A delightful and charming book about reading by a British author (mysteries, ghost stories, novels), literary critic and publisher who while searching for a specific book in her several story high, book-filled home, came upon Howards End and discovered that there were dozens if not hundreds of books in her home that she either had not yet read or wanted to re-read.  What follows is a year of buying no books, taking no books from the library and simply focusing randomly on the books in her home.  She ends up with a Top 40 list, but the fun for me was getting there, discovering new authors (Frances Kilvert’s diary from Victorian days, John McGahern’s short stories, Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, the Sea (also recommended by Andy Miller), David Cecil, Elizabeth Bowen, Michael Mayne, Patrick Leigh Fermor) and recommended works by well -known authors, especially Dickens (Our Mutual Friend), Trollope (The Way We Live Now), and lots of Virginia Woolf.  This is a book lover’s dream:  to spend a morning in bed with heavy snow falling and Susan Hill’s book to keep one company.