Here’s a list of my reading matter in 2022. Listed alphabetically by author’s surname, there is a cross section of children’s, young adult and adult fiction, non-fiction and poetry and I’ve enjoyed all of them. If there’s a hyperlink on the title, there’s a review. If there’s a hyperlink on the author there is some information about that writer (or at least that’s what I’m planning).

A

• I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
• Rainbow in the Cloud – Maya Angelou
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles – Hiro Arikawa
• A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

B

• A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
• Lionheart Girl – Yaba Badoe
• Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
• Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
• Snap – Belinda Bauer
• Here Comes the Miracle – Anna Beecher
• A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond
• Paddington Marches On – Michael Bond
• My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Brauthwaite
• Assembly – Natasha Brown

C

• The Other Hand – Chris Cleave
• Brida – Paulo Coelho
• Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
• The Life and Times of Michael K – JM Coetzee
• The Windvale Sprites – Mackenzie Crook

D

• Esio Trott – Roald Dahl
• The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me – Roald Dahl
• The Twits – Roald Dahl
• A Vicky Hill Exclusive – Hannah Dennison
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• The Greatcoat – Helen Dunmore
• The Lie – Helen Dunmore
• Poor Cow – Nell Dunn
• The Communist’s Daughter – Aroa Moreno Duran

E

• The Herd – Emily Edwards
• Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats – TS Eliot
• The Roanoake Girls – Amy Engel
• The Cut Out Girl – Bart van Es
• The Trees – Percival Everett

F

• Engleby – Sebastian Faulks
• Zlata’s Diary – Zlata Filipovic
• Never Seen Again – Paul Finch
• Diary of a Killer Cat – Anne Fine
• The Silk Road – Peter Frankopan

G

• Treacle Walker – Alan Garner
• The Blood Card – Elly Griffiths
• Smoke and Mirrors – Elly Griffiths
• The Vanishing Box – Elly Griffiths
• The Zig Zag Girl – Elly Griffiths
• Now You See Them – Elly Griffiths
• The Midnight Hour – Elly Griffiths
• The Stranger Diaries – Elly Griffiths
• The Locked Room – Elly Griffiths

H

• The Appeal – Janice Hallett
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
• Chocolat – Joanne Harris
• Into The Water – Paula Hawkins
• The Small Hand – Susan Hill
• Hero on a Bicycle – Shirley Hughes

I

• The Woman in the Purple Skirt – Natsuko Imamura
• The Sisters of Auschwitz – Roxanne van Iperen

J

• Comet in Moominland – Tove Jansson
• Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson
• Moominsummer Madness – Tove Jansson
• Moominland Midwinter – Tove Jansson
• Tales from Moomin Valley – Tove Jansson
• The Exploits of Moominpapa – Tove Jansson
• Moominpapa at Sea – Tove Jansson
• Rapture – Ragnar Jonasson
• Winterkill – Ragnar Jonasson
• Blackout – Ragnar Jonasson
• The Girl Who Died – Ragnar Jonasson
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce

K

• The Doll – Ismail Kadare
• The Ghost Rider – Ismail Kadare
• The Stationery Shop of Tehran – Marjan Kamali
• If Cats Disappeared from the World – Genki Kawamura
• Heaven – Meiko Kawakami
• This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
• Kahlo – Andrea Ketterman
• The Bone Woman – Clea Koff

L

• The Mountain Story – Lori Lansens
• Nonsense Songs – Edward Lear
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
• Sky Hawk – Elizabeth Lewis
• We Are All Made of Glue – Monika Lewycka
• Where Reasons End – Yiyun Li
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle – Hugh Lofting
• The Bodies at Westgrove Hall – Nick Louth
• The Body in the Marsh – Nick Louth
• The Body in the Snow – Nick Louth
• The Body on the Moor – Nick Louth
• The Body on the Shore – Nick Louth
• The Body Under the Bridge – Nick Louth
• The Body Under the Willow – Nick Louth
• Sister – Rosamund Lupton
• Three Hours – Rosamund Lupton

M

• Five Dead Canaries – Edward Marston
• The Black House – Peter May
• Even the Dogs – John McGregor
• The Phone Box at the Edge of the World – Laura Imai Messina
• The Penguin Lessons – Tom Michell
• The Forest of Wood and Steel – Natsu Miyashita
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – Michael Morpurgo
• Animal Tales – Michael Morpurgo
• Born to Run – Michael Morpurgo
• The Butterfly Lion – Michael Morpurgo
• Cool – Michael Morpurgo
• The Dancing Bear – Michael Morpurgo
• Dear Olly – Michael Morpurgo
• Farm Boy – Michael Morpurgo
• Friend or Foe – Michael Morpurgo
• Homecoming – Michael Morpurgo
• King of the Cloud Forests – Michael Morpurgo
• The Kites are Flying – Michael Morpurgo
• Little Manfred – Michael Morpurgo
• The Mozart Question – Michael Morpurgo
• My Friend Walter – Michael Morpurgo
• Toro Toro – Michael Morpurgo
• The Nine Lives of Montezuma – Michael Morpurgo
• Waiting for Anya – Michael Morpurgo
• The War of Jenkin’s Ear – Michael Morpurgo
• The White Horse of Zennor – Michael Morpurgo
• Why the Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo
• The Wreck of the Zanzibar – Michael Morpurgo
• The Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse
• Labyrinth – Kate Mosse
• Sepulchre – Kate Mosse
• CItadel – Kate Mosse
• The Burning Chambers – Kate Mosse

N

• The Cat Who Saved Books – Sosuke Natsukawa
• The Bat – Jo Nesbo
• The Snowman – Jo Nesbo
• Mind’s Eye – Hakan Nesser
• Two Pound Tram – William Newton
• The Book of Proper Names – Amelie Nothomb
• Strike Your Heart – Amelie Nothomb

O

• The English Patient – Michael Odaatje
• Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
• Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman

P

• Dark Matter – Michelle Paver
• Thin Air – Michelle Paver
• The Tenderness of Wolves – Stef Penney
• The Invisible Ones – Stef Penney
• Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter
• Mrs Pepperpot to the Rescue – Alf Proysen

Q

R

• Ruin Beach – Kate Rhodes
• To Die In Spring – Ralf Rothman

S

• Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Barrows
• The Tobacconist – Robert Seethaler
• The Bookseller of Kabul – Asna Seierstad
• The Silver Sword – Ian Serrallier
• The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Sharak
• Last Rituals – Yrsa Sigurdadottir
• My Soul to Take – Yrsa Sigurdadottir
• Why Did You Lie? – Yrsa Sigurdadottir
• The Darkest Place – Jo Spain
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• The Moon is Down – John Steinbeck
• The Pearl – John Steinbeck
• The Little Prince – Antoine de St Exupery
• Oh William! – Elizabeth Strout
• Sweet Bean Paste – Durian Sukigawa
• What Writers Read – edited: Pandora Sykes

T

• To A Mountain in Tibet – Colin Thubron
• Pine – Frances Toon

U

V

• Talking to My Daughter – Yanis Varoufakis

W

• Six Stories – Matt Wesolowski
• The Child in the Photo – Kerry Wilkinson
• The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
• Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Sam the Sudden – PG Wodehouse
• Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

X

• Sky Burial – Xinran
• The Good Women of China – Xinran

Y

• Diary of a Void – Emi Yagi
• The Honjin Murders – Seishi Yokomizo
• Goodbye Tsugumi – Banana Yoshimoto
• Another Day in the Death of America – Gary Younge

Z

• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak