Reading is a lifelong habit for both of us. When we sold our home, we disposed of a collection of 6000 books. We find we read more than ever in retirement, and hope that our eyes hold out a long time! We can spot a bookstore from a mile away, and enjoy making donations to libraries of books we have finished.
At the bottom of the page is a reading list. If you click on the links of the titles in blue you will find short reviews.
| Fiction | Bayard, Louis | Mr. Timothy |
| Fiction | Barnes, Julian | Arthur and George |
| Fiction | Ferrante, Elena | My Brilliant Friend |
| Fiction | Fforde, Jasper | Lost in a Good Book |
| Fiction | Franklin, Ariana | Two Novels |
| Fiction | Kirk, Hans | The Fishermen |
| Fiction | MacDonald, Ann-Marie | The Way the Crow Flies |
| Fiction | Musil, Robert | The Man Without Qualities |
| Fiction | Pearlman, Edith | Honeydew |
| Fiction | Pears, Iain | Arcadia |
| Fiction | Powell, Anthony | A Dance to the Music of Time; first movement |
| Fiction | Shapiro, B. A. | The Muralist |
| Fiction | Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix | The Nest |
| Fiction | Tremain, Rose | Music and Silence |
| Mystery | Akunin, Boris | The Winter Queen |
| Mystery | Alexander, Bruce | Blind Justice |
| Mystery | Alexander, Bruce | Sir John Fielding series |
| Mystery | Benn, James R. | Billy Boyle |
| Mystery | Brandreth, Gyles | Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance |
| Mystery | Cleverly, Barbara | Folly du jour |
| Mystery | Donaghue, Clare | No Place to Die |
| Mystery | Ellis, Kate | Walking by Night |
| Mystery | Fossum, Karin | Bad Intentions |
| Mystery | Fossum, Karin | Black Seconds |
| Mystery | French, Tana | The Secret Place |
| Mystery | Gebert, Anke | Ein Engel fur Hotte |
| Mystery | Hall, Tarquin | The Case of the Missing Servant. |
| Mystery | Harper, Karen | The Tidal Poole |
| Mystery | Harris, Gregory | The Dalwich Desecration |
| Mystery | Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia | Star Fall |
| Mystery | Ison, Graham | Hardcastle's Quartet |
| Mystery | Kelly, Jim | Death on Demand |
| Mystery | Knight, Bernard | The Sanctuary Seeker |
| Mystery | Moyes, Patricia | A Six-Letter Word for Death |
| Mystery | Runcie, James | Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night |
| Mystery | Sandlin, Lisa | The Do-Right |
| Mystery | Spencer, Sally | Best Served Cold |
| Mystery | Stanley, Michael | A Death in the Family |
| Mystery | Winspear, Jacqueline | Birds of a Feather |
| Nonfiction | Aarons, Mark and John Loftus | Unholy Trinity |
| Nonfiction | Ardagh, John | France in the New Century |
| Nonfiction | Bainbridge, Timothy | Penguin Companion to European Union |
| Nonfiction | Barber, Benjamin R. | Jihad vs McWorld |
| Nonfiction | Binelli, Mark | Detroit City is the Place to Be |
| Nonfiction | Bok, Derek | Our Underachieving Colleges |
| Nonfiction | Brook-Shepherd, Gordon | The Austrians |
| Nonfiction | Clancy, Tara | The Clancys of Queens |
| Nonfiction | Craig, Gordon A. | The Germans |
| Nonfiction | Cronin, Mike | A History of Ireland |
| Nonfiction | Dennett, Daniel C. | Breaking the Spell |
| Nonfiction | Deacon, Terrence | The Symbolic Species |
| Nonfiction | Duggin, Christopher | A Concise History of Italy |
| Nonfiction | Fisher-Smith, Jordan | Nature Noire |
| Nonfiction | Gilbert, Martin | Challenge to Civilization |
| Nonfiction | Grandin, Temple | Animals in Translation |
| Nonfiction | Grann, David | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| Nonfiction | Harari, Yuval | Sapiens |
| Nonfiction | Hibbert, Christopher | Disraeli |
| Nonfiction | Hughes, Chris | Fair Shot |
| Nonfiction | Huntington, Samuel P. | The Clash of Civilizations |
| Nonfiction | Isenberg, Nancy | White Trash |
| Nonfiction | Jacobsen, Annie | Operation Paperclip |
| Nonfiction | James, Louis | The Xenophobe's Guide to the Austrians |
| Nonfiction | Johnson, Chalmers | Nemesis |
| Nonfiction | Keane, John | Global Civil Society? |
| Nonfiction | Kurlansky, Mark | The Basque History of the World |
| Nonfiction | Lieven, A. and J. Hulsman | Ethical Realism |
| Nonfiction | Longhi, Jim | Woody, Cisco, & Me |
| Nonfiction | Macdonald, Helen | H is for Hawk |
| Nonfiction | Marino, Andy | American Pimpernel |
| Nonfiction | Meacham, Jon | Destiny and Power |
| Nonfiction | Michaels, Walter Benn | The Trouble with Diversity |
| Nonfiction | Nasaw, David | Andrew Carnegie |
| Nonfiction | Nash, Gary B. | The Unknown American Revolution |
| Nonfiction | Nelles Guide | Munich: Excursions |
| Nonfiction | Norwich, John Julius | Sicily |
| Nonfiction | Obama, Barack | Dreams from My Father |
| Nonfiction | Obama, Barack | The Audacity of Hope |
| Nonfiction | Pelletier, Yannick | Une Histoire de la Bretagne |
| Nonfiction | Phillips, Susan | Wallbangin' |
| Nonfiction | Raab, Selwyn. | Five Families |
| Nonfiction | Sachs, Jeffrey D. | The End of Poverty |
| Nonfiction | Sachs, Jeffrey D. | The Price of Civilization |
| Nonfiction | Shostak, Arthur B., ed. | Viable Utopian Ideas |
| Nonfiction | Sitamaran, Ganesh. | The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution |
| Nonfiction | Stephanopoulos, George. | All Too Human |
| Nonfiction | Stiles, T. J.. | The First Tycoon |
| Nonfiction | Sunstein, Cass R. | Why Societies Need Dissent |
| Nonfiction | Tapscott, D. and A. D. Williams | Wikinomics |
| Nonfiction | Teachout, Zephyr | Corruption in America |
| Nonfiction | Toffler, Alvin and Heidi. | Revolutionary Wealth |
| Nonfiction | Van Reybrouck, David. | Congo |
| Nonfiction | von Sternburg, Wilhelm | Deutsche Republiken |
| Nonfiction | Waldron, Lamar. | Ultimate Sacrifice |
| Nonfiction | Wheatcroft, Andrew. | The Habsburgs |
| Nonfiction | Williams, Charles. | The Last Great Frenchman |
| Nonfiction | Wood, John. | Leaving Microsoft to Change the World |
| Nonfiction | Yankelovich, Daniel | Coming to Public Judgment |
| Nonfiction | Yankelovich, Daniel | Profit with Honor |
| Nonfiction | Zakaria, Fareed | The Future of Freedom |