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My 2024 list
Happy New Year, everyone!
January
1. English as She Is Spoke; edited by Paul Collins
2. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
3. The Definitive Desert Island Discs by Ian Gittins
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. The Tower by Simon Toyne
6. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbø
7. The Rohonc Code: Tracing a Historical Riddle by Benedek Láng
8. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
9. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
10. My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
11. Revelation by C. J. Sansom
February
12. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
13. The Seven Lives of John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter
14. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
15. To Ruhleben—And Back by Geoffrey Pyke
16. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
17. Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
18. The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums by Christopher Kemp
19. Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia by Dennis Carr
20. The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A. by Montgomery Carmichael
March
21. Lady into Fox by David Garnett
22. Heartstone by C. J. Sansom
23. Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
24. The Koran in English: A Biography by Bruce B. Lawrence
25. Death on the Down Beat: An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection by Sebastian Farr
26. Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson
27. How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page by Glenn Fleishman
28. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
29. The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber
30. Birds through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands by Dennis Gaffin, Michael Bastine and John Volpe
31. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
32. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
33. The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654 by Ole Peter Grell
April
34. A Haunting in Venice by Agatha Christie
35. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
36. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
37. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
38. The Constellation of Bibliophily by G. Scott Clemons
39. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
40. The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft by Peter Bellerby
41. Practical Pomology: A Field Guide by Sean Turley
42. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer by Anthony M. Amore
43. Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera by George S. Chappell
44. The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon
45. Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory Wonders of Nature by Nancy Lawson
46. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
47. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
May
48. The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
49. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
50. Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print by Lisa Jardine
51. Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections by Mandy Barker
52. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
53. Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River by Charlotte Taylor Fryar
54. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 3rd Edition
55. Lamentation by C. J. Sansom
56. The Memory of Sound: Observations on the History of Music on Paper by Donald William Krummel
57. A Brief Account of the Origins and Purpose of the Chapin Library at Williams College
58. A Flock of Beautiful Birds: The Ornithological Collection of Louise Elkins Sinkler by Edwin Wolf 2nd
59. Historical Sketch of the Club of Odd Volumes: Reprinted from the Year book on the occasion of the visit of the Grolier Club
60. The Sette of Odd Volumes in the Archives of The Club of Odd Volumes
61. Quaritch in Print: A Sesquicentennial Salmagundi
62. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
63. Bewick Bookplates: A Late Harvest by Nigel Tattersfield
64. Wood Engraving: The Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving by Barry Moser
65. The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639–1663 by Jon C. Blue
66. Casanova was a Book Lover by John Maxwell Hamilton
67. Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø
June
68. Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac
69. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
70. One by One by Ruth Ware
71. Ghosts of Gone Birds by Chris Aldhous
72. The Same Purposeful Instinct: Essays in Honor of William H. Scheide; edited by William P. Stoneman
73. In the Field, Among the Feathered: A History of Birders and Their Guides by Thomas R. Dunlap
74. Printmaking by Susan Lambert
75. A Portrait of the Author in Sixteenth-Century France by Ruth Mortimer
76. The Gutenberg Bible: New Evidence of the Original Printing by William B. Todd
77. Off the Wall: Research into the Art of the Poster by Alan Fern
78. Print Culture and Enlightenment Thought by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
79. The History of Books as a Field of Study by G. Thomas Tanselle
80. The Bradshaw Method: Henry Bradshaw's Contribution to Bibliography by Paul Needham
81. Uncle Gus Flaubert Rates the Jargon Society: In One Hundred One Laconic Présalé Sage Sentences by Jonathan Williams
82. The Future of Typographical Studies by Nicolas Barker
83. Five Centuries of English Bookbinding by Howard M. Nixon
84. The Jefferson Bible: A Biography by Peter Manseau
85. Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
86. Understanding Bird Behavior: An Illustrated Guide to What Birds Do and Why by Wenfei Tong
87. The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni
88. Bed-Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
89. Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
90. An Assassin in Utopia by Susan Wels
91. The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts by Sylvia Sellers-García
92. Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson
93. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
94. Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time by Jenny Uglow
95. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace
96. The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm by Sarah Vogel
97. Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan
98. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
99. A History of Indian Point: Georgetown, Maine by Sereno Sewall Webster, Jr.
100. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear
101. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring by William Souder
102. Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles
103. The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate over its Authenticity by Geoffrey S. Smith and Brent C. Landau
104. The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
July
105. After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775-1800 by Jacqueline Barbara Carr
106. The It Girl by Ruth Ware
107. The Naturalist at Home: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us by Kelly Brenner
108. A History of Children's Books in 100 Books by Roderick Cave and Sara Ayad
109. As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts; edited by Blaire Morseau
110. Inscription: The Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History (Issue 5: Containers); edited by Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Simon Morris
111. Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré
112. Under the Storm by Christoffer Carlsson
113. The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston
114. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
115. Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism by Jessica Roux
116. Curfew & Other Eerie Tales by Lucy M. Boston
117. Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson
118. Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King by Mike Pitts
119. John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy by Luke Mayville
120. Two-Way Murder by E. C. R. Lorac
121. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
122. Hemlock: A Forest Giant On The Edge; edited by David R. Foster
123. Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes; edited by Martin Edwards
August
124. Autumn of the Black Snake by William Hogeland
125. Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World by Jonathan M. Bloom
126. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe by David Buisseret
127. Restoring North America's Birds: Lessons from Landscape Ecology by Robert A. Askins
128. Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
129. Tombland by C. J. Sansom
130. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
131. Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation by Anthony Grafton
132. The Corpse in the Waxworks: A Paris Mystery by John Dickson Carr
133. The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
134. Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson
135. The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer
136. The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy by John Buchan
September
137. Building a Great Library: The Coolidge Years at Harvard by William Bentinck-Smith
138. Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England by Meredith Marie Neuman
139. Sufferance by Charles Palliser
140. The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820; edited by Ethan W. Lasser
141. The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
142. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
143. The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena Burdick
144. Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich
145. Zero Days by Ruth Ware
146. Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
147. Murder at the Merton Library by Andrea Penrose
148. Sacraments for the Unfit by Sarah Tolmie
149. The Big Four by Agatha Christie
150. In Shakespeare's Shadow by Michael Blanding
151. A Death in the Parish by Richard Coles
October
152. The Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature by Nick Groom
153. The Birding Dictionary by Rosemary Mosco
154. Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman
155. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
156. Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery by Sylvia Sellers-García
157. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
158. The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 by Martin Brückner
159. Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 by Anthony Grafton
160. The University Library in the United States: Its Origins and Development by Arthur T. Hamlin
161. The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age by Fred Lerner
162. Books and the Sciences in History; edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine
163. One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
164. Book Collecting: A Modern Guide; edited by Jean Peters
165. Taste & Technique in Book Collecting by John Carter
166. The Scheide Library by Julian P. Boyd
167. Modern Book Collecting by Robert A. Wilson
168. A Bibliography of the Works of Ian Jackson by Kenneth Haynes
169. Books and Book Collectors by John Carter
170. Six Centuries of Type & Printing by Glenn Fleishman
171. The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters by Richard A. Firmage
172. Gallows Court by Martin Edwards
173. EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted
174. Between the Lines: Letters and Memoranda Interchanged by H. Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise
175. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
176. Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
177. A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America by Susanne M. Low
178. Tatlin's Tower: Monument to Revolution by Norbert Lynton
November
179. The Printed Picture by Richard Benson
180. Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson
181. Practical Purposes: Readers in Experimental Philosophy at the Boston Athenaeum (1827-1850) by Scott B. Guthery
182. The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums by A. Kendra Greene
183. Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion by Leona Rostenberg and Madeline B. Stern
184. Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards
185. Polostan by Neal Stephenson
186. Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand
187. Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience by Martyn Whittock
188. The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
189. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds by Nancy Moses
190. Scholars and Gentlemen: The Library of the New-York Historical Society, 1804-1982 by Pamela Spence Richards
191. Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online by Stephen H. Gregg
192. Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History by Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos
193. Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes by Robert Fraser
194. Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin
195. The Book of Dust: The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
196. Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan
December
197. Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 by Neil Chambers
198. Hoax: Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds by Edward Steers, Jr.
199. Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss
200. The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge by Martin Edwards
201. The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
202. Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
203. Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Story by Anne Meredith
204. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
205. The Christmas Egg: A Seasonal Mystery by Mary Kelly
206. In These Times by Jenny Uglow
207. Greenglass House by Kate Milford
208. Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford
209. The White Priory Murders: A Mystery for Christmas by Carter Dickson
210. The Night House by Jo Nesbø
211. The House on Graveyard Lane by Martin Edwards
212. Wild about Dorset: The Nature Diary of a West Country Parish by Brian Jackman
213. Murder Has a Motive by Francis Duncan
214. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
215. The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
Happy New Year, everyone!
January
1. English as She Is Spoke; edited by Paul Collins
2. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
3. The Definitive Desert Island Discs by Ian Gittins
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. The Tower by Simon Toyne
6. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbø
7. The Rohonc Code: Tracing a Historical Riddle by Benedek Láng
8. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
9. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
10. My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
11. Revelation by C. J. Sansom
February
12. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
13. The Seven Lives of John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter
14. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
15. To Ruhleben—And Back by Geoffrey Pyke
16. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
17. Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
18. The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums by Christopher Kemp
19. Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia by Dennis Carr
20. The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A. by Montgomery Carmichael
March
21. Lady into Fox by David Garnett
22. Heartstone by C. J. Sansom
23. Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
24. The Koran in English: A Biography by Bruce B. Lawrence
25. Death on the Down Beat: An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection by Sebastian Farr
26. Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson
27. How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page by Glenn Fleishman
28. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
29. The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber
30. Birds through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands by Dennis Gaffin, Michael Bastine and John Volpe
31. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
32. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
33. The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654 by Ole Peter Grell
April
34. A Haunting in Venice by Agatha Christie
35. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
36. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
37. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
38. The Constellation of Bibliophily by G. Scott Clemons
39. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
40. The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft by Peter Bellerby
41. Practical Pomology: A Field Guide by Sean Turley
42. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer by Anthony M. Amore
43. Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera by George S. Chappell
44. The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon
45. Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory Wonders of Nature by Nancy Lawson
46. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
47. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
May
48. The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
49. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
50. Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print by Lisa Jardine
51. Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections by Mandy Barker
52. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
53. Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River by Charlotte Taylor Fryar
54. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 3rd Edition
55. Lamentation by C. J. Sansom
56. The Memory of Sound: Observations on the History of Music on Paper by Donald William Krummel
57. A Brief Account of the Origins and Purpose of the Chapin Library at Williams College
58. A Flock of Beautiful Birds: The Ornithological Collection of Louise Elkins Sinkler by Edwin Wolf 2nd
59. Historical Sketch of the Club of Odd Volumes: Reprinted from the Year book on the occasion of the visit of the Grolier Club
60. The Sette of Odd Volumes in the Archives of The Club of Odd Volumes
61. Quaritch in Print: A Sesquicentennial Salmagundi
62. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
63. Bewick Bookplates: A Late Harvest by Nigel Tattersfield
64. Wood Engraving: The Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving by Barry Moser
65. The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639–1663 by Jon C. Blue
66. Casanova was a Book Lover by John Maxwell Hamilton
67. Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø
June
68. Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac
69. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
70. One by One by Ruth Ware
71. Ghosts of Gone Birds by Chris Aldhous
72. The Same Purposeful Instinct: Essays in Honor of William H. Scheide; edited by William P. Stoneman
73. In the Field, Among the Feathered: A History of Birders and Their Guides by Thomas R. Dunlap
74. Printmaking by Susan Lambert
75. A Portrait of the Author in Sixteenth-Century France by Ruth Mortimer
76. The Gutenberg Bible: New Evidence of the Original Printing by William B. Todd
77. Off the Wall: Research into the Art of the Poster by Alan Fern
78. Print Culture and Enlightenment Thought by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
79. The History of Books as a Field of Study by G. Thomas Tanselle
80. The Bradshaw Method: Henry Bradshaw's Contribution to Bibliography by Paul Needham
81. Uncle Gus Flaubert Rates the Jargon Society: In One Hundred One Laconic Présalé Sage Sentences by Jonathan Williams
82. The Future of Typographical Studies by Nicolas Barker
83. Five Centuries of English Bookbinding by Howard M. Nixon
84. The Jefferson Bible: A Biography by Peter Manseau
85. Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
86. Understanding Bird Behavior: An Illustrated Guide to What Birds Do and Why by Wenfei Tong
87. The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni
88. Bed-Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
89. Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
90. An Assassin in Utopia by Susan Wels
91. The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts by Sylvia Sellers-García
92. Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson
93. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
94. Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time by Jenny Uglow
95. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace
96. The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm by Sarah Vogel
97. Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan
98. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
99. A History of Indian Point: Georgetown, Maine by Sereno Sewall Webster, Jr.
100. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear
101. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring by William Souder
102. Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles
103. The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate over its Authenticity by Geoffrey S. Smith and Brent C. Landau
104. The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
July
105. After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775-1800 by Jacqueline Barbara Carr
106. The It Girl by Ruth Ware
107. The Naturalist at Home: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us by Kelly Brenner
108. A History of Children's Books in 100 Books by Roderick Cave and Sara Ayad
109. As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts; edited by Blaire Morseau
110. Inscription: The Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History (Issue 5: Containers); edited by Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Simon Morris
111. Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré
112. Under the Storm by Christoffer Carlsson
113. The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston
114. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
115. Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism by Jessica Roux
116. Curfew & Other Eerie Tales by Lucy M. Boston
117. Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson
118. Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King by Mike Pitts
119. John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy by Luke Mayville
120. Two-Way Murder by E. C. R. Lorac
121. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
122. Hemlock: A Forest Giant On The Edge; edited by David R. Foster
123. Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes; edited by Martin Edwards
August
124. Autumn of the Black Snake by William Hogeland
125. Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World by Jonathan M. Bloom
126. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe by David Buisseret
127. Restoring North America's Birds: Lessons from Landscape Ecology by Robert A. Askins
128. Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
129. Tombland by C. J. Sansom
130. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
131. Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation by Anthony Grafton
132. The Corpse in the Waxworks: A Paris Mystery by John Dickson Carr
133. The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
134. Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson
135. The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer
136. The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy by John Buchan
September
137. Building a Great Library: The Coolidge Years at Harvard by William Bentinck-Smith
138. Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England by Meredith Marie Neuman
139. Sufferance by Charles Palliser
140. The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820; edited by Ethan W. Lasser
141. The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
142. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
143. The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena Burdick
144. Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich
145. Zero Days by Ruth Ware
146. Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
147. Murder at the Merton Library by Andrea Penrose
148. Sacraments for the Unfit by Sarah Tolmie
149. The Big Four by Agatha Christie
150. In Shakespeare's Shadow by Michael Blanding
151. A Death in the Parish by Richard Coles
October
152. The Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature by Nick Groom
153. The Birding Dictionary by Rosemary Mosco
154. Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman
155. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
156. Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery by Sylvia Sellers-García
157. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
158. The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 by Martin Brückner
159. Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 by Anthony Grafton
160. The University Library in the United States: Its Origins and Development by Arthur T. Hamlin
161. The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age by Fred Lerner
162. Books and the Sciences in History; edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine
163. One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
164. Book Collecting: A Modern Guide; edited by Jean Peters
165. Taste & Technique in Book Collecting by John Carter
166. The Scheide Library by Julian P. Boyd
167. Modern Book Collecting by Robert A. Wilson
168. A Bibliography of the Works of Ian Jackson by Kenneth Haynes
169. Books and Book Collectors by John Carter
170. Six Centuries of Type & Printing by Glenn Fleishman
171. The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters by Richard A. Firmage
172. Gallows Court by Martin Edwards
173. EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted
174. Between the Lines: Letters and Memoranda Interchanged by H. Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise
175. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
176. Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
177. A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America by Susanne M. Low
178. Tatlin's Tower: Monument to Revolution by Norbert Lynton
November
179. The Printed Picture by Richard Benson
180. Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson
181. Practical Purposes: Readers in Experimental Philosophy at the Boston Athenaeum (1827-1850) by Scott B. Guthery
182. The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums by A. Kendra Greene
183. Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion by Leona Rostenberg and Madeline B. Stern
184. Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards
185. Polostan by Neal Stephenson
186. Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand
187. Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience by Martyn Whittock
188. The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
189. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds by Nancy Moses
190. Scholars and Gentlemen: The Library of the New-York Historical Society, 1804-1982 by Pamela Spence Richards
191. Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online by Stephen H. Gregg
192. Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History by Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos
193. Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes by Robert Fraser
194. Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin
195. The Book of Dust: The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
196. Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan
December
197. Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 by Neil Chambers
198. Hoax: Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds by Edward Steers, Jr.
199. Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss
200. The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge by Martin Edwards
201. The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
202. Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
203. Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Story by Anne Meredith
204. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
205. The Christmas Egg: A Seasonal Mystery by Mary Kelly
206. In These Times by Jenny Uglow
207. Greenglass House by Kate Milford
208. Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford
209. The White Priory Murders: A Mystery for Christmas by Carter Dickson
210. The Night House by Jo Nesbø
211. The House on Graveyard Lane by Martin Edwards
212. Wild about Dorset: The Nature Diary of a West Country Parish by Brian Jackman
213. Murder Has a Motive by Francis Duncan
214. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
215. The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
2JBD1
New mini-challenge for this year, with the same rules as last year (one book from each category per month, no double-dipping):
- a 400+ page non-fiction book
- an oversize book
- a book acquired more than ten years ago
- TBR book from the natural history shelves
- TBR book from the books on books shelves
- a 400+ page non-fiction book
- an oversize book
- a book acquired more than ten years ago
- TBR book from the natural history shelves
- TBR book from the books on books shelves
4thornton37814
Have a great year of reading!
5norabelle414
Happy New Year, Jeremy!
