Book List: Teresa

The following is a rough list of what I’ve read over the last several years.
Favorites are marked with a *. As I add more books, I’ll link to my reviews.

2009 Reads

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (reread; reading now)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (audio; listening now)

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (reading now)

How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson (reading now)

Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (audio, reread)

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin (audio)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Victory (Morland Dynasty #12) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl (audio)

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

*Summertime by J. M. Coetzee

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Vanilla Beans and Brodo by Isabella Dusi

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (audio)

*The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Ice Land by Betsy Tobin

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (audio; reread)

*The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Me Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood by “Cheeta” (aka James Lever)

The Emperor (Morland Dynasty #11) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (audio; reread)

*Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The Rapture by Liz Jensen

The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (reread)

*Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Marjorie Williams

Swallowing the Sun by David Park

The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins

*Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (audio)

The Tangled Thread (Morland Dynasty #10) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Meaning of Jesus by Marcus J. Borg and N. T. Wright

The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha

Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni

Gifts of War by Mackenzie Ford

After Dark by Haruki Murakami (audio)

In the Kitchen by Monica Ali

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (audio)

The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Flood-Tide (Morland Dynasty #9) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (audio; reread)

Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Fables (Books 1-11) by Bill Willingham

Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (audio)

The Maiden (Morland Dynasty #8) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Chevalier (Morland Dynasty #7) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black

Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (reread; audio)

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

In Search of London by H.V. Morton

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear (audio)

*Persuasion by Jane Austen (reread)

The Long Shadow (Morland Dynasty #6) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (audio)

Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing

*The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

*Cakes and Ale by W Somerset Maugham

The Black Pearl  (Morland Dynasty #5) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Aiding and Abetting  by Muriel Spark (audio)

Almost French by Sarah Turnbull

*The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon (audio)

Jenny and the Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett

Pirahna to Scurfy and Other Stories by Ruth Rendell (audio)

The Economist Book of Obituaries by Keith Colquon and Ann Wroe

Asylum by Patrick McGrath

Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon

Himalaya by Michael Palin (audio)

Dating Jesus by Susan Campbell

The Oak Apple (Morland Dynasty #4) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (reread, audio)

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

2008 Reads (in reverse chronological order)

The Princeling (Morland Dynasty #3) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Sister  by Poppy Adams

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander

*On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (audio)

In Defense of Food  by Michael Pollan (audio)

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher

100 Cats Who Changed Civilization by Sam Stall

From A to X  by John Berger

*Home by Marilynne Robinson

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver (audio)

Daphne by Justine Picardie

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

101 Best Scenes Ever Written by Barnaby Conrad (abandoned)

The Dark Rose (Morland Dynasty #2) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda

*Blindness by Jose Saramago

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (audio)

Slam by Nick Hornby

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

*Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (reread, audio)

A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside (abandoned, 50% read)

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

*The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

*The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

The Founding (Morland Dynasty #1) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin (audio)

*The Glass of Time by Michael Cox

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (audio)

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (abandoned, 25% read)

*The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz (audio)

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Touchstone by Laurie R. King

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer

The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (audio)

The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister  by Gregory Maguire

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

What Is the What? by Dave Eggers (audio)

A Case of  Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

*1984 by George Orwell (audio, reread)

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

The English American by Alison Larkin

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris (audio)

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

*The Double by Jose Saramago

So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger (audio)

The Minotaur  by Barbara Vine

The Abstinence Teacher

by Tom Perrotta

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

There and Back Again: An Actor’s Taleby Sean Astin (audio)

Eat This Documentby Dana Spiotta

Everything Bad Is Good for You by Steven Johnson

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (audio)

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Giving by Bill Clinton (audio)

King and Joker by Peter Dickinson

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (audio)

Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Mystery by Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (audio)

A Crack in the Edge of the World : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (audio)

The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

It’s Superman: A Novel by Tom DeHaven

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs (audio)

The March by E.L. Doctorow

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (audio)

Monster of God by David Quamman

* Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham

*Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (reread)

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (audio)

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre

Queen Isabella by Alison Weir (audio)

2007 Reads (in alphabetical order)

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Big Year: A Tale of Man Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik

Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy by Lindsay Moran

The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery by Ian Sansom

Cell by Stephen King

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice

Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K Le Guin

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

*The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell

Food and Loathing : A Life Measured Out in Calories by Betsy Lerner

The Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov

Freedom : The Story of My Second Life by Malika Oufkir

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone : Bette Davis A Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler

The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

*The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir

*Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Lisey’s Story by Stephen King

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London by Susan Tyler Hitchcock

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Right Address by Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman

The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell

Rumspringa : To Be or Not to Be Amish by Tom Shachtman

The Ruins by Scott Smith

Saturday by Ian McEwan

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Son of a Witch by Gregory Macguire

*The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams

*A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Time Quartet by Madeleine L’Engle

The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

The White by Deborah Larsen

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

*The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

2006 Reads (in alphabetical order)

Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by Ruth Rendell

*Adam Bede by George Eliot

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

*Atonement by Ian McEwan

Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch

The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket

The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Descent into Hell by Charles Williams

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

The End by Lemony Snicket

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

*Extremely Loud and Dangerously Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern

Fallen by David Maine

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano

Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte

*Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Good Grief  by Lolly Winston

Grendel by John Gardner

Guns Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Human Story: Our History From the Stone Age to Today by James C. Davis

In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Jesus Land by Julia Scheerer

Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg

*Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

*Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King

Lost and Foundby Carolyn Parkhurst

Many Dimensions by Charles Williams

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

The Pedant’s Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know by Andrea Barham

The Preservationist by David Maine

The Queen of Subtleties by Suzannah Dunn

Screening the Sacred: Religion Myth and Ideology in Popular American Film by Joel W. Martin

Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella

*Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Snobbery by Joseph Epstein

The Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House by John F. Harris

The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis

Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

War in Heaven by Charles Williams

A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve

Whose Bible Is It? by Jaroslav Pelikan

Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende