Books 2011

I’m geekily keeping a list of books read in 2011.  An asterisk denotes a re-read.  Last year’s reading list is also available.

1. Ayala’s Angel by Anthony Trollope
2. The Small Hand by Susan Hill
3. The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
4. The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage *
5. An Old Man’s Love by Anthony Trollope
6. The Bazalgettes by E M Delafield
7. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
8. Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
9. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
10. Demos by George Gissing
11. Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope
12. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders
13. Blind Love by Wilkie Collins
14. An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope
15. Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks by Pamela Pilbeam
16. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
17. A Fatal Silence by Florence Marryat *
18. The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
19. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
20. The Rector’s Daughter by F M Mayor
21. The White House by the Sea Matilda Betham-Edwards
22. A Life Sentence by Adeline Sergeant
23. The Golden Calf by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
24. Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
25. A Mummer’s Wife by George Moore *
26. The Wooing o’t by Mrs Alexander
27. The Map of Time by Felix Palma
28. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
29. Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell by Adrienne E. Gavin
30. Mr Scarborough’s Family by Anthony Trollope
31. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
32. Little Gods by Anna Richards
33. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
34. Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope
35. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
36. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope
37. The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson by Anthony Trollope
38. The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope
39. Queen Lucia by E F Benson
40. The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
41. Miss Mapp by E F Benson
42. Kipling by Jad Adams
43. Women’s Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture by Beth Palmer
44. Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren
45. Lucia in London by E F Benson
46. Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
47. Kith and Kin by Jessie Fothergill
48. Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
49. Mapp and Lucia by E F Benson
50. The One Too Many by Eliza Lynn Linton
51. Lucia’s Progress by E F Benson
52. Queen Victoria by Walter L. Arnstein
53. Trouble for Lucia by E F Benson
54. The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
55. Queen Victoria: Gender and Power by Dorothy Thompson
56. A Mummer’s Wife by George Moore *
57. Becoming a Woman of Letters by Linda Peterson
58. Seventy Years a Showman by ‘Lord’ George Sanger
59. The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
60. As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson by Rodney Bolt
61. The Type-Writer Girl by Grant Allen
62. Disillusion by Dorothy Leighton
63. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World by Jacqueline Yallop
64. Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
65. The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland by Eliza Lynn Linton *
66. Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry by Margaret Hewitt
67. The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison
68. Thyrza by George Gissing
69. The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins
70. The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery by Maureen Waller
71. Lady Caroline Lamb by Paul Douglass
72. The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
73. Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu
74. Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
75. Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace by Lucy Worsley
76. At Home by Bill Bryson
77. La Vendée by Anthony Trollope
78. Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore
79. The Third Miss Symons by F M Mayor
80. Madame Midas by Fergus Hume
81. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
82. Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
83. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories H G Wells
84. Queen Victoria’s Mother by Dulcie M. Ashdown
85. Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet’s Letters from Court 1887-1901 by Victor Mallet
86. A Strange Eventful History by Michael Holroyd
87. A Royal Conflict: Sir John Conroy and the Young Victoria by Katherine Hudson
88. Miss Brown by Vernon Lee
89. Monochromes by Ella D’Arcy
90. Sugar: A Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott
91. Confessions of a GP by Benjamin Daniels
92. The Kellys and the O’Kellys by Anthony Trollope
93. Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
94. The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
95. Grania by Emily Lawless
96. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild
97. The Hidden Prince by Billy Rennie
98. The Long Song by Andrea Levy
99. Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain by Christian Wolmar
100. Heaven’s Command by Jan Morris
101. The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
102. The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester
103. Autobiography by Anthony Trollope
104. The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
105. The Empress Brown: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal by Tom Cullen
106. Trollope by Victoria Glendinning *
107. Queen Victoria’s Private Life by E E P Tisdall
108. Queen Victoria’s John Brown by E E P Tisdall
109. Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now, As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor
110. Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport
111. Mr Briggs’ Hat by Kate Colquhoun
112. The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman by David Waller
113. Dorothea’s Daughter and Other Nineteenth-Century Postscripts by Barbara Hardy
114. A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman
115. Lady Worsley’s Whim by Hallie Rubenhold
116. The Worst Street in London by Fiona Rule
117. The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet by Duncan Hamilton
118. The Gourmet by Muriel Barbery
119. Gentlemen and Blackguards by Nicholas Foulkes
120. In My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour
121. The Diary of a Murder by Lee Jackson
122. The Arsenic Century by James C. Whorton
123. A Thing in Disguise The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton by Kate Colquhoun
124. Lady Unknown: The Life of Angela Burdett-Coutts by Edna Healey
125. Statues Without Shadows by Anna Swan
126. Lily, Duchess of Malborough by Sally E. Svenson
127. London by Tube: A History of Underground Station Names by David Revill
128. Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
129. The Woman Who Saved the Children by Clare Mulley
130. Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
131. Cavalier by Lucy Worsley
132. Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had by Andrew Cook