Biographies, memoirs, letters, history
- Julian Barnes, The pedant in the kitchen {May}
- Lydia Edwards, How to read a dress {January}
- Kathryn Hughes, Victorians undone: tales of the flesh in the age of decorum {April}
- John Simpson, The word detective: searching for the meaning of life at the Oxford English dictionary {January}
- Adam Gopnik, At the strangers' gate: arrivals in New York {January}
- Constance Hill, Fanny Burney at the court of Queen Charlotte {May}
- Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters {March}
- Claire Tomalin, A life of my own {March}
Fiction
- John Banville, Mrs. Osmond {April}
- Monica Dickens, The winds of heaven {May}
- Henry James, The portrait of a lady {March}
- Alexander McCall Smith, A time of love and tartan {March}
- R.C. Sheriff, Greengates {Persephone Readathon} {February}
- Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux {#PalliserParty}{January}
- Dorothy Whipple, Greenbanks {March}
Mysteries
- Alan Bradley,The grave is a fine and private place {February}
- Lynn Brittney, Murder in Belgravia {March}
- Jessica Fellowes, The Mitford Murders {February}
- Elizabeth George, The punishment she deserves {May}
- C.S. Harris, Why kill the innocent? {May}
- Sophie Henaff, The awkward squad {May}
- Donna Leon, The temptation of forgiveness {April}
- Katharine Hall Page, The body in the library {January}
The books in bold are among my favorites this year.
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