Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Books Read in December 2024

 December - 9 

Total to date:  (48 new/15 re-read) 16 *non-fiction (33% non-fiction)

A Murder of Quality, John Le Carre

- Birdcage Library, Freya Berry

- Life After Life, Kate Atkinson

- Case Histories, Kate Atkinson

- *Snowden, The Biography, Anne de Courcy

- *The Lazy Genius Kitchen, Kendra Adachi

- Butter, Asako Yuzuki

- *Effortless, Greg McKeown

- Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan

November - 6

Total to date:  (39 new/15 re-read) 13 *non-fiction = 54 (24% non-fiction)

A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley), Elizabeth George

Payment in Blood (Inspector Lynley), Elizabeth George

The Burning Shore, Wilbur Smith

Gently Does It (Inspector George Gently), Alan Hunter

Geek Girl, Holly Smale

Call for the Dead (George Smiley), John le Carre

October - 6

Total to date:  (33 new/15 re-read) 13 *non-fiction = 48

- *Essentialism, Greg McKeown

- Trespasses, Louise Kennedy

- *A Street Cat Named Bob, James Bowen

- *You Learn by Living, Eleanor Roosevelt  

- *Daily Rituals - Women at Work, Mason Currey

- *On Fire, Naomi Klein

September - 4

Total to date:  (27 new/15 re-read) 8 *non-fiction = 42

 Mr Mercedes, Stephen King

- The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles 

-  Leave No Trace,  Jo Callaghan

Mrs. Miniver, Jan Struthers

 August - 6

Total to date:  (24 new/14 re-read) 8 *non-fiction = 38

 In the Blink of an Eye, Jo Callaghan

- In the Blink of an Eye,  Jo Callaghan

Girl Waits with Gun, Amy Stewart

- Lady Cop Makes Trouble, Amy Stewart

- Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions, Amy Stewart

- The Little Red Chairs, Edna O'Brien

July - 3

Total to date:  (21 new/11 re-read) 8 *non-fiction = 32

- The Time in Between, Maria Duenas

- *English Pastoral, James Rebank

*All in One Basket - Nest Eggs by Deborah Devonshire

June - 5

Total to date:  (18 new/11 re-read) 6 *non-fiction = 29

The Kellerby Code, Jonny Sweet

Emma, Jane Austen

The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly

The Herd, Emily Edwards

The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak

May - 4

Total to date:  (14 new/10 re-read) 6 *non-fiction = 24

*The End of Food - The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry, Paul Roberts

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

- *History Dudes - Vikings, Laura Buller

April - 9

Total to date:  (12 new/8 re-read) 4 *non-fiction = 20

- *The Year 1000, Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger

- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

Kingdom by the Sea, Robert Westall

Blitzcat, Robert Westall

The Last Empress, Anchee Min

- *The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, Belle De Jour

- Murder in Williamstown, Kerry Greenwood

Death in Daylesford, Kerry Greenwood

Island of the Missing Trees, Elif Shafak

 March - 3

Total to date:  (5 new/6 re-read) 2 *non-fiction = 11

The Ink Black Heart, Robert Galbraith

- *Aristocrats. Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832,  Stella Tillyard

Paris in the Dark, Robert Olen Butler

February - 6

Total to date:  (3 new/5 re-read) 1 *non-fiction = 8

- *The White Album, Joan Didion

The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith

The Silkworm, Robert Galbraith

- Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith

- Lethal White, Robert Galbraith

- Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith

 January - 2

Total to date:  (2 new/0 re-read) 0 *non-fiction

- The Detective's Daughter, Lesley Thomson

The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum