Books read in 2022, including some repeats. Fair Game was good but heavily censored by the CIA. Both of Weigall??s histories are incredibly rich; he really knew his stuff. I gave up on Hail Mary at first, then loved it. Beasley??s Christmas Party is a delight. Trustee from the Tool Room is Nevil Shute??s best. Some of the books listed pretty much stunk, like the first one.
01, Your Inner Hedgehog by Alexander McCall Smith
02, The Professor??s House by Willa Cather
03, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
04, A Murder of Quality by John Le Carre
05, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
06, The Borough Treasurer by J. S. Fletcher
07, The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation by J. S. Fletcher
08, Through the Crater??s Rim by A. Hyatt Verrill
09, The Laughter of Slim Malone by Max Brand
10, Dialstone Lane by W. W. Jacobs
11, From Missouri by Zayne Grey
12, She by H. Rider Haggard
13, Uncle Dynamite by P. G. Wodehouse
14, A Man of Means by P. G. Wodehouse
15, An Old Captivity by Neville Shute
16, Sam the Sudden by P. G. Wodehouse
17, The Crater by Robert Gore-Browne
18, The North Shore Mystery by Henry Fletcher
19, Fair Game by Valerie Plame
20, By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
21, The Herapath Property by J. S. Fletcher
22, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
23, The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne
24, The Wall Street Girl by Frederick Orin Bartlett
25, Beasley??s Christmas Party by Booth Tarkington
26, The Gibson Upright by Booth Tarkington
27, The Clevedon Case by Nancy & John Oakley
28, Bungay Castle by Elizabeth Bonhote
29, The Fourth ??R? by George O. Smith
30, The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
31, Our House and London out of our Windows by Elizabeth Pennell
32, The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole
33, Our Sentimental Journey by Elizabeth Pennell
34, This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
35, The Life and Times of Akhnaton by Arthur Weigall
36, The Skeleton Key by Bernard Capes
37, All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald
38, The Willing Horse by Ian Hay
39, Hail Mary by Andy Weir
40, Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson
41, Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
42, Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson
43, Smith and the Pharaohs and others by H. Rider Haggard
44, The Island of the Stairs by Cyrus Townsend Brady
45, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
46, The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
47, Gentlemen of Crime by Arthur Gask
48, The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Arthur Weigall
49, The Moon Maid by H. G. Wells
50, The Hampstead Mystery vol. 1 by Florence Marryat
51, The Hampstead Mystery vol. 2 by Florence Marryat
52, You Can??t Win by Jack Black
53, The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
54, An Act of Foul Play by T. E. Kinsey
55, Lost Horizon by James Hilton
56, Hail Mary by Andy Weir
57, The Card by Arnold Bennett
58, Trustee from the Tool Room by Nevil Shute
59, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
I re-read Uncle Tom's Cabin recently and there may have been a very very oblique shout out to the surveying community.?ÿ The book starts out in Kentucky and one of the side characters mentioned briefly, and keep in mind that this was written before the Civil War, is Tom Lincoln.?ÿ Of course that is the name of Abraham Lincoln's dad and Abraham Lincoln was very briefly a surveyor.?ÿ It's a bit of a stretch but close enough to mention in a surveying forum.
I didn't do enough reading this year.?ÿ I started Edwin Bearss Vicksburg Trilogy, but didn't get close to finishing it.
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