Books of January

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(I don't know why I stopped doing these posts. Absent-mindedness?)

I'm all happy this month because I managed to read quite a bit of non-fiction.

Newly read

Recently read books rated at Goodreads

Non-fiction

Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason ~ Glyn Williams
Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story Of Ambition, Obsession, And The Remaking Of Arctic History ~ Ken McGoogan 
Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy ~ Fergus Fleming 
The English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgenson ~ Sarah Bakewell 
Darwin's Armada - How Four Voyagers to Australasia won the Battle for evolution and Changed the World ~ Iain McCalman
A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts After the American Revolution ~ Emma Christopher 
La Diva Nicotina: The Story of How Tobacco Seduced the World ~ Iain Gately 
In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods ~Stewart Lee Allen
Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant That Captivated the World ~ David Taylor
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World ~ Michael Pollan 
Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait ~ Carola Hicks
Bright Earth: The Invention Of Colour ~ Philip Ball 

Fiction
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings: A Catwings Tale ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Embassytown ~ China Miéville

Rereads

Non-Fiction
Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece ~ Ken McGoogan
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship ~ Martin W. Sandler  
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail  ~ Stephen R. Bown
Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World ~ Peter Nichols
Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels ~ Robert Scott and Michele Root-Bernstein

Fiction
The Unknown Ajax ~ Georgette Heyer
Murder Must Advertise ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Death in the Andamans ~ M.M. Kaye
Catwings ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Catwings Return ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 
New reads: 14
Rereads: 10

Books acquired: 14

Readings (there was a sale!)
Shoes for the Moscow Circus ~ Leta Keens
The Flower Hunter: the remarkable life of Ellis Rowan ~ Christine Morton-Evans
The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the Men Who Introduced the World to Itself ~ Jonathan Wright 
Decency And Disorder: The Age Of Cant, 1789-1837 ~ Ben Wilson
Aristocrats: Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present ~ Lawrence James 
Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages ~ Derek Bickerton 
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini ~ Frances Stonor Saunders

The Annotated Hunting of the Snark ~ Lewis Carroll

Fishpond
Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait ~ Carola Hicks

Book Depository
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage ~ Stephanie Coontz

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making ~ Catherynne M. Valente 
Fate's Edge ~ Ilona Andrews
Unveiled ~ Courtney Milan  
The Night Circus ~ Erin Morgenstern