Last year, for the first time, I posted my list of books read during the year, and am doing so again. I had intended to finish more books than I did, but there were about three months where I barely read any books, though escapism was just what was needed. I try to finish reading books I'm in the midst of before the year ends (for some reason) but there are always unfinished ones. The list is mainly a mixture of mysteries, fantasy, vintage children's stories, and history; the books are not listed in the order they were begun, but the order in which they were finished. I don't think I could pick a favourite, so many good ones in there, most of them were excellent. I don't have any particular reading plans for this new year (though am beginning the year reading vintage children's fantasy classics), just the usual eclectic and often antique or vintage mix with a newer title thrown in here and there, and it surprises me to see that I've read nine books from the 2000s, not a usual thing for me.
The Maidenswell Folly by Greg Howes 2017
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis 1955
Mystery On The Moors by Barbara Michaels 1967
The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott 1805
Drawn From Life by William Thackeray
The Little Ferret by Raymond Foxall 1968
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit 1902
The Borrowers by Mary Norton 1952
The Return of Don Quixote by G. K. Chesterton 1927
A Floral Fantasy In An Old English Garden by Walter Crane 1899
Jacob's Room Is Full Of Books by Susan Hill 2017
The Silence of Herondale by Joan Aiken 1964
The Serial Garden by Joan Aiken
Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham 1933
Mystery On The Isle of Skye by Phyllis A. Whitney
The Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths, ed. by Mark Valentine 2008
The Faerie Handbook 2017
The Adventurous Four by Enid Blyton 1941
The Heir by Vita Sackville-West 1922
Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk by Jeanette Leech 2010
A Hotel By Clachan by Sybil Armstrong 1978
From London Far by Michael Innes 1946
He Arrived At Dusk by R.C. Ashby 1933
Men Of Iron by Howard Pyle
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 2006
Samuel Palmer by Timothy Wilcox 2005
The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters 1983
The Collected Connoisseur by Mark Valentine & John Howard 2010
Medievalism: The Middle Ages In Modern England by Michael Alexander 2007
And some books begun in 2018, but not finished by the year's end:
Visions and Beliefs In The West of Ireland by Lady Gregory
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Vol. 1 by Sir Walter Scott
Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
The Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides by James Boswell
King Arthur by Norma Lorre Goodrich
Fairy Gold: A Book of Old English Folktales, chosen by Ernest Rhys
