Since everyone is doing their year-end wrapups I thought I would share, in no particular order, my reading for 2016! I have placed an asterisk next to those that I enjoyed the most and a double asterisk next to those I have reviewed. As you can see most are works of fiction…a couple of “cozies”, a few non-fiction and, of course, some mysteries! For this weeks Friday Fashion Flashback, I will list this year’s fashion/lifestyle books.
Historical fiction (fiction about real people, one of my favorite genres)
*Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey (one of my most favorites of the year! Loved it!!)
*Sisi by Allison Pataki
Georgia by Dawn Clifton Tripp
Adeline by Noah Vincent
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Marlene by C. W. Gortner
The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson
Fiction
**Paris, Rue des Martyrs by Adria J. Cimino
**A Perfumer’s Secret by Adria J. Cimino
I’ll See You In Paris by Michelle Gable
Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase
The Arrangement by Ashley Warlick
Maestra by L. S. Hilton
Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
*A Fine Imitation by Amber Brock
*My Mrs. Brown by William D. Norwich
Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
*The Fifth Avenue Artists Society by Joy Callaway
The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan
*Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
*The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
*A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
The Muse by Jessie Burton
*A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James
The Paris Librarian by Mark Pryor
*The Song of Hartgrove Hall by Natasha Solomons
*The Forgotten Room by Karen White
*The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
Moonlight Over Paris by Jennifer Robson
*White Collar Girl by Renee Rosen
*What the Lady Wants by Renee Rosen
*The Improbability of Love by Hannah Mary Rothschild (another of my most favorites)
Mysteries
*The Inheritance by Charles Finch
*A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr
The Darkness Knows by Cheryl Honigford
Cozy Mysteries (*all of them, refreshing between heavier fare!)
Blood Will Tell by Jeanne M. Dams
Smile and Be A Villian by Jeanne M. Dams
Devonshire Scream by Laura Childs
Design for Dying by Renee Patrick
Murder at Beechwood by Alyssa Maxwell
The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth J. Duncan
Non-Fiction
*The Empress of Art by Susan Jaques
*The Six, the Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
I am currently reading The Spy by Paulo Coelho. Not really Holiday material, dark, and depressing account of Mata Hari…I’ll do a review when I am finished.
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