Books Read

List picked up March 2015

  • Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
  • Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephan Greenblatt
  • The Goshawk by T.H. White
  • Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
  • The Djinn in the Nighingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter
  • The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones by Thomas Asbridge

List started again in 10/2012

  • Social Conquest of Earth by E.O. Wilson

Partial list from before 2012

  • “Dracula: A Casebook” edited by Alan Dundes
  • “Interview with a Vampire” by Anne Rice
  • “The Passage” by Justin Cronin
  • “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
  • “The Lady in the Tower” by Alison Weir
  • “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” by Mark Haddon
  • “Eifelheim” by Michael Flynn
  • “Dracula” by Bram Stoker
  • “Here If You Need Me: A True Story” by Kate Braestrup
  • “Persuasion” by Jane Austen
  • “Lord of the Rings” by Tolkien
  • “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton
  • “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks
  • “The Sultan’s Seal” by Jenny White
  • “The Birth of Venus” by Sarah Dunant
  • “Women of the Silk” by Gail Tsukiyama
  • “Becoming Shakespeare” by Jack Lynch
  • “Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power” by Ross King
  • “The Rule of Four” by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
  • “Darwin’s Radio” by Greg Bear
  • “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling
  • “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by J.K. Rowling
  • “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling
  • “John Donne: The Reformed Soul” by John Stubbs
  • “Medicus” by Ruth Downie
  • “Emilie’s Voice” by Susanne Dunlap
  • “Liszt’s Kiss: A Novel” by Susanne Dunlap
  • “Perilous Realms: Celtic & Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth” by Marjorie Burns
  • “The Space Between Us” by Thrity Umrigar
  • “Caesar ” by Adrian Goldsworthy

1 Response to Books Read

  1. Cecily Selling says:

    Have you read Americanah? If not, it could be added to the 2015 books.

    Like

Leave a comment