Here’s a list of the books I’ve read so far in 2026. Five star reads are shown in bold. Links from a title will take you to my review.
- The Eights by Joanna Miller
- Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
- Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
- The Pretender by Jo Harkin
- Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
- Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
- Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- Julia Sleeps by Zoe Caryl
- Room 706 by Ellie Levenson
- The Shock of the Light by Lori Inglis Hall
- The Cut Line by Caroline Pihelgas, trans. by Darcy Hurford
- When The Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen, trans. by Alice Menzies
- A Private Man by Stephanie Sy-Quia
- Love Lane by Patrick Gale
- Words for Patty Jo by Jill Arlene Culiner
- What Remains After A Fire: Stories by Kanza Javed
- The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards
- Sweep the Cobwebs Off the Sky by Mary O’Donnell
- The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
- The Perfect Circle by Claudia Petrucci, trans. by Anne Milano Appel
- Sanctuary by Tom Gaisford
- The River Days of Rosie Crow by Rebecca Stonehill
- A Far-Flung Life by M. L. Stedman
- Thunderball by Ian Fleming
- Dark is the Morning by Rupert Thomson
- Paper Sisters by Rachel Canwell
- Where the Shadows End by Louisa Bello
- Flashlight by Susan Choi
- Relative Failures: The Lives of Willie Wilde, Mabel Beardsley and Howard Sturgis by Matthew Sturgis
- Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan
- Bane of Bernicia (The Bernicia Chronicles #11) by Matthew Harffy
- Once the Deed Is Done by Rachel Seiffert
- Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
- Prey by Graham Hurley
- Dwell by Rue Baldry
- A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
- Deception (Joseph Gunner #2) by Alan Parks
- Country People by Daniel Mason
- Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
- A Fatal Love by Louisa Treger
- Throw Away the Key by Jason M. Hough
- Daughters of Naples by Diana Giovinazzo
- Land by Maggie O’Farrell
- Where Are the Kings by Donal Ryan
- Invitation from a Dictator by Rory Clements
- The Millionaire Waltz by Anthony Quinn
- The Eagle & the Wolf (Age of Attila #1) by Gordon Doherty
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