Books Read in 2015

Anthony Trollope 1815 | 2015

{January – December}

Margery Sharp Day {January}

Paris in July {July}

Emma 1815|2015 {December}

Biographies, memoirs, letters, history

• Elizabeth Bard, Picnic in Provence {May}
• Kate Anderson Brower, The residence  inside the private world of the White House {September}
• Susan Cheever, e.e. cummings:  a life {January}
• Paul Collins, Sixpence House {August}
• Anne de Courcy, 1939:  The last season {June}
• Jessica Fechtor, Stir:  my broken brain and the meals that brought me home {September}
• M.F.K. Fisher, with photographs by Aileen Ah-Tye, M.F.K. Fisher's Provence {November}
• Antonia Fraser, My history:  a memoir of growing up {November} 
• Janice Hadlow, A royal experiment:  the private life of George III {March}
• Susan Herrmann Loomis, In a French kitchen {July}{Paris in July}
• Cara Nicoletti, Voracious:  a hungry reader cooks her way through great books {August}
• Beverley Nichols, Down the kitchen sink {February}
• Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer, Hissing cousins:  the untold story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth {April}
• Robert Sackville-West, Disinherited {June}
• Robert Sackville-West, Inheritance:  the story of Knole and the Sackvilles {July}

Fiction

• Jane Austen, Emma {December}
• Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover {April}
• Brenda Bowen, Enchanted August {July}
• Anita Diamant,  The Boston Girl {January}
• Leona Francombe, The sage of Waterloo {July}
• Nina George, The little Paris bookshop {July} {Paris in July}
• Georgette Heyer, Frederica {January}
• Henry James, 'The Friends of the Friends' {October}
• Henry James, 'The Private Life' {October}
• Henry James, 'The Wheel of Time' {September}
• Antoine Laurain, The red notebook{July} {Paris in July}
• Denis Mackail, The square circle {September}
• William Nicholson, Amherst {March}
• Natasha Pulley, The watchmaker of Filigree Street {August}
• Hannah Rothschild, The improbability of love {December}
  Margery Sharp, The flowering thorn {June}
• Margery Sharp, Lise Lillywhite {January} {Margery Sharp Day}
• R.C.  Sherriff, The Fortnight in September {September}
• Alexander McCall Smith, Emma {May}
• D.E. Stevenson, The two Mrs. Abbotts {January}
• Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers {April} {#6barsets}
• Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne {June} {#6barsets}
• Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage {September} {#6barsets} 
• Anthony Trollope, The last chronicle of Barset  {December}{#6barsets}
• Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington {October}{#6barsets} 
• Anthony Trollope, The Warden {February}{#6barsets}
• Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April {April}
• Edith Wharton, New Year's Day {October}
• Lauren Willig, The other daughter {September}
• Virginia Woolf, 'Kew Gardens' {September}

Language, Literature

• William Alexander, Flirting with French {March}
• Maggie Lane, Jane Austen and Food {January}
• Mary Norris, Between you and me:  confessions of a comma queen {May}
• David Orr, The road not taken:  finding America in the poem everyone loves and almost everyone gets wrong {November}

Mystery

• Ace Atkins, Robert B, Parker's Kickback {June}
• Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the summer king {May}
• Jean-Luc Bannalec, Death in Brittany {September}
• Carrie Bebris, The suspicions at Sanditon {August}
• Alan Bradley, As chimney sweepers come to dust {January}
• Jeannette de Beauvoir, Asylum {May}
• Kate Charles, False tongues {May}
• Ann Cleeves, Thin Air {June}
• Martin Edwards, The serpent pool {January}
• Martin Edwards, The dungeon house {December}
• Martin Edwards, The frozen shroud {December}
• J. Jefferson Farjeon, Mystery in white {August}
• Elizabeth George, A banquet of consequences {November}
• Elly Griffiths, The ghost fields {July}
• Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Star Fall {June}
• Susan Hill, The soul of discretion {January}
• Donna Leon, Falling in love {February}
• Peter Lovesey, Down among the dead men {July}
• G.M. Malliet, Demon summer {March}
• Ngaio Marsh, Tied up in tinsel {December}
• Frederique Molay, The 7th Woman {February}
• Katherine Hall Page, The body in the birches {June}
• Louise Penny, The cruelest month {December}
• Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair {June}
• Anne Perry, Corridors of the night {December}
• Imogen Robertson, Theft of Life {June}
• Kate Rhodes, A killing of angels {January}
• Kate Rhodes, The winter foundlings {March}
• Peter Robinson, Abbattoir blues {January}
• James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins {July}
• Dan Simmons, The fifth heart {August}
• Alexander McCall Smith, The novel habits of happiness {August} 
• Charles Todd, A pattern of lies {November}
• Jacqueline Winspear, A dangerous place {April}

The books in bold type are among this year's best. ;)

12.31.15