What I read in previous years

2024

January 2024

Das Regenorchester von Hansjörg Schertenleib
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (audiobook)
The Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (audiobook)
The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (audiobook)

February 2024

The Last Word by Elly Griffiths
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
La Carte Postale – Livre 1 par Anne Berest
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

March 2024

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (audiobook)
The Dentist by Tim Sullivan
The Human Factor by Graham Greene (audiobook)
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
La Carte Postale – Livre 2 par Anne Berest

April 2024

The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo
A Parting of the Ways by Rachel Crowther
La Carte Postale – Livres 3-4 par Anne Berest
The Bookseller’s Wife by Jane Davis
The House at the Edge of the Woods by Rachel Hancox
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (audiobook)
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (audiobook)

May 2024

The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Mrs England by Stacey Halls
Fatherland by Robert Harris (re-reading)
The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

June 2024

Slow Horses by Mick Herron (audiobook)
Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
The Absolutist by John Boyne
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

July 2024

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

August 2024

Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
Water by John Boyne
Never Had it so Good by Dominic Sandbrook (audiobook)

September 2024

Precipice by Robert Harris
Snap by Belinda Bauer
Stoner by John Williams
The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier
The House of Mirrors by Erin Kelly

October 2024

Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
La Place par Annie Ernaux
Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene
Forgotten Bones by Wes Markin
The Siege by Ben Macintyre (audiobook)

November 2024

An Age of Winters by Gemma Liviero
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
The Midnight Hour by Elly Griffiths
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Double Cross by Ben Macintyre (audiobook)

December 2024

I See You by Clare Mackintosh
The Island by Victoria Hislop
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The Leopard by Jo Nesbo
The House of Echoes by Rachel Crowther

2023

January 2023

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths
Der Vorleser von Bernhard Schlink
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre (audiobook)
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings (audiobook)

February 2023

The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell
Le Petit Prince d’Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Das Achte Leben – Stasia von Nino Haratischwili
Atonement by Ian McEwan (audiobook)
Possession by A.S. Byatt (audiobook)

March 2023

Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley
Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler
Lily by Rose Tremain
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
Das Achte Leben – Christine von Nino Haratischwili
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (audiobook)

April 2023

Win by Harlan Coben
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)
The Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop (audiobook)

May 2023

Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling
Das Achte Leben – Kostja von Nino Haratischwili
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Dracula by Bram Stoker (audiobook)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (audiobook)

June 2023

The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein (audiobook)

July 2023

Das Achte Leben – Kitty von Nino Haratischwili
One Lost Soul by J.M. Dalgliesh
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

August 2023

Das Achte Leben – Elene von Nino Haratischwili
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (audiobook)
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
SAS Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre (audiobook)

September 2023

Das Achte Leben – Daria von Nino Haratischwili
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (audiobook)

October 2023

Das Achte Leben – Niza von Nino Haratischwili
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Identity Crisis by Ben Elton
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

November 2023

Broken Light by Joanne Harris
The Rise by Ian Rankin
Devotion by Hannah Kent
Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum (audiobook)
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollop (audiobook)

December 2023

Ancestry by Simon Mawer
A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (re-reading)
Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant (audiobook)

2022

January 2022

Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Warsaw Fury by Michael Reit
A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
MI6 by Gordon Corera (audiobook)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (audiobook)

February 2022

A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman
Half in Shadow by Gemma Liviero
The Bat by Jo Nesbo
A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
V for Victory by Lissa Evans
Auntie’s War by Edward Stourton (audiobook)

March 2022

A Train to Moscow by Elena Gorokhova
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
The Murder Box by Olivia Kiernan
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (audiobook)
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall by Sonia Purnell (audiobook)

April 2022

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (continued)
Small Eden by Jane Davis
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

May 2022

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner (audiobook)

June 2022

The Lonely Hour (Bryant and May 16) by Christopher Fowler
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths

July 2022

Road Ends by Mary Lawson
The Water’s Lovely by Ruth Rendell
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Last Summer Boys by Bill Rivers
Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves
Signal Moon by Kate Quinn
Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

August 2022

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Still Life by Sarah Winman
The Man in the Bunker by Rory Clements
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

September 2022

The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Darkside by Belinda Bauer
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

October 2022

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Magpie by Elizabeth Day
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Dark Flight by James Blatch
The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson
The Other Side of The Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler
The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

November 2022

The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Twilight by Elie Wiesel
The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley (audiobook)

December 2022

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
The Gardener by Salley Vickers
The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (audiobook)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (audiobook)

2021

January 2021

Imperium by Robert Harris
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
Gerta by Kateřina Tučková
Corpus by Rory Clements
The Diary of Mary Berg by Mary Berg
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (audiobook)
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (audiobook)

February 2021

Lustrum by Robert Harris
Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
Dictator by Robert Harris
Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook (audiobook)

March 2021

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
A Splendid Ruin by Megan Chance
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
V2 by Robert Harris
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
Thin Air by Ann Cleeves
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin (audiobook)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (audiobook)
Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre (audiobook)

April 2021

Song of Sorrow by Rupert Colley
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
Restless by William Boyd
The Final Flight by James Blatch
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (audiobook)

May 2021

The Ratline by Philippe Sands
The Pearl of Penang by Clare Flynn
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
The Snowdonia Killings by Simon McCleave
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre (audiobook)

June 2021

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
An Extra Pair of Hands by Kate Mosse
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Mariana by Monica Dickens
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse (re-reading)
State of Emergency: Britain: The Way We Were, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook (audiobook)
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (audiobook)

July 2021

The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Too Near the Dead by Helen Grant
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979 – 1982 by Dominic Sandbrook (audiobook)

August 2021

Home by Harlan Coben
Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
The Wych Elm by Tana French
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore

September 2021

A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
The Dark Horizon by Liz Harris
The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
Don’t Let Go by Harlan Coben
A History of Britain: Volume 1 by Simon Schama (audiobook)
Walking Home by Simon Armitage (audiobook)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (audiobook)

October 2021

An Unchoreographed Life by Jane Davis
The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
The Secret Lake by Karen Inglis
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Exit by Belinda Bauer
The Bookseller’s Tale by Ann Swinfen
Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (audiobook)

November 2021

Crippen by John Boyne
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Break the Internet by Olivia Yallop
The Corfe Castle Murders by Rachel McClean
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson (re-reading)
The Rise of Light by Olivia Hawker
Gallows View by Peter Robinson
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (audiobook)
The Great British Dream Factory by Dominic Sandbrook (audiobook)

December 2021

Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
The Dig by John Preston
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
The Dark by Emma Haughton
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack The Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (audiobook)

2020

January 2020

The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford
Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
Past Mortem by Ben Elton
The Lost Boys: A Family Ripped Apart by War by Catherine Bailey
Love is Blind by William Boyd

February 2020

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

March 2020

Pastel Orphans by Gemma Liviero
The Island by Ragnar Jónasson
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The House in the Woods by Mark Dawson
This Terrible Beauty by Katrin Schumann

April 2020

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith – re-reading
The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
Blood Moon by Steve Morris

May 2020

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
In a Field of Blue by Gemma Liviero
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
The Truth in Our Lies by Eliza Graham

June 2020

A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Now You See Them by Elly Griffiths
From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (re-reading)

July 2020

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (re-reading)
A Litter of Bones by JD Kirk
At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock by Jane Davis
Wild Chamber (Bryant & May) by Christopher Fowler
Murder on the Marshes by Clare Chase

August 2020

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimee K. Runyan
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie

September 2020

The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
The Lost Daughter by R.P.G. Colley
The Taking of Annie Thorne by C.J. Tudor
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

October 2020

Howards End by E.M. Forster
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
The Night Portrait by Laura Morelli

November 2020

Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Dead Water by Ann Cleeves
Life Class by Pat Barker
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (audiobook)

December 2020

The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy
Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time) by Anthony Powell
The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer
A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (audiobook)

2019

January 2019

The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
The Survivors by Kate Furnivall
The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

February 2019

Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
The Blood Card by Elly Griffiths
The Vanishing Box by Elly Griffiths
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

March 2019

’89 The Unfinished Revolution by Nick Thorpe
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
Seeking the Dead by Kate Ellis
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
Crime on the Fens by Joy Ellis
Broken Angels by Gemma Liviero
Smoke and Mirrors by Elly Griffiths
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

April 2019

Beyond the Shadow of Night by Ray Kingfisher
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
They Fought Alone by Maurice Buckmaster

May 2019

If This is a Woman by Sarah Helm
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
The Ocean Liner by Marius Gabriel
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
The Shadow Writer by Eliza Maxwell

June 2019

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Violette Szabo: The Life that I Have by Susan Ottaway
White Nights by Ann Cleeves
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
The Betrayal by Kate Furnivall

July 2019

A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII by Sarah Helm
Two Brothers by Ben Elton
The Black Book by Ian Rankin
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin

August 2019

A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean
The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris

September 2019

Finding Poland: From Tavistock to Hruzdowa and Back Again by Matthew Kelly
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
My Name is Eva by Susanne Goldring

October 2019

The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker

November 2019

Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
The Polish Underground 1939-1947 by David G. Williamson
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Hell Train by Christopher Fowler
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Białoszewski
Warsaw Boy by Andrew Borowiec
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup

December 2019

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Sleeping and the Dead by Ann Cleeves
The Secret Army by Tadeusz Bór Komorowski
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
The Fear Index by Robert Harris

2018

January 2018

The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards

February 2018

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell
Call For the Dead by John le Carré
White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey
Anastasia by Rupert Colley
The Magpies by Mark Edwards
Ghost by Helen Grant

March 2018

The Undefeated by George Paloczi-Horvath
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgian Hunter
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine
My Happy Days in Hell by George Faludy
1000 Yards by Mark Dawson

April 2018

The Door by Magda Szabó
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
Smash All The Windows by Jane Davis
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen
Every Single Secret by Emily Carpenter
Fatherland by Robert Harris

May 2018

Conclave by Robert Harris
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
Murder at the University by Faith Martin
Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

June 2018

Blue Monday by Nicci French
Tuesday’s Gone by Nicci French
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Munich by Robert Harris
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore

July 2018

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Without a Country by Ayse Kulin
Spree by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin

August 2018

Dead Simple by Peter James
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
The Stand by Stephen King
Lies by T.M. Logan

September 2018

The Girl in the Fog by Donato Carrisi
29 Seconds by T.M. Logan
The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

October 2018

Close to Home by Cara Hunter
A Funeral for an Owl by Jane Davis
The Lines We Leave Behind by Eliza Graham
The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
These Fragile Things by Jane Davis
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

November 2018

The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
Archangel by Robert Harris
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

December 2018

East West Street by Philippe Sands
Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard
The Last Nazi by Andrew Turpin
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb by Norman Moss
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

2017

January 2017

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin
An Unknown Woman by Jane Davis

February 2017

Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (re-reading)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (re-reading)
The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid

March 2017

Wolfsangel by Liza Perrat
A Greater World by Clare Flynn
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (re-reading)
Devil May Care by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant
Welcome to the Hotel Yalta by Victoria Dougherty
Forensics by Val McDermid

April 2017

Holy Island by LJ Ross
After the Fire by Jane Casey
Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham
Behind Closed Doors by JJ Marsh
Raw Material by JJ Marsh

May 2017

The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters
Crimson Shore by Gillian E. Hamer
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Private Patient by PD James
A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin

June 2017

End of Watch by Stephen King
Three Weeks Dead by Rebecca Bradley
Blood Renegades by Rosemary A Johns
Follow You Home by Mark Edwards
A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell

July 2017

Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
The Retribution by Val McDermid
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (re-reading)
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
The Ghost by Robert Harris

August 2017

Next Stop Execution by Oleg Gordievsky
This Time Tomorrow by Rupert Colley
Past Encounters by Davina Blake
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (re-reading)

September 2017

The First Lie (Selkie Moon Mystery #1) by Virginia King
The Hidden Village by Imogen Matthews
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T Sullivan
The Good People by Hannah Kent

October 2017

Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Traitor’s Gate by Michael Ridpath
The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

November 2017

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
Murder on the Oxford Canal by Faith Martin
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Enigma by Robert Harris
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

December 2017

The Chalky Sea by Clare Flynn
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (re-reading)
Christine by Stephen King

2016

January 2016

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
I Stopped Time by Jane Davis

February 2016

Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
The Art of the Imperfect by Kate Evans
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Killing Floor by Lee Child
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell

March 2016

Insomnia by Stephen King
Murder by Misrule by Anna Castle
The Company of Fellows by Dan Holloway
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

April 2016

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
Abundance by Peter Diamandis
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Anhedonia by Nico Reznick
The Lake House by Kate Morton

May 2016

After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell
Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close
The Spy Who Changed The World by Mike Rossiter
The Fifth Voice by Paul Connolly
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (re-reading)
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (re-reading)

June 2016

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Different Class by Joanne Harris

July 2016

Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Finders Keepers by Stephen King
Cruel Heart Broken by Emma Haughton

August 2016

The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid
Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870 by Liza Picard
The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do and how to change by Charles Duhigg
Blood Dragons by Rosemary A Johns
Devices and Desires by P.D. James

September 2016

Beneath The Bleeding by Val McDermid
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
The Art of The Imperfect by Kate Evans (re-reading)
The Finnish Girl by Helena Halme

October 2016

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
My Counterfeit Self by Jane Davis
Dead Souls by Ian Rankin
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid
A Thousand Rooms by Helen Jones

November 2016

Blood Shackles by Rosemary A. Johns
Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid
The Back Road by Rachel Abbott
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

December 2016

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyesvky
The Cleaner by Mark Dawson
Last Light by CJ Lyons
The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid

2015

January 2015

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

February 2015

In One Person by John Irving
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
11.22.63. by Stephen King
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore

March 2015

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
Thores-Cross: A Yorkshire Ghost Story by Karen Perkins
Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott
Misery by Stephen King
Urban Legends by Helen Grant

April 2015

Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Bryant & May Investigate White Corridor by Christopher Fowler
Bryant & May and The Invisible Code by Christopher Fowler
The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris

May 2015

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
Cujo by Stephen King
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

June 2015

PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Now You See Me by Emma Haughton

July 2015

Better Left Buried by Emma Haughton
I Was Here by Gayle Forman
Haunted by William Hussey
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

August 2015

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Desecration by J.F. Penn

September 2015

The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

October 2015

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (re-reading)
The Cogsmith’s Daughter by Kate M. Colby
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

November 2015

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

December 2015

This House is Haunted by John Boyne
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson (re-reading)
Axis of Aaron by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant

2014

January 2014

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
Notes From an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America by Kati Marton
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (re-reading)

February 2014

The Dead by Charlie Higson
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales by Kate Mosse
Pentecost by JF Penn
On Writing by Stephen King

March 2014

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (re-reading)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Other Countess by Eve Edwards
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

April 2014

Velvet by Mary Hooper
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Butter by Erin Lange
Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper
Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

May 2014

Peaches for Monsieur le Curé by Joanne Harris
Come Apart by Roger Colby
When I was Joe by Keren David
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson (re-reading)
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps by Michel Faber
How to Fall by Jane Casey

June 2014

The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn
Demons of Ghent by Helen Grant
Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy

July 2014

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper
White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
Go Away Home by Carol Bodensteiner
Inferno by Dan Brown

August 2014

The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

September 2014

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Sneaker Tree by Phil Taylor
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse

October 2014

WhiteSpace – Season 1 by Sean Platt and David Wright
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Macbeth by William Shakespeare

November 2014

The Shining by Stephen King
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
WhiteSpace – Season 2 by Sean Platt and David Wright
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier (re-reading)

December 2014

The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser
Autumn in Carthage by Christopher Zenos
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (re-reading)
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson