Saturday, 31 December 2022

2022 Reading List

 December -  11

Total to date: 90 (69/21) 16 non-fiction

- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen 

- Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier 

- *The Well-Dressed Lady's Pocket Guide, Karen Homer

- The Green Poodles, Charlotte Baker 

- Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

- Persuasion, Jane Austen

- The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline, Nancy Springer

- Gilded, Marissa Meyer

- Cursed, Marissa Meyer

- The Knife Slipped, Erle Stanley Gardner

- The Supreme Lie, Geraldine McCaughrean


November -  8

Total to date: 79 (64/15) 15 non-fiction

- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karuntilaka 

Seige and Storm, Leigh Bardugo

- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg

- *The Other Side of the Coin - The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe, Angela Kelly

- *Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944, Anne de Courcy

- The Reading List, Sara Nisha Adams

- Holy Island, L. J. Ross

- The Midwife, Tricia Cresswell


 October - 5 

Total to date: 71 (56/15) 13 non-fiction

First Family, David Baldacci

- *The WI Handbook

- Fall of Giants, Ken Follett

Labyrinth, Kate Mosse

- *The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates 

September - 8  

Total to date: 66 (53/13) 11 non-fiction

- The Rock, L. J. Ross

- The Songbirds, Christy Lefteri

- The Wonder, Emma Donoghue

- The Black Ink Heart, Robert Galbraith

- Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith

- Lethal White, Robert Galbraith

- The Sixteen Trees of the Somme, Lars Mytting

- The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley

August - 7

Total to date: 58 (45/13)  11 non-fiction

The Taxidermist's Daughter, Kate Mosse

- *Knit Nordic, Eline Oftedal

- Missing, Presumed, Susie Steiner

- The Silkworm, Robert Galbraith

Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith

- *The Tick of Two Tocks: A Tale of Moving On, Joan Bakewell

Pilgrim's Rest, Patricia Wentworth

July - 4

 Total to date:  51 (38/13) 9 non-fiction

- *There is Nothing for You Here - Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century, Fiona Hill

- The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith

- Three Women and a Boat, Ann Youngson

- The Case is Closed, Patricia Wentworth

June - 4

 Total to date:  47 (34/13) 8 non-fiction

The Sun Sister, Lucinda Riley

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter, Hazel Gaynor

-*I am Malala, Christina Lamb

- *Noblesse Oblige, edited by Nancy Mitford

May  - 14

 Total to date:  43 (30/13) 6 non-fiction

The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton

Crossfire, Dick and Felix Francis

- Blood Hunt, Ian Rankin

- The Various Haunts of Men, Susan Hill

- The Moon Sister, Lucinda Riley

- The Killing Kind, John Connolly

- The Case of the Bizarre Bouquet, Nancy Springer

- Miss Silver Comes to Stay, Patricia Wentworth

- The Case of the Left-Handed Lady, Nancy Springer

- *Will She Do? Act One of a Life on Stage, Eileen Atkins

- My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

- *The Examined Life - How we lose and find ourselves, Stephen Grosz

- *Moneyland - Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World & How to Take it BackOliver Bullough

The Four Winds, Kristen Hannah


April  - 2

Total to date: 29 (19 / 10) 3 non-fiction

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

- Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame


March - 8

Total to date: 27 (17 / 10) 3 non-fiction

- The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries, Emily Brightwell

- *Atomic Habits - an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones, James Clear

- Witch Hunt, Ian Rankin

- *I Am, I Am, I Am, Maggie O'Farrell

- The Phone Box at the Edge of the World, Laura Imai Messina

- Gamble, Felix Francis

- 204 Rosewood Lane, Debbie Macomber

The House in the Cerulean Sea, T. J. Klune

February - 10

Total to date: 19 (11 / 8) 1 non-fiction

New books / re-read books / *Non-fiction

- The Girl in the Letter, Emily Gunnis

The Sixth ManDavid Baldacci

- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carre

- 16 Lighthouse Road, Debbie Macomber 

- Flying Too High, Kerry Greenwood

- Persuasion, Jane Austen

- Yesterday, Sue Grafton

- Cocaine Blues, Kerry Greenwood

- Girl Waits with a Gun, Amy Stewart

- Phoenix Burning, Bryony Pearce


 January - 9

Total to date: 9 (6 / 3) 1 non-fiction

New books / re-read books / *Non-fiction


The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers

The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski

- *Homemade - Learning to make your own everyday items (Readers' Digest)

- The Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard

Mycroft Holmes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

- The Heretic's Apprentice, Ellis Peters

- Winter's Bone, Daniel Woodrell

- The Moneychangers, Arthur Hailey


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