Here’s a list of the books I’ve read so far in 2024. Five star reads shown in bold. Links from each title will take you to my review.
- History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
- The Distant Dead by Lesley Thomson
- His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- The Most Difficult Thing by Charlotte Philby
- To Kill a King (Master of War #8) by David Gilman
- Other Worlds Were Possible by Joss Sheldon
- How to be Brave by Louise Beech
- Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek, trans. by Leri Price
- All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman
- The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy
- Sufferance by Charles Palliser
- The Shadow Network by Tony Kent
- In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Åkerström
- Remember, Remember by Elle Machray
- Notes of Change (Sam Plank #7) by Susan Grossey
- The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
- The Other Princess by Denny S. Bryce
- A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart
- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
- A Tapestry of Treason by Anne O’Brien
- Diva by Daisy Goodwin
- The Story Collector by Iris Costello
- Clear by Carys Davies
- Invader (Agricola #1) by Simon Turney
- Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein
- The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola
- Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
- Death on the Thames by Alan Johnson
- The Wager by David Grann
- A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
- Sword of the War God by Tim Hodkinson
- Bonjour, Sophie by Elizabeth Buchan
- Girl Friends by Alex Dahl
- Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson
- James by Percival Everett
- Mania by Lionel Shriver
- The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston
- The Household by Stacey Halls
- Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
- The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse
- The Montford Maniac by M.R.C. Kasasian
- Darkness Does Not Come At Once by Glenn Bryant
- Under the Banner of Valor by Gary Corbin
- Afterlight by Jaap Robben, trans. by David Doherty
- How to Make a Bomb: A Novel by Rupert Thomson
- Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
- A Plague of Serpents by K. J. Maitland
- The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- Estella’s Revenge by Barbara Havelocke
- The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
- The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
- French Windows by Antoine Laurain
- The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
- Alvesdon by James Holland
- A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray
- The Days of Our Birth by Charlie Laidlaw
- The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
- In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
- Dead Ground by Graham Hurley
- Dark Frontier by Matthew Harffy
- The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite
- In the Garden of Sorrows by Karen Jewell
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass
- West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman
- normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson
- Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead
- Berlin Duet by S. W. Perry
- Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan
- The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
- Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
- Six Lives by Lavie Tidhar
- A Place Without Pain by Simon Bourke
- Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
- Hemlock Bay (Rachel Savernake #5) by Martin Edwards
- Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans
- Terra Incognita by Simon Turney
- The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Possible Happiness by David Ebenbach
- Hortobiography by Carol Klein
- Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
- Meadowlands Dawn by Jo Beall
- Precipice by Robert Harris
- The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond by Louise Davidson
- The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse
- The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
- Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll
- Revenge of Rome (Eagles of the Empire #23) by Simon Scarrow
- This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
- The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter
- So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
- Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
- Eye of the Raven by Tim Hodkinson
- Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton
- How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- Time of the Child by Niall Williams
- Shadows of the Slain by Matthew Harffy
- The War Widow (Billie Walker Mystery #1) by Tara Moss
- The Draughtsman by Robert Lautner
- The Silence of Scheherazade by Defne Suman, trans. by Betsy Göksel
- The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
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