Katheryn Thompson's Blog

What did you read in September?

I read 12 books in September, including Stone Yard Devotional and The Safekeep, which means I've now read all of this year's Booker shortlist. James by Percival Everett is my personal favourite, with Orbital by Samantha Harvey as my second choice. I enjoyed everything I read in September, but my book of the month is The Undetectables. You can read all my reviews by clicking on the titles below:

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Passions in Death by J. D. Robb
The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth

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Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Blackout, written by Ragnar Jónasson and translated by Quentin Bates
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Crooked House by Agatha Christie
Jaded by Ela Lee
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Family Meal by Bryan Washington

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This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

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What did you read in August?

I read 13 books in August, including 7 from the Booker longlist, and my book of the month was James by Percival Everett. You can read all my reviews by clicking on the titles below:

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Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
James by Percival Everett
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
My Friends by Hisham Matar

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The Voyage Home by Pat Barker
Look Up, Handsome by Jack Strange (out 26 September)
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (out 5 September)
Three Card Murder by J. L. Blackhurst
Snowblind, written by Ragnar Jónasson and translated by Quentin Bates
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

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Held by Anne Michaels
The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors by Hazel Graves (out 12 September)

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July was a great reading month for me. I read 9 books, and I really enjoyed all of them! You can read my reviews by clicking on the titles below.

What did you read in July?

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Hex and Hexability by Kate Johnson (out 12 September)
Upstairs at the Beresford by Will Carver
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Septology, written by Jon Fosse and translated by Damion Searls

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon (out 29 August)
Haunt Your Heart Out by Amber Roberts (out 10 October)
The Undead Complex by Courtney Smyth (out 24 September)
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

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What did you read in June?

Thanks to a few long train journeys, I managed to get through 11 books in June. Most of them were 4-star reads (which means I really liked them), but my book of the month was This Motherless Land, a retelling of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park from Nikki May, the author of Wahala. You can read all my reviews by clicking on the titles of the books below:

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This Motherless Land by Nikki May (out 18 July)

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On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
Kairos, written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated by Michael Hofmann
Not a River, written by Selva Almada and translated by Annie McDermott
Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood (out 19 September)
The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
Peggy, written by Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison (out 15 August)
The Beaver Theory, written by Antti Tuomainen and translated by David Hackston

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Entitlement by Rumaan Alam (out 17 September)
Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers by Ian Stewart
The Empusium, written by Olga Tokarczuk and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (out 26 September)

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What did you read in May? I had a great month, all four- and five-star reads, but my favourites were Small Worlds and Dr. No. You can read my reviews by clicking on the links below:

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Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Dr. No by Percival Everett
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi (out 3 October)

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Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery
Leave No Trace by Jo Callaghan
Spirit Level by Richy Craven
Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan (out 1 August)

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What did you read in April? I read 5 books, and my book of the month was Enter Ghost, which has been shortlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. You can read all of my reviews by clicking on the titles below:

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Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

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The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
The Chamber by Will Dean (out 6 June)
Company by Shannon Sanders (out 2 May)

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Time Shelter, written by Georgi Gospodinov and translated by Angela Rodel

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What did you read in March? I read 7 books - a mixture of old and new - and you can read my reviews by clicking on the titles below:

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Cross the Line by Simone Soltani (out 23 May)
The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota (out 24 April)

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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Profile K by Helen Fields (out 25 April)

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Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell (out 4 July)
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

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What did you read in February?

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Say You'll Be My Jaan by Naina Kumar
Random in Death by J. D. Robb

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The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue (out 23 May)
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Death at the Sanatorium, written by Ragnar Jónasson and translated by Victoria Cribb (out 22 August)
Think Twice by Harlan Coben (out 23 May)

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Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama edited by Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda
Butter, written by Asako Yuzuki and translated by Polly Barton

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What did you read in January?

I read 7 books last month, and you can read my reviews by clicking on the links below:

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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (translated by John E. Woods)

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Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
Night-Time Is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark (reread)
Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays by Hailey Bachrach
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (out 4 April)
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

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What did you read in December?

I read 12 books last month, and you can read my reviews by clicking on the titles below:

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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: a Psychiatrist's Life by Dr Benji Waterhouse (out 16 May)
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
Silent Night by Mary Higgins Clark (reread)
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette)

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Shakespeare's Props: Memory and Cognition by Sophie Duncan
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark (reread)
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto (trans. Jesse Kirkwood)
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee (illustrated by Petra Eriksson)

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The Crow Road by Iain Banks

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