Attached is a list of the books I read so far in
2019. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a
particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century
(Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete list of my
reading since 1958, see
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
Richard Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com January 1 John Burgoyne 6 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 2 The Camp BRITISH
18th 1 PLAY 1
2 John Burgoyne 7 The Lord of the Manor BRITISH 18th 2 PLAY
2 3 John Burgoyne 8 Richard Coeur de Lion BRITISH 18th 3
PLAY 3
4 George Bernard Shaw 12 The Devil's Disciple [third time] BRITISH
19th 1 PLAY 4
5 Granta, Issue #145 BRITISH 21st 1 MAGAZINE 1
6 John Burgoyne 9 Orderly Book of General John Burgoyne BRITISH 18th
4 HISTORY 1
7 Mary Wesley 2 **Jumping the Queue BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 1
8 Alice Brown 1 Mercy Warren AMERICAN 20th 1 BIOGRAPHY 1
9 Mary Wesley 3 The Camomile Lawn BRITISH 20th 2 NOVEL 2
10 Montague Summers 1 Introduction to the Works of Aphra Behn
BRITISH 19th 1 BIOGRAPHY 2
11 Mary Wesley 4 Harnessing Peacocks BRITISH 20th 3 NOVEL 3
12 Aphra Behn 1 The Rover, Part I BRITISH 17th 1 PLAY 5
13 Maurice Ashley 1 England in the Seventeenth Century [second time]
BRITISH 20th 4 HISTORY 2
14 Aphra Behn 2 The Rover, Part 2 BRITISH 17th 2 PLAY 6
15 Aphra Behn 3 The Dutch Lover BRITISH 17th 3 PLAY 7
16 Aphra Behn 4 The Round-Heads BRITISH 17th 4 PLAY 8
17 John Clark Ridpath 1 James Otis the Pre-Revolutionist AMERICAN
19th 1 HISTORY 3
18 Sir Walter Scott 14 The Lady of the Lake BRITISH 18th 1
POETRY 1
February
19 Aphra Behn 5 Abdelazer BRITISH 17th 5 PLAY 9
20 Susan Clarke 1 ****Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell [second time]
BRITISH 21st 2 NOVEL 4
21 Susan Clarke 2 *The Ladies of Grace Adieu BRITISH 21st 3 STORIES
1
22 Robertson Davies 2 The Lyre of Orpheus CANADIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 5
23 Montaigne 3 Essays of Montaigne Volume 3 FRENCH 16th 1 ESSAYS 1
24 Bridget Hill 1 The Republican Virago (Catharine Macaulay) BRITISH
20th 5 BIOGRAPHY 3
25 Aphra Behn 5 The Young King BRITISH 17th 6 PLAY 10
26 Aphra Behn 6 Oroonoko BRITISH 17th 7 NOVEL 6
27 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 3 The Rivals BRITISH 18th 4 PLAY 11
28 Betty Edwards 1 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain AMERICAN
20th 2 ART 1
29 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1 School for Scandal [second time]
BRITISH 18th 5 PLAY 12
30 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 4 The Critic BRITISH 18th 6 PLAY 13
31 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 5 The Duenna BRITISH 18th 7 PLAY 14
March
32 Rosemarie Zagarri 1 A Woman's Dilemma (bio of Mercy Warren)
AMERICAN 21st 1 BIOGRAPHY 4
33 John Fowles 1 ****The Magus BRITISH 20th 6 NOVEL 6
34 Charles Beauclerk 1 Nell Gwyn BRITISH 21st 4 BIOGRAPHY 5
35 Nathaniel Hawthorne 10 The Portable Hawthorne (the short stories)
AMERICAN 19th 1 SHORT STORIES 1
36 Gary Lachman 1 Swedenborg: an Introduction to His Life and Ideas
AMERICAN 21st 2 BIOGRAPHY 6
37 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [second time]
AMERICAN 19th 2 NOVEL 7
38 Sandra Newman 1 ****The Heavens AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 8
39 Dave Eggers 6 ** The Parade AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 9
April
40 Daniel Sysoev 1 Instructions for the Immortal or what to do if
you still die RUSSIAN 21st 1 RELIGION 1
May
41 Peter Carey 3 A Long Way from Home AUSTRALIA 21st 1 NOVEL
10
June
42 James Michener 1 *** Hawaii AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 11
43 Fiona Davis 1 The Address AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 12
44 Bruce Lancaster 1 The American Heritage Book of the Revolution
AMERICAN 20th 2 HISTORY 4
45 Shakespeare Hamlet [second time] BRITISH 16th 1 PLAY 15
46 Shakespeare Macbeth [second time] BRITISH 16th 2 PLAY 16
47 Shakespeare Julius Caesar [second time] BRITISH 16th 3 PLAY 17
48 Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [second time] BRITISH 16th 4
PLAY 18
49 Shakespeare King Lear [third time] BRITISH 16th 5 PLAY 19
50 Shakespeare Othello [second time] BRITISH 16th 6 PLAY 20
51 Shakespeare 27 Romeo and Juliet BRITISH 16th 7 PLAY 21
52 Delia Owens 1 Where the Crawdads Sing AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 13
53 Rochelle Cohen Ode for the Time Being AMERICAN 21st 7 POETRY 1
July
52 James Michener 2 ****Tales of the South Pacific AMERICAN 20th 2
NOVEL 14
53 Rachel Kadish 1 *****The Weight of Ink AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 15
54 William Shakespeare Coriolanus [second time] BRITISH 16th 8
PLAY 22
55 Wiliiam Shakespeare Timon of Athens [second time] BRITISH
16th 9 PLAY 23
56 William Shakespeare 28 Titus Andronicus BRITISH 16th 10
PLAY 24
57 William Shakespeare 29 Henry VI Part 1 BRITISH 16th 11 PLAY
25
58 John Fowles 2 The Collector BRITISH 20th 7 NOVEL 16
59 William Shakespeare 30 Henry VI Part 2 BRITISH 16th 12 PLAY 26
60 Alison McBain (editor) 1 Imagining Monsters AMERICAN 21st 9 SHORT
STORIES 2
61 William Shakespeare 31 Henry VI Part 3 BRITISH 16th 13 PLAY 27
62 William Shakespeare Richard III [third time] BRITISH 16th 14 PLAY
28
63 William Shakespeare Richard II [second time] BRITISH 16th 15 PLAY
29
64 William Shakespeare King John [second time] BRITISH 16th 16 PLAY
30
August
65 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1 [third time] BRITISH 16th 17
PLAY 31
66 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 2 [second time] BRITISH 16th 18
PLAY 32
67 Somerset Maugham 5 The Complete Short Stories, Volume 1 BRITISH
20th 8 SHORT STORIES 3
68 William Shakespeare Henry V [third time] BRITISH 16th 19 PLAY 33
September
69 Philip Roth 9 The Counterlife AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 16
70 Kristin Hannah 1 ***The NIghtingale AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 17
71 Larry Polin 1 The Autobiography of a Schizoid Personality: A
Turbulent Odyssey Through American Civilization AMERICAN 21st 10
BIOGRAPHY 7
72 Barbara Kingsolver 2 The Poisonwood Bible AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL
18 October
73 Joyce Maynard 1 ***At Home in the World AMERICAN 20th 4 BIOGRAPHY
8
74 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway [second time] BRITISH 20th 9
NOVEL 19
75 Kate Atkinson 3 Transcription BRITISH 21st 5 NOVEL 20
76 Barbara Kingsolver 3 The Bean Trees AMERICAN 20th 5 NOVEL 21
77 Ruth Ware 1 The Lying Game BRITISH 21st 6 NOVEL 21
78 Greer Hendricks 1 and Sarah Pekkanen 1 The Wife Between us
AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 22
79 Virginia Woolf ****To the Lighthouse [second time] BRITISH
20th 10 NOVEL 23
80 Virginia Woolf The Waves [second time] BRITISH 20th 11
NOVEL 24
81 A. J. Finn **The Woman in the Window AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 25
82 Eudora Welty a Curtain of Green [second time] AMERICAN 20th 6
SHORT STORIES 1
83 Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginnings [second time] AMERICAN 20th
7 BIOGRAPHY 9 November
84 Eudora Welty 4 The Optimist's Daughter AMERICAN 20th 8 NOVEL 26
85 Alexander McCall Smith 19 The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
BOTSWANA 21st 1 NOVEL 27
86 Alexander McCall Smith 20 Precious and Grace BOTSWANA 21st 2
NOVEL 28
87 Alexander McCall Smith 21 The House of Unexpected Sisters
BOTSWANA 21st 3 NOVEL 29
88 Alexander McCall Smith 22 The Colors of All the Cattle BOTSWANA
21st 4 NOVEL 30
89 Alexander McCall Smith 23 To the Land of Long Lost Friends
BOTSWANA 21st 5 NOVEL 31
90 David Foenkinos 3 *** Vers la beaute [en francais] FRENCH 21st 1
NOVEL 32
91 David Foenkinos 4 *** Charlotte [en francais] FRENCH 21st 2 NOVEL
33
92 David Foenkinos 5 *** Deux Soeur [en francais] FRENCH 21st 3
NOVEL 34
93 William Shakespeare 32 Henry VIII BRITISH 16th 20 PLAY 34
94 William Shakespeare 33 Two Gentlemen of Verona BRITISH 16th 21
PLAY 35
95 William Shakespeare 34 The Taming of the Shrew BRITISH 16th
22 PLAY 36
96 William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [second time]
BRIITSH 16th 23 PLAY 37
97 William Shakespeare Love's Labor's Lost [second time]
BRITISH 16th 24 PLAY 38
December
98 James Shapiro 1 Contested Will AMERICAN 21st 14 HISTORY 5
99 William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice [second time]
BRITISH 16th 25 PLAY 39
100 Peter Ackroyd 1 Shakespeare, The Biography BRITISH 21st 7
BIOGRAPHY 10
101 William Shakespeare 35 The Merry Wives of Windsor BRITISH 16th
26 PLAY 40
102 William Shakespeare 36 Much Ado About Nothing BRITISH 16th 27
PLAY 41
103 William Shakespeare As You Like It [second time] BRITISH
16th 28 PLAY 42
104 William Shakespeare Twelfth Night BRITISH 16th 29 PLAY 43
105 William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [second time]
BRITISH 16th 30 PLAY 44
106 David Foenkinos 6 ***Le Potentiel Erotique de ma Femme [en
francais] FRENCH 21st 4 NOVEL 35
107 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [second time]
BRITISH 16th 31 PLAY 45
108 William Shakespeare 37 All's Well that Ends Well BRITISH
16th 32 PLAY 46
109 Alain de Botton 10 The Course of Love BRITISH 21st 8
NOVEL 36
110 William Shakespeare Pericles Prince of Tyre [second time]
BRITISH 16th 33 PLAY 47
111 Bette Bono 1 The Better Angels AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 37
112 William Shakespeare Cymbeline [second time] BRITISH 16th
34 PLAY 48
113 William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [second time]
BRITISH 16th 35 PLAY 49
114 William Shakespeare The Tempest [fourth time]
BRITISH 16th 36 PLAY 50
115 Tana French 7 The Witch Elm BRITISH 21st 9 NOVEL 38 - seltzer@seltzerbooks.com privacy
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