The Captive Reader

A reference point for books read and reviewed:

January:

1. An American Girl in London by Sara Jeannette Duncan (1891)
2. The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary (1942)
3. A Table by the Window by Hillary Manton Lodge (2014)
4. Strange Journey by Maud Cairnes (1935)
5. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (2023)
6. Clothes-Pegs by Susan Scarlett (1939)
7. Ms Demeanor by Elinor Lipman (2022)
8. The Rom-Com Agenda by Jayne Denker (2023)
9. Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas (2022)
10. A Touch of Magic by Essie Summers (1973)
11. Sorry for Your Trouble by Ann Marie Hourihane (2021)
12. This Land I Love by Susan Graham (1962)
13. The Movement by Ayisha Malik (2022)
14. Into Love and Out Again by Elinor Lipman (1987)
15. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (2022)
16. The Season by Sophia Holloway (2022)
17. Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie (2022)
18. The Forever Farmhouse by Lee Tobin McLain (2022)
19. Fiona on the Fourteenth Floor by Mabel Esther Allen (1964)
20. The Reunion by Kayla Olson (2023)
21. The Lyttleton Hart-Davis Letters: Volume Three, 1958 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis (1981)
22. Reservations for Two by Hillary Manton Lodge (2015)
23. Together at the Table by Hillary Manton Lodge (2016)
24. The Gold of Noon by Essie Summers (1974)

February:

25. The House of the Shining Tide by Essie Summers (1962)
26. Cousin Cinderella by Sara Jeannette Duncan (1908)
27. Luck of the Draw by Kate Clayborn (2018)
28. One Night Rancher by Maisey Yates (2023)
29. Bride in Flight by Essie Summers (1964)
30. My First Eighty Years by Helen Wilson (1950)
31. The Grandmother by Božena Němcová, translated by Frances Gregor (1855)
32. Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Barker (1870)
33. A Lamp for Jonathan by Essie Summers (1982)
34. The Tender Leaves by Essie Summers (1980)
35. Autumn in April by Essie Summers (1981)
36. Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie (2000)
37. The Holiday Bookshop by Lucy Dickens (2022)
38. A Whimsical Notion by Jennie Goutet (2022)
39. Assignment: Baby by Jessica Hart

March:

40. The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe (2023)
41. Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley
42. All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins
43. Cowboy Wild by Maisey Yates (2022)
44. His Serene Miss Smith by Essie Summers
45. The Close by Jane Casey (2023)
46. The Watch That Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
47. The Man from Ceylon by Ruby M. Ayres
48. Rosalind Comes Home by Essie Summers
49. Hook, Line and Sinker by Tessa Bailey (2022)
50. Heir to Windrush Hill by Essie Summers
51. Wedding at Waverley Creek by Jessica Hart (2000)
52. Postscript to Yesterday by Essie Summers (1966)
53. The Master of Tawhai by Essie Summers (1959)
54. Scent of a Garden by Namrata Patel (2023)
55. A Voyage of Consolation by Sara Jeannette Duncan
56. Faking It by Jessica Hart (2022)
57. Hitched! by Jessica Hart
58. My Friend the Professor by Lucilla Andrews
59. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
60. The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor
61. Moon Over the Alps by Essie Summers
62. A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery
63. In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins
64. Master of Ransome by Lucy Walker
65. Return to Satterthwaite Court by Mimi Matthews (2023)
66. The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian
67. Crazy Thing Called Love by Molly O’Keefe
68. The Tender Traveller by Susan Graham
69. Alias Emma by Ava Glass (2022)
70. The Black Sheep by Ruby M. Ayres
71. Make Me by Tessa Bailey
72. Bewildered by Laura
73. His Disinclined Bride by Jennie Goutet

April:

74. No Orchids by Request by Essie Summers
75. Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
76. Inherited: Twins! by Jessica Hart
77. So Comes Tomorrow by Essie Summers
78. Come Home, Dear by Lucy Walker
79. Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie (2001)
80. We’ll Always Have Paris by Jessica Hart (2012)
81. The Good Comrade by Una L. Silberrad
82. Beyond the Foothills by Essie Summers
83. Young Bess by Margaret Irwin (1944)
84. Sweet Are the Ways by Essie Summers
85. Season of Forgetfulness by Essie Summers
86. A Place Called Paradise by Essie Summers
87. South Island Stowaway by Essie Summers
88. Dinner at Rose’s by Danielle Hawkins
89. The Wedding Challenge by Jessica Hart (2002)
90. The Regrettable Proposal by Jennie Goutet
91. The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
92. Mr Right Now by Karly Lane
93. The Essie Summers Story by Essie Summers (1974)
94. A Year at the Hotel Gondola by Nicky Pellegrino (2018)
95. Desire by Una L. Silberrad
96. Elizabeth, Captive Princess by Margaret Irwin (1948)
97. Happy Place by Emily Henry (2023)
98. Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain by Margaret Irwin (1953)
99. Under the Red Cross by Juliet Shore (1957)
100. To Marry an Earl by Karen Thornell (2021)
101. The Time and the Place by Essie Summers

May:

102. The Open-Air Life by Linda Åkeson McGurk (2022)
103. High Country Governess by Essie Summers (1987)