The Secret Place by Tana French -- BOOK BEGINNINGS

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

The Secret Place by Tana French

Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.

MY BOOK BEGINNING

She came looking for me.

-- from The Secret Place by Tana French. That's sure an enigmatic opening sentence. It could go about anywhere after that. 

The Secret Place is the fifth of six mystery books in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series. In a twist from a typical series, there is no one specific protagonist. The main detective in each book is a different detective from the homicide department in Dublin. 

I'm determined to finish the six books. But I admit it has been more of a chore than I anticipated. French's books, and this series in particular, are incredibly popular. They just do not work for me. The first four bothered me because each story was based on an enormous coincidence that were hard to swallow. In three of them, the lead detective had a personal connection to the crime that, inexplicably, he fails to disclose. In one, the female detective is sent in undercover because she looks EXACTLY like the murder victim. They keep the murder quiet and send the detective to live with the victim's former housemates. Yeah, right. 

The fourth one, Broken Harbor, irritated me so much, I almost gave up on the series for good. It is massively long and full of suspense, but the detective never does any detecting. It goes along for over 450 pages without any basic forensic work before the big resolution based on . . . you guessed it . . . basic forensic work! All the time with the lead detective hiding the fact that his sister is involved. 

It's been three years since I read Broken Harbor because I couldn't face another book that made me want to throw it across the room. But I'm a completist and The Secret Place has been hogging space on my TBR shelf for too long. So I am going to read this one and the last one in the series and wrap this up. The good news is The Secret Place does not involve an unbelievable coincidence. The bad news is that it involves teenagers after a murder at a girls' boarding school. Another of my unpopular opinions is that I do not like books about teenagers. I just can't win with Tana French.

YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS

Please add the link to your Book Beginnings post in the box below. If you share on social media, please use the #bookbeginnings hashtag.

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Thumb-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 is a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark.

Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.

MY FRIDAY 56

-- from The Secret Place:

"Basically, there was no reason anyone would want to kill Chris Harper. Good kid, by all accounts."

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.

Book Beginnings on Fridays

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

I woke up this morning, realizing I forgot to post Book Beginnings! What a dolt!

Thanks to the few of you who might see this Book Beginnings on Fridays posted so late on Saturday. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.

MY BOOK BEGINNING

I'll skip this week so I can get this up a smidge faster. Then I'll get to work getting next week's post scheduled! 

YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS

Please add the link to your Book Beginnings post in the box below. If you share on social media, please use the #bookbeginnings hashtag.

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Thumb-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 is a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark.

Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.

MY FRIDAY 56

Same! I'll skip and get back to you next week. Thanks for bearing with me. 

Margery Allingham -- FAVORITE AUTHOR, BOOK LIST

FAVORITE AUTHOR, BOOK LIST

Margery Allingham

Marjory Allingham was one of the four Queens of Crime from the Golden Age of mystery fiction, reigning alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. Born in 1904, Allingham wrote dozens of mysteries and other books before her death in 1966. Her most famous body of work is a series featuring Albert Campion, gentleman sleuth.

ALBERT CAMPION BOOKS IN ORDER

• The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) TBR SHELF

• Mystery Mile (1930) TBR SHELF

• Look to the Lady (1931) TBR SHELF

• Police at the Funeral (1931) TBR SHELF

• Sweet Danger (1933) TBR SHELF

• Death of a Ghost (1934) TBR SHELF

• Flowers for the Judge (1936) TBR SHELF

• The Case of the Late Pig (1937) TBR SHELF

• Dancers in Mourning (1937) TBR SHELF

• Mr. Campion: Criminologist (1937) (short stories)

• The Fashion in Shrouds (1938) TBR SHELF

• Mr. Campion and Others (1939) (short stories) TBR SHELF

• Traitor's Purse (1941) TBR SHELF

• Coroner's Pidgin (1945) TBR SHELF

• The Casebook of Mr. Campion (1947) (short stories; I can't find on line)

• More Work for the Undertaker (1948) TBR SHELF

• The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) TBR SHELF

• The Beckoning Lady (1955) TBR SHELF

• Hide My Eyes (1958) TBR SHELF

• The China Governess (1962)

• The Mind Readers (1965) TBR SHELF

• Cargo of Eagles (1968) (completed by her husband)

• The Allingham Casebook (1969) (short stories)

• The Allingham Minibus (1973) (short stories) TBR SHELF

• The Return of Mr. Campion (1989) (short stories)

Allingham's husband, Philip Youngman Carter, finished her last Campion novel, Cargo of Eagles, after her death. He went on to write three more Campion novels under his own name. The last of these was completed after Carter's death by Mike Ripley, who continued the series under his own name. 

Allingham also wrote plays for stage and radio, nonfiction, mysteries without Campion, and other fiction. The mystery and fiction books are:

• Blackkerchief Dick (1923) (historical fiction)

• The White Cottage Mystery (1928)

• Rogues' Holiday (1933) (as Maxwell March)

• The Shadow in the House, aka The Devil and Her Son (1935) (as Maxwell March)

• Black Plumes (1940) TBR SHELF

• The Oaken Heart (1941) (autobiographical fiction) ON LIBBY & SPOTIFY

• Dance of the Years (1943) (autobiographical, historical fiction)

• Wanted: Someone Innocent (1946) (novella and short stories)

• Take Two at Bedtime (1950) (two novellas) TBR SHELF

• No Love Lost (1954) (two novellas) TBR SHELF

• The Darings of the Red Rose (1995) (serialized anonymously in 1930)

• Other Man's Danger, aka The Man of Dangerous Secrets (1931) (as Maxwell March)

My goal is to read all of the Albert Campion novels and short stories. I'm not going to try to read all of her books, although I will read the non-Campion short stories included in the collections I read and the two non-Campion books I already own. 

NOTES

Created on March 19, 2025. 

The e-book editions are available and are usually not very expensive.

Most of the Allingham books I have are part of my collection of vintage, green triband, Penguin Books. I plan to read all my Penguin books and hers come first alphabetically. A good place to start!

WINNER! 2024 European Reading Challenge

 

2024 EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE

THIS IS THE WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT POST FOR 2024

TO FIND THE 2024 REVIEWS, GO TO THIS PAGE

TO FIND THE 2024 WRAP UP POSTS, GO TO THIS PAGE

THE 2025 EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE SIGN UP IS AT THIS PAGE

2024 was the 12th year of the European Reading Challenge! The challenge involves reading books set in different European countries or written by authors from different European countries.

My big thanks go to all the participants who joined me for the Grand Tour last year!

JET SETTER GRAND PRIZE WINNER

The 2024 Jet Setter prize goes to Sabine at sabines.literary.world who participated on Instagram. 2024 is the fourth year in a row that this intrepid armchair traveler won the challenge. In 2021, Sabine visited all 50 European states -- TWICE! In 2022, she hit another grand slam, but only one time around the continent. In 2023, she slowed down and "only" visited 35 of the 50 European states. In 2024, she hit her stride again, visited all 50 European states, and reviewed the books she read. Her wrap up post discusses her reading journey. 

Honorary Mention (but no prizes) go to the other nine participants who completed the challenge and posted wrap up posts about the countries they visited and the books they read. Here they are, with the number of different countries visited in parenthesis:

• Alexis Drake on Goodreads (8)

• All About Cosy (10)

• Avid Series Reader (15)

• Cinzia at Quattro passi sulle nuvole (21)

• Maphead's Book Blog (30)

• Mark at Carstairs Considers (4)

• Me, Myself, I Read (and Write) (3)

• Reese at Typings (15)

• Tess at tessreadslibri (6)

My own wrap-up post is here. I read books from 14 different European countries, and four were translations. I didn't even try to review the books I read, which is more than I can handle as long as I am running my own law firm.

Congratulations to all the readers who completed the 2024 challenge!

There is still plenty of time to join us in 2025.

JOIN THE 2025 CHALLENGE! SIGN UP HERE!

The gist: The idea is to read books by European authors or books set in European countries (no matter where the author comes from). The books can be anything – novels, short stories, memoirs, travel guides, cookbooks, biography, poetry, or any other genre. You can participate at different levels, but each book must be by a different author and set in a different country – it's supposed to be a tour.

Sign up HERE for the 2025 Challenge.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen -- BOOK BEGINNINGS

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.

MY BOOK BEGINNING

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

-- from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. 

The opening sentence from Pride and Prejudice is so famous, I could type it in from memory. But it is a good one, no matter how hackneyed it has become. 

Because 2025 is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, I am rereading her six main books in publication order. Now up is her most popular book. I am reading it as an audiobook this time around. I plan to start this weekend. My only question is whether to go with a British reader for the traditional experience, or this delightful version read in an American Southern accent. Which would you choose?

The book cover, above, is not the cover on my copy. But it is so pretty that I wanted to share it. 

YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS

Please add the link to your Book Beginnings post in the box below. If you share on social media, please use the #bookbeginnings hashtag.

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Thumb-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 is a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark.

Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.

MY FRIDAY 56

-- from Pride and Prejudice:

Allowing for the common demands of the game, Mr. Wickham was therefore at leisure to talk to Elizabeth, and she was very willing to hear him, though what she chiefly wished to hear she could not hope to be told, the history of his acquaintance with Mr. Darcy. She dared not even mention that gentleman.

 

The Lady of the Mine by Sergei Lebedev -- BOOK REVIEW

 

BOOK REVIEW

The Lady of the Mine by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis

The Lady of the Mine is not an easy read, but it is a powerful one. Set in 2014 when Russia invaded eastern Ukraine, it is the tragic story of a Ukrainian mining village that suffered invaders throughout the 20th Century. There is an abandoned mine shaft in the village filled with the bodies of war victims dating back to the Russian Revolution. More recently, the Nazis executed thousands of Jews and and threw the bodies down the mine during World War II. As much as the Russians would like to expose the crimes of the Nazis, they keep the mine quiet because exposing the Nazis would also expose crimes committed by the Russians during their civil war and by Soviets later. 

That is the grisly backdrop to the 2014 story. When the Russians return to the village, the current conflict revives past miseries, especially when a passenger plan is shot down over the village. 

The book is told from multiple points of view, including a young soldier in the Russian occupying forces, a young woman with generational ties to the mine and people of the village, the former manager of the mine under prior Soviet occupation, and the original mine engineer, speaking from the grave because he is one of the bodies buried in the mine. Because the story is told by so many people and skips around in time, I had a hard time engaging with the book. I had to remind myself who the different narrators were and what their connection was to the historical events in the village. I also missed some of the many references to people, places, and events that are unfamiliar to non-European readers. 

Although I struggled with these aspects of the book, I ended up admiring it very much. It made me think about how dark times in history repeat themselves and the role of ordinary individuals in tumultuous times. Now that Ukraine is again fighting off the Russians, The Lady of the Mine is a particularly moving and significant story.

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

The mystical laundress at the center of this novel is obsessed with purity. Her task is formidable as she stands guard over a sealed shaft at a Ukrainian coal mine that hides terrible truths. The bodies of dead Jews lying in its depths seem to attract still more present-day crimes. Acclaimed Russian author Sergei Lebedev portrays a ghostly realm riven by lust and fear just as the Kremlin invades the same part of Ukraine occupied by the Wehrmacht in World War II. Then corpses rain from the sky when a jetliner is shot down overhead, scattering luxury goods along with the mortal remains. Eerie coincidences and gruesome discoveries fill this riveting exploration of an uncanny place where the geography exudes violence, and where the sins of the past are never all that in the past. Lebedev, who has won international praise for his soul-searching prose and unflinching examination of history’s evils, shines light on the fault line where Nazism met Soviet communism, evolving into the new fascism of today’s Russia.

NOTES

The Lady of the Mine was one of my TBR 25 in '25 books and counts as my Ukraine book for the 2025 European Reading Challenge. I got my copy in a LibraryThing Early Reviewer giveaway. 

 

Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love by Scott Dominic Carpenter -- BOOK BEGINNINGS

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love by Scott Dominic Carpenter

Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.

MY BOOK BEGINNING

Hands down my favorite heist ever.

-- from Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love by Scott Dominic Carpenter.

I don't know what to make of that opening sentence. Paris Lost and Found is a memoir about Scott Dominic Carpenter losing his wife to dementia and living in Paris during the pandemic. He's not a criminal who commits heists. Perhaps if I had read his first memoir, French like Moi: a Midwesterner in Paris, I would understand his humor better. Nonetheless, I look forward to reading this one because, while the subject matter is sad, the storytelling is supposed to be very funny. 

See the Publisher's Description below for more details. 

YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS

Please add the link to your Book Beginnings post in the box below. If you share on social media, please use the #bookbeginnings hashtag.

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Thumb-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 is a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark.

Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.

MY FRIDAY 56

-- from Paris Lost and Found:

The gruffness seemed uncalled-for, and out of keeping with the fake garlands of spruce that conferred holiday cheer on the establishment. I wasn't the only one who turned to watch.

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

From bizarre encounters on the Metro to comical clashes with authority figures, including a quixotic battle against a flock of migrant parrots, and even the tribulations of dating, Paris Lost and Found unveils sides of the great city that are as quirky as they are authentic. With a unique blend of wit, insight, and wistfulness, Carpenter charts a path through a labyrinth of challenges—only to emerge on the other side, squinting into the bright light of hope and new beginnings.

Anthony Trollope -- FAVORITE AUTHOR, BOOK LIST

 

FAVORITE AUTHOR, BOOK LIST

Anthony Trollope

Thanks to Arches Bookhouse, I’m the happy new owner of a complete set of Anthony Trollope fiction. Plus some.

As you see, this isn’t a fancy set. It’s not even a matching set. These are all reader copies in mismatched paperback editions. I might call this a “collection,” but it’s not a collectible collection. Maybe calling it a "grouping" would be more accurate. Whatever you call it, I love it!

I had to rearrange a several of my paperback book shelves and even cull some books to make room for all of these. The result is a miracle of horizontal and double-deep organization. A common bookworm problem.

Anthony Trollope was a prolific Victorian author who wrote 47 novels, dozens of short stories, travel books, two plays, nonfiction, and several collections of correspondence. He died in 1882. The Trollope Society and the Trollope Society USA are excellent resources for Trollope fans. Both host in-person and online events for members and provide a trove of Trollope information.

The books I got at Arches include all the novels, short stories, and travel writing, plus a book of letters, his autobiography, two “companion” books, and a biography by Victoria Glendinning.

Trollope is best known for his two six-novel series, the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser Novels. I've read those books, although I'd like to read the Barsetshire novels again. But there are so many others that I haven't read for the first time, so it will be a while before I get to rereads. 

Are you an Anthony Trollope fan? Do you have any favorites or suggestions about which books to prioritize?

Here is Anthony Trollope's bibliography, which are novels unless noted:

The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) TBR SHELF

The Kellys and the O’Kellys (1848) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

La Vendee (1850) TBR SHELF

The Warden (1855) (Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 1) FINISHED

Barchester Towers (1857) (Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2) FINISHED

Doctor Thorne (1858) (Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 3) FINISHED

The Three Clerks (1858) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

The Bertrams (1859) TBR SHELF

The West Indies and the Spanish Main (1859) (travel) TBR SHELF

Castle Richmond (1860) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

Tales of All Countries, 1st Series (1861) (short stories) TBR SHELF

Framley Parsonage (1861) (Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4) FINISHED

North America, Volume 1 (1861) (travel) TBR SHELF

Orley Farm (1862) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE/ON SPOTIFY

The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, by One of the Firm (1862) TBR SHELF

North America, Volume 2 (1862) (travel) TBR SHELF

Rachel Ray (1863) TBR SHELF

Tales of All Countries, 2nd Series (1863) (short stories) TBR SHELF

North America, Volume 3 (1863) (travel) TBR SHELF
 
The Small House at Allington (1864) (Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 5) FINISHED

Can You Forgive Her? (1865) (Palliser Novels, Book 1) FINISHED

Miss Mackenzie (1865) TBR SHELF

The Belton Estate (1865) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

Hunting Sketches (1865) (nonfiction)

Traveling Sketches (1866) (nonfiction)

Clergymen of the Church of England (1866) (nonfiction)

The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) (Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 6) FINISHED

The Golden Lion of Granpere (1867) TBR SHELF

The Claverings (1867) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

Nina Balatka (1867) TBR SHELF

Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories (1867) (short stories) TBR SHELF

Linda Tressel (1868) TBR SHELF

Phineas Finn (1869) (Palliser Novels, Book 2)

He Knew He Was Right (1869) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE/ON SPOTIFY

Did He Steal It? (1896) (play)

On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement (1869) (lectures)

The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE/ON SPOTIFY

An Editor's Tales (1870) (short stories) TBR SHELF

The Commentaries of Caesar (1870 (nonfiction)

Ralph the Heir (1871) TBR SHELF

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (1871) TBR SHELF/ON LIBBY

The Eustace Diamonds (1872) (Palliser Novels, Book 3) FINISHED

Australia and New Zealand, Volume 1 (1873) (travel) TBR SHELF

Australia and New Zealand, Volume 2 (1873) (travel) TBR SHELF

Phineas Redux (1874) (Palliser Novels, Book 4) FINISHED

Lady Anna (1874) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874) TBR SHELF/ON LIBBY

The Way We Live Now (1875) TBR SHELF/ON LIBBY

The Prime Minister (1876) (Palliser Novels, Book 5) FINISHED

The American Senator (1877) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

South Africa, Volume 1 (1877) (travel) TBR SHELF

South Africa, Volume 2 (1877) (travel) TBR SHELF

The Lady of Launay (1878) TBR SHELF

Is He Popenjoy? (1878) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

Cousin Henry (1879) TBR SHELF

An Eye for an Eye (1879) TBR SHELF

John Caldigate (1879) TBR SHELF/ON SPOTIFY

Thackeray (1879) (nonfiction)

The Duke’s Children (1880) (Palliser Novels, Book 6) FINISHED

The Life of Cicero, Vol. 1 (1880) (nonfiction)

The Life of Cicero, Vol. 2 (1880) (nonfiction)

Ayala’s Angel (1881) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

Dr. Wortle’s School (1881) TBR SHELF/ON LIBBY

Marion Fay (1882) TBR SHELF

The Fixed Period (1882) TBR SHELF

Kept in the Dark (1882) TBR SHELF/ON AUDIBLE

Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories (1882) (short stories)

Lord Palmerston (1882) (nonfiction)

Mr. Scarborough’s Family (1883) TBR SHELF

The Landleaguers (1883) TBR SHELF

An Autobiography (1883) (nonfiction) TBR SHELF

An Old Man’s Love (1884) TBR SHELF/ON LIBBY

The Noble Jilt (1923) (play)

London Tradesmen (1927) (nonfiction)

The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury (1941) TBR SHELF

The New Zealander (1972) (nonfiction)

The Letters of Anthony Trollope (1983)

NOTES

I cobbled together this list from wikipedia and other sources. It may not be 100% accurate, especially about publication dates. If anything is missing or in error, please let me know.

I linked to bookshop.org when I could, just to provide an easy source of information about the books. (Although I do have an account, so I probably get a few pennies if you order any of them.) If bookshop.org didn't have it, I cited to what I could find. 

Because the books are old and out of copyright, you can find many of the texts on line, in generic paperbacks, and very inexpensive "complete works" ebook editions. These last contain almost everything Anthony Trollope wrote, including the hard-to-find books, like his plays and lectures. I can't vouch for their completeness, especially as to posthumously published works. For instance, I could not find a "complete works" that contained his letters, which were published well after his death.  

Many of Trollope's books are available as audiobooks from the library (Libby), Audible, Spotify, LibreVox, and others. Most of them are available for free from LibreVox, but the quality varies.