Monthly Reading Summary – December 2023

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 – October 2022

It’s been a really really slow reading month this month; just lots of things going on, and I was away seeing family for a week as well. Our book group read for this month was ‘The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires’ by Grady Hendrix. I also tend to gain a lot of books in October because of my birthday.

Books Read This Month:

Terry Deary – The Peasants’ Revolting Lives ★★★★

  • Paperback, 2020, Pen and Sword
  • Adult Non-Fiction, History

Beth O’Leary – The Road Trip ★★★

  • Paperback, 2021, Quercus Publishing
  • Adult Fiction, Chic Lit

Richard Charles Cobb – On the Trail of Jack the Ripper ★★★★

  • Paperback, 2022, Pen and Sword
  • Adult Non-Fiction, True Crime

Books Bought This Month:

  • Phil Roberts – Cardinal Wolsey: For King and Country
  • Helen Carr & Suzannah Lipscomb – What is History, Now?
  • Grady Hendrix – The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
  • Richard Charles Cobb – On the Trail of Jack the Ripper
  • Paul Kendall – Queen Elizabeth I: Life and Legacy of the Virgin Queen
  • Stephanie Laurens – Foes, Friends, and Lovers
  • Stephanie Laurens – The Secrets of Lord Grayson Child
  • Shaun Bythell – Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
  • Tom Felton – Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
  • Joanne Paul – The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

Statistics:

  • Books Read – 3
  • Currently Reading – 4
  • TBR – 155
  • Fiction – 1 (33.34%)
  • Non-Fiction – 2 (66.66%)
  • Male Author – 2 (66.66%)
  • Female Author – 1 (33.34%)
  • Multiple Authors – 0 (0%)
  • Paperback – 3 (100%)
  • Hardback – 0 (0%)
  • eBook – 0 (0%)
  • Audiobook – 0 (0%)
  • Total Pages Read – 770
  • Average Pages Per Book – 256.66
  • Hours Listened – 0
  • Average Star Rating – 3.66