The 2016 Notting Hill Napoleons Booklist

At our weekend retreat in Nebraska City, our book club of 23 years made their list of books to be read in the coming year. Here they are.

January -- The Smoke At Dawn (Jeff Shaara)

February -- That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis) A re-read.

March -- Drums Along the Mohawk (Walter D. Edmonds)

April -- The Children of The New Forest (Frederick Marryat)

May – The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) A re-read.

June -- Trustee from the Toolroom (Nevil Shute)

July -- Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)

August -- Vandemark's Folly (Herbert Quick)

September -- Ross Poldark (Winston Graham)

October – The Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilberg Clark)

November -- Martin Chuzzlewit (Charles Dickens) A re-read.

December -- The Snare (Rafael Sabatini)

Alternate 1 -- Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)

Alternate 2 -- The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)