
So, I've finished putting the final touches on the print and ebook editions of 'Bury Our Secrets', a process I'll write about over the coming weeks. I haven't put anything down in this news/blog section yet, so I thought I'd start with some of my favourite fiction reads this year. I set a goal of reading 1 book a week and finished up reading 56 books. I know, some people read hundreds, but this is huge for me! Although, I haven't been very diverse - nearly everything's crime, but that's because I've been trying to keep up with the current batch of awesome work in my field. That said, next year I'm going to my long-overdue to-be-read pile, and will also diversify into far more genres.
Every time I read a book, I score it out of 5 (in 0.25 increments). Anything on this list scored a 3.75/5 or higher). If a book isn't on this list, it's probably because, a) I haven't read it yet (might be on the aforementioned pile); b) I didn't like it, or I did but it didn't score 3.75 or higher (lots of 3.5/5); c) it's not fiction (I have read a few great biographies this year).
So, here's my list for 2022 (purely in order of me reading them, from Jan to Dec, scores left out). Please note, books may not have been published in 2022, this is purely what I've read this year, an idea of what sparks my interest as a reader and writer.
Alison Evans - Highway Bodies
Benjamin Stevenson - Either Side of Midnight
Gregg Hurwitz - Dark Horse
Emma Viskic - Those who Perish
Vanda Symon - Containment
Kotara Isaka - Three Assassins
Stuart MacBride - No Less the Devil
Shelley Burr - Wake
Fuminori Nakamura - The Thief
Michael Robotham - Lying Beside You
J.P. Pomare - The Wrong Woman
Dervla McTiernan - The Murder Rule
Michael Bennett - Better the Blood
Aoife Clifford - When We Fall
Peter Swanson - Nine Lives
Lee Child & Andrew Child - No Plan B
Anthony Horowitz - The Twist of a Knife
Vanda Symon - Faceless
Kathryn Hore - The Stranger
Sulari Gentill - The Woman in the Library
Nick Petrie - The Wild One
Clare Mackintosh - The Last Party
Comments? Recommendations for my reading pile next year? Leave me a comment or send my an email.
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