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Continuation of CurrerBell's Time Currents, which covers period August 2013 through end of 2015.
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January | Women in Command:
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (4½****)
- Nicola Griffith, Hild (2** review)
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February | Celebrating the Writers:
- Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (3½***)
- Lilian Pizzichini, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys (2½**)
- Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Bronte: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere (3½***)
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March | Discoveries and Innovations:
- Peter Russell, Prince Henry 'the Navigator' (3½*** review)
- Lawrence Durrell, Nunquam (3½***)
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January-March | Prehistory:
- Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess (3½***)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pellucidar Series (1-3): At the Earth's Core (3***), Pellucidar (3½***), Tanar of Pellucidar (2½**)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Caspak Trilogy (1): The Land that Time Forgot (3***)
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April | Women and War:
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers (4½****)
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May | Labor, unions, and the working class:
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) and Hard Times (Norton Critical) (ed 1987) (3***) treated as one
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June | School Days School Days:
- Nancy Spain, Poison for Teacher (3***)
- Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom (4****)
- Colette, Claudine at School, in The Complete Claudine (trans Antonia White) (4****)
- Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries (4****)
- Phillis Garrard, Hilda at School (2** review)
- Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics (1½* review)
- Leila Sales, Once Was a Time (3½*** review)
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April-June | Ancient and Biblical Times:
- Robert Graves, Claudius the God (3***)
- Seamus Heaney (trans), Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation (4****)
- The Landmark Thucydides (5***** review)
- Aeschylus (the complete plays), in The Complete Greek Drama (vol i, pp 1-308)
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July | Weather-Related Natural Disasters:
- John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America) (4****) ... primary weather-related is To a God Unknown
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (5*****)
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August | Journeys:
- Susanna Moodie (intro Margaret Atwood), Roughing It in the Bush (3***)
- Marion Garthwaite, Coarse Gold Gulch (4****)
- Marion Garthwaite, Mario: A Mexican Boy's Adventure
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September | :
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Norton Critical Edition) (for September theme, novel only without supplementary materials)
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July-September | Arthurian Britain:
- T.H. White, The Once and Future King (3½*** review)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lady of Avalon (3***)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (4****) from Mark Twain: Historical Romances (Library of America)
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October | Month of Mystery:
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November | Presidents, Veeps & Elections:
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December | Regency Period, 1811 – 1820:
December | Victorian Era, 1837 – 1901:
December | Victorian Era, 1837 – 1901:
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October-December | Medieval Times (includes Vikings):
- John Gardner, Life and Times of Chaucer
- Marion Garthwaite, The Locked Crowns
- Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in Mark Twain: Historical Romances (Library of America)
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knyghtes Tale in Middle English (audiobook)
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue & the Physician's Tale in Middle English & in modern verse translation (audiobook)
