March 2026 Books Read: 19

Spellbound - Georgia Leighton

Strange Houses - Uketsu

Message Deleted - K L Slater

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

Two Rivers - T Greenwood

Oblivious - Neil Schiller

The Book Of Lost Hours - Hayley Gelfuso

Where There's Smoke - Jodi Picoult

The Goodbye Man - Jeffery Deaver

The Mysterious Affair At Styles - Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie

The Murder On The Links - Agatha Christie

Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie

Murder By The Book - M R G Davies

The Alpine Retreat - Sarah Goodwin

The Appeal - Janice Hallett

How To Kill A Crime Writer - Sarah Lotz

The Twyford Code - Janice Hallett

A Game Of Murder - M R G Davies

Currently Reading: The Man In The Brown Suit - Agatha Christie

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February 2026 Books Read: 17

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

No Place To Hide - Rebecca Griffiths

Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson

The Motel - Nancy Savage

The Lucky Winners - K L Slater

Dust - Arthur Slade

Snowdrops - A D Miller

*Locker 19 - J Cronshaw

The Last Trip - Rowan Chambers

The Burning Stones - Antti Tuomainen

Containment - Christian Cantrell

A Neighbour's Guide To Murder - Louise Candlish

The Society Of Unknowable Objects - Gareth Brown

The Never Game - Jeffery Deaver

The Life Of Chuck - Stephen King

The Martian - Andy Weir

Reacher: Killing Floor - Lee Child

Did Not Finish:

Island Builder - Andrew Karevik

2084 - Mason Engel

*Locker 19 by J Cronshaw was the first book that I began to suspect was AI generated part way through, and read to the end to confirm my suspicions. Then I went back to scrutinise other books I'd read recently.

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January 2026 Books Read: 23

Mickey 7 - Edward Ashton

Bullet Train - Kotaro Isako

Mr Mercedes - Stephen King

*The Night Before Christmas - Maria Frankland

Finders Keepers - Stephen King

The Winter Visitor - B P Walter

*The Winter Retreat - Maria Frankland

The Woman In The Opposite Window - Rose Hard

Friend Request - Laura Marshall

Dead Of Winter - Keri Beevis

*The Life I Had - Aaron Quinn

End Of Watch - Stephen King

The Christmas Party - Kathryn Croft

Everyone Here Is Lying - Shari Lapena

Two Truths One Lie - Alex Sinclair

Wish - Alexandra Bullen

The Perfect Wife - Hannah Price

Little Siberia - Antti Tuomainen

*I Don't Like Mondays - Maria Frankland

Seven Bodies - V J Randle

You Are Fatally Invited - Ande Pliego

Run Away - Harlan Coben

Anxious People - Fredrik Backman

Currently Reading: Island Builder - Andrew Karevik

* Aaron Quinn and Maria Frankland appear to produce AI-generated human-edited books very frequently.

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If you’re making 2026 book lists, I have a fantasy debut novel, a middle grade debut book, an Appalachian gothic weird horror novella, and a final entry in a Nebula nominated series!
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