Books Read February 2026

1 03 2026

February – 13

The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuyu Asakura

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Ten Nights of Dreams by Natsume Soseki

The Weight of Ash and Prayer by Ashley Broussard

First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Indeoendnece by Harlow Giles Unger

Dokkōdō: Reflections from a Journey’s End by Miyamoto Musashi and Selwyn Tengalt

First Founding Father: Rhichard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence by Harlow Giles Unger

John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation by Harlow Giles Unger

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal and the American West by R. D. Rosen

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs

Dr. Benjamin Rush: Founding Father who Healed a Wounded Nation by Harlow Giles Unger

Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter: A Biography pf Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksby


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Books Read January 2026

31 01 2026

8 books

Young and Damned and Fair: the Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell

Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII by Linda Porter

Tales from the Ends of the Earth: My Adventures in East Africa and Beyond by Todd Gustafson

Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams of Anne McCaffrey by Todd J. McCaffrey

The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

Fortune’s Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Educating the Tudors by Amy McElroy


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Books Read – December 2025

31 12 2025

December 2025 – 12

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard

Counting My Chickens…and Other Home Thoughts by Deborah Vivian Mitford Freeman-Cavendish, Dutchess of Devonshire

Wait for Me!: Memoir by Deborah Vivian Mitford Freeman-Cavendish, Dutchess of Devonshire

Spirit of the Horse: A Celebration in Fact and Fable by William Shatner and Jeff Rovin

Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough

The Santa Claus Stories by L. Frank Baum

Old Christmas by Washington Irving

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

Something to Look Forward To: Fictions by Fannie Flagg

‘Tis Herself: A Memoir by Maureen O’Hara and John Nicoletti

Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, A Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science that Rescued Them by Gina Kolata

The Hummingbird Wizard by Meredith Blevins

93 books read in 2025. Hope you enjoyed the list and maybe read some of the books.

Happy New Year!


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Books Read November 2025

30 11 2025

November 2025 – 5

Prairie Shadows: Montana Memories by David Tippetts

Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life by Lynn Haney

Familiaris by David Wroblewski

And Furthermore by Judi Dench and John Miller

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones


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Books Read October 2025

1 11 2025

October 2025 – 6

Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman by Harlow Giles Unger

American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked A Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger

Pale Pink Roads: A journey of Faith, Pedals and American Byways by Joe Tarantino

The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien (grandson of J. R. R.Tolkien)

Driving Home Naked and other Misadventure of Country Veterinarian by Melinda G. McCall, D. V. M.

Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor by Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan


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Books Read in September 2025

1 10 2025

September 2025 – 7

The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine

Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II by Kathryn Warner

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski

Simple Abundance Companionby Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret Graves


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Book Read

1 09 2025

August 2025 – 6

A Change in the World by Steve J Pemberton

The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg

The Revolutionary War Life and Letters of Henry and Lucy Knox by Phillip Hamilton

Richard III: England’s Most Controversal King by Chris Skidmore

Something More: Excavating your Authentic Self by Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages by J. F. Andrews


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Books Read in July 2025

1 08 2025

July 2025 – 11

1812: The War That Forged A Nation by Walter R. Borneman

Special Relationships: People and Places by Asa Briggs

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy

Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Patricia Brady

Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth and the Wars of Religion by Susan Ronald

The Mystery of King John’s Treasure by Shirley Charters

The Plantagenets:The Warrior Kings and Queens who made England by Dan Jones

Horse-Drawn Sickle Bar Cutter: A Memoir by Robert Merrick Fuller

The Red Duke: The Life of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carrtwright

You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck

Icarus Adrift (Sam Reilly # 35) by Christopher Cartwright


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Book Read in June 2025

1 07 2025

June 2025 – 11

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals by Amy Licence

Abyss Codex (Sam Reilly # 33) by Christopher Cartwright

Caliburn’s Fight (Sam Reilly #34) by Christopher Cartwright

The Wars of the Roses by Michael Hicks

Considering Doris Day by Tom Santopietro

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starbey

The Maids of Biddenden by G. D. Harper

The Invincible Miss Cust by Penny Haw

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek and Mary Ann Vollers

Summer World by Bernd Heinrich

The Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messine


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Book Read in May

31 05 2025

May 2025 – 7

Medallion of Petra (Sam Reilly #29) by Christopher Cartwright

The Relic Hunter (Sam Reilly #30) By Christopher Cartwright

The Elixir of Life (Sam Reilly #31) by Christopher Cartwright

Necropolis of the Gods (Sam Reilly #32) by Christopher Cartwright

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution by John F. Luzander

Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher by Robin Harris


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Books Read in April 2025

2 05 2025

April 2025 – 7

A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World by Paul A Johngard

Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages by Brian Burfield

Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Amoung the Pilgrims by David Lindsay

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri

Skeleton Crew (Sam Reilly #27) by Christopher Carrtwright

The Midas Vault (Sam Reilly #28) by Christopher Cartwright


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Books Read in March 2025

1 04 2025

March 2025 – 7

The Granddaughters of Edward III by Kathryn Warner

Robert the Bruce:King of Scots by Ronald McNair Scott

Motorcycle Days: Zen: A Hesitant Beginning by Robert Antweiler

The Dark Ages: 476 – 918, Books 1-3 by Charles Oman

Twice a Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Sisterhood by Julie Ryan McGue

Edison by Edmund Morris

Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad and the Empire of A. D. 800 by Jeff Sypeck


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