Books of 2014
It's been so hideously hot and humid the last few days, I've felt sick to my stomach most of the time. Cool change has just come through!
Books of 2014
Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
Strikethrough: Did not like; do not recommend.
Without going back over all my posts and Goodreads ratings, these are the books that stand out in my memory.
Non-fiction - new reads - 94
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children from Britain by Jessica Mann
French Letters and English Overcoats: Sexual Fallacies and Fads from Ancient Greece to the Millenium by Richard De'Ath
Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness by Julie Wheelwright
The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot by Antonia Fraser
Bad Girls & Wicked Women: The Most Powerful, Shocking, Amazing, Thrilling and Dangerous Women of All Time by Jan Stradling
Wild Women: History's Female Rebels, Radicals & Revolutionaries by Pamela Robson
Couples Who Kill by Carol Anne Davis
Myra Hindley: Inside The Mind Of A Murderess by Jean Ritchie
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives by Marilee Strong
Blind Justice: the true story of the death of Jennifer Tanner by Robin Bowles
Burke & Hare by Owen Dudley Edwards
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton
Cold Cases: On The Trail Of Justice by Charlotte Greig
The Australian Book Of True Crime by Larry Writer
The Museum of Hoaxes by Alex Boese
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
Ghosts of New York by Susan Blackhall
13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead by Christine Wicker
The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal by Lynne Kelly
Poltergeists And The Paranormal by Reuben Stone
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum
Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie: The World's Most Unusual Museums by Michelle Lovric
A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert
Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 by Stephen E. Ambrose
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
The Ice Balloon: One Man's Dramatic Attempt to Discover the North Pole by Balloon by Alec Wilkinson
The Balloonists: The History of the First Aeronauts by L.T.C Rolt
The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West by Chris Enss
The Women's West by Susan H. Armitage (Editor), Elizabeth Jameson
A Fever in the Heart: And Other True Cases (Crime Files #3) by Ann Rule
Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders
The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia by Susanna de Vries
The Ship Thieves: The True Tale Of James Porter, Colonial Pirate by Siân Rees
Tasmania's Convicts: How Felons Built a Free Society by Alison Alexander
The French Explorers and Sydney by Colin Dyer
Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia by Alan Brooke
The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia by Penny Russell
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History by Geoffrey Blainey
Australian Children Through 200 Years by Suzane Fabian
Australian Transport Through Two Hundred Years by Brian Carroll
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick
Hen Frigates: Wives Of Merchant Captains Under Sail by Joan Druett
Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters by Evan McHugh
The Deadly Sisterhood: A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance by Leonie Frieda
Travels With A Medieval Queen by Mary Taylor-Simeti
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone
Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America by Ronald B. Tobias
The Astonishing Elephant by Shana Alexander
Vulture: Nature's Ghastly Gourmet by Wayne Grady
The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them by S. Anthony Barnett
Pasteur's Gambit by Stephen Dando-Collins
The End Of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing The World And What We Eat by Charles Clover
Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey by Brenda Peterson & Linda Hogan
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg
The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin by Christopher McGowan
Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science by Joseph Cummins
The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan by Christine Morton-Evans, Michael Morton-Evans
Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Epic Journey of Exploration Through Latin America That Changed the Way We See the World by Gerard Helferich
Fever Season: The Epidemic of 1878 That Almost Destroyed Memphis, and the People who Saved It by Jeanette Keith
The Frozen Water Trade: How Ice From New England Kept The World Cool by Gavin Weightman
The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy by Charles Officer and Jake Page
Mrs P's Journey: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Created the A-Z Map by Sarah Hartley
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David A. Price
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Royal Blood: Richard III And The Mystery Of The Princes by Bertram Fields
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
The Queen's Agent : Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I by John Cooper
Cromwell: Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
King Charles II by Antonia Fraser
Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
1688: A Global History by John E. Wills Jr.
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart by Frank McLynn
The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500 - 1800 by Olwen H. Hufton
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
The Gilded Stage: The Social History of Opera by Daniel Snowman
Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph de Ligne by Philip Mansel
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski
Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest by Ian Kelly
How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow
Fiction - new reads - 47
Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal
Glamour in Glass (Glamourist Histories, #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Devil in the Dust (Outremer, Volume 1) by Chaz Brenchley
Wolfsbane (Sianim, #4 / Aralorn, #2) by Patricia Briggs
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1) by Ilona Andrews
Raised By Wolves (Raised By Wolves #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Fool's War by Sarah Zettel
Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts
Concealed in Death (In Death #38) by J.D. Robb
His Burial Too (Inspector Sloan #5) by Catherine Aird
Death by Darjeeling (A Tea Shop Mystery #1) by Laura Childs
Bite Me (Pride, #9) by Shelly Laurenston
Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5) by Patricia Briggs
A Bite to Remember (Argeneau, #5) by Lynsay Sands
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Graveminder by Melissa Marr
River Marked (Mercy Thompson, #6) by Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson, #7) by Patricia Briggs
Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish
Variant X by Susan Robinson
Shield of Winter (Psy/Changeling, #13) by Nalini Singh
Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1) by Nora Roberts
Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2) by Nora Roberts
The Collector by Nora Roberts
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Secret Hour (Midnighters, #1) by Scott Westerfeld
Touching Darkness (Midnighters, #2) by Scott Westerfeld
Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3) by Scott Westerfeld
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Shadow Thieves (Cronus Chronicles, #1) by Anne Ursu
Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales by Tamora Pierce
Strange Angels by Lili St.Crow
Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - mobydickbigread.com
Battle Magic (The Circle Reforged #3) by Tamora Pierce
The Arrangement (The Survivors' Club #2) by Mary Balogh
The Ice Princess (Patrik Hedström, #1) by Camilla Läckberg
Festive in Death (In Death #39) by J.D. Robb
Death In Berlin by M.M. Kaye
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
Last Night's Scandal (Carsington Brothers #5) by Loretta Chase
Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers #1) by Loretta Chase
Scandal Wears Satin (The Dressmakers #2) by Loretta Chase
Non-fiction - rereads - 6
Affluenza by Oliver James
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
The Plague Race by Edward Marriott
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England by Antonia Fraser
Women All On Fire: The Women Of The English Civil War by Alison Plowden
Fiction - rereads - approx. 156 (I probably forgot a few)
Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Alleyn mysteries
A Man Lay Dead
Enter a Murderer
The Nursing Home Murder
Death in Ecstasy
Vintage Murder
Artists in Crime
Death in a White Tie
Overture to Death
Death at the Bar
Surfeit of Lampreys
Death and the Dancing Footman
Colour Scheme
Died in the Wool
Final Curtain
Swing Brother Swing
Opening Night
Scales of Justice
Off With His Head
Singing in the Shrouds
False Scent
Hand in Glove
Dead Water
Death at the Dolphin
Clutch of Constables
When in Rome
Tied Up in Tinsel
Shelly Laurenston
The Mane Event (Pride, #1)
The Beast in Him (Pride, #2)
The Mane Attraction (Pride, #3)
The Mane Squeeze (Pride, #4)
Beast Behaving Badly (Pride, #5)
Big Bad Beast (Pride, #6)
Bear Meets Girl (Pride, #7)
Wolf with Benefits (Pride, #8)
When He Was Bad (Magnus Pack #3.5)
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)
Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)
Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
Hunting Ground (Alpha & Omega, #2)
Fair Game (Alpha & Omega, #3)
Alpha & Omega short stories in On the Prowl and Strange Brew
Nalini Singh
Slave to Sensation (Psy/Changeling #1)
Visions of Heat (Psy/Changeling #2)
Caressed By Ice (Psy/Changeling #3)
Mine to Possess (Psy/Changeling #4)
Hostage to Pleasure (Psy/Changeling #5)
Branded by Fire (Psy/Changeling #6)
Blaze of Memory (Psy/Changeling #7)
Bonds of Justice (Psy/Changeling #8)
Play of Passion (Psy/Changeling #9)
Kiss of Snow (Psy/Changeling #10)
Tangle of Need (Psy/Changeling #11)
Heart of Obsidian (Psy/Changeling #12)
Whisper of Sin in the Burning Up Anthology
Wild Invitation: A Psy/Changeling Anthology
Nora Roberts
Northern Lights
The Witness
Morrigan's Cross
The Search
Tribute
Black Hills
Midnight Bayou
Birthright
Vision in White (Bride Quartet #1)
Bed of Roses (Bride Quartet #2)
Savor The Moment (Bride Quartet #3)
Happy Ever After (Bride Quartet #4)
Key of Light (Key Trilogy #1)
Key of Knowledge (Key Trilogy #2)
Key of Valour (Key Trilogy #3)
Thalia, The Failure by Robin Klein
The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey
Georgette Heyer - Regency romances
A Civil Contract
April Lady
Arabella
Black Sheep
Charity Girl
Cotillion
Cousin Kate
False Colours
Frederica
Friday's Child
Lady of Quality
Pistols for Two
Sprig Muslin
Sylvester
The Corinthian
The Foundling
The Grand Sophy
The Nonesuch
The Quiet Gentleman
The Reluctant Widow
The Talisman Ring
The Toll-Gate
The Unknown Ajax
Venetia
The Will of the Empress (Circle Reforged, #1) by Tamora Pierce
Street Magic (The Circle Opens, #2) by Tamora Pierce
Melting Stones (Circle Reforged, #2) by Tamora Pierce
Miss Wonderful (Carsington Brothers, #1) by Loretta Chase
Mr Impossible (Carsington Brothers, #2) by Loretta Chase
Lord Perfect (Carsington Brothers, #3) by Loretta Chase
Not Quite A Lady (Carsington Brothers, #4) by Loretta Chase
J.D. Robb (I think I've reread most of them this year but these were the November/December rereads)
Thankless in Death
Concealed in Death
Calculated in Death
Delusion in Death
Celebrity in Death
Fantasy in Death
Kindred in Death
Salvation in Death
Strangers in Death
Creation in Death
Innocent in Death
Born in Death
Memory in Death
Origin in Death
Portrait in Death
Purity in Death
Holiday in Death
Georgette Heyer - detective novels
Envious Casca
A Blunt Instrument
They Found Him Dead
Duplicate Death
No Wind of Blame
Footsteps in the Dark
Why Shoot a Butler?
The Unfinished Clue
Death in the Stocks
Behold, Here's Poison
Detection Unlimited
Terry Pratchett - Discworld
Maskerade
Hogfather
Thief of Time
Agatha Christie (pretty sure I've reread some others this year.)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Cat Among the Pigeons
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Evil Under the Sun
Cards on the Table
Mrs McGinty's Dead
Dead Man's Folly
The Pale Horse
Third Girl
Hallowe'en Party
Elephants Can Remember
After the Funeral
The Sittaford Mystery
Towards Zero
Three Act Tragedy
Five Little Pigs
M.M. Kaye
Death in the Andamans
Death in Cyprus
Death in Zanzibar
Death in Kenya
Death in Kashmir
All non-fiction - 100
All fiction - 203 (approx.)
All new reads - 141
All books - 303 (approx.)
If I'd been counting as I went along, I would have pushed myself to read a few more new books in December rather than letting myself rest with some rereads. 100, 50, and 150 new reads would have been nice numbers! But considering how utterly lousy things have been in many other areas, I'm very pleased with how much non-fiction reading I was able to do last year. Not sure how much of it I remember at this point though ...
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Books of 2014
Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
Strikethrough: Did not like; do not recommend.
Without going back over all my posts and Goodreads ratings, these are the books that stand out in my memory.
Non-fiction - new reads - 94
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children from Britain by Jessica Mann
French Letters and English Overcoats: Sexual Fallacies and Fads from Ancient Greece to the Millenium by Richard De'Ath
Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness by Julie Wheelwright
The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot by Antonia Fraser
Bad Girls & Wicked Women: The Most Powerful, Shocking, Amazing, Thrilling and Dangerous Women of All Time by Jan Stradling
Wild Women: History's Female Rebels, Radicals & Revolutionaries by Pamela Robson
Couples Who Kill by Carol Anne Davis
Myra Hindley: Inside The Mind Of A Murderess by Jean Ritchie
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives by Marilee Strong
Blind Justice: the true story of the death of Jennifer Tanner by Robin Bowles
Burke & Hare by Owen Dudley Edwards
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton
Cold Cases: On The Trail Of Justice by Charlotte Greig
The Australian Book Of True Crime by Larry Writer
The Museum of Hoaxes by Alex Boese
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
Ghosts of New York by Susan Blackhall
13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead by Christine Wicker
The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal by Lynne Kelly
Poltergeists And The Paranormal by Reuben Stone
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum
Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie: The World's Most Unusual Museums by Michelle Lovric
A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert
Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 by Stephen E. Ambrose
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
The Ice Balloon: One Man's Dramatic Attempt to Discover the North Pole by Balloon by Alec Wilkinson
The Balloonists: The History of the First Aeronauts by L.T.C Rolt
The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West by Chris Enss
The Women's West by Susan H. Armitage (Editor), Elizabeth Jameson
A Fever in the Heart: And Other True Cases (Crime Files #3) by Ann Rule
Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders
The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia by Susanna de Vries
The Ship Thieves: The True Tale Of James Porter, Colonial Pirate by Siân Rees
Tasmania's Convicts: How Felons Built a Free Society by Alison Alexander
The French Explorers and Sydney by Colin Dyer
Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia by Alan Brooke
The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia by Penny Russell
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History by Geoffrey Blainey
Australian Children Through 200 Years by Suzane Fabian
Australian Transport Through Two Hundred Years by Brian Carroll
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick
Hen Frigates: Wives Of Merchant Captains Under Sail by Joan Druett
Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters by Evan McHugh
The Deadly Sisterhood: A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance by Leonie Frieda
Travels With A Medieval Queen by Mary Taylor-Simeti
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone
Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America by Ronald B. Tobias
The Astonishing Elephant by Shana Alexander
Vulture: Nature's Ghastly Gourmet by Wayne Grady
The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them by S. Anthony Barnett
Pasteur's Gambit by Stephen Dando-Collins
The End Of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing The World And What We Eat by Charles Clover
Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey by Brenda Peterson & Linda Hogan
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg
The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin by Christopher McGowan
Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science by Joseph Cummins
The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan by Christine Morton-Evans, Michael Morton-Evans
Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Epic Journey of Exploration Through Latin America That Changed the Way We See the World by Gerard Helferich
Fever Season: The Epidemic of 1878 That Almost Destroyed Memphis, and the People who Saved It by Jeanette Keith
The Frozen Water Trade: How Ice From New England Kept The World Cool by Gavin Weightman
The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy by Charles Officer and Jake Page
Mrs P's Journey: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Created the A-Z Map by Sarah Hartley
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David A. Price
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Royal Blood: Richard III And The Mystery Of The Princes by Bertram Fields
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
The Queen's Agent : Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I by John Cooper
Cromwell: Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
King Charles II by Antonia Fraser
Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
1688: A Global History by John E. Wills Jr.
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart by Frank McLynn
The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500 - 1800 by Olwen H. Hufton
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
The Gilded Stage: The Social History of Opera by Daniel Snowman
Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph de Ligne by Philip Mansel
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski
Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest by Ian Kelly
How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow
Fiction - new reads - 47
Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal
Glamour in Glass (Glamourist Histories, #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Devil in the Dust (Outremer, Volume 1) by Chaz Brenchley
Wolfsbane (Sianim, #4 / Aralorn, #2) by Patricia Briggs
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1) by Ilona Andrews
Raised By Wolves (Raised By Wolves #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Fool's War by Sarah Zettel
Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts
Concealed in Death (In Death #38) by J.D. Robb
His Burial Too (Inspector Sloan #5) by Catherine Aird
Death by Darjeeling (A Tea Shop Mystery #1) by Laura Childs
Bite Me (Pride, #9) by Shelly Laurenston
Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5) by Patricia Briggs
A Bite to Remember (Argeneau, #5) by Lynsay Sands
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Graveminder by Melissa Marr
River Marked (Mercy Thompson, #6) by Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson, #7) by Patricia Briggs
Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish
Variant X by Susan Robinson
Shield of Winter (Psy/Changeling, #13) by Nalini Singh
Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1) by Nora Roberts
Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2) by Nora Roberts
The Collector by Nora Roberts
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Secret Hour (Midnighters, #1) by Scott Westerfeld
Touching Darkness (Midnighters, #2) by Scott Westerfeld
Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3) by Scott Westerfeld
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Shadow Thieves (Cronus Chronicles, #1) by Anne Ursu
Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales by Tamora Pierce
Strange Angels by Lili St.Crow
Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - mobydickbigread.com
Battle Magic (The Circle Reforged #3) by Tamora Pierce
The Arrangement (The Survivors' Club #2) by Mary Balogh
The Ice Princess (Patrik Hedström, #1) by Camilla Läckberg
Festive in Death (In Death #39) by J.D. Robb
Death In Berlin by M.M. Kaye
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
Last Night's Scandal (Carsington Brothers #5) by Loretta Chase
Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers #1) by Loretta Chase
Scandal Wears Satin (The Dressmakers #2) by Loretta Chase
Non-fiction - rereads - 6
Affluenza by Oliver James
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
The Plague Race by Edward Marriott
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England by Antonia Fraser
Women All On Fire: The Women Of The English Civil War by Alison Plowden
Fiction - rereads - approx. 156 (I probably forgot a few)
Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Alleyn mysteries
A Man Lay Dead
Enter a Murderer
The Nursing Home Murder
Death in Ecstasy
Vintage Murder
Artists in Crime
Death in a White Tie
Overture to Death
Death at the Bar
Surfeit of Lampreys
Death and the Dancing Footman
Colour Scheme
Died in the Wool
Final Curtain
Swing Brother Swing
Opening Night
Scales of Justice
Off With His Head
Singing in the Shrouds
False Scent
Hand in Glove
Dead Water
Death at the Dolphin
Clutch of Constables
When in Rome
Tied Up in Tinsel
Shelly Laurenston
The Mane Event (Pride, #1)
The Beast in Him (Pride, #2)
The Mane Attraction (Pride, #3)
The Mane Squeeze (Pride, #4)
Beast Behaving Badly (Pride, #5)
Big Bad Beast (Pride, #6)
Bear Meets Girl (Pride, #7)
Wolf with Benefits (Pride, #8)
When He Was Bad (Magnus Pack #3.5)
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)
Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)
Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
Hunting Ground (Alpha & Omega, #2)
Fair Game (Alpha & Omega, #3)
Alpha & Omega short stories in On the Prowl and Strange Brew
Nalini Singh
Slave to Sensation (Psy/Changeling #1)
Visions of Heat (Psy/Changeling #2)
Caressed By Ice (Psy/Changeling #3)
Mine to Possess (Psy/Changeling #4)
Hostage to Pleasure (Psy/Changeling #5)
Branded by Fire (Psy/Changeling #6)
Blaze of Memory (Psy/Changeling #7)
Bonds of Justice (Psy/Changeling #8)
Play of Passion (Psy/Changeling #9)
Kiss of Snow (Psy/Changeling #10)
Tangle of Need (Psy/Changeling #11)
Heart of Obsidian (Psy/Changeling #12)
Whisper of Sin in the Burning Up Anthology
Wild Invitation: A Psy/Changeling Anthology
Nora Roberts
Northern Lights
The Witness
Morrigan's Cross
The Search
Tribute
Black Hills
Midnight Bayou
Birthright
Vision in White (Bride Quartet #1)
Bed of Roses (Bride Quartet #2)
Savor The Moment (Bride Quartet #3)
Happy Ever After (Bride Quartet #4)
Key of Light (Key Trilogy #1)
Key of Knowledge (Key Trilogy #2)
Key of Valour (Key Trilogy #3)
Thalia, The Failure by Robin Klein
The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey
Georgette Heyer - Regency romances
A Civil Contract
April Lady
Arabella
Black Sheep
Charity Girl
Cotillion
Cousin Kate
False Colours
Frederica
Friday's Child
Lady of Quality
Pistols for Two
Sprig Muslin
Sylvester
The Corinthian
The Foundling
The Grand Sophy
The Nonesuch
The Quiet Gentleman
The Reluctant Widow
The Talisman Ring
The Toll-Gate
The Unknown Ajax
Venetia
The Will of the Empress (Circle Reforged, #1) by Tamora Pierce
Street Magic (The Circle Opens, #2) by Tamora Pierce
Melting Stones (Circle Reforged, #2) by Tamora Pierce
Miss Wonderful (Carsington Brothers, #1) by Loretta Chase
Mr Impossible (Carsington Brothers, #2) by Loretta Chase
Lord Perfect (Carsington Brothers, #3) by Loretta Chase
Not Quite A Lady (Carsington Brothers, #4) by Loretta Chase
J.D. Robb (I think I've reread most of them this year but these were the November/December rereads)
Thankless in Death
Concealed in Death
Calculated in Death
Delusion in Death
Celebrity in Death
Fantasy in Death
Kindred in Death
Salvation in Death
Strangers in Death
Creation in Death
Innocent in Death
Born in Death
Memory in Death
Origin in Death
Portrait in Death
Purity in Death
Holiday in Death
Georgette Heyer - detective novels
Envious Casca
A Blunt Instrument
They Found Him Dead
Duplicate Death
No Wind of Blame
Footsteps in the Dark
Why Shoot a Butler?
The Unfinished Clue
Death in the Stocks
Behold, Here's Poison
Detection Unlimited
Terry Pratchett - Discworld
Maskerade
Hogfather
Thief of Time
Agatha Christie (pretty sure I've reread some others this year.)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Cat Among the Pigeons
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Evil Under the Sun
Cards on the Table
Mrs McGinty's Dead
Dead Man's Folly
The Pale Horse
Third Girl
Hallowe'en Party
Elephants Can Remember
After the Funeral
The Sittaford Mystery
Towards Zero
Three Act Tragedy
Five Little Pigs
M.M. Kaye
Death in the Andamans
Death in Cyprus
Death in Zanzibar
Death in Kenya
Death in Kashmir
All non-fiction - 100
All fiction - 203 (approx.)
All new reads - 141
All books - 303 (approx.)
If I'd been counting as I went along, I would have pushed myself to read a few more new books in December rather than letting myself rest with some rereads. 100, 50, and 150 new reads would have been nice numbers! But considering how utterly lousy things have been in many other areas, I'm very pleased with how much non-fiction reading I was able to do last year. Not sure how much of it I remember at this point though ...
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