~ Reading List 2023 ~
JANUARY
1. Ragnar Jónasson – Whiteout 
2. Ragnar Jónasson – Winterkill
3. Lucy Foley – The Paris Apartment 
4. Ian Rankin – A Heart Full Of Headstones – Inspector Rebus #24
5. Lauren Beukes – The Shining Girls
6. Ann Patchett – The Dutch House
7. Stephen Blackmore – Bottle Demon
8. Val McDermid – How The Dead Speak – Tony Hill/Carol Jordan #11
9. Stuart McBride – No Less The Devil
10. Rebecca Netley – The Whistling
11. Nick Louth – The Body in the Marsh – DCI Craig Gillard #1
12. Nick Louth – The Body on the Shore – DCI Craig Gillard #2
13. Nick Louth – The Body in the Mist – DCI Craig Gillard #3
FEBRUARY
14. Nick Louth – The Body in the Snow – DCI Craig Gillard #4
15. Nick Louth – The Body under the Bridge – DCI Craig Gillard #5
16. Nick Louth – The Body on the Island – DCI Craig Gillard #6
17. Nick Louth – The Bodies at Westgrave Hall – DCI Craig Gillard #7
18. Nick Louth – The Body on the Moor – DCI Craig Gillard #8
19. Nick Louth – The Body Beneath the Willows – DCI Craig Gillard #9
20. Nick Louth – The Body in the Stairwell – DCI Craig Gillard #10
21. Jane Harper – Exiles
22. Geoffrey McGeachin – The Diggers Rest Hotel – Charlie Berlin #1 2010
23. Geoffrey McGeachin – Blackwattle Creek – Charlie Berlin #2 2012
24. Geoffrey McGeachin – St Kilda Blues – Charlie Berlin #3 2014
25. Caimh McDonnell – The Man With One of Those Faces – Dublin #1
26. Caimh McDonnell – The Day that Never Comes – Dublin #2
27. Caimh McDonnell – Angels in the Moonlight – Dublin #3
28. Emma Viskic – Resurrection Bay – Caleb Zelic #1
29. Chris Whitaker – We Begin At The End
30. Adalyn Grace – Belladonna
31. Jay Kristoff – Empire of the Vampire
MARCH
32. JD Kirk – One for the Ages – DCI Logan #16
33. Shelley Burr – WAKE
34. Liv Andersson – Little Red House
35. Stacey Halls – The Familiars
36. Mick Herron – Real Tigers – Slough House #3 (reread)
37. Mick Herron – Spook Street – Slough House #4 (reread)
38. Mick Herron – London Rules – Slough House #5 (reread)
39. Mick Herron – Joe Country – Slough House #6 (reread)
40. Mick Herron – Slough House – Slough House #7 (reread)
41. Mick Herron – Bad Actors – Slough House #8 (reread)
42. David Gatward – Dark Hours – DCI Grimm #13
43. Mick Herron – Down Cemetery Road – Oxford Series 1
44. Mick Herron – The Last Voice You Hear – Oxford Series 2
45. Mick Herron – Why We Die – Oxford Series 3
46. Mick Herron – Standing By The Wall – The Collected Slough House Novellas
APRIL
47. Mick Herron – Dolphin Junction – a collection of stories
48. Mick Herron – Smoke and Whispers – Oxford 4
49. Mick Herron – Reconstruction – Oxford 5 (hmm maybe not)
50. Mick Herron – Nobody Walks
51. Mick Herron – This is What Happened
52. Kate Humble – A Year of Living Simply
53. Leanne Moriarty – Apples Never Fall
54. Deborah Bee – Every Move You Make
55. Deborah Bee – The Last Thing I Remember
56. Menna van Praag – The Lost Art of Letter Writing
57. Kim Harrison – American Demon – Rachel Morgan/Hollows 14
58. Kim Harrison – Billion Dollar Demon – Rachel Morgan/Hollows 15
59. Kim Harrison – Trouble with the Cursed – Rachel Morgan/Hollows 16
60. Patricia Briggs – Soul Taken – Mercy Thompson 13
61. Darynda Jones – The Curse of Tenth Grave – Charley Davidson 10
62. Darynda Jones – Eleventh Grave in Moonlight – Charley Davidson 11
63. John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids
64. John Le Carré – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Smiley #5
65. Alan Garner – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Alderley #1
66. Alan Garner – The Moon of Gomrath – Alderley #2
67. Lev Grossman – The Magicians – Magicians #1
68. Lev Grossman – The Magician King – Magicians #2
MAY
69. Lev Grossman – The Magician’s Land – Magicians #3
70. Jodi Taylor – White Silence – Elizabeth Cage #1
71. Margareta Magnusson – Dostadning: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (2020)
72. JP Smythe – Way Down Dark – Australia Trilogy #1
73. Simon Clark – Night of the Triffids
74. Charlie Huston – Already Dead – Joe Pitt #1
75. Charlie Huston – No Dominion – Joe Pitt #2
76. Charlie Huston – Half the Blood in Brooklyn – Joe Pitt #3
77. Charlie Huston – Every Last Drop – Joe Pitt #4
78. Donna Tartt – Secret History
79. Karen Joy Fowler – The Jane Austen Book Club
80. Charlie Huston – The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
81. Charlie Huston – Caught Stealing
82. Charlie Huston – Six Bad Things
83. Cheryl Strayed – Wild
84. Charlie Huston – A Dangerous Man
JUNE
85. Leigh Bardugo – Ninth House (started in May finished in June)
86. Hugh Howey – Wool – Silo Book 1
87. Hugh Howey – Shift – Silo Book 2
88. Hugh Howey – Dust – Silo Book 3
JULY
AUGUST
89. Jo Nesbo – Killing Moon – Harry Hole Book 13
90. Andy Weir – The Martian <<—- all the stars!
91. Bonnie Garmus – Lessons in Chemistry
92. Dawn O’Porter – Cat Lady
93. David Gatward – Silent Ruin – Grimm 14
94. Genevieve Cogman – Scarlet – Scarlet Revolution 1
SEPTEMBER
95. Robert A Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land
96. Justin Cronin – The Ferryman
97. Jodi Taylor – The Good, The Bad and The History – Chronicles of St Mary’s #14
98. Mick Herron – The Secret Hours
99. Kim Harrison – Demons of Good and Evil – Hollows #17
100. Richard Osman – The Last Devil To Die – Thursday Murder Club #4
101. Adalyn Grace – Foxglove – Belladonna #2
OCTOBER
102. Emma Torzs – Ink Blood Sister Scribe
103. Robert Thorogood – The Marlow Murder Club
104. JD Kirk – In Service of Death – DCI Logan #17
105. Benedict Jacka – An Inheritance of Magic
106. Robert Thorogood – Death Comes To Marlow – Marlow Murder Club #2
107. JD Kirk – A Dead Man Walking – DCI Logan #18
108. Adrian McKinty -The Detective Up Late – Sean Duffy #7
109. JD Kirk -The One That Got Away – Heather Filson #1
110. Matthew Perry – Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
111. Nick Louth – The Body in the Shadows – DCI Gillard #11
112. Nick Louth – The Body in Nightingale Park – DCI Gillard #12
113. Travis Baldree – Legends and Lattes – Legends and Lattes #1
114. Alix E Harrow – Starling House
115. Robert Dinsdale – Once a Monster
116. Mark Lawrence – The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
NOVEMBER
117. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
118. Anne Rice – The Vampire Lestat (Abridged)
119. Bernhard Schlink – The Reader
120. Robert Dinsdale – The Toymakers
121. Travis Baldree – Bookshops and Bonedust – Legends and Lattes #2
122. Michael Connelly – Resurrection Walk – Lincoln Lawyer #7
123. T F Muir – Killing Moon – DI Gilchrist #12
DECEMBER
124. Doug Johnstone – The Space Between Us – Enceladons Trilogy #1
125. Doug Johnstone – A Dark Matter – Skelfs #1
126. Doug Johnstone – Crash Land
127. Doug Johnstone – Dead Beat
128. Doug Johnstone – Fault Lines
129. Doug Johnstone – The Great Silence – Skelfs #3
130. Doug Johnstone – Black Hearts – Skelfs #4
131. Evie Woods – The Lost Bookshop
132. Elliot Sweeney – The Next to Die – Dylan Kaspar #1
133. Jill Johnson – Devil’s Breath – Professor Eustacia Rose Mystery #1
134. E.A. Copen – Death Rites – Lazarus Codex #1
135. E.A. Copen – Organ Grind – Lazarus Codex #2
136. E.A. Copen – Shallow Grave – Lazarus Codex #3
137. E.A. Copen – Knight Shift – Lazarus Codex #4
138. E.A. Copen – Death Match – Lazarus Codex #5
139. E.A. Copen – Death’s Door – Lazarus Codex #6
140. E.A. Copen – Night Terror – Lazarus Codex #7
~ Top Reads ~
MY BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: (new books only, no re-reads!)
1. Lauren Beukes – The Shining Girls
2. Jane Harper – Exiles
3. Jay Kristoff – Empire of the Vampire
4. Shelley Burr – WAKE
5. Kim Harrison – American Demon – Rachel Morgan/Hollows 14
6. Hugh Howey – Wool – Silo Series
7. Mick Herron – The Secret Hours
8. Richard Osman – The Last Devil To Die – Thursday Murder Club #4
9. Benedict Jacka – An Inheritance of Magic
10. Matthew Perry – Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
11. Travis Baldree – Legends and Lattes series
12. Robert Dinsdale – The Toymakers
13. Michael Connelly – Resurrection Walk – Lincoln Lawyer #7
14. Doug Johnstone – A Dark Matter – Skelfs #1
15. E.A Copen – Lazarus Codex series
*** does not include books I have read multiple times this year including the Travis Baldree books which I have read at least four times each, plus the Richard Osman book (twice) and the Michael Connelly book (twice) ***