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

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