Books read in 2022

 Biographies, memoirs, letters, literature, history

• Paula Byrne, The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym {December}
• Julie Dobrow, After Emily: two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet {May}
• Dennis Duncan, Index, a History of the {April}
• Antonia Fraser, The case of the married woman:  Caroline Norton and her fight for women's justice {August}
• Anne Hall, Angela Thirkell:  a writer's life {May}
• Alethea Hayter, A sultry month:  scenes of London literary life in 1846 {July}
• Diane Johnson, Flyover lives {July}
• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Warming up Julia Child {June}
• Penelope Lively, Life in the garden {April}
  
• Devony Looser, Sister novelists:  the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontes {November}
• Frances Mayes, A place in the world:  finding the meaning of home {September}
• Rebecca Mead, Home/Land {March}
• Olivia Potts, A half-baked idea {April}
• Hermione Ranfurly, To war with Whittaker {May}
• Ruth Reichl, Remembrance of Things Paris:  sixty years of writing from Gourmet {for Paris in July}
• Jane Ridley, George V {February}
• Matthew Sturgis, Oscar Wilde:  a life {January}
• Laura Thompson, Heiresses {March}
• Nina Tottenberg, Dinners with Ruth {December}
• Claire Wilcox, Patch Work:  a life in clothes {January}
• Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie:  an elusive woman {September}

Fiction

• Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen {April}
• Tessa Arlen, In royal service to the Queen {March}
• Molly Clavering, Dear Hugo {December}
• Molly Clavering, Mrs. Lorimer's quite summer {June}
• Cecile Davis-Weill, The suitors {for Paris in July}
• Kim Fay, Love & saffron {July}
• Paul Gallico, Mrs. Harris goes to Paris and Mrs. Harris goes to New York {September}
• Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in chemistry {June}
• Michelle Huneven, Search {June}
• Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting {July}
• Natalie Jenner, Bloomsbury Girls {June}
• Diane Johnson, Le divorce {September}
• Alexander McCall Smith, Love in the time of Bertie {March}
• Alexamder McCall Smith, The sweet remnants of summer {August}
• Rosamunde Pilcher, Another view {February}
• Rosamunde Pilcher, The shell seekers {April}
• Barbara Pym, Quartet in autumn {June}
• Barbara Pym, The sweet dove died {April}
• D.E. Stevenson, Green money {June}
• D.E. Stevenson, Kate Hardy {June}
• D.E. Stevenson, The lark shall sing {September}
• Angela Thirkell, The headmistress {May}
• Angela Thirkell, Miss Bunting {September}
  
  
  

Mysteries

• Naomi Alderman and others, Marple {October}
• Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the enchanted cottage {June}
• Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby {March}
• Stephanie Barron, Jane and the year without a summer {March}
• S.J. Bennett, All the queen's men {March}
• Cara Black, Murder at the Porte de Versailles for Paris in July}
• Miles Burton, The secret of High Eldersham {February}
• Agatha Christie A pocket full of rye {May}
• Martin Edwards, The girl they all forgot {October}
• Martin Edwards, Murder at the manor:  country house mysteries {January}
• E.X. Ferrars, The other devil's name {June}
• E.X. Ferrars, Root of all evil {May} 
• Elizabeth George, Somewhere to hide {February}
• Tess Gerritsen, Listen to me {July}
• Tess Gerritsen, The surgeon {July}
• Claudia Gray, The murder of Mr. Wickham {July} 
• Elly Griffiths, Bleeding heart yard {November}
• Elly Griffiths, The locked room {July}
• Susan Hill, A change of circumstances {May}
• Faye Kellerman, The Hunt {December}
• Donna Leon, Give unto others {March}
• E.C.R. Lorac, Fell murder {January}
• G.M. Malliet, Death in Cornwall {January}
• Peter Lovesey, Bertie and the seven bodies and Bertie and the Crime of Passion {April}
• Louise Penny, Kingdom of the blind {May}
• Louise Penny, A better man {June}
• Anne Perry, Two debts paid {May}
• Ellis Peters, Death and the joyful woman {June}
• Anna Porter, Hidden agenda {June}
• Kate Saunders, The mystery of the sorrowful maiden {January}
• Nicola Upson, Dear little corpses {August}
• Ruth Ware, The It Girl {November}
• Jacqueline Winspear, A sunlit weapon {April}

The books listed in bold type are among my favorites this year.

As of 12.31.22