Readalikes: If you enjoyed December's selection . . .

If you enjoyed My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead, then you might also like these books recommended by Mead. If you like bibliomemoirs, then check out these books Mead read while working on her book: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Lang, Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Adam Gopnik, How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell. And here are Mead's six six favorite books that illuminate the Victorian era: Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey, Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose, Possession by A.S. Byatt, Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik, Gross Indecency by Moisés Kaufman, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.