Starting in 2021, inspired by TheLitCritGuy, I kept running lists of books that I’d read on The Bird Site. For 2023, I decided to do a planned reading project instead (the Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project). But I still didn’t manage to not read other things, so this is a list of those…
- The Haunted Hotel (Wilkie Collins)
- Eight Detectives (Alex Pavesi) (re-read)
- Greek Myths: A New Retelling (Charlotte Higgins)
- Ultraprocessed People (Chris van Tulleken)
- Murder by the Book (Claire Harman)
- The Mangle Street Murders (MRC Kasasian)
- Getting Along (Amy Gallo)
- Lo que la marea esconde (María Oruña)
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Laurie R King)
- The Village of Eight Graves (Seishi Yokomizo)
- The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)
- The Inugami Curse (Seishi Yokomizo)
- Ephemeron (Fiona Benson)
- The Legacy (CL Tolbert)
- Clairmont (Lesley McDowell)
- The Man in the Queue (Josephine Tey)
- The Marriage Portrait (Maggie Farrell)
- The Safe House (Louise Mumford)
- Penance (Eliza Clark)
- Conan Doyle for the Defence (Margalit Fox)
- Three-Card Murder (JL Blackhurst)
- Murder by Candlelight (Faith Martin)
- Yellowface (RF Kuang)
- The Hotel (Louise Mumford)
- The Devil’s Due (Bonnie MacBird)
- Bliss and Blunder (Victoria Gosling)
- Victorian Women and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer (Isobel Hurst)
- The Wild Girls (Phoebe Morgan)
- The Beholders (Hester Musson)
- The Meiji Guillotine Murders (Futaro Yamada)
- The Wheel (Jennifer Lane)
- Holmes, Marple and Poe (James Patterson)
- Persephone Rises, 1860–1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New Spirituality (Margot K. Louis)
- The Measure of Malice (ed. Martin Edwards)
- The Fraud (Zadie Smith)
- The Instrumentalist (Harriet Constable)
Dominique Gracia 