Biographies, memoirs, letters, history
- Julia Baird, Victoria the Queen: an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire {January}
- David Coggins, Paris in winter: an illustrated memoir {February}
- Laurie Colwin, Home cooking {January}
- Paul Douglass, Lady Caroline Lamb: a biography {June}
- Anne Edwards, Matriarch: Queen Mary and the house of Windsor {July}
- Lauren Elkin, Flaneuse: women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London {April}
- Frances Faviell, A Chelsea concerto {March}
- Amy Gary, In the great green room: the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown {March}
- Michael Jenkins, A house in Flanders {for Paris in July} {July}
- Margaret Kennedy, Jane Austen {March}
- Mary Lutyens, ed., Lady Lytton's court diary {April}
- Victor Mallet, ed., Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet's letters from Court, 1887-1901 {January}
- Megan Marshall, Elizabeth Bishop: a miracle for breakfast {February}
- Joanna Martin, Wives and daughters: women and children in the Georgian country house {April}
- Anna Quindlen, Imagined London: a tour of the world's greatest fictional city{May}
- Pamela Paul, My life with Bob: flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues{May}
- Carl Rollyson, Amy Lowell anew: a biography {February}
- Nina Sankovitch, The Lowells of Massachusetts: an American family {June}
- Elaine Sciolino, The only street in Paris: life on the rue des Martyers {for Paris in July}{July}
- Lucy Worsley, Jane Austen at home {July}
Fiction
- Joan Aiken, Lady Catherine's necklace {July}
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice {July}
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility {February}
- March Cost, A woman of letters {February}
- O. Douglas, Priorsford {April}
- Beth Gutcheon, Still missing {April}
- Margaret Kennedy, Together and apart {for Margaret Kennedy Day} {June}
- Elinor Lipman, On Turpentine Lane {April}
- Alexander McCall Smith, A distant view of everything {August}
- Alexander McCall Smith, The Bertie Project{May}
- Alexander McCall Smith, My Italian Bulldozer {April}
- Winifred Peck, Bewildering cares {January}
- Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish takes a walk {February}
- Francesca Segal, The awkward age {July}
- Margery Sharp, The eye of love {for Margery Sharp Day} {January}
- Margery Sharp, Martha, Eric and George {for Margery Sharp Day} {January}
- Angela Thirkell, Wild strawberries {July}
- Anthony Trollope, Can you forgive her? {#PalliserParty} {March}
- Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn {#PalliserParty}{July}
- Joanna Trollope, City of friends {July}
Mystery
- Rennie Airth, The death of kings {February}
- Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies {June}
- Lois Austen-Leigh, The incredible crime {August}
- Ann Cleeves, Blue Lightning {May}
- Ann Cleeves, Cold earth{May}
- Patricia Cornwell, Chaos {January}
- Deborah Crombie, Garden of lamentations {March}
- Elly Griffiths, The chalk pit {July}
- Cyril Hare, An English murder {January}
- Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca {January}
- Anthony Horowiyz, Magpie murders {July}
- Faye Kellerman, Bone box {April}
- Donna Leon, Earthly remains {May}
- Susan Elia MacNeil, Princess Elizabeth's spy {July}
- Clare Mackintosh, I see you {April}
- Louise Penny, A rule against murder{May}
- Anne Perry, Murder on the Serpetine {May}
- Leif GW Persson, The dying detective {July}
- Christine Poulson, Footfall {August}
- Ian Rankin, Rather be the devil {March}
- Charles Todd, Racing the devil{May}
- Kate Welsh, The wages of sin {April}
- Jacqueline Winspear, In this grave hour {April}
Non-fiction
- Ronald Epstein, M.D., Attending: medicine, mindfulness and humanity {March}
- David Oshinsky, Bellevue: three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital{May}
The books in bold type are among this year's best, so far.
8.30.17
1 comment:
Audrey, I like your blog very much. You're such as passionate and prolific reader. Your blog is much better than mine! I look forward to future posts.
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