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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FantasticLand is... Kinda Fantastic

It's not often I start a book that I know absolutely nothing about. I hadn't heard any buzz, it didn't appear on any book lists and I hadn't seen a single copy in a bookshop. The only thing it had going for it was that it appeared in the Audible Plus catalogue under 'horror' at the exact moment I was looking for a free horror audiobook. Mike Bockoven's FantasticLand is the story of a theme park roughly the same size as Disney World . Like Disney, it's a family institution with distinct themed 'lands' ( Pirate Cove, Fairy Prairie, Circus World , etc). The story begins with a record-breaking hurricane that takes out several states. Things begin well, with FantasticLand almost over-prepared . The park is quickly evacuated, leaving only three-hundred volunteers to stay in the bunkers and secure the park in the aftermath - for a significant pay bonus. After poor management and a blackout leads to the first (seemingly) accidental fatalities, the now s...

70% Off EVERYTHING?? What Happened When I Went to a Book Trade Warehouse

I hate book hauls on YouTube, and tend to only watch a very few made by BookTubers I respect. They tend to be transparent about where the books come from and how much they've spent (and are more excited about the book contents than the prettiness of the design.) I've never done one because a) I'm not a Bookfluencer, b) no one is sending me review copies/gifts, and c) I buy books regularly but cheaply, mainly in a digital format. But on Saturday I went to 66Books Ltd , a London book warehouse selling to trade only. Once a month it opens to the public and book lovers arrive from far and wide to get brand new books at a 70% discount. I was assured that if I walked away with less than ten books I'd be the most iron-willed person on earth... (Spoiler: I bought more than ten books.) So what was it like? And, most importantly, what is in my haul? The Experience I am noted for my dislike of early mornings, crowds, and uncertainty, so waking up at seven on a Saturday an...

A Terrible Kindness Accidentally Told the Queer Story I'd Wanted for Years

I didn't read this book because it had queer content. Honest. In fact, I had no idea. I had only heard buzz about it and needed a book to fulfil the 'modern history' prompt for History Girl Summer. Couple that with the feeling of connection to the Aberfan disaster that every UK person has, I was sold. What I wasn't expecting was for this book to (partially) tell a story I'd been yearning for my entire adult life. A Terrible Kindness [Jo Browning Wroe] is about the impact of the Aberfan disaster on a man's life. The real-life disaster happened when a small Welsh village was devastated by a half-million tonne man-made avalanche. It primarily struck the village's school, leading to the death of one-hundred-and-sixteen children and twenty-eight adults. In the aftermath, nearby undertakers are begged to come and assist with the body-identification and embalming process, and though it's a job more suited to those with disaster experience, newly-gra...

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