What Did I Read in 2023?

JANUARY (24)

– Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
– Dinosaur Philosophy by Dinos and Comics
– Dinosaur Therapy by Dinos and Comics
– Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
– Jams With a Twist by Kylee Newton
– If I Let You Go by Charlotte Levin
– You Get That From Me by Charlotte Butterfield
– Don’t Swipe Right by LM Chilton
– Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler
– One Visit by George Veck
– The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
– The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner
– End of Story by Louise Swanson
– Her by Mira V Shah
– Dreams Come True at Primrose Hall by Jill Steeples
– A Flaw in the Design by Nathan Oates
– The Wrong Mother by Charlotte Duckworth
– Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
– Don’t Believe the Hype by Natalie Lewis
– Between the Lines by T.J Ryan
– The Drift by C.J Tudor
– The Maiden by Kate Foster
– Bibliomaniac by Robin Ince
– The Book That No-One Wanted to Read by Richard Ayoade

MARCH (20)

– The Lost Whale by Hannah Gold
– Summer Nights at the Starfish Café by Jessica Redland
– One Moment by Becky Hunter
– Coming Home to the Highlands by Lisa Hobman
– The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
– Maybe It’s About Time by Neil Boss
– Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead
– The Last Passenger by Will Dean
– Escape Room by Christopher Edge
– The Sunrise Sisterhood by Cathy Bramley
– Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
– Boy in a China Shop by Keith Brymer Jones
– Everything is OK by Debbie Tung
– The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone
– The Kingdom Over the Sky by Zohra Nabi
– This Could Be Us by Claire McGowan
– Conviction by Jack Jordan
– The Illusions by Liz Hyder
– The Sweating Sickness Epidemic by Stephen Porter
– The Lost Daughters of Ukraine by Erin Litteken

MAY (19)

– The Fallout Family: Wasteland Woes by Isaac Cooke-Khan
– Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
– The Woman Who Lied by Claire Douglas
– Fireborn: Twelve and the Frozen Forest by Aisling Fowler
– Oh, Sister by Jodie Chapman
– Toby and the Wizards of Wildhaven by Sally Doherty
– Eat Well Every Day by The Hairy Bikers
– Will You Read This, Please? by Joanna Cannon
– The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
– The Girl With the Red Hair by Buzzy Jackson
– Impunity by Ray Clark
– Fireborn: Phoenix and the Frost Palace by Aisling Fowler
– Fyneshade by Kate Griffin
– Ogwen Blues by George Veck
– Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury
– The Detective by Ajay Chowdhury
– New Beginnings on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock
– Michael the Amazing Mind-Reading Sausage Dog by Terrie Chilvers
– The Truth About the Accident by Nicole Trope

July (27)

– The Hardest Thing to Keep by Sabina Green
– Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans
– The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry
– Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star by Laura Noakes
– The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
– The Drums of War by Michael Ward
– Murder on a Yorkshire Moor by Ric Brady
– What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
– Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch
– The Christmas Carrolls by Mel Taylor-Bessent
– Living With Hearing Loss and Deafness by Samantha Baines
– The Sentence by Christina Dalcher
– Ascension by Nicholas Binge
– More Confessions of a Forty Something F-Up by Alexandra Potter
– Jamie by L.D Lapinski
– The Gingerbread Christmas Village by Kiley Dunbar
– The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
– The Golden Girls Road Trip by Kate Galley
– Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
– All The Little Liars by Victoria Selman
– The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin
– The Spy’s Daughter by Bianca M Schwarz
– Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen
– A Classic Christmas Treasury by Various Authors
– Chasm by Stacey McEwan
– The Crash by Robert Peston
– The Yorkshire Farm Girl by Diane Allen

September (25)

– 5 Ingredients: Mediterranean by Jamie Oliver
– The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
– An Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain
– The Snow Girl by Sophie Anderson
– Once a Monster by Robert Dinsdale
– Christmas Secrets in the Scottish Highlands by Donna Ashcroft
– The Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens
– The Ministry of Unladylike Activity: The Body in the Blitz by Robin Stevens
– Starting Over at Halesmere House by Suzanne Snow
– In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
– The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
– Good Housekeeping: The Ultimate Christmas Cookbook
– Conversations With the Dead by Jim Bates
– The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
– Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
– The Christmas Love Letters by Sue Moorcroft
– A Month in the Country by J.L Carr
– The Sussex Pond Murder by Richard Sorapure
– The Ice Children by M.G Leonard
– The Nutcracker: And The Mouse King’s Christmas Shenanigans by Alex T Smith
– Water by John Boyne
– Guinevere: The Quest for Excalibur by Fil Reid
– The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
– Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell
– Finding Bear by Hannah Gold

November (22)

– Ultimate Comfort Food by The Hairy Bikers
– Mary Berry Makes It Easy by Mary Berry
– That Festive Feeling by Heidi Swain
– Thorn In My Side by CJ Skuse
– A Concert For Christmas by Helen Hawkins
– Clucked by Troy Hollan
– The Door to Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
– The Legend of Childer’s Forest by Gillian Young
– The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
– A Breath of Fresh Air by Jessica Redland
– The Christmas Carrolls: The Christmas Club by Mel Taylor-Bessent
– The Knowing by Emma Hinds
– The Time Between Space by Charlie Laidlaw
– Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
– The Merry Christmas Project by Cathy Bramley
– Giuseppe’s Easy Bakes by Giuseppe Dell’Anno
– Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull
– The Wedding of the Year by Jill Mansell
– DallerGut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
– Worried Whippet by Jess Bolton
– The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts by Alex Bell
– Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maude Woolf

FEBRUARY (20)

– The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
– Gratitude by Delphine de Vigan and Translated by George Miller
– Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
– In The Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan
– In The Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
– Getting Better by Michael Rosen
– Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop by Kiley Dunbar
– For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie
– Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
– Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
– Summer’s Runaway by Rebecca L Marsh
– You Are Not Alone by Cariad Lloyd
– Sweetpea by CJ Skuse
– No-One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara
– The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
– In Bloom by CJ Skuse
– Dead Head by CJ Skuse
– Second Chances by Miriam McGuirk
– The Twelve Dels of Christmas by David Jason
– The Woolworth Girl’s Promise by Elaine Everest

APRIL (23)

– In Memoriam by Alice Winn
– Queuing For The Queen by Swéta Rana
– Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
– The Last Tree: A Seed of Hope by Luke Adam Hawker
– Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
– The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail
– The House of Whispers by Anna Mazzola
– Weather Underwater by Kaisa Saarinen
– Escape to California: Misadventures in America’s Golden State by Chris Atkin
– Midnight by Amy McCulloch
– The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
– Mindfulness in Baking: Meditations on Bakes & Calm by Julia Ponsonby
– The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
– Shy by Max Porter
– Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan Love
– The Stories Grandma Forgot (and How I Found Them) by Nadine Aisha Jassat
– This Child of Mine by Emma-Claire Wilson
– The Missing American by Julie Highmore
– Daughters: How to Untangle Yourself from Your Mother by Julia Vaughan Smith
– Jayben and the Golden Torch by Thomas Leeds
– The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
– In The Margins by Elena Ferrante
– Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena

JUNE (24)

– Swimming With Ghosts by Michelle Brafman
– My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar and Dina Kraft
– The House at the Edge of Magic by Amy Sparkes
– 73 Dove Street by Julie Owen Moylan
– Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
– None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
– Drowning by T.J Newman
– The Modern Bestiary by Joanna Bagniewska
– The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell by Gail Aldwin
– Tell Me How This Ends by Jo Leevers
– The Man Who Would be King by Michael Morpurgo
– Fablehouse by E.L Norry
– The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland
– Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson
– The Reaper’s Quota by Sarah McKnight
– A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
– The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu
– A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh
– Chasing the Reaper by Sarah McKnight
– Mister Magic by Kiersten White
– My Heart Was a Tree by Michael Morpurgo
– Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney
– Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister
– The Soul Must Go On by Malcolm Thorogood

August (29)

– Life and Otter Miracles by Hazel Prior
– Assassin Eighteen by John Brownlow
– Kid Christmas of the Claus Brothers Toy Store by David Litchfield
– Upon a Frosted Star by M.A Kuzniar
– Fearless by Louise Minchin
– Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge
– Divine Might by Natalie Haynes
– The Battle of Marvel Wood by Jim Bates
– Christmas at the Cat Café by Jessica Redland
– God is an Octopus by Ben Goldsmith
– Fortune by Ellen Won Steil
– The Babysitter by Emma Curtis
– Countdown to Christmas by Jo Thomas
– Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write by Alex Johnson
– Winter’s Wishfall by Ceri Houlbrook
– Panacea by Matt Niel Oosthuizen
– A Cornish Christmas at the Farmhouse Bakery by Linn B. Halton
– The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page
– The Room Between Us by Denise Saul
– The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead
– The Magic Faraway Tree: A Christmas Adventure by Jacqueline Wilson
– Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O’Regan
– Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
– Santa Claus: The Beginning by Terry Broxson
– Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
– The Four by Ellie Keel
– A Lady to Treasure by Marianne Ratcliffe
– Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
– The Winter Spirits by Various Authors

October (27)

– Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell
– What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
– Gluten Free Christmas by Becky Excell
– Jane’s Patisserie Everyday by Jane Dunn
– The Silver Chain by Jion Sheibani
– The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
– Christmas By Candlelight by Karen Swan
– The Curious Kidnapping of Nora W by Cate Green
– Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
– The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux by Mandy Robotham
– And So This is Christmas by Brian Bilston
– A December to Remember by Jenny Bayliss
– All Ora by Sotto Voce
– The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen
– Operation Nativity by Jenny Pearson
– A Christmasaurus Carol by Tom Fletcher
– Stitch by Padraig Kenny
– The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood
– The Christmas Carrolls: The Christmas Competition by Mel Taylor-Bessent
– One Love by Matt Cain
– The Finery by Rachel Grosvenor
– Diary of a Christmas Elf by Ben Miller
– Secrets of a Christmas Elf by Ben Miller
– Adventures of a Christmas Elf by Ben Miller
– A Girl Behind Closed Doors by Jessica Taylor-Bearman
– The Actor by Chris MacDonald
– Juniper’s Christmas by Eoin Colfer

December (29)

– The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater
– Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
– A Vintage Christmas by Various Authors
– Frank and Red by Matt Coyne
– 12 Months To Live by James Patterson and Mike Lupica 
– Women and Power: A Manifesto Updated by Mary Beard
– Stepfather Christmas by L.D Lapinski
– The Boy Who Slept Through Christmas by Matt Lucas
– Leave No Trace by Jo Callaghan
– I Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This by Clare Mackintosh
– Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
– Killing Jericho by William Hussey
– Ex-Libris by Michiko Kakutani
– Moths by Jane Hennigan
– Anna O by Matthew Blake
– Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
– When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
– Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent
– Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
– What I Know About July by Kat Hausler
– I See Buildings Fall Like Lightening by Keiran Goddard
– The Tower at the End of Time by Amy Sparkes
– On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
– Women on Porn by Dr Fiona Vera-Gray
– The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell
– Dasher by Matt Tavares
– Dasher Can’t Wait For Christmas by Matt Tavares
– What We Did in the Storm by Tina Baker
– The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown