What Cathy Read 2020

Here are the books I’ve read so far in 2020.  Click on the title to read my review.

1. Payback (DI Charley Mann #1) by R.C. Bridgestock (4 out of 5)
2. The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson (4 out of 5)
3. Magician and Fool by Susan Wands (3 out of 5)
4. A Messy Affair (Lena Szarka #3) by Elizabeth Mundy (4 out of 5)
5. Hitler’s Secret (Tom Wilde #4) by Rory Clements (4 out of 5)
6. The Other You by J.S. Monroe (4 out 5)
7. Sir Quixote of the Moorsby John Buchan (3 out of 5)
8. Katherine by Anya Seton (5 out of 5)
9. Requiem for a Knave by Laura Carlin (4 out of 5)
10. The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson (4 out of 5)
11. Summerland by Lucy Adlington (5 out of 5)
12. 355: The Women of Washington’s Spy Ring by Kit Sergeant (3 out of 5)
13. Real Life by Adeline Dieudonné (4 out of 5)
14. Stasi Winter (Karin Muller #5) by David Young (4 out of 5)
15. Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2) by Attica Locke (4 out of 5)
16. Improvement by Joan Silber (4 out of 5)
17. Wild Spinning Girls by Carole Lovekin (4 out of 5)
18. The House by the Loch by Kirsty Wark (4 out of 5)
19. John Burnet of Barns by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
20. The Lost Lights of St. Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford (5 out of 5)
21. The Widow’s Mite by Allie Cresswell (3 out of 5)
22. The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel (4 out of 5)
23. Distorted Days by Louise Worthington (3 out of 5)
24. Summer of the Three Pagodas by Jean Moran (4 out of 5)
25. Containment (Sam Shephard #3) by Vanda Symon (4 out of 5)
26. The Canary Keeper by Clare Carson (4 out  5)
27. The Walls We Build by Jules Hayes (4 out of 5)
28. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Voung (4 out of 5)
29. The Philosopher’s Daughters by Alison Booth (4 out of 5)
30. A Lodge in the Wilderness by John Buchan (2 out of 5)
31. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay (5 out of 5)
32. Summer in Provence by Lucy Coleman (4 out of 5)
33. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (4 out of 5)
34. I Am Dust by Louise Beech (4 out of 5)
35. A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry (4 out of 5)
36. Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather (3 out of 5)
37. A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
38. A Life Without End by Frédéric Beigbeder (4 out of 5)
39. The Wheelwright’s Daughter by Eleanor Porter (4 out of 5)
40. The Figure in the Photograph by Kevin Sullivan (4 out of 5)
41. The Hidden Village by Imogen Matthews (3 out of 5)
42. Living Among The Dead: My Grandmother’s Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky (3 out of 5)
43. A Wedding in the Olive Garden by Leah Fleming (4 out of 5)
44. Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor (4 out of 5)
45. The Straits of Treachery by Richard Hopton (3 out of 5)
46. A Registry Of My Passage Upon The Earth by Daniel Mason (5 out of 5)
47. Hidden in the Shadows by Imogen Matthews (3 out of 5)
48. A Ration Book Wedding by Jean Fullerton (4 out of 5)
49. The Saracen’s Mark by S. W. Perry (5 out of 5)
50. The Glass House by Eve Chase (4 out of 5)
51. People Like Us by Louise Fein (4 out of 5)
52. When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby (5 out of 5)
53. Lionheart by Ben Kane (4 out of 5)
54. The Flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff (4 out of 5)
55. An Engineered Injustice (Philadelphia Legal #2) by William L. Myers, Jr. (4 out of 5)
56. One Hundred Miracles by Zuzana Ruzickova with Wendy Holden (5 out of 5)
57. The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting (4 out of 5)
58. The Last Secrets by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
59. Patrol by Fred Majdalany (5 out of 5)
60. The Sea Gate by Jane Johnson (4 out of 5)
61. Warriors for the Working Day by Peter Elstob (4 out of 5)
62. One Day in Summer by Shari Low (4 out of 5)
63. Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness #1) by John Lawton (4 out of 5)
64. Homilies and Recreations by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
65. The Traitor by V. S. Alexander (4 out of 5)
66. The Colours by Juliet Bates (4 out of 5)
67. The English Wife by Adrienne Chinn (4 out of 5)
68. The Offing by Benjamin Myers (5 out of 5)
69. The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey (5 out of 5)
70. A Quiet Death in Italy by Tom Benjamin (4 out of 5)
71. The Englishman (Raglan #1) by David Gilman (4 out  5)
72. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (3 out of 5)
73. The Horseman (West Country Trilogy #1) by Tim Pears (4 out of 5)
74. Rags of Time by Michael Ward (4 out of 5)
75. Belladonna by Anbara Salam (4 out of 5)
76. Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson (4 out of 5)
77. Munich by Robert Harris (5 out of 5)
78. The Young Survivors by Debra Barnes (3 out of 5)
79. The Storm by Amanda Jennings (4 out of 5)
80. Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees (5 out of 5)
81. The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
82. The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon (4 out of 5)
83. The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks (4 out of 5)
84. The Honey and the Sting by E. C. Fremantle (4 out of 5)
85. The Scarlet Code (Revolutionary Spy #2) by C.S. Quinn (5 out of 5)
86. The Borrowed Boy by Deborah Klée (3 out of 5)
87. Fortress of Fury (The Bernicia Chronicles #7) by Matthew Harffy (5 out of 5)
88. The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor (4 out of 5)
89. Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen (Six Tudor Queens #5) by Alison Weir (3 out of 5)
90. The Girl from Vichy by Andie Newton (3 out of 5)
91. The Wanderers (West Country Trilogy #2) by Tim Pears (4 out of 5)
92. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (4 out of 5)
93. A Little London Scandal by Miranda Emmerson (4 out of 5)
94. The Bitch by Pilar Quintana (3 out of 5)
95. The Night of Shooting Stars (Martin Bora #7) by Ben Pastor (4 out of 5)
96. The Night of the Flood by Zoë Somerville (4 out of 5)
97. A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
98. The Museum Makers by Rachel Morris (4 out of 5)
99. Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (4 out of 5)
100. V For Victory by Lissa Evans (5 out of 5)
101. Charlotte by Helen Moffett (4 out of 5)
102. Talland House by Maggie Humm (3 out of 5)
103. The Ghost Tree (Betty Church Mystery #3) by M.R.C. Kasasian
104. Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf (4 out of 5)
105. The Artist and the Soldier by Angelle Petta (3 out of 5)
106. The Girl from the Hermitage by Molly Gartland (4 out of 5)
107. City of Spies by Mara Timon (5 out of 5)
108. Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons by David Stafford (4 out of 5)
109. V2 by Robert Harris (5 out of 5)
110. Hermit by S.R. White (4 out of 5)
111. This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik (4 out of 5)
112. The Second Marriage by Gill Paul (3 out of 5)
113. Dear Child by Romy Hausmann (4 out of 5)
114. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (4 out of 5)
115. The Magic Walking Stick by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
116. Green Hands by Barbara Whitton (4 out of 5)
117. Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor (4 out of 5)
118. Those Who Know (The Teifi Valley Coronor #3) by Alis Hawkins (5 out of 5)
119. Betrayal by Lilia Siguradottir (4 out of 5)
120. The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (4 out of 5)
121. A Conspiracy of Silence (DI Gillian Marsh #5) by Anna Legat (3 out of 5)
122. The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn (4 out of 5)
123. Endless Skies by Jane Cable (4 out of 5)
124. The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (4 out of 5)
125. The Free Fishers by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
126. Immortal by Jessica Duchen (4 out of 5)
127. When the Music Stops by Joe Heap (4 out of 5)
128. Hell Gate (Ingo Finch #3) by Jeff Dawson (5 out of 5)
129. The Forgers by Bradford Morrow (3 out of 5)
130. When I Come Home Again by Caroline Scott (4 out of 5)
131. The Coral Bride by Roxanne Bouchard (4 out of 5)
132. How To Belong by Sarah Franklin (4 out of 5)
133. The Stasi Game (Karin Müller #6) by David Young (5 out of 5)
134. Three Women and a Boat by Anne Youngson (4 out of 5)
135. The House in the Hollow by Allie Cresswell (4 out of 5)
136. Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time by Inez Holden
137. The Morning Star by Gita V. Reddy (4 out of 5)
138. Cesare by Jerome Charyn (3 out of 5)
139. Imperfect Alchemist by Naomi Miller ( 4 out of 5)
140. 337 by M. Jonathan Lee (4 out of 5)
141. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (4 out of 5)
142. River of Sins (Bradcote and Catchpoll #7) by Sara Hawkswood (4 out of 5)
143. The King’s Grace by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
144. Becoming Alfie by Neil Patterson (3 out of 5)
145. The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn (4 out of 5)
146. Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (3 out of 5)
147. A Time for Swords by Matthew Harffy (4 out of 5)
148. Discontents: The Disappearance of a Young Radical by James Wallace Birch (3 out of 5)
149. The Running Wolf by Helen Steadman (5 out of 5)
150. Winterkill (Dark Iceland #6) by Ragnar Jónasson (4 out of 5)
151. The Diabolical Bones (The Brontë Mysteries #2) by Bella Ellis (4 out of 5)
152. The Long Traverse by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
153. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (5 out of 5)
154. Last Flight to Stalingrad by Graham Hurley

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