I will be scattering these gobbets* throughout this site, but in case you are like me and enjoy lists, here they are gathered in alphabetical order in one place for your convenience!

If you scroll down to the bottom, you can find quick links to my yearly ‘Read’ lists, a list of all the books I read in a particular year with a little commentary on the standouts.

 

Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness– Willard Spiegelman

 

 

All the Light We Cannot See– Anthony Doerr

 

 

Amelia Peabody Series– Elizabeth Peters

 

 

A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L’Engle

 

 

The Children of Green Knowe-Lucy M. Boston

 

 

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader– Anne Fadiman

 

 

The Fifth Heart: A Novel-Dan Simmons

 

 

The Historian– Elizabeth Kostova

 

 

The History Boys: A Play-Alan Bennett

 

 

The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien

 

 

The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien

 

 

The Lieutenant of Inishmore– Martin McDonagh

 

 

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: A Mary Russell Mystery– Laurie R. King

 

 

To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery-Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace

 

 

Night-Elie Wiesel

 

 

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking-Susan Cain

 

 

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street– Natasha Pulley

 

 

WWII:

Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour-Lynne Olson

 

 

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship-Jon Meacham

 

The Churchills:

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill-Sonia Purnell

 

 

Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill-Edited by their daughter Mary Soames

 

 

*The History Boys: Alan Bennett- There is also a marvelous film adaptation featuring the original National Theater cast

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