Reading List

Biographies, history, lettters, non-fiction

• Anita Anand, Sophia:  princess, suffragette, revolutionary 
• Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot:  a life {B}
•  Clive Aslet, The Edwardian Country House and An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams:  The Americans who revived the country house in Britain 
• Helen Ashton, I had a sister:  a study of Mary Lamb, Dorothy Wordsworth, Caroline Herschel and Cassandra Austen {H}
• Rosemary Ashton, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Portrait of a Marriage 
• Diane Atkinson, The criminal conversation of Mrs. Norton {H}
• Georgina Battiscombe, Queen Alexandra {H}
• Sylvia Beach, The Letters of Sylvia Beach
• Ludwig Bemelmans, To the One I Love Best {recommended here} [H}
• Adrian Bell, Apple Acre {noticed on Desperate Reader}
• Carol Berkin, Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
• Joelle Bielle, ed., Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker : the complete correspondence
• Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Words in Air:  the complete correspondence
• Evelyne Bloch-Dano, The last love of George Sand, translated from the French by Allison Charette
• Shaun Bythell, The diary of a bookseller
• Kate Bolick, Spinster:  making a life of one's own {noticed here}
• Walter R. Bomeman, American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution 
• Mark Bostridge, Lives for sale:  biographers' tales
• Richard Bradford, Literary Rivals:  feuds and antagonisms in the world of books 
• Gladys Brooks, Gramercy Park:  memoirs of a New York girlhood, Boston and return, and Three wise virgins 
• Ursula Buchan, A green and pleasant land:  how England’s gardeners fought the second world war 
• Sophie Campbell, The Season {noticed on Bas Bleu}
• Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, In search of Rex Whistler:  his life and his work 
• Kathy Chamberlain, Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world 
• Cressida Connolly, The rare and the beautiful:  the art, love and lives of the Garman sisters {recommended by Darlene}
• Lady Diana Cooper, Darling monster:  the letters of Diana Cooper to her son, John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952 {noticed here}
• Anne de Courcy, The fishing fleet : husband-hunting in the Raj {recommended by Lyn}, Margot at War and  The Husband Hunters 
• Devon Cox, The street of wonderful possibilities:  Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street 
• Kate Winkler Dawson, Death in the air {H}{M}
• Tatiana de Rosnay, Manderley forever:  a biography of Daphne du Maurier
• Joan DeJean, How Paris became Paris : the invention of the modern city and The Queen's Embroiderer
• John Demos, The Heathen School : a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early Republic
• Matthew Dennison, 'Over the hills and far away:  the life of Beatrix Potter {B}
• Shelley DeWees, Not just Jane: rediscovering seven women writers who transformed British literature
• Monica Dickens, My turn to make the tea
• Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly
• Anthony Doerr, Four seasons in Rome {recommended by Bellezza}
• Elizabeth Driscoll, Tea with Miss Rose:  recipes & reminiscences of Boston’s teacup society
• Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, In Tearing Haste:  letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Jane Dunn, Read my heart:  a love story in England’s age of revolution
• Philip Eade, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters : An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
• Martin Edwards, The golden age of murder
• Samantha Ellis, How to be a heroine, or what I've learned from reading too much
• Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
• Sian Evans, Queen bees:  six brilliant and extraordinary society hostesses between the wars 
• Adam Federman, Fasting and Feasting:  the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
• Nan Fairbother, The cheerful day {H} and Children in the house

• Lara Feigel, The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War {recommended by Fleur}
• Janet Flanner, An American in Paris:  profile of an interlude between two wars {B}
• Margaret Forster, My life in houses {noticed on Cornflower Books} 
• Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack An Ancient Code {from an interview on NPR}   
• Elizabeth Foyster, Trials of the King of Hampshire : madness, secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England {H}
• Flora Fraser, Princesses:  The six daughters of George III 
• Francois Furstenberg, When the United States was French:  five refugees who shaped a nation
• Angelica Garnett, Deceived with kindness:  a Bloomsbury childhood
• Henrietta Garnett, Wives and stunners:  the Pre-Raphaelites and their muses {H}
• Gillian Gill, Nightingales:  the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale
• Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys
• Adam Gopnik, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food {H}
• Michael Gorra, Portrait of a Novel:  Henry James and the Making of a Masterpiece
• Annie Gray, A Greedy Queen:  eating with Queen Victoria 
• Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd, Plats du jour
• Dr. Matthew Green, London:  a travel guide through time 
• Nile Green, The Love of Strangers:  What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London {B}
• Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde:  fashionable society in Georgian London {recommended on Random Jottings} 
• J.C. Hallman, Wm & H'ry:  Literature, Love and Letters between William & Henry James
• Margaret Halsey, With malice toward some {recommended on LibraryThing}
• Claire Harman, Fanny Burney and Murder by the Book {October/March}
• Lucinda Hawskley, The mystery of Princess Louise : Queen Victoria's rebellious daughter {a.p,a.  Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter} {M, B} 
• Daisy Hay, The Young Romantics and Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance {recommended here}
• Edna Healey, The Queen's House:  a social history of Buckingham Palace
• Catherine Hewitt, The Mistress of Paris {B}
• Katie Hickman, Daughters of Britannia : the lives and times of diplomatic wives 
• Constance Hill, Jane Austen ; her homes & her friends {H}
• Susan Hill, Howards End is on the Landing and Jacob's room has too many books {October}
• Matthew Hollis, Now all roads lead to France {H}
• Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot:  the last Victorian {H} 
• Maggie Humm, Snapshots of Bloomsbury:  the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell {H}
• Sam Irvin, Kay Thompson: from Funny face to Eloise 
• Diane Jacobs, Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Remarkable Sisters 
• Clive James, Latest Readings {recommended by Frances}
• Henry James, Travels with Henry James 
• Elizabeth Jenkins, Lady Caroline Lamb {H}
• Kathleen Jones, A passionate sisterhood:  the sisters, wives and daughters of the Lake Poets {noticed on I Prefer Reading}  {B, H} and A Glorious Fame:  the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle {M}
• Linda Kelly, Holland House:  a history of London's most celebrated salon {B}
• Greg King and Penny Wilson, Twlight of Empire:  the tragedy at Mayerling and the end of the Hapsburgs {M}
• Greg King and Sue Woolmans, The assassination of the Archduke : Sarajevo, 1914, and the romance that changed the world  
• Jennifer Kloester, Georgette Heyer's Regency World 
• Jane Kramer, The reporter's kitchen
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The clothing of books 
• Linda Leavell, Holding on Upside Down:  the life and work of Marianne Moore
• Lucy Lethbridge, Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth century Britain {noticed on Cornflower Books} {H}
• Maurice Levaillant, The passionate exiles:  Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier 
• Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. 
• Robert Liddell, Elizabeth and Ivy {H}
• Alison Light, Common people:  the history of an English family and Mrs. Woolf and the servants
• Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish:  a life in time {recommended by Lyn}; and A House Unlocked (noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles}{M}
• Suzanne Loebl, America's Medicis:  The Rockefellers and their astonishing cultural legacy 
• Elizabeth Longford, The pebbled shore {A}and Victoria R. I. 
• Mary S. Lovell, Churchills:  in love and war,  A Scandalous life:  the biography of Jane Digby and The Riviera Set 
• Donna M. Lucey, Archie and Amélie : love and madness in the Gilded Age {H} and Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas

• Stewart MacKay, The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens, Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury Group {noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles} 
• Margaret MacMillan, Women of the Raj:  the mothers, wives and daughters of the British Empire in India 
• Myra MacPherson, The scarlet sisters : sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age
• Mary Sperling McAuliffe, Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War  
• Fiona McCarthy, The last curtsey
• St. Clair McKelway, Reporting at wit’s end:  tales from the New Yorker 
• John McWhorter, Words on the move {noticed here}
• Hilary Macaskill, Agatha Christie at Home 
• David Malouf, The Happy Life:  the search for contentment in the modern world ;-)
• William J. Mann, The wars of the Roosevelts
• Regina Marler, Bloomsbury pie:  the making of the Bloomsbury boom
• Suzanne Mars, ed., Meanwhile there are letters:  the correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
• Megan Marshall, Margaret Fuller:  a new American life 
• William Maxwell, The outermost dream
• Emily Midorikawa, A Secret Sisterhood:  the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf {October}
• Robert Milder, Hawthorne's Habitations:  A Literary Life {H}
• Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty:  the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Andy Miller, The Year of Reading Dangerously {recommended by Frances}
• Jessica Mitford, Hons and rebels {recommended by Darlene}
• Wendy Moffat, A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster 
• Wendy Moore, Wedlock : the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore {H}
• Ethan Mordden, The Guest List:  how Manhattan defined American sophistication from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's ball 
• Caroline Morehead, Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era {H}
• Ann Morgan, Reading the World:  Confessions of a Literary Traveler {a.k.a. The World Between Two Covers:  Reading the Globe, but the UK edition has a much more appealing title!} {noticed on Cornflower Books}
• Charlotte Mosley, ed.,  Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and The Mitfords: letters between six sisters{recommended on Cornflower Books
• Frances Mossiker, Madame de Sevigne:  a life and letters
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, The emperor of all maladies:  a biography of cancer
• Lynne Murphy, The prodigal tongue
• Paul Thomas Murphy, Shooting Victoria:  Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy and Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane
• Venetia Murray, An elegant madness: high society in Regency England {H}
• Jeffrey Myers, Robert Lowell in love
• Lucy Newlyn, William and Dorothy Wordsworth:  all in each other {M}
• Beverly Nichols, Green grows the city {recommended on Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings}
• Juliet Nicholson, A house full of daughters {B}
• Virginia Nicholson, Among the Bohemians; Singled out : how two million British women survived without men after the First World War; Millions Like Us; and Perfect wives in ideal homes: the story of women in the 1950s {recommended by Claire} {H}
• Joan Russell Noble, Recollections of Virginia Woolf by her contemporaries {B}
• Simon Nowell-Smith, The legend of the master 
• Patricia O'Toole, The Five of Hearts:  An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
• Sybil Oldfield, Spinsters of this parish:  the life and times of F.M. Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks {H}
• Michael Paterson, A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes 
• Stanley Plumly, The Immortal Evening:  a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb 
• Jean Lucey Pratt, A Notable Woman:  the romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt {recommended by Kate Macdonald}
• John Preston, A very English scandal
• Marcel Proust {Lydia Davis, translator}, Letters to his neighbor {M}
• Dorothy Pym, Houses as friends
• Teresa Ransom, Fanny Trollope:  A Remarkable Life
• Helen Rappaport, Beautiful forever:  Madame Rachel of Bond Street - cosmetician, con-artist and blackmailer {H}; A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy; Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses; and Caught in the Revolution:  Petrograd, Russia, 1917 
• Claudia Renton, Those Wild Wenham’s: Three Sisters At The Heart Of Power 
• Bronwyn Riley, The edge of the Empire: a journey to Britannia : from the heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall {recommended in the NYT Book Review}
• Eric Ripert, 32 yolks
• Carol Eron Rizzoli, The House at Royal Oak 
• Geraldine Roberts, The angel and the cad:  love, loss and scandal in Regency England
• Katie Roiphe, Uncommon arrangements:  seven marriages {B, } and The violet hour:  great writers at the end {B}
• Padraig Rooney, The gilded chalet:  off piste in literary Switzerland {noticed on Vulpes Libris} {H}
• Phyllis Rose, The Shelf {recommended on Stuck in a Book}
• Anne Boyd Roux, Constance Fenimore Woolson:  portrait of a lady novelist
• Michael Ruhlman, Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America {recommended by JoAnn}
• Nina Sankovich, Tolstoy and the purple chair:  my year of magical reading
• Laura Shapiro, What she ate:  six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories 
• Michael Sims, The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic 
• Michael Shelden, Melville in love 
• Helen Smith, The uncommon reader:  a life of Edward Garnett, mentor and editor of literary genius 
• Kathryn Smith, The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency 
• Mary Soames, A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child 
• Frances Spalding, Gwen Raverat:  friends, family and affections 
• Julie Speedie, Wonderful Sphinx:  a biography of Ada Leverson {H}
• Paul Spicer, The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll 
• Kathleen Spivack, With Robert Lowell and his Circle 
• Nell Stevens, Bleaker House:  chasing my novel to the end of the world  and The victorian and the romantic
• Barbara Strauch, The secret life of the grown-up brain : the surprising talents of the middle-aged mind 
• Noel Streatfield, A vicarage family, Away from the vicarage and Beyond the vicarage
• Roy Strong, A Country Life {recommended by Claire} and Coronation
• Sarah Payne Stuart, Perfectly miserable : guilt, God and real estate in a small town
• Julie Summers, Our uninvited guests
• Daniel Sutherland, Whistler:  A life for art's sake
• Emma Tennant, Strangers:  a family romance
• Anna Thomasson, A Curious Friendship {recommended everywhere!}
• Gillian Tindall, The fields beneath:  the history of one London village {H}; The house by the Thames, and the people who lived there {H}; Three houses, many lives {noticed on Dovegreyreader scribbles}; Célestine: voices from a French village {H}
• Adrian Tinniswood, The long weekend:  life in the English country house, 1918-1939 {noted by Lyn} and Behind the throne: a domestic history of the British royal household {October}
• Colm Toibin, On Elizabeth Bishop (Writers on writers) 
• Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy
• Frank Trentmann, Empire of Things:  how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first
• Jenny Uglow, In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars {noticed on Shiny New Books no. 4}and Mr. Lear {B, H}
• Marian Veveers, Jane and Dorothy
• Hugo Vickers, The quest for Queen Mary
• Amanda Vickery, Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England {H} and The gentleman’s daughter:  women’s loves in Georgian England {H}
• Caroline Weber, Proust's duchesses:  how three celebrated women captured the heart of fin-de-siecle Paris 
• Katie Whitaker, Mad Madge:  the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle {M, B}
• Kate Williams, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
• Bee Wilson, First bite:  how we learn to eat 
• Frances Wilson, The ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth : a life {H}
• Katherine Woolf, Culture club:  the curious history of the Boston Athenaeum
• Virginia Woolf, Books and portraits {H}
• Ilyon Woo, The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
• Lucy Worsley:  Queen Victoria:  daughter, wife, mother and widow {January}
• Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown, The social sex:  a history of female friendship, noticed in The New York Times Book Review

Fiction

• Helen Ashton, Dr. Serocold: a page from his day-book {H}; Tadpole Hall {H}; Joanna at Littlefold {H}; Yeoman’s Hospital {H}; and Bricks and Mortar {H}
• Diksha Basu, The windfall {M}
• Elizabeth Berg, The dream lover {B}{M}
• Sally Beauman, The Visitors
• Mark Beauregarde, The whale:  a love story
• Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel Splendide 
• Jill Bialosky, The Prize {recommended on LitHub}
• Gregoire Bouillier, The Mystery Guest {B}
• Alain de Botton, The course of love
• Rosalind Brackney, Becoming George Sand {B}{M}
• Ann Bridge, Julia Probyn novels (recommended by Fleur} and Peking Picnic {recommended on EmilyBooks}
• Elizabeth Buchan, Daughters {H} 
• A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale {noticed on Nonsuch Book}
• Alice Campbell, Spiderweb
• Willa Cather, The professor's house {recommended by Ali} and My Antonia
• Jerome Charyn, The secret life of Emily Dickinson{B}{M}
• Clare Clark, We that are left
• Janice Clark, The Rathbones
• John Coates, Patience, Lettice:  the widow’s tale, and time for tea
• Michael Cox, The meaning of night and The glass of time {H}
• Lynn Cullen, Twain's end
• Jill Dawson, The tell-tale heart {noticed on Dovegreyreader Scribbles}, The Great Lover and The Crime Writer {both noticed on A life in books}
• Louis de Bernieres, The dust that falls from dreams and Notwithstanding
• Marisa de los Santos, The precious one
• E.M. Delafield, The provincial lady, The provincial lady in America and The provincial lady goes further 
• Joyce Dennys, Henrietta's War and Henrietta Sees it Through
• E.A. Dinely, The Death of Lyndon Wilder (recommended by Fleur}
• Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters
• Elizabeth Fair, Landscape in sunlight, The Mingham Air and The native heath
• Rachel Ferguson, The Brontes Went to Woolworths
• Katie Fforde, Summer of love, A French affair, and Recipe for  Love {M}
• Margaret Forster, Keeping the world away {noticed on Cornflower Books} and How to measure a cow 
• Jane Gardam, The Sidmouth Letters {noticed on The Captive Reader}; Faith Fox {recommended by Harriet Devine}; and The Flight of the Maidens {H}
• Maggie Gee, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan {recommended on Shiny New Books}{H}
• Stella Gibbons, Here be Dragons {recommended by Claire}{H}, The Matchmaker{recommended by Frances}, The Swiss summer {H} and A Pink Front Door
• Julia Glass, A house among the trees {B}
• Rumer Godden, A Fugue in Time {recommended by Jane}
• Gwenthalyn Graham, Earth and high heaven {H}
• Laurie Graham, A Humble Companion, Gone with the Windsors and The Grand Duchess of Nowhere {recommended on Shiny New Books}{H}
• Andrew Sean Greer, Less
• Matt Haig, How to stop time 
• Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life and Time's Convert {September}
• Sheila Heti, Ticknor
• Georgette Heyer, A Civil Contract, The Talisman Ring {recommended by Claire}, An Infamous Army, and Devil's Cub and These Old Shades {noticed here}
• Mary Hocking, Good daughters
• Alan Hollinghurst, The stranger's child {noticed here}
• Anna Hope, Wake and The Ballroom
• Norah Hoult, There were no windows {H}
• Elizabeth Jane Howard, All Change
• Judith Hooper, Alice in Bed {recommended on LitHub}
• Celia Imrie, Nice work (if you can get it) and Not quite nice
• Catharina Ingleman-Sundberg, The little old lady who broke all the rules {recommended in Shelf Awareness} {B)
• Elizabeth Jenkins, The winters
• Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor {recommended by Lyn}
• Margaret Kennedy, Not in the calendar:  the story of a friendship and Troy Chimneys
• Claire King, Everything love is {B}
• C.H.B. Kitchin, The auction sale {recommended by Fleur}{H}
• India Knight, Mutton {recommended on Oddments and snippets}
• Harriet Lane, Alys, Always {recommended on Cornflower Books} {H}
• Ada Leverson, The little ottleys
• Joanne Limburg, A want of kindness {noticed in the NYT Book Review}
• Elinor Lipman, The pursuit of Alice Thrift and The  family man
• Penelope Lively, Family album, How it all began and Consequences 
• Margot Livesey, Banishing Verona
• Rose Macaulay, Dangerous Ages{H}, The World My Wilderness {recommended here}; Crewe Train and The Towers of Trebizon
• Denis Mackail, Upside-Down; or, Love Among the Ruins {noticed on Geranium Cat's Bookshelf), Tales from Greenery Street, and Ian and Felicity {a.k.a. Peninsula Place}
• Bernard MacLaverty, Midwinter break
• Elizabeth Maguire, The open door {noticed here}
• Oriel Malet, The green leaves of summer {H}
• Benjamin Markovitz, A quiet adjustment {B}{M}
• Anna Maxted, Rich again
• Sophie McManus, The Unfortunates
• Claire Messud, The emperor's children {recommended by JoAnn}
• Livi Michael, Succession {noticed in The New York Times Book Review}
• Francesca Miralles, Love in lowercase
• Clare Morgan, A Book for All and None {noticed on Cornflower Books}{H}
• Edith Nesbit, The Lark and The Red House {recommended by Harriet Devine}
• Christopher Nicholson, Winter {noticed in The New York Times Book Review}
• Sarah Perry, The Essex serpent {B}
• Tasmina Perry, The proposal {H}
• Matthew Plampin, Mrs. Whistler
• Max Porter, Grief is the thing with feathers {B}
• Alexandra Potter, The two lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather
• Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks
• Bee Ridgway, The River of No Return
• Lucy Ribchester, The Hourglass Factory {M} and The Amber Shadows
• Lucinda Riley, The midnight rose
• Victoria Roberts, After the Fall {noticed here}
• Erika Robuck, The House of Hawthorne
• Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim
• Margery Sharp, Britannia mews, In pious memory, and Rhododendron Pie
• Natasha Solomons, Mr. Rosenblum dreams in English. The House at Tyneford and The Song of Hartgrove Hall {a.k.a. The Song Collector, recommended by Claire}
• Belinda Starling, The journal of Dora Damage {H}
• D.E. Stevenson, Bel Lamington;  Fletchers End; The Young Clementina {recommended by Fleur}; The Four Graces; and Mrs. Tim of the Regiment {H}
• Nell Stevens, The victorian and the romantic {August}
• Beverly Swerling, City of promise:  a novel of New York’s Gilded Age {H}
• Elizabeth Tallent, Mendocino Fire:  stories
• Emma Tennant, The Beautiful Child {noticed on Cornflower Books} {M, H};  Felony {H}: and The adventures of Robina, by herself; being the memoirs of a debutante at the Court of Queen Elizabeth II {H}
• Rosie Thomas, Lovers and newcomers {B}
• Sophia Tobin, The Widow's Confession {noticed on Shiny New Books no. 4}
• Colm Toibin, The Master
• Paul Torday, The legacy of Hartlepool Hall {H}
• Amor Towles, The Rules of Civility {recommended by JoAnn}
• Barbara Trapido, Sex and Stravinsky {recommended on Oddments and snippets}
• Joanna Trollope, Balancing Act {H}
• Sallet Vickers, The librarian
• Norah Vincent, Adeline:  a novel of Virginia Woolf  {noticed on A Work in Progress}
• Menna von Praag, The house at the end of Hope Street
• Natasha Walter, A quiet life
• Louise Walters, Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase {recommended by Fleur}
• Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes {H}
• Katherine Webb, The misbegotten {recommended by Fleur}
• Madeleine Wickham, A Desirable Residence
• Lauren Willig, Pink Carnation series and The English Wife
• A.N. Wilson, The Potter's Hand {recommended by Dovegreyreader}
• P.G. Wodehouse, Mulliner Nights {noted on Cornflower Books} and Aunts aren't gentlemen {M}
• Susan M. Wyler, Solsbury Hill

Mysteries

• Rennie Airth, River of Darkness, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Dead of Winter and The Reckoning {A} {Inspector John Madden}
• Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know, A Crimson Warning, Death in the Floating City, The Adventuress and The Counterfeit Heiress 
• Margery Allingham, The White Cottage Mystery {recommended on Mirabile Dictu}
• Sally Andrew, Recipes for love and murder
• David Ashton, Fall from grace and The shadow of the serpent {H}
• Robert Barnard, The case of the missing Bronte and A little local murder {recommended on Random Jottings}
• Lauren Belfer, A fierce radiance
• Harry Bingham, Love Story, with Murders
• Nicholas Blake, A question of proof and Thou shell of death {recommended by A Desperate Reader}
• William Brodrick, the Father Anselm mysteries {noticed on Cornflower Books}
• Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow {M}
• Kenneth Cameron, The Bohemian Girl
• Karen Campbell, After the fire, Proof of life and The twilight time {H}
• Jayne Casey, The Burning
• Joanna Challis, Peril at Somner House and The Villa of Death
• Karen Charlton, The Heiress of Linn Hagh and The San Pareil Mystery
• Barbara Clevely, Joe Sandilands series
• Edmund Crispin, The gilded fly and The moving toyshop
• Oscar de Muriel, The strings of time {recommended in the NYT Book Review} and A fever in the blood
• Carola Dunn, Manna from Hades, A Colourful Death, The Valley of the Shadow {The Cornish Mysteries}, Superfluous Women and Heirs of the Body
• Elizabeth Daly, the Henry Gamadge mysteries {noticed on Bas Bleu}
• David Dickinson, Goodnight sweet prince,, Death and the Jubilee (and later books in series)
• Patricia Duncker, The strange case of the composer and his judge
• Martin Edwards, Take my breath away
• Marjorie Eccles, Last nocturne and Broken music {and later books in Herbert Reardon series}
• Kate Ellis, A Painted Doom (and later books)
• Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham, Seven for a Secret {recommended on She Reads Novels} and The Fatal Flame
• Nicci French, Friday on My Mind: A Frieda Klein Mystery 
• Tana French, Into the Woods {recommended by JoAnn}
• Ann Granger, Mud, Muck and Dead Things and Rack, Ruin and Murder (Campbell and Carter mysteries)
• Elly Griffiths, The dark angel 
• Martha Grimes, Dust, The black cat, and The Knowledge 
• Sophie Hannah, The mystery of three quarters {August}
• Sophie Henaff, Stick Together {July}
• Georgette Heyer, The Unfinished Clue
• Suzette Hill, Reverend Oughterard mysteries
• Hazel Holt, Mrs. Malory and death in practice, Mrs. Malory and the silent killer, Mrs. Malory and no cure for death, Mrs. Malory and a death in the family, Mrs. Malory and a time to die and Leonora 
• M.R.C. Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Fockett, The Mangle Street Murders, and Death Descends on Saturn Villa
• Christobel Kent, The Drowning River,  A Murder in Tuscany and The Killing Room
• C.H.B. Kitchin, Death of my aunt {author recommended by Fleur}
• Mary Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey {recommended by Claire}
• Camilla Lackberg, The Ice Princess and The Drowning 
• Donna Leon, Unto us a son is given {March}
• Charlie Lovett, The lost book of the grail
• G.M. Malliet, The Haunted Season, Devil's Breath and In Prior's Wood 
• David Mark, Taking pity
• Edward Marston, Peril on the royal train
• Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark
• Jill McGown, Murder at the Old Vicarage {M}
• Jane McLaughlin, A nice place to die
• Katharine McMahon, The Crimson Rooms and The Woman in the Picture
• Frédérique Molay, Crossing the Line
• Martin O'Brien, Inspector Jacquot mysteries {recommended on Random Jottings}
• Cuyler Overholt, A deadly affection {M} 
• Louise Penny, The Long Way Home,  The Nature of the Beast,  A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses, and Kingdom of the Blind 
• Anne Perry, Triple Jeopardy {April}
• Ruth Rendell, Dark Corners 
• Mike Ripley, Mr. Campion's Fault
• Kate Rhodes, Blood Symmetry and Fatal Harmony
• Peter Robinson, Careless love {February}
• Harriet Rutland, Knock, Murderer, Knock {recommended by Jane} and Bleeding Hooks
• Nicola Slade, The Dead Queen's Garden
• Donald Smith, The constable's tale {noticed in The New York Times Book Review}
• Susie Steiner, Homecoming
• Peter Swanson, The kind worth killing for and Her every fear {recommended by Harriet Devine}{M}
• Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London{H, M} and The Fire Court {M} {recommended by Harriet Devine}
• Josephine Tey, The man in the queue {recommended by Danielle}
• Jane Thynne, Black roses {H}
• Sherry Thomas, A study in scarlet women
• Charles Todd, Hunting Shadows, A Fine Summer's Day and The Gatekeeper {Inspector Rutledge}  
• L.C. Tyler, The herring-seller's apprentice and the next four Ethelred Tresidder and Elsie Thirkettle mysteries {recommended by Fleur}
• Fred Vargas, An Uncertain Place and The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
• Louise Welsh, Naming the Bones 
• Andrew Wilson, A talent for murder
• Laura Wilson, Stratton's War, An Empty Death and The riot {H}

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