Biographies, memoirs, letters, literature, history
- Paulina Bren, The Barbizon {May}
- Justine Cowan, The secret life of Dorothy Soames {April}
- Annie Gray, Victory in the kitchen: the life of the Churchill's cook {July}
- Eliazabeth Foyster, The trials of the King of Hampshire {September}
- Anne Hart, The life and times of Miss Jane Marple {March}
- Susan Hill, Howard's End is on the landing {April}
- Kate Humble, Thinking on my feet: the small joy of putting one foot in front of the other {February}
- Catherine Grace Katz, The daughters of Yalta {January}
- Alexander Larman, The crown in crisis {September}
- Hilary Macaskill, Virginia Woolf at Home {November}
- Katherine May, Wintering: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times {February}
- Margo Miller, Chateau Higginson: social life in Boston's Back Bay {April}
- Janice Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell {May}
- Phyllis Richardson, House of Fiction {June}
- Sue Shephard, The surprising life of Constance Spry {March}
- Adrian Tinniswood, Noble ambitions: the fall and rise of the English country house after World War II {October}
- Rachel Trethewy, Before Wallis: Edward VIII's other women {November}
- Rachel Trethewy, The Churchill Sisters {December}
- Anne Willan, Women in the kitchen: twelve essential cookbook writers {January}
- Olivia Williams, The secret life of the Savoy {September}
Fiction
- Stephanie Barron, That Churcchill woman {May}
- Mariei Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, The personal librarian {July}
- Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library {July} {for Paris in July}
- Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue {February}
- Antoine Laurain, The reader's room {October}
- Alexander McCall Smith, A promise of ankles {March}
- Carla Oman, Nothing to report {November}
- Carla Oman, Somewhere in England {November}
- A.J. Pearce, Cheerfully yours {September}
- Valerie Perrin, Fresh water for flowers {July} {for Paris in July}
- Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings {November}
- Barbara Pym, Excellent Women {June}
- Barbara Pym, Less than angels {October}
- Barbara Pym, No fond return of love {November}
- Barbara Pym, Some tame gazelle {June}
- Barbara Pym, An Unsuitable Attachment {December}
- Rosamunde Pilcher, A place like home {October}
- Kate Russo, Super Host {March}
- Margery Sharp, Rhododendron Pie {January}
- Angela Thirkell, Growing Up {December}
- Samantha Verant, The secret French recipes of Sophie Valroux {January}
- E.H. Young, Chatterton Square {February}
Mysteries
- Rennie Airth, The blood-dimmed tide {March}
- Rennie Airth, The Decent Inn of Death {February}
- Rennie Airth, River of Darkness {February}
- Ace Atkins, Someone to watch over me {March}
- Jean-Luc Bannalec, The missing corpse {September}
- S.J. Bennett, The Windsor knot {May}
- Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel {August)
- Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas {December}
- Agatha Christie, The Moving finger {May}
- Agatha Christie, The murder at the vicarage {March}
- Agatha Christie, A murder is announced {August}
- Ann Cleeves, The heron's cry {September}
- Ann Cleeves, White nights {March}
- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny, State of Terror {October}
- E.X. Ferrars, Something wicked {August}
- Charles Finch, An extravagant death {March}
- Elly Griffiths, The night hawks {September}
- Elly Griffiths, The postcript murders {April}
- Reginald Hill, A cure for all diseases {August}
- Anthony Horowitz, A line to kill {November}
- Richard Hull, The murder of my aunt {January}
- P.D. James, An unsuitable job for a woman {October}
- Donna Leon, Transient desires {April}
- M.L. Longworth, The vanishing museum on the Rue Mistral {July} {for Paris in July}
- Peter Lovesey, Diamond and the eye {December}
Peter Lovesey, The finisher {January} - Louise Penny, Glass houses {November}
- Louise Penny, A great reckoning {June}
- Louise Penny, The nature of the beast {January}
- Anne Perry, Death with a double edge {May}
- Ruth Rendell, End in tears {December}
- Peter Robinson, Not dark yet {June}
- Jacqueline Winspear, The consequences of fear {June}
The book(s) in bold type were among my favorites this year.
12.30.21
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