Last bit of fun reading for August, 2017

Veronica Stallwood, Oxford Mourning
Veronica Stallwood, Oxford Exit
Jacqueline Winspear, Birds of a Feather
Jacqueline Winspear, In this Grave Hour

Reading, more or less, August 2016-July 2017, non-mystery division

Lisa Leff, The Archive Thief.
Roni Miron, מלאך ההיסטוריה
Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Italo Calvino, Hermit in Paris
Najla Said, Looking for Palestine
Margaret Drabble, The Pure Gold Baby
Laney Salisbury, Provenance
James Kwak, Economism
Jonathan wilson, A Palestine Affair
Holger Hoock, Scars of Independence
Jean d'Ormesson, The Glory of the Empire
Joe Queenan, One for the Books
Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words
Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale
Ruth von Bernuth, How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
Niall Kishtainy, A Little History of Economics
Saul Friedlander, When Memory COmes
Kingsley Amis, The Green Man
Stewart O'Nan, City of Secrets
Jack Weatherford, Genghis Kahn and the Quest for God
Ari Shavit, My Promised Land
Gershom Gotenberg, The Unmaking of Israel
James Glecik, The Information
Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
Christopher Buckley, The Relic Master
Kingsley Amis, The Alteration
Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
Joan DeJean, How Paris became Paris
Connie Willis, Fire Watch
Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis, All Clear
Connie Willis, Blackout
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

Reading January-July 2016, more or less

uly 2016
Gish Amit, Ex-Libris
Maoz Kahana, From the Noda BeYehuda to the Chatam Sofer
Mitchell Duneir, Ghetto
Nicola Upson, London Rain
Michael Innes, Picture of Guilt
Michael Innes, Appleby's Answer
June 2016
Michael Innes, A Night of Errors
Michael Innes, The Ampersand Papers
Lawrence J. Epstein, The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress
E.G. Rodford, The Bursar's Wife
Nicola Upson, The Death of Lucy Kyte
Liora R. Halperin, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
May 2016
James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes
James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil
James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night
Gavin Scott, The Age of Treachery
April 2016
Jeffrey T. Shnapp and Matthew Battles, The Library Beyond the Book
Herbert Tarr, So Help Me God
Herbert Tarr, Heaven Help Us
Herbert Tarr, The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen
James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Shadows of Death
March 2016
P.J. Brackston, Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints
J. Kenneth Galbraith, A Tenured Professor
Moulie Vidas, Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Adam S. Ferziger, Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
February 2016
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Massimo Montanari, Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table
Saba Mahmood, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report
Daniel Boyarin: A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
Benjamin Schreier, The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History
Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man
Martin Goodman et al, Toleration Within Judaism
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Jacque Le Goff, Must We Divide History into Periods
Ram Ben-Shalom, Medieval Jews and the Christian Past
Owen Fitzstephen, Hammett Unwritten
Marc B. Shapiro, Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites its History
Barry Forshaw, ed. Detective
John Walton, The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction
James Lovegrove, The Thinking Engine
Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds
January 2016
Isadore Haiblum, Murder in Gotham
Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn
Deborah Levy-Bertherat, The Travels of Daniel Ascher
Naomi Ragen, Devil in Jerusalem
Michael B. Oren, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches
Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments
Sasha Abramsky, The House of 20,000 Books
Sigal Samuel, The Mystics of Mile End
Sarah Caudwell, The Sybll in Her Grave
Sarah Caudwell, The Sirens Sing of Murder
Sarah Caudwell, The Shortest Way to Hades
Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

Reading, mysteries, more or less-August 2016-July 2017

Veronica Stallwood, Death and the Oxford Box
Jacqueline WInspear, Leaving Everything Most Loved
Jacqueline Winspear, Journey to Munich
Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth
T. Frank Muir, Eye for an Eye,
T. Frank Muir, Life for a Life,
T. Frank Muir, Tooth for a Tooth
T. Frank Muir, Hand for a Hand
Kerry Greenwood, Death at Victoria Dock
Kerry Greenwood, Death before Wicket
Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mednelssohn
Susan Elia McNeal, The Queen's Accomplice
Jacqueline Winspear, Among the Mad
Jackqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie
Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets
Jacqueline Winspear, The Mapping of Love and Death
Jacqueline Winspear, Pardonable Lies
Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood
Jocelyn Davey (Chaim Raphael), Murder in Paradise
Jocelyn Davey (Chaim Raphael), The Naked Villainy
Jocelyn Davey (Chaim Raphael), A Treasury Alarm
Jocelyn Davey (Chaim Raphael), A Capital Offense
Alexander McCall Smith, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
Henning Mankell, One Step Behind
Sue Grafton, ed. Writing Mysteries
Henning Mankell, Firewall
Laurie R. Kind, The Marriage of Mary Russell
Roger Herst, Rabbi Gabrielle Commits a Felony
Roger Herst, Rabbi Gabrielle Ignites a Tempest
Susan Elia Macneal, The Queen's Accomplice
Roger Herst, Rabbi Gabrielle's Defiance
Roger Herst, A Kiss for Rabbi Gabrielle
Roger Herst, Rabbi Gabrielle's Scandal
Susan Elia MacNeal, Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidente
Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secretary
Jed Rubenfeld, The Death Instinct
Susan Elia Macneal, His Magesty's Hope
Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy
Benjamin Black, Even the Dead
Frank Tallis, Death and the Maiden
Frank Tallis, Vienna Twilight
Susan Elia Macneal, Mr. Churchill's Secretary
Con Lehane, Murder at the 42nd Street Library
Nicola Upson, Angel with Two Faces
Nicola Upson, Two for Sorrow
Henning Mankell, Sidetracked
Frank Tallis, Fatal Lies
Andrea Camelleri, The Shape of Water