What I Read In 2024

JANUARY (25)

– Betrothal and Betrayal by Janet McGiffin
– The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
– The Black Angels by Maria Smilios 
– The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
– The Antique Hunter’s Guide To Murder by C.L. Miller
– The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow
– The Mysterious Mrs Hood by Kim Donovan
– Secrets of the Reaper by Sarah McKnight
– The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse
– A Place For Lost Souls by Belinda Black
– Small Hours by Bobby Palmer
– Are You Okay, Elliot Hart by Kate S Martin
– Bones of Contention by Candy Denman
– The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou
– The Frequency Of Us by Keith Stuart
– The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini
– The Manic Mission by C.J Simone
– Harlequin Butterfly by Toh Enjoe
– Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
– Lilith by Nikki Marmery
– Book of Cakes by Linda Collister
– The Bone Hunters by Joanne Burn
– Listen For the Lie by Amy Tintera
- Toxxic by Jane Hennigan
– Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

MARCH (28)

– The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
– Keanu Reeves Is Not in Love With You by Becky Holmes
– Earth by John Boyne
– The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up by Laura Pearson
– Confidence in 40 Images by The School of Life
– Clickbait by L.C North
– The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes
– And the Stones Cry Out by Clara Dupont-Monod
– The Witchstone Ghosts by Emily Randall-Jones
– The Household by Stacey Halls
– The Chain by Chimene Suleyman
– The Gathering by CJ Tudor
– The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond by Amy Sparkes
– The Lighthouse at the World’s End by Amy Sparkes
– The Little Library Year by Kate Young
– A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce
– In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
– The Night in Question by Sarah Fletcher
– Messenger by Lois Lowry
– The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle
– Eye of the Beholder by Jim Bates
– Clear by Carys Davies
– The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman
– You Are Here by David Nicholls
– The Darkest Night by Victoria Hawthorne
– Recipes From the World of Tolkien by Robert Tuesley Anderson
– The Croaking Raven by Guy Hale
– The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

MAY (25)

– The King’s Witches by Kate Foster
– Sandwich by Catherine Newman
– The Switch by Lily Samson
– How To Solve Murders Like a Lady by Hannah Dolby
– Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life by Fintan O’Toole
– The House Sitter by Mira V Shah
– The Groundworld Heroes by Adrian So
– The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood
– Pinch of Nom by Catherine Allinson and Kay Featherstone
– The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
– Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
– Lucky Day by Beth Morrey
– The Future of the Self by Joanna Nadin
– The Burial Plot by Elizabeth MacNeal
– The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
– The Dark and Dangerous Gifts of Delores Mackenzie by Yvonne Banham
– The Little Library Christmas by Kate Young
– The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
– A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder by Gay Marris
– Garden of Her Heart by Zoe Richards
– The Memo by Lauren Mechling and Rachel Dodes
– Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald
– How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
– The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase
– The Last Time I Saw You by Jo Leevers

FEBRUARY (28)

– Jericho’s Dead by William Hussey
– The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber
– A Curse For True Love by Stephanie Garber
– Spy Artist Prisoner by George Tomaziu
– The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
– Christ on a Bike by Orla Owen
– The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas
– The Excitements by C.J Wray
– My Friend Walter by Michael Morpurgo
– Caravel by Stephanie Garber
– The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola
– Legendary by Stephanie Garber
– Meet Me When My Heart Stops by Becky Hunter
– Good Girls Die Last by Natali Simmonds
– The Giver by Lois Lowry
– Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits by Claudia Acott Williams
– The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart
– Jayben and the Star Glass by Thomas Leeds
– Finale by Stephanie Garber
– Greek Lessons by Han Kang
– Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
– Poo Through the Ages by Suzie Edge
– How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
– 100 Novels That Changed The World by Colin Salter
– Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
– Day One by Abigail Dean
– Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier
– The Happiest Ever After by Milly Johnson

APRIL (29)

– The Family Experiment by John Marrs
– Remember, Remember by Elle Machray
– When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
– The Second Chance by Charlotte Butterfield
– The Collapsing Wave by Doug Johnstone
– The Book of Witty Women by Various Authors
– Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
– Lunch With the Deadly Dozen by Peter Berry
– Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor
– Without Warning and Only Sometimes (quick read) by Kit De Waal
– The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
– Game On (quick read) by Matt Cain
– Hunted by Abir Mukherjee
– Old Girls Behaving Badly by Kate Galley
– The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
– Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
– House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth
– Knife by Salman Rushdie
– Moonstone by Laura Purcell
– Wild Treasures by Hannah Stitfall
– Die Smiling by Julie Casson
– The Girl Who Dreamed In Magic – Maria Kuzniar
– You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here – Dr Benji Waterhouse
– Fast and Fresh by The Hairy Bikers
– Medea by Rosie Hewlett
– The Theatre of Glass and Shadows by Anne Corlett
– The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro
– No Life For a Lady by Hannah Dolby
– The Chamber by Will Dean

JUNE (29)

– Babylonia by Costanza Casati
– Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell
– A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
– Three Dads Walking by Tim Owen, Mike Palmer, and Andy Airey
– The Last Summer (quick read) by Karen Swan
– Those People Next Door (quick read) by Kia Abdullah
– The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig
– A Poisoner’s Tale by Cathryn Kemp
– The Jealousy Man (quick read) by Jo Nesbo
– Boys Don’t Cry (quick read) by Malorie Blackman
– Cosima Unfortunate Foils a Fraud by Laura Noakes
– Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
– The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace
– The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
– Imposter Syndrome by Joseph Knox
– Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson
– Alter Ego by Helen Heckety
– The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
– The Wilds by Sarah Pearse
– Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
– The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks by Daniel Konstanski
– My Brother’s Name is Jessica by John Boyne
– The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
– Humans An A-Z by Matt Haig
– More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
– Happy Vegan by Fearne Cotton
– Beyond the Broken Shore by Rebecca L Marsh
– Redemption by Jack Jordan
– Costanza by Rachel Blackmore

July (30)

– Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea by Pari Thomson
– When You Were Mine by Emma-Claire Wilson
– Country Comforts by Hari Beavis
– There’s Nothing Wrong With Her by Kate Weinberg
– Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
– How Winston Delivered Christmas by Alex T Smith
– How Winston Came Home For Christmas by Alex T Smith
– Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead
– Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
– A Therapeutic Library by The School of Life
– Spiral by Cameron Ward
– Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent
– The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J West
– Greenfeast: Spring, Summer by Nigel Slater
– My Daughter’s Revenge by Natali Simmonds
– Eddie Winston is Looking For Love by Marianne Cronin
– All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
– The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
– The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
– The Secrets of Flowers by Sally Page
– The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
– The Storm and the Sea Hawk by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
– Winter Magic on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock
– The Hobbit Encyclopaedia by Damien Bador
– Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann
– The Best is Yet to Come by Jessica Redland
– Then Things Went Dark by Bea Fitzgerald
– The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald
– We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
– The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge

September (32)

– All I Want For Christmas by Karen Swan
– The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
– The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley
– The Twelve by Liz Hyder
– The Blue Day Book by Bradley Trevor Greive
– The Christmas Wish-trastrophe by Cariad Lloyd
– A Winter Wedding at Primrose Hall by Jill Steeples
– The Rhino Keeper by Jillian Forsberg
– A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
– Rosen’s Almanac by Michael Rosen
– Christmas Cookies by Hannah Miles
– A Recipe For Christmas by Jo Thomas
– Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson
– Eat Slay Love by Julia Mae Cohen
– Home Again For Christmas by Emily Stone
– Max and Monty: The Raven Thief by Sally Doherty
– Of the Flesh by Various Authors
– Wonderful Words That Tell a Tale by Tom Read Wilson
– The Book of Witching by C.J Cooke
– The Secret Christmas Bookshop by Cressida McLaughlin
– We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
– Into the Storm by Cecelia Ahern
– The Bad Seeds by CJ Skuse
– Murder at Holly House by Denzil Meyrick
– The Kiss of the Nightingale by Adi Denner
– The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
– Januaries by Olivie Blake
– Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency by Josie Lloyd
– A Beginners Guide to Dying by Simon Boas
– Fire by John Boyne
– Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi
– Turtle Moon by Hannah Gold






November (26)

– The Tiny Compendium of Ridiculousness (Hubert J Watergipridget) by Joseph Poppy
– City of Silk by Glennis Virgo
– The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
– Murder By Candlelight by Faith Martin
– Toby and the Siege of Sky City by Sally Doherty
– How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
– The Truth About Santa by Gregory Mone
– Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
– All That Matters by Sir Chris Hoy
– The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay
– The Night Before Christmas and Other Poems by Various Authors
– An Almost Perfect Summer by Jill Mansell
– The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg
– The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater
– Notes on a Drowning by Anna Sharpe
– The Boy I Love by William Hussey
– Strange Pictures by Uketsu
– The Sea Queen by Natasha Hastings
– Hunt for the Golden Scarab by M.G Leonard
– A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater
– Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood
– The Quick and the Dead by Emma Hinds
– The Lamb by Lucy Rose
– The Lost Past of Billy McQueen by Neil Alexander
– A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
– The Garden by Nick Newman

August (24)

– Imagination Island by Mel Taylor-Bessent
– Lights Out by Louise Swanson
– Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
– Blame by Charlotte Langley
– The Land of Roar by Jenny McLachlan
– Valley by Stacey McEwan
– Circus of Mirrors by Julie Owen Moylan
– The Haunted Life of Delores Mackenzie by Yvonne Banham
– Bibliography by Molly Masters
– Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood
– Never Ever You by Sarah Echavarre
– The Intrusion by Charlotte Langley
– A German Christmas by Various Authors
– The Christmas Dog Sitters by Lucy Mitchell
– Bright Midnights by L.S Delomore
– Return to Roar by Jenny McLachlan
– The Beforelife of Eliza Valentine by Laura Pearson
– D Is For Death by Harriet F Townson
– Honeybee by Dawn O’Porter
– Holmes and Moriarty by Gareth Rubin
– Maisie vs Antarctica by Jack Jackman
– Feather by Manon Steffan Ros
– The Examiner by Janice Hallett
– The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

October (37)

– The Christmas Stocking Murders by Denzil Meyrick
– The Ice Retreat by Ruth Kelly
– Too Young For Cancer by Katie Coleman
– Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
– Fia and the Last Snow Deer by Eilish Fisher
– The Christmas Eve Murders by Noelle Albright
– Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo
– The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
– You All Die Tonight by Simon Kernick
– The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
– The Worlds We Leave Behind by A.F Harrold
– A Skye Full of Stars by Sue Moorcroft
– What Does It Feel Like by Sophie Kinsella
– The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
– The Undoing of Violet Claybourne by Emily Critchley
– Escape For Christmas by Phillipa Ashley
– James by Percival Everett
– In the Garden by Various Authors
– The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso
– Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
– I Don’t Do Disabilities and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself by Adelle Purdham
– Home For Christmas by Heidi Swain
– Frankie by Graham Norton
– Worst Case Scenario by T.J Newman
– The Wild Way Home by Sophie Kirtley
– The Silver-Haired Sisterhood by Judy Leigh
– Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
– The Biggest Christmas Secret Ever by L.D Lapinski
– Held by Anne Michaels
– What Have You Done by Shari Lapena
– Our Family Favourites by The Hairy Bikers
– A Dog a Day by Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
– In Want of a Suspect by Tirzah Price
– The Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffmann
– The Sandman by E.T.A Hoffmann
– The Snowman Code by Simon Stephenson
– BLOB by Maggie Su

December (38)

– I Am Rebel by Ross Montgomery
– Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
– The Vulpine by Polly Crosby
– I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin by Katy Brent
– Bitter Passage by Colin Mills
– A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay
– The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold
– Killing Time by Alan Bennett
– Estella’s Revenge by Barbara Havelocke
– The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang
– Bethnal Green by Amélie Skoda
– The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
– The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan
– And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
– The Blackbirds of St Giles by Lila Cain
– The Hedgehog’s Dilemma by Toon Tellegen
– An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris
– The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller
– Bronte Tempestra and the Lightning Steeds by Bex Hogan
– The Broken River by Chris Hammer
– The Divinexus by Hallie Matthews
– My Animals and Other Animals by Bill Bailey
– At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Bruce
– Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
– Death Comes at Christmas by Various Authors
– The World According to Vincent by Various Authors
– The Lost Passenger by Frances Quinn
– Mavericks by Jenny Draper
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: The Secret Exchange by Elizabeth Lim
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: Rattle the Stars by M.K England
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: The Journey Home by Farrah Rochon
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: Call it a Hunch by Jen Calonita
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: A Royal Game of Chess by Liz Braswell
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: The Envelope by Jen Calonita
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: Fates, Three by Jen Calonita
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: The Reluctant Prince by Liz Braswell
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: A Dragon in the Snow Kristina Perez
– A Disney Twisted Tale Novella: Cast Out by Livia Blackburne

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