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) ***
41. A Plague of Serpents by KJ Maitland (2024) *****
42. The Black Count by Tom Reiss (2012) ***
43. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie (1933) ****
44. The Angel Makers by Patti McCracken (2023) ****
45. Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (2024) ***
46. The Nightingale’s Castle by Sonia Velton (2024) ****
47. The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews (2024) ***
48. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (2023) ***

June

49. The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi (1949) *****
50. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron (2024) ***
51. Thomasina by Paul Gallico (1957) *****
52. The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal (2024) *****
53. The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks (2024) ***
54. Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (1934) ****
55. A Woman of Opinion by Sean Lusk (2024) *****
56. The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Futaro Yamada (1979) ***
57. The King’s Witches by Kate Foster (2024) ****
58. Babylonia by Costanza Casati (2024) *****

July

59. A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith (2024) *****
60. N or M? by Agatha Christie (1941) ****
61. The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite (2024) ****
62. The Dumas Club by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1993) **
63. The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst by Katie Lumsden (2024) *****
64. House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth (2024) ***
65. The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (1908) ****
66. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (2024) ****

August

67. A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike (2024) ****
68. Miss Granby’s Secret: or the Bastard of Pinsk by Eleanor Farjeon (1941) ****
69. In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas (2023) **
70. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson (2024) ****
71. Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead (2024) *****
72. Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives by Alice Loxton (2024) ****
73. The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley (2019) ***
74. The Black Lake by Hella S. Haasse (1948) ***
75. The King’s Messenger by Susanna Kearsley (2024) *****
76. Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson (1948) ***
77. Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir (2024) ****
78. Hera by Jennifer Saint (2024) ****

September

79. Precipice by Robert Harris (2024) *****
80. Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie (1958) ***
81. Midnight in Vienna by Jane Thynne (2024) *****
82. Tales Accursed: A Folk Horror Anthology selected by Richard Wells (2024) ***
83. The Examiner by Janice Hallett (2024) *****

October

84. The Significance of Swans by Rhiannon Lewis (2024) *****
85. Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark by Celia Fremlin (1970) *****
86. God is an Englishman by RF Delderfield (1970) *****
87. Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie (1970) *
88. The Bells of Westminster by Leonora Nattrass (2024) ****
89. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier (2024) ****
90. The Lost Queen by Carol McGrath (2024) ****
91. The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (1988) *****

November

92. The Hidden Girl by Lucinda Riley (2024) ****
93. Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken (1964) ****
94. Fire by John Boyne (2024) ****
95. The Neighbour’s Secret by Sharon Bolton (2024) ****
96. City of Silk by Glennis Virgo (2024) ***
97. What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley (2024) ****
98. Murder in Tinseltown by Max Nightingale (2024) **
99. Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings by various (2024) ****
100. Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd (2024) ****
101. Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong (1950) ****
102. The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale (2024) ****
103. The Voyage Home by Pat Barker (2024) ****
104. Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield (2024) ****
105. The Royal Rebel by Elizabeth Chadwick (2024) ****

December

106. The Red Lacquer Case by Patricia Wentworth (1924) *****
107. The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay (2025) ****
108. Carrion Crow by Heather Parry (2025) ****
109. The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap (2025) *****
110. The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer (2025) *****
111. A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell (1955) ****
112. The Ghost of Madison Avenue by Nancy Bilyeau (2019) ***
113. Third Girl by Agatha Christie (1966) ****
114. Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain (2023) ****
115. The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones (2025) ****
116. Island Song by Pepsi Demacque-Crockett (2025) *****