2023 Reading

 January

Terrapin (Wendell Berry)

Daffodil Hill (Jake Keiser)

The Clone Army Attacketh (Ian Doescher)

The Healing Power of the Breath (Richard Brown/Patricia Gerbarg)

The Billionaire's Vinegar (Benjamin Wallace)

Adorning the Dark (Andrew Peterson)

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

In Vino Duplicitas (Peter Hellman)

Thoughts in Solitude (Thomas Merton)

Metamorphoses book VII (Ovid) in Latin

The Wolf of Wall Street (Jordan Belfort)

Desolation Island (Patrick O'Brian)

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (Nick Offerman)

Verbatim (Erin McKean)

Sharpe's Rifles (Bernard Cornwell)

The Ink Black Heart (Robert Galbraith)

Sharpe's Havoc (Bernard Cornwell)

The Fortune of War (Patrick O'Brian)

February

My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)

The Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge (Ian Doescher)

Watership Down (Richard Adams)

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The Martian (Andy Weir)

Sketches by Boz (Charles Dickens)

Climbing Parnassus (Tracy Lee Simmons)

S. (John Updike)

Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)

Aeneid IX (Virgil) in Latin

Agamemnon (Aeschylus) in Greek

An Outcast of the Islands (Joseph Conrad)

Sharpe's Eagle (Bernard Cornwell)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (Gerald Durrell)

The Garden of the Gods (Gerald Durrell)

March

Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt)

The Surgeon's Mate (Patrick O'Brian)

Rob Roy (Sir Walter Scott)

How Not to Die Alone (Richard Roeper)

Search (Michelle Hunever)

Sharpe's Gold (Bernard Cornwell)

All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot)

Inspired (Rachel Held Evans)

The Mind of the Maker (Dorothy Sayers)

The Soloist (Steve Lopez)

Metamorphoses Book VIII (Ovid) in Latin

The Ionian Mission (Patrick O'Brian)

Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)

Richardson's First Case (Basil Thomson)

All Things Wise and Wonderful (James Herriot)

H is for Hawk (Helen Macdonald)

The Winter Soldier (Daniel Mason)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (James Hilton)

Latin for Gardeners (Lorraine Harrison)

Lost Horizon (James Hilton)

Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)

A Boy's Will (Robert Frost)

Is He Popenjoy? (Anthony Trollope)

North of Boston (Robert Frost)

Fatal Journey (Peter Mancall)

Sharpe's Escape (Bernard Cornwell)

The Northern Lights (Lucy Jago)

April

Les Jeux Sont Faits (Jean-Paul Sartre) in French

Treason's Harbour (Patrick O'Brian)

Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)

Mountain Interval (Robert Frost)

The Road to Samarcand (Patrick O'Brian)

Goodbye to Clocks Ticking (Joseph Monninger)

Tears of the Giraffe (Alexander McCall Smith)

Casino Royale (Ian Fleming)

Vesper Flights (Helen MacDonald)

Morality for Beautiful Girls (Alexander McCall Smith)

All Things Bright and Beautiful (James Herriot)

Sharpe's Fury (Bernard Cornwell)

Kalahari Typing School for Men (Alexander McCall Smith)

The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

The Lord God Made Them All (James Herriot)

Leave it to Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John LeCarre)

The Far Side of the World (Patrick O'Brian)

May

The Latinist (Mark Prins)

Never Panic Early (Fred Haise)

Every Living Thing (James Herriot)

Sharpe's Battle (Bernard Cornwell)

The Shell Collector (Anthony Doerr)

The Full Cupboard of Life (Alexander McCall Smith)

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Looking-Glass War (John LeCarre)

Neptune's Inferno (James D. Hornfischer)

Blue Shoes and Happiness (Alexander McCall Smith)

Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Relic Master (Christopher Buckley)

Fallen Astronauts (Colin Burgess)

The Miracle at Speedy Motors (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Honourable Schoolboy (John LeCarre)

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Reverse of the Medal (Patrick O'Brian)

Smiley's People (John LeCarre)

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

June

Metamorphoses Book IX (Ovid) in Latin

The Double Comfort Safari Club (Alexander McCall Smith)

Burning Down George Orwell's House (Andrew Erwin)

In the Land of White Death (Valerian Albanov)

Agent M. (Henry Hemming)

The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (Alexander McCall Smith)

Sharpe's Company (Bernard Cornwell)

Enter Jeeves (P.D. Wodehouse)

The Edible Exile (Carl Hiaasen)

Theogonia (Hesiod) in Greek

The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

The Letter of Marque (Patrick O'Brian)

A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Thirteen Gun Salute (Patrick O'Brian)

The Wet and the Dry (Lawrence Osborne)

Friendship: An Expose (Joseph Epstein)

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (Alexander McCall Smith)

By the Smoke and the Smell (Thad Vogler)

The Cuckoo's Calling (Robert Galbraith)

Metamorphoses Book X (Ovid) in Latin

The Nutmeg of Consolation (Patrick O'Brian)

The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe (Alexander McCall Smith)

Sharpe's Sword (Bernard Cornwell)

July

The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith)

Medicus (Ruth Downie)

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (Alexander McCall Smith)

Sharpe's Enemy (Bernard Cornwell)

Terra Incognita (Ruth Downie)

The Truelove (Patrick O'Brian)

The Wine-Dark Sea (Patrick O'Brian)

The Shadow-Line (Joseph Conrad)

I'm Sorry...Love, Your Husband (Clint Edwards)

The Commodore (Patrick O'Brian)

Bootstrapped (Alissa Quart)

The Second Worst Restaurant in France (Alexander McCall Smith)

Game of Edges (Bruce Shoenfeld)

Sharpe's Honour (Bernard Cornwell)

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog (Anne Grossman and Lisa Thomas)

Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)

Precious and Grace (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Yellow Admiral (Patrick O'Brian)

Persona Non Grata (Ruth Downie)

August

Lethal White (Robert Galbraith)

Petite Histoire de France (Jaques Bainville) in French

The Hundred Days (Patrick O'Brian)

The House of Unexpected Sisters (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Man Who Organized Nature (Gunnar Broberg)

Troubled Blood (Robert Galbraith)

The Evangelical Imagination (Karen Swallow Prior)

Losing Our Religion (Russell Moore)

The Nazi Conspiracy (Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch)

The Liberation of Paris (Jean Edward Smith)

Sharpe's Regiment (Bernard Cornwell)

The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling)

Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)

The Ink Black Heart (Robert Galbraith)

Sharpe's Siege (Bernard Cornwell) 

September

Blue at the Mizzen (Patrick O'Brian)

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)

Sharpe's Revenge (Bernard Cornwell)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)

Young Jane Young (Gabrielle Zevin)

1984 (George Orwell)

The Color of All the Cattle (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

Billionaire's Row (Katherine Clarke)

The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)

The Running Grave (Robert Galbraith)

The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Caveat Emptor (Ruth Downie)

La's Orchestra Saves the World (Alexander McCall Smith)

Beijing Rules (Bethany Allen)

October

La Dame Aux Camelias (Alexandre Dumas)

A Perfect Spy (John LeCarre)

Candide (Voltaire)

How Far to the Promised Land? (Esau McCaulley)

Animal Farm (George Orwell)

To the Land of Long Lost Friends (Alexander McCall Smith)

Semper Fidelis (Ruth Downie)

Swamp Story (Dave Barry)

His Majesty's Airship (S.C. Gwynne)

Tabula Rasa (Ruth Downie)

How to Raise an Elephant (Alexander McCall Smith)

Vita Brevis (Ruth Downie)

November

Eight Hundred Grapes (Laura Dave)

The Firm (John Grisham)

44 Scotland Street (Alexander McCall Smith)

Scarcity Brain (Michael Easter)

The Armor of Light (Ken Follett)

The Joy and Light Bus Company (Alexander McCall Smith)

Life Sentence (Mark Bowden)

Whose Body? (Dorothy Sayers)

Out of My Life and Thoughts (Albert Schweitzer)

The Woman They Could Not Silence (Kate Moore)

New Hampshire (Robert Frost)

Memento Mori (Ruth Downie)

Henry V (William Shakespeare)

Clouds of Witnesses (Dorothy Sayers)

A Song of Comfortable Chairs (Alexander McCall Smith)

December

Sharpe's Waterloo (Bernard Cornwell)

West-Running Brook (Robert Frost)

Prima Fracie (Ruth Downie)

Unnatural Death (Dorothy Sayers)

Sharpe's Devil (Bernard Cornwell)

A Further Range (Robert Frost)

The Mystery Guest (Nita Prose)

Death on the Downbeat (Sebastian Farr)

A Witness Tree (Robert Frost)

Krakatoa (Simon Winchester)

The Sea of Grass (Conrad Richter)

Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)

Sharpe's Assassin (Bernard Cornwell)

Lord Peter Views the Body (Dorothy Sayers)

The Sicilian (Mario Puzo)

The Steeple Bush (Robert Frost)

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Dorothy Sayers)

A Wreath for the Enemy (Pamela Frankau)

Espresso Tales (Alexander McCall Smith)

In the Clearing (Robert Frost)

Love Over Scotland (Alexander McCall Smith)