Six in Six 2017

Six in Six is an annual meme hosted by Jo at The Book Jotter. The idea is that you pick six categories which relate to your reading in the first half of the year, and list six things for each category. I enjoyed participating in this last year, so I thought I'd join in again this time.

Six new authors to me

Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door)

Anthony Hope (The Prisoner of Zenda)

Mavis Doriel Hay (Death on the Cherwell)

Marguerite de Angeli (Thee, Hannah!)

John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps)

Elisabeth Grace Foley (The Mountain of the Wolf; The Silver Shawl)

 

Six historical novels

The Thunder Omen - Caroline Lawrence

Raider's Tide - Maggie Prince

The Silver Shawl - Elisabeth Grace Foley

A Plague on Both Your Houses - Susanna Gregory

The Little Duke - Charlotte Mary Yonge

St. Peter's Fair - Ellis Peters

 

Six series I read or started

Brother Cadfael - Ellis Peters (St. Peter's Fair; The Leper of St. Giles)

Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy Sayers (Unnatural Death)

Paddington - Michael Bond (More About Paddington)

Alice-Miranda - Jacqueline Harvey (Alice-Miranda on Holiday; Alice-Miranda Takes the Lead; Alice-Miranda Shows the Way; Alice-Miranda in Paris)

Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew - Susanna Gregory (A Plague on Both Your Houses)

Chalet School - Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (The Princess of the Chalet School; The New Chalet School)

 

Six classics I have read

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (re-read)

The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

Marmion - Walter Scott

The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan

 

Six non-fiction books

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

Fierce Convictions - Karen Swallow Prior

The Year 1000 - Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger

Letters to Malcolm - C.S. Lewis

Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton

The Reason I Jump - Naoki Higashida

 

Six re-reads

Saffy's Angel - Hilary McKay

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

The Tanglewoods' Secret - Patricia St. John

Shocks for the Chalet School - Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

Phyllida in Form III - Evelyn Smith

The Little Duke - Charlotte Mary Yonge