Books read in 2024

January

Robert Galbraith                                Running Grave

David Joy                                            Those we Thought we Knew

Alexander McCall Smith                   From a Far and Lovely Country

CC Humphreys                                   Some Day I’ll Find You                                                                     

February                                    

Michelle Paver                          Wolf Brother

Tara Swart                                 The Source

Richard C. Schwartz                 No Bad Parts

Simon Winchester                    Northern Ireland in Crisis

Vaseem Khan                            Death of a Lesser God

Jacqueline Winspear               This Time Next Year we’ll be Laughing

Flynn Berry                                  Northern Spy                                                                                   

March

Matthew Parker                                  One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink                                    

Mick Herron                                         Dolphin Junction

Leila Abouleila                                     River Spirit

Samantha Bailey                                Woman on the Edge

Georgette Hayer                                 Cotillion

Geraldine Brooks                                Horse

Janie Chang & Kate Quinn               The Phoenix Crown

Jan Morris                                             Conundrum

Liane Moriarty                                      The Husband’s Secret                                                                        

April

Christine Pride and Jo Piazza           We are Not Like Them                                                                       

Matthew Parker                                   One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink

Emily Henry                                          Beach Read

Rachel Kapelke-Dale                         The Ballerinas

Kate Grenville                                      Restless Dolly Maunder

Bernardine Evaristo                            Girl Woman Other

Harini Nagendra                                 The Bangalore Detectives’ Club

May

Christopher Wynn                              I Never Knew that about the Irish                                                      

Multiple authors                                 Hillsboro Castle and Gardens                                                 

June

Harini Nagendra                                 Murder Under a Red Moon    

Helen Simonson                                 The Hazelbourne Motorcycle and Flying Club

Jessica Bull                                          Miss Austen Investigates                                                       

July

Elizabeth Oldham                               The Tail of Humanity

Daphne Leonie Wright                       On Love and Death and Belonging

Karen Barrow                                       Palmyra: a Caribbean Gothic Suspense Novel

Prudence Emery and Ron Base        Scandal at the Savoy

Prudence Emery and Ron Base        Princess of the Savoy

Jacqueline Winspear                         The Comfort of Ghosts

Kaliane Bradley                                  The Ministry of Time

David Crystal                                      The Story of English in 100 Words

Nevil Shute                                          Pied Piper

Ian Rankin                                           A Game Called Malice

Sam Wiebe, ed.                                  Vancouver Noir

Alexander McCall Smith                   Love in the Time of Bertie                                                    

August

Rosamunde Pilcher                             Winter Solstice

Jeanine Cummins                               American Dirt                         

Richard Coles                                       Murder Before Evensong

Richard Coles                                       A Death in the Parish

Sarah Hilary                                          Someone Else’s Skin  

Mark Twain                                           Huckleberry Finn (audio)

Richard Flook                                       Why Am I Sick? (skimmed)

Austin Duffy                                          Cross

Mark Billingham                                   The Last Dance (didn’t finish)

Lara Feigel                                            The Love Charm of Bombs (read only part)                                                                                                 

September

Barbara Erskine                                  The Dream Weavers

Steven Pressfield                                Do the Work

Steven Pressfield                                Turning Pro

Michael Newton                                 Journey of Souls

Claire Boylan, ed.                               The Agony and the Ego

Percival Everett                                  James

Rhys Bowen                                        The Rose Arbour

Tracy Chevalier                                 The Glass Maker                                                                    

October

Amor Towles                                      Table for Two

Kate Atkinson                                     Murder at the Sign of the Rook

Elif Shafak                                           There are Rivers in the Sky

Alex Michaelides                               Fury (audiobook, rec by Katie Greenstreet)

David Lodge                                       The Writing Game (audiobook)

Alexander McCall Smith                  The Conditions of Unconditional Love

Felix Frances                                      Triple Crown (audio)  

Felix Frances                                      Refusal (audio)

Carys Davies                                      Clear (audio)   

Emma Darwin                                    All Things Invisible (online serial)

November

Kingsley Amis                                    Lucky Jim (audio)

Sean O’Callaghan                            The Informer

Robert Harris                                      An Officer and a Spy

David Lodge                                       The Art of Fiction

Julia Cameron                                  Writing for Life

Kevin Fulton                                       Double Agent

Lindsey Mellon                                  Straw Man

Alexander McCall Smith                 The Great Hippopotamus Hotel (audio)

Ian Rankin                                          Midnight and Blue 

Barbara Kingsolver                          Demon Copperhead (audio CD)

Felix Frances                                      Guilty Not Guilty

Richard Osman                                 We Solve Murders

Emily Dunlay                                     Teddy                                                  

Sue Marsden                                     Thank You Elisabeth

December

Colm Toibin                                       Long Island (CD)

Robert Harris                                     Precipice (CD)

Elly Griffiths                                        The Last Remains 

Celia Ahern                                        Thanks for the Memories

Valeria Luiselli                                   The Story of My Teeth

Jeff Olson                                           The Slight Edge

In 2024 I read 101 books, the same number as in 2023 and 21 fewer than the year before. Guess I’ve been doing more writing, so that’s all good.