Happy Holidays everyone! I took this photo at the local botanical gardens last month, which I like to visit around the holidays. I hope everyone has an equally festive next few days filled with warmth and happiness however you might be celebrating. I'll be back on Friday with more bookishness in the hopes of catching up a bit and getting ready for a new reading year. Until then, happy reading and I hope you find a book-shaped present in your stocking or under the tree!
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Books Read in 2024
- The Women: A Novel, Kristin Hannah
- The Sleeping Car Murders, Sebastien Japrisot
- Robot Dreams, Sara Varon
- Soldier Sailor, Claire Kilroy
- Long Island, Colm Toibin
- Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross
- The Ex Talk, Rachel Lynn Solomon
- The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden
- The Road from Belhaven: A Novel, Margot Livesey
- Lunar New Year Love Story, Gene Luen Yang
- Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea, Morgan Callan Rogers
- The Breaker, Minette Walters
- Tuesday's Gone: A Frieda Klein Mystery, Nicci French
- The Lost Bookshop, Evie Woods
- Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
- Kala, Colin Walsh
- Ruined, Sarah Vaughn ; Sarah Winifred Searle ; Niki Smith
- Heaven and Earth: A Novel, Paolo Giordano
- A Guest in the House, Emily Carroll
- The Last Summer, Karen Swan
- Done and Dusted, Lyla Sage
- Antarctica, Claire Keegan
- Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin
- Taka-chan and I: A Dog's Journey to Japan, Runcible ; Betty Jean Lifton
- Mr. Wilder and Me, Jonathan Coe
- The Body Falls, Andrea Carter
- Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
Books Read in 2022
- Radium Girls, Cy
- The Swimmer, Graham Norton
- The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey
- Death in the Andamans, M.M. Kaye
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton
- The Wonder Spot, Melissa Bank
- Gender Queer: A Memoir, Maia Kobabe
- King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine
- The Outrun: A Memoir, Amy Liptrot
- Alte Zachen / Old Things, Ziggy Hanaor
- A Dying Fall, Elly Griffiths
- The Cut, Chris Brookmyre
- Bobby March Will Live Forever, Alan Parks
- 1989, Val McDermid
- House of Glass, Susan Fletcher
- These Dark Things, Jan Merete Weiss
- Death in Zanzibar, M.M. Kaye
- February's Son, Alan Parks
- Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley
- The Nature of Witches, Rachel Griffin
- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
- Bloody January, Alan Parks
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
- Brought up in Bloomsbury, Polly Hobson
- Tiny Little Thing, Beatriz Williams
- Walk Me to the Corner, Anneli Furmark, tr. Hanna Stromberg
- Murder at Brightwell, Ashley Weaver
- Alias Emma, Ava Glass
- Death in Kenya, M.M. Kaye
- A Trouble of Fools, Linda Barnes
- Better Than the Movies, Lynn Painter
- The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak.
- The Key to Deceit, Ashley Weaver.
- An Academic Question, Barbara Pym
- Acts of Violet, Margarita Montimore
- U is for Undertow, Sue Grafton
- Liberty Bar, Georges Simenon, tr. David Watson
- River of Darkness, Rennie Airth
- Three, Valerie Perrin, tr. Hildegarde Serle
- Marzahn, Mon Amour, Katja Oskamp, tr. Jo Heinrich
- Mrs. England, Stacey Halls
- Postcard Stories, Jan Carson
- A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Axie Oh
- Book Lovers, Emily Henry
- A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
- Footprints on the Sand, Judith Lennox
- Death in Cyprus, M.M. Kaye
- Ridley Road, Jo Bloom
- Today Tonight Tomorrow, Rachel Lynn Solomon
- Love, Maayan Eitan
- Pandora, Susan Stokes-Chapman
- Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide, Kan Takahama, Emmanuelle Maisoneuve, Julia Pavlowitch
- Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
- Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
- Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason
- Natural Born Charmer, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- A Sunlit Weapon, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Well of Ice, Andrea Carter
- Passing, Nella Larsen
- Violeta, Isabel Allende, tr. Frances Riddle
- Death in Berlin, M.M. Kaye
- You'll Be the Death of Me, Karen M. McManus
- Bird in a Cage, Frederic Dard, tr. David Bellos
- Jezebel's Daughter, Wilkie Collins
- What's Left of Me Is Yours, Stephanie Scott
- Someone to Cherish, Mary Balogh
- The Fencing Master : Arturo Perez-Reverte, tr. Margaret Jull Costa
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo
- Crushing, Sophie Burrows
- Before My Actual Heart Breaks, Tish Delaney
- Very Cold People: A Novel, Sarah Manguso
- Himawari House, Harmony Becker
- The Maid: A Novel, Nita Prose
- Death in Kashmir: A Mystery, M.M. Kaye
- The Fountains of Silence, Ruta Sepetys
- Tunnels, Rutu Modan, tr. Ishai Mishory
- A Court of Thorns, Sarah J. Maas
- The Case of the Borrowed Brunette: A Perry Mason Mystery, Erle Stanley Gardner
- Why is Everybody Yelling, Marisabina Russo
Books Read in 2021
- Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover
- Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime, Debora Harding
- The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
- Treacherous Strand (Inishowen Mysteries #2), Andrea Carter
- Blue Monday: A Frieda Klein Mystery, Nicci French
- Stranger Planet, Nathan W. Pyle
- Christmas By the Book, Anne Marie Ryan
- This One Summer, Mario Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki
- Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
- Her Royal Spyness, Rhys Bowen
- 1979: An Allie Burns Novel, Val McDermid
- When I Lived in Modern Times, Linda Grant
- Death at Whitewater Church, Andrea Carter
- Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune
- The Other Side of Midnight, Simone St James
- The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, Amy E. Reichert
- Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
- The Strange Files of Fremont Jones, Dianne Day
- Ruth's First Christmas Tree, Elly Griffiths
- White Ivy: A Novel, Susie Yang
- Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
- No Gods, No Monsters: A Novel, Cadwell Turnbull
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
- Pirate King, Laurie R. King
- Take Me with You When You Go, David Levithan and Jennifer Niven
- Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Clark and Division: A Novel, Naomi Hirahara
- A Room Full of Bones, Elly Griffiths
- The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
- All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
- Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising), Susan Cooper
- Intimacies: A Novel, Katie Kitamura
- An Unlikely Spy, Rebecca Starford
- Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
- T Is for Trespass, Sue Grafton
- Beach Read, Emily Henry
- A Peculiar Combination: An Electra McDonnell Novel, Ashley Weaver
- The Great Godden, Meg Rosoff
- The God of the Hive, Laurie R. King
- Lucky Us: A Novel, Amy Bloom
- Whereabouts: A Novel, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The House at Sea's End, Elly Griffiths
- People From My Neighbourhood, Hiromi Kawakami, tr. Ted Goossen
- The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King
- What Angels Fear: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, C.S. Harris
- The Secrets of Wishtide, Kate Saunders
- Summer: A Novel, Ali Smith
- Oceanic, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Magpie Lane, Lucy Atkins
- A Madness of Sunshine, Nalini Singh
- Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology, Kendra Boileau
- Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers
- Slow Horses, Mick Herron
- Kusama: The Graphic Novel, Elisa Macellari
- Comes the War, Ed Ruggero
- The Dancing Floor, Barbara Michaels
- Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines, Lulah Ellender
- No Ivy League, Hazel Newlevant
- The Less People Know about Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, Axton Betz-Hamilton
- Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
- The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell
- Mrs. Tim of the Regiment: A Novel, D.E Stevenson
- Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I, Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb
- The German House, Annette Hess, tr. Elisabeth Lauffer
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
- The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh
- Spring: A Novel, Ali Smith
- Fresh Water for Flowers Valerie Perrin, tr. Hildegarde Serle
- Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
Books Read in 2020
- Displacement, Kiku Hughes
- The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper
- The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanizaki, tr. Edward G. Seidensticker
- The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
- S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
- After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next, Jana Hensel
- Broke City, Wendy McGrath
- North East, Wendy McGrath
- Santa Rosa, Wendy McGrath
- Farewell, Ghosts, Nadia Terranova, tr. Ann Goldstein
- Bunny Lake Is Missing, Evelyn Piper
- Dancing at the Pity Party, Tyler Feder
- Invisible Differences, Julie Dachez, Madememoiselle Caroline, tr. Edward Gauvin
- The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
- Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, Penelope Bagieu
- An Unmarked Grave: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
- Sweet Little Lies, Caz Frear
- Over Sea, Over Stone, Susan Cooper
- The Rescuers, Margery Sharp
- A Map of the Damage, Sophia Tobin
- Eva Underground, Dandi Daley Mackall
- The Godwulf Manuscript, Robert B. Parker
- The Phantom Twin, Lisa Brown
- "R" Is For Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, Natasha Trethewey
- Winter: A Novel, Ali Smith
- At Bertram's Hotel: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- How To Be Autistic, Charlotte Amelia Poe
- Maigret in Montmartre, Georges Simenon, tr.Daphne Woodward
- The Mountains Wild, Sarah Stewart Taylor
- The Summer Wives: A Novel, Beatriz Williams
- The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Fordham, Aya Morton
- The Cutting Season: A Novel, Attica Locke
- Haunting Of Strawberry Water, Tara Gould
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel, Otessa Moshfegh
- Summer Solstice: An Essay, Nina MacLaughlin
- Little Jewel, Patrick Modiano, tr. Penny Hueston
- American Girl: Scenes from a Small-Town Childhood, Mary Cantwell
- Angel (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Stepping Stones (Peapod Farm), Lucy Knisley
- Not Our Kind: A Novel, Kitty Zeldis
- Book Love, Debbie Tung
- The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths
- Blame the Dead, Ed Ruggero
- Strike Your Heart, Amélie Nothomb, tr, Alison Anderson
- "Q" is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Underground Time, Delphine de Vigan, tr. George Miller
- Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, Julia Alekseyeva
- The Vet's Daughter (NYRB Classics), Barbara Comyns
- The Aloe, Katherine Mansfield
- Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult, Marianne Boucher
- The Wolf Of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland, Carol Isaacs (The Surreal McCoy)
- The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
- Dominicana: A Novel, Angie Cruz
- Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat, Aimée de Jongh, tr. (Dutch)
- Algeria Is Beautiful like America, Olivia Burton, Mahi Grand, tr. Edward Gauvin
- "P" is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story, Debbie Tung
- The Ashes of London, Andrew Taylor
- The Mars Room: A Novel, Rachel Kushner
- Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir, Robin Ha
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Richard Peck
- The Mischief, Assia Djebar, tr. Frances Frenaye
- Two Girls Down, Louisa Luna
- Heart Berries: A Memoir, Terese Marie Mailhot
- Penny Nichols, MK Reed, Greg Means, Matt Wiegle
- Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy, Larry Loftis
- Sanditon: [Jane Austen], Kate Riordan
- Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, Nora Krug