BOOKS 2012-2024

RECAP

2023 - 114
2022 - 107
2021 - 121
2020 - 76
2019 - 87
2018 - 87
2017 - 86
2016 - 89
2015 - 85
2014 - 101
2013 - 73
2012 - 95

2024

  1. Unfollow Me


2023

  1. A Room Swept White
  2. Dark Game
  3. The London House
  4. Trust DNF
  5. The Palace Papers
  6. The Midnight Man
  7. Cook's Illustrated Baking Book
  8. Gluten Free and Vegan Cookbook
  9. The Ultimate Tortilla Press Book
  10. Dead Cold
  11. Cold Heart
  12. America's Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook
  13. Blackbird Bakery Gluten Free
  14. The Homemade Flour Cookbook
  15. Milk Street The World in a Skillet
  16. Cold Blood DNF
  17. That Noodle Life
  18. Five Ingredient Dinners
  19. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job DNF
  20. Family Chau DNF
  21. The Christie Affair
  22. The Girl with No Past
  23. World of Curiosities
  24. Asking for It
  25. Watch Out For Her
  26. Time to Die
  27. The Lost Art of Mixing
  28. The Kitchen Front
  29. Lyrebird - DNF
  30. The Personal Assistant
  31. Two and Two: McSorley's
  32. Echoland
  33. The Couple At The Table
  34. The Things We Cannot Say
  35. The Younger Wife
  36. The House in the Pines
  37. The Lost Girl
  38. Dark Music
  39. All the Dangerous Things
  40. Our Missing Hearts
  41. Greenwich Park
  42. Afterparties
  43. The Latecomer - loved it!
  44. It Ends With Us
  45. The Henna Artist
  46. My Father's House
  47. Terrible Virtue
  48. The Weight of Ink - DNF
  49. What Have We Done
  50. I Have Some Questions For You
  51. What Was Mine
  52. The Perfect Couple
  53. Zero Days
  54. Code Name Sapphire
  55. Home Safe
  56. Denial
  57. Sign of the Cross
  58. Life Sentence
  59. Woman Last Seen 
  60. The Children
  61. Old Bones
  62. A Daughter's Deadly Deception
  63. Secret Life:The Jian Ghomesi Investigation
  64. Everyone Here is Lying
  65. The Housekeepers
  66. Between You and Me
  67. Have You Seen Her
  68. The Good House
  69. The Good House
  70. One Step Too Far
  71. A Deadly Divide
  72. The Soulmate
  73. Don't Turn Around
  74. A Serial Killer's Daughter
  75. The Profession of Violence
  76. Perfect Crime
  77. The Downstairs Neighbor
  78. Truth and Other Lies
  79. Paper Money
  80. The House of Eve
  81. The Lilac Girls DNF
  82. The Prisoner
  83. The Last Party
  84. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
  85. The Fifth Letter
  86. Under my Skin
  87. Girls Who Lie
  88. Truth Be Told: My Life Through Journey and Law
  89. The Creak on the Stairs
  90. The Housekeeper
  91. To Tell the Truth
  92. The Sisters
  93. The Loyal Wife
  94. The Perfect Marriage
  95. Gone
  96. From the Dead
  97. Poppet DNF
  98. The Kept Woman
  99. Maid
  100. The Last Place You Look
  101. The Angel
  102. The Wife Between Us
  103. Buried Lies
  104. Don't close Your Eyes
  105. The Au Pair
  106. The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
  107. The Address
  108. Girl, Forgotten
  109. The Forgotten Daughter
  110. The Finishing School DN
  111. Next of Kin
  112. Those People Next Door
  113. Take It Back
  114. Truth Be Told


2022


  1. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
  2. The Darkest Night 
  3. My Kitchen Table 100 
  4. The Madness of Crowds
  5. Fallen Angels 
  6. Cooking with Mary Berry
  7. Lost Souls
  8. Montpelier Parade DNF
  9. Carnegie's Maid
  10. The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris
  11. The Big Awesome Book of Hand and Chalk Lettering
  12. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
  13. Seven Lies 
  14. Downfall
  15.  The Last Time I Saw You
  16. This Little Light DNF 
  17. Vietnamese 
  18. The Lost Ones
  19. Safe and Sound
  20. State of Terror
  21. Little White Lies
  22. Bunner's Bake Shop Cookbook
  23. Lying Ways
  24. Gracelin O'Malley series (3)
  25. The Other Side of the Door 
  26. Young Mungo DNF
  27. Last Girl Ghosted
  28. The Banker's Wife 
  29. The Good Son
  30. Buried
  31. Chowderland
  32. 1979 Fantastic
  33. Still Life
  34. The Long Weekend by Clare Lydon
  35. The School for Good Mothers
  36. A Town Called Solace
  37. Unholy Murder
  38. Rewind
  39. 56 Days Dublin/pandemic fantastic
  40. French Braid
  41. Wish You Were Here
  42. Blunt Force
  43. The Nothing Man
  44. The Replacement Wife
  45. My Darling Husband 
  46. Life Without Children
  47. The Caretakers
  48. The Long Weekend
  49. Not Our Kind
  50. BOSH! Healthy Vegan
  51. The Murder Rule
  52. I Know You Know
  53. The Good Sister
  54. The Perfect Girl
  55. Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 1 The Early Years 
  56. The Golden Couple
  57. The Woman He Loved Before
  58. The Midnight Killing
  59. Who Took Eden Mulligan
  60. Dear Life
  61. Good Chinese Wife: A love Affair with China Gone Wrong
  62. Nothing But the Truth
  63. Perfect Little Children
  64. The Next to Die
  65. Market Restaurant + Bar Cookbook
  66. Reckless Girls
  67. Five Days Missing
  68. The Nurse
  69. The Liar's Daughter
  70. Ask No Questions
  71. This Might Hurt
  72. Marrying the Ketchups
  73. Something in the Water 
  74. Mr. Nobody
  75. The Dry
  76. The Ex-Husband
  77. Early Morning Riser
  78. The Shadow Man
  79. The Last Week
  80. Wish You Were Gone
  81. Arranged
  82. The Lost Chapter 
  83. An Honest Lie 
  84. Say You're Sorry
  85. Daisy Darker
  86.  I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 
  87. These Silent Woods
  88. Long Time Coming DNF
  89. The Second Mrs. Astor DNF
  90. Twenty Years Later 
  91. The Suicide House
  92. The Girl Who Was Taken
  93. The Dare
  94. The Rumor 
  95. The Girl You Lost 
  96. The Lying Wife
  97. While You Were Sleeping
  98. The Therapist
  99. The Other Husband
  100. The Last Queen
  101. Good Husbands
  102.  Heads in Beds
  103. The Woman Upstairs DNF
  104. Safe With Me
  105. Things We Do in the Dark
  106. The Mother's Secret
  107. The Favor


2021



  1. Good Faith
  2. Rich Radiant Slaughter DNF
  3. Look Homeward, Angel CLASSIC
  4. Cruel Acts
  5. 1984 CLASSIC
  6. Mum and Dad
  7. The Scarlet Letter CLASSIC
  8. Rubbernecker new author to me - loved it
  9. Girls Like Us meh
  10. Naturally Nourished
  11. The Joy of Hygge
  12. House of Correction
  13. Asylum DNF
  14. I Should Have Honor
  15. Marcus Everyday cookbook
  16. MasterChef:Street Food of the World 
  17. 365 Slow Cooker Suppers
  18. The Mars Room DNF
  19. Before This Is Over
  20. Conflict of Interest
  21. Appetites: A Cookbook  
  22. The Long Drop
  23. Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook
  24. The Calling
  25. Outtakes from a Marriage
  26. The Atlas Cookbook bought
  27. Dinner Solved 
  28. Snap
  29. The Woman Outside My Door
  30. Those People 
  31. Vegetables On Fire
  32. The Turn of the Key
  33. Leave the World Behind
  34. The Widows of Malabar Hill 
  35. Monogamy
  36. This Darkness Mine DNF
  37. Park Avenue Summer 
  38. Nomadland
  39. Good Veg
  40. Pinch of Nom
  41. Power Couple
  42. The Pull of the Stars
  43. The Mexican Slow Cooker Cookbook
  44. When No One is Watching
  45. Pretty Little Wife 
  46. Invisible Girl 
  47. The Family Upstairs
  48. Flavor Flours 
  49. The Red Lotus 
  50. Day of the Accident
  51. Not a Drop to Drink
  52. The Divines
  53. The House on the Lake
  54. The Edible Balcony
  55. The Bad Muslim Discount
  56. Interior Chinatown
  57. American Dirt DNF
  58. His and Hers
  59. A Good Neighborhood 
  60. The Searcher
  61. Ask Again, Yes
  62. Such a Fun Age
  63. The Guest List
  64. Confessions on the 7:45
  65. The Push
  66. The Quiet Girl
  67. Songs for the End of the World
  68. Outrage
  69. The Almost Wife
  70. Vij's Indian: Our Stories, Spices and Cherished Recipes
  71. The Missing Hours
  72. Exit
  73. Blacklands
  74. Local Woman Missing
  75. Consent
  76. My Sister's Bones
  77. The Other Woman
  78. An Isolated Incident
  79. Members' Only
  80. Followers
  81. Hairpin Bridge DNF
  82. Shuggie Bain
  83. Free the Tipple Kickass Cocktails by Iconic Women bought it
  84. And When She was Good
  85.  Cul-de-sac
  86. The Best Kind of People loved it!
  87. Not Dark Yet
  88. Last Seen Alive  DNF
  89. Not a Happy Family
  90. Good Company
  91. Year of No Clutter
  92. Service Included
  93. Black Widows
  94. Sleep Well, My Lady
  95. The Dutch House
  96. Hostage
  97. Invisible City TERRIBLE DNF
  98. The Wrong Family
  99. The New Husband
  100. Deadly Revenge
  101. The Twenty-Seventh City
  102. Espana - Exploring the Flavors of Spain
  103. The Stranger Inside
  104. The Wife Upstairs
  105. The Strangers
  106. Evil Impulse
  107. Frying Plantain
  108. Dead Souls
  109. The 57 Bus
  110. Blood Lines
  111. Shoot the Moonlight Out 
  112. Walking with Ghosts
  113. The Body Lies.
  114. The Lost Hours
  115. The Slanted Door  cookbook
  116. I Have Something to Tell You
  117. Perfect Remains
  118. Perfect Prey
  119. Home Truths




2020




  1. The Girl Who Lived Twice
  2. Wish You Were Here
  3. War of the Wives
  4. The Fallout 
  5. In the Dark
  6. The Broken Girls DNF
  7. The Golden House DNF
  8. Kingdom of the Blind
  9. Our House loved it!
  10. Autopsy of a Boring Wife
  11. A Good Enough Mother DNF
  12. A Good Wife average
  13. The Gifted School loved it!
  14. A Better Man
  15. I'll Never Tell DNF
  16. Someone We Know
  17. The Farm
  18. Her One Mistake
  19. I Know Who You Are
  20. Machines Like Me
  21. The Perfect Wife
  22. The Only Story
  23. Pretty Girls
  24. The Chain
  25. Holding Still For As Long As Possible
  26. The Guilty Party
  27. The Perfect Girlfriend
  28. An Unwanted Guest
  29. The Witch Elm 
  30. The Girls With No Names
  31. Late in the Day
  32. The London Train
  33. Middle England
  34. Jeffrey Epstein DNF
  35. An Anonymous Girl
  36.  Stay Where I Can See You
  37. The Nanny
  38. The Guest Book
  39. Right After the Weather
  40. The Forgotten Home Child
  41. Autumn (Seasonal #1)
  42. Gilded Cage
  43. The Scent of Almonds
  44. Too Much and Never Enough
  45. Playing Nice
  46. The Testaments 
  47. The Second Wife
  48. 4321
  49. Umami
  50. The Scholar
  51. Married Love
  52. The Arrangement
  53. The Wives
  54. Many Rivers to Cross
  55. Expo 67
  56. The Little Red Chairs DNF
  57. Save Me the Plums loved it
  58. Cresswell Plot
  59. Secrets of Great Second Meals
  60. The Baby-Snatcher 
  61. The Everything Gluten-Free Slow Cooker Cookbook
  62.  I'll Keep You Safe
  63. The Outlook for Earthlings DNF
  64. CopyKat Dining Out at Home
  65. The Swap
  66. Recipe for a Perfect Wife
  67. The End of October
  68. Gluten Free for the Holidays
  69. The Joy of Gluten Free Sugar Free Baking
  70. The Vanishing Half
  71. Cookiepedia
  72. The Tenant
  73. Such a Perfect Wife
  74. The New Bohemians Decor

2019


  1. Into the Water
  2. If I Die Tonight
  3. Under the Night
  4. Miss Me When I'm Gone
  5. Blood Line
  6. Stalker
  7. In Search of Rose Notes
  8. The Perfect Mother
  9. Three Days Missing
  10. The Evening Spider hated it
  11. In Search of Rose Notes same author also hated it
  12. The Storm Murders
  13. Clean Cut
  14. The Good Liar
  15. The Girl I Used to Be
  16. What Was Lost
  17. All Things Consoled 
  18. Gone Without a Trace
  19. The Winters
  20. Luckiest Girl Alive
  21. Body Surfing 
  22. The Thrill of it All re-read
  23. The Middlesteins
  24. The House Swap
  25. The Innocent Wife
  26. The Report
  27. A Question of Identity
  28. The Child
  29. The Trespasser
  30. The Vows of Silence
  31. The Good Girl
  32. Anna's Book
  33. The Various Haunts of Men
  34. Every Last Lie 
  35. Pretty Baby
  36. Asking For It 
  37. Her Name was Rose good
  38. The Girl on the Bridge
  39. John Lennon
  40. Swimming Across the Hudson
  41. The Exes' Revenge
  42. Give Me Your Hand
  43. When the Lights Go Out 
  44. Year of Wonders loved it
  45.  One Day 
  46. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas DNF
  47. Miss Emily 
  48. Us really liked it
  49. Apple Tree Yard good
  50. Can You Ever Forgive Me movie
  51. The Ruin
  52. Widows meh
  53. Careless Love Banks
  54. The Borrower
  55. Ordinary People  not likeable
  56. Mrs. Osmond DNF
  57. Mrs.
  58. Bitter Orange DNF
  59. After the Party really good
  60. The News Where You Are Good
  61. The Heart Goes Last Atwood
  62. Handmaid's Tale
  63. Lindstrom Alone new to me Canadian author
  64. Close To Home also good
  65. Beautiful Bad definitely good
  66. Day of the Dead 
  67. Stone Mothers great
  68. Whistle in the Dark nope!
  69. The Bad Daughter blah
  70. The Flight Attendant  surprise ending
  71. Alternate Side 
  72. He Said She Said loved it!
  73. The Atomic City Girls
  74. Midwives
  75. The Past
  76. The Starter Wife
  77. Wherever She Goes
  78. Unquiet 
  79. The Perfect Plan 
  80. Anything is Possible DNF
  81. The Odds
  82. The Finishing School DNF
  83. The Suspect 
  84. The Confession Club
  85. Our Secrets and Lies 
  86. Another BrooklynThe Girl Who Lived Twice
  87. Origin



2018



  1. Beneath The Skin 
  2. The Memory Game
  3. Friday On My Mind.
  4. Waiting for Wednesday
  5. A Square Meal
  6. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
  7. Lying in Wait
  8. The Bone Clocks
  9. Thursday's Children
  10. The Wife's Tale
  11. The Burgess Boys
  12. Cousin Rosamund
  13. Loving Frank
  14. Stuck in the Middle With You
  15. Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
  16. The Sun
  17. The Devil You Know
  18. No New Land
  19. The Torontonians
  20. American Marriage
  21. I Don't Know How She Does It
  22. The Girl Next Store
  23. Our Little Secret
  24. Cracks
  25. The Bishop's Man
  26. I've Got Your Number
  27. What Remains
  28. Distress Signals
  29. The Cartel
  30. Making It Up As I Go Along
  31. The Woman Who Couldn't Scream
  32. Heart of the City
  33. The Night the Lights Went Out
  34. Truly Madly Guilty
  35. Killing Kate
  36. Diane Arbus
  37. Sister of Mine
  38. Pen 33
  39. Three Floors Up
  40. Thursday's Children
  41. Adult Onset
  42. Fall on Your Knees
  43. The Hour I First Believed
  44. A Stranger in the House
  45. Purple Hibiscus
  46. The Pocket Wife
  47. The Weird Sisters
  48. Behind Her Eyes
  49. Gluten Free Makeovers
  50. The Windfall
  51. Wild Abandon
  52. Eight Flavors
  53. Gentlemen and Players
  54. Fragile Lies
  55. Martin John
  56. Bread Toast Crumbs
  57. My Mother, The Liar
  58. Sleep Tight
  59. The Party
  60. Paradise City
  61. Bellevue Square did not like
  62. The Dark Tide
  63. Full Disclosure
  64. Woman with a Secret
  65. Keep Her Safe
  66. The Perfect Nanny
  67. The Perfect Neighbors
  68. The Woman in Cabin 10
  69. Backlash
  70. The Running Girl
  71.  Somebody's Daughter
  72. The Birthday Girl
  73. Things You Won't Say
  74. Force of Nature
  75. Too Close to Breathe
  76. Sleep, Baby, Sleep
  77. The Woman in the Window
  78. Limitless
  79. The Favorite Sister
  80. The Lying Game
  81. Sometimes I Lie
  82. The Ever After
  83. Deadly Beloved
  84. A Game For All The Family
  85. Above Suspicion
  86. Silent Scream
  87. Her Husband's Wife


2017


❤❤❤❤❤ My ratings out of 5.
  1. Nutshell                          ❤
  2. Felicia's Journey             ❤❤❤❤
  3. Young Skins                     ❤
  4. Ancient Light by John Banville  didn't finish it.
  5. Bay Street. ❤❤
  6. Crazy Rich Asians ❤❤❤
  7. Elizabeth is Missing ❤❤❤❤
  8. The Cellar ❤❤❤❤
  9. Broken Promise ❤❤
  10. The Paris Librarian ❤❤
  11. The Silent Wife ❤❤❤❤
  12. The Vanishing Year ❤❤
  13. The Hill Bachelors ❤❤
  14. Life on the Refrigerator Door ❤❤
  15. The Lovers ❤❤
  16. Splinter the Silence ❤❤❤❤
  17.  Elizabeth the Queen didn't finish
  18. Blood on Snow
  19. This is Happy
  20. Leave Me
  21. The Good Life
  22. In My Paris Kitchen
  23. Children of the Revolution
  24. All My Puny Sorrows d❤❤❤idn't finish 
  25. The Love of a Good Woman didn't finish
  26. The Crow Girl❤❤❤❤❤
  27. The Other Widow ❤❤
  28. So Say The Fallen ❤❤❤

  29. Amazing Grace
  30. The Real Liddy James❤❤❤❤
  31. A Beautiful Bowl of Soup
  32. Love May Fail
  33. The Widow ❤❤
  34. Raven Black
  35. Bunners
  36. Missing, Presumed
  37. The Guest Room
  38. Speaker of Mandarin
  39. The Royal We boring
  40. Conclave
  41. The American Test Kitchen Cooking School
  42. A Deadly Thaw
  43. The London Cookbook ❤❤❤
  44. The Exclusives,
  45. All the Missing Girls ❤❤❤
  46. The Decent Proposal
  47. Thirteen Ways of Looking
  48. The O'Briens
  49. The Torment of Others❤❤❤
  50. The Good Sister 
  51. Ovenly
  52. Her Turn to Cry ❤❤
  53. I Let You Go ❤❤❤❤
  54. The Girl Before ❤❤❤❤
  55. Eileen❤❤❤
  56. The Ballroom
  57.  The Wonder 
  58. The Clasp didn't finish
  59. Unraveling Oliver LOVED IT
  60. Mothering Sunday 
  61. Against the Grain cookbook
  62. The Facts of Life and Death
  63. I See You
  64. Sweetbitter
  65. Different Class ❤❤❤❤❤
  66. The Woman Upstairs 
  67. A Demon In My View
  68. A Great Reckoning
  69. Behind Closed Doors
  70. Distant Echo
  71. The Keeper 
  72. Dark Corners
  73. Commonwealth
  74. The Residence - Inside The White House
  75. The Girls
  76. The Third Wife
  77. Her
  78. What She Knew
  79. Good As Gone
  80. Sound of Gravel
  81. The Marriage Lie
  82. The Mothers
  83. Afterwards 
  84. No Man's Nightingale



2016




I'm not setting a goal this year, I read 85 books in 2015.


  1. Blood Harvest
  2. The Long Way Home
  3. Not My Father's Son Really enjoyed it
  4. The Hangman Disappointing really a novella
  5. The Winner
  6. Liar Liar
  7. Funny Girl
  8. The Fifth Gospel
  9. Frida
  10. The Gate House
  11. The Sweet Life in Paris
  12. Silent Scream
  13. Mayada Daughter of Iraq
  14. The Girl in the Glass
  15. Gallows Lane
  16. The Nightmare
  17. Mean Streak
  18. The Vatican Diaries
  19. The Almost Moon worst book this year
  20. The Post-Birthday World
  21. His Whole Life
  22. The Wicked Girls
  23. Still Waters
  24. The Betrayal
  25. Beatlebone abandoned
  26. When the Moon is Low
  27. Christian Nation
  28. Nature of the Beast
  29. Immaculate Heart
  30. God's Bankers
  31. The Green Road
  32. Sweet Caress
  33. Hausfrau
  34. Map of Bones
  35. Merchants in the Temple
  36. Safekeeping
  37. The Plot Against America
  38. Stranglehold
  39. The Fat Years - abandoned
  40. King's Deception
  41. Before the Fall
  42. My Secret Sister
  43. Paradime
  44. Jackie After O
  45. The Girl with no Past
  46. The Girl in the Ice
  47. Play Dead
  48. The Hanging Girl
  49. Enduring Love
  50. The Girl in the Woods
  51. The Book Thief
  52. The Lost Wife
  53. The Rosie Project
  54. Every Last One
  55. Beneath the Bleeding
  56. The Accidental Bookclub
  57. Hidden Bodies
  58. A Free Life
  59. The Grownup Seriously don't even get me started!! What a waste of time! 64 pages, really????
  60. In The Skin of a Lion I was sorry to give this 1 star as it was recommended on last week's lost breweries tour, but I just couldn't get into the main character.
  61. Twisted River 5/5 loved it. Didn't want it to end. 
  62. My Name is Lucy Barton 2/5 I so wanted to love this one... but it was just ok.
  63. Fates and Furies 
  64.  You
  65. The Drowning Girls
  66. Us,
  67. After I Do
  68. City on Fire
  69. This Is Where It Ends
  70.  The Language of Flowers
  71.  The Illegal
  72. After Anna
  73. Abroad
  74. Last Train to Babylon
  75. Beautiful Sacrifice
  76. The Baker's Daughter
  77. Praying in Rome
  78. The Ghosts of Belfast
  79. Three Martini Lunch
  80. We Are Not Ourselves
  81. The Mandibles
  82. Not Working
  83. The Girls in the Garden
  84. Too Close to Home
  85. Nixon's Darkest Secrets
  86. We Are Unprepared 
  87. Instructions for a Heatwave.
  88. The Age of Miracles
  89. Wingshooters 





2015

Las Vegas NV


 I am not going to do weekly posts on my reads. I am going to keep a running list going here.

The links will take you to Goodreads synopsis.

My goal in 2014 was 100 books and I reached 104. I am sticking with 100 for 2015.




  1. The Last Girl really enjoyed it
  2. Man In The Shadows an interesting partly historical/partly fiction Canadian story about Confederation and D'Arcy Mc Gee
  3. A Hologram for a King self-indulgent navel-gazing angry white male
  4. The Camera My Mother Gave Me about the author's vagina. The End
  5. Sidetracked I've read most of Mankell's books in this series. This was good but a little too long.
  6. The Burning Loved it! Best so far!
  7. Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food a cookbook, it was ok. 
  8. The marrying of Chani Kaufman A good gossipy gander into the mind of a young Hasidic Jewish girl as she gets ready for her wedding.
  9. Sous Chef I'm a sucker for foodies books. Interesting insight behind the scenes of a restaurant. Learned many new cooking terms.
  10. Witness
  11. Walking into the Ocean
  12. Still Waters set in Toronto
  13. The Stranger You Know 
  14. Evening
  15. Sweetness in the Belly
  16. The House We Grew Up In
  17. Tell - struggling through
  18. Call the Midwife
  19. Dirty Sweet - Canadian
  20. The Innocent
  21. Remembering the Bones
  22. Lady Bird
  23. The Ways of the Dead - didn't finish
  24. Eyes On You 
  25. The Children Act
  26.  Belzhar
  27. Deadly Sin
  28. The Underground Girls of Kabul
  29. The Beautiful Mystery Canadian
  30. The Dinner
  31. The Silkworm
  32. A Year of Biblical Womanhood
  33. The Cement Garden
  34. No One Could Have Guessed the Weather
  35. The Burning Air
  36. Mothers of the Disappeared - didn't finish
  37. The Dark Rose
  38. The Paying Guests
  39. The Secret Place
  40. Nora Webster
  41. Cut Me Loose
  42. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
  43. Graveland
  44. Glitter and Glue
  45. Dying Light
  46. The Good Luck of Right Now
  47. The Goldfinch FAVOURITE
  48. The Good Thief's Guide to Berlin
  49. The Massey Murder
  50. The Poison Tree
  51. Blue is the Night
  52. The Girl in the Spiderweb FAVOURITE
  53. Bird Box
  54. Finding Jake
  55. The Husband's Secret FAVOURITE
  56. Home Sweet Anywhere
  57. The Submission
  58. Fever
  59. The Girl on the Train
  60. The Murder Road
  61. Elegy for April
  62. The Book of Fate
  63. The Remorseful Day
  64. The Little Friend
  65. Even The Dogs in the Wild
  66. True Believers
  67. The Thrill of it All
  68. The Secret History
  69. Dollbaby
  70. What Alice Forgot
  71. Americanah
  72. They Left Us Everything
  73. Inside the O'Briens
  74. I Hear the Sirens in the Street
  75. Little Black Lies
  76. Ma, He Sold me for a Few Cigarettes
  77. How the Light Gets In
  78. The Burgess Boys
  79. The Night Stages
  80. The Book of Aron
  81. The Night Stages
  82. After Her
  83. Evil Games
  84. Lost Girls
  85. Unbecoming

2015
Click here for the list.


2014
Having fallen short of my 2013 reading goal of 125 books, I am going to be a little more conservative this year and aim for 100.

TO DATE 102 MET MY GOAL!!



  1. The Receptionist
  2. Taming The Alien
  3. Edge
  4. Toast
  5. Tabloid City
  6. Pretty Woman - no review pure fluff!
  7. The Aftermath
  8. Eat Pray Love
  9. The Mc Dead
  10. The 19th Wife
  11. Dead of Winter
  12. The Opposite of Fate
  13. Apple Tree Yard - Loved it!
  14. Things That Must Not Be Forgotten
  15. Paris Was The Place
  16. 9th Judgement
  17. Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking - great read
  18. Dublin Noir
  19. The 11th Hour
  20. Good in Bed
  21. Inside
  22. Prior Bad Acts
  23. Murder of the Century
  24. Curtains
  25. He's Gone
  26. Inside
  27. Prior Bad Acts
  28. Kitchen Confidential
  29. Concrete Blonde
  30. Collusion
  31. Stolen Souls
  32. Cheating at Canasta
  33. Runaway Devil
  34. The Radleys
  35. The Noughies
  36. Beneath the Bleeding
  37. The Nobodies Album
  38. Die Trying
  39. The Hard Way
  40. And Then There Were Nuns
  41. Natural Causes
  42. Rules of Civility
  43. Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter
  44. Hanging Hill
  45. That Part was True
  46. Gone
  47. Ready Player One
  48. The Name of the Star
  49. The Treatment
  50. The Headmaster's Wager
  51. Honeymoon in Purdah
  52. Flesh House
  53. Dark Times in the City
  54. A Song for the Dying
  55. The Hidden Child
  56. The Shining Girls
  57. Then Again
  58. The Madness Underneath
  59. The Four Last Things
  60. City of Ice
  61. Becoming Josephine
  62. Sunbirds Far Away
  63. Ice Lake
  64. Amazement
  65. The Good Muslim
  66. River City 
  67. Thirst
  68. Prisoner of Night and Fog
  69. Young Trudeau
  70. Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  71. A Bit on the Side
  72. Love Child
  73. Crying Out Loud
  74. The Network
  75. The Weight of Water
  76. Someone Else's Garden
  77. Night Swim
  78. Cartwheel
  79. The Cuckoo's Calling
  80. In the Garden of Beasts
  81. Before We Met
  82. The Red House
  83. Police
  84. The World We Found
  85. We Are Water
  86. Fever of the Bone
  87. A Sleeping Life
  88. The Saint Zita Society
  89. My Mother's Secret
  90. The Glass Harmonica
  91. The Good Father
  92. The First Husband
  93. Everybody Has Everything
  94. The Condition
  95. American Dervish
  96. Lunch in Paris
  97. The Hiltons
  98. The Writing on my Forehead
  99. The Future of Us
  100. The Darlings
  101. The Girl With A Clock for a Heart

Abandoned
IQ84

Expired - need to renew
The Nightmare



2013
I'm going to set a goal of 125 books. Not achieved, life got in the way and we have been travelling too much!

JANUARY - Balance 115
FEBRUARY - Balance 105
MARCH - Balance 94
AUGUST - Balance 70
SEPTEMBER - 64
DECEMBER - 52 shortfall 


  1. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
  2. The Street Sweeper - E. Perlman LOVED IT 
  3. The Yips -Nicola Barker 
  4. City of the MInd - P. Lively
  5. Adam and Eve and Pinch Me - R. Rendell  LOVED IT
  6. The Line of Beauty - Alan Holinghurst
  7. The Good Father - Diane Chamberlain
  8. Wife 22 - Melanie Gideon
  9. Book of Virtue - Ken Bruen
  10. Death in the City of Light - David King
  11. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
  12. Waiting for Sunrise - William Boyd
  13. Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
  14. The Truth of all Things - Kieran Shields
  15. Girls Fall Down - Maggie Helwig
  16. The Betrayal of Trust - Susan Hill
  17. Ratlines - Stuart Neville
  18. Undercurrents - Frances Fyfield
  19. The Last Policeman - Ben Winters
  20. Outrage - Arnaldur Indridason
  21. Lost memory of Skin - Russell Banks
  22. Yes, Chef - Marcus Samuelsson
  23. Kill Your Friends - John Niven
  24. Autographs in the Rain - Quentin Jardine
  25. A White Arrest - Ken Bruen
  26. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
  27. The Disappeared - Kim Echlin
  28. Cross - James Patterson
  29. Foreign Bodies - Cynthia Ozick
  30. Slam - Nick Hornby
  31. Flatscreen - Adam Wilson
  32. Black Irish - Stephan Talty
  33. The Expats 
  34. The Past
  35. Cold Comfort
  36. The Bag Lady Papers (abandoned)
  37. The Tin Horse
  38. Sweet Tooth
  39. Blood Orange
  40. Best British Crime Omnibus
  41. Watching the Dark
  42. Embassytown
  43. Two Pints
  44. Capital
  45. The Child's Child
  46. The Sound of Glass
  47. Transatlantic
  48. The City of Shadows LOVED IT
  49. Cover of Snow
  50. Homesick
  51. Girl In Translation
  52. The World At Night
  53. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  54. Inferno
  55. Last Man in Tower
  56. The Spoiler
  57. Sight Reading
  58. Sleeping With The Devil
  59. The One I Left Behind
  60. Russian Winter
  61. The Cooked Seed
  62. Going Wrong
  63. Together Tea
  64. Phantom
  65. Second Honeymoon
  66. The Vatican Pimpernel
  67. The House of Special Purpose
  68. Marrying the Mistress
  69. The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
  70. Paris
  71. The Perfume Collector
  72. 22 Britannia Road
  73. Going Wrong

Started not finished - read a few pages...

Corpse in Waiting
The Cat's Table
Chronicler of the Winds
The Infinities



2012




2012 books read (95 to date):


The Coast Road - John Brady

Still Midnight - Denise Mina


The Bulgari Connection - Fay Weldon


Good Bait - John Harvey


The Heretic's Treasure - Scott Mariani


Dead I Well May Be - Adrian McKinty


The Devil's Elixir - Raymond Khoury


A Darker Domain - Val McDermid


The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin

GB84 - David Peace


The Emperor's Tomb - Steve Berry


Stonehenge Legacy - Sam Christer


Inquisition - Alfredo Colitto ABANDONED!


The Troubled Man - Henning Mankell

Nineteen Seventy-Four - David Peace

Faithful Place - Tana French


Dead Like You - Peter James


Brother and Sister - Joanna Trollope


The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton ABANDONED!


A Beginner's Guide to Acting English -Shappi Khorsandi


The Snowman - Jo Nesbo


The Leopard - Jo Nesbo

The Stone Cutter - Camilla Lackberg


Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz

The Gallow's Bird - Camilla Lackberg

Nineteen Seventy- Seven - David Peace


Timeline - Michael Crichton

Millennium People - JG Ballard

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins


Birdman - Mo Hayder


Clara Callan - Richard B. Wright


The Paris Vendetta - Steve Berry

Little Girls Lost - Jack Kerley


The Reutrn of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell


Nemesis - Jo Nesbo


Dublin Dead - Gerard O'Donovan

City of Bohane - Kevin Barry

This Beautiful Life - Helen Schulman


The Copenhagen Project - K. SandersenPrague - Arthur Phillips

Fortunes of War - Gordon Zuckerman


The Cold Cold Ground - Adrian McKinty

Before the Poison - Peter Robinson


The Mozart Conspiracy - Scott Mariani


Dancer - Colum McCann


Pig Island - Mo Hayder

Old City Hall - Robert Rotenberg

The Paris Wife - Paula McLain


The Last Good Man - A. J. Kazinski


Homesick - Roshi Fernando


Black Friday - Alex Kava


Only One Life - Sara Blaedel


A Perfect Evil - Alex Kava


People Like Us - Dominick Dunne


The Ottoman Motel - Christopher Currie


Even the Dogs - Jon McGregor


The Red Book - Deborah Copaken Kogan


Faith - Jennifer Haigh

The Salesman - Joseph O'Connor

The Last Hundred Days - Patrick McGuinness


The Girl Below - Bianca Zander ABANDONED!


Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut


Drowned - Therese Bohman

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn


The Paris Directive - Gerald Jay


Criminal - Karin Slaughter


The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Moshin Hamid


The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam


My Korean Deli - Ben Ryder Howe


The Ghosts of Belfast - Stuart Neville


Bad Boy - Peter Robinson

The Guilty Pleas - Robert Rotenberg


The Vault - Ruth Rendell

A Train in Winter - Caroline Moorehead


Turn of Mind - Alice La Plante


The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka


Swipe - Evan Angler


Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart ABANDONED!


The Butterfly Clues - Kate Ellison


The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes


Attachments - Rainbow Rowell


Viral - James Lilliefors


Keepsake - Kristina Riggle


The Butcher's Boy - Thomas Perry


Death in Summer - William Trevor


The Broken Shore - Peter Temple

The World Without You - Joshua Henkin


Friend of the Devil - Peter Robinson

Headhunters - Jo Nesbo


Zoo - James Patterson ON HOLD

Stonemouth - Iain Banks


Wish You Were Here - Graham Swift


Neverwhere - Neil GaimanFelicia's Journey

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