A fairly diverse year, as I was in part trying to get through a backlog of candidates for fortnightly books. The great discovery this year was, without a doubt, Fanny Burney's Evelina, which is such an extraordinarily good book that I wish it had not taken me so long to get around to reading it. I also, of course, re-read all of the novels of Charles Williams, and brought my tally of Verne's fifty-four Voyages Extraordinaires read up to fifty-two. I still want to try to get some version of the last two, Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin and Un drame en Livonie, in the next year; they're hard to find, so we will see if I manage that. I am also thinking of reading all of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books next year -- the read-through-an-author approach has been working fairly well (although Verne was a long slog through a lot of books), it wouldn't be much harder than Charles Williams was, and I have an omnibus edition of the books sitting on my stairs so might as well use it. But we shall see; there's always a measure of chance in what comes up in the series.
December 1: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Introduction, Review
November 17: Irving Stone, Love is Eternal
Introduction, Review
November 3: Charlotte Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe
Introduction, Review
October 20: H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in the Darkness
Introduction, Review
October 6: Charles Williams, Descent into Hell; All Hallows' Eve
Introduction, Review
September 22: Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars
Introduction, Review
September 8: Robertson Davies, The Salterton Trilogy
Introduction, Review
August 25: The Nibelungenlied
Introduction, Review
August 11: Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine
Introduction, Review
July 21: Maria Edgeworth, Belinda
Introduction, Review
July 7: Oscar Wilde, The Plays of Oscar Wilde; De Profundis
Introduction, Review
June 23: C. S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy
Introduction, Review
June 9: Dora Landey & Elinor Klein, Triptych
Introduction, Review
May 26: Fanny Burney, Evelina
Introduction, Review
May 12: Charles Williams, Shadows of Ecstasy; The Greater Trumps
Introduction, Review
April 28: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds
Introduction, Review
April 14: Sigrid Undset, Gunnar's Daughter
Introduction, Review
March 31: John Milton, Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
Introduction, Review
March 17: Jules Verne, Keraban the Inflexible; The Steam House
Introduction, Review
March 3: Garland Roark, The Lady and the Deep Blue Sea
Introduction, Review
February 17: Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Introduction, Review
February 3: Charles Williams, War in Heaven; The Place of the Lion
Introduction, Review
January 20: Jane Austen, Persuasion
Introduction, Review
January 6: C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Introduction, Review
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Fortnightly Books Index for 2018
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