Started in February, finished in March:
Emile Zola, The Belly of Paris
Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
New this month:
Jane Gardam, Old Filth
Filth, as in Old Filth, means Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Try Filth.
Jane Smiley, The Age of Grief. The age of grief is the end of youth and the progress into early middle age, when you realize that you cannot escape the grief that life imposes on us. This early novella by Jane Smiley is accompanied by in the book by several short stories. I enjoy Smiley’s characters, especially their normality in an uncertain world.
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That. 
A memoir of public school life in England before World War I, followed by four years as an officer in the trenches in France.
Pat Barker, Regeneration. The first of three historical novels set during and after World War I.
Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs. The original Bridge of Sighs is in Venice, but they are also sighing in upstate New York, the setting for this novel in which people experience and consider complex relationships within apparently simple lives.
Katharine Greider, The Archaeology of Home; An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side. 
My niece had a new book out: the story of a particular house on a particular street on the Lower East Side.
Kelly O’Connor McNees, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott. This historical novel imagines the love affair the author of Little Women might have had one summer long ago, before she was famous.
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