Princess Garnet's '12 Reads

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New year, new log!

January
Moorehawke trilogy by Celine Kiernan:
The Poison Throne
The Crowded Shadows
The Rebel Prince

Henry Prince of Wales by Roy Strong (NF)
Brief, Gaudy Hour by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Chicago by Dominic Pacyga (NF)
Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie (NF)
Gift of Magic by Lynn Kurland

February
By the King's Design by Christine Trent
Sister Queens by Julia Fox (NF)
Queen Hereafter by Susan F. King
The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes (NF)
Isabel Orleans-Braganca by James M. Longo (NF)
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir (reread)

March
Royal Flush by Margaret Irwin
Brief History of Korea by Mark Peterson (NF)
The Sister Queens by Sophie Perinot
Biography by Nigel Hamilton (NF)
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

April
Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett
The Last Paladin by Kathleen Bryan
King Harry's Sister by Michael Glenne (NF)
Desiree by Annemarie Selinko

May
The Spanish Match by Brennan Pursell
Queen of Hearts by Charlotte Haldane (NF)
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow by Juliet Grey
Blanche of Castile by Regine Pernoud, translated by Henry Noel (NF)
The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

June
Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry Jones
Queen of the Conquerer by Tracy Borman (NF)
Women in Purple by Judith Herrin (NF)
The Bastard King by Jean Plaidy
Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
The Road from the Past by Ina Caro (NF)

July
Paris to the Past by Ina Caro (NF)
To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl (NF)
The Guardian Duke by Jamie Carie
Byzantine Empresses by Lynda Garland (NF)
Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy

August
Madame by Julia Cartwright (also Mrs. Henry Ady, NF)
Abroad for Her Country by Jean M. Wilkowski (NF)
A Crimson Warning by Tasha Alexander

September
History of the Church by Eusebius (NF)
Those Terrible Middle Ages! by Regine Peroud (NF, English trans. by Anne E. Nash)
Mary Boleyn by Alison Weir (NF)

(YA, "Seven Realms" series by Cinda W. Chima)
The Demon King
The Exiled Queen

October
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg
The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda W. Chima ("Seven Realms" #3)
The Lost Crown by Sarah Miller (YA novel)
Rough Guide to Classic Novels by Simon Mason (NF)
The Brontes by Juliet Barker (NF)

November
The Pope's Jews by Gordon Thomas (NF)
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
Chronicles of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes & Matthew Sturgis (NF)
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James
The Crimson Crown by Cinda W. Chima (Seven Realms #4)

December
The Washington Arsenal Explosion by Brian Bergin (NF)
Isabella of Spain by William T. Walsh (NF)
Converts and Kingdoms by Diane Moczar (NF)
The Myth of Hitler's Pope by Rabbi David Dalin (NF)
The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott