Six in Six: The 2024 Edition

Published on by Margaret

I’m pleased to see that Jo at The Book Jotter  is running this meme again this year to summarise the first six months of reading, sorting the books into six categories – you can choose from the ones Jo suggests or come up with your own. Or if you want to do a shorter version, then just post something about six books you have read in the first six months of 2024.

I think it’s a good way to look back over the last six months’ reading. As I’ve been reading less than usual this year (30 books in the first six months) I’ve had to use some of the books in more than one category. And as I’ve been reviewing less I haven’t written posts about all the books. Where they exist the links take you to my posts on the books, and some are just short posts, not reviews.

Six Crime Fiction

  1. The Hog’s Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts
  2. I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
  3. Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes
  4. The Flower Arranger at All Saints by Lis Howell
  5. Indefensible by James Woolf
  6. The Hunter by Tana French

Six Authors New to me

  1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  2. Maiden Voyages by Sian Evans
  3. Everything is Everything by Clive Myrie
  4. A Murder of Crows by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
  5. Great Meadow by Dirk Bogarde
  6. Black Roses by Jane Thynne

Six books set in a country other than my own

  1. The Hunter by Tana French
  2. Nero by Conn Iggulden
  3. Black Roses by Jane Thynne
  4. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  5. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
  6. Road Ends by Mary Lawson

Six Books I Read from My To Be Read List

  1. The Invisible Man by H G Wells
  2. The Fledgeling by Frances Faviell
  3. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
  4. The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe
  5. Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench, Brendan O’Hea
  6. The Innocent by M R Hall

Six books I have read but not reviewed (yet)

  1. You Are Dead by Peter James
  2. Past Lying by Val McDermid
  3. The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware
  4. The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre
  5. Cut and Thirst by Margaret Attwood
  6. In the Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill

Six books recently added to my wish list

  1. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
  2. The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
  3. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
  4. Troy by Stephen Fry
  5. The Well-Lived Life by Dr. Gladys McGarey 
  6. Trouble in Nuala by Harriet Steel

How is your reading going this year? Do let me know if you take part in Six in Six too

9 thoughts on “Six in Six: The 2024 Edition”

  1. I really enjoyed The Silence Between Breaths last week and love the Karen Pirie series I’ll be interested to see what you thought about The Cracked Mirror. It definitely wasn’t what I was expecting

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  3. I really like this meme, Margaret. It is, as you say, a good way to look back over one’s reading for the first half of the year. You have some fantastic choices here, too. I was glad to see <i>Trouble in Nuala </i> on your list. Steel is a talented writer, and I don’t think her series gets the attention it deserves.

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  4. I haven’t done this but The Marriage Portrait on my TBR and soon to be indulged, I just finished The Hand That First Held Mine also by Maggie O’Farrell and it was totally gripping, quite different to Hamnet, I’m looking forward to reading more of her backlist.

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