
June 2026 Books
Twelve books and 4,996 pages in June, including crime thrillers, memoirs and biographies—and one novel that completely caught me off guard.
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Psychological thrillers from the Verso reading pile: unreliable narrators, uncomfortable secrets and books designed to make one more chapter a terrible idea.

Twelve books and 4,996 pages in June, including crime thrillers, memoirs and biographies—and one novel that completely caught me off guard.

Eight books from May, ranging from crime and time travel to Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks and deeply questionable workplace culture.

Nine books from April, with crime, thrillers and an assortment of memorable characters across another strong reading month.

March brought a mixed reading month of time travel, murder, doomed relationships and people making consistently poor decisions.

Six books from February, featuring small-town mysteries, suspicious influencers, dysfunctional families and plenty of fictional bodies.

Meet Suffolk author Julie Missen, who writes as J.D. Missen across psychological thrillers, poetry and children’s books rooted in East Anglia.

Meet Felixstowe author Iain Maitland, whose psychological thrillers and candid memoirs explore mental health, family and emotional truth.

Meet Suffolk author Jeanette Hewitt, writing as J.M. Hewitt—creator of atmospheric psychological crime thrillers filled with tension and trauma.

Meet Felixstowe author Ruth Dugdall, whose psychological crime novels explore guilt, justice and trauma with powerful real-world insight.

Genre statistics, most-read authors and a top 10 spanning thrillers, memoirs, music and politics—my 2024 reading year reviewed.