JBD1's List for 2019

My 2018 list.

January
1. Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson
2. The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith
3. Here at Eagle Pond by Donald Hall
4. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
6. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
7. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

February
8. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
9. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
10. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
11. Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself by Robert Montgomery Bird
12. When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
13. The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers by Roelf Bolt
14. Selected Short Stories by John Galt
15. The Son Avenger by Sigrid Undset
16. The Bat by Jo Nesbø
17. The Invention of Rare Books by David McKitterick
18. The Wall of Birds by Jane Kim
19. Looking for Alaska by John Green
20. Arctic Explorations by Elisha Kent Kane

March
21. Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
22. Things that Are by Amy Leach
23. Disappearing Ink by Travis McDade
24. Macbeth by Jo Nesbø
25. The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
26. The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
27. New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
28. McSweeney's Quarterly, Issue 31, edited by Dave Eggers
29. Noisy Outlaws, edited by Ted Thompson
30. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
31. McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales; edited by Michael Chabon
32. The Found and the Lost by Ursula Le Guin
33. The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe
34. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
35. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
36. Sometime, Never by William Golding, John Wyndham, and Mervyn Peake

April
37. Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer
38. Candleshoe by Michael Innes
39. A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
40. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
41. The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
42. Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbø
43. Appleby's End by Michael Innes
44. Camino Island by John Grisham
45. Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
46. Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
47. The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

May
48. Penhallow by Georgette Heyer
49. Rebus: The Early Years by Ian Rankin
50. The History of the Limited Editions Club by Carol Porter Grossman
51. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
52. The Bookseller by Mark Pryor
53. The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
54. They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
55. Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø

June
56. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
57. Kennedy's Brain by Henning Mankell
58. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
59. The Mueller Report
60. The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
61. The Lost World of James Smithson by Heather Ewing
62. A Malta Imprint of 1643 by Douglas C. McMurtrie
63. Painter in a Savage Land by Miles Harvey
64. Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich
65. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley
66. Lost Kingdom by Julia Flynn Siler
67. Lincoln Dreamt He Died by Andrew Burstein
68. Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris
69. The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer
70. Jane's Fame by Claire Harman
71. Queer Philologies by Jeffrey Masten
72. An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
73. Law's Picture Books by Michael Widener et al.
74. McSweeney's 22; edited by Dave Eggers
75. Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler
76. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
77. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré
78. Wonders and the Order of Nature by Lorraine Daston and Katherine Park
79. Seeing Further; edited by Bill Bryson
80. Ohio by Stephen Markley

July
81. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
82. The Restless Wave by John McCain
83. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
84. The 'Missing' Term Catalogue
85. Durham Bookbinders and Booksellers, 1660–1760 by David Pearson
86. The English Provincial Book Trade Before 1850 by John Feather
87. Dramatisations of Scott's Novels by Richard Ford
88. A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson by J. D. Fleeman
89. Donors of Books to St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury by Alfred Brotherston Emden
90. Pope's Printer, John Wright by James McLaverty
91. The Bowyer Ornament Stock by K. I. D. Maslen
92. Hodson's Booksellers, Publishers and Stationers Directory, 1855 by William Henry Hodson
93. Bibliotheca Higgsiana by P. S. Morrish
94. The Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar, 1977-2017 by Terry Belanger
95. Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet and His Library by Max Egremont
96. Through a Glass Clearly by Howard L. Schwartz
97. The American Enlightenment by Caroline Winterer
98. Cultural Landscapes by W. B. Carnochan et al.
99. The Alcuin Society: A Compilation of its Publications from 1965 to 1998; compiled by Jim Rainer
100. Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me by Terry Belanger
101. Twenty-Five Gold-Tooled Bookbindings; edited by Marianne Tidcombe
102. Dr. Church's "Hoax" by Richard E. Huss
103. Wall of Storms by Ken Liu
104. Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
105. Collated & Perfect by Kathryn James and Aaron Pratt
106. The Book: An Homage by Burkhard Spinnen
107. The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
108. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

August
109. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
110. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes
111. Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux
112. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
113. I, Roger Williams by Mary Lee Settle
114. Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
115. Sweetland by Michael Crummey
116. The Wild Duck Chase by Martin J. Smith
117. Life by Richard Fortey
118. The Likeness by Tana French
119. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
120. Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
121. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
122. Faithful Place by Tana French
123. Inventing George Washington by Edward Lengel

September
124. A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
125. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
126. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
127. The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø
128. The Genius of Birds by Diane Ackerman
129. Bibliomysteries; edited by Otto Penzler
130. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
131. The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
132. The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
133. A Big Storm Knocked It Over by Laurie Colwin
134. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
135. The I Wonder Bookstore by Shinsuke Yoshitake
136. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
137. The Redeemer by Jo Nesbø
138. The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
139. Number9Dream by David Mitchell
140. Broken Harbor by Tana French

October
141. Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
142. The Leopard by Jo Nesbø
143. The Highly Civilized Man by Dane Kennedy
144. Phantom by Jo Nesbø
145. Fatal Journey by Peter C. Mancall
146. The Overstory by Richard Powers
147. George Morgan: Colony Builder by Max Savelle

November
148. The Secret Place by Tana French
149. The Second Shelf, Issue 1; edited by A. N. Devers
150. Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer
151. World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters
152. Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King
153. An English Murder by Cyril Hare
154. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
155. Portrait of Mr W. H. by Oscar Wilde
156. Vacationland by John Hodgman
157. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

December
158. The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
159. The Birds of America from Original Drawings by John James Audubon (Sotheby's 18 December 2019)
160. Police by Jo Nesbø
161. Capyboppy by Bill Peet
162. The Silence Room by Sean O'Brien
163. The Collector's Apprentice by B. A. Shapiro
164. The American Times by Jonathan Odell
165. Bibliophilia by N. John Hall
166. A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle by Laurent Bordelon
167. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
168. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith

All good reads for you in 2019, Jeremy.

Welcome back!

Happy New Year, Jeremy!

Happy reading in 2019, Jeremy!

Happy New Year!

Happy 2019
A year full of books
A year full of friends
A year full of all your wishes realised

I look forward to keeping up with you, Jeremy, this year.

Hey Jeremy, You and a couple others just update a single post with your reading activity. Which is perfectly acceptable and perhaps much saner when compared to the rest of us posting fanatics. But that means that I never see any activity here. No one's posted a new post since January, but you've obviously updated your monthly reading activity. I use starred threads and the unread post count to keep track of which of my friends I've visited.

It leads me to a question/request since you're one of our benevolent overlords here at LT, I thought I would ask. Is it possible when you update/change a post it turns it back into an unread post in the thread for the rest of us. Wishful thinking I know, but I thought I'd ask.

Have a great day!

I shouldn't think so, but I'll try to be better about posting - I've been thinking about at least doing a quick "favorites of the month" writeup anyway and actually (now I think about it, duh) this would be the perfect place for it. So thanks for the good idea!

September favorites: I really liked Kate Moore's The Radium Girls, and I've been having a hard time pacing myself with Tana French's books. They're just so darned good. I'm trying to limit myself to one a month, but it's not working very well. I'm also in what I call "read-and-weed" mode - reading books from the shelves that I can then get rid of. Some of these are really great books that I just don't need to keep forever (like Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time).

I feel your mood, Mr. D, and have deaccessioned eleven books (fantasies by Raymond E. Feist, mysteries by Agatha Christie, some Anne McCaffrey I didn't remember having) into my local Little Free Library.

The Radium Girls was excellent but upsetting. History has so many of these incidences of abusive labor practices, one would imagine we'd all be immune to the awfulness of it. I, for one, am not.

May October's reads thrill and delight you.

>10 JBD1: Jeremy, you must be back with LibraryThing. I see that little "L" by your name!

Sorry, forgot to turn it off (I have it because I still have certain admin capabilities for the LLs, but I always try to remember to turn it off in talk threads!)

Catchup, on the final day of the year ... the last few months proved busy in that I moved house and started a new job ... but I mostly enjoyed everything I read at the end of the year. Still trying to pace myself and not move through some new authors (Tana French, Robert Macfarlane, &c.) too quickly, but we'll see how that goes.

And now, bring on 2020!