Sunday, 30 November 2025

Read in November 2025

November - 2   

Total to date: 63 (54 new/9 re-read) 17 *non-fiction - Best Book(s)

- *No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years, Annabel Goldsmith

- Autumn - Ali Smith 

Earlier this year:

- The Artist, Lucy Steeds

- And Only to Deceive, Tasha Alexander

- *Women's Work: the First 20,000 Years, Elizabeth Wayland Barber

- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

- The Mobile Library, David Whitehouse

- *The Village Guide (Viking Society), Steve Lines

- The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald 

- Stranger in Paradise, Robert B. Parker

- The Road, Cormac McCarthy

- The Hallmarked Man, Robert Galbraith

- Melancholy Baby, Robert B. Parker

- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

- The Distant Echo, Val McDermid

- The Women of Troy. Pat Barker

- *Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman

- *Scoff: a history of food and class in Britain, Pen Vogler

- Sight Unseen, Robert Goddard

- *The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer

- *Wintering, Katherine May

- *Meditations for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman

- Death Comes to Pemberley, P. D. James

- *Carrie Fisher - a life on the edge, Sheila Weller

- *Less, Patrick Grant

- Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins

- The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper

- Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Margaret Forster

- The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner

- *The Bolter, Frances Osborne

- *The Little Book of Hygge, Miek Wiking

- Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor

- *Walden, Henry David Thoreau

- Let Me In, Claire McGowen 

- A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton

- B is for Burglar, Sue Grafton

- C is for Corpse, Sue Grafton

- D is for Deadbeat, Sue Grafton

- E is for Evidence, Sue Grafton

- F is for Fugitive, Sue Grafton

- G is for Gumshoe, Sue Grafton

- H is for Homicide, Sue Grafton

- I is for Innocent, Sue Grafton

- *Jane Austen at Home, Lucy Worsley

- Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

- The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah

- Model Misfit, Holly Smale

- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

- The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey

- *The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Margareta Magnusson

- Sisters of Treason, Elizabeth Fremantle

- The Warden, Anthony Trollope

- Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang

- Margot and Me, Juno Dawson 

- Miss Austen, Gill Hornby

- *Meditations, Marcus Aurelius - Silent Witness, R. Austin Freeman

- *The Lazy Genius Way, Kendra Adachi

- *The Devonshires, Roy Hattersley

- Jane and Prudence, Barbara Pym

- *The Zero-Waste Chef, Anne-Marie Bonneau

- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

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