Read in 2019

2018 was a bumper reading year for me and I read a new personal best of 72 books. (You can see them here). This year I'm aiming to read 70 books and I'll be listing them as I go. Click on the hyperlinks below to read the reviews as the year progresses or you can check out my reviews alphabetically by author.

January
2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks by John Lloyd
Dead Heat by Peter Cotton
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
The Familiars by Stacey Halls

February
Threads of Life by Clare Hunter
Hunter by Jack Heath
Green Is The New Black by James Phelps
Perfect Ten by Jacqueline Ward
Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell

March
The Binding by Bridget Collins
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
The Easiest Slow Cooker Book Ever by Kim McCosker
The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
Treasure Palaces by Maggie Fergusson

April
Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
Strange The Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Under the Midnight Sky by Anna Romer
My Book (Not Yours) by Ben Sanders
The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
Boxed by Richard Anderson
A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley

May
Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir
Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein
Little Gestures by Mari Andrew
Into the Night by Sarah Bailey
Beyond The Pale by Emily Urquhart
The Accusation by Wendy James
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kate Nunn

June
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
Hunting Evil by Chris Carter
Something to Live For by Richard Roper
Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
The Everlasting Sunday by Robert Lukins
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke
Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls by Justine Ford

July
The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley
The Blue Rose by Kate Forsyth
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
Snake Island by Ben Hobson
The Other Half of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen
Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

August
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Outsider by Stephen King
Cold Case Investigations by Xanthe Mallett

September
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History by Brian Fagan & Nadia Durrani
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Silver by Chris Hammer

October
Bone China by Laura Purcell
The Lost Ones by Anita Frank
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
Hide by S.J. Morgan
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
The Confession by Jessie Burton
Him by Clare Empson

November
Sh*t Towns of Australia by Rick Furphy & Geoff Rissole
Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold
Hive by A.J. Betts
The Lying Room by Nicci French
Rogue by A.J. Betts
Dressing the Dearloves by Kelly Doust
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
Death on the Derwent - Sue Neill-Fraser's Story by Robin Bowles

December
Things In Jars by Jess Kidd
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
The Dumb House by John Burnside
The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice
Fucking Good Manners by Simon Griffin
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