2021: Book List

  1. Murder Room by P.D. James
  2. The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp
  3. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
  4. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
  5. Broken Harbor by Tana French
  6. Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
  7. A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet
  8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  9. Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
  10. Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
  11. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  12. A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
  13. Westwood by Stella Gibbons
  14. The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
  15. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
  16. Open Season by C.J. Box
  17. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  18. The Third Man by Graham Greene
  19. The Swiss Summer by Stella Gibbons
  20. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
  21. Savage Run by C.J. Box
  22. Fallen Into the Pit by Ellis Peters
  23. When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
  24. Roseanna by Maj Sjowall
  25. Dark Sky by C.J. Box
  26. The Black Tower by P.D. James
  27. Trophy Hunt by C.J. Box
  28. Winterkill by C.J. Box
  29. Out of Range by C.J. Box
  30. In Plain Sight by C.J. Box
  31. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
  32. Free Fire by C.J. Box
  33. Blood Trail by C.J. Box
  34. Below Zero by C.J. Box
  35. Cold Wind by C.J. Box
  36. Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box
  37. Force of Nature by C.J. Box
  38. Breaking Point by C.J. Box
  39. From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell
  40. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  41. The Key by Patricia Wentworth
  42. The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
  43. Tightrope by Nicholas Kristoff
  44. Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
  45. The Source by James Michener
  46. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin*
  47. The Big Four by Agatha Christie
  48. The Saint Fiacre Affair by Georges Simenon
  49. The Venetian Affair by Helen MacInnes
  50. Off the Grid by C.J. Box
  51. Vicious Circle by C.J. Box
  52. Endangered by C.J. Box
  53. The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
  54. Stone Cold by C.J. Box
  55. The Disappeared by C.J. Box
  56. Long Range by C.J. Box
  57. Wolf Pack by C.J. Box
  58. New York by Edward Rutherfurd
  59. The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva
  60. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
  61. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
  62. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
  63. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
  64. The Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell
  65. The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
  66. If Death Ever Slept by Rex Stout
  67. ’til Death by Ed McBain
  68. The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
  69. The Case of the Black Twenty-Two by Brian Flynn
  70. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
  71. King’s Ransom by Ed McBain
  72. The Bungalow Mystery by Caroline Keene
  73. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
  74. The Hidden Staircase by Caroline Keene
  75. Island of the Mad by Laurie King
  76. The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
  77. The Mystery at the Lilac Inn by Caroline Keene
  78. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  79. The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes
  80. The Searcher by Tana French
  81. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
  82. Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King
  83. The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
  84. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  85. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
  86. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
  87. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
  88. The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
  89. A forgotten Place by Charles Todd
  90. A Cruel Deception by Charles Todd
  91. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
  92. The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
  93. Telling Tales by Vera Stanhope
  94. The Late Monsieur Gallet by George Simenon
  95. The High Window by Raymond Chandler
  96. Death on the Aisle by Frances & Richard Lockridge
  97. The Secret of Shadow Ranch by Caroline Keene
  98. Castle Shade by Laurie King
  99. Green Rider by Kristen Brittain
  100. Death in High Provence by George Bellairs
  101. Murder Makes Mistakes by George Bellairs
  102. Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
  103. The Case of the Famished Parson by George Bellairs
  104. The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
  105. An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
  106. False Witness by Karin Slaughter
  107. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
  108. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
  109. Extraordinary People by Peter may
  110. Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black
  111. Hanged for a Sheep by Frances & Richard Lockridge
  112. Mrs. Lorimer’s Quiet Summer by Molly Clavering
  113. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
  114. Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
  115. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  116. Friends and Lovers by Helen MacInnes
  117. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
  118. Resorting to Murder, edited by Martin Edwards
  119. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
  120. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
  121. The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow
  122. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
  123. The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald
  124. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
  125. Traitor’s Purse by Margery Allingham
  126. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  127. Falling Star by Patricia Moyes
  128. Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
  129. Wildwood Whispers by Willa Reece
  130. Why King’s Confess by C.S. Harris
  131. My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart
  132. Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  133. The Family Plot by Megan Collins
  134. The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor
  135. The Five Red Fingers by Brian Flynn
  136. The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
  137. Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie
  138. Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
  139. The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance
  140. Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
  141. The Creeping Jenny Mystery by Brian Flynn
  142. Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh
  143. Summer Half by Angela Thirkell
  144. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
  145. Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh
  146. Death Treads Softly by George Bellairs
  147. The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
  148. Night at the Vulcan by Ngaio Marsh
  149. Nothing to Report by Carola Oman
  150. He’d Rather Be Dead by George Bellairs
  151. Company in the Evening by Ursula Orange
  152. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
  153. Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
  154. Johnny Under Ground by Patricia Moyes
  155. Good Evening, Mrs. Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes
  156. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  157. Shakespeare’s Landlord by Charlaine Harris
  158. Somewhere in England by Carola Oman
  159. Nothing Can Rescue Me by Elizabeth Daly
  160. The Liturgy of Politics by Kaitlyn Schiess
  161. You Are What You Love by James K.A. Smith
  162. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
  163. The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
  164. Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews
  165. Snow Angels by James Thompson
  166. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
  167. Day Shift by Charlaine Harris
  168. Shakespeare’s Champion by Charlaine Harris
  169. The Sad Variety by Nicholas Blake
  170. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
  171. Crime in Leper’s Hollow by George Bellairs
  172. One Nation Under God by Kevin Kruse
  173. The Night of Fear by Moray Dalton
  174. Shakespeare’s Christmas by Charlaine Harris
  175. An English Murder by Cyril Hare

Total pages read: 61,403

Total books since 2013: 1600