May 19, 1952: Lillian Hellmann informs the House Committee on Un-American Activities that she will refuse to testify against her associates: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
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- The Girl in Berlin, Elizabeth Wilson
- Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Hotel Paradise, Martha Grimes
- Pitch Dark (NYRB Classics), Renata Adler
- Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times, Jennifer Worth
- Grey Mask (A Miss Silver Mystery), Patricia Wentworth
- The Wars, Timothy Findley
- An Armenian Sketchbook (NYRB Classics), Vasily Grossman, tr. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
- A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
- The Alienist (The Art of the Novella), Machado De Assis, tr. William L. Grossman
- The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe, Paula Fox
- Petite Mort, or A Little Death, Beatrice Hitchman
- Economy Must Be Our Watchword, Joyce Dennys
- The Horla (The Art of the Novella), Guy de Maupassant, tr. Charlotte Mandell
- Testing the Current (NYRB Classics), William McPherson
- Stet: An Editor's Life, Diana Athill
- Bread and Butter Stories (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Norton
- The Devil (The Art of the Novella), Leo Tolstoy, tr. Louise and Alymer Maude
- Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, Paula Fox
- Letters from Constance (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- Cashelmara, Susan Howatch
- The Flowers of War, Geling Yan, tr. Nicky Harman
- The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (The Art of the Novella), Mark Twain
- At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel, Alice McDermott
- Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe, Christina Hardyment
- Last Of Summer (Virago Modern Classics), Kate O'Brien
- A Countess Below Stairs, Eva Ibbotson
- Fanfarlo (The Art of the Novella), Charles Baudelaire, tr. Edward K. Kaplan
- The Yellow Birds: A Novel, Kevin Powers
- Doctor Glas: A Novel, Hjalmar Soderberg, tr. Paul Britten Austin
- Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Julia Strachey
- An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- Guard your daughters: A novel, Diana Tutton
- Dispatches, Michael Herr
- May Day (The Art of the Novella), F. Scott Fitzgerald
Audio Books: 2013
Books Read in 2012
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella), Herman Melville
- The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- Rock Crystal, Adalbert Stifter, tr. Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Mayer
- Ghost Story, Peter Straub
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II, Gert Ledig, tr. Michael Hofmann
- The Progress of Love, Alice Munro
- Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Alexandre Dumas, tr. Joachim Neugroschel
- Windflower, Gabrielle Roy, tr. Phyllis Webb
- The Skin Chairs, Barbara Comyns (Virago Modern Classics)
- The Blackhouse: A Novel, Peter May
- Pharmacist, Ingrid Noll, tr. Ian Mitchell
- Romantic Fairy Tales, Goethe, Tieck, Fouque and Brentano, tr. Carol Tully
- A Letter of Mary, Laurie R. King
- Fraulein Else: Arthur Schnitzler, tr. F. H. Lyon
- Crewe Train (Virago Modern Classics), Rose Macaulay
- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Audio Book - The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Violin of Auschwitz: A Novel, Maria Angels Anglada, tr. Martha Tennent
- Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart
- Mythology, Edith Hamilton
- The Murders in Volume 2, Elizabeth Daly
- Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease, Cecil Beaton
- The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel, Joanne Harris
- A Little Dinner Before the Play (Penguin Great Food), Agnes Jekyll
- Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell
- Peace, Richard Bausch
- Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, Roger Deakin
- A Childhood In Scotland, Christian Miller
- The Hunting Ground, Cliff McNish
- The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Simone St. James
- The Age of Desire: A Novel, Jennie Fields
- This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart
- The Story of a Life, Aharon Appelfeld, tr. Aloma Halter
- Falcons of Montabard, Elizabeth Chadwick
- Broken Harbor: A Novel, Tana French
- Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties, Marion Meade
- Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, A.S. Byatt
- Koula, Menis Koumandareas, tr. Kay Cicellis
- Black Rain, Masuji Ibuse, tr. John Bester
- The Winter House, Judith Lennox
- Divorce Islamic Style, Amara Lakhous, tr. Ann Goldstein
- The Prestige, Christopher Priest, Simon Vance
Audio Book - Tales of the City: A Novel, Armistead Maupin
- Hetty Dorval, Ethel Wilson
- Dead Scared, S. J. Bolton
- The Chatelet Apprentice, Jean-Francois Parot, tr. Michael Glencross
- The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty
- What Dies in Summer, Tom Wright
- The Terra-Cotta Dog, Andrea Camilleri, tr. Stephen Sartarelli
- Swamp Angel, Ethel Wilson
- Julia, Otto de Kat, Ina Rilke
- The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty
- The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, Maurice DeKobra, tr. Neal Wainwright
- The Uninvited Guests: A Novel, Sadie Jones
- In the Springtime of the Year, Susan Hill
- Darkness Falls from the Air, Nigel Balchin
- Fly Away Peter, David Malouf
- The Song of Achilles: A Novel, Madeline Miller
- From Newbury With Love: Letters of Friendship Across the Iron Curtain, Anna Horsbrugh-Porter and Marina Aidova
- A Brief History of Montmaray, Michelle Cooper
- The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle 1), Elizabeth Jane Howard
- The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel, Adriana Trigiani
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
Audio Book - Coventry: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
- The Lover of the Grave (Lydmouth Mysteries), Andrew Taylor
- Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Duel, Anton Chekhov, tr. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
- Girl Reading: A Novel, Katie Ward
- The Black Spider, Jeremias Gotthelf, tr. H.M. Waidson
- To the Slaughterhouse, Jean Giono, tr. Norman Glass
- Mortal Sickness (Lydmouth Mysteries), Andrew Taylor
- My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather
- The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, tr. Richard Pevear
- Revelations: Diaries of Women, Mary Jane Moffat, Charlotte Painter
- Q's Legacy, Helene Hanff
- A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
- The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson
- At Mrs Lippincote's, Elizabeth Taylor
- A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs, Alexandra Johnson
- Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate), Amy Thomas
- The Gastronomical Me, M. F. K. Fisher
- Girls of Riyadh, Rajaa Alsanea, tr. Marilyn Booth
- A Diary without Dates, Enid Bagnold
- Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore
- Hotel Du Lac, Anita Brookner
- Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived, Penelope Lively
- Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi, tr. Anjali Singh
- Hell Hath No Fury, Ingrid Noll, tr. Ian Mitchell
- From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming
- Two for the Dough, Janet Evanovich
Books Read in 2011
- Love Among the Daughters: Memories of the Twenties in England and America, Elspeth Huxley
- Ice Cold, Andrea Schenkel, Anthea Bell
- War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944, Iris Origo
- A Lighthearted Quest, Ann Bridge
- The Greenhouse, Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Brian FitzGibbon
- The City and the House, Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis
- April in Paris, Michael Wallner, John Cullen
- The Rose Garden, Susanna Kearsley
- The Silent Angel, Heinrich Boll, Breon Mitchell
- Head Count, Ingrid Noll, Ian Mitchell
- Wild Life, Molly Gloss
- Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane, Hugh Rorrison, Helen Chambers
- Journey Into the Past, Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell
- The Murder Farm, Andrea M. Schenkel, Anthea Bell
- The Lotus Eaters: A Novel, Tatjana Soli
- North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Uncommon Reader: A Novella, Alan Bennett
- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
- The Lantern: A Novel, Deborah Lawrenson
- The Long Shadow (Morland Dynasty), Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Dark Matter: A Ghost Story, Michelle Paver
- A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell
- Now You See Me S. J. Bolton
- The Lady Vanishes, Ethel Lina White
- One Fine Day, Mollie Panter-Downes
- The Last Letter from Your Lover: A Novel, Jojo Moyes
- The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
- My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart
- This Is How, M.J.Hyland
- The World My Wilderness, Rose Macaulay
- Bath Tangle, Georgette Heyer
- House of Silence, Linda Gillard
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- Rules of Civility: A Novel, Amor Towles
- Studio 69, Liza Marklund, Kajsa von Hofsten
- Almost Blue, Carlo Lucarelli, Oonagh Stransky
- Sylvester: or The Wicked Uncle, Georgette Heyer
- The Last Enemy, Grace Brophy
- The Vendetta, Honore de Balzac, (Katharine Prescott Wormeley)
- Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel, S. J. Watson
- The Return of Captain John Emmett, Elizabeth Speller
- Survival In Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity, Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf
- Portrait of the Mother As a Young Woman, Friedrich Christian Delius, Jamie Bulloch
- Losing Nicola, Susan Moody
- The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer
- Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
- Paradise, Liza Marklund, Ingrid Eng-Rundlow
- River of Shadows, Valerio Varesi, Joseph Farrell
- Across the Common, Elizabeth Berridge
- On Borrowed Wings, Chandra Prasad
- The Sea and Poison, Shusaku Endo, Michael Gallagher
- Death of an Englishman: A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation, Magdalen Nabb
- Frozen Moment, Camilla Ceder, Marlaine Delargy
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, Kate Simon
- The Shape of Water, Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
- A Covenant with Death, Stephen Becker
- Early Stories, Daphne Du Maurier
- Places in the Dark, Thomas H. Cook
- The Paris Wife: A Novel, Paula McLain
- Death on a Galician Shore, Domingo Villar, Sonia Soto
- The Winter of the World: A Novel, Carol Ann Lee
- Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
- Silent On The Moor, Deanna Raybourn
- 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
- Hotel Bosphorus, Esmahan Aykol, Ruth Whitehouse
- The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
- The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
- The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
- A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- Common or Garden Crime: An Irish Gardening Mystery, Sheila Pim
- Chasing AllieCat, Rebecca Fjelland Davis
- Ghost Light: A Novel, Joseph O'Connor
- Beside the Sea, Veronique Olmi, Adriana Hunter
- How Many Miles to Babylon?, Jennifer Johnston
- Gay Life, E.M. Delafield
- This Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel, Elizabeth George
- Stone in a Landslide, Maria Barbal, Paul Mitchell, Laura McGloughlin
- Taking Chances (Virago Modern Classics), M.J. Farrell
- The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Summer Book, Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal
- Thank Heaven Fasting (Virago Modern Classics), E.M. Delafield
- Strange Meeting, Susan Hill
- The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Metropolis Case: A Novel, Matthew Gallaway
- What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel, Zoe Heller
- Heart of the Night, Judith Lennox
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
Books Read in 2010
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis
- At Risk: A Novel, Stella Rimington
- A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
- Mariana, Susanna Kearsley
- The Mistress of Nothing: A Novel, Kate Pullinger
- I Have Waited, and You Have Come, Martine McDonagh
- The Pumpkin Eater, Penelope Mortimer
- The Twilight Time, Karen Campbell
- Bad Penny Blues, Cathi Unsworth
- Styx and Stones, Carola Dunn
- Blood in the Water: An Alice Rice Mystery, Gillian Galbraith
- How Many Miles to Babylon?, Jennifer Johnston
- The Romeo Flag, Carolyn Hougan
- The Players, Margaret Sweatman
- Endless Night, Agatha Christie
- The Small Room, May Sarton
- A Kind of Intimacy, Jenn Ashworth
- The L-Shaped Room, Lynne Reid-Banks
- Dying of the Light: An Alice Rice Mystery, Gillian Galbraith
- The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, William Nicholson
- The Crime at Black Dudley, Margery Allingham
- The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll, Paul Spicer
- The Thirteen Problems, Agatha Christie
- One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
- Ratcatcher, James McGee
- An Air That Kills, Andrew Taylor
- Leaving Rock Harbor: A Novel, Rebecca Chace
- A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Crossing to Safety, Wallace Earle Stegner
- Coastliners: A Novel, Joanne Harris
- Truth or Fiction, Jennifer Johnston
- Me: A Book of Remembrance, Winnifred Eaton
- They Knew Mr. Knight, Dorothy Whipple
- The Bed I Made, Lucie Whitehouse
- The Professor's House, Willa Cather
- Old Filth, Jane Gardam
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
Audio Book - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
- Faithful Place: A Novel, Tana French
- The Sonnet Lover: A Novel, Carol Goodman
Audio Book - A Vintage Affair: A Novel, Isabel Wolff
- The Likeness: A Novel, Tana French
- The Tattooed Map, Barbara Hodgson
- Greenbanks, Dorothy Whipple
- Blood Harvest, S. J. Bolton
- The Rebellion of Jane Clarke: A Novel, Sally Gunning
- Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
- The Chameleon's Shadow, Minette Walters
Audio Book - My Antonia, Willa Cather
- The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
- East of the Sun: A Novel, Julia Gregson
- The Darkest Room, Johan Theorin, Marlaine Delargy
- My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
- The Ripening Seed, Colette, Roger Senhouse
- Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- Bad Blood: A Memoir, Lorna Sage
- Sunrise in the West (Brothers of Gwynedd, Book 1), Edith Pargeter
- Someone at a Distance (Persephone Classics), Dorothy Whipple
- The Mystery of Hunting's End, Mignon G. Eberhart
- The Night Ferry, Michael Robotham
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, Joan Didion
- Talking About Detective Fiction, P.D. James
- A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, Molly Wizenberg
- Angel (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- The Rose of Sebastopol, Katharine McMahon
- Mark of the Lion: A Jade Del Cameron Mystery, Suzanne Arruda
- The Glass Room, Simon Mawer
- Young Bess: The Girl Who Would Be Queen, Margaret Irwin
- A Room With a View, E. M. Forster
- The Crimson Rooms, Katharine McMahon
- The Crossing Places, Elly Griffiths
- The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, John Galsworthy
- The Postmistress, Sarah Blake
- Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Jerome K. Jerome
- The Scarlet Lion, Elizabeth Chadwick
- Still She Wished for Company, Margaret Irwin
- The Editor's Wife, Clare Chambers
- Back to the Coast, Saskia Noort, Laura Vroomen
- Beauvallet, Georgette Heyer
- The Anthologist: A Novel, Nicholson Baker
- In a Good Light, Clare Chambers
- The Mapping of Love and Death: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- Novel on Yellow Paper, Stevie Smith
- The Coral Thief: A Novel, Rebecca Stott
- Thursday Night Widows, Claudia Piñeiro, Miranda France
- The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion, Elizabeth Chadwick
- A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- The Cobra's Heart (Penguin Great Journeys), Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
Books Read in 2009
- The Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden
- The Last Kashmiri Rose, Barbara Cleverly
- These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer
- The Invisible City, Emili Rosales, Martha Tennent
- The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
- Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, Harriet Reisen
- Young Entry (Virago Modern Classics), M.J. Farrell (Molly Keane)
- The Foundling, Georgette Heyer
- Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig, Phyllis Blewitt, Trevor Blewitt
- Murder on the Ballarat Train: A Phryne Fisher Mystery, Kerry Greenwood
- Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, Joshua Zeitz
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