What Cathy Read 2023

Here’s a list of the books I read in 2023. Five star reads shown in bold. Links from each title will take you to my review.

1. The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman
2. Bellatrix by Simon Turney
3. The English Führer by Rory Clements
4. My Mother’s Shadow by Nikola Scott
5. The New Life by Tom Crewe
6. Where Roses Never Die by Gunnar Staalesen, trans. by Don Bartlett
7. The Lace Weaver by Lauren Chater
8. Becoming Ted by Matt Cain
9. The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh
10. A Winter Grave by Peter May
11. The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
12. Dead of Night by Simon Scarrow
13. A Gift of Poison by Bella Ellis
14. The Emperor’s Shield by Gordon Doherty
15. Ponti by Sharlene Teo
16. The Paris Sister by Adrienne Chinn
17. Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough
18. The Witch in the Well by Camilla Bruce
19. Cut Adrift (Jen Shaw #2) by Jane Jesmond
20. Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery
21. The Last Party at Silverton Hall by Rachel Burton
22. Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
23. The Spy Across the Water by James Naughtie
24. Three Gifts by Mark A. Radcliffe 
25. No Life for a Lady by Hannah Dolby
26. A Complicated Matter by Anne Youngson
27. The Romantic by William Boyd
28. The Settlement by Jock Serong
29. Birthright by Charles Lambert
30. A Brief History of Living Forever by Jaroslav Kalfar
31. I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnanbalam
32. Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
33. The Drums of War (Thomas Tallant #3) by Michael Ward
34. God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
35. The Sinner’s Mark by S. W. Perry
36. The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry
37. Rivers of Treason by K. J. Maitland
38. No Place To Hide by JS Monroe
39. Bone China by Laura Purcell
40. The Letter Reader by Jan Casey
41. The Monk by Tim Sullivan
42. In the Shadows of Castles by G. K. Holloway
43. Sepulchre Street (Rachel Savernake #4) by Martin Edwards
44. Tiny Pieces of Enid by Tim Ewins
45. The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
46. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
47. The Scarlet Papers by Matthew Richardson
48. Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou
49. Ancestry by Simon Mawer
50. Hokey Pokey by Kate Macarenhas
51. The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor
52. The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan
53. The Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy
54. Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry
55. The Voluble Topsy by A. P. Herbert
56. The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
57. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
58. The Blood of Others by Graham Hurley
59. Before the Swallows Come Back by Fiona Curnow
60. In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
61. The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan
62. The Soldier’s Child by Tetyana Denford
63. Para Bellum by Simon Turney
64. Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt
65. The Unheard by Anne Worthington
66. Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
67. Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang
68. A Stranger in My Grave by Margeret Millar
69. The Black Crescent by Jane Johnson
70. The Hollow Throne by Tim Leach 
71. The Well of Saint Nobody by Neil Jordan
72. A Fenland Garden by Francis Pryor
73. The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
74. Treason by James Jackson
75. The Night Raids by Jim Kelly
76. The Postcard by Carly Schabowski
77. China Blue by Madalyn Morgan
78. The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse
79. Chasing Ghosts by Madalyn Morgan
80. Adama by Lavie Tidhar
81. Wrecker by Noel O’Reilly
82. The Mystery of Yew Tree House by Lesley Thomson
83. The Traitor by Ava Glass
84. Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies
85. North Woods by Daniel Mason
86. A Day of Reckoning by Matthew Harffy
87. The Merchant’s Dilemma by Carolyn Hughes
88. Byron and Shelley by Glenn Haybittle
89. Sanctuary Motel (Mess Hopkins #1) by Alan Orloff
90. The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead
91. Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones
92. The Socialite Spy by Sarah Sigal
93. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
94. Held by Anne Michaels
95. Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears 
96. In Two Minds by Alis Hawkins
97. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou
98. Rebellion (Eagles of Empire #22) by Simon Scarrow
99. Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
100. The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
101. The Teacher (DS Cross #6) by Tim Sullivan
102. Mrs Whistler by Matthew Pamplin
103. The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
104. Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei
105. The Diver and the Lover by Jeremy Vine
106. The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn
107. The Binding by Bridget Collins
108. The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
109. The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
110. Perfume River by Robert Olen Butler
111. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
112. Back Trouble by Clare Chambers
113. Munich Wolf by Rory Clements
114. The German Messenger by David Malcolm
115. The Slowworm’s Song by Andrew Miller