Book List, 2019

Albert Anker's
"Elderly Woman Reading...."

I published the lists of books I've read in 2014 and 2015 and then the habit fell by the wayside.  Jeanne's post reminded me this year.  I keep an annual annotated list on my computer but having the titles and authors on my blog makes for much easier searching when someone asks if I've read a book by a specific author or title.  I'll probably add the lists I haven't already posted, too.  Below, a vertical line before the title indicates a children's picture book.

January

• The Book of Mormon 
• Marilla of Green Gables, Sarah McCoy

March

• We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals.  Gillian Gill 
• The Bookshop.  Penelope Fitzgerald 
• The Friendship War.  Andrew Clements (children's but not a picture book)

April

• The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History.  Elizabeth Norton

May  

• The Forgotten Seamstress.  Liz Trenow

June

• The Clockmaker’s Daughter.  Kate Morton 
• A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London’s Flower Sellers.  Hazel Gaynor 
• When Crickets Cry: A Novel of the Heart.  Charles Martin 
• Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World.  Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell

July

• The American Agent.  Jacqueline Winspear
• |Wendell’s Workshop.   Chris Riddell
• |The Bear Dance.  Chris Riddell 
• Britt-Marie Was Here.  Fredrik Backman 
• Be Frank with Me.  Julia Claiborne Johnson
• |Town Is By the Sea.  Joanne Schwartz, illustrated by Sydney Smith 
• True Colors.  Kristin Hannah
• |Vera’s First Day of School.  Vera Rosenberry
• |Vera’s Baby Sister.  Vera Rosenberry
• |The Growing-up Tree.  Vera Rosenberry

August

• Tending Roses.  Lisa Wingate 
• Good Hope Road.  Lisa Wingate 
• The Language of Sycamores.  Lisa Wingate

September

• Drenched in Light.  Lisa Wingate 
• A Thousand Voices.  Lisa Wingate 
• The Summer Kitchen.  Lisa Wingate

October

• Where the Light Enters.  Sara Donati
• |What Miss Mitchell Saw.   Hayley Barrett, illustrated by Diana Sudyka 
• Mindset:  The New Psychology of Success.  Carol S. Dweck

November

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.  Kim Michele Richardson 
• Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard.  Laura Bates 
• Down Cut Shin Creek:  The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky.  Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer
• |Molly’s Pilgrim.  Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Daniel Mark Duffy
• |Grandma’s Purse.  Vanessa Brantley-Newton

December

• Winter Cottage.  Mary Ellen Taylor 
• When Angels Sing.  Turk Pipkin 
• The Lost Words: A Spell Book.  Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris

Books Not Finished (for one reason or another -- no connection to the characters, due back to the library, didn't enjoy the writing style, etc.)

• Jane Austen’s Guide to Thrift:  An Independent Woman’s Advice on Living Within One’s Means.   Kathleen Anderson and Susan Jones 
• The Gilded Hour.  Sara Donati 
• Merry Hall.  Beverley Nichols 
• The Man in the Brown Suit.  Agatha Christie 
• Adam’s Task:  Calling Animals by Name.  Vicki Hearne 
• The Shallows:  What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.  Nicholas Carr 
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette.  Maria Semple 
• Three Men in a Boat.  Jerome K. Jerome 
• The Sea Keeper’s Daughters.  Lisa Wingate

This list does not include the stacks of quilting and family history books I browsed or perused during the year without reading them from cover to cover.

--Nancy.
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