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****