My Favorite Reads of 2011, and Books to Look For in 2012

Happy New Year! I wanted to end the year by listing (in no particular order) some of my favorite reads of 2011. Most of these weren't books that appeared in 2011, just books I read in 2011.

Nonfiction:

My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry That Led to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Nora Titone

The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell by John Schofield

Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr.

Fiction:

Jane Seymour by Frances Clark

Rivals in the Tudor Court by D. L. Bogdan

The Lost Crown by Sarah Miller

The Secret Diary of a Princess by Melanie Clegg

And here are some of the books I'm looking forward to in 2012. (Yes, the list is pretty Tudor-heavy. So shoot me.)

Nonfiction:

The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Nancy Goldstone

Bessie Blount: The King's Mistress by Elizabeth Norton

Jane Seymour by Kelly Hart

The Tudors: History of a Dynasty by David Loades

The Plantagenets by Dan Jones

Thomas Wyatt by Susan Brigdan

Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and His Renaissance Ambassador by Catherine Fletcher

Heretic Queen: Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion by Susan Ronald

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners by Retha Warnicke

Fiction:

At the Mercy of the Queen by Anne Barnhill

At the King's Pleasure by Kate Emerson

The Sister Queens by Sophe Perinot

A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir

Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry Jones

The Sumerton Women by D.L. Bogdan

The Secret Keeper by Sandra Byrd

(Need I say I'm looking forward to my own book, Her Highness, the Traitor?)

Anyway, I hope it's a great 2012 for all of you!