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