I love this Thomas Gainsborough painting! A friend sent this card to me. My scan is a bit on the yellow side. This was painted around 1750. Even though this is about 100 years later it reminds me a bit of the book I am reading at the moment--"Court Lady and Country Wife." Even though I think it might be cool to travel back in time and see what life was like...can you imagine no daily baths, no deodorant or toothpaste. Ick. But this pair looks pretty stylish and wealthy!
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Books Read in 2022
- Radium Girls, Cy
- The Swimmer, Graham Norton
- The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey
- Death in the Andamans, M.M. Kaye
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton
- The Wonder Spot, Melissa Bank
- Gender Queer: A Memoir, Maia Kobabe
- King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine
- The Outrun: A Memoir, Amy Liptrot
- Alte Zachen / Old Things, Ziggy Hanaor
- A Dying Fall, Elly Griffiths
- The Cut, Chris Brookmyre
- Bobby March Will Live Forever, Alan Parks
- 1989, Val McDermid
- House of Glass, Susan Fletcher
- These Dark Things, Jan Merete Weiss
- Death in Zanzibar, M.M. Kaye
- February's Son, Alan Parks
- Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley
- The Nature of Witches, Rachel Griffin
- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
- Bloody January, Alan Parks
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
- Brought up in Bloomsbury, Polly Hobson
- Tiny Little Thing, Beatriz Williams
- Walk Me to the Corner, Anneli Furmark, tr. Hanna Stromberg
- Murder at Brightwell, Ashley Weaver
- Alias Emma, Ava Glass
- Death in Kenya, M.M. Kaye
- A Trouble of Fools, Linda Barnes
- Better Than the Movies, Lynn Painter
- The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak.
- The Key to Deceit, Ashley Weaver.
- An Academic Question, Barbara Pym
- Acts of Violet, Margarita Montimore
- U is for Undertow, Sue Grafton
- Liberty Bar, Georges Simenon, tr. David Watson
- River of Darkness, Rennie Airth
- Three, Valerie Perrin, tr. Hildegarde Serle
- Marzahn, Mon Amour, Katja Oskamp, tr. Jo Heinrich
- Mrs. England, Stacey Halls
- Postcard Stories, Jan Carson
- A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Axie Oh
- Book Lovers, Emily Henry
- A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
- Footprints on the Sand, Judith Lennox
- Death in Cyprus, M.M. Kaye
- Ridley Road, Jo Bloom
- Today Tonight Tomorrow, Rachel Lynn Solomon
- Love, Maayan Eitan
- Pandora, Susan Stokes-Chapman
- Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide, Kan Takahama, Emmanuelle Maisoneuve, Julia Pavlowitch
- Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
- Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
- Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason
- Natural Born Charmer, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- A Sunlit Weapon, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Well of Ice, Andrea Carter
- Passing, Nella Larsen
- Violeta, Isabel Allende, tr. Frances Riddle
- Death in Berlin, M.M. Kaye
- You'll Be the Death of Me, Karen M. McManus
- Bird in a Cage, Frederic Dard, tr. David Bellos
- Jezebel's Daughter, Wilkie Collins
- What's Left of Me Is Yours, Stephanie Scott
- Someone to Cherish, Mary Balogh
- The Fencing Master : Arturo Perez-Reverte, tr. Margaret Jull Costa
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo
- Crushing, Sophie Burrows
- Before My Actual Heart Breaks, Tish Delaney
- Very Cold People: A Novel, Sarah Manguso
- Himawari House, Harmony Becker
- The Maid: A Novel, Nita Prose
- Death in Kashmir: A Mystery, M.M. Kaye
- The Fountains of Silence, Ruta Sepetys
- Tunnels, Rutu Modan, tr. Ishai Mishory
- A Court of Thorns, Sarah J. Maas
- The Case of the Borrowed Brunette: A Perry Mason Mystery, Erle Stanley Gardner
- Why is Everybody Yelling, Marisabina Russo
Books Read in 2021
- Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover
- Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime, Debora Harding
- The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
- Treacherous Strand (Inishowen Mysteries #2), Andrea Carter
- Blue Monday: A Frieda Klein Mystery, Nicci French
- Stranger Planet, Nathan W. Pyle
- Christmas By the Book, Anne Marie Ryan
- This One Summer, Mario Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki
- Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
- Her Royal Spyness, Rhys Bowen
- 1979: An Allie Burns Novel, Val McDermid
- When I Lived in Modern Times, Linda Grant
- Death at Whitewater Church, Andrea Carter
- Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune
- The Other Side of Midnight, Simone St James
- The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, Amy E. Reichert
- Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
- The Strange Files of Fremont Jones, Dianne Day
- Ruth's First Christmas Tree, Elly Griffiths
- White Ivy: A Novel, Susie Yang
- Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
- No Gods, No Monsters: A Novel, Cadwell Turnbull
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
- Pirate King, Laurie R. King
- Take Me with You When You Go, David Levithan and Jennifer Niven
- Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Clark and Division: A Novel, Naomi Hirahara
- A Room Full of Bones, Elly Griffiths
- The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
- All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
- Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising), Susan Cooper
- Intimacies: A Novel, Katie Kitamura
- An Unlikely Spy, Rebecca Starford
- Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
- T Is for Trespass, Sue Grafton
- Beach Read, Emily Henry
- A Peculiar Combination: An Electra McDonnell Novel, Ashley Weaver
- The Great Godden, Meg Rosoff
- The God of the Hive, Laurie R. King
- Lucky Us: A Novel, Amy Bloom
- Whereabouts: A Novel, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The House at Sea's End, Elly Griffiths
- People From My Neighbourhood, Hiromi Kawakami, tr. Ted Goossen
- The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King
- What Angels Fear: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, C.S. Harris
- The Secrets of Wishtide, Kate Saunders
- Summer: A Novel, Ali Smith
- Oceanic, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Magpie Lane, Lucy Atkins
- A Madness of Sunshine, Nalini Singh
- Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology, Kendra Boileau
- Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers
- Slow Horses, Mick Herron
- Kusama: The Graphic Novel, Elisa Macellari
- Comes the War, Ed Ruggero
- The Dancing Floor, Barbara Michaels
- Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines, Lulah Ellender
- No Ivy League, Hazel Newlevant
- The Less People Know about Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, Axton Betz-Hamilton
- Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
- The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell
- Mrs. Tim of the Regiment: A Novel, D.E Stevenson
- Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I, Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb
- The German House, Annette Hess, tr. Elisabeth Lauffer
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
- The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh
- Spring: A Novel, Ali Smith
- Fresh Water for Flowers Valerie Perrin, tr. Hildegarde Serle
- Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
Books Read in 2020
- Displacement, Kiku Hughes
- The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper
- The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanizaki, tr. Edward G. Seidensticker
- The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
- S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
- After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next, Jana Hensel
- Broke City, Wendy McGrath
- North East, Wendy McGrath
- Santa Rosa, Wendy McGrath
- Farewell, Ghosts, Nadia Terranova, tr. Ann Goldstein
- Bunny Lake Is Missing, Evelyn Piper
- Dancing at the Pity Party, Tyler Feder
- Invisible Differences, Julie Dachez, Madememoiselle Caroline, tr. Edward Gauvin
- The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
- Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, Penelope Bagieu
- An Unmarked Grave: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
- Sweet Little Lies, Caz Frear
- Over Sea, Over Stone, Susan Cooper
- The Rescuers, Margery Sharp
- A Map of the Damage, Sophia Tobin
- Eva Underground, Dandi Daley Mackall
- The Godwulf Manuscript, Robert B. Parker
- The Phantom Twin, Lisa Brown
- "R" Is For Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, Natasha Trethewey
- Winter: A Novel, Ali Smith
- At Bertram's Hotel: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- How To Be Autistic, Charlotte Amelia Poe
- Maigret in Montmartre, Georges Simenon, tr.Daphne Woodward
- The Mountains Wild, Sarah Stewart Taylor
- The Summer Wives: A Novel, Beatriz Williams
- The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Fordham, Aya Morton
- The Cutting Season: A Novel, Attica Locke
- Haunting Of Strawberry Water, Tara Gould
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel, Otessa Moshfegh
- Summer Solstice: An Essay, Nina MacLaughlin
- Little Jewel, Patrick Modiano, tr. Penny Hueston
- American Girl: Scenes from a Small-Town Childhood, Mary Cantwell
- Angel (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Stepping Stones (Peapod Farm), Lucy Knisley
- Not Our Kind: A Novel, Kitty Zeldis
- Book Love, Debbie Tung
- The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths
- Blame the Dead, Ed Ruggero
- Strike Your Heart, Amélie Nothomb, tr, Alison Anderson
- "Q" is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Underground Time, Delphine de Vigan, tr. George Miller
- Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, Julia Alekseyeva
- The Vet's Daughter (NYRB Classics), Barbara Comyns
- The Aloe, Katherine Mansfield
- Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult, Marianne Boucher
- The Wolf Of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland, Carol Isaacs (The Surreal McCoy)
- The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
- Dominicana: A Novel, Angie Cruz
- Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat, Aimée de Jongh, tr. (Dutch)
- Algeria Is Beautiful like America, Olivia Burton, Mahi Grand, tr. Edward Gauvin
- "P" is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story, Debbie Tung
- The Ashes of London, Andrew Taylor
- The Mars Room: A Novel, Rachel Kushner
- Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir, Robin Ha
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Richard Peck
- The Mischief, Assia Djebar, tr. Frances Frenaye
- Two Girls Down, Louisa Luna
- Heart Berries: A Memoir, Terese Marie Mailhot
- Penny Nichols, MK Reed, Greg Means, Matt Wiegle
- Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy, Larry Loftis
- Sanditon: [Jane Austen], Kate Riordan
- Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, Nora Krug
Books Read in 2019
- Dark Passage, David Goodis
- Honeymoon to Nowhere, Akimitsu Takagi, tr. Sadako Mizuguchi
- Childhood, Tove Ditlevsen, tr. Tiina Nunnally
- A Curious Beginning (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery), Deanna Raybourn
- "O" is for Outlaw (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The American Agent Jacqueline Winspear
- The Deep Blue Good-by: A Travis McGee Novel, John D. MacDonald
- Stillmeadow Calendar: A Countrywoman's Journal, Gladys Taber
- The Earthquake Bird, Susanna Jones
- Purple Hibiscus: A Novel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Dear Mrs. Bird: A Novel, AJ Pearce
- Autumn: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet), Ali Smith
- Suite for Barbara Loden, Nathalie Leger, tr. Natasha Lehrer and Cecile Menon
- To Die But Once, Jacqueline Winspear
- "N" is for Noose (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Dutch House: A Novel, Ann Patchett
- Be Prepared, Vera Brosgol, Alec Longstreth
- Sula, Toni Morrison
- The Flower Arranger, JJ Ellis
- The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott
- Rule Britannia, Alec Marsh
- Eve Green, Susan Fletcher
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- Durable Goods, Elizabeth Berg
- "M" is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Beguiled: A Novel, Thomas Cullinan
- The Old Capital, Yasunari Kawabata, tr. J. Martin Holman
- Manhattan Beach: A Novel, Jennifer Egan
- Moshi Moshi, Banana Yoshimoto, tr. Asa Yoneda
- Mr. Hire's Engagement, Georges Simenon, tr. Anna Moschovakis
- As Close to Us as Breathing, Elizabeth Poliner
- The Virgin Suicides: A Novel, Jeffrey Eugenides
- From Doon with Death, Ruth Rendell
- The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, Margaret Atwood, Renee Nault
- Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel, Jean Kwok
- "L" is for Lawless (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- All She Was Worth, Miyuki Miyabe, tr. Alfred Birnbaum
- All the Beautiful Girls, Elizabeth J. Church
- Points and Lines, Seicho Matsumoto, tr.Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum
- Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Ruth Reichl
- Freya: A Novel, Anthony Quinn
- The New House, Lettice Cooper
- The Janus Stone, Elly Griffiths
- Restaurant of Love Regained, Ito Ogawa, tr. David Karashima
- Masks, Fumiko Enchi, tr.Juliet Winters Carpenter
- Nisei Daughter, Monica Itoi Sone
- Just So Happens, Fumio Obata
- “K” is for Killer (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith
- Living on the Border, Esther De Waal
- To Davy Jones Below, Carola Dunn
- The Aftermath, Rhidian Brook
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara
- "J" is for Judgment (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- An American Marriage: A Novel, Tayari Jones
- A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Maigret Sets a Trap, Georges Simenon, tr. Sian Reynolds
- Welcome Strangers (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hockimg
- Devil's Daughter, Lisa Kleypas
- Lock 14, Georges Simenon, tr. Robert Baldick
- The Island of Sea Women: A Novel, Lisa See
- Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life, Sofka Zinovieff
- The Land of My Dreams: War at Home, 1916, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Normal People: A Novel, Sally Rooney
- Return from the Ashes, Hubert Monteilhet, tr. Richard Howard
- The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean, Mira Robertson
- Indifferent Heroes (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- "I" is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Nothing but the Night (NYRB Classics), John Williams
- A Spring of Love, Celia Dale
- Good Daughters (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
- An Experiment in Love: A Novel, Hilary Mantel
- Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, Kate Winkler Dawson
- "H" is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Alice Network: A Novel, Kate Quinn
- Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece, Camille Laurens, tr. Willard Wood
- Maigret's Mistake, Georges Simenon, tr. Howard Curtis
- "G" is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Emma, Vol. 1: Kaoru Mori
Books Read in 2018
- A Dark Corner, Celia Dale
- Christmas at High Rising (Virago Modern Classics), Angela Thirkell
- My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
- Before Mars (A Planetfall Novel), Emma Newman
- Sheep's Clothing (Virago Modern Classics), Celia Dale
- Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, William Boyd
- "F" is for Fugitive (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Mitford Murders: A Mystery: Jessica Fellowes
Audio Book - The Second Rider, Alex Beer, tr. Tim Mohr
- Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony, Andrew Bloomfield
- The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel, Kate Morton
- Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori
- E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Curtain Call, Anthony Quinn
- November Road: A Novel, Lou Berney
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel, Hank Green
- A Shilling for Candles, Josephine Tey
- D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Attachments: A Novel, Rainbow Rowell
- C Is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- On the Edge, Peter Lovesey
- A Little Bird Told Me, Marianne Holmes
- B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- August is a Wicked Month, Edna O'Brien
- A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysterie), Sue Grafton
- Tennison: Prime Suspect 1973, Lynda La Plante
- The Wildling Sisters, Eve Chase
- A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 (NYRB Classics), Iris Origo
- Holloway, Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards
- Sabrina, Nick Drnaso
- Clock Dance: A Novel, Anne Tyler
- How to Find Love in a Bookshop: A Novel, Veronica Henry
- The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel, Gail Honeyman
- I See You, Clare Mackintosh
- Act Like It, Lucy Parker
- Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine, Anaële Hermans, Delphine Hermans
- Miss Buncle's Book: D.E. Stevenson
- Coronet Among The Weeds, Charlotte Bingham
- Vinegar Girl: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare), Anne Tyler
- The Room on Rue Amélie, Kristin Harmel
- Merry Hall, Beverley Nichols
- Paper Girls Volume 2, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, Matt Wilson
- The Light of Paris, Eleanor Brown
- Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home, Susan Hill
- Sight: A Novel, Jessie Greengrass
- A Baby's Bones (Sage Westfield), Rebecca Alexander
- Tirra Lirra by the River: A Novel, Jessica Anderson
- The Female Persuasion: A Novel, Meg Wolitzer
- Paper Girls Volume 1, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, Matthew Wilson
- Basic Black With Pearls (NYRB Classics), Helen Weinzweig
- We All Wish for Deadly Force, Leela Corman
- Medea [and Other Plays], Euripides, tr. Philip Vellacott
- Invitation to the Waltz (Virago Modern Classics), Rosamond Lehmann
- All for Nothing (NYRB Classics), Walter Kempowski, tr. Anthea Bell
- Keep the Home Fires Burning (War at Home 1915), Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Dying Voices, Laura Wilson
- Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa, tr. Alison Watts
- The Public Image (Virago Modern Classics), Muriel Spark
- Bodies of Light, Sarah Moss
- Little Reunions (NYRB Classics), Eileen Chang, tr. Martin Merz, tr. Jane Weizhen Pan
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- Three Floors Up, Eshkol Nevo, tr. Sondra Silverston
- Providence, Anita Brookner
- A London Child of the 1870s, Molly Hughes
- Call Me by Your Name: A Novel, André Aciman
- Exposure, Helen Dunmore
- In Other Words: Jhumpa Lahiri, tr. Ann Goldstein
- The Clothing of Books: Jhumpa Lahiri, tr. Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush
- The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
- The Cellars of the Majestic, Georges Simenon, tr. Howard Curtis
- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, tr. Anna Summers
- Woman in the Dark, Dashiell Hammett
Books Read in 2017
- Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Jane Smiley
- We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to be French, Emma Beddington
- Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King
- Carney's House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
- My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
- The Bastards of Pizzofalcone, Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Antony Shugaar
- Bread and Butter Stories, Mary Norton
- Browse: The World in Bookshops, Henry Hitchings
- Appointment with Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Agatha Christie
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, P.D. James
- The Woolgrower's Companion, Joy Rhoades
- Thornhill, Pam Smy
- The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin
- The Living Infinite: A Novel, Chantel Acevedo
- Carol, Patricia Highsmith
- The Madeleine Project: Clara Beaudoux, tr. Alison Anderson
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- Something Like Happy, John Burnside
- A Cold Day for Murder, Dana Stabenow
- Bilgewater, Jane Gardam
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
- Beautiful Animals: A Novel, Lawrence Osborne
- Six Bedrooms: [Short Stories], Tegan Bennett Daylight
- Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite, Suki Kim
- Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Stowaway to Mars, John Wyndham
- Under the Harrow: A Novel, Flynn Berry
- Paper Girls: Volume 3, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
- The Strays, Emily Bitto
- My Holidays, Sylvia Smith
- Hend and the Soldiers, Badriah Albeshr, tr. Sanna Dhahir
- Sindbad the Sailor (Penguin Little Black Classics), Anonymous, tr. Malcolm C. Lyons
- The Forgotten Garden: A Novel, Kate Morton
- The Child, Fiona Barton
- Leaving Home: A Novel, Anita Brookner
- Finding Nouf, Zoë Ferraris
- In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II, Rhys Bowen
- The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics), Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer, tr. Ida H. Washington and Carol E. Washington
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (Penguin Little Black Classics), Kate Chopin
- Swimming Home: A Novel, Mary-Rose MacColl
- Wait Till Next Year - A Memoir, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- A Likeness In Stone, Julia Wallis Martin
- The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Beatriz Williams
- The Dry: A Novel, Jane Harper
- Family Lexicon (NYRB Classics), Natalia Ginzburg, tr. Jenny McPhee
- In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Dark Circle, Linda Grant
- Their Finest: A Novel, Lissa Evans
- Dying: A Memoir, Cory Taylor
- Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Maggie Hope Mystery, Susan Elia MacNeal
- Homegoing: A Novel, Yaa Gyasi
- The Confidant: A Novel, Helene Gremillon, tr. Alison Anderson
- Stay with Me: A Novel, Ayobami Adebayo
- First Love, Gwendoline Riley
- Rosemary's Baby: A Novel, Ira Levin
- Closely Watched Trains, Bohumil Hrabal, tr. Edith Pargeter
- Nights At the Alexandra, William Trevor
- Little Deaths: A Novel, Emma Flint
- The Gingerbread Woman, Jennifer Johnston
- Household Saints, Francine Prose
- Magnus, Sylvie Germain, tr. Christine Donougher
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- A Touch of Mistletoe, Barbara Comyns
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
- Stolen Beauty: A Novel, Laurie Lico Albanese
- Paper Girls: Volume 2, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
- Paper Girls: Volume 1, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
- Snow White: A Graphic Novel, Matt Phelan
- A Slip Under the Microscope (Penguin Little Black Classics), H.G.Wells
- The Beautiful Visit, Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man (NYRB Classics), U.R. Ananthamurthy, tr. A. K. Ramanujan
- London Calling, Sara Sheridan
- The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
- Third Miss Symons (Virago Modern Classics), F. M. Mayor
- A Florence Diary, Diana Athill
Books Read in 2016
- Goodbye, Piccadilly: War at Home - 1914, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Decision at Delphi, Helen Macinnes
- In a Lonely Place: Dorothy B. Hughes
- The Stormy Petrel, Mary Stewart
- Blood Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi, Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Anthony Shugaar
- The Game, Laurie R. King
- Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Penguin Little Black Classics), Giovanni Boccaccio, tr. Peter Hainsworth
- Early Warning, Jane Smiley
- The Invisibility Cloak (NYRB Classics), Ge Fei, tr. Canaan Morse
- Grand Hotel (NYRB Classics), Vicki Baum, tr. Basil Creighton, rev. Margot Bettauer Dembo
- The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Georges Simenon, tr. Shaun Whiteside
- The City Baker's Guide to Country Living: A Novel, Louise Miller
- Fair Play (NYRB Classics), Tove Jansson, tr. Thomas Teal
- Fiercombe Manor: A Novel, Kate Riordan
- Cabaret, Joe Masteroff
- The Crying Child, Barbara Michaels
- Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953, Elizabeth Winder
- Saga: Vol. 4, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (NYRB Classics), Teffi, tr. Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Elizabeth Chandler, Edythe Haber, Irina Steinberg
- The Namesake: A Novel, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Saga: Vol. 3, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Red Garden, Alice Hoffman
- The Dollhouse: A Novel, Fiona Davis
- A Sensible Life, Mary Wesley
- Family Life: A Novel, Akhil Sharma
- This Must Be the Place: A Novel, Maggie O'Farrell
- Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
- Indignation, Philip Roth
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner
- Some Luck, Jane Smiley
- The Girls in the Garden: A Novel, Lisa Jewell
- Music At Long Verney, Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Lawyer's Secret, M. E. Braddon
- Brighton Belle (A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery), Sara Sheridan
- Hello Bunny Alice, Laura Wilson
- Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl: The Summer of 1926 at the Horseshoe Inn, Kay Turnbaugh, Lee Tillotson
- Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
- A Quiet Drink, Deborah Moggach
- Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy, Ken Follett
- If I Forget You: A Novel, Thomas Christopher Greene
- Saga: Vol. 2, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Hunters: A Novel, James Salter
- Alex + Ada: Volume 3, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- The Green Road: A Novel, Anne Enright
- The China Factory, Mary Costello
- Alex + Ada: Volume 2, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- The Alchemist's Daughter: A Novel, Katharine McMahon
- The Canterbury Papers: A Novel, Judith Koll Healey
- Saga: Vol. 1, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Sins of the Fathers, Lawrence Block
- Alex + Ada: Volume 1, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- Hill (NYRB Classics), Jean Giono, tr. Paul Eprile
- The Moomins and the Great Flood, Tove Jansson, tr.David McDuff
- Death in Zanzibar, M. M. Kaye
- What We Talk About When We Talk about the Tube: The District Line, John Lanchester
- Long Red Hair, Meags Fitzgerald
- The Lost Garden: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The Blush (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Life Class: A Novel, Pat Barker
- I Will Have Vengeance (Commissario Ricciardi), Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Anne Milano Appel
- The Woman in the Picture, Katharine McMahon
- In the Café of Lost Youth (NYRB Classics), Patrick Modiano, tr. Chris Clarke
- Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir, Tove Jansson, tr. Kingsley Hart
- Foster, Claire Keegan
- 1914: A Novel, Jean Echenoz, tr. Linda Coverdale
- Love and Summer: A Novel, William Trevor
- More Was Lost: A Memoir (NYRB Classics), Eleanor Perenyi
- Petty Theft, Pascal Girard, tr. Helge Dascher
- Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
- The Two-Family House: A Novel, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Photobooth: A Biography, Meags Fitzgerald
- Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict, Vanessa Gebbie
- A Good Parcel of English Soil: The Metropolitan Line, Richard Mabey
- Beyond the Glass (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- Black Wings Has My Angel (NYRB Classics), Elliott Chaze
- Travelling Light: Tove Jansson, tr. Silvester Mazzarella
- Even the Dead: A Quirke Novel, Benjamin Black
- Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
- The Crimson Rooms, Katharine McMahon
- The Sugar House (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- My History: A Memoir of Growing Up, Antonia Fraser
- Heads and Straights: The Circle Line, Lucy Wadham
- Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War, Jennifer Robson
- A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono , tr. ?
Books Read in 2015
- Poor Cow, Nell Dunn
- The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir
- Lanterns Across the Snow, Susan Hill
- A Jest of God, Margaret Laurence
- Jamilti and Other Stories, Rutu Modan, tr. Noah Stollman, Jesse Mishori
- Justice Hall, Laurie R. King
- At the Source: A Writer's Year, Gillian Clarke
- Macbeth, Gareth Hinds
- Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Wreath of Roses (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Ship Fever: Stories, Andrea Barrett
- The Property, Rutu Modan, tr. Jessica Cohen
- So Big, Edna Ferber
- Girl Waits with Gun, Amy Stewart
- The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman, Susanna Whatman
- Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, Kate Summerscale
- Death on Site, Janet Neel
- Exit Wounds: Rutu Modan, tr. Noah Stollman
- By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Shining Girls: A Novel, Lauren Beukes
- My Berlin Child, Anne Wiazemsky, tr. Alison Anderson
- The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
- My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past, Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair, tr. Carolin Sommer
- The Lady Agnès Mystery - Volume 1: The Season of the Beast and The Breath of the Rose, Andrea Japp, tr. Lorenza Garcia
- Chocky (NYRB Classics), John Wyndham
- The Devereaux Legacy, Carolyn Hart
- High Wages, Dorothy Whipple
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
- Dominion, C.J. Sansom
- The People in the Photo: Hélène Gestern, tr. Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz
- Legend in Green Velvet, Elizabeth Peters
- Half of the Human Race, Anthony Quinn
- O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
- The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery, Clare Langley-Hawthorne
- Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Winston Graham
- The Water's Lovely, Ruth Rendell
- The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich
- Death in the Fog, Mignon G. Eberhart
- A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald, tr. Alice Menzies
- Nora Webster: A Novel, Colm Toibin
- Consequences of Sin, Clare Langley-Hawthorne
- A Hundred Summers, Beatriz Williams
- Longbourn, Jo Baker
- All Passion Spent (Virago Modern Classics), Vita Sackville-West
- Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: The Grantchester Mysteries, James Runcie
- A Possibility of Violence: A Novel, D. A. Mishani, tr. Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- Infinite Riches: Classic Stories by Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Lynn Knight
- Rattle His Bones (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries), Carola Dunn
- The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman
- The Hilltop: A Novel, Assaf Gavron, tr. Steven Cohen
- Crooked Heart: A Novel, Lissa Evans
- Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel, Laura Lippman
- Dolly City, Orly Castel-Bloom, tr. Dalya Bilu
- The Missing File: A Novel, D. A. Mishani, tr. Steven Cohen
- Station Eleven: A novel, Emily St. John Mandel
- Sisters of Shiloh, Kathy Hepinstall, Becky Hepinstall Hilliker
- Gillespie and I: A Novel, Jane Harris
- Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, Richard Rhodes
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani, tr. William Weaver
- Second Person Singular, Sayed Kashua, tr. Mitch Ginsburg
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- The Evening Chorus: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The People of Forever Are Not Afraid: A Novel, Shani Boianjiu
- The Girl on the Train: A Novel, Paula Hawkins
- Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel, Peter Robinson
- Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story, Ari Folman, David Polonsky
- Sputnik Sweetheart: A Novel, Haruki Murakami, tr. Philip Gabriel
- The Spy Game: A Novel, Georgina Harding
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore
- Up the Junction (Virago Modern Classics), Nell Dunn