Books Read in 2012

Biographies, memoirs, letters, history
Below Stairs, by Margaret Powell
Catherine the Great:  Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie
Charles Dickens:  a life, by Claire Tomalin
Clover Adams:  a gilded and heartbreaking life, by Natalie Dykstra
Gilded Lives:  the Titanic's First-Class Passengers, by Hugh Brewter
That woman:  the life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, by Anne Sebba
Virginia Woolf, by Alexandra Harris


Fiction

The Children, by Edith Wharton
The House I Loved, by Tatiana de Rosnay
A Rather Lovely Inheritance, by C.A. Belmond
An Unexpected Guest, by Anne Korkeakivi


Mysteries
Anatomy of Murder, by Imogen Robertson
Before the Poison, by Peter Robinson
Believing the Lie, by Elizabeth George
A Christmas Homecoming, by Anne Perry
The Confession, by Charles Todd
Death wore a diadem, by Iona McGregor
Dorchester Terrace, by Anne Perry
Elegy for Eddie, by Jacqueline Winspear
Footsteps in the dark, by Georgette Heyer
The House at Sea's End, by Elly Griffiths
Jane and the Canterbury Tale, by Stephanie Barron
Kill my darling, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Lady Audley's Secret. by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Last Ditch, by Ngaio Marsh
Mrs. Malory and any man's death, by Hazel Holt
The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, by James Runcie
Stage Struck, by Peter Lovesey
The Technologists, by Matthew Pearl
Twelve Drummers Drumming, by C.C. Benison


Plays
Miss Elizabeth Bennet, by A.A. Milne


{The books highlighted in bold type are among the year's best, so far.}

4.30.12