No.17 - Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison. A really dark and subversive horror novel about a young woman who has left a strict religious cult and reluctantly goes back to visit a few years later to attend her cousin's wedding, at which she finds out all sorts of things about herself and her family that she'd rather not have known. I enjoyed it a lot; the narrator is chaotic and flawed in ways I could somewhat identify with.
No.18 - Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff. Concluding novel in a gripping grimdark fantasy trilogy, the Nevernight series, about a girl out for revenge on the man responsible for her family's deaths. I enjoyed the whole trilogy a lot and adored so many of the characters who rally around Mia, the main character, on her journey. Very dark, very gory, often funny, often sad.
No.19 - Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe by Cullen Bunn. I mean, what can I say? If you like Deadpool and are familiar with Marvel Universe, it's great; if you don't, it isn't. I enjoyed the dialogue a lot and there's a lot of very clever self-referential stuff in it, although the plot isn't up to much.
No.20 - Deadpool Killustrated by Cullen Bunn. Again, you're going to need to like Deadpool for this, and it also helps if you're familiar with classic literature, because in this one Deadpool, on his quest to annihilate the Marvel universe, also decides to assassinate a whole host of characters from classic novels on whom he believes Marvel characters to be based. Very clever, very irreverent, very funny, if that's your thing.
No.21 - A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz. The latest in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series, beginning with a murder on a film set as a production company adapts Horowitz's first Hawthorne book for the screen. Meanwhile, Anthony delves more into Hawthorne's shady past. It's not my favourite of the Hawthorne series but I still enjoyed it a lot and am a huge fan of Hawthorne overall.
No. 22 - A Killing In November by Simon Mason. Not as sparse and Camus-like as his 'Missing' series, but a very well-written crime novel with a very unusual (and infuriating at times) police detective. DI Ryan Wilkins is everything Mumsnet hates, so naturally I loved him.
No. 23 - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Having re-read Paradise Lost by John Milton earlier in the year I thought I'd read The Divine Comedy for the first time. It's brilliant and I honestly found it hard to put down. Also my copy has the Gustave Dore illustrations which are exquisite.
No.24 - Solace House by Will Maclean. Reading this one at the moment and I absolutely love it so far. I also adored The Apparition Phase by the same author and was worried this one wouldn't live up to that but it definitely does. It's about a group of misfit students in the 1990s who have a summer job clearing two old properties, one a house and the other a residential psychiatric home, of junk. We have an unreliable narrator and apparently a haunted house, but haunted how, and by what? Deeply unsettling, nostalgic, slow-build horror/ghost story crossed with dark academia.