Titles added to my personal library in 2023:
January:
- The Persephone Book of Short Stories (Amazon) ($30.00)
February:
- Storm Watch by C.J. Box (pre-order; kindle) ($15.00)
- In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes (NYRB edition) ($15.00)
- 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
- The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (Vintage edition; Amazon) ($16.50)
- The Raven Spell by Luann G. Smith (Prime selection; kindle)
- The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart (KDD; kindle)
- Running Blind by Desmond Bagley (Wallace Books; credit)
- White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones (Wallace Books; credit)
- Passing by Nella Larsen (Wallace Books, credit)
- Eustace and Hilda by L.P. Hartley (Wallace Books, credit)
- Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford (Wallace Books, credit)
- Good Behavior by Molly Keane (Wallace Books, credit)
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Wallace Books, credit)
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (UBS) ($5.00)
- The State v. Elinor Norton by Mary Roberts Rinehart (UBS) ($4.50)
- The Old Contemptible by Martha Grimes (UBS) ($5.00)
- The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes (UBS) ($5.00)
Monthly total: $36.00
February:
- An Impossible Imposter by Deanna Raybourn (pre-order; kindle) ($14.00)
Monthly total: $14.00
Yearly total: s50.00
March:
The Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton (print; Amazon) ($15.00)Jacob’s Room is Full of Books by Susan Hill (print; Amazon) ($14.00)- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West (Penguin Classics edition; Amazon) ($23.00)
- Library of America’s Women Crime Writers of the 1940’s edited by Sarah Weinman (kindle) ($2.00)
- The Price of the Ticket (collected essays) by James Baldwin (print; Powell’s Books) ($25.00)
- Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron (kindle) ($3.00)
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (print; Wallace Books) ($14.00)
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (print; Black Ink, White Rabbit) ($15.00)
Shadows Reel by C.J. Box (kindle; pre-order) ($15.00)- The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (kindle) ($15.00)
- Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar (kindle) ($5.00)
- Winter Dark by Alex Callister (kindle) ($3.00)
- Family Furnishings by Alice Munro (print; UBS) ($4.00)
- Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda (print; UBS) ($4.00)
- Bound to Please by Michael Dirda (print; UBS) ($3.00)
- Snake in the Grass by Anthony Gilbert (print; UBS) ($17.00)
Monthly total: $162.00
Yearly total: $212.00
April
- When Blood Lies (Sebastian St. Cyr #17) by C.S. Harris (kindle; pre-order) ($14.00)
- Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly (KDD) ($3.00)
- A Perilous Perspective (Lady Darby #10) by Anna Lee Huber (kindle; pre-order) ($12.00)
- Because of Sam by Molly Clavering (kindle) ($3.00)
The Native Heath by Elizabeth Fair (kindle) ($3.00)- Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann (print; Amazon) ($17.00)
- The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann (print; Amazon) ($20.00)
- Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. Dell (print; UBS) ($13.00)
Charlotte Fairlie by D.E. Stevenson ($3.00)- The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler ($4.00)
Kate Hardy by D.E. Stevenson ($3.00)- Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Ursula Orange ($3.00)
Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers ($13.00)Have His Carcase by Dorothy Sayers ($13.00)- Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers ($13.00)
- The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff ($14.00)
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy ($15.00)The Summer Book by Tove Jannsen ($10.00)
Monthly total: $176.00
Yearly total: $388.00
May
- The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair ($3.00)
- Death in the Grand Manor by Anne Morice ($4.00)
- Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac ($3.00)
- Germinal by Emile Zola ($9.00)
- Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Ballard ($5.00)
- A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes ($4.00)
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner ($11.00)- Between the Woods and Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor ($11.00)
- The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor ($10.00)
Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning($14.00)- Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams ($10.00)
Monthly total: $84.00
Yearly total: $472.00
June:
- The Fledgling by Frances Faviell ($0.00)
The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths ($14.00)- The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards ($25.00)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ($16.00)
Monthly total: $55.00
Yearly total: $527.00
July:
- Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950’s (edited) by Sarah Weinman ($2.00)
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression by Johann Hari ($4.00)The House by the Sea: A Journal by May Sarton ($3.00)Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton ($3.00)- The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin ($3.00)
- Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen by Elizabeth von Arnim ($9.00)
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning ($16.00)The Ipcress File by Len Deighton ($14.00)Horse Under Water by Len Deighton ($14.00)- Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton ($14.00)
- A Love Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel ($5.00)
Monthly total: $87.00
Yearly total: $614.00
August:
- The Marble Staircase by Elizabeth Fair ($3.00)
The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian ($5.00)- Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen ($15.00)
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ($12.00)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot ($14.00)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ($13.00)
Monthly total: $62.00
Yearly total: $676.00
September:
- Troubles by J.G. Farrell ($13.00)
Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum ($18.00)
Monthly total: $31.00
Yearly total: $707.00
October:
- Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett ($3.00)
- Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett ($3.00)
- Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk ($2.00)
Water Weed by Alice Campbell ($3.00)
Monthly total: $11.00
Yearly total: $718.00
November:
Desert Star by Michael Connelly ($15.00)- A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny ($15.00)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling ($32.00)
- Stoner by John Williams ($10.00)
- Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers ($14.00)
Monthly total: $86.00
Yearly total: $804.00
December:
Near Neighbors by Molly Clavering ($3.00)- The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan ($2.00)
- The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold ($3.00)
- Who Killed Dick Whittington by E. & M.A. Radford ($3.00)
- Exit Sir John by Brian Flynn ($3.00)
- Such Bright Disguises by Brian Flynn ($3.00)
Dead Man’s Quarry by Ianthe Jerrold ($3.00)- Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez ($3.00)
Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny ($10.00)The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny($10.00)Stolen Focus by Johann Hari ($3.00)- The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years edited by Otto Penzler ($2.00)
- Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives edited by Sarah Weinman ($16.00)
Monthly total: $64.00
Year End: $868.00