What Cathy Read 2018

Here is a list of the books I read in 2018. Click on the title to read my review.

1066: What Fates Impose by G. K. Holloway (3 out of 5)
Oliver Loving by Stefan Merrill Block (5 out of 5)
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon (4 out of 5)
The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen, Vol. 1 by Collins Hemingway (4 out of 5)
Shadows on the Grass by Misha M. Herwin (4 out of 5)
Carol by Patricia Highsmith (5 out of 5)
Beautiful Star & Other Stories by Andrew Swanston (5 out of 5)
The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford (5 out of 5)
Nucleus (Tom Wilde #2) by Rory Clements (5 out of 5)
The Moral Compass (Shaking The Tree #1) by K. A. Servian (4 out of 5)
Traitor (Mercia Blakewood #3) by David Hingley (4 out of 5)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (4 out of 5)
The Power-House by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements (4 out of 5)
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (3 out of 5)
The Renaissance Club by Rachel Dacus (4 out of 5)
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (5 out of 5)
The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton (4 out of 5)
In Strangers’ Houses by Elisabeth Mundy (3 out of 5)
The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin (3 out of 5)
The Rain Never Came by Lachlan Walter (4 out of 5)
Brother by David Chariandy (4 out of 5)
Rusticles by Rebecca Gransden (2 out of 5)
The Bell by Iris Murdoch (4 out of 5)
Brewing Up Murder by Neila Young (3 out of 5)
Caligula by Simon Turney (4 out of 5)
The Fragile Thread of Hope by Pankaj Giri (4 out of 5)
John Macnab by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
The Secret Life of Mrs. London by Rebecca Rosenberg (5 out of 5)
All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church (4 out of 5)
Killed (Henning Juul #5) by Thomas Enger (4 out of 5)
Waking Isabella by Melissa Muldoon (3 out of 5)
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (4 out of 5)
Entanglement by Katy Mahood (5 out of 5)
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers (5 out of 5)
The Things We Learn When We’re Dead by Charlie Laidlaw (4 out of 5)
The Summer Will Come by Soulla Christodoulou (4 out of 5)
Maiden’s Chance: A Meonbridge Chronicles Novella by Carolyn Hughes (4 out of 5)
Charlemagne by in60learning (2 out of 5)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (5 out of 5)
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (4 out of 5)
Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce (4 out of 5)
Tightrope (Marian Sutro #2) by Simon Mawer (5 out of 5)
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan (5 out of 5)
Drift Stumble Fall by M. Jonathan Lee (3 out of 5)
Friends and Traitors (Inspector Troy #8) by John Lawton (4 out of 5)
We Were the Salt of the Sea by Roxanne Bouchard (4 out of 5)
The Pharmacist’s Wife by Vanessa Tait (3 out of 5)
Things Bright and Beautiful by Anbara Salam (4 out of 5)
Manipulated Lives by H.A. Leuschel (3 out of 5)
A Mother’s Sacrifice by Gemma Metcalfe (3 out of 5)
The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks (3 out of 5)
Lady Helena Investigates by Jane Steen (4 out of 5)
The Black Earth by Philip Kazan (5 out of 5)
White Houses by Amy Bloom (3 out of 5)
Suitors and Sabotage by Cindy Anstey (3 out of 5)
Staying On by Paul Scott (3 out of 5)
The Good Father by S. R. Wilsher (4 out of 5)
The Great Darkness by Jim Kelly (5 out of 5)
The Visitor at Anningley Hall by Chris Thorndycroft (3 out of 5)
Prussian Blue (Bernie Gunther #12) by Philip Kerr (5 out of 5)
The Million Dollar Duchesses by Julie Ferry (3 out of 5)
The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie Crowhurst (4 out of 5)
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby (3 out of 5)
Fault Lines by Doug Johnstone (4 out of 5)
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse (4 out of 5)
Grace After Henry by Eithne Shortall (4 out of 5)
Ecstasy by Mary Sharratt (4 out of 5)
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir (4 out of 5)
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall (4 out of 5)
Mr. Peacock’s Possessions by Lydia Syson (5 out of 5)
The Magpie Tree by Katherine Stansfield (5 out of 5)
The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl (4 out of 5)
Juliet & Romeo by David Hewson (5 out of 5)
The Cliff House by Amanda Jennings (4 out of 5)
I Will Find You (Seal Island #2) by Daniela Sacerdoti (4 out of 5)
The Biographies of Ordinary People, Vol. 2 by Nicole Dieker (4 out of 5)
That Summer in Puglia by Valeria Vescina (4 out of 5)
The Last Day by Claire Dyer (4 out of 5)
War Girl Ursula by Marion Kummerow (3 out of 5)
A Lost Lady of Old Years by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
The Concubine’s Child by Carol Jones (4 out of 5)
A Woman’s Lot (Meonbridge Chronicle #2) by Carolyn Hughes (4 out of 5)
The Shady Side of Town: Reading’s Trees by Adrian Lawson & Geoff Sawers (5 out of 5)
After the Party by Cressida Connolly (3 stars out of 5)
Spirit of Lost Angels (The Bone Angel #1) by Liza Perrat (3 out of 5)
Sugar Money by Jane Harris (4 out of 5)
Forsaking All Other by Catherine Meyrick (4 out of 5)
Summer of Love by Caro Fraser (4 out of 5)
The Poison Bed by E. C. Fremantle (5 out of 5)
The Mountain Man’s Badge by Gary Corbin (4 out of 5)
The King’s Daughter by Stephanie Churchill (4 out of 5)
Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten (5 out of 5)
The Hidden Bones by Nicola Ford (4 out of 5)
The Devil’s Half Mile by Paddy Hirsch (5 out of 5)
The Half-Hearted by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
The Year of the Snake by M. J. Trow and Maryanne Coleman (3 out of 5)
Call of the Curlew by Elizabeth Brooks (5 out of 5)
Song by Michelle Jana Chan (5 out of 5)
Legionary: The Blood Road (Legionary #7) by Gordon Doherty (4 out of 5)
Grace by Paul Lynch (3 out of 5)
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen (4 out of 5)
The Road to Newgate by Kate Braithwaite (4 out of 5)
The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise (5 out of 5)
Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire by M.R.C. Kasasian (4 out of 5)
Hold by Michael Donkor (4 out of 5)
The Vanished Child (Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mysteries #4) by M. J. Lee (4 out of 5)
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans (4 out of 5)
The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola (5 out of 5)
Downed Over Germany (War Girl 0.5) by Marion Kummerow (3 out of 5)
The Pagoda Tree by Claire Scobie (5 out of 5)
Smile of the Wolf by Tim Leach (5 out of 5)
The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
The Promise by Michelle Vernal (4 out of 5)
Happiness is a Collage by Gita V. Reddy (4 out of 5)
The Romanov Empress by C.W. Gortner (3 out of 5)
Diamond Cut Diamond by Jane Jakeman (4 out of 5)
Island on Fire by Sophie Schiller (3 out of 5)
A Quiet Genocide by Glenn Bryant (3 out of 5)
In The Blood by Ruth Mancini (4 out of 5)
The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway by Rhys Thomas (4 out of 5)
The Glass Diplomat by S. R. Wilsher (5 out of 5)
The Secrets of Primrose Square by Claudia Carroll (4 out of 5)
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (3 out of 5)
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (3 out of 5)
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (5 out of 5)
Smart Moves by Adrian Magson (4 out of 5)
Night Flight to Paris by David Gilman (5 out of 5)
The Mistress of Pennington’s by Rachel Brimble (3 out of 5)
Huntingtower (Dickson McCunn #1) by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
Six Stories by Matt Wesolowski (4 out of 5)
The Dark Tide by Vera Brittain (3 out of 5)
A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland (4 out of 5)
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan (4 out 5)
Sleeping Through War by Jackie Carreira (4 out of 5)
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason (5 out of 5)
The Angel’s Mark by S. W. Perry (4 out of 5)
Money Power Love by Joss Sheldon (4 out of 5)
Blackbird Road (Jake Caldwell #3) by James L. Weaver (4 out of 5)
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton (4 out of 5)
Castle Gay (Dickson McCunn #2) by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson (5 out of 5)
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks (4 out of 5)
The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana (3 out of 5)
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson (4 out of 5)
The Temptation (Anglian Detective Agency #2) by Vera Morris (4 out of 5)
The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi #2) by Michael Pronko (4 out of 5)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (4 out of 5)
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo (3 out of 5)
The Black Prince by Adam Roberts and Anthony Burgess (4 out of 5)
Joseph Barnaby by Susan Roebuck (3 out of 5)
The Last Thread by Ray Britain (4 out of 5)
False Lights by K. J. Whittaker (4 out of 5)
The Golden Orphans by Gary Raymond (4 out of 5)
The Senator’s Assignment by Joan E. Histon (4 out of 5)
Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell (3 out of 5)
Paris in the Dark by Robert Olen Butler (5 out of 5)
The Glorious Dead by Tim Atkinson (4 out of 5)
The Word for Freedom edited by Amanda Saint & Rose McGinty (4 out of 5)
Miss Marley by Vanessa Lafaye (4 out of 5)
Witch Wood by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
A Pivotal Right (Shaking the Tree #2) by K. A. Servian (4 out of 5)
The Magick of Master Lilly by Tobsha Learner (3 out of 5)
A Ration Book Christmas by Jean Fullerton (4 out of 5)
The Price of Compassion (The Golden City #4) by A. B. Michaels (4 out of 5)
Bells of Avalon by Libbet Bradstreet (3 out of 5)
Christmas at War by Caroline Taggart (4 out of 5)
The Monastery Murders (Stanton & Barling #2) by E. M. Powell (4 out of 5)
None So Blind by Alis Hawkins (5 out of 5)
Song of Praise for a Flower by Fengxian Chu & Charlene Chu (4 out of 5)
States of Passion by Nihad Sirees (2 out of 5)
Memory Hold-The-Door by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
A Light of Her Own by Carrie Callaghan (4 out of 5)
The Wooden Hill by Jamie Guiney (4 out of 5)
Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart (4 out of 5)
Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield (5 out of 5)
Sadie’s Wars (Currency Girls #3) by Rosemary Noble (4 out of 5)
The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau (4 out of 5)
The Cold North Sea (Ingo Finch Mystery #2) by Jeff Dawson (5 out of 5)
The Salt of the Earth by Józef Wittlin (4 out of 5)
My Sister, Myself by Jill Treseder (4 out of 5)
Lying in Vengeance by Gary Corbin (4 out of 5)
The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp by Sarra Manning (3 out of 5)
White Water, Black Death by Shaun Ebelthite (3 out of 5)
So Much Life Left Over by Louis De Bernières (4 out of 5)
Zoo Station (John Russell #1) by David Downing (4 out of 5)
Sick Heart River by John Buchan (5 out of 5)
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller (4 out of 5)

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