Revisiting my 2018 Reading List
Feb. 5th, 2026 08:38 amLast time I posted one of these reading lists, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
asakiyume noted that I’d already read, like, half the books, and I decided that it might be the path of wisdom in the future to try to post these lists BEFORE I started reading the books on them. So! Behold! The authors I intend to revisit from my 2018 reading list!
Juliana Horatia Ewing - the university library has Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances (memories of early nineteenth-century England), The Story of a Short Life (unclear, but I think a child soldier dies valiantly?), and Lob Lie-by-the-fire ; Jackanapes ; Daddy Darwin's dovecot (three short stories, possibly fantasy). Any preferences?
Ngaio Marsh
Jerry Pinkney
Rosemary Sutcliff - We Lived at Drumfyvie, on the basis ofregshoe’s review
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Head of the House of Coombe
Roald Dahl - I’ve read the most famous ones (Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), plus his memoirs Boy and Going Solo. But I’ve barely skimmed the surface otherwise. Recs?
Caroline Dale Snedeker
M. T. Anderson - Nicked. Recced by multiple people!
D. E. Stevenson - Mrs. Tim Flies Home. The last of the Mrs. Tim quartet.
E. M. Delafield - technically The Provincial Lady in America is next, but I’d have to get it through ILL, whereas the library has The Provincial Lady in Wartime. Will probably get Wartime unless someone feels strongly the books must be read in order and/or the America is wonderful and I simply mustn’t risk missing it.
Elizabeth Enright - Spiderweb for Two. Wrapping up the Melendys!
Rick Bragg - I really liked his food memoir The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table, so I meant to try some of his other books, but… I have not. Any suggestions?
Daphne Du Maurier
Edward Eager - Playing Possum (the last of his little-known picture books)
Deborah Ellis - One More Mountain, the newest Breadwinner novel, published in 2022
Fyodor Dosteovsky - The Brothers Karamazov. Thoughts which translation I should get?
Jacqueline Woodson
Eliza Orne White - I, the Autobiography of a Cat. I am including White on this list solely because the archive has this book, and how am I supposed to resist a title like that?
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
C. S. Lewis
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton or Ruth, probably.
Dorothy Gilman
E. Nesbit - The Wouldbegoods
Thanhha Lai - When Clouds Touch Us, the sequel to Inside Out and Back Again. Always nervous about sequels but going to give this a try.
Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth. Another book I’ve meant to read for AGES.
asakiyume noted that I’d already read, like, half the books, and I decided that it might be the path of wisdom in the future to try to post these lists BEFORE I started reading the books on them. So! Behold! The authors I intend to revisit from my 2018 reading list! Juliana Horatia Ewing - the university library has Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances (memories of early nineteenth-century England), The Story of a Short Life (unclear, but I think a child soldier dies valiantly?), and Lob Lie-by-the-fire ; Jackanapes ; Daddy Darwin's dovecot (three short stories, possibly fantasy). Any preferences?
Ngaio Marsh
Jerry Pinkney
Rosemary Sutcliff - We Lived at Drumfyvie, on the basis of
regshoe’s reviewFrances Hodgson Burnett - The Head of the House of Coombe
Roald Dahl - I’ve read the most famous ones (Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), plus his memoirs Boy and Going Solo. But I’ve barely skimmed the surface otherwise. Recs?
Caroline Dale Snedeker
M. T. Anderson - Nicked. Recced by multiple people!
D. E. Stevenson - Mrs. Tim Flies Home. The last of the Mrs. Tim quartet.
E. M. Delafield - technically The Provincial Lady in America is next, but I’d have to get it through ILL, whereas the library has The Provincial Lady in Wartime. Will probably get Wartime unless someone feels strongly the books must be read in order and/or the America is wonderful and I simply mustn’t risk missing it.
Elizabeth Enright - Spiderweb for Two. Wrapping up the Melendys!
Rick Bragg - I really liked his food memoir The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table, so I meant to try some of his other books, but… I have not. Any suggestions?
Daphne Du Maurier
Edward Eager - Playing Possum (the last of his little-known picture books)
Deborah Ellis - One More Mountain, the newest Breadwinner novel, published in 2022
Fyodor Dosteovsky - The Brothers Karamazov. Thoughts which translation I should get?
Jacqueline Woodson
Eliza Orne White - I, the Autobiography of a Cat. I am including White on this list solely because the archive has this book, and how am I supposed to resist a title like that?
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
C. S. Lewis
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton or Ruth, probably.
Dorothy Gilman
E. Nesbit - The Wouldbegoods
Thanhha Lai - When Clouds Touch Us, the sequel to Inside Out and Back Again. Always nervous about sequels but going to give this a try.
Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth. Another book I’ve meant to read for AGES.
