My theme this year is mystery (including detective, true crime, police procedurals, thrillers, spies, and so forth), and my goal is to read 52 books.
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel by Deepa Anappara
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee
- A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré
- Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
- The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe
- Still Life by Louise Penny (Inspector Gamache #1)
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- The Searcher by Tana French
- Death and the Chaste Apprentice by Robert Barnard
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Trial on Mt. Koya by Susan Spann
- Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton (Lacey Flint Book #1)
- The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- Interior Chinatown: A Novel by Charles You
- The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie Book #1)
- One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie Book #2)
- One By One by Ruth Ware
- When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie Book #3)
- Moonflower Murders: A Novel by Anthony Horowitz
- Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie Book #4)
- Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
- Dead Scared by Sharon Bolton (Lacy Flint Book #2)
- Sun Storm by Asa Larsson
- The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
- Last Rituals: A Novel of Suspense by Yrsa Sigurdardöttir
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley
- The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
- The Bat by Jo Nesbø
- Call For the Dead (George Smiley Book #1) by John Le Carré
- The Devotion of Suspect X: A Novel by Keigo Higashino
- Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
- Lady In the Lake by Laura Lippman
- The Bitterroots by C.J. Box
- Deception Cove by Owen Laukkanen
- The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny (Inspector Gamache #2)
- A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré
- Big Sky by Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie Book #5)
- The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carré
- Transient Desires by Donna Leon
- Shadowland by Peter Straub
- The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck
- The Cruelest Month by Louse Penny (Inspector Gamache #3)
- The Magus by John Fowles
- The Lost Man by Jane Harper
- The Survivors by Jane Harper
- A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill
- An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
- A Rule Against Murder by Louse Penny (Inspector Gamache #4)
- Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
- Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
- Box 21 by Roslund Anders
- Snow by John Banville
- The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
- Apples Don’t Fall by Liane Moriarty
- Truth Be Told by Kathleen Barber
- The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Inspector Ganache #5)
- A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins