Sergei’s Reading Log 2024 📖

Let’s get reading…

No. of books read per month:

January - 12
February - 14
March - 15
April - 11
May - 14
June - 8
July - 12
August - 9
September - 13
October - 16
November - 14
December -

Grand total -

1) 5 January 2024 - Pride of Lancashire - Anna Jacobs 4.25★s

Hi, Sergei. You reminded me I should pop over to a few other threads to follow along, as well. :-)
Happy New Year of reading!

2) 6 January 2024 - One Christmas Star - Mandy Baggot 4★s

3) 10 January 2024 - Q-Strike: The Q Continuum III - Greg Cox 4★s

4) 16 January 2024 - The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries - Various 4★s

5) 18 January 2024 - The Poet - Michael Connelly 4.5★s (group read)

6) 18 January 2024 - Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison - M. C. Beaton 4★s

7) 20 January 2024 - The Woman in the White Kimono - Ana Johns 4.5★s

8) 22 January 2024 - Country Wives - Rebecca Shaw 4★s

9) 22 January 2024 - Horrible Histories: Top 50 Kings and Queens - Terry Deary 4★s

10) 23 January 2024 - Tales From the Big House: Nostell Priory - Michael J. Rochford 4★s

11) 28 January 2024 - A Cursed Inheritance - Kate Ellis 4★s (group read)

12) 29 January 2024 - The Adventurers - Gustave Aimard 4★s

JANUARY TOTAL - 12 BOOKS

13) 3 February 2024 - In the Woods - Tana French 5★s

14) 5 February 2024 - The Indian Scout - Gustave Aimard 4★s

15) 7 February 2024 - Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North - Rachel Joyce 4★s

16) 9 February 2024 - The Marlow Murder Club - Robert Thorogood 5★s

17) 13 February 2024 - Blood Lines - Angela Marsons 5★s (group read)

18) 14 February 2024 - Sourdough - Robin Sloan 3.75★s

19) 15 February 2024 - The Gold-Seekers - Gustave Aimard 4★s

20) 17 February 2024 - The Indian Chief - Gustave Aimard 4★s

21) 19 February 2024 - The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman 5★s + ❤️

22) 21 February 2024 - Empty Nets and Promises - Denzil Meyrick 5★s

23) 23 February 2024 - That Summer in Ischia - Penny Feeny 3.75★s

24) 24 February 2024 - (Agatha Raisin) There Goes the Bride - M. C. Beaton 3.5★s

25) 26 February 2024 - The Brethren - John Grisham 4★s

26) 29 February 2024 - The Silver Falcon - Evelyn Anthony 3.5★s

FEBRUARY TOTAL - 14 BOOKS

27) 2 March 2024 - Snowbound Six - Richard Martin Stern 4.5★s

28) 2 March 2024 - Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home - Marie Kondo 2.5★s

29) 4 March 2024 - Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks 3★s

30) 4 March 2024 - The Dragon - Alfred Coppel 4.5★s

31) 4 March 2024 - The Red Track - Gustave Aimard 4★s

32) 8 March 2024 - Death in the Stocks - Georgette Heyer 4★s

33) 10 March 2024 - Blood Never Dies - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 4★s

34) 14 March 2024 - The Berry Scene - Dornford Yates 4.5★s

35) 17 March 2024 - Being Davina - Nigel Goodall 2.5★s

36) 23 March 2024 - Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body - M. C. Beaton 4★s

37) 25 March 2024 - The Malta Exchange - Steve Berry 3.75★s (group read)

38) 30 March 2024 - Grave Expectations - Alice Bell 4★s

39) 31 March 2024 - Brown Sugar - Nancy Cato 3.5★s

40) 31 March 2024 - F in History - Richard Benson 3★s

41) 31 March 2024 - Very British Wit - Richard Benson 3★s

MARCH TOTAL - 15 BOOKS

42) 1 April 2024 - The Good Turn - Sharna Jackson 3.5★s

43) 4 April 2024 - The Alexander Cipher - Will Adams 4.5★s

44) 7 April 2024 - The Tintern Treasure - Kate Sedley 4.5★s

45) 9 April 2024 - For Any Other Truth - Denzil Meyrick 5★s

46) 13 April 2024 - Lieutenant Fury - G. S. Beard 5★s

47) 18 April 2024 - Clive Cussler’s Hellburner - Mike Maden 3.5★s (group read)

48) 21 April 2024 - The Healing Stream - Connie Monk 3★s

49) 24 April 2024 - The Village Show - Rebecca Shaw 4★s

50) 24 April 2024 - Cabin Fever - B. M. Bower 4★s

51) 28 April 2024 - Toys - James Patterson & Neil McMahon 4.5★s

52) 30 April 2024 - The Knight’s Tale - M. J. Trow 5★s

APRIL TOTAL - 11 BOOKS

53) 3 May 2024 - The Year I Met You - Cecelia Ahern 3★s

54) 5 May 2024 - Pantheon - Sam Bourne 4★s

55) 10 May 2024 - Death Comes to Marlow - Robert Thorogood 4★s

56) 10 May 2024 - The Nightingale Gallery - Paul Doherty 3.75★s

57) 11 May 2024 - The Defenders - Philip K. Dick 4★s (Short story)

58) 12 May 2024 - Second Variety - Philip K. Dick 4★s (Short story)

59) 15 May 2024 - Cold as the Grave - James Oswald 4★s (group read)

60) 16 May 2024 - Maxwell’s Revenge - M. J. Trow 4.5★s

61) 24 May 2024 - The Death of Remembrance - Denzil Meyrick 5★s

62) 25 May 2024 - The Rembrandt Secret - Alex Connor 4.5★s

63) 27 May 2024 - Village Secrets - Rebeccsa Shaw 4★s

64) 27 May 2024 - Through a Narrow Door - Faith Martin 4★s

65) 30 May 2024 - The Shadow of Your Smile - Mary Higgins Clark 4★s

66) 31 May 2024 - A Murder of Crows - Sarah Yarwood-Lovett 4★s

MAY TOTAL - 14 BOOKS

67) 2 June 2024 - No Sweet Sorrow - Denzil Meyrick 5★s

68) 5 June 2024 - A Dark Matter - Doug Johnstone 3.5★s

69) 8 June 2024 - A Cast of Falcons - Sarah Yarwood-Lovett 4★s

70) 12 June 2024 - Beyond Recall - Robert Goddard 5★s

71) 14 June 2024 - The Blue and the Grey - M. J. Trow 4★s

72) 17 June 2024 - Written in Blood - Chris Carter 5★s (group read)

73) 23 June 2024 - The Cornish Coast Murder - John Bude 4★s

74) 28 June 2024 - The Library of Lost and Found - Phaedra Patrick 4.5★s

JUNE TOTAL - 8 BOOKS

75) 2 July 2024 - Star Fall - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 4★s

76) 3 July 2024 - The Lucifer Code - Charles Brokaw 4★s

77) 7 July 2024 - Mystery in White - J. Jefferson Farjeon 4★s

78) 10 July 2024 - Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin 5★s

79) 13 July 2024 - The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder - Sarah J. Harris 4★s

80) 18 July 2024 - The Queen of Poisons - Robert Thorogood 3.5★s

81) 20 July 2024 - The Sixth Extinction - James Rollins 4.5★s (group read)

82) 23 July 2024 - An Invisible Murder - Joyce Cato 4★s

83) 24 July 2024 - The Healers - Ann Cleeves 4★s

84) 28 July 2024 - The Twyford Code - Janice Hallett 4★s

85) 29 July 2024 - The Heretic’s Treasure - Scott Mariani 4.5★s

86) 31 July 2024 - Deadline - Simon Kernick 4★s

JULY TOTAL - 12 BOOKS

87) 1 August 2024 - Deadly Friends - Stuart Pawson 5★s

88) 4 August 2024 - Some by Fire - Stuart Pawson 5★s

89) 4 August 2024 - My Hidden Chimp - Prof Steve Peters 4★s

90) 7 August 2024 - Winterkill - C. J. Box 4.5★s

91) 9 August 2024 - The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County - Edgar Rice Borroughs 4.5★s

92) 13 August 2024 - Three Weeks to Say Goodbye - C. J. Box 4.5★s

93) 14 August 2024 - The Chimp Paradox - Prof Steve Peters 3.5★s

94) 17 August 2024 - Blue Heaven - C. J. Box 5★s + ❤️

95) 26 August 2024 - Cuthbert’s Way - LJ Ross 4★s

AUGUST TOTAL - 9 BOOKS

96) 2 September 2024 - Why Kings Confess - C. S. Harris 4.5★s (group read)

97) 7 September 2024 - Dear Little Corpses - Nicola Upson 4★s

98) 9 September 2024 - L’Auberge - Julia Stagg 5★s

99) 11 September 2024 - Scandal in the Village - Rebecca Shaw 3.5★s

100) 13 September 2024 - In Search of Hope - Anna Jacobs 4★s (reread)

101) 15 September 2024 - A Dangerous Place - Jacqueline Winspear 5★s

102) 17 September 2024 - The Locked Room - Elly Griffiths 5★s (group read)

103) 20 September 2024 - Four Thousand Days - M. J. Trow 4.5★s

104) 22 September 2024 - Autumn Chills - Agatha Christie 4★s

105) 24 September 2024 - The Division Bell Mystery - Ellen Wilkinson 4★s

106) 26 September 2024 - Maxwell’s Chain - M. J. Trow 5★s

107) 28 September 2024 - Maxwell’s House - M. J. Trow 5★s

108) 30 September 2024 - Gently in Trees - Alan Hunter 3.5★s

SEPTEMBER TOTAL - 13 BOOKS

109) 3 October 2024 - Lucy Leek And Bertie Brussels Sprout - Jayne Fisher 4★s

110) 4 October 2024 - Penelope Strawberry and Roger Radish - Jayne Fisher 4★s

111) 4 October 2024 - A New Lease of Death - Ruth Rendell 4★s

112) 7 October 2024 - Charlotte Fairlie - D. E. Stevenson 4.5★s

113) 12 October 2024 - The Exodus Quest - Will Adams 4★s

114) 15 October 2024 - The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot - Agatha Christie 4★s

115) 17 October 2024 - A Mischief of Rats - Sarah Yarwood-Lovett 4.5★s

116) 19 October 2024 - The Fireside Book 2011 - Various 3.5★s

117) 20 October 2024 - Chill Factor - Stuart Pawson 5★s

118) 22 October 2024 - Winds of Change - Anna Jacobs 4.5★s

119) 24 October 2024 - The Marriage Hearse - Kate Ellis 4.5★s (group read)

120) 25 October 2024 - Murder by the Book - Lauren Elliott 4★s

121) 27 October 2024 - Laughing Boy - Stuart Pawson 5★s

122) 28 October 2024 - Single End - Denzil Meyrick 5★s (short story)

123) 30 October 2024 - The Corpse on the Court - Simon Brett 4★s

124) 31 October 2024 - Tell it to the Skies - Erica James 4.5★s

OCTOBER TOTAL - 16 BOOKS

125) 1 November 2024 - Limestone Cowboy - Stuart Pawson 5★s

126) 5 November 2024 - Mrs Tim of the Regiment - D. E. Stevenson 5★s

127) 5 November 2024 - Journey to Munich - Jacqueline Winspear 5★s

128) 6 November 2024 - Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie 4★s

129) 10 November 2024 - Old Sins - Aline Templeton 4.5★s

130) 12 November 2024 - The Dark Tide - Simon McCleave 4.5★s

131) 13 November 2024 - Barnsley at War 1939-45 - Mark Green 4★s

132) 16 November 2024 - Over the Edge - Stuart Pawson 5★s

133) 17 November 2024 - The Hidden Staircase - Holly Webb 5★s

134) 22 November 2024 - Prologue to Murder - Lauren Elliott 4★s

135) 25 November 2024 - In Too Deep - Simon McCleave 5★s

136) 26 November 2024 - Blood on the Shore - Simon McCleave 5★s

137) 27 November 2024 - The Drowning Isle - Simon McCleave 4.5★s

138) 30 November 2024 - Murder in the First Edition - Lauren Elliott 4★s

NOVEMBER TOTAL - 14 BOOKS

139) 2 December 2024 - Shooting Elvis - Stuart Pawson 5★s

140) 4 December 2024 - Trunk Music - Michael Connelly 4★s (group read)

141) 8 December 2024 - We’ll Meet Again - Anton du Beke 4.5★s

142) 10 December 2024 - Ferguson’s Ferry - Noel Loomis 4★s

143) 14 December 2024 - When We Were Orphans - Kasuo Ishiguro 4.5★s

144) 16 December 2024 - Dead Souls - Angela Marsons 4.5★s (group read)

145) 17 December 2024 - Boothill Gospel - Chuck Martin 4.5★s

146) 18 December 2024 - Miss Marley - Vanessa Lafaye 4★s

147) 21 December 2024 - The Gaudi Key - Esteban Martin & Andreu Carranza 3.5★s

148) 23 December 2024 - An Unholy Mess - Joyce Cato 4★s