Here's my list of books I read in the last year. The total is not as high as usual and I'm not sure why. Maybe I was more discerning? Maybe I was busy blogging? Maybe? Well, just don't know why.
I hadn't added to this list in my sidebar since book #51 which was several months ago. Of the most recent additions I highly recommend #68 and #60 by Jenny Ashcroft. A great historical fiction writer. Meet Me in Bombay was one I kept thinking about after I read it and wondering "what if ?" . It's set during WWI and after.
#67 is a classic. I had to wait a bit to get this one after reading Moonstone #6 also by Wilkie Collins. He was a great mystery writer of the 1800s. I had read both so so many years ago that I remembered very little of either one. Well worth reading.
I read a lot of mysteries and recently discovered Kathy Reichs #65, Ruth Rendell #63, and CJ Box #50 & 56. They write very graphically and I find I can't read too many of them at a time. Louise Penny though is always good and one she wrote with Hillary Clinton #51 was very current to the times.
Other good reads: #58 and #54.
Scroll down to the bottom to see what's in my stack to read next.
68. Meet Me in Bombay by Jenny Ashcroft
67. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
66. Travels With George - In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick
65. Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs
64. Letter from a Stranger by Barbara Taylor Bradford
63. Murder Being Once Done by Ruth Rendell
62. The Vacationers by Emma Straub
61. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
60. Under the Golden Sun by Jenny Ashcroft
59. A Game of Fear by Charles Todd
58. West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
57. Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
56. Savage Run by C.J. Box
55. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
54. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
53. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
52. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
51. State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny
50. Open Season by C.J. Box
49. Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
48. Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger
47. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
46. The Various Flavors of Coffee by Anthony Capella
45. The Lost Summers of Newport by B. Williams, L. Willig, And K. White
44. The Orphans of Mersea House by Marty Wingate
43. The All of It by Jeannette Haien
42. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
41. Run by Ann Patchett
40. All of the Ways She Said Goodbye by B. Williams, L. Willig, And K. White
39. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
38. Provenance - How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
37. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
36. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
35. Old Wounds by Vicki Lane
34. Lincoln Highway by Amor Towls
33. Art's Blood by Vicki Lane
32. Signs in the Blood by Vicki Lane
31. Trials of the Earth. The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary Mann Hamilton
30. River of Gods - Genius, Courage, & Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
29. The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
28 The Farfarers by Farley Mowat
27. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
26. Welfare Brat by Mary Childers
25. Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tingui Zhang
24. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
23. Death in the Air by Agatha Christie
22. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
21. Where You Once Belonged by Kent Hurf
20. The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali
19. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
18. A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear
17. The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen
16. A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
15. French Braid by Anne Tyler
14. Rules of Civility by Amor Towels
13. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith
12. Spider's Web by Agatha Christie
11. The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
10. The Rose & the Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott aka Agatha Christie
9. The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
8. Come, Let Me Tell How You Live by Agatha Christie
7. Miss Marple: The complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
6. Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
5. Crooked House by Agatha Christie.
4. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
3. Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
2. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard and Clint Howard
1. The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
The one on the bottom I finished Saturday. It's a reread for me from 2019 but didn't remember enough without rereading for book discussion coming up on the 17th. It's the second book I've read in 2023 with A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny being the first.
I purchased Michelle Obama's latest with birthday money and the other two I found at the library last week.
