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April 2026 Books Read: 14 The Examiner - Janice Hallett The Man In The Brown Suit - Agatha Christie This Is Not A Game - Kelly Mullen The Girlfriend - K L Slater The Only Suspect - Louise Candlish The Institute - Stephen King Black Flowers - Alex North A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess The Mysterious Case Of The Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett It Ends Here - Heidi Perks Burn After Reading - Catherine Ryan Howard 10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte The Surf House - Lucy Clarke The Hiding Season - A C Glass #2026Books #AmReading #HK72Posts #HK72Books

February 2026 Books Read: 17 The Road - Cormac McCarthy No Place To Hide - Rebecca Griffiths Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson The Motel - Nancy Savage The Lucky Winners - K L Slater Dust - Arthur Slade Snowdrops - A D Miller *Locker 19 - J Cronshaw The Last Trip - Rowan Chambers The Burning Stones - Antti Tuomainen Containment - Christian Cantrell A Neighbour's Guide To Murder - Louise Candlish The Society Of Unknowable Objects - Gareth Brown The Never Game - Jeffery Deaver The Life Of Chuck - Stephen King The Martian - Andy Weir Reacher: Killing Floor - Lee Child Did Not Finish: Island Builder - Andrew Karevik 2084 - Mason Engel *Locker 19 by J Cronshaw was the first book that I began to suspect was AI generated part way through, and read to the end to confirm my suspicions. #2026Books #AmReading #HK72Posts #HK72Books

After realising that I had unintentionally read an AI-generated thriller on Wednesday, I spent yesterday reviewing the last 30-odd books that I've bought, to see if any of them are also AI-generated, and what red flags to look out for.

I checked:

Publication date Publisher Publisher's website Author's website Number of books written per year

So far I've come to the following conclusions about the "authors":

1. Has self-published 8 books in 2025, with virtually identical covers, via a "book publishing company" that's basically him and his wife. His website is awful, and he didn't bother editing a large part of the one book I read.

2. Has self-published 5 books in 2025, with very similar covers, and his website is flagged as suspicious. The two books I read had been edited well enough to read as human-created, and the plots were reasonable, but not altogether credible.

/cont.

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January 2026 Books Read: 23 Mickey 7 - Edward Ashton Bullet Train Kotaro Isako Mr Mercedes - Stephen Kings The Night Before Christmas - Maria Frankland Finders Keepers - Stephen King The Winter Visitor - B P Walter The Winter Retreat - Maria Frankland The Woman In The Opposite Window - Rose Hard Friend Request - Laura Marshall Dead Of Winter - Keri Beevis The Life I Had - Aaron Quinn End Of Watch - Stephen King The Christmas Party - Kathryn Croft Everyone Here Is Lying - Shari Lapena Two Truths One Lie - Alex Sinclair Wish - Alexandra Bullen The Perfect Wife - Hannah Price Little Siberia - Antti Tuomainen I Don't Like Mondays - Maria Frankland Seven Bodies - V J Randle You Are Fatally Invited - Ande Pliego Run Away - Harlan Coben Anxious People - Fredrik Backman Currently Reading: Island Builder - Andrew Karevik #2026Books #AmReading #HK72Posts #HK72Books