2015 was my third year of participating in the British Books Challenge and I’m absolutely loving finding new British authors and discovering old ones too. Here’s what I read in 2015, please click on the title to see my review:
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Devil In The Marshalsea – Antonia Hodgson
Under A Mackerel Sky – Rick Stein
A Terribly Strange Bed – Wilkie Collins
Silver Bay – Jojo Moyes
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
Elizabeth Is Missing – Emma Healey
Magpies – Lucy Wood
Honeymoon In Paris – Jojo Moyes
The Good Children – Roopa Farooki
Ironheart – Allan Boroughs
The Five Orange Pips – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Murder Bag – Tony Parsons
She Murdered Mortal He – Sarah Hall
Dangerous Boys – Abigail Haas
The Raven’s Head – Karen Maitland
The Long Shadow – Mark Mills
Miss Carter’s War – Sheila Hancock
Keeping Watch Over The Sheep – Jon McGregor
The Archduchess – Daphne du Maurier
The Oversoul – Graham Joyce
Plague Land – S.D. Sykes
A Colder War – Charles Cumming
Flour Babies – Anne Fine
The Summer We All Ran Away – Cassandra Parkin
Cellists – Kazuo Ishiguro
Mrs Hemingway – Naomi Wood
Us – David Nicholls
Gretel And The Dark – Eliza Granville
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Frozen Charlotte – Alex Bell
Bloodsport – Tom Cain
The Lemon Grove – Helen Walsh
Kew Gardens – Virginia Woolf
Funny Girl – Nick Hornby
The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams
No Other Darkness (Marnie Rome #2) – Sarah Hilary
The Giant’s Boneyard – Lucy Wood
Golden Boy – Abigail Tarttelin
A Want Of Kindness – Joanne Limburg
Gangsta Granny – David Walliams
Half Bad – Sally Green
The Man With The Twisted Lip – Arthur Conan Doyle
I Let You Go – Clare Mackintosh
The NightLong River – Sarah Hall
Knife Edge – Malorie Blackman
This Book Is Gay – James Dawson
She Is Not Invisible – Marcus Sedgwick
The Beloved – Alison Rattle
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Airshow – Jon McGregor
The Menace – Daphne du Maurier
A Song For Issy Bradley – Carys Bray
Candia – Graham Joyce
Night Music – JoJo Moyes
Extremes: Life, Death And The Limits Of The Human Body – Kevin Fong
Gingerbread – Robert Dinsdale
The Mistletoe Bride – Kate Mosse
The Taxidermist’s Daughter – Kate Mosse
More Than This – Patrick Ness
Watership Down – Richard Adams
The Rat In The Attic – Brian McGilloway
All The Birds, Singing – Evie Wyld
The Last Wild – Piers Torday
The Dark Wild – Piers Torday
The Wild Beyond – Piers Torday
How To Fly With Broken Wings – Jane Elson
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
The Bees – Laline Paull
House Of Windows – Alexia Casale
A Man And Two Women – Doris Lessing
The Ask And The Answer – Patrick Ness
The Class That Went Wild – Ruth Thomas
Life After You – Lucie Brownlee
A Wicked Old Woman – Ravinder Randhawa
The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle – Arthur Conan Doyle
Vuotjärvi – Sarah Hall
The Well – Catherine Chanter
So by my calculations that makes it 81 books read! Highlights for this year include my continuing love for Patrick Ness, the amazing House of Windows by Alexia Casale which absolutely floored me, the beauty that is Goodnight Mister Tom (why did I wait so long to read that?!) and All The Birds Singing by Evie Wyld which was just gorgeous. Looking forward to reading some more great British books in 2016.
