Reading log
Books I read, newest first, with one line each.
On the shelf
What I read this year, newest first. Old books mostly: the library sale is good to me.
The Natural History of Selborne
Gilbert White
Letters about one village, written over twenty years. The reason this site exists.
October
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Read for the bean field; stayed for the household accounts.
August
The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton
A fishing book that is mostly about conversation and lunch.
June
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Took all winter. Worth every evening.
March
Reading log for this year (sample).
Read last year
The short version of the 2025 list; the long one is entry No. 139.
The Rings of Saturn
W. G. Sebald
A walk along a coast, and everything it reminded him of.
December
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell
A small town, its rules and its tea.
September
The Diary of a Nobody
George and Weedon Grossmith
A warning to anyone who keeps a diary in public.
May
Where the books come from
The library sale, the charity shop on Harbour Row and my father’s shelves. I write the date I finished on the inside cover.
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