50 Books Challenge 2024 Part Seven

[Southeastdweller]

Welcome to the seventh thread of the 50 Book Challenge for this year.

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2024, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.

If possible, please can you embolden your titles and maybe authors as well of books you've read or going to read? It makes it much easier to keep track.

Some of us bring over to the new thread lists of the books we've read so far, but again - this is your choice.

The first thread is here, the second one here , the third one here, the fourth one here , the fifth one here and the sixth one here.

What are you reading?

The War Diaries sounds fascinating @Terpsichore . It makes you wonder how much more material of this type there is yet to discover!

My list so far (I've actually got another 20 odd books to add. Just have to work out what they were about )

1. I Have To Save Them. Ellie Midwood
2. P.S Jane. Jessica Julien
3. Mrs. Quinns Rise to Fame. Olivia Ford
4. The Villa. Jess Ryder
5. Artificial Wisdom. Thomas Weaver
6. The Paris Spy's Girl. Amanda Lees
7. Twisting Time: Forbidden City of Gold. D.F Jones
8. The Liberation of Bella McCaa. Catherine Aitken
9. The Quelling. C.L Lauder

10. Munich Wolf. Rory Clements 11. Sam Time. Donna Balon 12. A Most Malicious Messenger. Katherine Black 13. Taken to the Hills. S.J Richards 14. Blood On The Tracks. Guy Hale 15. Black Money. S.J Richards 16. The German Child. Catherine Hokin 17. Phoenix Rising. Celia and Ephie Risho 18. The Bakers Secret. Lelita Baldock 19. The Vermillion Ribbon. Hayley Price 20. Inheritance. Philip Tyler 21. Nicole's War. Andrée Rushton 22. Aria and Liam: The Druids Secret. Coline Monsarrat 23. Dark Arts. Karen Taylor 24. Vermilion Sunrise. Lydia P. Brownlow 25. Opaque. Calix Leigh-Reign 26. Knights, Witches and Murder. R.M Schultz 27. The Advocate. Theresa Burrell 28. Queen of Secrets. E.J Tanda 29. The Lost Child. Kathleen McGurl 30. Blood Sapphires Revenge. Bruce Farmer 31. New Dreams at Polkerran Point. Cass Grafton 32. Highly Flawed Individual. T.C Roberts 33. Tale of Two Curses. Theresa Biehle 34. Right Across the Bay. Quinn Avery 35. How Boys Learn. Jeff Kirchick 36. The False Men. Mhairead MacLeod 37. Evermarked. A.J Eversley 38. Truth Sister. Phil Gilvin 39. Crodor The Ancient. Celia and Ephie Risho 40. The Whispering Palms. Annette Leigh 41. Good Girl Deprogramming. Michelle Minnikin 42. When The Moon Was White. Jeff Probst 43. Split Adam. Calix Leigh-Reign 44. The Wartime Book Club. Kate Thompson 45. House of Dreams. Mark Stibbe 46. Humebeasts. Lisa Munoz 47. Island In The Sun. Kate Fforde 48. Shooters. Julia Boggio 49. Escape to Polkerran Point. Cass Grafton 50. Knights, Necromancers and Murder. R.M Schultz 51. The Secrets of Blythwood Square. Sara Sheridan 52. Chasing the Light. Julia Boggio 53. Another Side of the Heart. C.H Lazarovich 54. Exodus. Steve Catto 55. My Perfect Family. Melanie Price 56. Fog Of Silence. S.J Richards 57. Daughters of Warsaw. Maria Frances 58. Olympia. Eva Grace 59. Mannigan. L. Ross Coulter 60. Pink Camouflage. Gemma Morgan 61. Hear her Scream. Dylan H Jones 62. Cursed by Slumber. Michelle Moras 63. The Clark's Factory Girls at War. May Ellis 64. An Elf With No Name. Mortimer Langford 65. Memory Road. Sarah Edghill 66. What we Thought We Knew. Claire Dyer 67. Moral Injuries. Christie Watson 68. A Woman Of Pleasure. Kiyoko Murata. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 69. All The World's A Stage. Guy Hale 70. Orson the Great. Colm McElwain 71. The Giveaway Girl. Chrissie Bradshaw 72. Knights, Witches and The Missing. R.M Schultz 73. Naked Truth. Vicki Rebecca 74. Into the Darkness. Steve Catto 75. Gathering of the Four. A.E Bennett 76. A Tale of Something New. D.S McColgan 77. Specular. Calix Leigh-Reign 78. Maybe It's About Time. Neil Boss 79. The Godfather of Dance. Andrea Barton 80. Dark Shadow. Simon Dinsdale 81. The Keeper of Secrets. Maria McDonald 82. Crown of Confessions. E.J Tanda 83. The Grief of Godless Games. J.T Audesley 84. The Magical Journey of John and Adele. Ancius M. Murray 85. Liddle Deaths. Morgan Christie 86. What Would Aimee Dean Do? Y.M Miller 87. 17 Alma Road. Ian Gouge 88. Chapel Field. Paula Hillman 89. Jesse's Triumph. Amra Pajalic. 90. The Pact. Lisa Darcy 91. Then There Were Giants. Nicky Heymans 92. Wolf's Keep. K.E Turner 93. Hindsight. Mary Turner Thomson 94. Awaken the Dawn. Ellis K. Popa 95. Knights, Witches and The Vanished City. R.M Schultz 96. Sweetness In The Skin. Ishi Robinson 97. Blackwolf. Phil Gilvin 98. The Journalist. John Reid Young 99. Death Under a Little Sky. Stig Abell 100. The Pictish Princess. Dolan Cummings 101. My Mystical Path. Donna Shin-Ward 102. Three Brave Hearts. Liz Middleton 103. Jericho Caine, Vampire Slayer, Love, Lust and Blood. Dee Rose 104. Love Lottie. Mel Higgins 105. The Orphans of Berlin. Jina Bacarr 106. Hard Times For The East End Library Girls. Patricia McBride 107. Leap. O.C Heaton 108. Death Walks In Mowhall. Benjamin Hanna 109. Corpse In The Chard. Anna A. Armstrong 110. Green Ray. O.C Heaton 111. The Weight of What Was. Pip Landers-Lett 112. Aria and Liam: The Baker Street Mystery. Coline Monsarrat 113. Let Me In. Claire McGowan 114. Through Blood and Dragons. R.M Schultz 115. Earth Protectors. Samuel Lawson 116. The Palladium. Thorsten Brandl 117. Birth of the Tiptons. Philip Davidson 118. Good Things. Kate MacDougall 119. Mask of the Gods. Karen Furk 120. The Rutland Connection. Michael Dane 121. Murder On The Isle. Anna. A. Armstrong 122. Fall From Grace. Alan Feldberg 123. The Photograph. Diane Clarke 124. Wolf's Prize. K.E Turner 125. Courting The Sun. Peggy Joque Williams 126. The Time That Never Was. Steve Fallon 127. Atom Inc. O.C Heaton 128. Them Old Bones. Astor Y Teller 129. Black Mark. Paul Spencer 130. The Nine. Gwen Strauss 131. Amateurs. Gill Oliver 132. The Hedge Witch. Colleen Delaney 133. Turkish Delight. Anjelica Søndergaard 134. Out Of Her Mind. Sally Hart 135. Miracle Number Four. Paul Marriner 136. The Advocates Betrayal. Teresa Burrell 137. Catch Me Twice. Catherine Yaffe 138. Conditions Are Different After Dark. Owen W. Knight 139. Broken Shadows. Sorrel Pitts 140. Make the Dark Night Shine. Alan Lessik 141. Accidental Dragons. Astor Y Teller 142. Catalog of Desire and Disappearance. Ana Cruz 143. Husbands. Mo Fanning 144. Knife River. Justine Champine 145. 8ish. Luing Andrews and Jack East 146. Truestory. Catherine Simpson 147. The Flower Queen. Kay Freeman 148. Secrets Dark and Wicked. Jessica Julien & Juliet Stevens 149. The Guardians Light. Oliver Crane 150. A Simple Foundation. Larry Heitz 151. How Soon is Now? Paul Carnahan 152. Murder on Stage. F. L. Everett 153. Murmurations. Sarah Thompson 154. Sun of Endless Days. L.G Jenkins 155. The Days of Our Birth. Charlie Laidlaw 156. The Florence Letter. Anita Chapman 157. The Game of War. Glen Dahlgren 158. Under her Roof. A.A Chaudhuri 159. Remedy. Emily Bridget Taylor 160. One Month's Notice. Katie Lou 161. The Second Life of Jonathan Sendel. Jeffrey Ashkin. 162. Second Glance. AE Bennett 163. Allison Consents. D. Accord 164. Be More Octopus. Suzanne Lissaman 165. Halfmoon Lane. Paula Hillman 166. The Diary at the Last House Before the Sea. Liz Eeles 167. Gallows Wood. Louisa Scarr 168. The Swan's Nest. Laura McNeal 169. Killing Nan and other crime short stories. Keith Wright. 170. The Croaking Raven. Guy Hale 171. Catalyst. Cameron Phoenix 172. Destiny of a Free Spirit. Stephen Ford 173. All in Monte Carlo. Anna Shilling 174. Seven Summers. Paige Toon 175. The Consciousness Company. M.N Rosen 176. About Last Night. Laura Henry 177. The Bite. Jim X Dodge 178. Searchlight, The Rock. Ann Bryant 179. The Walk. Emma Marns 180. Vengeance Day. Simon Dinsdale 181. Serabelle. Tavi Taylor Black 182. War Bunny. Christopher St. John 183. Descended. Ingrid J. Adams 184. If I Can Save One Child. Amanda Lees 185. Sweet Delusions. Bea Miller 186. The Broken Pieces of Us. Celia Tandy 187. Infinite Stranger. Wendy Skorupski 188. Walking Out of This World. Stephen Ford 189. All The Light We Cannot See. Anthony Doerr 190. Vengeance Street. Louise Sharland 191. When The World Went Silent. Ellie Midwood 192. The Cage. Danielle Bannister 193. Love and Other Sins. Emilia Ares 194. Season For Murder. Anna A Armstrong 195. Here Lies A Vengeful Bitch. Codie Crowley 196. Benidorm, Actually. Jo Lyons 197. Spencer Edwards: Emperor of the Galaxy. Alex Prior 198. The Library Girls of the East End. Patricia McBride 199. The Self-Education Manual. Gary Dean Peterson

Hello everyone, and thanks @Southeastdweller for keeping house. My list to date:
1.Just Like You by Nick Hornby
2.Oxblood by Tom Benn
3.My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
5 The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
6.Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
7.Tresspasses by Louise Kennedy
8.Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
9.Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
10.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11.Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
12.Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
13.Freya by Anthony Quinn
14.Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
15.Our Friends in Berlin by Anthony Quinn
16.Paper Cup by Karen Campbell
17.Matrix by Lauren Groff
18.Picnic at Hanging Rock by Jean Lindsay
19.Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
20.Exiles by Jane Harper
21. The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve
22.Undoctored by Adam Kay
22.Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
23.Bewilderment by Richard Powers
24.Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
26.Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
25.Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
27.Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
28.The Tuscan Year: Life And Food In An Italian Valley by Elizabeth Romer
29.Broken Light by Joanne Harris
30.The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
31. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
32.The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
33.Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by HIlary Mantel.
34.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
35.The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman.
36.Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
37.Riders by Jilly Cooper
38.The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman.
39.Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
40. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton.
41. Piglet by Lottie Hazel.
42. Notes on a Execution by Danya Kukafka
43.Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
44.Eureka by Anthony Quinn

I've just finished a couple of audiobooks: 45. Little House by Philippa Gregory. Ruth was orphaned as a child, and is taken into the bosom of her very upper middle class husband's family. Her in-laws appear well-meaning but become more oppressive and suffocating after she has her first child. Is Ruth really struggling to the extent that her in-laws tell her, or are they gaslighting her iin a bid to control her?

This was a bit of a cross between Joanna Trollope and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and if you think that sounds a bit naff, you'd be right. There wasn't enough insight into the inner worlds of the characters for the psychodrama to be successful, and the ending was just silly. Also, it bothers me to a quite unreasonable degree when an author makes great clanging factual errors when the tiniest bit of research would have prevented it - the issue here being mental health legislation.

46. Exposure by Helen Dunmore A seemingly mundane accident, in which Admiralty worker Giles Holloway falls downstairs drunk at home, brings his old confidente Simon into a world of espionage and betrayal in the 1960s.

This was terrific. Much of the novel is from the perspective of Simon's wife. Lily is a German-Jewish refugee and is faced again with being outcast, due to others' perceptions of Simon's alleged wrongdoing. There's so much here on the complexity of love and trust. I'd not read any of Dunmore's work previously, but will definitely seek out more.

and welcome @Fishcake18. Looking forward to hearing your reviews.* *

1. The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside by Jessica Ryn

2.The Lady of the Loch by Elena Collins

1. All The Lonely people by mike Gayle

4.A Tomb with a view by Peter Ross 5.Paper Cup by Karen Campbell

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. Would you ask my husband that? By Kathleen Whyman
3. Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan
5. The Woman In The Walls by Faith Cobaine
6. Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross
7. Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
8. Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult

Numbers out of sequence lol good old copy and paste but it is 13 books. Going at my own slow pace again this year. Very in awe and inspired by you folks that read into your 100’s 😁. Will pick up my book this afternoon and read a chapter now reading In the time we lost by Carrie Hope Fletcher. I must admit my reading mojo has floundered a bit this year. But pleased that I have read two non-fictions as I never ever read non-fiction usually and thoroughly enjoyed them both.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller . Here is my full list:

1. Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jodi Taylor
2. Bad Luck and Trouble – Lee Child
3. So Late In The Day – Claire Keegan
4. Night and Fear – Cornell Woolrich
5. A Woman in Berlin – Anon
6. The Hotel Nantucket- Elin Hilderbrand
7. Win – Harlan Coben
8. I’m Over All That – Shirley MacLaine
9. Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynn Jones

10. The Third Man – Graham Greene 11. Spectacles - Sue Perkins 12. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me – Kate Clanchy 13. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters 14. Make Em laugh – Debbie Reynolds 15. Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan 16. My Secret Admirer – Carol Ellis 17. Autumn – Ali Smith 18. The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie 19. Shadows of the Workhouse – Jennifer Worth 20. The Hard Way – Lee Child 21. Black Rabbit Hall – Eve Chase 22. Spare – Prince Harry 23. The Sun Down Motel – Simone St James 24. The Return of the King – J R R Tolkien 25. The Family Remains – Lisa Jewell 26. The News of the World – Paulette Jiles 27. River East, River West – Aube Rey Lescue 28. The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece – Tom Hanks 29. Second Form at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton 30. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson 31. Farewell to the East End – Jennifer Worth 32. The Gods of Guilt – Michael Connelly 33. Wish You Were Here – Stewart O’Nan 34. Tom Lake – Ann Patchett 35. Secrets of Hartwood Hall – Katie Lumsden 36. Endurance – Alfred Lansing 37. Elephants Can Remember – Agatha Christie 38. The It Girl – Ruth Ware 39. Ghosts and Journeys – Robert Westall 40. The Window – Carol Ellis 41. Double Indemnity – James M Cain 42. Dracula – Bram Stoker 43. Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 44. Wandering Stars – Tommy Orange 45. The Rachel Incident – Caroline O’Donaghue 46. The Safekeep – Yael van der Wouden 47. Beautiful World, Where Are You? – Sally Rooney 48. Shadows Rising – Madeleine Roux 49 My Friends – Hisham Matar 50. Nightwebs – Cornell Woolrich

I'm now reading James by Percival Everett and listening to The Mirror and the Light on audio.

Actually now i look over that list, I think that The Safekeep should really be a bold for me too

Argh. I always forget to bold something this time Tom Lake

I have a question about Audible. If I decide I want to switch between listening on Audible and reading the same book on Kindle, is this possible? I can’t see any way to do it but Amazon leads me to believe it’s possible.

Yes @BestIsWest it is possible I did it for the Mirror And The Light a headphones symbol should show in the top right and as long as the two editions are synced the Kindle will know where the audio left off

Where there is more than one audio edition be guided by the default one for the product or the sync won't work (this has happened to me)

I can’t even get the book onto my Kindle though? It’s on Audible but do I have to buy it again to have it on Kindle? I have a Paperwhite and the Kindle app on phone.

Ah, just discovered how to share it with my Kindle from Audible.

Nope totally baffled! It wants me to buy a second copy for Kindle. Never mind.

Thanks @Southeastdweller

35. Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
Historical fiction novel set in the 1600s based on the true story of the escape of two 'regicides' who were considered guilty of the killing of King Charles I and fled to the English colonies in what is now the USA. We follow their story and that of the official who tasks himself with hunting them down.
It took me a while to get into this (lots of character names that I lost track of - almost all men - and lots of words that I wasn't familiar with). I knew absolutely nothing about this period in history. I became completely absorbed however. I grew to really enjoy the historical settings and became completely invested in the stories of the main characters.

36. The Day The World Came To Town by Jim DeFede
A reread for me - and one I highly recommend. Nonfiction. After passenger planes were used to carry out terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, US airspace was closed to all aircraft. Flights travelling over the Atlantic were required to either turn back towards Europe or land at the earliest opportunity in Canada. 38 planes landed in Gander, Newfoundland, raising the town's population from 10,300 to nearly 17,000 people. This is fascinating and heart warming nonfiction about the kindness and generosity of local residents, the stories of passengers displaced thousands of miles from home and the resourceful quick thinking of the officials who coped in extraordinary circumstances.
I listened to this on audio ahead of going to see the musical 'Come From Away' later this month - it is based on the same real life events.

37. A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
In 2024, Ricki Wilde moves to Harlem, New York to escape the family that are horrible to her and follow her dream of opening a flower shop. In the 1920s, Ezra leaves behind the horrific racism of the south to arrive in New York at the height of the Harlem Renaissance with a talent for playing piano and very little to lose.
Romance and magic don't feature terribly highly in my reading, but I absolutely fell for this novel - I thought it was fab!

38. Passing by Nella Larsen
Classic short novel written in the 1920s. Irene meets Clare, a childhood friend who is choosing to 'pass' as white, and Clare's husband who doesn't know his wife's secret. As the women's lives become more entangled, the tension ramps up.
I've been meaning to read this for ages but bumped it up the list after loving the 1920s Harlem setting in A Love Song For Ricki Wilde. While I'm glad I read it and I can see why it has become a classic, I think I picked it up at the wrong time as I felt like my brain was addled from work and I perhaps didn't get as much from it as I could have at another time.

Currently reading The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers.

@BestIsWest you do need to have bought it in both formats to be able to switch to read in both formats. I usually only do it with classics where the audible is often free.

1 The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
2 Bomber, Len Deighton
3 Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo
4 A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
5 Under Sea, Over Stone, Susan Cooper
6 Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du Maurier
7 War Doctor, David Nott
8 Zoo Station, David Downing
9 Politics on the Edge, Rory Stewart
10 My Forth Time We Drowned, Sally Hayden
11 A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam
12 So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan
13 The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
14 The Rose Code, Kate Quinn
15 The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
16 Redhead by the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler
17 The House of Doors, Tan Twan Eng
18 Breathtaking, Rachel Clarke
19 Woman, Eating, Claire Kohda
20 The Alienist, Caleb Carr
21 Memphis, Tara M Stringfellow
22 Little, Edward Carey
23 Natives, Akala
24 Blood & Sugar, Laura Shepherd-Robinson
25 D-Day: Minute by Minute, Jonathon Mayo
26 Violetta, Isabel Alllende
27 On the Beach, Nevil Shute
28 Slow Horses, Mick Herron
29 Learning to Swim, Claire Chambers
30 The Glass Pearls, Emeric Pressburger
31 The Making of the Modern Middle East, Jeremy Bowen
32 The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
33 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
34 The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
35 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
36 Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad
37 Bosnian War, Hourly Histories
38 Killing Thatcher, Rory Carroll
39 The Visit, Chimamanda Nigozi Adiche
40 I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
41 The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
42 The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
43 Iron Lake, William Kent Kruegar
44 The Little Liar, Mitch Albom
45 Soldier Sailor, Claire Kilroy
46 Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography, Billy Connolly
47 Honor, Elif Shafak
48 Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano
49 Seaeching for Shindler, Thomas Keneally
50 The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre
51 Babycakes, Armistead Maupin
52 Water, John Boyne
53 Tales from the Folly, Ben Aaronovitch
54 Olive Again, Elizabeth Strout
55 Apple of my Eye, Helene Hanff
56 The Forester's Daughter, Claire Keegan
57 Stonemouth, Ian Banks
58 We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker

I'm reading plenty of perfectly good books but still light on the bolds. Currently reading The Japanese Lover which is my fourth Isabel Allende book in the last year. I'm really enjoying her writing.

If you bought a Kindle book, you could often purchase the Audible version at a very reduced rate afterwards - worked brilliantly at times when a 99p Kindle version had the option to add audio for like £2.99 and then you had both formats. The Audible options are much more rarely discounted now unfortunately.

Yes @BestIsWest you have to own it in both formats

An error message will sometimes state "you own the Audible for this title" but this is a recurring error on Amazon's part. I've exchanged words over it.

Basically if you haven't physically purchased the Audible then you haven't got it.

@TattiePants

I loved House Of The Spirits but haven't read anything else by her

Ah! What a pain. I'm not paying twice!

Edit fail there but thanks both @EineReiseDurchDieZeit and ÚlldemoShúl.

I've still got House of Spirits to read. I'd highly recommend Violeta, The Wind Knows my Name and A Long Petal of the Sea.

Thank you for the thread @Southeastdweller !

My list:

1. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
2. The Five-minute Garden - Laetitia Maklouf
3. A Symphony of Echoes - Jodi Taylor
4. Agent Sonya - Ben Macintyre
5. A Second Chance - Jodi Taylor
6. The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley
7. Homecoming - Kate Morton
8. Le Jardinage pour les Nuls - Michael MacCaskey (in French; tr. Valérie Martin-Rolland)
9. Once Upon a Crime - Robin Stevens
10. Heresy - SJ Parris
11. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity - Robin Stevens
12. Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart
13. The Appeal - Janice Hallett
14. The Ferryman - Justin Cronin
15. The Twyford Code - Janice Hallett
16. The Mitford Girls - Mary S Lovell
17. Country Secrets - Fiona Walker
18. A Stitch in Time - Penelope* *Lively
19. The Wager - David Grann
20. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett
21. The Hike - Lucy Clarke
22. Seeing a Large Cat - Elizabeth Peters
23. The Ski Trip - Sarah Clarke
24. The Scarlet Dress - Louise Douglas
25. The Lost Bookshop - Evie Woods
26. The Lost Notebook - Louise Douglas
27. The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman
28. The Future of Geography - Tim Marshall
29. The Secret of Villa Alba - Louise Douglas
30. The House by the Sea - Louise Douglas
31. One of the Girls - Lucy Clarke
32. The Summer of Lies - Louise Douglas
33. The Room in the Attic - Louise Douglas
34. Bess of Hardwick - Mary S. Lovell
35. The Body in the Blitz - Robin Stevens
36. The Pact - Sharon Bolton
37. The Lost City of Z - David Grann
38. Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers
39. The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman
40. The Masked City - Genevieve Cogman

Welcome @Fishcake18 as many have said this really is a lovely corner of the internet.

Here's my list:

1 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
3 Here’s Looking At You by Mhairi McFarlane
4 Christmas Pie by Jodi Taylor
5 The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
6 Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants by Paul David Gould
7 The Maid by Nita Prose
8 One Day With You by Shari Low
9 Fool Me Once by Ashley Winstead
10 Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
11 Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
12 Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
13 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
14 Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
15 Call the Canaries Home by Laura Barrow
16 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
17 Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
18 The Spare Room by Laura Starkey
19 Hags by Victoria Smith
20 Rachel Ryan's Resolutions by Laura Starkey
21 Amy Perry’s Assumptions by Laura Starkey
22 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
23 Why Don’t You Love Me? by Paul Rainey
24 Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
25 Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan H Ropper and BD Burrell
26 The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
27 A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E Grant
28 The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
29 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
30 One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
31 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
32 The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
33 The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner
34 The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
35 The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner
36 Gone by Lisa Gardner
37 Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
38 Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner
39 How To Clean Everything by Ann Russell
40 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
41 Eye For An Eye MJ Arlidge
42 Little Ghosts by Gregg Dunnett
43 Meet Me On The Bridge by Sarah J Harris
44 Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
45 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
46 On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and its Aftermath By the People Who Were There by Julieann Campbell
47 The Night Raven by Sarah Painter
48 Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
49 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
50 Who’s That Girl by Mhairi McFarlane
51 All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
52 Killing Time by Jodi Taylor
53 Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
54 Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
55 You Belong With Me by Mhairi McFarlane
56 Time Shards by Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald
57 Frenchmen’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
58 Infinity in the Palm of a your Hand: Fifty Wonders That a reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
59 A Time to Change by Callie Langridge
60 Take It Back by Kia Abdullah
61 The Inmate by Freida McFadden
62 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
63 Me by Elton John
64 Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
65 He Said / She Said by Erin Kelly
66 Alvar the Kingmaker by Annie Whitehead
67 The Burning Air by Erin Kelly
68 The House With the Golden Door by Elodie Harper
69 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
70 The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
71 Turning Angel by Greg Iles
72 The Devil’s Punchbowl by Greg Iles
73 Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
74 The Bone Tree by Greg Iles

I have been reading the Penn Cage series by Greg Iles for a while and they are bloody awful, I finally gave up on the third of a trilogy as I couldn't take any more.

Thanks for the new thread Southeast Just checking in, tried but failed to wrangle my list into submission. I've got a few things on the go & a couple I need to review so will come back & do that shortly.

New John Connolly coming on Halloween! <jumps up and down> Short stories and a non fiction piece about horror. Night And Day