The list of books I have read during 2023. A hyperlink on a book title will lead to a review, a hyperlink on an author will lead to an author’s biography. Authors are listed by A-Z of surname. This list will obviously become more populated as the year goes on.
A
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
B
- The Triple Echo – HE Bates
- Exit – Belinda Bauer
- The Wombles – Elizabeth Beresford
C
- Nottinghamshire Folk Tales – Pete Castle
D
- The Pachinko Parlour – Elisa Shua Dusapin
- Magpie – Elizabeth Day
E
F
- A Fool’s Alphabet – Sebastian Faulks
G
H
I
- Strange Shores – Arnaldur Indridason
J
- Moominvalley in November – Tove Jansson
- Heatwave – Victor Jestin
K
- Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
L
- The Body in the Mist – Nick Louth
M
- War Horse – Michael Morpurgo
- Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
- Billy the Kid – Michael Morpurgo
- The Elephant in the Garden – Michael Morpurgo
- Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries – Kate Mosse
N
- The Mind’s Eye – Hakan Nesser
- Collected Poems Volume One – Henry Normal
O
P
- The Firework-Maker’s Daughter – Philip Pullman
Q
- Stairway to Doom – Robert Quackenbush
R
- Daughters of the House – Michele Roberts
S
- Red Sky at Night – Janes Struthers
T
- Miscellany One – Dylan Thomas
U
V
- Begars Abbey – VL Valentine
W
- The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
X
Y
Z
ANTHOLOGIES
- Michael Rosen’s A to Z – Various (edited by Michael Rosen)
- The Anthology of English Folk Tales – Various (edited by Nicola Guy)
- Demos Rising – Various