I limited myself to 100, but went up to 115. Oops! Got to work on more writing of my own. I've taken off the extra 15 from this list so it's a neat 100. So these are my favourites, I suppose...
I’ve written about some of these in my blogs from 2020 and 2021, but particularly enjoyed the memoirs by Grace Dent and Pete Paphides, which I didn’t quite catch on their release in 2020 but loved reading this year. I love this pic below (from Wix) because it looks like me and my bookshelves, but grey rather than dark blue. I'm crazy about our re-done bookshelves, built by my Dad a few years ago and painted by our wonderful local handyman George for our little starter home...
The Road Trip - Beth O’Leary
Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny
Single, Carefree, Mellow - Katherine Heiny
The Wife who Got a Life - Tracy Bloom
Coming Out Stories - ed. Emma Goswell
Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason
Lullaby Beach - Stella Duffy
The Hungover Games - Sophie Heawood
Bright Burning Things - Lisa Harding
Diary of a Film - Niven Govinden
Let’s Do It - (the biography of Victoria Wood) - Jasper Rees
The Secret Bridesmaid - Katy Birchall
Last Night - Mhairi McFarlane
People like Her - Ellery Lloyd
Hungry - Grace Dent
In the End it was All about Love - Musa Okwonga
The Wedding Party - Tammy Cohen
Until Next Weekend - Rachel Marks
Queen Bee - Jane Fallon
The Engagements - J Courtney Sullivan
No Such Thing as Perfect - Emma Hughes
All Adults Here - Emma Straub
The Answer to Everything - Luke Kennard
Lessons in Love and other Crimes - Elizabeth Chakrabarty
Last one at the Party - Bethany Clift
Unbreak my Heart- Katie Marsh
Uncoupling - Lorraine Brown
Nothing I Wouldn’t Do - Sara-Ella Ozbek
Delicacy - Katy Wix
Magpie - Elizabeth Day
The Madness of Grief - Revd. Richard Coles
Gay Bar - Why we went out- Jeremy Atherton Lin
Handmade - Anna Ploszajski
That Summer - Jennifer Weiner
Just Haven’t Met You Yet - Sophie Cousens
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle - Matt Cain
The Startup Wife - Tahmima Anam
We are Not like Them - Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
The End of Men - Christine Sweeney-Baird
Variations- Juliet Jacques
All the Things She Said - Daisy Jones
Sunrise on the Sea - Jenny Colgan
Would I Lie to You? - Aliya Ali-Afzal
Pizza Girl - Jean Kyoung Frazier
The Way it Breaks - Polis Loizou
The Night she Disappeared - Lisa Jewell
That Jewish Thing - Amber Crewe
Patience - Victoria Scott
The House Swap - Olivia Beirne
Underbelly - Anna Whitehouse
How We Met - Huma Qureshi
The Turnout - Megan Abbott
That Green Eyed Girl - Julie Moylan
Should We Stay or Should we Go - Lionel Shriver
He’s Cancelled - Sophie Ranald
Is This It? - Hannah Tovey
Writers and Lovers - Lily King
Broken Greek - Pete Paphides
Afraid of the Light - Douglas Kennedy
On a Night like This - Lindsey Kelk
The Stranding - Kate Sawyer
The Editor’s Wife - Clare Chambers
Memphis - Tara M Stringfellow
Are We Having Fun Yet? - Lucy Mangan
Stepping Up - Sarah Turner
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Impossible - Sarah Lotz
Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake - Alexis Hall
Reclaiming Asia Wevill - Julie Goodman-Chadwick
M is for Mummy - Katy Cox
Aisling and the City - Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
Yinka, Where is your Huzband? - Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
What Might Have Been - Holly Miller
The Herd - Emily Edwards
The Silent Stars Go By - Sally Nicholls
Welcome to Your Life - Bethany Rutter
Other Parents - Sarah Stovell
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw
Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
Square One - Nell Frizzell
The Multi Hyphen Method - Emma Gannon
The Poet - Louisa Reid
Surge - Jay Bernard
The Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan
Several People are Typing - Calvin Kasulke
The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan
Idol - Louise O’Neill
Single Bald Female - Laura Price
Worst Idea Ever - Jane Fallon
The Matzah Ball - Jean Meltzer
The Heights - Louise Candlish
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting - Sophie Irwin
At the Table - Claire Powell
A Narrow Door - Joanne Harris
I’m Sorry You Feel That Way - Rebecca Wait
Loved and Missed - Susie Boyt
A Still Life - Josie George
These Precious Days - Ann Patchett
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