Here is a list of all the books I’ve read in 2024 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. The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin (1975) *****
2. Silence by Shūsaku Endō (1966) *****
3. The Tower by Flora Carr (2024) ***
4. The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (1925) ***
5. The Beholders by Hester Musson (2024) ***
6. The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (2024) ****
7. The Spendthrift and the Swallow by Ambrose Parry (2023) ****
8. Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White (1932) ***
9. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers (2023) ****
10. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (2024) ***

February

11. The Bone Hunters by Joanne Burn (2024) ****
12. The Undetective by Bruce Graeme (1962) *****
13. The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie (1929) **
14. Clairmont by Lesley McDowell (2024) **
15. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1839) ***
16. The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (2024) *****
17. Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love by various (2024) ****
18. The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price (2002) ****
19. Sufferance by Charles Palliser (2024) *****
20. The Reckoning by Sharon Penman (1991) *****

March

21. Deadly Duo by Margery Allingham (1949) ***
22. Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones (1997) *****
23. The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola (2024) ****
24. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy (1880) ****
25. Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac (1954) ***
26. The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small by Neil Jordan (2021) **
27. Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1955) ****
28. The Fraud by Zadie Smith (2023) ***
29. Water Baby by Chioma Okereke (2024) ****

April

30. They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer (1937) ****
31. A Different Sound, edited by Lucy Scholes (2024) ****
32. Caroline England by Noel Streatfeild (1937) ****
33. Rosabelle Shaw by D.E. Stevenson (1937) ****
34. Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh (1951) ***
35. Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz (2024) *****
36. Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein (2023) **
37. The Household by Stacey Halls (2024) ***

May

38. Earth by John Boyne (2024) ****
39. A Court of Betrayal by Anne O’Brien (2024) *****
40. Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (2024) ***