Books Read in 2021

Jan 8

Written By Carol Tulpar

In 2021, I read or listened to 122 books, nine more than the year before. For the record, here’s the list:

January

Fredrik Backman Anxious People

P.D. James The Mistletoe Murders (cd)

Martin Brofman Anything Can be Healed

Thomas Erikson Surrounded by Idiots (sound file, part finished)

Anne Lewis-Smith Off-Duty (Wrens)

C.W. Gortner Marlene

Patrick Taylor Pray for Us Sinners

Fredrik Backman My Grandmother Says to Tell you She’s Sorry

Martin Edwards, editor Silent Nights: Christmas mysteries

Gabriele Tergit Kasebeir takes Berlin (only partly finished)

Adrian McKinty Falling Glass (sound file)

Willem Frederik Hermans The Darkroom of Damocles

February

Adrian McKinty The Bloomsday Dead (CD)

Erin Kelly The Poison Tree

Erin Kelly Broadchurch (watched film series, looked at book)

Clifford Nass and Corina Yen The Man who Lied to his Laptop

Alyssa Cole When No One is Watching

Martin Edwards, editor Capital Crimes

Erin Kelly Stone Mothers

Sam Wiebe Hollywood North

Brian McGilloway Gallows Lane

George Saunders A Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Brian McGilloway Bleed a River Deep

Patrick Taylor Pray for us Sinners

Brian McGilloway The Nameless Dead

March

Erin Kelly The Dark Rose

Erin Kelly The Burning Air

Patrick Taylor Now and at the Hour of our Death

Patrick Taylor Only Wounded

Tayeb Salih Season of Migration to the North

Donna Leon The Jewels of Paradise

Mick Ferron Joe Country

Anita Moorjani What if This is Heaven?

Erin Kelly He Said/She Said

Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train (cd)

Daphne du Maurier Rebecca (audio book file)

Ed. Tony Medawar Bodies from the Library 3

April

T.M. Logan 29 Seconds (sound file)

Louise Candlish Our House

Stuart Turton The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (CD)

Michelle Gallen Big Girl, Small Town

Patrick Raddon Keefe Say Nothing

Louise Doughty Apple Tree Yard

Anthony Horowitz Moonflower Murders

May

Isabel Allende The Soul of a Woman (sound file)

Rosamund Lupton Sister

Lucy Atkins Magpie Lane

Ruth Ware The Turn of the Key

Hope Adams Dangerous Women

Sarah Hilary Someone Else’s Skin

Jane Harper The Survivors

Robert McLiam Wilson Eureka Street

Anthony Horowitz The Magpie Murders

Richard Mabey Food for Free glanced through

June

Lucy Foley The Guest List

Susan Cahill, ed. Women and Fiction, Short Stories by and about Women

Lisa Jewell The Family Upstairs (CD)

Lisa Jewell And then she was Gone (CD)

Muriel Spark The Comforters

Ron Duffy Finn MacLir

July

Lisa Jewell Watching You (CD)

Vaseem Khan The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Elke Babicki Identity

Tommy Shnurmacher Makeup Tips from Auschwitz

Anita Moorjani Dying to be Me

Edward St. Aubyn Double Blind

Liane Moriarty Big Little Lies (CD)

Yvonne Kason MD Touched by the Light

Syr Ruus In Pleasantry

Vaseem Khan The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown

August

James Nestor Breath

S. Kirk Walsh The Elephant of Belfast

Vincent Courtney Elliot Lake Love Story

Judy J. Johnston Thief of Reason

Sebastian Faulks A Week in December

Sebastian Faulks Where my Heart used to Beat

Thomas Rid Active Measures: the Secret History of Disinformation

Sebastian Faulks Paris Echo

Nicci French House of Correction

September

Robert Crais A Dangerous Man (CD)

Mary Balloch Only a Kiss (CD)

Sue Townsend The Diaries of Adrian Mole

Peter A Levine Walking the Tiger (sound file)

Ahmet Umit Endgame

Patrick Taylor An Irish Country Doctor in Peace and at War (CD)

October

Elly Griffiths The Stone Circle

Elly Griffiths The Night Hawks

Elly Griffiths The Lantern Men

Jeffrey Archer Turn a Blind Eye

Mary Balogh The Arrangement

Elly Griffiths The Dying Fall

Elly Griffiths The Dark Angel (sound file)

Elly Griffiths The Outcast Dead

Elly Griffiths The House at the Edge of the Sea

Elly Griffiths The Woman in Blue

Elly Griffiths The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffiths A Room Full of Bones

Leila Slimani Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World (Morocco)

William McIlvanny & Ian Rankin The Dark Remains

Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (not finished)

Fredrik Backman Bear Town (CD)

Val McDermid & Kathryn Briggs Resistance (graphic novel)

Ruth Dudley Edwards Aftermath: the Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice (2009)

November

Emma Healey                                        Whistle in the Dark (not finished)

Vaseem Khan                                        Midnight at Malabar House

Penelope Lively                                     Oleander Jacaranda

Elly Griffiths                                            The Janus Stone

Iona Whishaw                                       A Lethal Lesson

Jacqueline Winspear                          The Consequences of Fear (audio file)

Eamon Collins                                       Killing Rage (didn’t read entire thing – so gruelling)

Kevin Myers                                           Watching the Door

John Le Carre                                       Silverview (sound file)

Elif Shafak                                             Island of Missing Trees

December

Abir Mukherjee                                     Shadows of Men

Felix Frances                                         Front Runner (CD)

Kwei Quartey                                        Sleep Well, My Lady

Anthony Doerr                                      Cloud Cuckoo Land (sound file)

Raymond Gilmour                               Dead Ground

Felix Francis                                          Refusal (sound file)

Dervla McTiernan                                 The Good Turn

Beverly McLachlin                                 Denial

Jean Hanff Korelitz                               The Plot (CD)

William Shaw                                        A Song for the Brokenhearted

Carol Tulpar