A Year’s Books

I stopped updating my list in February, managed to add a few in March, and then didn’t resume tracking until late in September. The gap is not indicative of a lack of actual reading though. ;) I’m taking a more casual approach to list making in the future and shall just be jotting down the title and author, without links or stars or anything else, as I suspect the time and effort it took for all the extra contributed to my falling behind. Plus, I’m in the mood for simplicity: for now, at least. As of September, if I’ve written about the books, I’ve added the post link: those titles appear in burgundy and so are easy to see. The earlier books are all linked to their publishers’ pages.

-November-

• Death at Wentworth Court by Carol Dunn
• Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo by Ntazake Shange
• Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard
• Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard
• The Wave in the Mind by Ursula le Guin
• The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
• Died on a Rainy Sunday by Joan Aiken
• Blood Child by Octavia Butler
• Some Kind of Fairytale by Graham Joyce
• Dead Wrong by Eleanor Taylor Bland
• To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie
• Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
• A Distant Mirror by Barbara Thurman
• Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
• The Bright Continent by Dayo Olopade
• The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

-October-

• Summer World by Bernd Heinrich
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Dreams of Africa in Alabama by Sylviane A. Diouf
• White as Snow by Tanith Lee
• The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
• Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge
• Check Mate by Dorothy Dunnett
• The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
• Home by Toni Morrison
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
• Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
• Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
• Thorn by Intisar Khanani
• I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• The Needle’s Eye by Marla Miller
• Dolly by Susan Hill
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope

-September-

• The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
• The 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
• Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
• Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke
• Anna Dressed by Blood by Kendare Blake
• The Moor by Laurie King
• The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
• Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
• Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery
• Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

-March-

• The Dancing Goddesses by E.W. Barber | 2013*****
• The Place of Tolerance in Islam by Khaled Abou El Fadl | 2002***
• Word on the Street by John McWhorter 1998****
• Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers | 1930*****
• An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine | 2014*****
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente | 2011*****

-January-

• The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry | 2010*****
• The Quotidian Mysteries by Kathleen Norris | 1998*****
• Luella’s Guide to English Style by Luella Bartley | 2013***
• The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley | 1995***
• The Sleeper Wakes ed. by Marcy Knopf-Newman | 1920s-1930s****
• Saturday is for Funerals by Unity Dow & Max Essex | 2010****
• The Twelve Tribes of Hatti by Ayana Mathis | 2013 **
• Unchosen by Hella Winston | 2004***
• Autobiography of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall | 2009** (20)
• Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie | 2008*****
• Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan | 2010*****
• Emily’s Quest by L.M.Montgomery | 1927****
• Pathologies by Susan Olding | 2008*****
• Love in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed | 2010***** (thoughts)
• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, trans. by Alexander O. Smith | 2005****
• The Plain Reader ed. by Scott Savage | 1998**
• Raj by Gita Mehta | 1989****
• The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King | 2013*****
• Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie | 2007***** (10) (thoughts)
• Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield | 2013***
• Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty | 2001*****
• A Spider on the Stairs by Cassandra Chan | 2010***
• Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez | 1982***
• Naming Nature by Mary Blocksma | 1992***** (thoughts)
• Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker | 1940** (thoughts)
• How the Light Gets In by Pat Schneider | 2013*****
• Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo | 1999***** (thoughts)
• I, Coriander by Sally Gardner | 2005****

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