Good morning everyone! It is nearly the weekend. Today's post is my New Year To Be Read Pile Edition. I tend to do 2 of these posts in a year, one at the start of the year, and one in Autumn. It helps with my monthly reading wrap-ups as I never know how many books I have. Does anybody else do this? I know the second this post is published, I will end up buying another book. Plus I have a birthday at the end of the month, so hopefully the list will get bigger. hehehe

In case you have missed any of the previous lists, I have popped them below!

• My 2021 To Be Read Pile
• My Autumn 2021 To Be Read Pile
• My To Be Read Pile 2022 Edition
• My To Be Read Autumn 2022 Edition
• My To Be Read Pile Autumn 2023 Edition

(Not sure what happened to the early 2023 edition hahaha).

I've tried to group these in a different order to the previous editions, so let's get stuck in shall we?

Kindle Books (2 Books)

• The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden - I had great plans to read this last Autumn as it has all the atmospheric feels, sadly I failed. ho hum next Autumn it is then!
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - A BBC Big Read book here and I feel like I have been reading this book forever! Will it ever end?

To Be Read book pre-Christmas 2023 ( 18 Books )

• The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves - The First in the Vera Stanhope series. True story, my brother-in-law has juist appeared as an extra in the Vera TV series. He was a fisherman.
• Sycamore Gap by L.J.Ross - Second in the DCI Ryan series. Do not get me started on the idiots who desecrated Sycamore Gap
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - The next in the Hercule Poirot books, I've unexpectedly been reading them in order.
• The Mysterious Mr. Badman by W.F.Harvey - This is a Yorkshire Bibliomystery! Can't wait.
• One for the Money by Janet Evanovich - The first in the Stephanie Plum series, a series guaranteed to have me snorting tea out of my nose in laughter.
• Emily Davis by Miss Read - The next one for me in the wonderful Fairacre series.
• The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - Another BBC Big Read, I've got nearly as many of these as I have Christmas books.
• That Festive Feeling by Heidi Swain - How did I not manage to read this in the lead up to Christmas? This looks lovely. .
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett - Loved The Appeal and looking forward to reading this.
• The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson - Love, Love,Love this author.

To Be Read Books Christmas 2023 and Beyond (13 books)

• Christmas by Candlelight by Karen Swan - Gosh there do seem to be an awful lot of Christmas books in this particular section.
• The Widow's Choice by Nancy Revell - Phew! It isn't all Christmas books. Oh wait...
• The Railway Children by E.Nesbitt - Another BBC Big Read and a book I am ashamed to say I have never read.
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr - I saw this in my local branch of Waterstones and decided to treat myself. This is based on Judith's own experiences in escaping the Nazis.
• Tackle by Jilly Cooper - Complete guilty pleasure. I treated myself to this with some Christmas book tokens and cannot wait to find out the further exploits of Rupert Campbell-Black.

And that is the lot! 33 books. It is going to be an exciting 2024. I've loved listing my To Be Read pile. I want to read them all now (well, except for the Marquez maybe).