Books Read 2021

  1. The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution – Stephen Heyman (US, 2020)
  2. The Book Collectors (Les passeurs de livres de Daraya. Une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie) – Delphine Minoui [Translated by Lara Vergnaud, 2020] (France, 2017)
  3. Fire and Hemlock – Diana Wynne Jones (England, 1984)
  4. Troubled Blood – Robert Galbraith (Britain, 2020)
  5. Epic of Gilgamesh – Anonymous [English version by Stephen Mitchell, 2006] (Sumerian/Akkadian, c. 2100-1000 BCE)
  6. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien (England, 1954)*
  7. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebald (US, 2002)
  8. A World Without Email – Cal Newport (US, 2021)
  9. Emily of New Moon – L.M. Montgomery (Canada, 1923)
  10. Sadie Shapiro’s Knitting Book – Robert Kimmel Smith (US, 1973)
  11. Call Down the Hawk -Maggie Stiefvater (US, 2019)
  12. What Matters in Jane Austen
  13. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë (England, 1847)
  14. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italy, 1958)
  15. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future – Elizabeth Kolbert (US, 2021)
  16. The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien (England, 1955)*
  17. A Midsummer Night’s Dreams – Williams Shakespeare (England, 1595)*
  18. The Trumpet of the Swan – E.B. White (US, 1970)*
  19. The Old Wives Tale – Arnold Bennett (England, 1908)
  20. Evelina – Frances Burney (England, 1778)
  21. Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo (US, 2012)
  22. A House Like a Lotus – Madeleine L’Engle (US, 1984)
  23. Storm Front – Jim Butcher (US, 2000)*
  24. Cocaine Blues – Kerry Greenwood (Australia, 1989)
  25. The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel – Anthony Horowitz (England, 2011)
  26. The Sundial – Shirley Jackson (US, 1958)
  27. The Big Four – Agatha Christie (England, 1927)
  28. Flying High – Kerry Greenwood (Australia, 1990)
  29. De Profundis – Oscar Wilde (Ireland, 1905 version)
  30. Fool Moon – Jim Butcher (US, 2001)*
  31. Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle – Georgette Heyer (England, 1957)
  32. Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allan Poe (US, 1833-1846)
  33. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction – Alan Jacobs (US, 2011)
  34. Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo (US, 2013)
  35. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (England, 1843)*
  36. Passing – Nella Larson (US, 1929)

* Indicates a reread

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