Favourite Books of 2021
To give this some context - I read 125 books in 2021. 100 of these were fiction and 25 non-fiction - I think this is more heavy on the fiction than usual, but I did a lot of comfort reading and re-reading last year which has made the difference. I re-read a lot of books I'd read before (almost the whole of PD James's Adam Dalgliesh series) and also read 28 Agatha Christie books - many I'd read before, but some I definitely hadn't. I've narrowed it down to 20 books - mostly in the order I read them. 1. A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie I re-read the entire Miss Marple series, having not done so for probably 20 years, and they were all good - Miss Marple is probably one of my favourite fictional characters. It was hard to choose a favourite, but I went with this one - the setting is great, and I like the character of Mr Rafiel a lot. 2. Dead Beat - Val McDermid I read the whole Kate Brannigan series, and the whole Lindsay Gordon series, neither of which I'd e...