Books read in 2019

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Biographies, memoirs, letters, history

• Christopher Benfey, If:  the untold story of Kipling's American years {November}
• Benjamin C. Dreyer, Dreyer's English {March}
• Kathleen Flinn, The kitchen counter cooking school {June}
• Annie Gray, The greedy queen:  eating with Victoria {July}
• Claire Harman, Fanny Burney {January}
• Ann Hood, Kitchen yarns:  notes on life, love and food {January}
• Robert Liddell, Elizabeth and Ivy {January}
• Elinor Lipman, I can't complain:  (all too) personal essays {January}
• Brenda Maddox, George Eliot {May}
• Frances Mayes, See you in the piazza {May}
• Joshua P. Mezrich, When death becomes life:  notes from a transplant surgeon {January}
• Roy Morris Jr., Gertrude Stein has arrived:  the homecoming of a literary legend {October}
• Robert Morrison, The regency years {June}
• Mo Moulton, The mutual admiration society:  how Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford circle remade the world for women {December}
• Mary Norris, Greek to me {May}
• Samantha Power, The education of an idealist {October}
• Leah Price, What we talk about when we talk about books {October}
• Ruth Reichl, Save me the plums {September}
• Witold Rybcynski, Charleston fancy: little houses and big dreams in the Holy City {September}
• Lisa Sanders, M.D., Every patient tells a story:  medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis {August}
• Miranda Seymour, In Byron's wake:  the turbulent lives of Lord Byrons wife and daughter {January}
• May Smith, These wonderful rumours! A young schoolteacher's wartime diaries {September}
• Julie Summers, Our uninvited guests:  ordinary lives in extraordinary times in the country houses of wartime Britain {December}
• Susan Tweedsmuir, A winter bouquet {January}
• Mitchell Zuckoff, Fall and rise:  the story of 9/11 {July}

Fiction

• Tracy Chevalier,, A single thread {November}
• E.M. Delafield, The provincial lady in wartime {September}
• George Eliot, Middlemarch {November}
• Elizabeth Fair, Bramton Wick {July}
• Christine Feret-Fleury, The girl who reads on the metro {December}
• Molly Greeley, The clergyman's wife {December}
• Katherine Heiny, Standard deviation {January}
• Elinor Lipman, Good riddance {March}
• Henry James, The Bostonians {March} {Back to the Classics Challenge}
• Sophie Kinsella, I owe you one {March}
• Antoine Laurain, Vintage 1954 {July} {for Paris in July}
• Jennifer Robson, The gown {December}
• D.E. Stevenson, Bel Lamington {March}
• D.E. Stevenson, Fletcher's end {March}
• D.E. Stevenson, Katherine Wentworth {January}
• D.E. Stevenson, Katherine's wedding {February}
• Noel Streatfield, Vicarage family {October}
• Angela Thirkell, Before lunch {April}
• Angela Thirkell, The Brandons {June}
• Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding {March} {Back to the Classics Challenge}
• Dorothy Whipple, Because of the Lockwoods {June}

Mysteries

• Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the heart of gold {June}
• Kate Atkinson, Big Sky {July}
• Rhys Bowen, In Farleigh Field {May}
• Alan Bradley, The golden tresses of the dead {January}
• Ann Cleves, The long call {September} 
• Barbara Clevely, Fall of angels {September}
• Deborah Crombie, A bitter feast {November}
• Charles Finch, The vanishing man {April}
• Elly Griffiths, The stone circle  {June}
• C.S. Harris, Who slays the wicked {May}
• Sophie Henaff, Stick together {July} {for Paris in July}
• Anthony Horowitz, The sentence is death {June}
• Faye Kellerman, Walking shadows {February}
• Donna Leon, Unto us a son is given {March}
• Peter Lovesey, Bertie and the crime of passion {September}
• Peter Lovesey, Bertie and the seven bodies {August}
• Peter Lovesey, Killing with confetti {August}
• Charlie Lovett, The lost book of the grail {May}
• Alexander McCall Smith, The department of sensitive crimes {May}
• Martha Grimes, The old success {November} 
• Katharine Hall Page, The body in the wake {October}
• Chris Pavone, The paris diversion {September}
• Winifred Peck, Arrest the Bishop {March}
• Anne Perry, Triple Jeopardy {May}
• Peter Robinson, Careless love {February}
• Kate Saunders, The case of the wandering scholar {December}
• Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison {December}
• Nicola Upson, Sorry for the dead {November}
• Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent {April}
• Jacqueline Winspear, To die but once {March}

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

12.30.19