Books Read End of Year List

I read sixty-nine books this year.

-Alaina

THERE IS NO FRIEND AS LOYAL AS A BOOK.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

  • Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
  • Fluent Forever by Wyner
  • The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
  • English Men & Manners of the 18th Century by Turberville
  • Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare
  • The Maple Stories by Updike
  • Norse Mythology by Gaiman
  • Year of Wonders: A Novel by Brooks
  • La Belle Chocolatiere by Pecassou
  • Earthborn by Carl Dennis
  • Faithful & Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck
  • In a Time of Distance by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Keats by Lucasta Miller
  • The Mysterious Correspondent by Marcel Proust
  • Turn Around Time by Guterson
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Larsson
  • The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Cousin Kate by Heyer
  • Imperial Woman by Pearl Buck
  • The Wolf Age by Skeie
  • Moby Dick by Melville
  • Spanish Lessons by Lambert
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
  • The Writer’s Cat by Barbery
  • Jane Eyre by Bronte
  • The Careful Use of Compliments by McCall Smith
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Smiley
  • Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Friday’s Child by Heyer
  • Aesop’s Fables
  • 21 Ways to Find Peace and Happiness by Meyer
  • Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford & Edward Winslow
  • A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  • Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
  • Agatha Christie Short Stories by Agatha Christie
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • Florence Codex
  • Eloise in Moscow by Kay Thompson
  • Plenty of Love to go Around by Emma Clark
  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
  • N-W by Zadie Smith
  • The Monk by Matthew Lewis
  • The Book of Cat Poems by Ana Sampson
  • Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • Happy Place by Emily Henry
  • Native Seattle by Coll Thrush
  • Poetry Magazine (March 2023, Issue #6)
  • Eloise by Kay Thompson
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • The Music of Wild Birds by Judy Pelikan
  • Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Starting Your Career As A Freelance Writer by Moira Allen
  • The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas
  • Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
  • Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
  • Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson
  • Eloise Takes a Bawth by Kay Thompson

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