Books Read in February

1. Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (2006)
2. J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun (1984)
3. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003)
4. Allen Tate, The Fathers (1938)
5. Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992)
6. Angus Fraser, The Gypsies (1995)
7. Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel (1940, trans. Ruth L.C. Simms 1964)
8. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
9. Hector Berlioz, Memoirs (1870, trans. David Cairns 1969)
10. Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String (2001)
11. Beatrix Potter, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917)
12. Beatrix Potter, Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922)
13. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)
14. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911)
15. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907)
16. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
17. Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester (1903)
18. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)
19. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906)
20. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909)
21. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912)
22. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)
23. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905)
24. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908)
25. Jill Paton Walsh, The Bad Quarto (2007)
26. T.S. Eliot, Selected Poems (1954)
27. B.C. Southam, A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot (1994)
28. John Ashbery, Selected Prose (2004)
29. Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969)
30. Laurie Lee, A Moment of War (1991)
31. T.S. Eliot, Dante (1929)
32. Alice Brant, The Diary of "Helena Morley" (1942, trans. Elizabeth Bishop 1957)
33. Kathleen Woodward, Jipping Street (1928)
34. Alberto Sánchez Piñol, Cold Skin (2004, trans. Cheryl Baker Morgan 2005)
35. The Book of Dede Korkut (c. 700, trans. Geoffrey Lewis 1974)
36. Rex Warner, Men and Gods (1950)
37. John Haynes, Letter to Patience (2006)

This looks a lot more work than last month, although items 11-24 skew it a little. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers is still by some way her best book.