I surveyed readers at the end of 2021, and their favourite reads of the year, listed in alphabetical order, were:
Fiction
- 59 Memory Lane by Celia Anderson
- Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Vet by M C Beaton
- Cove, The by LJ Ross
- Death of a Blogger by Dawn Brookes
- Girl from the Island, The by Lorna Cook
- Hazardous Cruise by Dawn Brookes
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- Midnight Library, The by Matt Haig
- Miss Seeton Sings by Heron Carvic
- Murder at Melrose Court by Karen Baugh Menuhin
- One in a Hundred Thousand by Linni Ingemundsen
- President is Missing, The by James Patterson & Bill Clinton
- Queen of Blood by Beth Durst
- Thursday Murder Club, The by Richard Osman
Non-Fiction
- Agatha Christie: an autobiography by Agatha Christie
- Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
- Girls, The by Abigail Pesta
- Happiest Man on Earth: the beautiful life of an Auschwitz survivor by Eddie Jaku
- Hurry up Nurse: Memoirs of nurse training in the 1970s by Dawn Brookes