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Monthly Reading Summary – December 2023

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Top Book of the Month – ‘The Holiday Swap’ by Maggie Knox

Book Club Book This Month – ‘Faking Christmas’ by Kerry Winfrey

Books Read This Month:

Books Bought This Month:

  • ‘How to Kill Your Family’ by Bella Mackie
  • ‘Four Weddings and a Christmas’ by Phillipa Ashley
  • ‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ by Gail Honeyman
  • ‘Murder on the Christmas Express’ by Alexandra Benedict
  • ‘Faking Christmas’ by Kerry Winfrey
  • ‘1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII’ by Suzannah Lipscomb
  • ‘The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors 500 Years of History at Hampton Court’ by Gareth Russell
  • ‘Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns’ by Claire Martin
  • ‘The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case’ by Philippa Langley
  • ‘Kings and Queens: 1200 Years of English and British Monarchs’ by Iain Dale
  • ‘The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet’ by Benjamin Hoff
  • ‘Window Shopping’ by Tessa Bailey
  • ‘All I Want for Christmas’ by Maggie Knox
  • ‘The Christmas Bookshop’ by Jenny Colgan
  • ‘The Ballad of Never After’ by Stephanie Garber
  • ‘Love, Theoretically’ by Ali Hazelwood
  • ‘The Book Proposal’ by KJ Micciche

Statistics:

  • Books Read – 4
  • Currently Reading – 1
  • TBR – 240
  • Fiction – 3 (75.00%)
  • Non-Fiction – 1 (25.00%)
  • Male Author – 0 (0.00%)
  • Female Author – 2 (50.00%)
  • Non-Binary Author – 0 (0.00%)
  • Multiple Authors – 2 (50.00%)
  • Paperback – 2 (50.00%)
  • Hardback – 0 (0.00%)
  • eBook – 2 (50.00%)
  • Audiobook – 0 (0.00%)
  • Total Pages Read – 1,343
  • Average Pages Per Book – 335.75
  • Hours Listened – 0.00
  • Average Star Rating – 3.50

Monthly Reading Summary – November 2022

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There has been a lot going on generally this year so it’s no surprise that once again I haven’t read as many books as I would have liked. Our book group read for November was ‘A Flicker in the Dark’ by Stacy Willingham.

Books Read This Month:

Mickey Mayhew – Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots: The Men Who Kept the Stuart Queen ★★★★

  • Hardback, 2022, Pen and Sword
  • Adult Non-Fiction, History

Grady Hendrix – The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires ★★

  • Paperback, 2020, Quirk Books
  • Adult Fiction, Horror

Julia Chapman – Date with Deceit ★★★

  • Audiobook, 2021, Pan Macmillan
  • Adult Fiction, Cosy Crime

Emily Henry – You and Me on Vacation ★★

  • Paperback, 2021, Penguin Books
  • Adult Fiction, Chic Lit

Nathen Amin – Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick ★★★★★

  • Hardback, 2020, Amberley Publishing
  • Adult Non-Fiction, History

Books Bought This Month:

  • Stacy Willingham – A Flicker in the Dark
  • Natalie Grueninger – The Final Year of Anne Boleyn
  • Stephanie Garber – Once Upon a Broken Heart
  • Kate Johnson – Hex Affair
  • Rosie Blake – The Hygge Holiday

Statistics:

  • Books Read – 5
  • Currently Reading – 2
  • TBR – 159
  • Fiction – 3 (60%)
  • Non-Fiction – 2 (40%)
  • Male Author – 3 (60%)
  • Female Author – 2 (40%)
  • Multiple Authors – 0 (0%)
  • Paperback – 2 (40%)
  • Hardback – 2 (40%)
  • eBook – 0 (0%)
  • Audiobook – 1 (20%)
  • Total Pages Read – 1,336
  • Average Pages Per Book – 334
  • Hours Listened – 11.25
  • Average Star Rating – 3.2