Margarita Morris

Author of historical fiction

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What I read in previous years

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

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