GerrysBookshelf in 2024

Hi, I'm Gerry from Buffalo, NY and this is my 10th year with the 75 book group.
I'm going to concentrate this year on some of my favorite categories - nature and science, history, Shakespeare, Virago Modern Classics and Furrowed Middlebrow Books - and anything else that catches my fancy.

Nature and Science

The Great House of Birds edited by John Hay
In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes
American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide edited by Susan Barba
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
Lives of the Trees by Diana Wells
The Journeys of Trees : a story about forests, people and the future by Zach St. George
The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant : Its Nature and Ecology by Eric Lee-Mader
That Quail, Robert by Margaret Stanger
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Brief Life of Flowers by Fiona Stafford
Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs by Sue Hubbell
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain
A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith

Virago Modern Classics

The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte by Daphne du Maurier
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
At Mrs. Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor
A Game of Hide-and-Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
The Reef by Edith Wharton
George Beneath a Paper Moon by Nina Bawden
Family Money by Nina Bawden
Treasure Hunt by Molly Keane
Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell
August Folly by Angela Thirkell
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim
Aunt Sass Christmas Stories by P.L. Travers

Furrowed Middlebrow
Near Neighbours by Molly Clavering
Touch Not the Nettle by Molly Clavering
The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair
Vittoria Cottage by D. E. Stevenson
Music in the Hills by D. E. Stevenson
Winter and Rough Weather by D. E. Stevenson
Bramton Wick by Elizabeth Fair

Medieval History

Powers and Thrones: a new history of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
The Plantagenets by Dan Jones

Medieval Fiction

Beowulf translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Our Lady’s Tumbler translated by Philip H. Wicksteed
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
The Song of Roland translated by W.S. Merwin

January

1. Death on a Shetland Longship by Marsali Taylor
2. Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems by Linda Pastan
3. Powers and Thrones: a new history of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
4. The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier
5. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
6. The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte by Daphne du Maurier
7. North Woods by Daniel Mason
8. The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
9. The Great House of Birds edited by John Hay
10. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
11. Near Neighbours by Molly Clavering

February

12. As Birds Bring Forth the Sun by Alistair MacLeod
13. At Mrs. Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor
14. Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
15. In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes
16. A Game of Hide-and-Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
17. Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
18. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
19. Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields
20. Beowulf translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
21. Our Lady’s Tumbler: A Twelfth Century Legend Done Out of Old French into English translated by Philip H. Wicksteed

March

22. American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide edited by Susan Barba
23. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
24. Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
25. When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
26. The Whispers of War by Julia Kelly
27. Touch Not the Nettle by Molly Clavering

April

28. The Song of Roland translated by W.S. Merwin
29. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
30. Lives of the Trees by Diana Wells
31. Wolves and Honey by Susan Brind Morrow
32. The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson
33. In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

May

34. The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane
35. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
36. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limon
37. The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane
38. Deadly to the Core by Joyce Tremel
39. The Reef by Edith Wharton
40. Clear by Carys Davies
41. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
42. British Botanists by John Gilmour

June

43. Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time by Rumer Godden
44. Little Poems edited by Michael Hennessy
45. Versus by Ogden Nash
46. George Beneath a Paper Moon by Nina Bawden
47. The Journeys of Trees : a story about forests, people and the future by Zach St. George
48. The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant : Its Nature and Ecology by Eric Lee-Mader
49. Buried in a Shetland Tomb by Marsali Taylor
50. Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys
51. That Quail, Robert by Margaret Stanger
52. The Shetland Night Killings by Marsali Taylor
53. Family Money by Nina Bawden

July

54. Apples and Prayers by Andy Brown
55. A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
56. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
57. Treasure Hunt by Molly Keane
58. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
59. The Brief Life of Flowers by Fiona Stafford
60. The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
61. Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
62. Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane
63. The Illustrated Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
64. The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair
65. The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
66. Vittoria Cottage by D. E. Stevenson
67. The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni
68. Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs by Sue Hubbell
69. Music in the Hills by D. E. Stevenson

August

70. Winter and Rough Weather by D. E. Stevenson
71. High Rising by Angela Thirkell
72. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
73. Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell
74. August Folly by Angela Thirkell
75. Grave of a Shetland Sailor by Marsali Taylor
76. The Shetland Poisonings by Marsali Taylor

September

77. The Great Quake by Henry Fountain
78. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
79. Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
80. Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
81. Death in Shetland Waters by Marsali Taylor
82. Garden Poems edited by John Hollander
83. Death from a Shetland Cliff by Marsali Taylor
84. Bramton Wick by Elizabeth Fair

October

85. The Shetland Sea Murders by Marsali Taylor
86. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
87. Apples of North America by Tom Burford
88. Furever After by Sofie Kelly
89. The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World by Tim Marshall

November

90. Everything I’ve Ever Done That Worked by Lesley Garner
91. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
92. Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim
93. Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishoi
94. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

December

95. Death in a Shetland Lane by Marsali Taylor
96. Time of the Child by Niall Williams
97. Aunt Sass Christmas Stories by P.L. Travers
98. Buffalo Business Pioneers: Innovation in the Nickel City by Nancy Blumenstalk Mingus
99. Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
100. A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith
101. The Plantagenets by Dan Jones

Favorite Books in 2024

Fiction
North Woods by Daniel Mason
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Time of the Child by Niall Williams

Nonfiction
In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain
The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World by Tim Marshall
A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith

Books In/Out

Acquired: Paper: 117 Ebook: 56
Donated or discarded: 271

Borrowed: 39

Welcome back, Gerry!

Nice pics! Good luck with your 2024 reading.

Happy reading in 2024, Gerry!

>18 drneutron: >19 Tess_W: >20 FAMeulstee: Thank you!

Great to see you back, Gerry.

Happy new year.

>22 PaulCranswick: Thanks Paul, and Happy New Year to you too.