So I’ve already talked about my favourite new releases of the first half 2023, so today I’m talking about my favourite books that I’ve read in the first six months of the year that aren’t fresh releases. And like the new releases post, this is a fairly easy one to write – because so many of them have been Books of the Week.
There are some similarities to the new books list – we’ve got a romance that features a famous person and a normal person in Nora Goes Off Script by Annabelle Monaghan and one with a fake relationship in The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren.
We’ve got some murder mysteries – The Three Dahlias by Katy Watson and Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davison which is the first of the Goldy Schultz series which is one of the two cozy series that I’ve discovered and binged this year, the other being Kate Carlisle’s Fixer Upper mysteries, which I’ve already read all of mostly because I bought the first nine as a job lot second hand and pre-ordered the tenth, whereas the Goldies are older and harder to get hold of.
And finally there’s a Girls Own book – The Cricket Term by Antonia Forest, which I just adored and wish I’d read at the right age back in the day because I would have really loved it, and it probably would have turned me on to the Peter Wimsey series earlier than I otherwise discovered them.
I’ve got such a huge pile of books to read before the end of the year I look forward to seeing what else makes it onto this list by the end of the year.
Have a great Saturday everyone.
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 