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My 2023 list.
Happy New Year everyone!
January
1. The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
2. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
3. Shadow in the Glass by M. E. Hilliard
4. Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories by David Pearson
5. The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings by Dan Jones
6. Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior by Christoper M. Finan
7. Pilgrims of the Upper World by Jamieson Findlay
8. Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King
9. The Greater Journey by David McCullough
10. Dark Objects by Simon Toyne
11. A Note on Two poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (1854) by Nicolas Barker
12. Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's "Sport of the Future" Since 1972 by Roger Bennett and Michael Davies
13. The House of Owls by Tony Angell
14. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Mark Monmonier
15. Modern Chivalry by Hugh Henry Brackenridge; edited by Ed White
February
16. The Mammals of North America by John James Audubon
17. William Caxton: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Quincentenary of the Introduction of Printing into England; edited by Janet Backhouse
18. On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography by D. J. Taylor
19. Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
20. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
21. A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
22. To the Letter by Simon Garfield
23. The Trials of Thomas Morton by Peter C. Mancall
24. The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One by George R. R. Martin
25. The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
26. Everfair by Nisi Shawl
27. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636–1638. Volume I: A–Be by Ian Watson
28. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos
29. Growing Up Bookish: An Anglo-American Memoir by Richard Wendorf
30. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
March
31. Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman by William Williams
32. In Another Country by Priya Joshi
33. Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
34. Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea
35. Manuscripts of Iceland; edited by Vésteinn Ólason and Gísli Sigurðsson
36. A Radical Act of Free Magic by H. G. Parry
37. The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
38. Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures by Nancy Moses
39. Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood by James M. Lundberg
40. William Williams: Novelist and Painter of Colonial America, 1727-1791 by David Howard Dickason
41. The Butterfly Books: An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets by Nicolas Barker
42. The Animals At Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
43. Decomp by Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott
44. Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640–1700 by Noeleen McIlvenna
45. A Change of Circumstance by Susan Hill
April
46. Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie by Charlie Gilmour
47. Land Policies of Upper Canada by Lillian F. Gates
48. Three Can Keep a Secret by M. E. Hilliard
49. The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet
50. Audubon as Artist: A New Look at The Birds of America by Roberta J. M. Olson
51. Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde
52. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William L. Davis
53. A Fine Madness by Alan Judd
54. Our Towns by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
55. A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
56. The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History by Richard J. King
57. The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman
58. Elizabeth's Misfits by Arthur Freeman
59. A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
60. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
May
61. The Searcher by Tana French
62. An Honourable Englishman by Adam Sisman
63. The Visible Text by Thomas A. Bredehoft
64. The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution by Jack P. Greene
65. Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada by Susan Clair Imbarrato
66. Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
67. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
68. Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
69. Books & Mortar: A Celebration of the Local Bookstore by Gibbs M. Smith
70. Twilight of the Hemlocks and Beeches by Tim Palmer
71. Matthew's Prize by Marcus Palliser
72. The 26 Letters by Oscar Ogg
73. The Deadly Hours by Susanna Kearsley, C. S. Harris, Anna Lee Huber and Christine Trent
74. The Hermit of Peking by Hugh Trevor-Roper
75. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
76. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
77. What It's Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
78. A Miscellany for Bibliophiles; edited by H. George Fletcher
79. Hawthorne by Brenda Wineapple
80. A Democracy of Facts by Andrew J. Lewis
June
81. The Bird in Art by Caroline Bugler
82. Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
83. Leon Battista Alberti by Anthony Grafton
84. Rare Book Collections; edited by H. Richard Archer
85. The Comic Genius of Dr Alexander Hamilton by Robert Micklus
86. The Future of the Book; edited by Geoffrey Nunberg
87. Devil of a Fix by Marcus Palliser
88. The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
89. Dead Water by C. A. Fletcher
90. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
91. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
92. The Hapless Orphan by An American Lady
93. The Bermuda Privateer by William Westbrook
94. Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History by Dan Allosso
95. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
96. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography by James Brabazon
97. The Sea is Not Made of Water by Adam Nicolson
98. Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel
99. The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller
100. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
101. An Immense World by Ed Yong
102. Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure by Susan Fox Rogers
103. The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
104. The Fraud by Zadie Smith
105. The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
106. Henry Adams: Selected Letters; edited by Ernest Samuels
107. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
108. Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom
109. From Humanism to the Humanities by Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine
110. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
July
111. Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends by Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
112. Holy Hoaxes: A Beautiful Deception by William M. Voelke
113. The Black Ring by William Westbrook
114. A History of Communication Technology by Philip A. Loubere
115. The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692 by Robert F. Roden
116. Essays and Papers by A. N. L. Munby
117. Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life by Thomas Bailey and Katherine Joslin
118. Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne du Maurier
119. Moonbound by Robin Sloan
120. The Weird Book Machine by Geronimo Stilton
121. The Documents in The Case by Dorothy L. Sayers
122. A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
123. The Indian World of George Washington by Colin G. Calloway
124. A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
125. Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia by Richard Francis
126. Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America by Philip Gould
127. "From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning": Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library by William H. Bond
128. The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society by Patrick Spero
129. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
130. The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman
131. The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
132. Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America 1730-1860; edited by Sue Ann Prince
133. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
134. Penguins: The Ultimate Guide by Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, and Julie Cornthwaite
135. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
August
136. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
137. Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb
138. In the Footsteps of Audubon by Denis Clavreul
139. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford; edited by Peter. Y. Sussman
140. More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby
141. Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby
142. The Dublin Book Trade, 1801-1850 by Charles Benson
143. American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860 by Lance Mayer and Gay Myers
144. Leech by Hiron Ennes
145. Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time by Donna Merwick
September
146. Sovereign by C. J. Sansom
147. Grant by Ron Chernow
148. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz by Garth Nix
149. The Awful End of Prince William the Silent by Lisa Jardine
150. The Citizen Poets of Boston; edited by Paul Lewis
151. A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon by Krista Elrick
152. The Word Detective by John Simpson
153. Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic by Peter C. Mancall
154. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
155. Kingdom of Nauvoo by Benjamin E. Park
156. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
157. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1, Volume 1 by Miya Kazuki
158. Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic by Peter Kafer
159. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
160. The Townshend Moment by Patrick Griffin
161. The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict
162. A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837 by Robert E. Shalhope
163. Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
164. The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh by Chiang Yee
165. Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
October
166. John Aubrey, My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
167. Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age by Michael Pye
168. Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier by Honor Sachs
169. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger
170. The Role of the Scroll by Thomas Forrest Kelly
171. These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
172. The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
173. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
174. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
175. The Map Tour: A History of Tourism Told Through Rare Maps, From the Grand Tour to Globalization by Hugh Thomson
176. In the Neighborhood: Women's Publication in Early America by Caroline Wigginton
177. Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley
178. Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782 by Virginia Bernhard
179. Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 by Patrick Spero
180. Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics by Michael Wolraich
181. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick
182. Greenwood by Michael Christie
183. Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums by Elizabeth Siegel
184. Haven by Emma Donoghue
185. The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
186. Birds of New York (Plates) by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
187. War by Bob Woodward
188. Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
189. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
190. Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750-1850 by Anna Majeski
November
191. This Land Is Their Land by David J. Silverman
192. The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
193. Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution; edited by Margarette Lincoln
194. Murder in the Basement by Anthony Berkeley
195. Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra
196. Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 by Joseph M. Adelman
197. The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
198. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky
199. The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton
200. Past Lying by Val McDermid
201. The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution by Owen Stanwood
202. George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life by Tom Jones
203. The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin
204. Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
205. Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
December
206. Anatomy of an Auction: Rare Books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919 by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman
207. The Island that Disappeared by Tom Feiling
208. The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics by William J. Cooper
209. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
210. Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint
211. Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity by Nick Bunker
212. Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer
213. An Absolute Casserole: The Taskmaster Compendium by Alex Horne and Jack Bernhardt
214. Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley
215. A Library of Misremembered Books: When We're Searching for a Book but Have Forgotten the Title by Marina Luz
216. Nextinction by Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy
217. Big Tree by Brian Selznick
218. George Washington: A Life in Books by Kevin J. Hayes
219. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
220. The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic by John Demos
221. Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 by Thorkild Hansen
222. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s by Saree Makdisi
223. Venetia by Georgette Heyer
224. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America by Michael McDonnell
225. Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence by Conrad Edick Wright
226. The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024; edited by Anthony Horowitz
227. The Breach by M. T. Hill
228. Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England; edited by Ann Lucas Birle and Lisa A. Francavilla
229. The Clearing by Simon Toyne
230. I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
231. Fractured Fables by Alix E. Harrow
232. The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells by Rebecca Rego Barry
233. The Book of Death by Sidney Berger
234. The Forger's Daughter by Bradford Morrow
235. Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas by Nick Hornby
Happy New Year everyone!
January
1. The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
2. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
3. Shadow in the Glass by M. E. Hilliard
4. Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories by David Pearson
5. The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings by Dan Jones
6. Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior by Christoper M. Finan
7. Pilgrims of the Upper World by Jamieson Findlay
8. Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King
9. The Greater Journey by David McCullough
10. Dark Objects by Simon Toyne
11. A Note on Two poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (1854) by Nicolas Barker
12. Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's "Sport of the Future" Since 1972 by Roger Bennett and Michael Davies
13. The House of Owls by Tony Angell
14. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Mark Monmonier
15. Modern Chivalry by Hugh Henry Brackenridge; edited by Ed White
February
16. The Mammals of North America by John James Audubon
17. William Caxton: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Quincentenary of the Introduction of Printing into England; edited by Janet Backhouse
18. On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography by D. J. Taylor
19. Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
20. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
21. A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
22. To the Letter by Simon Garfield
23. The Trials of Thomas Morton by Peter C. Mancall
24. The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One by George R. R. Martin
25. The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
26. Everfair by Nisi Shawl
27. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636–1638. Volume I: A–Be by Ian Watson
28. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos
29. Growing Up Bookish: An Anglo-American Memoir by Richard Wendorf
30. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
March
31. Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman by William Williams
32. In Another Country by Priya Joshi
33. Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
34. Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea
35. Manuscripts of Iceland; edited by Vésteinn Ólason and Gísli Sigurðsson
36. A Radical Act of Free Magic by H. G. Parry
37. The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
38. Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures by Nancy Moses
39. Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood by James M. Lundberg
40. William Williams: Novelist and Painter of Colonial America, 1727-1791 by David Howard Dickason
41. The Butterfly Books: An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets by Nicolas Barker
42. The Animals At Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
43. Decomp by Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott
44. Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640–1700 by Noeleen McIlvenna
45. A Change of Circumstance by Susan Hill
April
46. Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie by Charlie Gilmour
47. Land Policies of Upper Canada by Lillian F. Gates
48. Three Can Keep a Secret by M. E. Hilliard
49. The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet
50. Audubon as Artist: A New Look at The Birds of America by Roberta J. M. Olson
51. Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde
52. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William L. Davis
53. A Fine Madness by Alan Judd
54. Our Towns by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
55. A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
56. The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History by Richard J. King
57. The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman
58. Elizabeth's Misfits by Arthur Freeman
59. A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
60. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
May
61. The Searcher by Tana French
62. An Honourable Englishman by Adam Sisman
63. The Visible Text by Thomas A. Bredehoft
64. The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution by Jack P. Greene
65. Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada by Susan Clair Imbarrato
66. Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
67. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
68. Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
69. Books & Mortar: A Celebration of the Local Bookstore by Gibbs M. Smith
70. Twilight of the Hemlocks and Beeches by Tim Palmer
71. Matthew's Prize by Marcus Palliser
72. The 26 Letters by Oscar Ogg
73. The Deadly Hours by Susanna Kearsley, C. S. Harris, Anna Lee Huber and Christine Trent
74. The Hermit of Peking by Hugh Trevor-Roper
75. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
76. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
77. What It's Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
78. A Miscellany for Bibliophiles; edited by H. George Fletcher
79. Hawthorne by Brenda Wineapple
80. A Democracy of Facts by Andrew J. Lewis
June
81. The Bird in Art by Caroline Bugler
82. Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
83. Leon Battista Alberti by Anthony Grafton
84. Rare Book Collections; edited by H. Richard Archer
85. The Comic Genius of Dr Alexander Hamilton by Robert Micklus
86. The Future of the Book; edited by Geoffrey Nunberg
87. Devil of a Fix by Marcus Palliser
88. The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
89. Dead Water by C. A. Fletcher
90. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
91. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
92. The Hapless Orphan by An American Lady
93. The Bermuda Privateer by William Westbrook
94. Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History by Dan Allosso
95. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
96. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography by James Brabazon
97. The Sea is Not Made of Water by Adam Nicolson
98. Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel
99. The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller
100. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
101. An Immense World by Ed Yong
102. Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure by Susan Fox Rogers
103. The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
104. The Fraud by Zadie Smith
105. The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
106. Henry Adams: Selected Letters; edited by Ernest Samuels
107. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
108. Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom
109. From Humanism to the Humanities by Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine
110. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
July
111. Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends by Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
112. Holy Hoaxes: A Beautiful Deception by William M. Voelke
113. The Black Ring by William Westbrook
114. A History of Communication Technology by Philip A. Loubere
115. The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692 by Robert F. Roden
116. Essays and Papers by A. N. L. Munby
117. Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life by Thomas Bailey and Katherine Joslin
118. Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne du Maurier
119. Moonbound by Robin Sloan
120. The Weird Book Machine by Geronimo Stilton
121. The Documents in The Case by Dorothy L. Sayers
122. A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
123. The Indian World of George Washington by Colin G. Calloway
124. A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
125. Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia by Richard Francis
126. Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America by Philip Gould
127. "From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning": Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library by William H. Bond
128. The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society by Patrick Spero
129. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
130. The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman
131. The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
132. Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America 1730-1860; edited by Sue Ann Prince
133. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
134. Penguins: The Ultimate Guide by Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, and Julie Cornthwaite
135. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
August
136. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
137. Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb
138. In the Footsteps of Audubon by Denis Clavreul
139. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford; edited by Peter. Y. Sussman
140. More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby
141. Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby
142. The Dublin Book Trade, 1801-1850 by Charles Benson
143. American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860 by Lance Mayer and Gay Myers
144. Leech by Hiron Ennes
145. Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time by Donna Merwick
September
146. Sovereign by C. J. Sansom
147. Grant by Ron Chernow
148. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz by Garth Nix
149. The Awful End of Prince William the Silent by Lisa Jardine
150. The Citizen Poets of Boston; edited by Paul Lewis
151. A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon by Krista Elrick
152. The Word Detective by John Simpson
153. Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic by Peter C. Mancall
154. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
155. Kingdom of Nauvoo by Benjamin E. Park
156. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
157. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1, Volume 1 by Miya Kazuki
158. Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic by Peter Kafer
159. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
160. The Townshend Moment by Patrick Griffin
161. The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict
162. A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837 by Robert E. Shalhope
163. Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
164. The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh by Chiang Yee
165. Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
October
166. John Aubrey, My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
167. Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age by Michael Pye
168. Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier by Honor Sachs
169. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger
170. The Role of the Scroll by Thomas Forrest Kelly
171. These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
172. The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
173. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
174. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
175. The Map Tour: A History of Tourism Told Through Rare Maps, From the Grand Tour to Globalization by Hugh Thomson
176. In the Neighborhood: Women's Publication in Early America by Caroline Wigginton
177. Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley
178. Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782 by Virginia Bernhard
179. Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 by Patrick Spero
180. Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics by Michael Wolraich
181. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick
182. Greenwood by Michael Christie
183. Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums by Elizabeth Siegel
184. Haven by Emma Donoghue
185. The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
186. Birds of New York (Plates) by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
187. War by Bob Woodward
188. Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
189. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
190. Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750-1850 by Anna Majeski
November
191. This Land Is Their Land by David J. Silverman
192. The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
193. Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution; edited by Margarette Lincoln
194. Murder in the Basement by Anthony Berkeley
195. Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra
196. Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 by Joseph M. Adelman
197. The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
198. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky
199. The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton
200. Past Lying by Val McDermid
201. The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution by Owen Stanwood
202. George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life by Tom Jones
203. The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin
204. Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
205. Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
December
206. Anatomy of an Auction: Rare Books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919 by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman
207. The Island that Disappeared by Tom Feiling
208. The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics by William J. Cooper
209. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
210. Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint
211. Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity by Nick Bunker
212. Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer
213. An Absolute Casserole: The Taskmaster Compendium by Alex Horne and Jack Bernhardt
214. Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley
215. A Library of Misremembered Books: When We're Searching for a Book but Have Forgotten the Title by Marina Luz
216. Nextinction by Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy
217. Big Tree by Brian Selznick
218. George Washington: A Life in Books by Kevin J. Hayes
219. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
220. The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic by John Demos
221. Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 by Thorkild Hansen
222. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s by Saree Makdisi
223. Venetia by Georgette Heyer
224. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America by Michael McDonnell
225. Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence by Conrad Edick Wright
226. The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024; edited by Anthony Horowitz
227. The Breach by M. T. Hill
228. Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England; edited by Ann Lucas Birle and Lisa A. Francavilla
229. The Clearing by Simon Toyne
230. I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
231. Fractured Fables by Alix E. Harrow
232. The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells by Rebecca Rego Barry
233. The Book of Death by Sidney Berger
234. The Forger's Daughter by Bradford Morrow
235. Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas by Nick Hornby
3FAMeulstee
Happy reading in 2024, Jeremy!
4norabelle414
Happy New Year, Jeremy!
5laytonwoman3rd
Great piece about the auction of Steinbeck's personal items in the latest Fine Books, Jeremy. Particularly loved the "dog ate my manuscript" snippet!
6JBD1
>5 laytonwoman3rd: Thanks!!
7JBD1
I'm trying out a new self-imposed "mini-challenge" this year, to attempt to encourage myself to read some things that have been languishing for ages. Each month the goal is to tick off at least one book from each of the following categories (without double-dipping):
- book from the bedroom shelves (miscellaneous non-fiction)
- book from the "books on books" shelves
- a biography or autobiography
- a 400+ page non-fiction book
- an oversize book
- a book acquired more than ten years ago
January and February I've managed it, so we'll see how things go!
- book from the bedroom shelves (miscellaneous non-fiction)
- book from the "books on books" shelves
- a biography or autobiography
- a 400+ page non-fiction book
- an oversize book
- a book acquired more than ten years ago
January and February I've managed it, so we'll see how things go!
8laytonwoman3rd
>7 JBD1: I just resolved to do something similar, after coming across a crate of unread books in my spare room closet. Although they are all duly catalogued here, they were virtually forgotten, as I just never see them.
9norabelle414
>7 JBD1: That's a good mini-challenge! Good luck!
