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 Middle Kingdom – Andrea Barrett
- The Triple Echo – HE Bates
- Exit – Belinda Bauer
- Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden
- The Wombles – Elizabeth Beresford
- John Betjeman Selected Poems – John Betjeman (edited by Hugo Williams)
- Paddington At Work – Michael Bond
- The Lost Continent – Bill Bryson
C
- The Trouble with Goats and Sheep – Joanna Cannon
- Nottinghamshire Folk Tales – Pete Castle
D
- The Pachinko Parlour – Elisa Shua Dusapin
- Magpie – Elizabeth Day
- Breakthrough – Daphne Du Maurier
E
- The Black Ball – Ralph Ellison
F
- A Fool’s Alphabet – Sebastian Faulks
- The Wych Elm – Tana French
G
- Caraval – Stephanie Garber
- Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber – Allen Ginsberg
- The Diddakoi – Rumer Godden
H
- How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
- The Four Winds – Kristin Hannah
- The House by the Lake – Thomas Harding
- Clay – Melissa Harrison
- Out of Silence – John Harvey
I
- Strange Shores – Arnaldur Indridason
J
- The Happiest Man on Earth – Eddie Jaku
- Moominvalley in November – Tove Jansson
- Heatwave – Victor Jestin
K
- The Great Hunger – Patrick Kavanagh
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Cafe – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
- Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King Jr
- The Legend of the Sleepers – Daniel Kis
- Notes on an Execution – Danya Kukafka
L
- The Three Electroknights – Stanislaw Lem
- Karlson on the Roof – Astrid Lindgren
- The Ghost of Thomas Kempe – Penelope Lively
- The Body in the Mist – Nick Louth
- The Body in the Stairwell – Nick Louth
M
- Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
- Under Attack – Edward Marston
- The Snowdonia Killings – Simon McCleave
- The Red House Mystery – A A Milne
- A Medal for Leroy – Michael Morpurgo
- War Horse – Michael Morpurgo
- Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
- Billy the Kid – Michael Morpurgo
- The Elephant in the Garden – Michael Morpurgo
- Arthur High King of Britain – Michael Morpurgo
- The Black Mountain – Kate Mosse
- Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries – Kate Mosse
- After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
N
- Blood on Snow – Jo Nesbo
- The Mind’s Eye – Hakan Nesser
- The Veiled Woman – Anais Nin
- Collected Poems Volume One – Henry Normal
- Loving Sabotage – Amelie Nothomb
- The Silk House – Kayte Nunn
O
- Notes on Nationalism – George Orwell
- The Man Who Died Twice – Richard Osman
P
- The Custard Heart – Dorothy Parker
- The Firework-Maker’s Daughter – Philip Pullman
Q
- Stairway to Doom – Robert Quackenbush
R
- Till September Petronella – Jean Rhys
- Daughters of the House – Michele Roberts
- The Summer That Never Was – Peter Robinson
- Holy Island – LJ Ross
S
- A Certain Smile – Francoise Sagan
- The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton – Elizabeth Speller
- Food – Gertrude Stein
- Anything is Possible – Elizabeth Strout
- Red Sky at Night – Jane Struthers
T
- The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
- Miscellany One – Dylan Thomas
U
V
- Begars Abbey – VL Valentine
- The Dressmaker’s Gift – Fiona Valpy
W
- The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
- Charlotte’s Web – E B White
- The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
- The Chrysalids – John Wyndham
X
Y
Z
ANTHOLOGIES
- The Anthology of English Folk Tales – Various (edited by Nicola Guy)
- Demos Rising – Various
- Michael Rosen’s A to Z – Various (edited by Michael Rosen)
- Poems for Refugees – Various (edited by Pippa Haywood)
- Up the Garden Path – Various (edited by Laura Stoddart)
- Three Japanese Short Stories – Nagai Kafu, Uno Koji and Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- All for Love – Various (edited by Laura Stoddart)
- Off the Beaten Track – Various (edited by Laura Stoddart)