Here is a list of all the books I’ve read in 2022 in chronological order. I have given each book a rating, with five stars being the highest (based purely on how much I enjoyed the book). I try to review every book I read, though not necessarily in the order that I finish reading them!

January

1. Prize Women by Caroline Lea (2023) ****
2. Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson (2023) ***
3. The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel (1998) ***
4. Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell (1934) ****
5. My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor (2023) ****
6. The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder (2003) ****
7. Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie (1936) ****
8. A Marriage of Fortune by Anne O’Brien (2023) ****
9. The Other Side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker (2023) *****
10. The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo (1951) *****
11. Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler (2023) ****
12. The Shadows of London by Andrew Taylor (2023) *****
13. Homecoming by Kate Morton (2023) ****
14. Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (2023) *****
15. Death of an Author by ECR Lorac (1935) ***
16. The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1921) ****

February

17. The Lodger by Helen Scarlett (2023) ****
18. Rivers of Treason by KJ Maitland (2023) ***
19. Savage Beasts by Rani Selvarajah (2023) **
20. Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hobb (2017) ****
21. The Empty World by D.E. Stevenson (1936) *****
22. Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie (1955) ***
23. The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (2023) *****
24. A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy (1881) *****
25. Atalanta by Jennifer Saint (2023) ****
26. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020) ****
27. These Days by Lucy Caldwell (2022) ****

March

28. The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley (2022) *****
29. Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (1939) ***
30. The Orchid Hour by Nancy Bilyeau (2023) ****
31. Farewell, the Tranquil Mind by RF Delderfield (1950) ***

April

32. The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge (1940) *****
33. The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes (1940) ****
34. Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry (2023) *****
35. The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer (1940) ***
36. The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr (1939) *****
37. Random Harvest by James Hilton (1941) *****
38. Inquest by Henrietta Clandon (1933) ***
39. Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie (1939) *****
40. The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane (2022) **

May

41. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier (1957) *****
42. The Stolen Crown by Carol McGrath (2023) *****
43. Unfinished Portrait by Mary Westmacott (1934) ****
44. The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor (2023) ****
45. Once a Monster by Robert Dinsdale (2023)

June

46. The Cat Saw Murder by Dolores Hitchens (1939)