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The Year of Reading...Very, Very Badly
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Books Read in 2022
- Silverview by John Le Carre (2021)
- The Woman Before Wallis by Bryn Turnbull (2018)
- The Butler by Danielle Steel (2021) audio
- Castle Shade by Laurie R. King (2021)
- Horsewoman by James Patterson and Michael Lupica (2022)
- An Act of Love by Nancy Thayer (1998) audio *****
- The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain (2022)
- Vladimir by Julia May Jonas (2022)
- Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II by Mala Kacenberg (2022)
- Custody by Nancy Thayer (1997) audio
- The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry (2021)
- A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris (2022)
- The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis (2022)
- Invisible by Danielle Steel (2022) audio
- Last September by Nina de Gramont (2015) NYPL
- April in Spain by John Banville 2021
- I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys YA (2022)
- The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki (2022)
- Three Women at the Water's Edge by Nancy Thayer (1997) audio
- The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf (2022)
- Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso (2022)
- The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards (#3 Lake District Mysteries) 2007
- Groundskeeping by Lee Cole, 2022
- These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant (2021) *****
- The Invisible Kingdom: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke (2022)
- Silverhill by Phyllis Whitney, 1967
- A Lesson in Secrets, #8 Maisie Dobbs novel, by Jacqueline Winspear (2011)
- The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (2022)
- Little Black Lies by Sandra Block (2015)
- Nine Lives by Peter Swanson (2022) *****
- Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist (2022)
- Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik (2022)
- A Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (2022)
- The Resting Place by Camilla Sten (2022) SWE
- Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch (2022) audio
- The Therapist by Helene Flood (2021) NOR NYPL
- Family Reunion by Nancy Thayer (2021) audio
- The Great Passion by James Runcie (2022)
- The Heirs by Susan Rieger (2017) NYPL
- High Stakes by Danielle Steel (2022) audio
- The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (2022)
- Aftermath: Life in the Fall-Out of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner U.S. 2022 (trans. German)
- Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton (2022)
- Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham (2022)
- The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (2017) NYPL
- Something to Hide by Elizabeth George (2022) *****
- The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson (2021) Iceland
- The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel (2022)
- The Book Lovers by Emily Henry (2022) audio
- The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher (2021)
- The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk (2022) CAN
- The Blind by A.F. Brady (2017)
- All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami (2022) trans. Japanese
- Mrs. England by Stacey Halls (2022)
- The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten (2022)
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (2022)
- The Boys by Ron and Clint Howard (audio) 2021 *****
- The Midcoast by Adam White (2022)
- Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (2022)
- The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (2022)
- Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur (2017)
- Ashton Hall by Lauren Belfer (2022)
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (2007)
- The House across the Lake by Riley Sager (2022)
- Outside by Ragnar Jonasson (2022)
- The Serpent Pool, #4 Lake Dist. Mysteries, by Martin Edwards (2011)
- In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (1969)
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming by David Wallace-Wells (2019)
- The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman (2022)
- Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark (2022)
- The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley (2022)
- Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life by Anne Chisholm (1999)
- Writers and Lovers by Lily King (2020)
- A History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest (2022)
- Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes (2022)
- After Lives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2022)
- The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda (2022)
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (2022)
- The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford (2022)
- The Rising Tide by Anne Cleeves (Vera Stanhope) (2022)
- Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2022)
- Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (2022)
- An Indiscreet Princess by Georgie Blalock (2022)
- We Spread by Iain Reid (2022) CAN
- Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War between the Windsors (2022) audio
- The American Adventuress by C.W. Gortner (2022)
- The House in the Orchard by Elizabeth Brooks (2022)
- Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro (2022)
- The Family Game by Catherine Steadman (2022)
- The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick (2022) NYPL
- The Apartment by Danielle Steel (2016) audio
- The Secret Guests by Benjamin Black (2019)
- The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan (2022)
- The Affair by Danielle Steel (2021) audio
- Death on a Winter Stroll by Francine Mathews (2022)
- Left on Tenth: A Memoir by Delia Ephron (2022) audio
- An Island Christmas by Nancy Thayer (2014) audio
- Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday (2021)
- Playing under the Piano: A Memoir by Hugh Bonneville (2022) audio
- The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks (2022)
- The Hanging Wood, #5 Lake Dist. Mysteries, by Martin Edwards (2011)
- The Whittiers by Danielle Steel (2022) audio
- Winterland by Rae Meadows (2022)
- God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (2022)
- Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham (1939)
Books Read in 2021
- A Short History Of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe (2019) GER
- Pine Island Home by Polly Horvath (2020) CAN Children's
- The Survivors by Jane Harper AUS (2021)
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (1987)
- The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen (2021)
- What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez (2020)
- The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #1)
- Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand (2011) audio *****
- The Long Call by Ann Cleeves (2020)
- Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler (2021)
- In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (2015) NYPL
- A Dangerous Inheritance: Tudor Rivals and the Story of the Secret Tower by Alison Weir (2012) NYPL
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003) NYPL
- Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel #6 by Jacqueline Winspear
- Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (2016) NYPL
- I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott (2017)
- The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett (2021) audio
- Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews (2021)
- The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (2020)
- The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat (2020) NYPL
- The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble (1987)
- Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston (2019) audio
- Dark Horses by Susan Mihalic (2021)
- Black Amber by Phyllis Whitney (1964) Istanbul
- Dark Horses by Cecily von Ziegesar (2016) YA NYPL
- Belonging by Nancy Thayer (1995) audio *****
- The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (2021)
- Passing On by Penelope Lively (U.S. pub. 1990)
- The Rumour by Elin Hilderbrand (2015) audio
- Somebody at the Door by Raymond Postgate (1942)
- Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey (2021) audio
- Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati (1998)
- The Truth We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris (2019) audio
- Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton (2002)
- The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly (2021)
- My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman (2006) NYPL
- The Girls of Summer by Nancy Thayer (2020) audio
- Feather on the Moon by Phyllis Whitney (1988) Brit. Columbia
- The Numbers Game by Danielle Steel (2019) audio
- While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams (2021)
- Madam by Phoebe Wynne (2021)
- The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis (2020)
- The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2021)
- Something Unbelievable by Maria Kuznetsova (2021)
- Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand (2021) audio
- The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine (2021)
- The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman (2021)
- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (2021)
- Lost and Found by Danielle Steel (2019)
- Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoquin (2021) audio
- Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy by Dani Shapiro (1998)
- The Boy Who Fell from the Sky by Ken Dornstein (2006)
- The Audacity of Sara Grayson by Joani Elliot (2021)
- Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard (2021)
- The Unkindness of Ravens by M.E. Hilliard (2021)
- The Coffin Trail (Lake District Mystery #1) by Martin Edwards (2004)
- A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins (2021) Retired it at 72 %
- The Reading List by Sara Nishi Adams (2021)
- The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves (2021)
- Everlasting by Nancy Thayer (1991) audio
- Snow by John Banville (2020)
- A Darker Reality by Anne Perry (2021)
- A Solitude of Wolves by Anne Henderson (2020)
- Bewilderment by Richard Powers (2021)
- Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (2021)
- Always, in December by Emily Stone (2021)
- Forever Young: A Memoir by Hayley Mills (2021) audio
- Mapping Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs #7 (2010)
- Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves (#2 Vera Stanhope) 2005
- Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge (2021) NYPL
- A Season for Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss (2021)
- Going There by Katie Couric (2021) audio
- Once upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan (2021)
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (2021) *****
- Another Little Christmas Murder by Lorna Nicholl Morgan (1947) UK
- The Cipher Garden by Martin Edwards, #2 Lake District Mystery
- The Therapist by B.A. Paris (2021)
Books Read in 2020
- The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict (2020)
- All That Glitters by Danielle Steel (2020) audio
- Wine Girl:The Trials and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James (2020) NYPL
- Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré (2020) The Master's Last Book
- A Nantucket Christmas by Nancy Thayer (2014) NYPL
- The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett (2020)
- A Christmas Resolution by Anne Perry (2020) NYPL
- Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (2020) audio
- Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M. M. Blume (2020) NYT Notable Book 2020
- An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs #5) by Jacqueline Winspear (2008)
- The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
- Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford (2020) A NYT Notable Book *****
- Secrets from the Past by Lara Prescott (2019)
- The Turncoat by Siegfried Lenz (Germany) U.S. Edition 2016
- Hid from Our Eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2020)
- Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell (2020) audio *****
- One More for Christmas by Sarah Morgan (2020) NYPL
- Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld (2020) ****
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (2007) audio
- Battle of Brothers: William and Harry by Robert Lacey (2020) audio
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2008) NYPL
- Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson (2020)
- Greenwood by Michael Christie (2019) CAN
- We Soldiers by Alexander Starritt (2020)
- Daddy's Girls by Danielle Steel (2019) audio
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno (2020)
- Monogamy by Sue Miller (2020)
- 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand (audio)
- The Darkest Evening: A Vera Stanhope Mystery by Anne Cleeves (2020)
- The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (2020) NYPL
- 500 Miles from You by Jenny Colgan (2020)
- Royal by Danielle Steel (2020) audio
- The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand (2017) audio *****
- The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen (2020)
- Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan (2017)
- The Lost and Found Bookshop By Susan Wiggs (2020) NYPL
- The Right Time by Danielle Steel (2016) audio
- Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Annette Wiener (2020)
- By the Book by Amanda Sellet (2020) YA
- Wives by Tarryn Fisher (2019)
- Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle (1965); orig. pub. 1951
- A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime Germany (2018) NYPL
- Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman (2018)
- Longbourn by Jo Baker (2016) NYPL
- The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton (2016)
- The German House by Annette Hess, trans. GER. (2018) NYPL
- Surfside Sisters by Nancy Thayer (2019) NYPL
- The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (2019) NYPL
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (2019)
- The Dry by Jane Harper (2016) NYPL AUS
- And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer (2016) NYPL
- The Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle (1945) debut novel
- And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle, (revised ed. 1983; orig. pub. 1949)
- Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews (Nantucket) 2016 NYPL
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (2020) NYPL
- Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North by Katherine Keith (2019) audio
- They Went Left by Monica Hesse (2020)
- Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer (2011) A Nantucket Novel NYPL
- The Lost Family: How DNA Is Upending Who We Are by Libby Copeland (2020)
- Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan (2015)
- Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas (May 2020) ARC
- Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit (2020) NYPL
- What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (2019)
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
- Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (1999)
- 44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel (2011) audio
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (2019)
- Bleaker House by Nell Stevens (2017)
- Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen (2019) audio
- Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight (2015)
- Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard (1999)
- Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman (2019)
- Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict (Jan. 2020)
- The Tenant by Katrine Engberg DAN (U.S. Pub. Jan. 2020)
- Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini (2013) audio
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk POL (U.S. pub. 2019)
Books Read in 2019
- Home Work: My Years in Hollywood by Julie Andrews (2019)
- The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan (2018)
- Let it Snow by Nancy Thayer (2019)
- Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman (1964)
- The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen (2019) ****1/2
- Spirit of the Season by Fern Michaels (2019)
- P is for Peril by Sue Grafton (2002)
- The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (2019)
- Beauchamp Hall by Danielle Steel (2018) audio
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (2019) audio
- Dreaming Darkly by Caitlin Kittredge (2018) YA
- The Other Mrs. Miller by Allison Dickson (2019)
- The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess (2019)
- The Only Story by Julian Barnes (2018)
- The Winter of the World (Vol. 2, The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (2012)
- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (first U.S. pub 1986)
- A Vineyard Summer by Jean Stone (2019)
- The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble (2016) TBR
- The Semester of Our Discontent by Cynthia Kuhn (2016) academic mystery
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (1826) BCC
- The Royal Nanny by Karen Harper (2016)
- Inheritance: Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro (2019) audio *****
- Headmistress of Rosemere by Sally E. Ladd (2014)
- Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George (1990) Lynley/Havers #3
- Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (1874)
- The Sapphire Widow by Dinah Jeffries (2018)
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905) CC Spin-May, BCC
- The Last by Hanna Jameson (2019)
- Avalon by Anya Seton (1965)
- Winterwood by Dorothy Eden (1967)
- Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym (1953)
- Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: A Memoir by Michael Caine (2018) audio
- The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (2010)
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (1954) BCC, CC
- The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth (1932) EuroC
- Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2013)
- The Stranger Diaries by Elli Griffiths (2019) *****
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1860) BCC, TBR *****
- The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib (2019)
- My Daughter, Nicola by Ruth M. Arthur (1965)
- The London Train by Tessa Hadley (2011) TBR
- The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson (2018)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart (2018) audio
- Columbella by Phyllis Whitney (1966)
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019)
- Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (2018)
- Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (186-) BCC, EuroC
- A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carré (1968) TBR, EuroC
- In Dog We Trust by Beth Kendrick (Jan 2019)
- The Liar's Room by Simon Lelic (Jan 2019)
- A Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear--Maisie Dobbs #4 (2007)
- Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (2018) audio
- With You Always by Rena Olsen (2018)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (The 1818 edition) BCC, TBR
- O is for Outcast by Sue Grafton (1999) TBR
- The Years Between (A Play) by Daphne Du Maurier (1945) BCC
Books Read in 2018
- Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery (1950) by Gladys Mitchell
- In Search of Mary Shelley (bio) by Fiona Sampson (2018)
- A Vineyard Christmas by Jean Stone (2018) ****1/2
- Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony (2018) Retired it after 100 pages.
- A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (2018) ****1/2 (audio)
- Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein (2018) audio
- A Christmas Return by Anne Perry (2017) ****
- Christmas on the Island by Jenny Colgan (2018) *****
- The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse (2011)
- The Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith (1996)
- Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber (2018)
- A Child in Time by Ian McEwan (1987)
- The Body in the Birches by Katherine Hall Page (2015)
- Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George (1989)
- Old in Art School: A Memoir by Nell Irvin Painter (2018) ***** audio
- The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian (2018)
- Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova (2017) audio
- The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (2016)
- Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich (2018) audio
- An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena (2018)
- The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (2018)
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
- Recovering: A Journal by May Sarton (1980)
- Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith (2017 audio)
- Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman (2002)
- Force of Nature by Jane Harper (2018)
- Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
- The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
- Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs Series #3)
- A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (U.S. 1990)
- Spindrift by Phyllis Whitney (1975)
- American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee (2017) audio
- Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (1989) audio by Irvin Yalom
- How It All Began by Penelope Lively (2011) ****
- Snow-Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
- This House is Haunted by John Boyne (2011)
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018) audio *****
- Nevertheless by Alec Baldwin (2017) audio
- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1952)
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (2017)
- Stormbird by Conn Iggulden
- Penny: The Story of a Free-Soul Bassett Hound by Hal Borland (1972)
- Diana's Altar by Barbara Cleverly (2015)
- Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (2017) retired it at 50% read
- Runaway by Peter May (2015)
- The Body in the Casket by Katherine Hall Page (2017)
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (2018)
- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (2018) *****
- Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand (2017)
Books Read in 2017
- Christmas at the Little Beach Bakery by Jenny Colgan (2017)
- The Seven Days of Us by Frances Hornack (2017)
- A Winter's Tale by Trisha Ashley (2008)
- Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel (audio) ****
- Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love (2017) audio
- Weekend with Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly (2011)
- Royal Christmas Princess by Scarlet Wilson (2015)
- Death in the Air (Great London Smog) by Kate Dawson Winkler (2017)
- American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin (2013)
- Christmas in London by Anita Hughes (2017)
- But Seriously by John McEnroe (2017)
- Folly by Stella Cameron (2016)
- Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (2016)
- N is for Noose by Sue Grafton (1995)
- The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve (2017)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961) Classics Club
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) Classics Club
- The Ghost by Danielle Steel (audio) *****
- Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (2004)
- A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (1988)
- A Misalliance by Anita Brookner (1986)
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
- Devices and Desires by P.D. James (1989)
- Caught in the Revolution--Petrograd 1917 by Helen Rappaport (2017)
- The Forbidden Garden by Ellen Herrick (2017)
- All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski (trans. from German by Anthea Bell) 2015
- The Widow's House by Carol Goodman (2017)
- Born to Run: A Memoir by Bruce Springsteen (2016) audio
- Chemistry by Wieke Wang (2017)
- The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Gene into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder (2017)
- Uncovered by Leah Lax (audio)
- Missing, Presumed by Sheila Steiner UK (2016)
- Belgravia by Julian Fellowes (2016)
- Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (1977) CClub
- In the Wake by Per Petterson (NO) U.S. Pub. 2006
- The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld (IL) U.S. Pub. 2017
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
- The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport (2014)
- Days without End by Sebastian Barry (U.S. pub. 2017)
- The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (2010)
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (2016)
- The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
- Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (2016)
- Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard (2016)
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (2016)
Books Read in 2016
- Victoria by Daisy Goodwin (2016)
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (2016)
- Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817-1818) Classics Club
- Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand (2016)
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (2000)
- Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page
- The Middle of Somewhere by Sonja Yoerg (2015)
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (2016) Read 100 pages and had to retire
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier (1938) CC
- The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (2016)
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913) CC
- The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)
- Kitchen Chinese by Ann Mah (2010)
- Cold by John Smolens (2001) Upper Michigan Peninsula Fiction
- When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman (1995) super-chunkster
- A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (FRA) U.S. Pub. 2016
- Paperweight by Meg Haston (2015) YA *****
- The Rocks by Peter Nichols (2015)
- They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine (2016)
- Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) Classics Club
- One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2011)
- The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (2007)
- The Black Tower by P.D. James (1975)
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (2016)
- Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand (2015)
- Fiercombe Manor by Kate Riordan (2014)
- Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart (1976)
- The Lewis Man by Peter May, Vol. 2 of The Lewis Trilogy
- L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton (1995)
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (2016)
- Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (1996, 2007)
- Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand (2014)
- The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (2014)
- Original Sin by P.D. James (1995) *****
- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (2016)
- In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (2015)
- Winds of Skilak by Bonnie Rose Ward (2013)
- All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage (2016)
- Girl at War by Sara Novic (2015)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963) Classics Club
- A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (2015)
- A Free Life by Ha Jin (2008)
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998)
- The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins (1879)
- The Past by Tessa Hadley (2016)
- Girl through Glass by Sari Nelson (2016)
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (2015)
- Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks (U.S. pub. 2016)
- The Storm by Margriet de Moor (translated fr. Dutch) 2010
- Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant by Dyan Cannon (2011)
- The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (2015)
- K is for Killer by Sue Grafton (1994)
- Madonnas in Leningrad by Debra Dean (2006)
- J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton (1993)
Books Read in 2015
- Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (2010)
- The Mistletoe Inn by Nicholas Paul Evans (2015)
- Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2013)
- Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason (U.S. pub. 2015)
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1849) Classics Club
- Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp (1992)
- Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen (2007)
- I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton (1992)
- Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean up His House and His Act by Barry Yourgrav (2015)
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Classics Club)
- Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe (2011)
- I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2008)
- In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume (2015)
- Second Life by S.J. Watson (2015)
- In Wilderness by Diane Thomas (2015)
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (1828)
- The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson (2014)
- The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
- Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (2003)
- The Vacationers by Emma Straub (2014)
- The House on the Cliff by Charlotte Williams (2013)
- All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon (2014)
- Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel (2014) Danish
- The Amber Keeper by Freda Lightfoot (2014)
- Black House by Peter May *****(1st book of the Lewis Trilogy)
- Plague Land by S.D. Sykes (2015)
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (1975)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyle (2006) YA
- A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (2009) YA, supposedly
- Love Life by Rob Lowe (2014) audio
- The Siege Winter by Arianna Franklin and Norman (2015)
- H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton (1991)
- A Faraway Island by Annika Thor (SWE) Children's
- A Troublesome Inheritance: Race, Genes, and Human History by Nicholas Wade (2014) audio
- Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography by Fred Shruers (2014) audio
- Groundswell by Katie Lee (2011)
- You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2014)
- G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
- F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton (1989)
- E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton (1988)
- D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton (1987)
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (2015)
- The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Books Read in 2014
- The Children Act by Ian McEwan (2014)
- The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin (2014)
- Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan (2013)
- Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron (2014)
- A New York Christmas by Anne Perry (2014)
- In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen (2014)
- Young Light by Ralf Rothmann GLM (UK pub 2010)
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014)
- Fly Away Home by Christine Nöstlinger (U.S. pub. 1975) Austrian for GLM IV
- An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell (U.S. pub. 2014)
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (1847)
- The Secret Place by Tana French (2014)
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
- A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger *****(2014)
- Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (2013)
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2012)
- Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton (2013)
- The Arsonist by Sue Miller (2014)
- All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2006) Nero Wolfe and Gumshoe Awards 2007
- Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington (2014)
- C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton (1986)
- Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian (2014)
- Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore (2014)
- Alena by Rachel Pastan (2014)
- Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch (NE) 2014
- Fear by Gabriel Chevallier (FR-WWI)
- Casebook by Mona Simpson (2014)
- The Train to Warsaw by Gwen Edelman (2014)
- Forever by Judy Blume (1975) YA
- Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo YA (2003)
- Looking for Alaska by John Green YA (2005)
- The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb (2013)
- Only Brave Tomorrows by Winifred Bruce Luhrmann (1989) YA
- The Lie by Helen Dunmore (U.S. pub 2014)
- The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (2006) debut
- The Wind is Not a River by Brian Payton (2014)
- To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (2005)
- Motherland by Maria Hummel (2014)
- Red Wolf by Liza Marklund
- B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (1985)
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1807-09)
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (2012)
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (2013)
- The Bat by Jo Nesbo (1997 original pub. date)
- Always Watching by Chevy Stevens (2013)
Books Read in 2013 (From January to November)
- The Last Final Day by Carrie Brown (2013)
- Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker (2013)
- A Final Reckoning by Susan Moody (2013)
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1990)
- The Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang (U.S. pub 2011)
- Demian by Hermann Hesse (1919)
- Mesmerized by Alissa Walser (UK pub. 2012)
- Broken Harbor by Tana French (2012)
- Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
- The Good House by Anne Leary (2013
- The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012)
- The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore (2012)
- The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano (2011)
- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (2010) audio
- Indiscretion by Charles Dubow (2013)
- The Dinner by Herman Koch (U.S. pub. 2013)
- Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton (2012) audio
- The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (U.S. pub 2009)
- The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Söderberg (U.S. pub. 2013)
- A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee (2013)
- Life after Life by Kate Atkinson (U.S. pub. 2013) had to bid adieu
- Carole King: A Natural Woman by Carole King ((2012) audio
- The Garner Files by James Garner (2011) audio
- The Healer by Antti Toumainen (2013)
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers (1999)
- Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter (U.S. pub 1970)
- Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith (2012) audio
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1961)
- Winter in Wartime by Jan Terlouw (U.S. pub. 1976)
- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (2013)
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner ***** (1984)
- Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2005)
- The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore***** (2012)
- The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison (2013)
- The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz (2013)
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (2013)
- A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (1982)
- A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams (2013)
- Brenner and God by Wolf Haas (U.S. pub Melville House 2012)
- The Winter Palace by Eve Stachniak (2011)
- The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen (2013)
- Anatomy of a Night by Anna Kim (U.S. pub 2013)
- The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year by Michael Stein (2009)
- Starry Night by Debbie Macomber (2013)
Books Read in 2012
- Sisters by Rosamund Lupton (2011)
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (1993)
- Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi
- The Story of a Life by Aahron Appelfeld
- Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse (1979--US)
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)
- Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton (2012)
- Expats by Chris Pavone (2012)
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed (2012)
- Desert Wives by Betty Webb (2002)
- In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff (1994)
- The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
- Sunset Park by Paul Auster (2010)
- War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann (2011)
- The Leopard by Jo Nesbo (2011 US)
- Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006)
- A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2003)
- Crutches by Peter Hartling (1987) German LC
- The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesy (2012)
- An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer (2012)
- The Obamas by Jodi Kantor (2012)
Books Read in 2011
- Deadmistress by Carole Schmurack
- Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel (2011)
- I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (2010)
- War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century by Ben Shephard (2001)
- Unseen: A Mystery by Mari Jungsvedt (2006--US)
- Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron (2011)
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (2011--US)
- Alice in Bed by Cathleen Schine (1983)
- Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (2011) (1949)
- The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller (2011)
- Drinking the Rain: A Memoir by Alix Kates Shulman (1995)
- The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (2011)
- The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) (1988)
- Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck (2010)
- Flambards by K.M. Peyton (1967)
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (2011)
- Settlement by Christoph Hein (2008)
- In My Brother's Shadow by Uwe Timm (2003)
- Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson (2011)
- Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass (2006)
- Talking Detective Fiction by P.D. James (2006)
- Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek (2006)
- My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (2009)
- What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman (2010)
- The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese (1998)
- In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2003)
- Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel (1999)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2010)
- The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink (2011)
- The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure (2011)
- The Writing Circle by Corinne Demas (2010)
- Cold Day for a Murder by Dana Stabenow (1991)
- 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson (2011)
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James (1977)
- The Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey (2011)
- Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Saenz YA (2009)
- Reading Jackie by William Kuhn (2010) audio
- Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
- Russian Winter by Diane Kalotay (2010)
- Life by Keith Richards (2010) audio
- High on Arrival by MacKenzie Phillips (2009) audio
- The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (2009)
- The Great Hurricane of 1938 by Cherie Burns (2005) audio
- Great House by Nicole Krauss (2009)
- The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman (2010) dismissed
- Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink (2008)
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About Me
- Judith
- Warren County, New York, United States
- I am a professional genealogist and member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. I specialize in New York and New England ancestries, from the early 1600s through the twentieth century.
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