Biographies and Non-Fiction
- Louis Auchincloss, A voice from old New York : a memoir of my youth
- Sylvia Beach, The Letters of Sylvia Beach
- Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- Joelle Bielle, ed., Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker : the complete correspondence
- Bill Bryson, At Hme: A Short History of Private Life
- Michael Capuzzo, The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
- Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, In Tearing Haste: letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Susan Hill, Howards End is on the Landing
- Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon
- Daisy Hay, The Young Romantics
- Katie Hickman, Daughters of Britannia : the lives and times of diplomatic wives
- Sam Irvin, Kay Thompson: from Funny face to Eloise
- Jennifer Kloester, Georgette Heyer's Regency World
- Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf's Nose: essays on biography and Body Parts: Essays on Life-writing
- Marc Levinson, The great A&P and the struggle for small business in America
- Suzanne Loebl, America's Medicis: The Rockefellers and their astonishing cultural legacy
- Mary S. Lovell, Churchills: in love and war
- Margaret MacMillan, Women of the Raj: the mothers, wives and daughters of the British Empure in India
- Hilary Macaskill, Agatha Christie at Home
- Clara Emily Milburn, Mrs. Milburn's diaries : an Englishwoman's day-to-day reflections, 1939-45, edited by Peter Donnell {recommended by Claire}
- Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village {or is this fiction? not quite sure}
- Wendy Moffat, A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- Wendy Moore, Wedlock : the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
- Ethan Mordden, The Guest List: how Manhattan defined American sophistication from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's ball
- Venetia Murray, An elegant madness: high society in Regency England
- Beverly Nichols, Merry Hall, Laughter on the Stairs, and Sunlight on the Stairs, and his Garden Trilogy {recommended by Claire}
- Virginia Nicholson, Singled out : how two million British women survived without men after the First World War
- Patricia O'Toole, The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
- Stephen Puleo, A city so grand : the rise of an American metropolis, Boston 1850-1900
- Helen Rappaport, A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
- Carol Eron Rizzoli, The House at Royal Oak
- Margaret Roach, And I shall have some peace there : trading in the fast lane for my own dirt road
- Scott Simon, Baby, we were meant for each other : in praise of adoption
- Michael Sims, The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic
- Paul Spicer, The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll
- Kate Summerscale, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady {noticed on Cornflower Books}
- Barbara Strauch, The secret life of the grown-up brain : the surprising talents of the middle-aged mind
- Amanda Vickery, Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England
- Frances Wilson, The ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth : a life
- Ilyon Woo, The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
- Lucy Worsley, If walls could talk : an intimate history of the home
- Jean Zimmerman, Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance
- Elizabeth Anton, Writing Jane Austen
- Tiffany Baker, The Gilly Salt Sisters
- C.A. Belmond, A Rather Curious Engagement, A Rather Charming Invitation and A Rather Remarkable Homecoming
- Elizabeth Bowen, To the north
- Ann Bridge, Julia Probyn novels (recommended by Fleur
- Marika Cobbold, Guppies for Tea and Drowning Rose
- Jill Dawson, The great lover
- Louise Dean, The Old Romantic
- Kim Edwards, The lake of dreams
- Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire (August)
- Stella Gibbons, Westwood (recommended by Darlene)
- Sally Gunning, Bound, The Widow's War, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
- Jane Harris, Gillespie and I
- Sheila Heti, Ticknor
- Georgette Heyer, A Civil Contract
- Katherine Howe, The house of velvet and glass
- Sadie Jones, The Uninvited Guests
- Harriet Lane, Alys, Always {recommended on Cornflower Books}(June)
- Elinor Lipman, The family man
- Penelope Lively, Family album and How it all began
- Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter
- Evan Mandery, Q: a Novel {recommended on Cornflower Books}
- Anna Maxted, Rich again
- Diane Meier, The Season of Second Chances
- Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours
- Alexandra Potter, The two lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather
- Francesca Segal, The Innocents
- Natasha Solomons, Mr. Rosenblum dreams in English and The House at Tyneford
- M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans (recommended by Fleur}
- Elizabeth Taylor, At Mrs Lippincote's {reommended by Claire}
- Colm Toibin, The Master
- Rose Tremain, Trespass {recommended by JoAnn}
- Katharine Weber, True confections
- Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows and This Real Night {recommended by Nicola}
- Madeleine Wickham, A Desirable Residence
Mysteries
- Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know and A Crimson Warning
- Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch
- C.C. Benison, Eleven Pipers Piping (October)
- Kenneth Cameron, The Bohemian Girl
- Jayne Casey, The Burning
- Camilla Ceder, Frozen Moment {recommended on Crimepieces}
- Joanna Challis, The Villa of Death: a Daphne du Maurier mystery
- Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
- Barbara Clevely, Joe Sandilands series
- Edmund Crispin, The moving toyshop and The gilded fly
- Deborah Crombie, Necessary as blood and No Mark Upon Her
- Judith Cutler, The food detective, The keeper of secrets, and Guilty Pleasures
- Anna Dean, A Place of Confinement {August}
- Patricia Duncker, The strange case of the composer and his judge
- Carola Dunn, Gone West
- Marjorie Eccles, The Shape of Sand and Broken Music
- Martin Edwards, Take my breath away
- Kate Ellis, A Painted Doom (and later books)
- Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham
- Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea
- Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones
- Martha Grimes, The Winds of Change, Dust and The black cat
- Georgette Heyer, The Unfinished Clue
- Susan Hill, A Question of Identity (November)
- Suzette Hill, Reverend Oughterard mysteries
- Hazel Holt, Mrs. Malory and death in practice, Mrs. Malory and the silent killer, Mrs. Malory and no cure for death, Mrs. Malory and a death in the family, and Mrs. Malory and a time to die {I missed these!}
- Claude Izner, The Assassin in the Marais
- P.D. James, Death comes to Pemberley
- Faye Kellerman, Gun Games
- Erin Kelly, The Dark Rose {recommended on Cornflower Book}
- Christobel Kent, The Drowning River and A Murder in Tuscany
- Mary Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey {recommended by Claire}
- Camilla Lackberg, The Ice Princess
- Donna Leon, Beastly Things
- M.L. Wentworth, Murder in the Rue Dumas (September)
- Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark (recommended by Harriet Devine}
- G.M. Malliet, St. Just series
- Peter May, The Enzo Files
- Jane McLaughlin, A nice place to die
- Katharine McMahon, The Crimson Rooms
- Denise Mina, The end of the wasp season
- Chris Pavone, The Expats
- Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month, A Rule Against Murder and The Beautiful Mystery (August)
- Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea (August)
- Peter Robinson, Watching the Dark (September)
- Lynn Shepherd, The Solitary House {recommended by Fleur Fisher}
- Charles Todd, A Bitter Truth and An Unmarked Grave {July}
- L.C. Tyler, The herring-seller's apprentice
- Nicola Upson, Fear in the Sunlight
- Fred Vargas, An Uncertain Place
Bloomsbury Group books
- Frank Baker, Miss Hargreaves
- E.F. Benson, Mrs. Ames
- Joyce Dennys, Henrietta's War and Henrietta Sees it Through
- Rachel Ferguson, The Brontes Went to Woolworths
- Paul Gallico, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
- Ada Leverson, Love's shadow
- D.E.Stevenson, Mrs. Tim of the Regiment
Persephone books
- D.E. Stevenson, Miss Buncle's Book
5.14.12