Yes, I know, Christmas was – what, three weeks ago? – and it’s well past time to let it go.  But I can’t quite move on, because I haven’t shown you my Christmas book haul yet, and there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned navel-gazing book haul post, amirite?  My family knows just what I like – BOOKS, BOOKS, AND MORE BOOKS.  So that’s mostly what I unwrapped on Christmas morning and when we celebrated our family Christmas with my parents a few days later.  Here’s the haul, in all its glory.

From Steve (a.k.a. Santa)

• The Secret Commonwealth, by Robert Kirk (NYRB Classics)
• Balcony in the Forest, by Julien Gracq (NYRB Classics)
• More Was Lost, by Eleanor Perenyi (NYRB Classics)
• Great Goddesses, by Nikita Gill
• Hangman’s Holiday, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Folio Society)
• The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey (Folio Society)
• Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen (Folio Society)
• Emma, by Jane Austen (Folio Society)
• Wonder Woman: The Just War, by G. Willow Wilson
• Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus, Volume II, by William Moulton Marston

From my parents

• Gin Austen, by Colleen Mullaney
• Woodswoman, by Ann La Bastille
• Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice, by Michelle Obama
• Eliza Hamilton, by Tilar J. Mazzeo

From my brother and sister-in-law

• Saving Tarboo Creek, by Scott Freeman

So much great reading material here!  Steve added to my collections of NYRB classics, poetry, Wonder Woman, and Folio Society – and completed my set of the Folio editions of Jane Austen.  Hurray, thank you Steve!  My mom somehow found the one book I asked her for – Woodswoman – which I worried would be unavailable everywhere (it’s not exactly a buzzed-about title!) and added a few others that I wouldn’t have thought to buy for myself but that look delightful.  And my brother’s gift looks like a fascinating read.  Clearly, I have my winter’s reading planned out.

Did you open any book-shaped packages this holiday season?