Winter Reading Wrap Up and Spring Book Hopefuls




Today I am sharing all the books I read this winter and my “hopefuls” for this spring. My hopefuls list is really of books I know I want to read so I’ve set them aside to choose from in March, April, and May. I’m a mood reader so sometimes I get to them and sometimes I don’t.

As usual, I didn’t read as many in Winter as I hoped I would, but I enjoyed the ones I did read.

Winter Reads:

Christmas In Harmony by Philip Gulley

Caddie Woodlawn’s Family/Magical Melons by Carol Ryrie Brink

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

Waiting for Christmas by Lynn Austin

My Beloved by Jan Karon

Miss Read’s Village School by Miss Read

Miss Read’s Village Diary by Miss Read

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie

Murder, She Wrote: Bullets and Brandy by Donald Bain

Spring hopefuls:

The Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon (just finished)

Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

A Damsel In Distress by P.G. Wodehouse

Bombs on Auntie Dainty by Judith Kerr

The Honorable Imposter by Gilbert Morris

Nancy Drew: Nancy’s Mysterious Letter by Carolyn Keene

Murder, She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed by Donald Bain

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Enchanted April by Elizbeth Van Arnim

A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

‘Tis Herself by Maureen O’Hara (currently reading)

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (just started)

An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (I will be reading this one slowly so probably beyond Spring)

Thrush Green by Miss Read

Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (already half way through after starting it a month ago)

Heidi by Johanna Spry (this will be a buddy read with Erin)

What books are you looking forward to reading this spring? Anything special?

What I actually read from my Winter TBR

I always plan lists for what I will read each “season” of the year but rarely stick to those lists.

I made a list for this winter, but, once again, I strayed from it. I don’t know what I was thinking by making this list. There was no way I was going to read all these books in three months.

My winter TBR included these books:

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson

World Travel by Anthony Bourdain

The Christmas Swap by Melody Carlson

A Christmas Quilt by Melody Carlson

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Scarlet Pimpernel by  Baroness Orczy

The Clue in The Diary by Carolyn Keene

The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene

Winter Murder by Agatha Christie

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir R.A. Dick

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Flying Express by Franklin W. Dixon

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island by Laura Lee Hope

What I actually read from the list:

Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood

A Quilt for Christmas by Melody Carlson

The Hound of the Baskerville’s by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

Shepherd’s Abiding by Jan Karon

Christy by Catherine Marshall

The Tuesday Night Club by Agatha Christie

The Answer is No by Fredrik Backman

Every Living Thing by James Herriot

The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene.

I will have a smaller list I plan to choose from for my spring TBR tomorrow and I have a feeling I won’t read all those books either.

Did you reach any reading goals recently?