Library Additions

Titles added to my personal library in 2023:

January:

  1. The Persephone Book of Short Stories (Amazon) ($30.00)

February:

  1. Storm Watch by C.J. Box (pre-order; kindle) ($15.00)
  2. In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes (NYRB edition) ($15.00)
  3. A View from the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor (NYRB edition) ($19.00)

Titles added to my personal library in 2022 (books with strike through have been read)

2023 Total: $79.00

January

  1. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (Vintage edition; Amazon) ($16.50)
  2. The Raven Spell by Luann G. Smith (Prime selection; kindle)
  3. The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart (KDD; kindle)
  4. Running Blind by Desmond Bagley (Wallace Books; credit)
  5. White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones (Wallace Books; credit)
  6. Passing by Nella Larsen (Wallace Books, credit)
  7. Eustace and Hilda by L.P. Hartley (Wallace Books, credit)
  8. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford (Wallace Books, credit)
  9. Good Behavior by Molly Keane (Wallace Books, credit)
  10. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Wallace Books, credit)
  11. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (UBS) ($5.00)
  12. The State v. Elinor Norton by Mary Roberts Rinehart (UBS) ($4.50)
  13. The Old Contemptible by Martha Grimes (UBS) ($5.00)
  14. The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes (UBS) ($5.00)

Monthly total: $36.00

February:

  1. An Impossible Imposter by Deanna Raybourn (pre-order; kindle) ($14.00)

Monthly total: $14.00

Yearly total: s50.00

March:

  1. The Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton (print; Amazon) ($15.00)
  2. Jacob’s Room is Full of Books by Susan Hill (print; Amazon) ($14.00)
  3. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West (Penguin Classics edition; Amazon) ($23.00)
  4. Library of America’s Women Crime Writers of the 1940’s edited by Sarah Weinman (kindle) ($2.00)
  5. The Price of the Ticket (collected essays) by James Baldwin (print; Powell’s Books) ($25.00)
  6. Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron (kindle) ($3.00)
  7. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (print; Wallace Books) ($14.00)
  8. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (print; Black Ink, White Rabbit) ($15.00)
  9. Shadows Reel by C.J. Box (kindle; pre-order) ($15.00)
  10. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (kindle) ($15.00)
  11. Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar (kindle) ($5.00)
  12. Winter Dark by Alex Callister (kindle) ($3.00)
  13. Family Furnishings by Alice Munro (print; UBS) ($4.00)
  14. Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda (print; UBS) ($4.00)
  15. Bound to Please by Michael Dirda (print; UBS) ($3.00)
  16. Snake in the Grass by Anthony Gilbert (print; UBS) ($17.00)

Monthly total: $162.00

Yearly total: $212.00

April

  1. When Blood Lies (Sebastian St. Cyr #17) by C.S. Harris (kindle; pre-order) ($14.00)
  2. Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly (KDD) ($3.00)
  3. A Perilous Perspective (Lady Darby #10) by Anna Lee Huber (kindle; pre-order) ($12.00)
  4. Because of Sam by Molly Clavering (kindle) ($3.00)
  5. The Native Heath by Elizabeth Fair (kindle) ($3.00)
  6. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann (print; Amazon) ($17.00)
  7. The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann (print; Amazon) ($20.00)
  8. Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. Dell (print; UBS) ($13.00)
  9. Charlotte Fairlie by D.E. Stevenson ($3.00)
  10. The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler ($4.00)
  11. Kate Hardy by D.E. Stevenson ($3.00)
  12. Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Ursula Orange ($3.00)
  13. Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers ($13.00)
  14. Have His Carcase by Dorothy Sayers ($13.00)
  15. Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers ($13.00)
  16. The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff ($14.00)
  17. The Feast by Margaret Kennedy ($15.00)
  18. The Summer Book by Tove Jannsen ($10.00)

Monthly total: $176.00

Yearly total: $388.00

May

  1. The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair ($3.00)
  2. Death in the Grand Manor by Anne Morice ($4.00)
  3. Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac ($3.00)
  4. Germinal by Emile Zola ($9.00)
  5. Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Ballard ($5.00)
  6. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes ($4.00)
  7. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner ($11.00)
  8. Between the Woods and Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor ($11.00)
  9. The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor ($10.00)
  10. Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning ($14.00)
  11. Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams ($10.00)

Monthly total: $84.00

Yearly total: $472.00

June:

  1. The Fledgling by Frances Faviell ($0.00)
  2. The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths ($14.00)
  3. The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards ($25.00)
  4. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ($16.00)

Monthly total: $55.00

Yearly total: $527.00

July:

  1. Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950’s (edited) by Sarah Weinman ($2.00)
  2. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression by Johann Hari ($4.00)
  3. The House by the Sea: A Journal by May Sarton ($3.00)
  4. Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton ($3.00)
  5. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin ($3.00)
  6. Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen by Elizabeth von Arnim ($9.00)
  7. Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning ($16.00)
  8. The Ipcress File by Len Deighton ($14.00)
  9. Horse Under Water by Len Deighton ($14.00)
  10. Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton ($14.00)
  11. A Love Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel ($5.00)

Monthly total: $87.00

Yearly total: $614.00

August:

  1. The Marble Staircase by Elizabeth Fair ($3.00)
  2. The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian ($5.00)
  3. Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen ($15.00)
  4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ($12.00)
  5. Middlemarch by George Eliot ($14.00)
  6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ($13.00)

Monthly total: $62.00

Yearly total: $676.00

September:

  1. Troubles by J.G. Farrell ($13.00)
  2. Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum ($18.00)

Monthly total: $31.00

Yearly total: $707.00

October:

  1. Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett ($3.00)
  2. Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett ($3.00)
  3. Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk ($2.00)
  4. Water Weed by Alice Campbell ($3.00)

Monthly total: $11.00

Yearly total: $718.00

November:

  1. Desert Star by Michael Connelly ($15.00)
  2. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny ($15.00)
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling ($32.00)
  4. Stoner by John Williams ($10.00)
  5. Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers ($14.00)

Monthly total: $86.00

Yearly total: $804.00

December:

  1. Near Neighbors by Molly Clavering ($3.00)
  2. The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan ($2.00)
  3. The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold ($3.00)
  4. Who Killed Dick Whittington by E. & M.A. Radford ($3.00)
  5. Exit Sir John by Brian Flynn ($3.00)
  6. Such Bright Disguises by Brian Flynn ($3.00)
  7. Dead Man’s Quarry by Ianthe Jerrold ($3.00)
  8. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez ($3.00)
  9. Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny ($10.00)
  10. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny ($10.00)
  11. Stolen Focus by Johann Hari ($3.00)
  12. The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years edited by Otto Penzler ($2.00)
  13. Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives edited by Sarah Weinman ($16.00)

Monthly total: $64.00

Year End: $868.00