A reference point for books read and reviewed:
January:
1. The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren (2020)
2. Brief Flower by Dorothy Evelyn Smith (1966)
3. Poems of Arab Andalusia translated by Cola Franzen (1989)
4. The Girl Who Reads on the Metro by Christine Féret-Fleury (2017)
5. All the Ways to Ruin a Rogue by Sophie Jordan (2015)
6. The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion (2019)
7. The Finnish Way by Katja Pantzar (2018)
8. Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters (2019)
9. The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (1957)
10. Temptations of a Wallflower by Eva Leigh (2016)
11. The Magnolia Sword by Sherry Thomas (2019)
12. Eggs or Anarchy by William Sitwell (2016)
13. Business as Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford (1933)
14. A Half Baked Idea by Olivia Potts (2019)
15. How to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw (1949)
16. One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake (2019)
17. Headliners by Lucy Parker (2020)
February:
18. The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff (1959)
19. Pretty Face by Lucy Parker (2017)
20. Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn (2020)
21. Peter and Paul by Susan Scarlett (1939)
22. The Peppermint Tea Chronicles by Alexander McCall Smith (2020)
23. Making Up by Lucy Parker (2018)
24. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers (1928)
25. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (2019)
26. Gregor Lothian, Surgeon by Joan Blair (1962)
27. Cuckoo in June by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford (1935)
28. The Lido by Libby Page (2018)
29. Autumn Light by Pico Iyer (2019)
30. Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer (1930)
31. The Hidden Blade by Sherry Thomas (2014)
32. When Miss Emmie was in Russia by Harvey Pitcher (1977)
33. My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas (2014)
March:
34. Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp (1930)
35. Aria by Nazanine Hozar (2019)
36. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier (2009)
37. The One for You by Roni Loren (2019)
38. Berezina by Sylvain Tesson (2015)
39. The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley (2020)
40. At the Pond (2019)
41. A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier (2017)
42. The Importance of Being Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen(2018)
43. Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed (2020)
44. The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer (1962)
45. Faker by Sarah Smith (2019)
46. Polite Society by Mahesh Rao (2019)
47. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (2020)
48. How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper (2019)
49. Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer (1955)
April:
50. The Marriage Game by Sara Desai (2020)
51. The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (2011)
52. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (1922)
53. The Stepmother by A.A. Milne (1920)
54. If I May by A.A. Milne (1920)
55. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld (2020)
56. The Romantic Age by A.A. Milne (1920)
57. The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham (2018)
58. The Opposite of Drowning by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese (2019)
59. The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham (2018)
60. Unexpected by Kelly Rimmer (2019)
61. Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)
62. First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn (2020)
63. Skymeadow by Charlie Hart (2018)
May:
64. One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London (2020)
65. Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson (1988)
66. Little G by E.M. Channon (1936)
67. The Hopes and Triumphs of the Amir Sisters by Nadiya Hussain (2020)
68. This is Big by Marisa Meltzer (2020)
69. Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler (2017)
70. The Lord I Left by Scarlett Peckham (2020)
71. Where Stands a Wingèd Sentry by Margaret Kennedy (1941)
72. First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh (2009)
73. Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh (2009)
74. At Last Comes Love by Mary Balogh (2009)
75. Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants by Catherine Horwood (2019)
76. Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (2020)
77. Something Light by Margery Sharp (1960)
78. The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham (2020)
79. The Market Square by Miss Read (1966)
80. The Howards of Caxley by Miss Read (1967)
81. Only a Promise by Mary Balogh (2015)
82. Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe (2014)
83. Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe (2019)
84. Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan (2019)
June:
85. Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke (2019)
86. Kilvert’s Diary edited by William Plomer (1977)
87. Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner (2019)
88. The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah (2020)
89. Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho (2020)
90. I’d Give Anything by Marisa de los Santos (2020)
91. On Foot to the Golden Horn by Jason Goodwin (1993)
92. Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins (2020)
93. Five Hundred Miles from You by Jenny Colgan (2020)
94. This is Happiness by Niall Williams (2019)
95. Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (2020)
96. In Praise of Paths by Torbjørn Ekelund (2020)
97. Class by Jenny Colgan (2008)
98. Slightly Tempted by Mary Balogh (2003)
99. Rules by Jenny Colgan (2009)
100. Slightly Wicked by Mary Balogh (2003)
101. All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West (1931)
102. Dance Away with Me by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2020)
103. Slightly Married by Mary Balogh (2003)
July:
104. Slightly Scandalous by Mary Balogh (2003)
105. Slightly Sinful by Mary Balogh (2004)
106. Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh (2004)
107. Unforgiven by Mary Balogh (1998)
108. The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff (1990)
109. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (2020)
110. Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher (1984)
111. Walking by Erling Kagge (2019)
112. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho (2020)
113. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (2011)
114. The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton (2020)
115. Silver Ley by Adrian Bell (1931)
116. Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory (2020)
117. Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (1975)
118. The Lonely Fajita by Abigail Mann (2020)
119. Grown-Ups by Marian Keyes (2020)
120. Better Against a Wall: Garden Writings by Ursula Buchan (2003)
121. The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters (1981)
122. Beach Read by Emily Henry (2020)
123. So Lucky by Dawn O’Porter (2019)
124. Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn (1994)
125. The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters (1985)
126. The Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters (1986)
August:
127. Rootbound by Alice Vincent (2020)
128. Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters (1988)
129. Stately Pursuits by Katie Fforde (1997)
130. The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters (1991)
131. 10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon (2020)
132. The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters (1992)
133. The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters (1996)
134. The 24-Hour Cafe by Libby Page (2020)
135. Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters (1997)
136. The Well-Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith (2020)
137. The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters (1998)
138. Memories by Teffi (2016)
139. Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters (2004)
140. You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria (2020)
141. Eve in Egypt by Stella Tennyson Jesse (1929)
142. A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters (2010)
143. Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (2019)
144. The Lost Europeans by Emanual Litvinoff (1958)
145. Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean (2019)
146. The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters (1999)
147. Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks (2019)
148. The Switch by Beth O’Leary (2020)
149. He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters (2000)
150. Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters (2001)
151. My Year of Saying No by Maxine Morrey (2020)
152. Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins (2017)
153. Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. Bates (1944)
September:
154. Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes (1997)
155. Cutting Back by Leslie Buck (2016)
156. The Wish List by Sophia Money-Coutts (2020)
157. Where the Hornbeam Grows by Beth Lynch (2019)
158. Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O’Farrell (2020)
159. A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore (2020)
160. Cleopatra’s Sister by Penelope Lively (1993)
161. Once Upon an Eid edited by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed (2020)
162. September by Rosamunde Pilcher (1990)
163. Indians on Vacation by Thomas King (2020)
164. Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase (2004)
165. More Talk of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern (1950)
166. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817)
167. A Year and a Day by Isabelle Broom (2016)
168. Summer Light by Andrew Stevenson (2002)
169. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (2020)
170. Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson (1956)
171. Indiscretion by Jude Morgan (2005)
172. The Roommate by Rosie Danan (2020)
October:
173. More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran (2020)
174. The Children Who Stayed Alone by Bonnie Bess Worline (1956)
175. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer (1956)
176. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (2019)
177. We Made a Garden by Margery Fish (1956)
178. Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge (2017)
179. The Hero of Hope Springs by Maisey Yates (2020)
180. Someone to Romance by Mary Balogh (2020)
181. Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas (2020)
182. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren (2020)
183. Love in the Blitz by Eileen Alexander edited by David McGowan and David Crane (2020)
184. The Last Christmas Cowboy by Maisey Yates (2020)
185. Last Night’s Scandal by Loretta Chase (2010)
186. Not Quite a Lady by Loretta Chase (2007)
187. Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (2019)
188. Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively (2017)
189. Talking to Addison by Jenny Colgan (2001)
November:
190. The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey (2019)
191. Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell (2020)
192. The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke (2020)
193. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (1987)
194. Something of His Art by Horatio Clare (2018)
195. Cherry by Sara Wheeler (2002)
196. The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss (2020)
197. Love from Boy edited by Donald Sturrock (2016)
198. Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession (2019)
199. Natural Selection: A Year in the Garden by Dan Pearson (2017)
200. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004)
201. The Saturday Morning Park Run by Jules Wake (2020)
202. The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (2014)
203. Fabulous Monsters by Alberto Manguel (2019)
204. Ask Me Anything by P.Z. Reizin (2020)
205. Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017)
206. Plain Jayne by Hillary Manton Lodge (2010)
207. Christmas at the Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan (2020)
208. The Wedding Gift by Alexandra Raife (2000)
December:
209. The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady (2020)
210. Wintering by Katherine May (2020)
211. Out of Istanbul by Bernard Ollivier (2001)
212. Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis (2020)
213. By the Book by Julia Sonneborn (2018)
214. Simply Sara by Hillary Manton Lodge (2010)
215. Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase (2006)
216. Better Luck Next Time by Kate Hilton (2020)
217. Sarah Morris Remembers by D.E. Stevenson (1967)
218. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020)
219. Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee (2020)
220. Book by Book by Michael Dirda (2007)
221. Rachel to the Rescue by Elinor Lipman (2020)
222. The Fall In Love Checklist by Sarah Ready (2020)
223. Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford (1970)
224. The Runagates Club by John Buchan (1928)
225. An Accomplished Woman by Jude Morgan (2007)
226. Dear Life by Rachel Clarke (2020)
227. A Bite of the Apple by Lennie Goodings (2020)
228. All About Us by Tom Ellen (2020)
229. Sarah’s Cottage by D.E. Stevenson (1968)
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