S. Berry (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2008)
S. Berry (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2009)
S. Berry (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2010)
S. Berry (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2011)
L. Booth (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2012)
A. Christie, Ordeal by Innocence (1958)L. Booth (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2012)
M. Engel (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2006)
M. Engel (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2007)
D. Gilmour, The last Leopard (1988)
K. Kassabova, Border (2016)
S, Murray, Moveable feasts (2007)
I have had some methodological issues with this month's reading. Obviously, these entries are not the sum of my reading. Periodicals are excluded, both weekly like The Economist and those less often like Slightly Foxed and Sobornost. Nor does it include scholarly journals which can appear annually, like the JRS. However, despite some comparisons, I think I can draw the line the other side of Wisdens. Indeed, as I have basically spent the month reading them for all the years I have been going to test matches , it would have been a bad record to have them unrepresented. I'll write about them when I'm done next month. It's been fascinating.
I'm not sure I could put any of them top this month though. My favourite remains The Leopard. It was in 2007 too. It was particularly lovely to read just after the author's biography. Some elements, particularly the lethargy around Sicily, acquire a greater resonance. None of that is necessary though, and to read it is to be enfolded into a world that remains almost perfectly drawn despite its ever greater distance.
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