Reading list

Currently reading:

Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick

Conspiracy by S.J. Parris

Belgravia by Julian Fellowes

The ’50s: The Story of a Decade

June 2016

The Last Painting of Sarah de Vos by Dominic Smith

The Toll-Gate and The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer

May 2016

Lungdon by Edward Carey

Foulsham by Edward Carey

Heap House by Edward Carey

Dreamland by Sam Quinones

April 2016

The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

March 2016

At The Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

Because of Miss Bridgeton by Julia Quinn

Shaker by Scott Frank

Killer Takeout by Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib)

The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins

The Sister Queens by Sophie Perinot

Arcadia by Iain Pears

February 2016

The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin

A Treasury of Victorian Murder and The Madison Square Tragedy by Rick Geary

As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

January 2016

My American Duchess by Eloisa James

The Road To Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

The Queen’s Man by Rory Clements

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

December 2015

The Rising by Ian Tregillis

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

November 2015

The Governess Affair and the Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

The Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt

Career of Evil by Robert K. Galbraith

October 2015

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks

Cold-Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas

The Witches by Stacy Schiff

A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan

Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

September 2015

When A Scot Ties The Knot by Loretta Chase

Wilde Nights in Paradise by Tonya Burrows

Diary of an Accidental Wallflower by Jennifer McQuiston

DNF: Murdoch’s World by David Folkenflik

August 2015

The Lady Risks All and The Edge of Desire by Stephanie Laurens

The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy by Julia Quinn

Not Quite A Lady, Miss Wonderful and Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase

The American Revolution by Gordon Wood

Brown-Eyed Girl by Lisa Kleypas

Shadow Pass by Sam Eastland

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham

July 2015

Nobody’s Secret by Michaela MacColl

The Fort by Bernard Cornwell

Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews

Scandalous, Irresistible and Shameless by Karen Robards

I Loved A Rogue by Katharine Ashe

June 2015

The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann

Duel With The Devil by Paul Collins

The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell

The Fatal Flame by Lyndsay Faye

Star Trek: The Q Gambit by Mike Johnson and Tony Shasteen

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Match Me If You Can, It Had To Be You, Heaven, Texas and Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Stealing Athena by Karen Essex

Eye of the Red Tsar by Sam Eastland

May 2015

The May Bride by Suzannah Dunn

The Mechanical by Ian Tregellis

Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot

The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing

The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

Newport by Jill Morrow

Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City by Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez

The Price of Blood by Patricia Bracewell

Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare

Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson

Amherst by William Nicholson

Bossypants by Tina Fey

April 2015

Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford

The Tapestry by Nancy Bilyeau

Four Nights With The Duke by Eloisa James

The Marriage Game by Alison Weir (DNF)

The Plantagenets by Dan Jones (finally!)

Lamentation by C.J. Sansom

The Skull and the Nightingale by Michael Irwin

Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

March 2015

Euphoria by Lily King

White Plague by James Abel

Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell

The Siege Winter by Ariana Franklin & Samantha Norman

The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

February 2015

Treachery by S.J. Parris

The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell

Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell

Duchess in Love by Eloisa James

Fool for Love by Eloisa James

World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

An Air of Treason by P.F. Chisholm

January 2015

Man v. Nature by Diane Cook

The Day of Atonement by David Liss

The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell

Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell

Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell

December 2014

Little Reef by Michael Carroll

Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Blood Royal by Eric Jager

November 2014

The Forgers by Bradford Morrow

The Map Thief by Michael Blanding

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

A Hellion in her Bed by Sabrina Jeffries & the others in that series

Rogue Spy by Joanna Bourne

Batman: Death by Design by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor

October 2014

Invisible City by Julia Dahl

The Chalice by Nancy Bilyeau

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah Maclean

A Rogue by Any Other Name

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

No Limits by Lori Foster

September 2014

The Fever by Megan Abbott

Lost by S.J. Bolton

The King’s Curse by Philippa Gregory

The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian (17)

The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau

True Story by Michael Finkel

Birdmen by Lawrence Goldstone

Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult

Highlander in Disguise by Julia London

Highlander Unbound – Oyster

Highlander in Love – Oyster

The Duke of Dark Desires by Miranda Neville – Edelweiss

Keep Me Safe by Maya Banks – Edelweiss

The Bookseller’s Daughter by Pam Rosenthal – ebook

Invisible City by Julia Dahl

August 2014:

The Quick

The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman

Tabula Rasa

The King’s Curse by Philippa Gregory