I have run out of books to read! I need a winter reading list.
Every single night of my reading life (beginning at age 3) I have read a book in bed before going to sleep. And when the winter comes there may even be time to read a book in front of the fire in the afternoons and I will be travelling to Australia and New Zealand this winter so I read in the airports and the airplanes and taxis and buses and trains and in the backyards of my children. So I need heaps of books. I know you read. What book did you read this year that you loved enough to recommend.
If you are new to the Fellowship here are the previous lists.
2012 books
2013 books
2014 (what happened to 2014?) I cannot find it. 
Anyway – it is that time again – though there is no actual time for this list except that I am out of a book and need some guidance. And you are all readers! Will you share?
To start the ball rolling I have two recommendations from The Fellowship. Books that have come out this year and I was lucky enough to read.
The first is a recipe book written by John Amici : Recipes from The Bartolini Kitchens. This is not only an extraordinary collection of one families recipes cooked by the Bartolini sisters and their families and recorded by their son and nephew but also a collection of stories about an Italian family settling and cooking and flourishing in America. This is the story of the American Dream with food.
The second book I would like to recommend is by Melissa DeCarlo. The Art of Crash Landing. It is a novel of a young woman named Mattie who finds herself pregnant and lost and launches herself out into the world with much gusto and determination and not a little trepidation. This book charges along at breakneck speed, a wonderful read. And what I liked the most about Mattie and the collection of characters that we meet as we read this book ,is how REAL they are. How easy it was for me to empathise with the people that people these pages. Loved it.
Both of these are available on Amazon. 
I have a few more that I will tell you about when I write up the list.
Now: How about you?
Do you have any books you have read lately that we might want to read? I love a good book.
From your recommendations I shall create the 2015 list of books recommended by The Fellowship of the Farmy – for us all to print and share. In the past I have given away our lists as Christmas presents to my friends and family all of whom love to read. And if you are a reader of this blog you are one of The Fellowship so everyone can join in.
What are you reading? What have you written? What should I be reading?
Love celi
PS. I will not answer the comments today so you do not have to scroll down too far to add your own. But I will be reading and compiling all day! Thank you!
The Kitchen's Garden 
113 responses to “The Winter Book List 2015”
I couldn’t think of the name of this book yesterday so I’ve looked it up, I hope it isn’t too late to add to the booklist. It is a beauty… The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander. (she is a poet but her prose reads like a dream) xx
OK – I’ve got a list together.
Lambsquarters, Barbara McLean (a farm story); An Irish Country Doctor (first of a series), Patrick Taylor; Mistress of the Art of Death (first of a series), Ariana Franklin, sadly deceased, about a medieval female medical examiner; Lights Out Liverpool (part of a series), Maureen Lee, lots of books about WW2 in Liverpool; The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay (and quite a few more from him); anything by Robert B Parker, the Spenser detective novels; Stuart MacLean – anything about The Vinyl Café, it`s a CBC (Canadian Public radio) weekly radio program of stories – you can get CD`s and books, he`s an awesome storyteller; Three Bags Full, Leonie Swann, sheep detectives – amazing book; Dana Stabenow, detective novels with an Alaskan native; The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, can`t remember the author, first of a series about a young girl in England who is a scientist and detective, young adult, but great; books by Maureen Jennings, creator of the `Murdoch Mysteries“ TV series on CBC.
So many, many wonderful books! I often come to books later than other people because of where I buy them, but I sure find some gems that others have never heard of. Looking forward to the whole list.
Chris S in Canada
i just finished “Room,” by Emma Donoghue. It is very uniquely written with the story unfolding from the perspective of a five-year old boy. I wasn’t sure I was going to “go” for it, but I really did. I also read “33,” by Hector Tobar, the story of the 2010 Chilean mine collapse with 69 days before they were rescued. This is an excellent book. I read it after hearing Ann Patchett literally rave about it. Even though you know how it turns out, it’s just fascinating. And one more…I read “The Orchardist,” by Amanda Coplin. I read this at least a year ago and continue to think about it. It’s beautifully written, complex yet simple–I know that doesn’t tell you much, but to say more would just spoil it. I hope you’ll just trust me. 🙂
You had the first two of Ken Follet’s Century Trilogy on the 2012 list so I’m including the third and final of the trilogy, “Edge of Eternity”. Amazing, especially if you were involved in the characters of the first two like I was. I just read “One Second After”, by William Forstchen. Tore through it. Very thought provoking. He’s written a sequel to it called, “One Year After”, which I must now get ahold of. “The Hangman’s Daughter”, by Oliver Potzch, and “Soul Catcher”, by Michael White are also both very good.