Dominique Gracia

Books of 2025

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 a continuing project!

This is a list of all the books I’ve been reading this year that aren’t on that list….

  1. The Fury (Alex Michaelides)
  2. Strange Stories (Grant Allen) (one story for this was part of the Science section of the C19 project, but the rest was read for fun!)
  3. The File on H (Ismail Kadare)
  4. Hallowe’en Party (Agatha Christie)
  5. Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
  6. Post After Post-Mortem (ECR Lorac)
  7. The Lost World (Michael Crichton)
  8. The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder (Victoria Dowd)
  9. A Devilish Kind of Courage (Andrew Whitehead)
  10. The Serial Killer Support Group (DB Stephens)
  11. Mystery at the Manor (Alasdair Beckett-King)
  12. A Novel Murder (EC Nevin)
  13. The Picture House Murders (Fiona Veitch Smith)
  14. Murderabilia (Craig Robertson)
  15. The Lunar Cats (Lynne Truss)
  16. Victorian Psycho (Veronica Feito)
  17. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Benjamin Stephenson)
  18. The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law (Kate Morgan)
  19. More Bloody Horowitz (Anthony Horowitz)
  20. The Death of Shame (Ambrose Parry)
  21. Mortal Mischief (Frank Tallis)
  22. Body on the Island (Victoria Dowd)
  23. Cards on the Table (Agatha Christie)
  24. The Supper Club Murders (Victoria Dowd)
  25. Cast a Long Shadow: Welsh Women Writing Crime (ed. Katherine Stansfield)
  26. Printer’s Devil Court (Susan Hill)
  27. The Long Arm (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
  28. The Graves of Whitechapel (Claire Evans)
  29. Death of a Bookseller (Alice Slater)
  30. Damascus Station (David McCloskey)
  31. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Agatha Christie)
  32. Towards Zero (Agatha Christie)
  33. The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place (Kate Summerscale)
  34. Sell Us the Rope (Stephen May)
  35. The Sirens (Emilia Hart)
  36. Hostage at the Table (George Kohlrieser)
  37. Striking Murder (AJ Wright)
  38. The Dry (Jane Harper)
  39. Marble Hall Murders (Anthony Horowitz)
  40. The Spiral Staircase (Ethel Lina White)
  41. Identitti (Mithu Sanyal)
  42. Smoke and Silk (Fiona Keating)
  43. Sister Sleuths: Female Detectives in Britain (Nell Darby)
  44. London Lies: Urban Tales from Liars’ League
  45. Murder in Old Bombay (Nev March)
  46. Blood Like Mine (Stuart Neville)
  47. Blood Like Ours (Stuart Neville)
  48. The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Sara Lodge)
  49. Dead Man’s Shoes (Marion Todd)
  50. The Black Spectacles (John Dickson Carr)
  51. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (GK Chesterton)
  52. The Tiger’s Wife (Téa Obreht)
  53. The Confession Room (Lia Middleton)
  54. Managing Yourself to Lead Others (Margaret C. Andrews)
  55. Time Hacks (Ian Taylor)
  56. Black Coffee (Agatha Christie/Charles Osborne)
  57. Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity (Marcus du Sautoy)
  58. The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Paolo Giordano)
  59. Death in the Aviary (Victoria Dowd)
  60. The Midnight Feast (Lucy Foley)
  61. Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)
  62. The Curse of the House of Foskett (MRC Kasasian)
  63. Murder by Theory (Eve Armstrong)
  64. Writing the Murder (eds. Richard V Hurst and Dan Coxon)
  65. Why Spy? (Brian Stewart and Samantha Newbery)
  66. The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
  67. Dumb Witness (Agatha Christie)