My Readers' Advisory Reading List

This list came out of my 2022 reading on the subject of Readers' Advisory. There are 48 titles here (assuming one book for each of the authors I listed without specific titles) that I would like to read in order to expand my knowledge of less familiar (to me) genres and subgenres. The titles link to the entry for the book on GoodReads. If I read and blog about a title I will note the date I finished it and link to my own post about it if I write one.

Historical Fiction

• And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander (a mystery series for Amelia Peabody fans) 
• Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres (fall of the Ottoman Empire -20th century)
• The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan (set in Canada -early 20th century)
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves (set in the ancient world)
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (from section on Latino fiction)
• Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman (biographical fiction, historical figure)
• Max by Howard Fast (or possibly a different title)
• New York by Edward Rutherford
• The Outlander by Gil Adamson (set in the Canadian West)
• The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey (biographical fiction, artist)
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali (first book in a time-sweep series about a Muslim family in Granada in 1492)
• Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell (set in pre-history)
• A Sudden Country by Susan Fisher (the Oregon Trail -19th century)

+ something, not sure which title yet, by Jean Plaidy  

• The Building of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche (1st in the Whiteoaks of Jalna series--set in Canada) [read 7/2023]
• Lust for Life by Irving Stone [read 4/2022]

 Mystery

• Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb (set in Italy and a read-similar for the Donna Leon novels)
• Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 
• Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly (author is recommended for Christie fans and this is the first in the series)
• The Body in the Bellfry by Katherine Hall Page (starts a cozy series set in a small New England town)
• Death on Demand by Carolyn G. Hart (starts a cozy series set in a bookstore) [read 5/2022]
• The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker [read 10/2023]
• Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (this has been on my TBR list, but I was reminded that I need to get to this one) [read 12/2023]
• The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman (I suspect this book won't be to my taste, but it is a style of mystery I haven't read (Western) and should check out) [read 11/2023]

NonFiction

• Dashiell Hammett: A Life by Diane Johnson
• Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan
• Black Beech and Honeydew: An Autobiography by Ngaio Marsh
• Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons (1993 edition)
• A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie by Robert Barnard 
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss [sports- bio & memoir]
• A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley [sports-essays & musings]
• Blue Blood by Edward Conlon [true crime- bio, memoir & personal accounts]
• The Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater [travel - memoir & personal accounts]
• An Embarrassment of Mangos by Ann Vanderhoof [travel - memoir & personal accounts]
• Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador by John Gimlette [travel - history, land & place]
• The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames [travel - journeys, escapes & adventures]
• Big Weather by Mark Svenvold [true adventure - - bio & memoir]
• Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917 by Laura M. MacDonald [history - disasters]
• 1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky [history - pivot points]
  
• The Eloquent Essay edited by John Loughery [general NF- essays]
• Best American Essays of the Century edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan [general NF- essays]
• The Fourth Genre edited by Robert L. Root and Michael Steinberg [general NF- essays]
• The Barn at the End of the World by Mary Rose O'Reilley [general NF- religion & spirituality]
• Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee [travel - journeys, escapes & adventures][read 6/2022]
• Imagined London by Anna Quindlen [travel - journeys, escapes & adventures][read 11/2023]
•  Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert [Read 11/2023]
• Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule [true crime- reporting] [DNF 2022]