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My To Be Read Pile 2024 Edition

Good morning everyone! It is nearly the weekend. Today's post is my New Year To Be Read Pile Edition. I tend to do 2 of these posts in a year, one at the start of the year, and one in Autumn. It helps with my monthly reading wrap-ups as I never know how many books I have. Does anybody else do this? I know the second this post is published, I will end up buying another book. Plus I have a birthday at the end of the month, so hopefully the list will get bigger. hehehe

In case you have missed any of the previous lists, I have popped them below!

(Not sure what happened to the early 2023 edition hahaha).

I've tried to group these in a different order to the previous editions, so let's get stuck in shall we?

Kindle Books (2 Books)

  • The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden - I had great plans to read this last Autumn as it has all the atmospheric feels, sadly I failed. ho hum next Autumn it is then!
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - A BBC Big Read book here and I feel like I have been reading this book forever! Will it ever end?

To Be Read book pre-Christmas 2023 ( 18 Books )

  • The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves - The First in the Vera Stanhope series. True story, my brother-in-law has juist appeared as an extra in the Vera TV series. He was a fisherman.
  • Sycamore Gap by L.J.Ross - Second in the DCI Ryan series. Do not get me started on the idiots who desecrated Sycamore Gap
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - The next in the Hercule Poirot books, I've unexpectedly been reading them in order.
  • The Mysterious Mr. Badman by W.F.Harvey - This is a Yorkshire Bibliomystery! Can't wait.
  • One for the Money by Janet Evanovich - The first in the Stephanie Plum series, a series guaranteed to have me snorting tea out of my nose in laughter.
  • Emily Davis by Miss Read - The next one for me in the wonderful Fairacre series.
  • The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - Another BBC Big Read, I've got nearly as many of these as I have Christmas books.
  • That Festive Feeling by Heidi Swain - How did I not manage to read this in the lead up to Christmas? This looks lovely.
  • A Winter in New York by Josie Silver - The cover is gorgeous, and I am here for Christmas in New York.
  • The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett - Loved The Appeal and looking forward to reading this.
  • The Kind Worth Saving.by Peter Swanson - Love, Love,Love this author.
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker - A beautiful edition given to me by my friend Dannie. I tend to read this around the end of October. Can't think why.
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - Are these books breeding or something?
  • Vanity Fair by Wiliiam Makepeace Thackeray - I loved this when I read it aged 18, hope I do again.

To Be Read Books Christmas 2023 and Beyond (13 books)

  • Tied up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh - New to me author, and a crime set at Christmas. It also appears on Malcolm Kershaw's Mysteries for a Cold Night blog post
  • Who killed Father Christmas? edited by Martin Edwards - A snowy cover to brighten our day....I hope they haven't really killed Father Christmas
  • Christmas by Candlelight by Karen Swan - Gosh there do seem to be an awful lot of Christmas books in this particular section.
  • The Christmas Love Letters by Sue Moorcroft - I'm sensing a theme here.
  • The Widow's Choice by Nancy Revell - Phew! It isn't all Christmas books. Oh wait...
  • The Christmas Book Club by Sarah Morgan - I love a good Sarah Morgan book.
  • The Railway Children by E.Nesbitt - Another BBC Big Read and a book I am ashamed to say I have never read.
  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr - I saw this in my local branch of Waterstones and decided to treat myself. This is based on Judith's own experiences in escaping the Nazis.
  • The Miraculous Sweetmakers Frost Fair by Natasha Hastings - I was totally seduced by the sprayed edges on this book. It is a thing of beauty.
  • This Christmas in Paris by Sophie Claire - I was on a book-buying ban by my husband in the lead up to Christmas. I managed to sneak this one under the radar. What could be more magical than Christmas in Paris. Oh yeah, and we are back to the Christmas books.
  • Tackle by Jilly Cooper - Complete guilty pleasure. I treated myself to this with some Christmas book tokens and cannot wait to find out the further exploits of Rupert Campbell-Black.
  • The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict - Murder on the Christmas Express was featured in 2023's #12booksofchristmas list and I loved it. I found this in the sale and, well, it just fell into my basket. (Don't worry I did pay for it before I left the shop!)
  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - I clearly have not got enough Dickens, and have been keen to read this ever since reading a Christmas excerpt from the novel.

And that is the lot! 33 books. It is going to be an exciting 2024. I've loved listing my To Be Read pile. I want to read them all now (well, except for the Marquez maybe).