Books I read in 2016

JANUARY

Diana Gabaldon – Outlander aka Cross Stitch (Reading Outlander series for second time)

Diana Gabaldon – Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander)

Chris Lavers – The Natural History of Unicorns (NF)

Diana Gabaldon – Voyager (Outlander)

FEBRUARY

Diana Gabaldon – The Drums of Autumn (Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon – The Fiery Cross (Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon – A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander)

MARCH

Diana Gabaldon – An Echo in the Bone (Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon – Written in my own Heart’s Blood (Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon – The Custom of the Army (novella) (Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon – A Plague of Zombies (novella) (Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon –  The Space Between (novella) (Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon – A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows (novella) (Outlander)

Gail Pool (Ed.) - Other People’s Mail (Only dipped into –

A A Milne ‘The Rise and Fall of Mortimer Scriven’ good the rest poor)

Diana Gabaldon – The Private Matter (Lord John)

Diana Gabaldon – The Brotherhood of the Blade (Lord John)

Rachel Joyce – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Diana Gabaldon – The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John)

Diana Gabaldon – Lord John and the Hellfire Club (Lord John) (novella)

Diana Gabaldon – Lord John and the Succubus  (Lord John)  (novella)

Diana Gabaldon – Lord John and the Haunted Soldier (Lord John) (novella)

David Gerrard - The hidden places of Wales (NF)

Catherine Le Nevez - The rough guide to Wales (NF)

Robert Harris – Lustrum

APRIL

Ruth Goodman – How to be a Victorian (NF)

Andrew Taylor -  An Air That Kills  (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor -  The Mortal Sickness (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor -  The Lover of the Grave (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor -   The Suffocating Night (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor -   Where Roses Fade (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor -  Death's Own Door  (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor -  Call the Dying (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor - Naked to the Hangman  (Lydmouth series)

Andrew Taylor – The American Boy

MAY

William Hartson – Mr Hartson’s Most Excellent Encyclopaedia of Useless Information (NF)

P G Wodehouse – The Luck of the Bodkins (again)

P g Wodehouse – Love among the Chickens (again)

Rosemarie Jarski - Wrinklies' Wit and Wisdom (NF)

Yaffa Claire Draznin – The Victorian London's Middle Class Housewife: What She Did All Day (NF)

Jacqueline Simpson – Green Men and White Swans (NF)

M M Kaye – Death in Kashmir (recommended by Danielle)

M M Kaye – Death in Berlin

M M Kaye – Death in Cyprus

M M Kaye – Death in Kenya

M M Kaye – Death in Zanzibar

M M Kaye – Death in The Andamans

Rebecca Tope – Malice in the Cotswolds

JUNE

M M Kaye – The Far Pavilions  (Excellent)

Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling) - The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike -2)

Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling) - Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike – 3)

Paul Hurley & Len Morgan – Chester Pubs (NF)

M M Kaye – Shadow of the Moon

M M Kaye – The Ordinary Princess

Elizabeth George – A Bouquet of Consequences (Insp. Lynley 19)

JULY

Laura Wilson – The Lovers (recommended by Danielle)

Laura Wilson – A Little Death

Laura Wilson – My Best Friend

Laura Wilson – The Wrong Girl

M M Kaye – Trade Wind

Laura Wilson – Dying Voices

Peter James – Dead Simple (Roy Grace 1)

Peter James – Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace 2)

Hulton Getty (Ed). – Best friends (NF)

Peter James - Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3)

Peter James - Dead Man's Footsteps (Roy Grace 4 ) (re-read)

Peter James - Dead Tomorrow(Roy Grace 5)

AUGUST

Natasha Pulley – The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train

Anne Darling – The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts

Greg Iles – 24 hours

Wirral Journal Vol 1 (NF)

Nicci French – Blue Monday (Frieda Klein 1)

Nicci French – Tuesday’s Gone (Frieda Klein 2)

Nicci French – Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein 3)

Nicci French – Thursday’s Child (Frieda Klein 4)

Nicci French – Friday on my Mind (Frieda Klein 5)

Nicci French – Saturday Requiem (Frieda Klein 6)

A E (Edward) Marston – Wolves of Savernake

A E (Edward) Marston – Ravens of Blackwater

Albert Camus – The Outsider (previously read in French – L’etranger)

Peter Brack – Wirral (NF)

SEPTEMBER

Greg Dawson – ARWE, The Story of Arrowe, Pensby and the Liverpool Slave Trade (NF)

Greg Dawson - Tingvelle : a history of Thingwall and other north Wirral farming villages (NF)

A E (Edward) Marston – Hawks of Delamere

A E (Edward) Marston – Wildcats of Exeter

Peter James - Dead Like You (Roy Grace  6)

Peter James - Dead Man's Grip (Roy Grace 7)

500 Self-portraits (Read / admired for probably the fifth time)

Peter James - Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace 8)

Peter James - Dead Man's Time (Roy Grace  9)

Michael Jecks – Fields of Glory

 Kate Atkinson – Started Early, took my Dog

Tessa Barclay – To Die For

Peter James – Perfect People

OCTOBER

Peter James – House on Cold Hill

Nicci French – The Red Room (for second time)

M R D Meek – If you Go Down to the Woods (Lennox Kemp 13)

Diana Evans – 26a (My book of the year)

Bryony Gordon – The Wrong Knickers  (second time)

Steve Earle – I’ll never get out of this world alive

NOVEMBER

Brian Sewell – The White Umbrella

Peter James - Want You Dead (Roy Grace  10)

Peter James - You Are Dead (Roy Grace  11)

Peter James - Love You Dead (Roy Grace  12)

D H Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (for second or third time)

Jenny Colgan – The Little Shop of Happy-ever-after

Ariana Franklin and Sarah Norman – The Winter Siege (second time)

DECEMBER

Michael Russell – City of Shadows

Michael Russell – City of Strangers

Luca Veste -  Dead Gone  (Insp. Murphy 1)

Luca Veste -   The Dying Place (Insp. Murphy  2)

Luca Veste -   Bloodstream (Insp. Murphy  3)

Luca Veste -   It Never Leaves You (S S - Insp. Murphy  3.5)

Luca Veste -   Then She was Gone (Insp. Murphy  4)

Cecilia Ekback – Wolf Winter

Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Prince of Mist (again)

Lorena McCourtney – Invisible (Ivy Malone 1)