Starting in 2021, inspired by TheLitCritGuy, I kept running lists of books that I’d read on The Bird Site. As The Bird Site fell into inevitable decline, these book lists have migrated here!
In 2023, I started a Great C19 Reading Project, which I didn’t make as much headway through as I’d planned, so it is continuing into 2024. This is a list of all the books I’ve been reading this year that aren’t on that list…. You can also shop from the best of this list on Bookshop.Org.
- The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou (Eleni Kyriacou)
- The Glass Woman (Alice McIlroy)
- The Perfect Crime: Around the World in 22 Murders (eds. Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski)
- The Tattoo Murder Case (Akimitsu Takagi)
- A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder (Gay Marris)
- Scorched Grace (Margot Douaihy)
- The Fine Art of Invisible Detection (Robert Goddard)
- Crimes of Cymru (ed. Martin Edwards)
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
- Black Wolf (Juan Gómez-Jurado)
- Medusa (Jessie Burton)
- Grave Expectations (Alice Bell)
- Delphi (Clare Pollard)
- The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
- Pandora (Susan Stokes-Chapman)
- The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction (Robert Goddard)
- The Penguin Book of Victorian Villainies (eds. Graham Greene and Hugh Greene), including:
- The Great Tontine (Henry Hawley Smart)
- The Rome Express (Arthur Griffiths)
- The Beetle (Richard Marsh)
- In The Fog (Richard Harding Davis)
- A Man Named Baskerville (Jim Nelson)
- Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie (Carla Valentine)
- The Extinction of Irena Rey (Jennifer Croft)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
- Mona (Pola Oloixarac)
- The Worst Street in London (Fiona Rule)
- Midnight at Malabar House (Vaseem Khan)
- The Trial (Rob Rinder)
- The History of Sound (Ben Shattuck)
- Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency (Josie Lloyd)
- The Accident (Ismail Kadare)
- The Girl in Cell A (Vaseem Khan)
- Silver Nitrate (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
- How to ADHD (Jessica McCabe)
- Nocturne with Gaslamps (Matthew Francis)
- Close to Death (Anthony Horowitz)
- Without Prejudice (Nicola Williams)
- The Turnglass (Gareth Rubin)
- The Bells of Westminster (Leonora Nattrass)
- A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering (Andrew Hunter Murray)
- Until Proven Innocent (Nicola Williams)
- Coram House (Bailey Seybolt)
- Once a Monster (Robert Dinsdale)
- Black Drop (Leonora Nattrass)
- Thirst (Marina Yuszczsuk)
- A Dictator Calls (Ismail Kadare)
- Vintage Crime (Martin Edwards)
- Deity (Matt Wesolowski)
- Demon (Matt Wesolowski)
- Welsh (Plural) (eds Darren Chetty, Grug Muse, Hanan Issa, Iestyn Tyne)
- The Examiner (Janice Hallett)
- The File on H (Ismail Kadare)
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