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Books read in 2021 (9 books)
  1. One Moment, Linda Green
  2. Wild Fire, Ann Cleeves
  3. A Noise Downstairs, Linwood Barclay
  4. Nine Elms, Robert Bryndza
  5. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
  6. The Marlow Murder Club, Robert Thorogood
  7. Hiding Out, Gerard Stembridge (audiobook)
  8. Klara and the Sun,  Kazuo Ishiguro (audiobook)
  9. The Museum of Desire, Jonathan Kellerman


Books read in 2020 (29 books)
  1. A Keeper, Graham Norton
  2. The Witch Finder's Sister, Beth Underdown
  3. Let Me Lie, Clare Mackintosh
  4. Rachel in Love, Pat Murphy (short story)
  5. The Heretics of De'Ath, Howard of Warwick
  6. Blue Moon, Lee Child
  7. The Liar, Nora Roberts
  8. The Knowers, Helen Phillips (short story)
  9. A Jar Full of Angels, Babs Horton,
  10. The Witchcraft of Salem Village, Shirley Jackson (audiobook)
  11. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J K Rowling (audiobook)
  12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J K Rowling (audiobook)
  13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J K Rowling (audiobook)
  14. Slow Tuesday Night, R A Lafferty (short story)
  15. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J K Rowling
  16. Haven't They Grown, Sophie Hannah
  17. Needlemouse, Jane O'Connor
  18. Days of Wonder, Keith Stuart
  19. The Wish List, Ruby Hummingbird
  20. Hopscotch, David Sherwood
  21. The Things You Find In Rockpools, Gregg Dunnett
  22. The Boy In The Photo, Nicole Trope
  23. Out of the London Mist, Lyssa Medana
  24. Deepest Desires, Lyssa Medana
  25. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
  26. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
  27. Winter Solstice, Rosamunde Pilcher
  28. Christmas Calamity at the Vicarage, Emily Organ
  29. On Chapel Sands, Laura Cumming

Books read in 2019 (33 books)
* book group choices
  • Hades, Candice Fox
  • Kill The Father, Sandrone Dazieri
  • Kill The Angel, Sandrone Dazieri
  • The Widow, Fiona Barton 
  • The Secret Place, Tana French *
  • The Guilty, David Baldacci
  • Total Recall, Sara Paretsky
  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams *
  • The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult *
  • The Limpet Syndrome. Tony Moyle *
  • Peas, Carrots and an Aston Martin, Hannah Lynn
  • The Guilty One, Lisa Ballantyne
  • How To Stop Time, Matt Haig *
  • Into The Water, Paula Hawkins
  • Storm Front, Jim Butcher *
  • Every Colour of You, Amelia Mandeville
  • Wool, Hugh Howey *
  • Sight Unseen, Robert Goddard *
  • Spence In Petal Park, Michael Allen
  • The Woman In The Window,  A. J. Finn
  • Three Things About Elsie, Joanna Cannon
  • Bring Me Back, B A Paris
  • Foundation, Isaac Asimov *
  • Heresy, S J Parris *
  • Truth Or Die, Katerina Diamond
  • A Stranger In The House, Shari Lapena
  • Sanctus, Simon Toyne
  • The Key, Simon Toyne
  • The Tower, Simon Toyne
  • I Found You, Lisa Jewell
  • Fractured, Karin Slaughter
  • Seconds Away, Harlan Cohen
  • The Distant Echo, Val McDermid
Books read in 2018 (70 books) 
* book group choices
  • Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel *
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 1: London, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 2, Wasteland, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 3, Family, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 4, Unsafe Haven, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 5, Reunion, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 6, Harvest, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 7, Home, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 8, Anglesey, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 9, Ireland, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 10, The Last Candidate, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 11, Search and Rescue, Frank Tayell
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 12, Britain's End, Frank Tayell
  • The Couple Next Door, Shari Lapena
  • Witch Is When It All Began, Adele Abbot
  • Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng *
  • The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan
  • So Say The Fallen, Stuart Neville
  • Die Trying, Lee Child
  • The Secret, Kathryn Hughes
  • The Marble Collector, Cecelia Ahern
  • Secrets of Death, Stephen Booth
  • The Swedish Girl, Alex Gray
  • Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
  • Disclaimer, Renee Knight *
  • The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer
  • The Leopard, Jo Nesbo
  • Sky Burial, Xinran *
  • Five Days To Die, Katia Lief
  • Dark Lies, Nick Hollin
  • The Cleaner, Elizabeth Herrmann
  • The Visitor, Lee Child
  • This Must Be The Place, Maggie O'Farrell *
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 13, Future's Beginning, Frank Tayell
  • The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye, David Lagercrantz
  • Die of Shame, Mark Billingham
  • This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, Adam Kay *
  • The Mayfly, James Hazel
  • The Steel Kiss, Jeffrey Deaver
  • Ragdoll, Daniel Cole
  • The Twenty-Three, Linwood Barclay
  • I'm Travelling Alone, Samuel Bjor
  • Before The Dawn, Jake Woodhouse
  • Nothing Stays Buried, P J Tracy
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman *
  • The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • Zodiac, Sam Wilson
  • The Angel, Katerina Diamond
  • Natural Causes, James Oswald *
  • Sweetpea, C J Skuse
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 14, Mort Vivant, Frank Tayell
  • The Good People, Hannah Kent
  • Body Double, Tess Gerritson
  • About Grace, Anthony Doerr *
  • The Overlook, Michael Connelly
  • The Midnight Line, Lee Child
  • Killing Floor, Lee Child
  • The Burial Hour, Jeffrey Deaver
  • Insidious Intent, Val McDermid
  • I Am Missing, Tim Weaver *
  • Lethal White, Robert Galbraith
  • A Game For All The Family, Sophie Hannah 
  • The Child, Fiona Barton
  • The Mismade Girl, Mark Lock
  • London Calling, James Craig *
  • Sweet Little Lies, Caz Frear
  • The Cosy Christmas Chocolate Shop, Caroline Roberts
  • Unreliable Memoirs, Clive James *
  • Surviving the Evacuation, Book 15, Where There’s Hope, Frank Tayell
  • Hiding the Past, Nathan Dylan Goodwin

Books read in 2017 (50 books) 
* book group choices

  • Black-Eyed Susans, Julia Heaberlin
  • The Killing Lessons, Saul Black
  • The Girl in the Photograph, Kate Riordan *
  • Silent Scream, Angela Marsons
  • Forward Slash, Louise Voss & Mark Edwards
  • The Witness, Simon Kernick
  • Cop Town, Karin Slaughter
  • I See You, Gregg Hurwitz
  • The Ice Twins, S. K. Tremayne
  • All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr *
  • A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding, Jackie Copleton *
  • The Third Wife, Lisa Jewell
  • The Girls, Lisa Jewell
  • The Damage Done, James Oswald
  • Every Three Hours, Chris Mooney
  • Tell Tale, Mark Sennen
  • River Road, Carol Goodman
  • Bryant & May: The Burning Man, Christopher Fowler *
  • Playing Dead, Julia Heaberlin
  • The Woman Next Door, Cass Green
  • The Ice Child, Camilla Lackberg
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • Missing, Presumed, Susie Steiner
  • What She Left, T R Richmond *
  • The Silkworm, Robert Galbraith
  • The Narrow Bed, Sophie Hannah
  • Out of Bounds, Val McDermid
  • I See You, Clare Mackintosh
  • The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
  • The Escape, C L Taylor
  • Spectacles, A Memoir, Sue Perkins *
  • Far From True, Linwood Barclay
  • The Blackhouse, Peter May
  • The Torment of Othersl
  • The Weeping Girl, Hakan Nesser *
  • The Secret, Katerina Diamond
  • Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith
  • The Kept Woman, Karin Slaughter
  • Never Go Back, Lee Child
  • The Collector, Nora Roberts
  • The Forgetting Time, Sharon Guskin *
  • The Trouble With Goats and Sheep, Joanna Cannon *
  • The Crossing, Michael Connelly
  • Drop Shot, Harlan Coben
  • Deal Breaker, Harlan Coben
  • The Bricklayer, Noah Boyd
  • Coffin Road, Peter May *
  • A Line of Blood, Ben McPherson *
  • Night School, Lee Child
  • Sometimes I Lie, Alice Feeney


 Books read in 2016 (45 books)
* book group choices
 
  • The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng *
  • Skeleton Road, Val McDermid
  • The Girl in the Red Coat, Kate Hamer *
  • Remember Me This Way, Sabine Durrant
  • The Quality of Silence, Rosamund Lupton *
  • Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen *
  • The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett *
  • Telling the Bees, Peggy Hesketh
  • The Lie, C L Taylor
  • Longbourn, Jo Baker *
  • The Book of You, Claire Kendal *
  • Bitter Fruits, Alice Clark-Platts
  • Frog and the Tree of Spells, Joffre White
  • The 100 -Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson *
  • Glow, Jessica Maria Tuccelli *
  • The Forgotten, David Baldacci
  • Summer of Ghosts, P D Viner
  • Gray Mountain, John Grisham
  • Scaredy Cat, Mark Billingham
  • Into the Night, Jake Woodhouse
  • Falling, Emma Kavanagh
  • The Kill, Jane Casey
  • The Never List, Koethi Zan
  • Daughter, Jane Shemilt
  • A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler *
  • I Saw a Man, Owen Sheers
  • Little Boy Blue, M J Arlidge
  • Promise Me, Harlan Coben
  • The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett *
  • The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz
  • The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith
  • Early One Morning, Virginia Baily *
  • Elephant Moon, John Sweeney *
  • When We Were Friends, Tina Seskis *
  • The Black Box, Michael Connelly
  • The Last Refuge, Craig Robertson
  • Ravens, George Dawes Green
  • Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian *
  • Inferno, Dan Brown
  • Wild: A Journey From Lost to Found, Cheryl Strayed *
  • The Edge of Sleep, David Wiltse
  • Where Women Are Kings, Christie Watson *
  • Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter
  • While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
  • The Good Neighbour, A.J. Banner *

  
Books read in 2015 (47 books)
* book group choices
  • The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion *
  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler *
  • The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng *
  • Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith *
  • A Tap on the Window, Linwood Barclay
  • The Book of Summers, Emylia Hall
  • A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard
  • Magyk, Angie Sage
  • Lion's Head, Four Happiness, Xiaomei Martell
  • Flyte, Angie Sage
  • Physik, Angie Sage
  • Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel *
  • Elizabeth Is Missing, Emma Healey *
  • Queste, Angie Sage
  • Syren, Angie Sage
  • Darke, Angie Sage
  • Fyre, Angie Sage
  • Through Thick and Thin - My Autobiography, Gok Wan
  • Frozen Grave, Lee Weeks
  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North
  • Driving Miss Smith: A Memoir of Linda Smith, Warren Lakin
  • And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini *
  • The Dying Hours, Mark Billingham
  • The Boy That Never Was, Karen Perry
  • A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry *
  • A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman *
  • The Piano Teacher, Janice Y K Lee *
  • The Telling Error, Sophie Hannah
  • No Safe House, Linwood Barclay *
  • Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout *
  • He Who Fears the Wolf, Karin Fossum
  • The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters *
  • The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins *
  • I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes
  • The Doll's House, M J Arlidge
  • The Bird That Did Not Sing, Alex Gray
  • I Let You Go, Clare Mackintosh *
  • Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
  • Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
  • Still Alice, Lisa Genova *
  • The Norfolk Mystery, Ian Sansom
  • Personal, Lee Child
  • The Well, Catherine Chanter *
  • The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern *
  • Noughts & Crosses, Malorie Blackman
  • The Final Minute, Simon Kernick
  • The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson *

Books read in 2012 (53 books)
  • One Moment, One Morning, Sarah Rayner
  • What To Do When Someone Dies, Nicci French
  • The Broken Window, Jeffery Deaver
  • The Surrogate, Tania Carver
  • One Scream Away, Kate Brady
  • Flash and Bones, Kathy Reichs
  • The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen
  • The Evidence Exposed, Elizabeth George
  • The Woodcutter, Reginald Hill
  • Secrets to the Grave, Tami Hoag
  • Mud, Muck and Dead Things, Ann Granger
  • The One You Love, Paul Pilkington (e-book)
  • The Little Death, P J Parrish
  • Without Fail, Lee Child
  • The Victoria Vanishes, Christopher Fowler
  • Silver Guilt, Judith Cutler
  • A Grave in the Cotswolds, Rebecca Tope
  • Twenty Wishes, Debbie Macomber
  • Breakneck, Erica Spindler
  • A Cotswold Mystery, Rebecca Tope
  • Ring of Guilt, Judith Cutler
  • The Winter Garden Mystery, Carola Dunn
  • Silence, Jan Costin Wagner
  • The Book of Murder, Guillermo Martinez
  • Oxford Blue, Veronica Stallwood
  • One Summer, David Baldacci
  • Blue Monday, Nicci French
  • Little Girls Lost, J.A. Kerley
  • Presumed Guilty, Tess Gerritsen
  • Spin a Wicked Web, Cricket McRae
  • A Cotswold Killing, Rebecca Tope
  • Mistress of the Art of Death, Ariana Franklin
  • Frog and the Sandspiders of Aridian, Joffre White
  • Frog, Joffre White
  • Tripwire, Lee Child
  • Edge, Jeffery Deaver
  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
  • Echo Burning, Lee Child
  • The Visitor, Lee Child
  • The People Next Door, Christopher Ransom
  • Last Witness, Jilliane Hoffman
  • The Burying Place, Brian Freeman
  • The 6th Target, James Patterson
  • Yesterday's Sun, Amanda Brooke
  • A Cold Season, Alison Littlewood
  • The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon
  • The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
  • Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
  • My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, Louisa Young
  • Midwinter Sacrifice, Mons Kallentoft
  • Before I Go To Sleep, S J Watson
  • The Snowman, Jo Nesbo
  • Worth Dying For, Lee Child

Books read in 2011 (70 books)
  • The Poison Tree, Erin Kelly
  • Bloodstream, Tess Gerritsen
  • Tigerlily's Orchids, Ruth Rendell
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Hanging Shed, Gordon Ferris
  • Killing Floor, Lee Child
  • When God Was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman
  • Spider Bones, Kathy Reichs
  • Never Look Away, Linwood Barclay
  • The Distant Hours, Kate Morton
  • Broken, Karin Slaughter
  • From the Dead, Mark Billingham
  • Three Weeks To Say Goodbye. C.J.Box
  • Agatha Raisin: There goes the Bride, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener, M.C. Beaton
  • The Winter Ghosts, Kate Mosse
  • Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam, M.C. Beaton
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
  • Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison, M.C Beaton
  • Girl 4, Will Carver
  • The Burning Wire, Jeffrey Deaver
  • Blue Lightning, Ann Cleeves
  • Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, M.C. Beaton
  • Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet, M.C. Beaton
  • Sister, Rosamund Lupton
  • Deeper than the Dead, Tami Hoag
  • Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
  • U is for Undertow, Sue Grafton
  • Genesis, Karin Slaughter
  • The Crying Tree, Naseem Rakha
  • The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
  • The Apprentice, Tess Gerritsen
  • The Savage Garden, Mark Mills
  • Roadside Crosses, Jeffrey Deaver
  • Never Go Back, Robert Goddard
  • The Promised Land, David Hewson
  • Enquiry, Dick Francis
  • Nothing to Fear, Karen Rose
  • Lost Souls, Neil White
  • Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
  • The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
  • Jericho Point, Meg Gardiner
  • Naked in Death, Nora Roberts
  • Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter
  • 206 Bones, Kathy Reichs
  • Dead Right, Peter Robinson
  • The Keys of Hell, Jack Higgins
  • S is for Silence, Sue Grafton
  • The Coffin Dancer, Jeffrey Deaver
  • True Detectives, Jonathan Kellerman
  • Recipes for Cherubs, Babs Horton
  • The Disappeared, M.R. Hall
  • Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
  • Mad Joy, Jane Bailey
  • Fever of the Bone, Val McDermid
  • The Vows of Silence, Susan Hill

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