My reading arc for 2020 took me from the dark into the shadows. Here are the titles that got me through the gray..
Categorical Reading Lists
I do love to read about history and that often means reading about royalty in its many shapes and forms. So if you are game for some royal reads then this category is for you...
I find Elizabeth Tudor a fascinating woman, indeed at the point in history, power was held by strong women--Elizabeth Tudor, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Catherine di Medici-- to name a few. I will at some point read more about Queen Elizabeth.
Yearly Reading List
2025
- A Dinner To Die For by Jack Gatland
- A Fatal Grace by Louse Penny
- A Night In Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
- A Ritual For the Dying by Jack Gatland
- A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
- A Witch In Time by Constance Sayers
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
- Bloody January by Alan Parks
- Bluffing Mr. Churchill by John Lawton
- Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
- Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
- Cast A Cold Eye by Rich Curtin
- Coyote's Regret by Rich Curtin
- Death of a Cave Dweller by Sally Spencer
- Death Saint by Rich Curtin
- Devil's Knot (The True Story of the West Memphis Three) by Mara Leverett
- Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
- Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
- February's Son by Alan Parks
- Final Arrangements by Rich Curtin
- Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
- I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
- If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
- Indepencence Day's Search by A. E. Howe
- IQ by Joe Ide
- Joe Country by Mick Herron
- Killing The Music by Jack Gatland
- Last Patient Of The Night by Gary Gerlacher
- Made From Scratch by Jenna Woginrich
- May God Forgive by Alan Parks
- Memorial Day's Escape by A. E. Howe
- Men Of Bone by David Penny
- Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
- Murder At Swann's Lake by Sally Spencer
- Once Around The Categories (2025)
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
- Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles
- Saturday The Rabbi Went Hungry by Harry Kemelman
- Simon Grave and the Curious Incident of the Cat in the Daytime by Len Boswell
- St. Patrick's Cross by A. E. Howe
- Standing By The Wall by Mick Herron
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman
- Tales From The Cafe (Before The Coffee Gets Cold) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The 4th of July by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
- The April Dead by Alan Parks
- The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
- The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
- The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- The Highland Witch by Susan Fletcher
- The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
- The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Alder-Olsen
- The Old Neighborhood by Avery Corman
- The Sea Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
- The September Girls by Maureen Lee
- The Shaman's Secret by Rich Curtin
- The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison
- The Traveling Cat Chroncicles by Hiro Arikawa
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
- To Die In June by Alan Parks
- Valentine's Warning by A. E. Howe
- Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante
- Walk The Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
- Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman
