2025: Booklist

  1. The Dishonest Murderer by Frances and Richard Lockridge
  2. Death in the Grand Manor by Anne Morice*
  3. Some Luck by Jane Smiley
  4. Lost Light by Michael Connelly*
  5. The Heckler by Ed McBainh
  6. The Narrows by Michael Connelly*
  7. Autumn by Ali Smith
  8. The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
  9. The Quiet American by Graham Greene*
  10. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
  11. The Closers by Michael Connelly*
  12. The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon
  13. The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor*
  14. Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
  15. Strangers in their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
  16. The Hidden Target by Helen MacInnes*
  17. When the Music’s Over by Peter Robinson
  18. Death Sends for the Doctor by George Bellairs
  19. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson*
  20. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
  21. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth*
  22. The Longer Bodies by Gladys Mitchell
  23. Murder in the Latin Quarter by Cara Black
  24. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
  25. Abbatoir Blues by Peter Robinson
  26. The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
  27. Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
  28. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers*
  29. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson*
  30. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery*
  31. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly*
  32. The Lighthouse by P.D. James
  33. The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva*
  34. Sleeping in the Ground by Peter Robinson
  35. Echo Park by Michael Connelly*
  36. The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
  37. Careless Love by Peter Robinson
  38. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
  39. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
  40. Battle Mountain by C.J. Box
  41. The Overlook by Michael Connelly*
  42. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
  43. Through the Wall by Patricia Wentworth*
  44. Autocracy, Inc by Anne Applebaum
  45. Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
  46. The Clocks by Agatha Christie*
  47. The Private Patient by P.D. James
  48. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope*
  49. Young Anne by Dorothy Whipple
  50. Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
  51. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly*
  52. Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George
  53. Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
  54. Many Rivers to Cross by Peter Robinson
  55. His Excellency, Eugene Rougon by Emile Zola*
  56. In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George
  57. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King*
  58. O Jerusalem by Laurie King*
  59. A Matter of Evidence by Rhys Dylan
  60. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson*
  61. Slow Horses by Mick Herron*
  62. Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson
  63. A Letter of Mary by Laurie King*
  64. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
  65. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy*
  66. Dead Lions by Mick Herron*
  67. The Moor by Laurie King*
  68. Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson
  69. Tell No Tales by J.M. Dalgliesh
  70. Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter
  71. The Last Throw by Rhys Dylan
  72. Graves on the Fens by Joy Ellis
  73. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers*
  74. Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr
  75. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope*
  76. The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
  77. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene*
  78. The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard*
  79. Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin*
  80. Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard*
  81. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
  82. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie*
  83. The Human Factor by Graham Greene*
  84. Mountains of the Mind by Robert McFarlane
  85. O Pioneers by Willa Cather*
  86. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They by Horace McCoy*
  87. Deep South by Nevada Barr
  88. Blood Lure by Nevada Barr
  89. Abundance by Ezra Klein
  90. The Waiting by Michael Connelly
  91. Any Shape or Form by Elizabeth Daly
  92. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann*
  93. Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope*
  94. Dragon Man by Garry Disher*
  95. The Tragedy at Freyne by Anthony Gilbert*
  96. Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard*
  97. The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope*
  98. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler*
  99. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler*
  100. Double Indemnity by James Cain
  101. The High Window by Raymond Chandler*
  102. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf*
  103. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West*
  104. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson*
  105. Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden*
  106. The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler*
  107. Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard*
  108. Wake by Shelley Burr
  109. The Wall by Mary Roberts Rinehart*
  110. The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes*
  111. The Novice’s Tale by Margaret Frazier
  112. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope*
  113. Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis*
  114. The Murderer’s Son by Joy Ellis*
  115. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith*
  116. The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis*
  117. All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard*
  118. The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler*
  119. Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King*
  120. Invisible Death by Brian Flynn*
  121. By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie*
  122. The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird
  123. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly*
  124. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre
  125. The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
  126. The Blood Strand by Chris Ould
  127. The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
  128. Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw
  129. A Late Phoenix by Catherine Aird
  130. The Mountain King by Anders de la Motte
  131. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovich*
  132. Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sowall and Per Wahloo
  133. Down Among the Sticks And Bones by Seanan McGuire
  134. Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
  135. The Silver Mark by Sarah Painter
  136. A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong
  137. The Cellars of the Majestic by George Simenon
  138. Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
  139. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
  140. One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
  141. Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
  142. The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
  143. The Child and the River by Henri Bosco
  144. Nightshade by Michael Connelly
  145. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  146. The Skeleton in the Grass by Robert Barnard
  147. The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
  148. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
  149. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
  150. My House in Umbria by William Trevor
  151. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
  152. The End of Everything by Megan Abbot
  153. The Way Some People Die by Ross MacDonald
  154. The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff*
  155. The Skeleton’s Holiday by Lenora Carrington*
  156. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald*
  157. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  158. The Chemistry of Death by Simon Brett
  159. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows by Rudyard Kipling*
  160. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy by Mark Hodkinson*
  161. The Fire Engine that Disappeared by Maj Sojwall and Per Wahloo
  162. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr*
  163. Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
  164. The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols
  165. House of Deadly Calm by Mona Farnsworth*
  166. The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
  167. Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon
  168. Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd
  169. Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith*
  170. The Shiver in the Artic by Christoffer Petersen*
  171. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz*
  172. The Secret History by Donna Tartt*
  173. Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
  174. Finder by Suzanne Palmer*
  175. Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas*
  176. Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
  177. The Shaman’s Daughter by Christoffer Petersen*
  178. Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall
  179. One Less Snake by Rhys Dylan
  180. The Murder of Mrs. Davenport by Anthony Gilbert
  181. Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg
  182. La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman*
  183. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman*
  184. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman*
  185. Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King**
  186. The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr
  187. A Long Time Dead by J.M. Dalgleish
  188. The Dead Man of Storr by J.M. Dalgleish
  189. The Talisker Dead by J.M. Dalgleish
  190. Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
  191. Nemesis by Agatha Christie
  192. The Conway Harbour Killings by Simon McCleave
  193. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
  194. What is a Girl Worth? by Rachael Denhollander
  195. Druid’s Moor by Rhys Dylan
  196. The Cuillin Dead by J.M. Dalgleish
  197. The Island Murders by Rachel McLean
  198. Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
  199. The Love Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel*
  200. Hear No Evil by J.M. Dalgleish
  201. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene*
  202. The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons*
  203. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson*
  204. The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton*
  205. The Year of Our Lord 1943 by Alan Jacobs
  206. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura Fields
  207. The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs
  208. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis by Jason Baxter
  209. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers*
  210. The Box of Delights by John Masefield*
  211. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather*
  212. Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie*
  213. Who Killed the Curate by Joan Coggin*

* books that qualify for the “read my hoard” challenge