The Book List

 

2025

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• The Taking of Annie Thorne by C. J. Tudor (Audible)
• The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict (Audible)
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Audible)
• No One Saw A Thing by Andrea Mara (Paperback)
• The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani (Audible)

2024

• Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas by Gill Sims (Audible)
• Why Mummy's Sloshed by Gill Sims (Audible)
• Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney (Audible)
• The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence (Hardback)
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (Paperback)
• The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable (Audible)
• Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (Audible)
• Open Secret by Stella Rimington (Paperback)
• Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz (Audible)
• Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius  (Audible)
• Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a F$*! By Gill Sims (Audible)
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Paperback)
• Novelist as a Vocation by Murakami (Paperback)
• Ghost Chilli by Nikkitha Bakshani (Paperback pre-publish date)
• The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale (Paperback)
• The Thousand Autumn's of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Paperback)
• The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale (Paperback)
• The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (Audible)
• Madam by Phoebe Wynne (Kindle) 
• In Our Likeness by Bryan Vandyke (Kindle)
• The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Audible)
• Gerta by Kateřina Tučková (Kindle)
• There There by Tommy Orange (Audible)
• The Curfew by T.M. Logan (Audible)
• The Narrator by K.L. Slater (Audible)
• Pine by Francine Toon (Paperback)
• Ten Seconds by Robert Gold (Audible)
• Butter by Asako Yuzuki (Paperback)
• Strong Female Character by Fern Brady (Audible)
• The Village Healer’s Book of Cures by Jennifer Sherman Roberts (Kindle)
• The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier (Audible)
• The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa (Paperback)
• Murder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle (Paperback)
• The Guest List by Lucy Foley (Paperback)
• There's a Hole in My Bucket by Royd Tolkien (Kindle)
• Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Audible)
• The Trial by Rob Rinder (Kindle)
• Don't Close Your Eyes by P S Cunliffe (Kindle)
• Possession by A. S. Byatt (Audible)
• Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Audible)
• Deeper Than The Dead by Debra Webb (Kindle)
• Eleven Liars by Robert Gold (Audible)
• Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton (Paperback)
• Lullaby by Leila Slimani (Paperback)
• The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley (Audible)
• After the Silence by Louise O’Neill (Audible)
• The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer (Paperback)
• Mr Peacock’s Possessions by Lydia Syson (Paperback)
• How Not to Murder Your Ex by Katie Marsh (Kindle)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Hardback)
• The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (Kindle)
• The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton (Paperback)
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Audible)
• The Burning Girls by C. J. Tudor (Audible)
• Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (Audible)

2023

• Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (Audible)
• Kismet, A Thriller by Amina Akhtar (Kindle)
• The Chalk Man by C J Tudor (Audible)
• The Drift by C J Tudor (Audible)
• Where They Lie by Joe Hart (Kindle)
• Someone Else's Life by Lin Liao Butler (Kindle)
• Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent (Audible)
• The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah (Kindle)
• The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence (Hardback)
• The Running Girls by Matt Brolly (Kindle)
• The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Audible)
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Audible)
• Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello (Kindle)
• A Mischief of Rats by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett (Kindle)
• A Cast of Falcons by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett (Kindle)
• The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami (Hardback)
• Thin Air by Michelle Paver (Paperback)
• The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (Paperback)
• Taste - My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (Paperback)

2022

• Through a Darkening Glass by R S Maxwell (Kindle)
• 29 Seconds by T M Logan (Kindle)
• The Hike by Susi Holliday (Kindle)
• The Cottage in the Highlands by Julie Shackman (Kindle)
• The Edge by Lucy Goacher (Kindle)
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Cat with Three Passports by C J Fentiman (Paperback)
• If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamuru (Paperback)
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Paperback)
• Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (Paperback)
• The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa (Hardback)
• A Spoonful of Murder by J M Hall (Paperback)
• Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Hardback)
• A Murder of Crows by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett (Kindle)
• The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
• The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Audible)
• The Power of Meow by David Michie (Paperback)
• The Art of Purring by David Michie (Paperback)
• These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall (Kindle)
• Blackout by Erin Flanagan (Kindle)
• Real Bad Things by Kelly J Ford (Kindle)
• The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs by Tristan Gooley
• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
• Murder at Teal’s Pond; Hazel Drew & the Mystery that Inspired Twin Peaks by David Bushman & Mark T Givens (Kindle)
• Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole by Allan Ropper & Brian Burrell (Kindle)
• The Lighthouse Witches by C J Cooke
• A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax
• The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• The Night Thief by Joy Ellis
• They Disappeared by Joy Ellis
• The Patient Man by Joy Ellis
• The Stolen Boys by Joy Ellis
• The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis
• The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis
• Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis
• The Murderer’s Son by Joy Ellis
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• The Darkwater Bride by Marty Ross
• If This Isn’t Nice. What Is? By Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
• Lies by T M Logan (Kindle)
• Lie, Lie again by Stacy Wise (Kindle)
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
• The Holiday by T M Logan (Kindle)
• The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christie Lefteri (Kindle)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (Due for publication 22^nd February 2022) 
• Vine Street by Dominic Nolan (Due for publication
• The Dressmaker of Paris by Georgia Kaufmann (Due for publication 2022)
• The Radleys by Matt Haig
• The Lighthouse by Fran Dorricott (Due for publication 3^rd February 2022)
• Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold (Due for publication 3^rd March 2022)

2021

• No Less The Devil by Stuart MacBride (Due for publication April 2022) (Paperback)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Audible)
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
• Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Children’s Secret by Nina Monroe (Due for publication 14^th April 2022 by Sphere)
• Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Madam by Pheobe Wynne
• The Puma Years by Laura Coleman
• The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
• The Shadow Man by Helen Fields
• The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin
• This Charming Man by Marion Keyes
• London Burning by Anthony Quinn
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• The Confession by Jessie Burton
• Bone China by Laura Purcell
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguru
• Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
• The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley.

2020

• Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith.
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spencer.
• The Split by Laura Kay (Due for publication March 2021) 
• The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato.
• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Paperback)
• Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz.
• Murder at the Fitzwilliam by Jim Eldridge.
• The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer.
• Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson.
• Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene (Audible) 
• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. (Audible Original)
• A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe. 
• Perfect Kill by Helen Fields (Kindle)
• Perfect Crime by Helen Fields  (Kindle)
• Perfect Silence by Helen Fields (Kindle)   
• Perfect Death by Helen Fields (Kindle)    
• El Impenetrable - A Death in the Forest (Audible Original)
• How to Outperform (Audible Original)
• The Goodbye Party by Louis Nouvra (Audible Original)
• The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley (Audible)
• Melmoth by Sarah Perry
• Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
• The Corset by Laura Purcell
• The Binding by Bridget Collins
• Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (Paperback)
• Killing Narcissism by JH Simon (Paperback)
• How to Kill a Narcissist by JH Simon (Paperback)  
• Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

2019

• Hunger by Knut Hamsun.  
• https://www.imblatheringnow.com/2019/12/given-boot.html
• Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami
• The Fall by Albert Camus.  
• https://www.imblatheringnow.com/2019/12/given-boot.html
• The Outsider by Albert Camus.  
• https://www.imblatheringnow.com/2019/12/given-boot.html
• Shelter by Sarah Franklin
• The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
• Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft
• A House of Ghosts by W. C. Ryan
• Tentacles Longer Than Night by Eugene Thacker  (Paperback)
• Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker  (Paperback)
• In the Dust of This Plant by Eugene Thacker  (Paperback)
• Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig.  
• https://www.imblatheringnow.com/2019/08/notes-on-nervous-planet-by-matt-haig.html 
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr
• Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
• The Crow Road by Iain Banks
• True Crime by Jake Arnott
• He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott
• The Long Firm by Jake Arnott
• The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
• Miraculous Mysteries Edited by Martin Edwards
• The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
• Nicholas Nikleby by Charles Dickens
• The Man Who Sees Ghosts by Frederich Schiller.  
• https://www.imblatheringnow.com/2019/02/the-man-who-sees-ghosts-friedrich-von.html
• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
• The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott (Paperback)
• The Verdict by Barry Reed
• The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell (Paperback)
• The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Mythos by Stephen Fry
• The Wife by Anton Chekhov
• Plays 6 by Howard Barker
• The Scarlet Boy by Arthur Calder-Marshall (Paperback)
• The Magic of My Youth by Arthur Calder-Marshall (Paperback)
• Wise Children by Angela Carter

2018

• Lethal White by Robert Galbraith  (Kindle)
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter.  
• https://www.imblatheringnow.com/2018/11/angela-carters-bloody-chamber.html
• The Angel's Mark by S W Perry
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
• Just The Way You Are by Lynsey James
• Friedrich Schiller Complete Poetical Works
• You Were Gone by Tim Weaver
• Plays 5 by Howard Barker
• The Mangle Street Murders by M R C Kasasian
• The Collectors by Philip Pullman
• The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
• Plays 4 by Howard Barker
• The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller
• Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller
• Network by Paddy Chayefsky/Lee Hall
• The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Classics)
• De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
• How Plays Work by David Edgar
• A Breach of Security by Susan Hill
• Metamorphoses by Ovid
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
• The Witch Finder's Sister by Beth Underdown
• The Child by Fiona Barton
• The Weir by Connor McPherson
• The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel
• Joan of Arc/Maid of Orleans by Frederich Schiller
• Caraval by Stephanie Garber
• Strange Magic by Syd Moore
• The Travelling Bag by Susan Hill
• Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

2018

• The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Oh, Whistle , and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M R James
• Perfect Prey by Helen Fields (Kindle)
• Perfect Remains by Helen Fields (Kindle) 
• Headlong by Michael Frayn
• Don Carlos by Frederich Schiller
• Mary Stuart by Frederich Schiller
• The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
• Not About Heroes by Stephen Macdonald (Paperback) [Play]
• The Politics of Washing Real Life in Venice by Polly Coles (Paperback)
• William Tell by Friedrich Schiller (Paperback) [Play]
• The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (Paperback)
• Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham (Paperback)
• Confessions of a Sociopath by M E Thomas (Paperback)  
• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (Paperback)
• The Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback)
• After the Dance by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• Miss Julie by August Strindberg (Paperback) [Play]
• The Muse by Jessie Burton (Paperback)
• Perfect Remains by Helen Field (Paperback)
• Plays 3 by Howard Barker (Paperback) [Play]
• Plays 2 by Howard Barker (Paperback) [Play]
• Plays 1 by Howard Barker (Paperback) [Play]
• Marathon Man by William Goldman (Paperback)
• Brothers by William Goldman (Paperback)
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Paperback)
• Balancing Acts by Nicholas Hytner (Hardback)
• Angels in America by Tony Kushner (Paperback) [Play]
• A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard (Paperback) [Play]
• The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre by Aleks Sierz & Lia Ghilardi
• Orton - The Complete Plays by Joe Orton (Paperback) [Play]
• A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton
• Arsenic & Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (Paperback) [Play]
• The Case of Aleister Stratton by K G V Barnwell (Paperback)
• Like This, For Ever by Sharon Bolton (Paperback)
• When The Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen
• The Fatal Tree by Jake Arnott (Hardback)
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Paperback)
• Art by Yasmina Reza (Paperback) [Play]
• Slade House by David Mitchell (Paperback)
• The Widow by Fiona Barton (Paperback)
• The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett (Hardback)
• Inside The Bloody Chamber by Christopher Frayling.  
• https://www.imblatheringnow.com/2018/11/angela-carters-bloody-chamber.html

2016

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Audible)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sherlock Holmes (Hardback - Complete Works)
  
• Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (Paperback)   
• Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox (Paperback)
• The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North (Paperback)
• Young Chekhov by David Hare (Paperback) [Play]
• Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Paperback)
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith  (Paperback)
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (Paperback)
• The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney (Paperback)
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Hardback)
• Three Plays by Frederico Garcia Lorca (Paperback) [Play]
• In Praise of Love / Before Dawn by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• The Browning Version / Harlequinade by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• While The Sun Shines by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• Flarepath by Terence Rattigan (Paperback) [Play]
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoyevsky (Paperback) [Play]
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Paperback) [Play]
• Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Paperback) [Play]
• Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Paperback) [Play]
• The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (Paperback) [Play]
• Ivanov by Anton Chekhov (Paperback) [Play]
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami  (Paperback)
• The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft (Paperback)
• Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback) 
• The Faraway Horses by Buck Brannaman (Paperback)
• Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (Paperback) 
  
• The Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Magus by John Fowles (Paperback)
• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope  (Hardback)
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (Hardback)
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Hardback)

2015

• The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato (Paperback)
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World by Haruki Murakami (Paperback)  
• Dr Faustus by Christopher Marloe [The Norton Anthology - 6th Ed Vol 1]
• Hero and Leander by Christopher Marloe [The Norton Anthology - 6th Ed Vol 1]
• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare [Complete Works of Shakespeare] [Play]
• Beowolf by Anon [The Norton Anthology - 6th Ed Vol 1]
• The Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (Paperback) 
• Sway by Zachary Lazar (Paperback)
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Paperback)
• Author Author by David Lodge (Paperback)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway (Paperback)
• Pronouncing Shakespeare by David Crystal (Hardback)
• Me, Myself and Prague by Rachael Weiss (Paperback)
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Audible)
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Hardback)
• Restoration by Rose Tremaine (Paperback)
• The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott (Paperback)
• Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Marukami (Paperback)
• Friends in High Places by Donna Leon (Paperback)
• Metamorphosis & other stories by Franz Kafka (Paperback)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru (Paperback)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguru (Paperback)
• The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang (Paperback)
• The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman (Paperback)
• The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide (Paperback)
• A Mortal Curiosity by Ann Granger (Paperback)
• A Rare Interest in Corpses by Ann Granger (Paperback)
• Howards End by E M Forster (Paperback)
• The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas (Paperback)
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Paperback)
• Dead Scared by S J Boulton (Paperback)
• The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazan (Paperback)
• The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas (Paperback)