A reference point for books read and reviewed:
January:
1. The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (1925)
2. The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by Claire Harman (1994)
3. We’ll Always Have Paris by Emma Beddington (2016)
4. Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic (2018)
5. Yeoman’s Hospital by Helen Ashton (1944)
6. The Boy Comes Home by A.A. Milne (1918)
7. The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill (1982)
8. Resistance is Futile by Jenny T. Colgan (2016)
9. Miss Billy by Eleanor H. Porter (1911)
10. Wurzel-Flummery by A.A. Milne (1917)
11. There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Åkeson McGurk (2017)
12. How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel (1974)
13. The Blue Zones of Happiness by Dan Buettner (2017)
14. The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte Mosley (1996)
15. The Flowering Thorn by Margery Sharp (1933)
16. Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd (2017)
17. The Lido by Libby Page (2018)
18. Happiness for Humans by P.Z. Reizin (2018)
19. The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Volume One, 1955-1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis (1978)
20. A Beggar in Purple edited by Rupert Hart-Davis (1983)
21. Judgement Day by Penelope Lively (1980)
February:
22. Lagom by Niki Brantmark (2017)
23. Heidi’s Alp by Christina Hardyment (1987)
24. Sourdough by Robin Sloan (2017)
25. In Movement There is Peace by Elaine Orabona Foster and Joseph Wilbred Foster III (2013)
26. Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley (2018)
27. Dating You, Hating You by Christina Lauren (2017)
28. In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman (2018)
29. Roomies by Christina Lauren (2017)
30. The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich (1985)
31. Mackerel Sky by Helen Ashton (1930)
32. A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith (2017)
33. Lovers in London by A.A. Milne (1905)
March:
34. Flashman by George Macdonald Fraser (1969)
35. The Endless Beach by Jenny Colgan (2018)
36. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders (2018)
37. No Other Duke Will Do by Grace Burrowes (2017)
38. The Fear and the Freedom by Keith Lowe (2017)
39. The Extra Woman by Joanna Scutts (2018)
40. Four Gardens by Margery Sharp (1935)
41. The Arrangement by Sonya Lalli (2017)
42. Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris (2018)
43. The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen (2016)
44. Pistols for Two by Georgette Heyer (1960)
45. A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase (2017)
46. A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (2018)
47. Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel (2018)
48. Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck (1940)
49. Something Wholesale by Eric Newby (1962)
50. The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse by Alexander McCall Smith (2017)
51. Meet the Frugalwoods by Elizabeth Willard Thames (2018)
52. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (2018)
April:
53. A Positively Final Appearance by Alec Guinness (1999)
54. The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam (1981)
55. A Rogue of Her Own by Grace Burrowes (2018)
56. This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff (2018)
57. Where the Wild Winds Are by Nick Hunt (2017)
58. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (2017)
59. Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett (1944)
60. Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock (1910)
61. You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld (2018)
62. When I Was a Little Boy by Erich Kästner (1957)
May:
63. Green Money by D.E. Stevenson (1939)
64. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren (2018)
65. Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich (1991)
66. The Invitation by Keris Stainton (2018)
67. Rhapsody in Green by Charlotte Mendelson (2016)
68. Bookworm by Lucy Mangan (2018)
69. Every Frenchman Has One by Olivia de Havilland (1961)
70. The Ivory Door by A.A. Milne (1928)
71. Pirouette by Susan Scarlett (1948)
72. To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski (1946)
June:
73. The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes (1963)
74. The Morningside World of Stuart McLean (1989)
75. The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy (2017)
76. It’s In His Kiss by Julia Quinn (2005)
77. Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (2018)
78. The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman (2018)
79. Meet Mr Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse (1927)
80. Act Like It by Lucy Parker (2015)
July:
81. Pretty Face by Lucy Parker (2017)
82. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (2018)
83. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908)
84. Any Souvenirs? by George Mikes (1971)
85. Welcome Home by Stuart McLean (1992)
86. Talks with T.G. Masaryk by Karel Čapek (1995)
87. Brewster’s Millions by George Barr McCutcheon (1903)
88. From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon (2018)
89. Über Alles by George Mikes (1953)
August:
90. The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford (1986)
91. Crazy in Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop by Annie Darling (2018)
92. The Forever House by Veronica Henry (2017)
93. The Finnish Way by Katja Pantzar (2018)
94. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (2018)
95. The House of Secrets by Sarra Manning (2017)
96. Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon (1901)
97. Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins (2018)
98. A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle (1972)
99. County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell (1950)
100. How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran (2018)
101. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather (1923)
102. Vodka and Apple Juice by Jay Martin (2018)
103. Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery (1909)
104. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (1915)
105. Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom (2018)
106. Rosabelle Shaw by D.E. Stevenson (1937)
September:
107. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2018)
108. The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp by Sarra Manning (2018)
109. Salt Water Moon by David French (1984)
110. Emma Ever After by Brigid Coady (2018)
111. I Could Write a Book by Karen M. Cox (2017)
112. The Doctor’s Sweetheart and Other Stories by L.M. Montgomery (1979)
113. A Late Education by Alan Moorehead (1970)
114. Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville (1934)
115. How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne (2018)
116. The Late Bloomers’ Club by Louise Miller (2018)
117. Save the Date by Morgan Matson (2018)
118. My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren (2018)
October:
119. Friends and Lovers by Helen MacInnes (1947)
120. Women Talking by Miriam Toews (2018)
121. Something Light by Margery Sharp (1960)
122. Sword of Bone by Anthony Rhodes (1942)
123. Transcription by Kate Atkinson (2018)
124. The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking (2017)
125. Period Piece by Gwen Raverat (1952)
126. Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (2018)
127. The Baby Plan by Kate Rorick (2018)
128. Bond Street Story by Norman Collins (1959)
129. Bella Figura by Kamin Mohammadi (2018)
130. A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book by Philip Rhys-Evans (2018)
131. Be My Guest by Elizabeth Cadell (1964)
132. The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson (1975)
133. The Truth About Blayds by A.A. Milne (1920)
134. The Great Broxopp by A.A. Milne (1921)
November:
135. Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively (2018)
136. Touch by Courtney Maum (2017)
137. The Sun in Scorpio by Margery Sharp (1965)
138. Three Houses by Angela Thirkell (1931)
139. Greenmantle by John Buchan (1916)
140. The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (2018)
141. I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella (2019)
142. The Fourth Wall by A.A. Milne (1929)
143. Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs (2018)
December:
144. Christmas on the Island by Jenny Colgan (2018)
145. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1940)
146. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
147. Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean (1998)
148. A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley (2015)
149. Prague Spring by Simon Mawer (2018)
150. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (2006)
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