CurrerBell's Time Currents for 2018

First Quarter - 19th Century Europe (& rest of the world, excluding Northern America) (1)
January - Baby, It's Cold Out There! (2)
February - Going Hollywood (3)
March - Something Sporty (2)

Second Quarter - 19th Century Northern America (includes Civil War; excluding the Old West) (4)
April - Clash of Cultures (4)
May - Southeast Asia (2)
June - Digging Up the Past (1)

Third Quarter - The Old West (3)
July - Nautical (6)
August - Europe Between the Wars, 1918 - 1939 (5)
September - Let's Have A Drink (4)

Fourth Quarter - 20th Century: Before WW1 (1900-1913) (0)
October - Old MacDonald Had a Farm (1)
November - She Blinded Me With Science (1)
December - It's All About the Music (1)

First Quarter — 19th Century Europe (& rest of the world, excluding Northern America)

Jan 24 ... Juliet Barker, Wordsworth: A Life

January — "Baby, It's Cold Out There!"

9 ... Jack London: Novels and Stories (Library of America), includes....

• The Call of the Wild
• White Fang
• selected "Klondike stories"
• The Sea-Wolf and
• selected "warmer" stories

31 ... Robert Service, The Spell of the Yukon

February — Going Hollywood

14 ... Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust in The Complete Works of Nathanael West
24 ... Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde
27 ... Gore Vidal, Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s

March — Something Sporty

9 ... Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
23 .. Mary Ellen Chase, The Girl from the Big Horn Country

Second Quarter — 19th Century Northern America (includes Civil War; excluding the Old West)

May 22 ... Mary Ellen Chase, The White Gate
Jun 14 ... Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
Jun 15 ... Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Norton Critical Edition)
Jun 26 ... Megan Marshall, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

April — Clash of Cultures

5 .... Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
10 .. Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
21 .. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady
24 .. Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (Norton Critical)

May — Southeast Asia

7 ... William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American
26 .. Graham Greene, The Quiet American (in omnibus edition)

June — Digging Up the Past

10 ... Kathryn Lomas, The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars

Third Quarter — The Old West

Jul 11 ... Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Norton Critical Editions)
Jul 13 ... Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Editions (Third Edition)
Aug 5 ... Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

July — Nautical

13 ... Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical)
17 ... Eric Jay Dolin, Brilliant Beacons
24 ... Life on the Mississippi, in Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings (LoA)
28 ... Mary Ellen Chase, Sailing the Seven Seas
31 ... Mary Ellen Chase, Donald McKay and the Clipper Ships
31 ... Mary Ellen Chase, The Fishing Fleets of New England

August — Europe Between the Wars, 1918 - 1939

2 ... Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae
3 ... Edna St Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight
10 .. Angela Thirkell, High Rising
13 .. Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries
31 .. Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

September — Let's Have a Drink

18 ... Alcoholics Anonymous, Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers
20 ... Alcoholics Anonymous, Pass It On
27 ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Bill W.), Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age
28 ... Jack Kerouac, Road Novels: 1957-1960

Fourth Quarter - 20th Century: Before WW1 (1900-1913)

17 ... Velma Bourgeois Richmond, The Faerie Queene As Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures

October — Old MacDonald Had a Farm

15 ... E.B. White, One Man's Meat

November — She Blinded Me with Science

Dec 1 ... Keith Bildstein, Raptors: The Curious Nature of Diurnal Birds of Prey

December — It's All About the Music

7 ... Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian