyes
• Christmas in the Scottish Highlands – Donna Ashcroft
• The Truth About Elves – Ekta R. Garg
• The Key in the Lock – Beth Underdown
• Midnight in the Snow – Karen Swan
• The Post Box at the North Pole – Jaimie Admans
• The Night of Many Endings – Melissa Payne
• Twelve Days to Save Christmas – Elizabeth Neep

OCTOBER (20)

• Christmas at the Village Sewing Shop – Helen Rolfe
• Orwell’s Roses – Rebecca Solnit
• Starting Over at Sunset Cottage – Lisa Hobman
• Sergeant Salinger – Jerome Charyn
• The Little Christmas House – Tracy Rees
• Christmas Surprises at Mermaid’s Point – Sarah Bennett
• Celebrations at the Chateau – Jo Thomas
• The Country Village Winter Wedding – Cathy Lake
• Gilded – Marissa Meyer
• Taste – Stanley Tucci
• Autobibliography – Rob Doyle
• The Illustrated Etymological – Mark Forsyth
• Magpie – Elizabeth Day
• A Funny Life – Michael McIntyre
• One More Christmas at the Castle – Trisha Ashley
• A Special Cornish Christmas – Phillipa Ashley
• From Shetland, With Love at Christmas – Erin Green
• Kingscastle – Sophia Holloway
• The Adult Side of Dyslexia – Kelli Sandman-Hurley
• 1922 – Nick Rennison

NOVEMBER (20)

• Underneath the Christmas Tree – Heidi Swain
• A Boy Called Christmas – Matt Haig
• Charles Dickens: Places and Objects of Interest – Paul Kendall
• The Girl Who Saved Christmas – Matt Haig
• Father Christmas and Me – Matt Haig
• The Arctic Curry Club – Dani Redd
• Walking on Sunshine – Giovanna Fletcher
• The Twyford Code – Janice Hallett
• Write it all Down – Cathy Rentzenbrink
• FilmQuake – Ian Haydn Smith
• A Wedding at Hedgehog Hollow – Jessica Redland
• Explorers of Deep Time – Roy Plotnick
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
• Wishing Under a Starlit Skye – Lisa Hobman
• Where the Shadow Beckons – Gillian Grant
• How High We Go In The Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Send Nudes – Saba Sams
• The Christie Affair – Nina de Gramont
• Five Tuesdays in Winter – Lily King
• Toby and the Silver Blood Witches – Sally Doherty

DECEMBER (13)

• Violeta – Isabel Allende
• The Clockwork Girl – Anna Mazzola
• The Evening’s Amythyst – Marni Graff
• New Animal – Ella Baxter
• Theatre of Marvels – Lianne Dillsworth
• Love, If That’s What It Is – Marijke Schermer
• The Violin Conspiracy – Brendan Slocumb
• Yinka, Where is Your Huzband – Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
• Dying to Live – Barbara MacPherson Reyelts
• Wish You Were Here – Jodi Picoult
• The Christmas Pig by JK Rowling
• Glittering a Turd by Kris Hallenga
• Midnight in Everwood by M.A Kuzniar