In no particular order…

1. Miss Pettigrew lives for a day – Winifred Watson.

2. Wonderbook: the Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction – Jan VanderMeer.

3. Miss Buncle’s Book – D E Stevenson.

4. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon.

5. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson.

6. The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey.

7. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King.

8. The List – Joanna Bolouri.

9. The Hunger Games (trilogy) – Suzanne Collins.

10. Queen Lucia – E F Benson.

Also, the books of Charles Dickens, Molly Keane, Elizabeth Hunter, Deborah Harkness, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!