Biographies, memoirs, letters, literature, history
- Helen Ashton, I had a sister {May}
- Erica Bauermeister, House lessons {July}
- Kate Winkler Dawson, Death in the air: the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city {May}
- Anne Glenconner, Lady in waiting {May}
- Christina Hardyman, Novel houses: twenty famous fictional dwellings {March}
- Claire Harman, Murder by the book {August}
Hilary Jackson, Dress in the age of Jane Austen {January} - Sheila Kaye-Smith, Kitchen fugue {August}
- Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern, More talk of Jane Austen {September}
- Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern, Talking of Jane Austen {April}
- Erik Larson, The splendid and the vile {June}
- Elizabeth Longford, The pebbled shore {May}
- Emily Midorikawa and Emily Claire McSweeney, A secret sisterhood: the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf {May}
- Claudia Renton, Those wild Wyndhams {June}
- Kristin Richardson, The season: a social history of the debutante {February}
- Margaret Rhodes, The final courtsey {December}
- Jane Robinson, A force to be reckoned with: a history of the Women's Institute {April}
- Omid Scobie and Caroline Durand, Finding freedom {December}
- Fanny Singer, Always home: a daughter's recipes and stories {Novrember}
- Susan Tweedsmuir, The Edwardian Lady {May}
- Susan Tweedsmuir, The lilac and the rose {June}
- Bee Wilson, The way we eat now {July}
- Serena Zabin, The Boston Massacre: a family history {May}
Fiction
Mysteries
- Jane Austen, Sanditon {January}
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility {April}
- Jane Austen and Another Lady, Sanditon {April}
- Elizabeth Buchan, Daughters {February}
- Mary Essex, Tea is so intoxicating {November}
- Gina Fattone, The spinster diaries {May}
- Maggie Humm, Talland House {October}
- Henry James, Washington Square {December}
- Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society {November}
- Elinor Lipman, The pursuit of Alice Thrift {December}
- Elinor Lipman, Rachel to the rescue {November}
- Mameve Medwed, Host family {December}
- Cathleen Schine, The grammarians {October}
- Madeleine St. John, The women in black {September}
- D.E. Stevenson, Vittoria Cottage {September}
- Emma Tennant, Emma in love {April}
- Angela Thirkell, Cheerfulness breaks in {August}
- Angela Thirkell, Northbridge Rectory {August}
- Anthony Trollope, Christmas at Thompson Hall and other Christmas stories {December}
- Anthony Trollope, The way we live now {January}
- Joanna Trollope, Balancing act {May}
- Joanna Trollope, Mum & Dad {August}
- Edith Wharton, The age of innocence {October}
Mysteries
- Catherine Aird, A late Phoenix {August}
- Margery Allngham, The White Cottage mystery {August}
- Ace Atkins, Angel eyes {March}
- Cara Black, Murder in Bel-Air {July}{for Paris in July}
- Lynne Brittney, A murder in Chelsea {May}
- Ann Cleeves, The darkest evening {December}
- Elly Griffiths, The lantern men {August}
- Martha Grimes, The black cat {October}
- Martha Grimes, Dust {February}
- Sophie Hannah, The killings at Kingfisher Hall {December}
- Sophie Hannah, The mystery of the three quarters {October}
- Susan Hill, The benefits of hindsight {July}
- Donna Leon, Trace elements {May}
- Alexander McCall Smith, The geometry of holding hands {August}
- Frederique Molay, The city of blood {July} {for Paris in July}
- Frederique Molay, Crossing the line {July} {for Paris in July}
- Frederique Molay, Looking to the woods {December}
- Frederique Molay, Vital Links {December}
- Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club {November}
- Louise Penny, The long way home {June}
- Anne Perry, One fatal flaw {August}
- Deana Raybourn, A murderous relation {June}
- Peter Robinson, Many rivers to cross {February}
- Kate Rhodes, Blood symmetry {November}
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, Hid from our eyes {August}
- Nicola Upson, The secrets of winter {December}
The books listed in bold type were among my most favorite this year.
12.31.20
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