📖 Book List ~ My Twelve in Twelve in 2021

 

As the end of my reading year approaches

 Here are my much anticipated 12 in 12 

Thanks to Jo at The Book Jotter who inspired this meme...

📖 Twelve authors who were new to me:

1. Julienne Brouwers - Double Deceit
2. Linda Tyler - The Laird's Secret 
3. Beth Morrey - Saving Missy
4. Tracey Bloom - The Wife Who Got A Life
5. Kate Hewitt - The Edelweiss Sisters
6. Rebecca Wait - Our Fathers 
7. Sharon Gosling - The House Beneath the Cliffs
8. Saima Mir - The Khan
9. Jessica Redland - Christmas Wishes at the Chocolate Shop
10. Julie Caplin - The Little Cottage in Ireland
11. Will Carver - Psychopaths Anonymous
12. Lori Ann Stephens - Blue Running

📖 Twelve authors I have read before:

1. Dorothy Koomson - All My Lies are True 
2. Helen Fields - Shadow Man 
3. Carol Cooper - The Girls from Alexandria
4. Sue Moorcroft - Under the Italian Sun
5. Susan Lewis - The Lost Hours 
6. Lisa Jewell - The Night She Disappeared
7. Barbara Erskine - The Dream Weavers 
8. Elaine Everest - The Patchwork Girls
9. Anna Belfrage - The Whirlpools of Time
10. Kathryn Hughes - The Memory Box
11. Fiona Veitch Smith - The Crystal Crypt
12. Christina Courtenay - Tempted by the Runes 

📖 Twelve books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. The Burning Girls - C J Tudor 
2. A Thing Called Love - Nell Carter
3. Mr Right Across the Street - Kathryn Freeman
4. The Sewing Room Girl - Susanna Bavin
5. Dead Ground - M W Craven
6. How to be Human - Louise Beech 
7. Cold Case in Nuala - Harriet Steel
8. Her Previous Self - Anne Allen
9. A Narrow Door - Joanna Harris
10. The Collector's Daughter - Gill Paul
11. The Forgotten Maid - Jane Cable
12. The Visitors - Caroline Scott 

📖 Twelve Audio Books I have enjoyed listening to:

1. Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
2. The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
3. Driftnet - Lin Anderson
4. Mudlarking - Lara Maiklem
5. The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
6. Buried - Lynda la Plante
7. The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi 
8. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur - Alka Joshi
9. The Cottingley Secret - Hazel Gaynor
10. Sycamore Gap - L J Ross
11. Torch - Lin Anderson
12. Seven Bridges - L J Ross

📖 Twelve books that surprised me.....in a good way:

1. The Appeal - Janice Allett 
2. The Lamplighters - Emma Stonex 
3. Clanlands - Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish 
4. The Girl at the Back of the Bus - Suzette D Harrison
5. Exit - Belinda Bauer 
6. Ariadne - Jennifer Saint 
7. Bombshell - Mike  Rothmiller and Douglas Thompson
8. Goshawk Summer - James Aldred
9. Deep in the Woods - Ruth Pavey
10. The Winter Garden - Alexandra Bell 
11. Tamesis Street - ShelterBox Books
12. B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils - Edward Carey

📖 Twelve books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

1. A Net for Small Fishes - Lucy Jago
2. The Drowned City - Karen Maitland
3. The Prophet - Martine Bailey
4. Mrs England - Stacey Hall
5. The Wolf Den - Elodie Harper
6. The Beloved Girls - Harriet Evans
7. A Woman Made of Snow- Elisabeth Gifford 
8. Cecily - Annie Garthwaite 
9. The Swift and the Harrier - Minette Walters 
10. The Surplus Girls' Orphans - Polly Heron
11. In the Shadow of Queens - Alison Weir
12. Christmas with the Railway Girls - Maisie Thomas 

📖 Twelve books that took me into a world of crime and psychological suspense:

1. Night Swim - Megan Goldin
2. The Dark Room - Sam Blake
3. The Whole Truth - Cara Hunter
4. Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller 
5. Condemned - R C Bridgestock
6. The Happy Family - Jackie Kabler
7. Catch as Catch Can - Malcolm Hollingdrake
8. The Killing Tide - Linn Anderson
9. Swindled - Sue Shepherd
10. Trick or Treat - Katerina Diamond
11. Double Pursuit - Alison Morton
12. The Quiet People - Paul Cleave

📖 Twelve books that took me on extraordinary journeys around the world:

1. Clanlands - Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish ( Scotland)
2. Three Weddings and A Proposal - Sheila O'Flanagan (Ireland)
   
3. The Museum of Desire - Jonathan Kellerman (USA)
4. Journey To Paradise - Paila Greenlees (Singapore)
5. The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi (India)
6. Those Hamilton Sisters - Averil Kenny ( Australia)
7. The Storyteller of Casablanca - Fiona Valpy (Morocco)
8. Song of The Nile - Hannah Fielding (Egypt)
9. Fresh water for Flowers - Valerie Perrin (France)
10. The Shanghai Wife - Emma Harcourt ( Shanghai)
11. A Woman made of Snow - Elisabeth Gifford ( Arctic)
12. The Spanish Book of Short Stories ( Spain)

📖 Twelve Books From Debut Authors :

1. The Sanatorium - Sarah Pearse 
2. Call Me Mummy  - Tina Baker 
3. The Plague Letters - V L Valentine 
4. Tall Bones - Anna Bailey -
5. Ariadne - Jennifer Saint 
6. In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced - Justine Bothwick
7. The Madwoman's Ball - Victoria Mas
8. The Lines between Us - Rebecca D'Harlingue
9. The Girl in the Maze - Cathy Hayward 
10. Cecily - Annie Garthwaite 
11. The Castilians - VEH Masters
12. Always, in December - Emily Stone 

📖 Twelve Books I bought for myself :

1. Clanlands - Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish
2. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
3. The Night Hawks - Elly Griffiths
4. The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow
5. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
6. Holy Island - L J Ross
7. The Cove - L J Ross
8. The Wolf Den - Elodie Harper
9. The Secret -Katerina Diamond
10. The Man in the Moss - Phil Rickman
11. A Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins
12. Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone - Diana Gabaldon

📖 Twelve Feel-Good Novels :

1. Coming Home to Brightwater Bay - Holly Hepburn
2. Home on Folly Farm - Jane Lovering 
3. The Cornish Midwife - Jo Bartlett
4. Primrose Park - Christie Barlow
5. Under the Italian Sky - Sue Moorcroft
6. Midsummer Magic at Miss Moonshine's Emporium - Authors on the Edge
7. Happy Days at Mermaid Cove - Marie Laval
8. The Country Village Christmas Fete - Cathy Lake
9. The Beach Reads Book - Kathryn Freeman
10. Falling for a French Dream - Jennifer Bohnet
11. The Rose Garden - Tracy Rees
12. A Special Cornish Christmas - Phillipa Ashley

📖 Twelve books I am looking forward to reading, and reviewing, in 2022:

1. Sapphire - Heather Burnside 
2. The Key in the Lock - Beth Underdown
3. Pandora - Susan Stokes Chapman
4. Love in a Time of War - Adrienne Chinn
5. The Keeper of Stories - Sally Page
6. Before We Grow Old - Clare Swatman
7. Elektra - Jennifer Saint
8. A Spring Surprise for the Cornish Midwife - Jo Bartlett
9. Where Blood Runs Cold - Giles Kristian
10. Outside - Ragnar Jonasson
11. The Paris Bookseller - Kerri Maher
12. The Hemlock Cure - Joanne Burns

To all the blog readers and book bloggers who support our blog in so many ways 

To all these talented authors for sharing the gift of your imagination with me and to the many publishers who continue to support Jaffareadstoo in so many generous ways.

Your books have taken me on the most wonderful armchair adventures 😊

Come back on the 31st December when I reveal the books I thought were truly special