2024 Books

The list of books read during 2024.... as usual Canadian authors shown in RED, British authors in BLUE, American authors in GREEN.

For previous years' reading lists go here:    

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. 

That's a lot of books, many of them have been enjoyed twice.... Thank goodness for our local library.

January
Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood
The Huntress - Kate Quinn

Hotel Silence - Audur Ava Olafsdottir

The Testaments - Margaret Atwood

Forty Autumns - Nina Willner (loved this book)

February

Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood

The Alice Network - Kate Quinn

Madhouse at the End of the Earth - Julian Sancton (fascinating book, enjoyed it)

Soundings, Journeys in the Company of Whales - Doreen Cunningham

March
Franklin's Lost Ship, The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus - John Geiger and Alannah Mitchell

Erebus - Michael Palin (very good book)

The Bettencourt Affair - Tom Sancton (DNF, got halfway through)

Breakfasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami (DNF, too weird)

The Reckoning - Ken McGoogan

Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition - Gillian Hutchinson

The Magician - Colm Toibin

The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena (weak, rubbishy)

April

All Our Shimmering Skies - Trent Dalton (Australian author)

The Social Life of Ink - Ted Bishop

May
The Lost Man - Jane Harper

Exiles - Jane Harper

The Postcard - Anne Berest (a great book)

Old God's Time - Sebastian Barry (wow, great book! I started out doubtful but loved it.)

The Van Gogh Sisters - Willem-Jan Verlinden

June
Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

A Thousand Moons - Sebastian Barry

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie - Marie Benedict

The Final Case - David Guterson

July

Paper Cuts - Colin Bateman

The Princess of Las Vegas - Chris Bohjalian

Looking for Jane - Heather Marshall

The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry (loved this book)

When We Were Young - Richard Roper

August
Where my Heart used to Beat - Sebastian Faulks

The Other Einstein - Marie Benedict

Sweetland - Michael Crummey (great book)

The Clockmaker's Daughter - Kate Morton

The Truth - Michael Palin

September
The Innocents - Michael Crummey (loved this book)

Children of the Stars - Mario Escobar (DNF, very basic)

The Cactus - Sarah Haywood

The Adversary - Michael Crummey (you can't go wrong with this Newfoundland author)

Above the Ether - Eric Barnes (DNF, too chilling)

Behind You is the Sea - Susan Muaddi Darraj

East of the Mountains - David Guterson (liked this book)

The Wreckage - Michael Crummey

October
Galore - Michael Crummey

Caught - Lisa Moore

The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory

We'll All be Burnt in our Beds Some Night - Joel Thomas Hynes

November
The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles (DNF)

The Taste of Ginger - Mansi Shah

A Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins

The Last Tudor - Philippa Gregory

December

Everyone who can Forgive me is Dead - Jenny Hollander (Very strange, not a good read)

Lola in the Mirror - Trent Dalton (great book, love all 3 books by this Australian author)

The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory

Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan