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Radio Reads

Every month, Bill Buckley, Claire Dyer and I choose a new book to read and review it on the following show, each giving it a mark out of 10. So far, we’ve read 70 books, with only one achieving the maximum 30 points. Have you read any of our favourites, and do you agree with our marks? 

So far our top five are:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (30 out of 30)

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (28.5 out of 30)

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (28 out of 30)

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (27.5 out of 30)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (27 out of 30)

Have a browse below.

The French House by Jacquie Bloese, Mar 23, 26/30

Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K Jerome, May 23, 17/30

Dead of Night by Simon Scarrow, Jun 23, ??/30

Holding place, Jul/Aug 23

Without Warning & Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal, Oct '22, 24/30

Plainsong by Kent Haruf, Dec '22, 26.5/30

Towards The End Of Morning by Michael Frayn, Jan '23, 23/30

Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro, Feb '23, 22/30

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jun '22, 24/30

Dissolution by CJ Sansom, Jul '22, 25/30

The One Hundred Years of Lenni & Margot by Marianne Cronin, Aug '22, 25/30

An Officer & A Spy by Robert Harris, Sep '22, 24.5/30

A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley, Feb '22, 22/30

We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker, Mar '22, 25.5/30

A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Apr '22, 26.5/30

The Patient by Tim Sullivan, May '22, 25.5/30

Shooting Martha by David Thewlis, Sep '21, 23/30

Old Baggage by Lissa Evans, Nov '21, 26/30

Falling by TJ Newman, Dec '21, 22/30

Dad's Life by David Hill, Jan '22, 23/30

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, May '21, 27.5/30

IQ by Joe Ide, Jun '21, 24/30

Meltdown by Ben Elton, Aug '21, 22.5/30

Phosphate Rocks by Fiona Erskine, Sep '21, 22/30

Man At The Helm by Nina Stibb, Jan '21, 23.5/30

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby, Feb '21, 24/30

The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, Mar '21, 24/30

The Pretty One by Clare Doyle, Apr '21, 23/30

Half A World Away by Mike Gayle, Sep '20, 21/30

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, Oct '20, 25.5/30

Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls, Nov '20, 24.5/30

Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf, Dec '20, 22/30

The Life Assistance Agency by Thomas Hocknell, May '20, 20.5/30

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce, Jun '20, 23.5/30

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Jul '20, 28/30

Keeping Mum by James Gould-Bourn, Aug '20, 23/30

Pinpoint by Greg Milner, Jan '20, 24/30

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Feb '20, 24/30

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Mar '20, 28.5/30

The Lie by Hilary Boyd, Apr '20, 23.5/30

ZED by Joanna Kavanna, Sep '19, 21/30

Breakfast In Bogota by Helen Young, Oct '19, 23.5/30

Mud by Emily Thomas, Nov '19, 23.5/30

They Call Me The Cat Lady by Amy Miller, Dec '19, 22/30

Life, Death & Cellos by Isabel Rogers, May '19, 23.5/30

The Deserter's Daughter by Susanna Bavin, May '19, 23/30

The Bees by Laline Paull, Jul '19, 25.5/30

The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey, Aug '19, 23/30

Orphan, Monster, Spy by Matt Killeen, Jan '19, 25.5/30

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Feb'19, 30/30

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, Mar '19, 22.5/30

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, Apr '19, 24.5/30

This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay, Sep '18, 26/30

SNAP by Belinda Bauer, Oct '18, 21.5/30

Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon, Nov '18, 24.5/30

The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Dec '18, 25.5/30

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, May '18, 26.5/30

Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce, Jun '18, 24/30

The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana, Jul '18, 23.5/30

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Aug '18, 27/30

Tin Man by Sarah Winman, Jan '18, 24/30

Dodgers by Bill Beverly, Feb '18, 25.5/30

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor, Mar '18, 24/30

Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh, Apr '18, 25/30

Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land, Sep '17, 24.5/30

The Power by Naomi Alderman, Oct '17, 17/30

Dr Jekyll & Mr Seek by Anthony O'Neill, Nov '17, 22.5/30

The Reader on the 6:27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, Dec '17, 23/30

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, May '17, 24/30

Slow Horses by Mick Herron, Jun '17, 22/30

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, Jul '17, 25/30

Miss You by Kate Eberlen, Aug '17, 23/30