50 Books Challenge Part Eight

[Southeastdweller]

Welcome to the eighth 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 , the sixth one here and the seventh one here .

What are you reading?

Checking in on the new thread - thanks Southeast.

Checking in. Will add partial list later. Thanks @Southeastdweller

Thanks for thread!

1. Identity, Nora Roberts
2. Nightwork, Nora Roberts
3. Chances, Freya North
4. Whatever it Takes, Adele Parks
5. Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter
6. The Great Post Office Scandal, Nick Wallis
7. Politics on the Edge, Rory Stewart
8. Eat Sweat Play, Anna Kessels
9. Stranded, short stories, Val McDermid
10. Past Lying, Val McDermid
11. Ruth's First Christmas Tree (short), Elly Griffiths
12. The Crossing Places, Elly Griffiths
13. Let Me In, Claire McGowan
14. Still Life, Val McDermid
15. The Crossing, Mat Brolly
16. The Crow Trap, Ann Cleeves
17. The Maid, Nita Prose
18. Bringing Columbia Home, Mike Leibenhart
19. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, Laura Pearson
20. A Memoir of my Former Self, Hilary Mantel
21. The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
22. The Secret Barrister
23. The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Nifenegger
24. I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai
25. See Them Run by Marion Todd
26. The Premonition by Michael Lewis
27. In Dark Water -Lynn McEwan
28. Dead Man Deep -Lynn McEwan
29. The Girls of the Glen -Lynn McEwan
30. The Gathering Storm -Lynn McEwan
31. Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
32. The Strawberry Thief - Joanne Harris
33. Scoops - Sam McAllister
34. Royal Road to Fotheringhay - Jean Plaidy
35. Sing You Home- Jodi Picoult
36. The Captive Queen of Scots - Jean Plaidy
37. Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
38. Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris
39. Elephants Can Remember - Agatha Christie
40. Westwind - Ian Rankin
41. 1979 - Val McDermid
42. The Dubrovnik Book Club - Eva Glyn
43. After that Night - Karin Slaughter
44. Triptych- Karin Slaughter
45. Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter
46. Kisscut - Karin Slaughter
47. 1989 - Val McDermid
48. Sisterland - Curtis Sittenfield
49. Broken - Karin Slaughter
50. Meet Me at the Museum - Anne Youngson
51. The Last Widow - Karin Slaughter
52. Skin Privilege - Karin Slaughter
53. Rizzio- Denise Mina
54. A Faint Cold Fear - Karin Slaughter
55. Medea - Rosie Hewlett
56. Depp vs Heard - Nick Wallis
57. The Secret of Villa Alba - Louise Douglas
58. Yellowface - Rebecca F Kuang
59. The Bernini Bust - Iain Pears
60. Giving Up The Ghost - Hilary Mantel
61. Girl A - Abigail Dean
62. All Fours - Miranda July
63. Under Her Roof - A A Chaudhuri
64. Just Another Missing Person - Gillian McAllister
65. Indelible - Karin Slaughter
66. Faithless - Karin Slaughter
67. Fractured - Karin Slaughter
68. Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
69. Wish you were here - Jodi Picoult
70. Genesis - Karin Slaughter
71. Power Trip plus new epilogue - Damian McBride
72. Over My Dead Body - Maz Evans
73. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
74. The Summer of Lies - Louise Douglas
75. Sister in law - Harriet Wistrich
76. None of This is True - Lisa Jewell
77. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
78. Mythos - Stephen Fry
79. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life - Anna Funder
80. Breaking the Dark - Lisa Jewell
81. Who’s That Girl - Mhairi McFarlane (re read)
82. You Belong With Me - Mhairi McFarlane
83. An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris
84. Rodham - Curtis Sittenfield
85. The Flower Girls - Alice Clark-Platts
86. Day One - Abigail Dean
87. The Cracked Mirror - Chris Brookmyre
88. The Turning Point - Freya North
89. The End of Us - Olivia Kiernan
90. My Favourite Mistake - Marian Keyes
91. Alison Wonderland - Helen Smith
92. The Girl in the Ice - Robert Bryndza
93. Whatever You Love - Louise Doughty
94. The Burning - Jane Casey
95. Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell
96. Other People’s Husbands - Elizabeth Noble

DNF: The Bat by Jo Nesbo

Pleased with my list, nearly at 100 and only three in italics and one DNF. Currently reading the Lehman Brothers book, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense.

Could I join in?

I've just finished *Simone de Beauvoir's the Mandarins. I hadn't read anything by her before and absolutely loved this. It is 760 pages though so felt a bit long.

And about to start *Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Other notable reads this year Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (tedious!!), Life of Pi by Yann Martel (great fun), and *Alias Grace (not bad) and the Edible Woman (could tell this is one of her earlier works) by Margaret Atwood.

Welcome @Cashew1 !

I loved Alias Grace, apart from the ending.

Thanks for the new thread southeast! Here’s my list:

1. Be a Free Range Human - Marianne Cantwell
2. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doherty
3. The Second Sleep - Robert Harris
4. Poirot’s Silent Night - Sophie Hannah
5. Unruly - David Mitchell
6. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
7. Rising to the Surface - Lenny Henry
8. The First Fossil Hunters - Adrienne Mayor
9. Vital Organs - Suzie Edge
10. Venomous Lumpsucker - Ned Beauman
11. Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You - Eleanor Tweddell
12. Attack Warning Red - Julie McDowall
13. Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
14. Culture: a new world history - Martin Puchner
15. Vet in Harness - James Herriot
16. Weird Medieval Guys - Olivia Swarthout
17. Why is This a Question? - Paul Anthony Jones
18. Nursery Earth - Danna Staaf
19. Writing for Busy Readers - Todd Rogers & Jessica Lasky-Fink
20. Your Child is Not Broken - Heidi Mavis
21. The Ferryman - Justin Cronin
22. Sacred Nature - Karen Armstrong
23. The New Life - Tom Crewe
24. Medieval Horizons: why the Middle Ages matter - Ian Mortimer
25. Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
26. The Quick and the Dead - Cynric Temple-Camp
27. The Leader Assistant - Jeremy Burrows
28. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty - Akwaeke Emezi
29. The Cause of Death - Cynric Temple-Camp
30. Great and Horrible News - Blessin Adams
31. What I Want to Talk About - Pete Wharmby
32. A Curious History of Sex - Kate Lister
33. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops - Shaun Bythell
34. Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
35. Rizzio - Denise Mina
36. The Final Diagnosis - Cynric Temple-Camp
37. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
38. The Covent Garden Ladies - Hallie Rubenhold
39. The Betrayal - Helen Dunmore
40. What About Men? - Caitlin Moran
41. A Spell of Good Things - Ayobami Adebayo
42. Divine Might - Natalie Haynes
43. Rebel Folklore - Icy Sedgwick
44. How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair
45. In Defence of Witches - Mona Chollet
46. Emperor of Rome - Mary Beard
47. You Don’t Have to be Mad to Work Here - Benji Waterhouse
48. Deerskin - Robin McKinley
49. Camouflage: the hidden lives of autistic women - Sarah Bargiela
50. How to Survive the School Year - Lee Parkinson & Adam Parkinson
51. Affinity - Sarah Waters
52. Emotional Ignorance - Dean Burnett
53. Human Origins - New Scientist
54. Impossible Monsters - Michael Taylor
55. This book shall remain nameless
56. A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
57. Odyssey - Stephen Fry
58. Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne - Katherine Rundell

Currently reading Monsters by Claire Dederer, a study of whether we can/should still love the art of bad men (and JK Rowling, whose crimes are obviously equivalent 🙄). And an academic book about Greek and Roman conceptions of werewolves, as you do…

Oooh shiny new thread. Thanks Southeast.

Just place marking for now. I need to do a review dump, but I'm hiding from fireworks in deepest darkest Wales at the moment.

Thanks @Southeastdweller.
Started The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous but have remembered I didn’t like it much last time I read it so looking for something else*

Welcome @Cashew1 Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller My list (just the 1 bold).

1. The Cutting Season Attica Locke

2. Jesus Land Julia Scheeres 3. In a Dark Dark Wood Ruth Ware 4. Night Waking Sarah Moss 5. Falling Animals Shelia Armstrong* 6. Little Disasters Sarah Vaughan 7. Bluebird Bluebird Attica Locke 8. Heaven My Home Attica Locke 9. Black Water Rising Attica Locke 10. The Ready Made Family Antonia Forest 11. Eating for England Nigel Slater 12. The Homes J. B. Mylett 13. Girl Missing Sophie McKenzie 14. Sister Missing Sophie McKenzie 15. The Survivors Jane Harper 16. The Appeal Janice Hallett 17. Ill Take That One Kitty Baxter 18. Instructions for a heatwave Maggie O'Farrell 19. Pine Francine Toon 20. The Hiding Place Amanda Mason 21 Giving Up the Ghost Hilary Mantel 22 Kala Colin Walsh 23 Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? Nicci French 25 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 26 - 30 Goodbye to Pine Street, Alone at Pine Street, Friends at Pine Street, The Pride of Pine Street, First Term at Ash Grove Mabel Esther Allan 31. The Light We Carry Michelle Obama 32. All the Lonely People Martin Edwards 33. Weightless Sarah Bannan

Currently reading a lake district set mystery/thriller.

No idea what happened to the formatting!

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

Welcome @Cashew1 I've never read any Simone De Beauvoir. I remember reading Foucault's Pendulum years ago and wanting to love it but not. A friend published The Life of Pi after it had been rejected loads of times, was so pleased for him when it won the Booker!

Bringing my list over from the last thread.

82. Butter - Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton
83. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
84. One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
85. When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson
86. Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
87. Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
88. A Flat Place - Noreen Masud
89. The Coast Road - Alan Murrin
90. All The Colours of the Dark - Chris Whitaker
91. Desperate Characters - Paula byFox
92. Borrowed Finery - Paula Fox
93. Playground - Richard Powers
94. The Cracked Mirror - Chris Brookmyre
95. Rivals - Jilly Cooper
96. Polo - Jilly Cooper
97. James - Percival Everett
98. The Fell - Sarah Moss
99. Caraval - Stephanie Garber
100. The Echoes - Evie Wyld

Reasonable few weeks. I spent a bit of it catching up on Jackson Brodie in preparation for the new one, then got a bit bored of them. And loved my re-immersion into Rutshire. Debating on whether to bold James and The Echoes but will leave them for now and decide at the end of the year.

Thank you for the new thread Southeastdweller! Welcome Cashew!
Here's the continuation of my list since last time;

61. The Beauty Myth: Naomi Wolf
62. The Lost Bookshop: Evie Woods
63. A son image: Jérôme* *Ferrari
64. O Caledonia and Short Stories: Elspeth Barker
65. Held: Anne Michaels
66. Stone Yard Devotional: Charlotte Wood
67. Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Choderlos de Laclos
68. Esther's Inheritance: Sandor Máraí (trans. Georges Szirtes)
69. The Country Girls: Edna O'Brien.

Thanks for the new thread, South. My reads since the end of the last thread:

69. Ships of Heaven - Christopher Somerville
70. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes - Angus Wilson
71. The Book-Makers - Adam Smyth
72. Mistletoe Malice - Kathleen Farrell
73. Gut - Giulia Enders
74. Same As It Ever Was - Claire Lombardo
75. My Family - David Baddiel
76. The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
77. Challenger - Adam Higginbotham
78. Bonjour tristesse - Françoise Sagan, trans. Heather Lloyd
79. The Friday Afternoon Club - Griffin Dunne
80. Shy Creatures - Clare Chambers

I saw a book recommended on here, couldn’t resist it, found it was in the library catalogue locally, reserved it - and it was ready for collection the next day! So I’m once again slightly swamped with current reads…

Thanks for the new thread Southeast and welcome Cashew.

Wont be posting list but will be back later with latest reviews.

Thanks for the new thread south

My list

1. Echo Burning; Lee Child
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Agatha Christie
3. Without Fail; Lee Child
4. Persuader; Lee Child
5. Beg, Borrow or Steal; Susie Tate
6. Lights Out; Elodie Hart Kipness
7. A Fatal Inversion; Barbara Vine
8. The Secret Adversary; Agatha Christie
9. The Witcher: The Last Wish; Andrezj Sapkowski
10. I'll Never Tell; Catherine McKenzie
11. A Doctor Blind Date for the Cowboy; Dobi Daniels
12. The Frightened Lady; Edgar Wallace
13. The Mystery of the Blue Train; Agatha Christie
14. Manhattan State of Mind; Rosa Lucas
15. The Cowboy's Unexpected Love; S. J. McCoy
16. The Guesthouse; Abbie Frost
17. The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811; T. A. Critchley & P. D. James
18. Murder at the Vicarage; Agatha Christie
19. The Duke and I; Julia Quinn
20. Murder Most Royal; S. J. Bennett
21. Death in the Sunshine; Steph Broadribb
22. The Dead of Winter; S. J. Parris
23. The Highland Kiss; Amy McGavin
24. In a Dark, Dark Wood; Ruth Ware
25. The ABC Murders; Agatha Christie
26. Untouched; Dakota Willinck
27. All Fired Up; Lili Valente
28. The Last Resort; Susi Holliday
29. The Housemaid; Frieda McFadden
30. Friends in Napa; Sheila Yasmin Marikar
31. Nothing to Hide; Scarlett Finn
32. Seduced by the Boss; Lexi Noir
33. A Body in the Village Hall; Dee MacDonald
34. And May the Best Girl Win/Johnnie Casanova; Jilly Cooper
35. And Then There Were None; Agatha Christie
36. The Twyford Code; Janice Hallett
37. Rizzio; Denise Mina
38. Twisted Love; Ana Huang
39. My Grumpy Cowboy; Olivia Sage
40. Empire State Enemies; Rosa Lucas
41. No One's Home; D. M. Pulley
42. The Misbegotten; Katherine Webb
43. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television; Louis Theroux
44. Don't Forget Me; Rea Frey
45. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China; Jung Chang
46. All Because of You; Theresa Paolo
47. Mia's Scandal; Michelle Reid
48. Taken at the Flood; Agatha Christie
49. Fallen Angel; Chris Brookmyre
50. Uncle Paul; Celia Fremlin
51. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Stieg Larsson
52. The Girl who Played with Fire; Stieg Larsson
53. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; Stieg Larsson
54. The Darkest Flower; Kristin Wright
55. Broken Bayou; Jennifer Moorhead
56. Finding Lord Farlisle; Cassandra Dean
57. A Murder is Announced; Agatha Christie
58. Where Water Lies; Hilary Tailor
59. The Cuckoo Sister; Alison Stockham
60. The Other Husband; Kathryn Croft
61. Grumpy Cowboy Boss; Olivia Sage
62. Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean; Katherine Pangonis
63. Ordeal by Innocence; Agatha Christie
64. The Gunslinger; Stephen King
65. The Drawing of the Three; Stephen King
66. The Enchanted Wood; Enid Blyton
67. The Waste Lands; Stephen King
68. Wizard and Glass; Stephen King
69. The Wind Through the Keyhole; Stephen King
70. Wolves of the Calla; Stephen King
71. Her Valiant Heart; Mary Waterford
72. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side; Agatha Christie

Thanks Southeast.
Checking in with my short list:

1.	The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
2.	Slow Horses by Mick Herron
3.	Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 
4.	Politics On The Edge by Rory Stewart 
5.	The Audacity by Katherine Ryan  
6.	A Heart That Works by Roberts Delaney 
7.	 Kala by Colin Walsh 
8.	One Day by David Nicholls 
9.	Madly, Deeply: Alan Rickman’s Diaries 
10.	<strong>Small Things Like These</strong> by Claire Keegan 
11.	Wonderful Tonight by Patti Boyd 
12.	Swedish Death Cleaning by Linnea Gustafsson 
13.	The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christie Lefteri 
14.	Poor by Katriona O&rsquo;Sullivan 
15.	A Very Private School by Charles Spencer 
16.	Berserker by Ade Edmondson 
17.	Loosely Based On A Made Up Story by James Blunt 
18.	<strong>You Are Here</strong> by David Nicholls 
19.	Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 
20.	<strong>Hitler, Stalin, Mum &amp; Dad</strong> by Daniel Finkelstein 
21.	The Burning by Jane Casey 
22.	The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper 
23.	The Reckoning by Jane Casey 
24.	Dead Lions by Mick Heron 
25.	Real Tigers by Mick Heron
26.	Spook Street by Mick Heron

thanks for the new thread, @Southeastdweller !

here’s my list since the last thread:

41 Les Cahiers d’Esther: Histoires de mes 13 ans - Riad Sattouf (in French)
42 The Burning Page - Genevieve Cogman
43 The Lost Plot - Genevieve Cogman
44 The Mortal Word - Genevieve Cogman
45 The Secret Chapter - Genevieve Cogman
46 The Dark Archive - Genevieve Cogman
47 The Untold Story - Genevieve Cogman
48 The Searcher - Tana French
49 Has anyone seen Charlotte Salter? - Nicci French
50 The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
51 Scarlet - Genevieve Cogman
52 The Bookbinder of Jericho - Pip Williams
53 Borrower of the Night - Elizabeth Peters
54 The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer
55 Death and Croissants - Ian Moore

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller. I've started trying to compile a list of my reading but as it's getting a bit long .... maybe I will have it ready for the next thread this year, and I will do better in January. Somehow I finished 30 books last month - and I assumed there must be a few short stories but have only identified one. I'm borrowing some Amazon Original short stories, some by authors whose other work I know very well, and some that sound interesting by authors I want to try or whose work is new to me. Amazon has also started to offer short stories to keep through First Reads, again as part of my Amazon Prime subscription. (I'm keen to justify the extravagance of Amazon Prime and any other subs I have and don't want to give up entirely.

Thanks for new thread Southeast
Not going to try to wrangle my list, but one to add
95. Exam Nation by Sammy Wright
Headteacher & previous member of the Social Mobility Commission looks at the problems with our current focus on exams / grades within education. I thought this was good, it resisted easy answers, and had some interesting points to make. I'd be interested to know what any teachers who've read it think of it though!

(One of the many outstanding reviews I've finally got round to writing, before I take it back to the library this afternoon. I actually read it as a Netgalley copy on my Kindle but then a reservation I'd placed came through surprisingly fast.) This

Book 142, finished 16.09.24, reviewed 05.11.24 Netgalley/library loan
Lissa Evans, Small Bomb at Dimperley (Transworld/Doubleday 2024)

Small Bomb at Dimperley is a social comedy, set in 1945, about a large crumbling country home in a Buckinghamshire village. Valentine Vere-Thissett is a younger son and now unexpectedly a reluctant heir to the title and estate, as his glamorous older brother Felix is now confirmed dead, He comes home to his imperious mother, his uncle Alaric who is writing a very dull family history and Felix's widow Barbara and her daughters, who have also recently come back to England after spending the war in America as evacuees. Zena Baxter has lived in Dimperley for three years with her young daughter, after arriving there as a pregnant evacuee, and being taken on as a secretary.

Much of the humour of the novel comes from the characters struggling with their place in this strange new postwar world. Most of the servants have gone, the estate is burdened with debt, and Valentine's imperious mother, Lady Irene and his uncle Alaric are clinging to their prewar roles and assumptions, keen to continue as if nothing has changed. Valentine is advised that he must marry a nice girl with enough money to save the family estate, but will anyone with the money want him?

The story is wrapped up quite nicely for the main characters of the novel, but I would love to read a follow up about Priscilla Vere-Thissett, a budding writing currently producing rather disturbing stories at school about flesh eating lizards and anthromorphised dogs, in a few years time.

Thank you to Transworld/Doubleday for granting me a review copy through Netgalley.

That reminds me that I forgot
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
An ill-assorted group of characters end up thrown together during the filming of a wartime propaganda film in Norfolk. I did like this, it was gentle and entertaining, though the characters felt a bit out of central casting (perhaps intentional given the subject matter). The impression I get from reviews is that this isn't one of her best - it just happened to be the one that was in the library - & I'll definitely pick up others if I see them.

Book 182, finished 27.10.24, reviewed 29.10.24

Christine Dwyer Hickey, The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories

This is a collection of ten short stories set in Dublin, mostly around the Phoenix Park area. It was published a few years ago by a small Dublin publishing company and sadly this seems to be the only print copy available from a libraries consortium covering a large part of London and the south east. There is also a library ebook version in the system, but again, only one copy! I found it when looking in a library catalogue for her new novel, Our London Lives.

Several of these stories are about children and teenage girls and some are about older people. They have a shared theme perhaps about loneliness and nostalgia, about observing other people's lives.

The title story, The House on Parkgate Street, is one of two longer stories in the collection. Gráinne is 13, struggling to fit in and being bullied at a new school after her parents' separation, missing her father and being sent to stay with her mother's friend Judy, reluctantly taking on Judy's caring responsibilities. She has been told not to chatter too much, but then she meets Noreen, who seems friendly and interested in her conversation.

In the Yellow Handbag, Ashok is a homeless taxi driver, trying to maintain contact with his estranged daughter and driving around a woman who has been away from Dublin for many years and is shocked and dismayed by the changes.

These stories are beautifully written but terribly sad.

@Sadik Thanks for the review of Exam Nation - I also bought this last month (presumably a Kindle bargain) - my kids are in years 11 and 13 so both face major exams next spring/summer. And I'm about to become a secondary school parent governor (have been a primary governor - parent and co-opted - for 11 years).

So far my favourite Lissa Evans books have been the linked trilogy including Old Baggage.* *

My mess of a list that I never get right :

1.	Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
2.	Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling 
3.	Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by JK Rowling 
4.	Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by JK Rowling 
5.	The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
6.	<strong>Tom Lake</strong> by Ann Patchett
7.	Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by JK Rowling
8.	Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
9.	Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
10.	Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
11.	Penance by Eliza Clark
12.	Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 
13.	The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
14.	Educated by Tara Westover
15.	The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 
16.	<strong>Big Swiss</strong> by Jen Beagin
17.	1979 by Val McDermid 
18.	They&rsquo;re Going To Love You by Meg Howrey
19.	Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
20.	<strong>Project Hail Mary</strong> by Andy Weir
21.	Sorrow And Bliss by Meg Mason
22.	Rizzio by Denise Mina
23.	Happiness Falls by Angie Kim 
24.	Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
25.	The Restless Republic by Anna Keay
26.	Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
27.	Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam 
28.	Erasure by Percival Everett
29.	In The Woods by Tana French
30.	Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
31.	Killers Of The Flower Moon by David Grann   
32.	<strong>I Have Some Questions For You</strong> by Rebecca Makkai
33.	Oracle by Andrew Pyper
34.	City On Fire by Don Winslow
35.	City Of Dreams by Don Winslow
36.	Last Dance At The Discotheque for Deviants by Paul David Gould  
37.	Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
38.	Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
39.	Sula by Toni Morrison
40.	Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 
41.	Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
42.	Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
43.	City In Ruins by Don Winslow
44.	Wifedom by Anna Funder
45.	11.22.63 by Stephen King
46.	Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
47.	The Girls by Emma Cline
48.	Weyward by Emilia Hart
49.	Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
50.	Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobson 
51.	Dissolution by CJ Sansom
52.	The Martian by Andy Weir  
53.	<strong>Age Of Vice</strong> by Deepti Kapoor
54.	The Infiltrators by Norman Ohler
55.	<strong>The True History Of The Kelly Gang</strong> by Peter Carey
56.	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
57.	Knots And Crosses by Ian Rankin
58.	Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jurado
59.	The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
60.	Swanfolk by Kristin Omarsdottir
61.	Doppelg&auml;nger by Naomi Klein
62.	There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
63.	Under The Banner Of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
64.	River Kings by Cat Jarman
65.	Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson
66.	Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
67.	The Women by Kristen Hannah
68.	It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
69.	The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
70.	The Ministry Of Time by Kaliane Bradley 
71.	Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
72.	A Symphony Of Echoes by Jodi Taylor
73.	Giovanni&rsquo;s Room by James Baldwin
74.	Orbital by Samantha Harvey
75.	A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor 
76.	<strong>Butter</strong> by Asako Yuzuki
77.	<strong>The Ferryman</strong> by Justin Cronin
78.	A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor 
79.	The Burning by Jane Casey
80.	The Reckoning by Jane Casey 
81.	The Last Girl by Jane Casey
82.	What&rsquo;s Next? by Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack
83.	No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor
84.	The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey
85.	The Kill by Jane Casey
86.	A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin
87.	<strong>Born A Crime</strong> by Trevor Noah
88.	After The Fire by Jane Casey
89.	Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey
90.	What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor 
91.	The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wouden
92.	Artemis by Andy Weir
93.	James by Percival Everett
94.	Cruel Acts by Jane Casey 
95.	Reach For The Stars by Michael Cragg
96.	<strong>The Cutting Place</strong> by Jane Casey
97.	Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
98.	Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
99.	The Close by Jane Casey
100.	Stranger In The Family by Jane Casey 
101.	Left For Dead by Jane Casey
102.	One In Custody by Jane Casey
103.	Love Lies Bleeding by Jane Casey
104.	Silent Kill by Jane Casey 
105.	Small Bomb At Dimperley by Lissa Evans 
106.	We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 
107.	<strong>84 Charing Cross Road</strong> by Helene Hanff
108.	1974 by David Peace
109.	Riders by Jilly Cooper
110.	A Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness
111.	The Killing Kind by Jane Casey
112.	The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths 
113.	<strong>Rivals</strong> by Jilly Cooper
114.	The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

Only 12 bolds! Not a vintage year, I have to say!