Book Masterlist 2024

Here is where you can see a list of everything I read in 2024 and find links to any blog posts mentioning those books. To see my 2023 list, go here.

January

Scorched Grace [Sister Holiday Mysteries 1]

Shadows in Bronze [Falco 2]

Honey & Pepper

A Thief in the Night

Venus in Copper [Falco 3]

Linghun

Our Secret Wedding [Sky High Scaffolding 1]

Strong Poison [Lord Peter Wimsey 5]

The Writing Retreat

The Lighthouse Witches

February

Payback's a Witch [Thistle Grove 1]

Compound a Felony: A Queer Affair of Sherlock Holmes

Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit [Short Story]

A Blink of the Screen

Jurassic Park

Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

True Crime Story

E. M Forster: Collected Short Stories

Gaslight Arcanum

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Thursday Murder Club [The Thursday Murder Club 1]

Pirate's Queen

March

Bunny

Persephone [Short Story]

Defending Jacob

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity

The Watchers

Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons [Short Story]

A Man Called Ove

The Warehouse

The Other Bennet Sister

Carrie Soto is Back

Patricia Wants to Cuddle

The Iron Hand of Mars [Falco 5]

Earthlings

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust

Starter Villain

April

Sinister Spring

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

salt slow

Lone Women

Remnant [Short Story]

Furies

Things We Say in the Dark

The Radium Girls

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

So This is Ever After

Yellowface

Norse Mythology [Audiodrama]

Into the Bright Open

Doctor Who: Ghosts of India

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

May

Lady Susan

Red River Seven

SPY x FAMILY Volume 1

SPY x FAMILY Volume 2

Cursed

A Head Full of Ghosts

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

A Little Bit Country

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

The Club

Orange is the New Black

SPY x FAMILY Volume 3

A Secret Sisterhood

The 57 Bus

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

June

Miracle on Cherry Hill

The Fall of the House of Usher [Short Story]

Blood Sugar

Red, White and Royal Blue

The House Keepers

Doctor Who: Wannabes

I Hope This Finds You Well

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Mermaid of Venice

The Bookshop and the Barbarian

The House that Horror Built

Black Sheep

The Ballad of Black Tom

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

Unfit to Print

Cinnamon and Gunpowder

July

Poseidon's Gold

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

The Kingmaker's Daughter

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Wolfsong

The Leviathan

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

The Wonder

Threshold [Whyborne and Griffin 2]

August

September

October

November

December

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