Jo at The Book Jotter  is running this meme again this year to summarise six months of reading, sorting the books into six categories ‘“ you can choose from the ones Jo suggests or come up with your own. The same book can obviously feature in more than one category.

Here is my version for 2015, with links to my posts on the books where appropriate. I’ve not listed the books in order of preference and some of the books could just as well fit into more than one category:

• Six books I loved

1. The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey
2. A Question of Identity by Susan Hill
3. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
4. Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers
5. Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves
6. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

• Six new authors to me:

1. The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley
2. Wreckage by Emily Bleeker
3. Turn of the Tide by Margaret Skea
4. The Lost Garden by Katharine Swartz
5. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
6. A Game For All the Family by Sophie Hannah

• Six authors I have read before

1. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
2. Dreamwalker by James Oswald
3. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
4. The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffith
5. Dacre’s War by Rosemary Goring
6. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers

• Six crime fiction books 

1. The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill
2. The Murder Room by P D James
3. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
4. Dry Bones That Dream by Peter Robinson
5. The Last Girl by Jane Casey
6. Gently North West by Alan Hunter

Six From the Non-Fiction Shelf

1. Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd. (Biography)
2. Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson Wright (Autobiography)
3. Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police by Carmen Bugan (Autobiography)
4. Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes (Memoir, philosophy, reflection on the fear of death, belief)
5. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Memoir, Falconry, Goshawk, T H White)
6. Poirot and Me by David Suchet (autobiography, Agatha Christie’s Poirot)

• Six authors I read last year ‘“ but not so far this year and their books that I have sitting on my shelves waiting to be read

1. John Steinbeck – Sweet Thursday
2. Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory
3. Frances Brody – A Medal for Murder
4. Isabel Allende – City of Beasts, The House of Spirits, The Sum of our Days
5. David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Joseph de Zoet
6. John Buchan – The Power House