What I Am Reading

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

― Stephen King 2017 June Jane Austin At Home – Lucy Worsley Burnt Shadows – Kamila Shamsie Rest – Alex Soojung-Kim Pang A Secret History – Donna Tartt July Born to Run – Christopher McDougal The Summer Before the War – Helen Simonson Eavesdropping on Jane Austin’s England – Roy and Lesley Adkins The Rule of Law – Tom Bingham The Outcasts of Time – Ian Mortimor August The Witchfinder’s Sister – Beth Underdown The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton How to be a Heroine – Samantha Ellis Rebecca – Dame Daphne du Maurier (for bookclub) Bel Canto – Ann Patchett September Good Me, Bad Me – Ali Land Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future – Johan Norberg Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (bookclub) October The Victorians  – A.N. Wilson (book research) Burial Rights – Hannah Kent The English – A Social History – Christopher Hibbert (book research) January 2018 Station Eleven – Emily St John Madel Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey February The Last Hours – Minette Walters Good Me, Bad Me – Ali Land The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond March Arthur and George – Julian Barnes I’m Travelling Alone – Samuel Bjork The Great Leveler – Walter Scheidel April The World Broke in Two – Bill Goldstein Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker Bookworm – A Memoir of Childhood Reading – Lucy Mangan May His Blooody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet (for bookclub) How to Write Like Tolstoy – Richard Cohen June The Best of AA Gill The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry Matilda Wife of the Conqueror and First Queen of Normandy – Tracey Borman The Horseman – Tim Pears Eleanor Oliphent Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman July The Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan The Silent Companions – Laura Purcell Swan Song – Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott October Appetite – Philip Kazan Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin Melmoth – Sarah Perry The House of Ghosts W.C. Ryan A Night To Remember – Walter Lord The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker