[bfisher]

Also:
Complete reading the 2014 Cundill shortlist
Read the 2015 Lionel Gelber shortlist
Complete reading the 2013 and 2014 Guggenheim Lehrman shortlists
Read at least 2 of both book club's monthly selections

Books Read From My December 2014 TBR
January-May
1 - Rebellion by Peter Ackroyd
2 - 1636: The Viennese Waltz
3 - 1636: Seas of Fortune
4 - 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies
5 - Churchill’s Bomb by Graham Farmelo
6 - The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
7 - The Fireseed Wars by John F. Carr
8 - Siege of Tarr-Hostigos by John F. Carr
9 - Many Thousands Gone: First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
10 - Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry
June
11 - Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
12 - Dark Star (Night Soldiers # 2) by Alan Furst
13 - The Polish Officer (Night Soldiers # 3) by Alan Furst
14 - The World At Night (Night Soldiers # 4) by Alan Furst
15 - Red Gold (Night Soldiers # 5) by Alan Furst
16 - Kingdom of Shadows (Night Soldiers # 6) by Alan Furst
17 - Blood of Victory (Night Soldiers # 7) by Alan Furst
18 - Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple
19 - “Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson” by S.C.Gwynne
20 - “Zoo Station” by David Downing
21 - “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh
22 - “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald
23 - “Notes of a Native Son” by James Baldwin
24 - “You Know Me Al” by Ring Lardner
25 - “Slide Rule” by Nevil Shute
26 - “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War” by Tony Horwitz
27 - “Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832” by Antonia Fraser
July
28 - “Crooked Man” by Tony Dunbar
29 - “City of Beads” by Tony Dunbar
30 - “Trick Question” by Tony Dunbar
31 - “Shelter from the Storm” by Tony Dunbar
32 - “The Last Roman: Honour” by Jack Ludlow
33 - “Pitching in a Pinch” by Christie Mathewson
34 - "Mike and Psmith" by P.G. Wodehouse
35 - “The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur” by Mark Perry
36 - "Full Dark House" (Bryant and May #1) by Christopher Fowler
37 - "Blandings Castle" by P.G. Wodehouse
38 - "The Plague" by Albert Camus
39 - “The Secret Ministry of Ag. and Fish” by Noreen Riols
40 - "Necessity's Child" by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
41 - "The Pursuit of Love" by Nancy Mitford
August
42 - "Dark Voyage" by Alan Furst (Night Soldiers #8)
43 - "The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China" by Julia Lovell
44 - "Love In a Cold Climate" by Nancy Mitford
45 - “The Bombing War” by Richard Overy
46 - “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide” by Gary Bass
47 - "Congo" by David Van Reybrouck
48 - "Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris" by Eric Jager
49 - "American Crucifixion" by Alex Beam
50 - "Death at La Fenice" by Donna Leon
51 - "Death in a Strange Country" by Donna Leon
52 - "Ratking (Aurelio Zen #1)" by Michael Dibdin
September
sigh
October
53 - The Devil's Wind: The Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny by Saul David
54 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
55 - The Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis
November
56 - Christ Stopped At Eboli by Carlo Levi

Non-TBR Books Read
January-May
1 - Ten Cities That Made An Empire by Tristram Hunt
2 - When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
3 - Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James McPherson
4 - "A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal" by Ben Macintyre
5 - Turner by Peter Ackroyd
June
6 - “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad ” by Eric Foner
7 - “War Plan Red” by Kevin Lippert
8 - “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era” by David Blight
9 - “Verdun: the Longest Battle of the Great War” by Paul Jankowski
July
10 - "Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna" by Adam Zamoyski
11 - "The Debs of Bletchley Park" by Michael Smith
12 - "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism" by Edward Baptist
13 - "Bombs Away" by Harry Turtledove (Hot War #1)
14 - "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
15 - "Dragon In Exile" by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
August
16 - "Scoop" by Evelyn Waugh
17 - "Killers of the King" by Charles Spencer
18 - "Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South" by Christopher Dickey
19 - "1636: The Cardinal Virtues" by Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt
20 - "Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I" by Alexander Watson
21 - "Dressed For Death" by Donna Leon
22 - "Death and Judgment" by Donna Leon
23 - "Acqua Alta" by Donna Leon
24 - "Quietly in Their Sleep" by Donna Leon
25 - "A Noble Radiance" by Donna Leon
26 - "Friends In High Places" by Donna Leon
27 - "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
28 - "River of Dark Dreams" by Walter Johnson
29 - "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
September
30 - "Princes At War" by Deborah Cadbury
31 - "A Sea of Troubles" by Donna Leon
32 - "Candide" by Voltaire
33 - "H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald
34 - "The War That Forged A Nation" by James McPherson
35 - "The Goshawk" by T.H. White
36 - "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh by J.A. Frank and G.R. Reaves
37 - A Liaden Universe Constellation Vol 3 by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
October
38 - Now All Roads Lead To France by Matthew Hollis
39 - An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker
40 - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
41 - Christmas At High Rising by Angela Thirkell
November
42 - Never Surrender by John Kelly
43 - Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S.Forester
44 - The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober
45 - Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S.Forester
46 - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S.Forester
47 - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S.Forester
48 - Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen
49 - The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
50 - The Untouchable by John Banville

MR Book Club
"Candide" by Voltaire September
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson October

MR Literary Book Club
“Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh June
"The Plague" by Albert Camus July
"H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald September
The Untouchable by John Banville December

2013 Guggenheim-Lehrman shortlist
“The Guns at Last Light” by Rick Atkinson
“Gettysburg” by Allen Guelzo (read 2014)
“Britain Against Napoleon” by Roger Knight
“Surge” by Peter Mansoor
“The Men Who Lost America” by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (read 2014)
“The Bombing War” by Richard Overy

2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman shortlist
"The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China" by Julia Lovell
"The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century" by David Reynolds
"Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I" by Alexander Watson

2014 Cundill shortlist
“The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide” by Gary Bass
“The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation” by David Brion Davis
“The Men Who Lost America” by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (read 2014)
“The Bombing War” by Richard Overy
“Congo” David Van Reybrouck
“A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire” by Geoffrey Wawro

2015 Lionel Gelber shortlist