Another year over. It’s not been a great one, to be honest with you. Anyway, we’re here for the books! A total of 42. My favourites are bolded.
You’ll notice I read a few ‘work’ books this year. Just trying to boost my skills a bit! Mostly, I really loved history this year.
1. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
2. Launch by Jeff Walker
3. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben – fascinating non-fiction
4. The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
5. The Wicked King by Holly Black – book 2 of a gripping YA series
6. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
7. Agile Product Management with Scrum by Roman Pilcher
8. Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron – beautiful YA with a touch of fantasy to pull on the heartstrings
9. Citizen Clem by John Bew
10. Vengeful by V E Schwab
11. The Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
12. The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff – if we spoke this year I already raved about this historical non-fic. Think you know The Crucible? Think again.
13. Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng
14. Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen
15. Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
16. La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
17. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
18. Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
19. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
20. Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
21. How to Own the Room by Viv Groskop
22. The Postman by Charles Bukowski
23. The Nix by Nathan Hill
24. The Black Earth by Philip Kazan
25. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer – feminism, legacy and women’s compromises
26. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik – lush YA fantasy with three awesome heroines
27. Bolivar by Marie Arana – again, I probably already bored you to death with snippets from this book. Loved finding out about this magnetic but divisive historical figure!
28. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott – voice and how to do it
29. The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
30. American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson – I came to this via the Bowery Boys podcast, one of my favourites.
31. Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom by PM Freestone
32. Lost Connections by Johann Hari
33. Ponti by Sharlene Teo
34. Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 by Agnes Poirier
35. Socrates in Love by Armand D’Angour
36. City of Brass by S A Chakraborty
37. Methods of Persuasion by Nick Kolenda – psychological studies collected and presented in a very readable format
38. The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39. The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
40. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El – Mohtar and Max Gladstone
41. Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards
42. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo – magical secret societies and ghosts at Yale. Yes.
Catherine Queen 
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