The Big Books and Series Binge Challenge

2023 seems to be my year of reading (or listening to) long books and bingeing on book series, so, when an online friend recently posted about her summer reading plans, she set me thinking about my own plans for the upcoming summer … only to end up deciding that I might just as well go on doing what I’ve been doing for the better part of the past several months anyway and make it a thing with a name to it.

So I had a look at the books of a length of at least 18 hours (roughly equivalent to 500 pages) on my “audio owned” TBR at the moment, as well as the authors represented there with at least two books (though often more than that), regardless whether stand-alone volumes or part of a series.  The result is an embarrassingly long list consisting of both new-to-me books and planned revisits, representing practically the whole range of genres; many of them part of the massive amounts of books that Audible.de made available for free last year and which I downloaded in two huge sweeps … all told, much more than I’ll possibly be able to catch up within the space of a single summer.

Still, as with my other ongoing reading challenges, I won’t be dropping everything else to pursue just this one challenge from now on; but I’ll make a point of including longer books and books from the “several owned volumes by the same author” category in my reading every so often; and I’ve also decided that I’ll only be allowed to add one long book — or a second, third etc. book by an author already represented on my audio TBR with at least one other entry — for every two books of the same category that I’ve actually listened to.

For the moment the challenge is limited to audiobooks, because that is where I seem to have the most pressing backlog while also seeming to make the fastest progress in finishing books, so that is the area where I’m expecting the most noticeable result.  If it works well, I may eventually extend it to print books as well; but that is a decision for another day.  I will be using this post to keep track on the books actually finished.

To start with — and in keeping with the theme of this challenge, though I began listening to this audio file before I’d thought of making this an actual reading challenge — I am currently listening to a 60-hour single audio file edition of all of Josephine Tey’s major mysteries; the six Alan Grant books plus Miss Pym Disposes and Brat Farrar.  This will be followed by a revisit of Andy Serkis’s narrations of Tolkien’s main Middle Earth books (The Hobbit and LOTR); admittedly not quite in keeping with the challenge as they are already marked “finished” in my Audible account, but (1) I’m feeling justified because the “big books and series binge” reading list does include Howard Carter’s biography of Tolkien and his book on the Inklings, and (2) this will make for a nice way of circling back to last year’s summer reading challenge, Adventures in Arda, and (3) I’ve recently been bingeing on the movies again already.  (And anyway, it’s my own challenge, so I get to make the rules … so there.)

The Books:

A

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah
• Akashic Noir:
  • Kingston Noir
  • London Noir
• Louisa May Alcott:
  • Little Women
  • Good Wives
  • Jack and Jill
  • A Whisper in the Dark
• Svetlana Alexievich: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
• David W. Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
• Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
• M.J. Arlidge: Six Degrees of Assassination (podcast series)
• Elizabeth von Arnim:
  • The Enchanted April
  • Love
• Robert Arthur, André Minninger et al: The Three Investigators (including German sequels)
  • 1. Die drei ??? und das Gespensterschloss (The Secret of Terror Castle)
  • 2. Die drei ??? und der Super-Papagei (The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot)
  • 8. Die drei ??? und die silberne Spinne (The Mystery of the Silver Spider)
  • 9. Die drei ??? und der seltsame Wecker (The Mystery of the Screaming Clock)
  • 11. Die drei ??? und der sprechende Totenkopf (The Mystery and the Talking Skull)
  • 13. Die drei ??? und die schwarze Katze (The Secret of the Crooked Cat)
  • 16. Die drei ??? und der rasende Löwe (The Mystery of the Nervous Lion)
  • 17. Die drei ??? und die singende Schlange (The Mystery of the Singing Serpent)
  • 23. Die drei ??? und der Karpatenhund (The Mystery of the Invisible Dog)
  • 42. Die drei ??? und das Gold der Wikinger (The Mystery of Wreckers’ Rock)
  • Die drei ??? und die sieben Tore (German series, #106)
  • Die drei ??? und der Hexengarten (German series, #183)
  • Die drei ??? und die Geisterlampe (German Specials, #1)
  • Das Rätsel der Sieben (German Specials, #4)
  • Die drei ??? und der schwarze Tag (German Specials, #12)
  • Die drei ??? und das versunkene Schiff (German Specials, TSE2#1)
• Jane Austen:
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Mansfield Park
  • Emma
  • Northanger Abbey
  • Persuasion
  • Companion literature:
    • Margaret C. Sullivan: The Jane Austen Handbook
    • Sue Wilkes: A Visitor’s Guide to Jane Austen’s England
    • Tom Keymer: Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction

B

• Nick Baker and John Woolf: The Halifax Slasher (podcast series)
• Leigh Bardugo:
  • Shadow of Bone (Grisha series, book 1)
  • Six of Crows (Six of Crows series, book 1)
• Pat Barker: The Women of Troy series
  • 1. The Silence of the Girls
  • 2. The Women of Troy
• Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
• Alan Bennett:
  • Talking Heads
  •  Plays: BBC radio dramatizations
    • 40 Years On
    • A Visit from Miss Prothero
    • Say Something Happened
    • Kafka’s Dick
    • Two in Torquay
    • The Madness of George III
    • The History Boys
    • An Englishman Abroad
    • A Question of Attribution
    • The Lady in the Van
    • Cocktail Sticks and the Last of the Sun
• E.F. Benson: The Complete Mapp and Lucia
  • Queen Lucia
  • Miss Map
  • Lucia in London
  • Mapp and Lucia
  • Lucia’s Progress
  • Trouble for Lucia
• R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone
• Elizabeth Bowen:
  • The Last September
  • The Heat of the Day
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon:
  • The Christmas Hirelings
  • Lady Audley’s Secret
• Christianna Brand: Inspector Cockrill
  • 1. Heads You Lose
  • 7. The Three-Cornered Halo
• Brontë Sisters:
  • Charlotte Brontë:
    • Jane Eyre
    • The Professor
  • Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
  • Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
  • Great Courses series: Deborah Morse: The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice
• Bill Bryson:
  • Bill Bryson’s Appliance of Science (podcast series)
  • In a Sunburned Country
  • A Walk in the Woods
• Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde:
  • West Cork (podcast series)
  • West Cork: Aftershow
• Alafair Burke:
  • Dead Connection (Ellie Hatcher, book 1)
  • Close Case (Samantha Kincaid, book 3)
• Fanny Burney:
  • Camilla
  • Evelina
• Gwendoline Butler:
  • John Coffin
    • 20. Coffin Underground
    • 23. Coffin on Murder Street
    • 24. Cracking Open a Coffin
    • 26. The Coffin Tree
    • 28. A Double Coffin
    • 30. A Grave Coffin
    • 34. Coffin Knows the Answer
• Paula Byrne: The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (cf. also Barbara Pym, below)

C

• Michael Caine:
  • Heroes (podcast series)
  • Heist (podcast series)
  • Gangs (podcast series)
• Jacqueline Carey: Kushiel’s Dart (Kushiel series, book 1)
• Robert A. Caro: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  • 1. The Path to Power
    2. Means of Ascent
    
  • 3. Master of the Senate
  • 4. The Passage of Power
• Humphrey Carpenter:
  • J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Inklings
• John Dickson Carr:
  • The Corpse in the Waxworks (Henri Bencolin, book 4)
  • Dr. Gideon Fell
    • 14. The Seat of the Scornful
    • 15. Till Death Do Us Part
• Willa Cather:
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • The Song of the Lark
  • O Pioneers!
• Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Elizabeth Chadwick:
  • The Summer Queen (Eleanor of Aquitaine, book 1)
  • William Marshal
    • 3. The Greatest Knight
    • 7. Templar Silks
• Agatha Christie:
  • Hercule Poirot
    • 25. Five Little Pigs
    • 44. Curtain
  • Miss Marple
    • 3. The Moving Finger
  • Tommy and Tuppence
    • 2. Partners in Crime
  • Ariadne Oliver
    • 5. The Pale Horse
  • Endless Night
  • An Autobiography
  • Writing as Mary Westmacott:
    • Unfinished Portrait
    • Absent in the Spring
    • The Burden
  • Great Courses series: Maureen Corrigan: The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
• Wilkie Collins:
  • The Moonstone
  • The Woman in White
  • The Two Destinies
• Arthur Conan Doyle:
  • Sherlock Holmes, Edward Hardwicke audios
    • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, parts 1 and 2
  • Sherlock Holmes, Derek Jacobi audios
    • • A Study in Scarlet
      • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
      • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
      • The Hound of the Baskervilles
      • The Valley of Fear
      • The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Lost World (Professor Challenger, book 1)
  • Great Courses series: James Krasner: Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary
• Joseph Conrad:
  • Victory
  • Lord Jim
  • The Inn of the Two Witches
• Michael Connelly:
  • The Wonderland Murders & the Secret History of Hollywood (podcast series)
  • Murder Book (podcast series)
  • Crime Beat: Stories of Cops and Killers
  • The Black Book (Harry Bosch, book 1)
• Stewart Copeland: My Dad the Spy (podcast series)
• Matthew Costello and Neil Richards:
  • Cherringham
  • Mydworth Mysteries
• Ruth Cowen: Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch (podcast series)
• Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French
  • 6. Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
  • 17. Antidote to Venom
• Noël Coward:
  • Fallen Angels
  • BBC Radio Drama Collection:
    • Private Lives
    • Hay Fever
    • Blithe Spirit
    • Design for Living
    • The Vortex
    • Still Life
    • Present Laughter
    • Meridian: Noël Coward profile
    • Excerpts from Noël Coward’s diaries

D

• Edwidge Danticat:
  • Breath, Eyes, Memory
  • Krik? Krak!
• Charles Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle
• Mark Dawson:
  • Group Fifteen Files
    • Prequel: The Vault
    • 1. Scorpion
  • Atticus Priest
    • 1. The House in the Woods
    • 2. A Place to Bury Strangers
• Jeffrey Deaver: Lincoln Rhyme
  • 1. The Bone Collector
  • 7. The Cold Moon
• Len Deighton:
  • The IPCRESS File (Harry Palmer, book 1)
  • Mexico Set (Game – Set – Match Trilogy, book 2)
• Joe Derrick: Radioman (podcast series)
• Colin Dexter: Inspector Morse
  • 4. Service of All the Dead
  • 7. The Secret of Annexe 3
• Jared Diamond: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
• Michael Dibdin: Aurelio Zen
  • 1. Ratking
  • 2. Vendetta
• Philip K. Dick:
  • Minority Report and Other Stories
  • Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
• Charles Dickens:
  • Nicholas Nickleby
  • Little Dorrit
  • Oliver Twist
  • Martin Chuzzlewit
  • The Pickwick Papers
  • Bleak House
  • A Tale of two Cities
  • A Christmas Carol
  • David Copperfield
  • Hard Times
  • Great Expectations
• Paul Doherty:
  • Dark Serpent (Hugh Corbett series, book 18)
  • The Straw Men (Brother Athelstan series, book 12)
• Emma Donoghue:
  • The Sealed Letter
  • Life Mask
  • Frog Music
  • Kissing the Witch
• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
• Alexandre Dumas: The Musketeers
  • 1. The Three Musketeers
  • 2. Twenty Years After
• Sarah Dunant:
  • The Birth of Venus
  • Blood and Beauty
• Dorothy Dunnett: Queen’s Play (Lymond Chronicles, book 2)

E

• Martin Edwards:
  • The Cipher Garden (Lake District series, book 2)
  • Mortmain Hall (Rachel Savernake, book 2)
  • The Life of Crime
  • BLCC anthologies
    • Capital Crimes 
    • The Edinburgh Mystery and Other Tales of Scottish Crime
    • Murder by the Book
• George Eliot:
  • The Mill on the Floss
  • Middlemarch
  • Silas Marner
• James Ellroy: Hollywood Death Trip (podcast series)
• Ben Elton:
  • The First Casualty
  • Identity Crisis

F

• J.G. Farrell:
  • The Siege of Krishnapur
  • The Singapore Grip
• Lion Feuchtwanger: Wartesaal-Trilogie
  • 1. Erfolg
  • 2. Die Geschwister Oppermann
  • 3. Exil
• Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor: Unlicensed (podcast series)
• Sebastian Fitzek and Vinceent Kliesch: Auris (audio dramatization podcast series)
• Judith Flanders: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
• Ian Fleming: James Bond
  • 3. Moonraker
  • 7. Goldfinger
  • 8. For Your Eyes Only and Other Stories
  • 11. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
• Jessica Fletcher (Donald Bain, Jon Land, Terrie Moran): Murder, She Wrote
  • 33. Nashville Noir
  • 34. The Queen’s Jewels
  • 35. Skating on Thin Ice
  • 36. The Fine Art of Murder
  • 37. Trouble at High Tide
  • 38. Domestic Malice
  • 39. Prescription for Murder
  • 40. Close-Up for Murder
  • 41. Aloha Betrayed
  • 42. Death of a Blue Blood
  • 43. Killer in the Kitchen
  • 44. The Ghost and Mrs. Fletcher
  • 45. Design for Murder
  • 46. Hook, Line, and Murder
  • 47. A Date with Murder
  • 52. Murder in Season
  • 54. Debonair in Death
• Theodor Fontane: Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
• Ken Follett:
  • A Dangerous Fortune
  • The Man from St. Petersburg
  • Eye of the Needle
  • Kingsbridge
    • Prequel: The Evening and the Morning
    • 1. The Pillars of the Earth
    • 2. World Without End
    • 3. A Column of Fire
• Ford Madox Ford:
  • Parade’s End
  • The Good Soldier
• C.S. Forester:
  • Payment Deferred
  • Plain Murder
• E.M. Forster:
  • Howards End
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread
• Tana French: Broken Harbour
• Rob Fresco: KOZ (podcast series)
• Stephen Fry:
  • The Liar
  • Heroes (Mythology, book 2)
  • Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets (podcast series)
  • Stephen Fry’s Secrets of the Roaring 20s (podcast series)

G

• Robert Galbraith: Cormoran Strike
  • 5. Troubled Blood
  • 6. The Ink Black Heart
• Paul Gallico: Mrs Harris
  • 1. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
  • 2. Mrs Harris Goes to New York
• John Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga
  • 1. The Man of Property
  • 1.5 Indian Summer of a Forsyte (interlude)
  • 2. In Chancery
  • 2.5 Awakening (interlude)
  • 3. To Let
• Gabriel García Márquez:
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores
• Elizabeth Gaskell:
  • North and South
  • Wives and Daughters
  • Ruth
• Joachim Gauck:
  • Winter im Sommer – Frühling im Herbst
  • Nicht den Ängsten folgen, den Mut wählen: Denkstationen eines Bürgers
• Elizabeth George: Inspector Lynley
  • 12. A Place of Hiding
  • 14. What Came Before He Shot Her
  • 16. This Body of Death
  • 17. Believing the Lie
• Michael Gilbert:
  • Death Has Deep Roots (Inspector Hazelrigg, book 5)
  • Death in Captivity
• Robert Goddard:
  • The Ways of the World (James Maxted series, book 1)
  • Sea Change
• Al Gore:
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • The Assault on Reason
• Caroline Graham: Midsomer Murders
  • 4. Written in Blood
  • 5. Faithful unto Death
• Katharine Graham: Personal History
• Robert Graves: Claudius
  • 1. I, Claudius
  • 2. Claudius the God
• The Great Courses series
  • James Krasner: Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Ordinary
  • Jennifer Paxton: 1066: The Year That Changed Everything
    [Other books to be added when read]
• Anna Katharine Green: The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries
  • 1. That Affair Next Door
  • 2. Lost Man’s Lane
  • 3. The Circular Study
• Graham Greene:
  • Travels with My Aunt
  • The Confidential Agent
• Elly Griffiths:
  • The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway series, book 2)
  • The Plot Thickens (podcast series)

H

• Hella S. Haasse: In a Dark Wood Wandering
• Nino Haratischwili: Die Katze und der General
• Thomas Hardy:
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  • The Return of the Native
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Under the Greenwood Tree
• Robert Harris:
  • Enigrma
  • Pompeii
  • Cicero
    • 2. Lustrum
    • 3. Dictator
• Jaroslav Hašek: The Good Soldier Švejk
• Natalie Haynes:
  • A Thousand Ships
  • Pandora’s Jar
• Georgette Heyer:
  • A Civil Contract
  • The Talisman Ring
• David Hewson:
  • The Medici Murders (Venetian Mysteries, book 1)
  • The Garden of the Angels
• E.T.A. Hoffmann: Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr
• Paul Holes, Peter McDonnell, Jim Clemente: A Devil in the Valley (podcast series)
• Tom Holland: 
  • Persian Fire
  • Rubicon
• Anthony Horowitz:
  • The Word Is Murder (Hawthorne and Horowitz, book 1)
  • The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes pastiches, book 1)

I

• Conn Iggulden:
  • Stormbird (The Wars of the Roses, book 1)
  • Dunstan
• Henrik Ibsen: Audible Theatre Collection
  • Hedda Gabler
  • A Doll’s House
  • An Enemy of the People
• Michael Innes: Inspector Appleby
  • 2. Hamlet, Revenge!
  • 8. The Daffodil Affair

J

• Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings
• Michael Jecks:
  • Rebellion’s Message (Bloody Mary series, book 1)
  • Knights Templar
    • 16. The Outlaws of Ennor
    • 20. A Friar’s Bloodfeud
    • 21. The Death Ship of Dartmouth
    • 23. Dispensation of Death
    • 24. The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover
    • 25. The Prophecy of Death
    • 27. No Law in the Land
    • 28. The Bishop Must Die
• Dan Jones:
  • Magna Carta
  • The Templars
  • Crusaders
  • The Plantagenets
• Mike Jones and Mike Cowap: The Orchard (podcast series)
• Robert Jordan: The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, book 1)
• James Joyce:
  • Dubliners
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

K

• Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan
• Navid Kermani:
  • Reden für die Freiheit
  • Ausnahmezustand: Reisen in eine beunruhigte Welt
• Stephen King:
  • 11/22/63
  • The Eyes of the Dragon
• T. Kingfisher: The Saint of Steel
  • 1. Paladin’s Grace
  • 2. Paladin’s Strength
  • 3. Paladin’s Hope
• Rudyard Kipling:
  • The Jungle Book
    • The Mowgli Stories
    • BBC dramatization
  • Captains Courageous
  • Kim

L

• William Least Heat-Moon: Blue Highways: A Journey into America
• John Le Carré:
  • Absolute Friends
  • Our Kind of Traitor
  • The Little Drummer Girl
  • The Russia House
  • The Tailor of Panama
  • George Smiley:
    • 6. The Honourable School Boy
    • 8. The Secret Pilgrim
  • George Smiley BBC Radio Dramas
    • 1. Call for the Dead
    • 2. A Murder of Quality
    • 3. The Spy Who Came in from the Dead
    • 4. The Looking Glass War
    • 5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    • 6. The Honourable Schoolboy
    • 7. Smiley’s People
    • 8. The Secret Pilgrim
• Ursula K. Le Guin:
  • Dancing at the Edge of the World
  • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, book 1)
• Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quixote
• Donna Leon: Guido Brunetti
  • 8. Fatal Remedies
  • 9. Friends in High Places
  • 22. The Golden Egg
• Michal Lev-Ram: Operation Firewall (podcast series)
• Sinclair Lewis:
  • Babbitt
  • It Can’t Happen Here
• Amy Licence:
  • Son of York
  • Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
• Charlotte Link: Sturmzeit-Trilogie
  • 1. Sturmzeit
  • 2. Wilde Lupinen
  • 3. Die Stunde der Erben
• E.C.R. Lorac: Inspector MacDonald
  • 11. Post After Post-Mortem
  • 24. Fell Murder
  • 27. Fire in the Thatch
  • 38. Crook o’Lune
• Mary S. Lovell: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

M

• Judith Mackrell: Flappers
• Nelson Mandela:
  • Long Walk to Freedom
  • The Lost Tapes (podcast series)
• Hilary Mantel:
  • Giving Up the Ghost
  • Mantel Pieces
  • Cromwell Trilogy
    • 1. Wolf Hall
    • 2. Bring Up the Bodies
    • 3. The Mirror and the Light
• Megan Marshall: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
• George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (eds.): Dangerous Women (anthology)
• W. Somerset Maugham:
  • The Moon and Sixpence
  • Of Human Bondage
• Anne McCaffrey: Pern
  • Dragonflight (The Dragonriders of Pern, book 1)
  • Dragonsong (Harper Hall of Pern, book 1)
• Carson McCullers:
  • The Ballad of the Sad Café
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • The Member of the Wedding
• Peter McDonnell and Josh Sanburn: Brooklyn North (podcast series)
• Michael McDowell: Blackwater
• Michael McGarrity:
  • Kevin Kerney
    • 2. Mexican Hat
    • 3. Serpent Gate
    • 4. Hermit’s Peak
    • 7. The Big Gamble
    • 8. Everyone Dies
• William McIlvanney:
  • The Dark Remains (finished by Ian Rankin)
  • Jack Laidlaw
    • 2. The Papers of Tony Veitch
    • 3. Strange Loyalties
• Robin McKinley: Damar
  • Prequel: The Hero and the Crown
  • 1. The Blue Sword
• Lois McMaster Bujold: The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods: Chalion, book 2)
• Francesca Melandri: Alle, außer mir
• Herman Melville:
  • Moby Dick
  • The Confidence-Man
  • Typee
• Terry Miles: Wildflowers (podcast series)
• Margaret Millar:
  • Beyond This Point Are Monsters
  • The Invisible Worm
  • Beast in View
  • The Listening Wall
  • Tom Aragon books
    • 2. The Murder of Miranda
    • 3. Mermaid
• David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
• Ian Mortimer: The Fears of Henry IV
• Kate Mosse: Labyrinth (Languedoc Trilogy, book 1)
• Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene: An Intimate History

N

• Azar Nafisi:
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran
  • Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
• Marguerite de Navarre: The Heptameron
• Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey: The Elvenbane (Halfblood Chronicles, book 1)
• Louis Nowra:
  • Beatrice Dark (podcast series)
  • The Goodbye Party
• Judy Nunn: Beneath the Southern Cross

O

• Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast (podcast series)
• Edna O’Brien:
  • Lantern Slides
  • House of Splendid Isolation
  • The Little Red Chairs
  • Country Girls Trilogy
    • 1. The Country Girls
    • 2. The Lonely Girl
    • 3. Girls in their Married Bliss
• Margaret Oliphant: BBC audio drama collection
  • Miss Marjoribanks
  • Phoebe Junior
  • Hester
• George Orwell:
  • Animal Farm
  • 1984
• Caroline Overington:
  • I Came to Say Goodbye
  • Looking for Eden
  • Sisters of Mercy

P

• Gillian Pachter: Killer Book Club (podcast series)
• Sara Paretsky: V.I. Warshawski
  • 6. Burn Marks
  • 8. Tunnel Vision
  • 8.5 Windy City Blues
  • 10. Total Recall
• Robert B. Parker: Spenser
  • 1. The Godwulf Manuscript
  • 29. Widow’s Walk
  • 33. School Days
  • 36. Rough Weather
  • 38. Painted Ladies
  • 39. Sixkill
• Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
• Vaishnavi Patel: Kaikeyi
• Jill Paton Walsh: Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane sequels
  • 2. A Presumption of Death
  • 3. The Attenbury Emeralds
• Sharon Kay Penman: The Land Beyond the Sea
• Andrea Penrose: Wrexford and Sloane
  • 1. Murder on Black Swan Lane
  • 2. Murder at Half Moon Gate
  • 5. Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
• Otto Penzler (ed.): mystery anthologies
  • The Big Book of Espionage
  • The Big Book of Female Detectives
  • The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
  • The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
• Anne Perry:
  • Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
    • 10. Bethlehem Road
    • 19. Bedford Square
    • 21. The Whitechapel Conspiracy
    • 22. Southampton Row
    • 23. Seven Dials
    • 24. Long Spoon Lane
    • 26. Treason at Lisson Grove
  • William Monk
    • 1. The Face of a Stranger
    • 4. A Sudden Fearful Death
    • 5. The Sins of the Wolf
• Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody
  • 2. The Curse of the Pharaohs
  • 3. The Mummy Case
  • 4. Lion in the Valley
  • 6. The Last Camel Died at Noon
  • 7. The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
  • 10. The Ape Who Guards the Balance
  • 11. The Falcon at the Portal
  • 12. He Shall Thunder in the Sky
• Jodi Picault:
  • A Spark of Light
  • Plain Truth
• Rosamunde Pilcher: September
• Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
  • 1. A Question of Upbringing
  • 2. A Buyer’s Market
  • 3. The Acceptance World
• Terry Pratchett:
  • A Slip of the Keyboard
  • A Blink of the Scren
  • Nation
  • Discworld
    • 3. Equal Rites
    • 6. Wyrd Sisters
    • 12. Witches Abroad
    • 13. Small Gods
    • 14. Lords and Ladies
    • 15. Men at Arms
    • 16. Soul Music
    • 17. Interesting Times
    • 18. Maskerade
    • 19. Feet of Clay
    • 20. Hogfather
    • 21. Jingo
    • 23. Carpe Jugulum
    • BBC Radio Drama Collection
      • 4. Mort
      • 6. Wyrd Sisters
      • 8. Guards! Guards!
      • 9. Eric
      • 13. Small Gods
      • 29. Night Watch
      • bonus: Johnny Maxwell – Only You can Save Mankind (book 1)
• Steven Price: By Gaslight
• Marcel Proust: Swann’s Way (Remembrance of Things Past, book 1)
• Barbara Pym:
  • Less Than Angels
  • A Glass of Blessings
  • Some Tame Gazelle
  • Jane and Prudence

Q

R

• Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
• Ian Rankin:
  • Tooth and Nail (John Rebus, book 3)
  • Watchman
  • Westwind
  • Rebus Audio Box Set 1: The First 10 Rebus Stories
    • 1. Knots and Crosses
    • 2. Hide and Seek
    • 3. Tooth and Nail
    • 4. Strip Jack
    • 5. The Black Book
    • 6. Mortal Causes
    • 7. Let It Bleed
    • 8. Black and Blue
    • 9. The Hanging Garden
    • 10. Dead Souls
  • Rebus Audio Box Set 2: 7 Inspector Rebus Audiobooks
    • 11. Set in Darkness
    • 12. The Falls
    • 13. Resurrection Men
    • 14. A Question of Blood
    • 15. Fleshmarket Close + bonus author interview
    • 16. The Naming of the Dead
    • 17. Exit Music
• Dan Rather:
  • Stories of a Lifetime
  • Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News
• Ruth Rendell:
  • A Dark Blue Perfume and Other Stories
  • A Demon in My View
  • A Sight for Sore Eyes
  • An Unkindness of Ravens
  • Thirteen Steps Down
  • Inspector Wexford
    • 5. A Guilty Thing Surprised
    • 8. Some Lie and Some Die
    • 9. Shake Hands Forever
    • 12. The Speaker of Mandarin
    • 16. Simisola
    • 17. Road Rage
    • 18. Harm Done
    • 20. End in Tears
• Danny Robbins: Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash’s Greatest Album (podcast series)
• Jennifer Roberson: Tiger and Del
  • 1. Sword-Dancer
  • 2. Sword-Singer
• Carolina De Robertis: The Invisible Mountain
• Peter Robinson: Inspector Banks
  • 1. Gallows View
  • 6. Wednesday’s Child
• S.J. Rozan: Lydia Chin and Bill Smith
  • 2. Concourse
  • 8. Winter and Night
  • 12. Paper Son
• Edward Rutherford: Sarum

S

• José Saramago:
  • Baltasar and Blimunda
  • The History of the Siege of Lisbon
• Dorothy L. Sayers:
  • The Man Born to Be King
  • The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (anthology, ed.)
• Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
• Lisa Scottoline: Rosato & Associates
  •  1. Everywhere That Mary Went
  • 2. Legal Tender
• Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift
• Diane Setterfield:
  • The Thirteenth Tale
  • Once Upon a River
• William Shakespeare:
  • Argo Classics Complete Works collection (all 37 plays)
  • Classic Love Poems
  • Love’s Labours Lost
  • Henry V
  • Hamlet
  • King Lear
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Living in a Shakespearean World (audio anthology)
• Amal Singh: His Majesty’s Tiger (podcast series)
• Jane Smiley: The Greenlanders
• Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
• Zadie Smith: White Teeth
• Cath Staincliffe: Scott & Bailey
  • 1. Dead to Me
  • 2. Bleed Like Me
• S. Frederick Starr: Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
• Wallace Stegner: The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Bruce Mason, book 1)
• John Steinbeck: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
• Robert Louis Stevenson:
  • Treasure Island
  • Kidnapped
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, and Bram Stoker:
  • The Monster Collection
    • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    • Frankenstein
    • Dracula
• Mary Stewart:
  • The Last Enchantment (Merlin, book 3)
  • This Rough Magic
• Bram Stoker: Dracula
• Michael J. Sullivan:  
  • Riyria Revelations
    • 1. / 2. Theft of Swords
      • 1. The Crown Conspiracy
      • 2. Avempartha
    • 3./ 4. Rise of Empire
      • 3. Nyphron Rising
      • 4. The Emerald Storm
    • 5./ 6. Heir of Novron
      • 5. Wintertide
      • 6. Percepliquis
  • Riyria Chronicles 
    • 1. The Crown Tower
    • 1.5 The Viscount and the Witch
    • 2.5 The Jester
    • 2.6 Professional Integrity
  • Legends of the First Empire
    • 1. Age of Myth
    • 2. Age of Swords
    • 3. Age of War
    • 4. Age of Legend
    • 5. Age of Death
    • 6. Age of Empyre

T

• Tacitus: The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
• Judith Tarr:
  • Alamut (Alamut, book 1)
  • White Mare’s Daughter (Epona, book 1)
• Donna Tartt:
  • The Little Friend
  • The Secret History
• Walter Tevis: Eddie Felson books
  • 1. The Hustler
  • 2. The Color of Money
• Josephine Tey:
  • Miss Pym Disposes
  • Brat Farrar
  • Alan Grant series
    • 1. The Man in the Queue
    • 2. A Shilling for Candles
    • 3. The Franchise Affair
    • 4. To Love and Be Wise
    • 5. The Daughter of Time
    • 6. The Singing Sands
• Daniel Thomsen and Jeff Baker: Killing Hollywood: The Cotton Club Murder (podcast series)
• Colm Tóibín:
  • House of Names
  • The Master
  • The Magician
• Leo Tolstoy:
  • Anna Karenina
  • War and Peace
• Sylvia Townsend Warner:
  • Lolly Willowes
  • The Corner That Held Them
• Giles Tremlett: Isabella of Castile
• Anthony Trollope:
  • The Way We Live Now
  • The Pallisers
    • 1. Can You Forgive Her?
    • 2. Phineas Finn
    • 3. The Eustace Diamonds
    • 4. Phineas Redux
    • 5. The Prime Minister
    • 6. The Duke’s Children
  • The Chronicles of Barsetshire
    • 1. The Warden
    • 2. Barchester Towers
    • 3. Doctor Thorne
    • 4. Framley Parsonage
    • 5. The Small House at Allington
    • 6. The Last Chronicle of Barset
    • + audio dramatization of the whole series
• Scott Turow:
  • Personal Injuries
    Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
• Mark Twain:
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

U

V

• Various Authors: The Secret Diaries of Detective Murdoch (podcast series)
• Various Authors: Origins (podcast series)
• Jules Verne:
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Barbara Vine:
  • Asta’s Book
  • A Dark-Adapted Eye

W

• Wendy Walker:
  • American Girl
  • Hold Your Breath
• Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
• Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests
• Alison Weir: Henry VIII: King and Court
• H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection
  • The War of the Worlds
  • The First Men in the Moon
  • The Time Machine
  • The Invisible Man
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Martha Wells: Murderbot Diaries
  • 2. Artificial Condition
  • 3. Rogue Protocol
  • 4. Exit Strategy
  • 5. Network Effect
  • 6. Fugitive Telemetry
• Patricia Wentworth:
  • The Amazing Chance
  • The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith
  • The Girl in the Cellar (Miss Silver, book 32)
• Edith Wharton:
  • The House of Mirth
  • The Age of Innocence
  • In Morocco
  • False Dawn
• Ulrich Wickert: Jacques Ricou
  • 2. Die Wüstenkönigin
  • 5. Das marokkanische Mädchen
• Oscar Wilde:
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and other Stories
  • BBC Radio Drama Collection
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    • Lady Windermere’s Fan
    • A Woman of No Importance
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • An Ideal Husband
    • De Profundis
    • The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    • Letters
    • Bonus drama: Neil Bartlett: In Extremis
• R.D. Wingfield: Inspector Frost
  • 1. Frost at Christmas
  • 5. Winter Frost
  • 6. A Killing Frost
• P.G. Wodehouse:
  • The Jeeves Collection
    • 1. The Inimitable Jeeves
    • 2. Carry On Jeeves
    • 5. Right-Ho Jeeves
    • 6. The Code of the Woosters
    • 7. Joy in the Morning
  • The Blandings Collection
    • 3. Summer Lightning
    • 4. Heavy Weather
    • 5. Uncle Fred in the Spring Time
    • Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (short stories)
    • Lord Emsworth and Others (short story)
  • Laughing Gas
  • Jeeves & Wooster: The Collected Radio Dramas
    • 1. The Inimitable Jeeves
    • 5. Right Ho, Jeeves
    • 6. The Code of the Woosters
    • 7. Joy in the Morning
    • 10. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    • 12. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
• Bob Woodward:
  • The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat
  • The Last of the President’s Men
• Virginia Woolf:
  • The Waves
  • To the Lighthouse
  • Mrs Dalloway
  • The Mark on the Wall (short story)
  • A Society (short story)
  • The Virginia Woolf Collection
    • Mrs Dalloway
    • To the Lighthouse
    • A Room of One’s Own
    • The Waves
• Andrea Wulf:
  • Magnificent Rebels
  • The Invention of Nature
• John Wyndham:
  • The Day of the Triffids
  • Trouble with Lichen
  • The Midwich Cuckoos

X

Y

• Seishi Yokomizo: Kosuke Kindaichi
  • 3. The Village of Eight Graves
  • 4. The Inugami Curse

Z

• Oksana Zabuzhko: The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
• Benjamin Zand and Tika Thornton: 93 Women: The Legacy of America’s Deadliest Serial Killer (podcast series)