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1813 | 2013 January |
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June . . . July |
Biographies, memoirs, letters, history
- The Astor Orphan, by Alexandra Aldrich {May}
- Bertie: a life of Edward VII, by Jane Ridley {June}
- Bluestockings: the remarkable story of the first women to fight for an education {June}
- Clementine in the Kitchen, by Samuel Chamberlain {July}
- Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey, by Robert Kuhn McGregor with Ethan Lewis {September}
- Eighty Days: Nellie Bly amd Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world, by Matthew Goodman {August}
- Footprints in Paris: a few streets, a few lives, by Gillian Tindall {July}
- How to create the perfect wife, by Wendy Moore {April}
- A lot to ask: a life of Barbara Pym, by Hazel Holt {May}
- Mastering the art of French eating, by Ann Mah {November}
- The Pinecone: the story of Sarah Losh, forgotten romantic heroine - antiquarian, architect, visionary, by Jenny Uglow {February}
- Provence 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, by Luke Barr {December}
- Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household, by Kate Hubbard {January}
Fiction
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton {September}
- Bath Tangle, by Georgette Heyer {April}
- Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers, by Alexander McCall Smith {October}
- Calling invisible women, by Jeanne Ray {January}
- The custom of the country, by Edith Wharton {November}
- Excellent women, by Barbara Pym {June}
- Every Contact Leaves a Trace, by Elanor Dymott {July}
- Fin & Lady, by Cathleen Schine {July}
- A glass of blessings, by Barbara Pym {February}
- A house in the country, by Jocelyn Playfair {January}
- House-bound, by Winifred Peck {June}
- The house of mirth, by Edith Wharton {January}
- Jane and Prudence, by Barbara Pym {June}
- The Library of Unrequited Love, by Sophie Divry {July}
- 'Les metteurs en scene,' by Edith Wharton {June}
- Longbourn, by Jo Baker {December}
- 'Madame de Treymes,' by Edith Wharton {March}
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot {March}
- The Paris Winter, by Imogen Robertson {July}
- Pride and Prejudice: an annotated edition, by Jane Austen, edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks {February}
- Sense & Sensibility, by Joanna Trollope {December}
- Some Tame Gazelle, by Barbara Pym {June}
- Trains and lovers, by Alexander McCall Smith {June}
- The view from Penthouse B, by Elinor Lipman {May}
Mysteries
- Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince, by Nancy Atherton {May}
- The black country, by Alex Grecian {July}
- The blackhouse, by Peter May {February}
- Blind justice, by Anne Perry {August}
- The body in the piazza, by Katherine Hall Page {May}
- Cop to corpse, by Peter Lovesey (November)
- The dead in their vaulted arches, by Alan Bradley {December}
- A death in the small hours, by Charles Finch {February}
- A dying fall, by Elly Griffiths {March}
- Dying in the wool, by Frances Brody {February}
- A fatal likeness, by Lynn Shepherd {August}
- Leaving everything most loved, by Jacqueline Winspear {April}
- The Golden Egg, by Donna Leon {April}
- Julia in Ireland, by Ann Bridge {March}
- Just One Evil Act, by Elizabeth George {October}
- Midnight at Marble Arch, by Anne Perry {April}
- Murder in Chelsea, by Victoria Thompson {July}
- Necessary as blood, by Deborah Crombie {February}
- No man's nightingale, by Ruth Rendell {November}
- No mark upon her, by Deborah Crombie (March)
- Overture to death, by Ngaio Marsh {January}
- A place of confinement, by Anna Dean {August}
- Robert B. Parker's Wonderland, by Ace Atkins {September}
- The secret adversary, by Agatha Christie {January}
- Sidney Chambers and the perils of the night, by James Runcie {June}
- The Sound of Broken Glass, by Deborah Crombie {April}
- Spinsters in Jeopardy, by Ngaio Marsh {March}
- An unmarked grave, by Charles Todd {December}
- Warpaint, by Alicia Foster {June}
- Watching the dark, by Peter Robinson {January}
{The books noted in bold type are among the year's best.}
12.31.13
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