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.

2013 Reads

A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

*The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett

Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing edited by Rob Spillman

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Lion’s World by Rowan Williams

There but for the by Ali Smith

The Ionian Mission by Patrick O’Brian

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

*Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham

Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction and David Aja

Superman: Birthright by Mark Waid

The Heart of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Strangers in Paradise (Volumes 1 and 2) by Terry Moore

Stet: An Editor’s Life by Diana Athill

The Sacrament of the Present Moment by Jean-Pierre Caussade

Mariana by Monica Dickens

Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnett

*Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Frost in May by Antonia White

The Body and Society by Peter Brown

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

House-Bound by Winifred Peck

The Village by Marghanita Laski

Creed or Chaos? by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

*Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

*What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Beha

Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg

The Beautiful Indifference: Stories by Sarah Hall

Read Hard edited by Ed Park

The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O’Brian

The Gate by Natsume Sōseki

Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen

Kiku’s Prayer by Shūsaku Endō

The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (reread)

The Idolatry of God by Peter Rollins

2012 Reads

*Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

*The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian

Climates by Andre Maurois

Testing the Current by William McPherson

The Child’s Child by Barbara Vine

The Wild Boy of Aveyron by Harlan Lane

The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee

The First Christmas by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan

The Romeo Flag by Carolyn Hougan

Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James

Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White by Lila Quintero Weaver

Between Heaven and Mirth by James Martin

Miss Buncle Married by D.E. Stevenson

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk

*Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian

How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson

We’re Flying by Peter Stamm

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas

The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, edited by Tom Shippey 1, 2, 3

The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham

Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding

The Wine of Solitude by Irène Némirovsky

The Faith Club by Rayna Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

*Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

*The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

*The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen/The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

Abraham’s Children edited by Kelly James Clark

*The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

*Garment of Shadows by Laurie King

Fables 14–16 by Bill Willingham

The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone

*Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata

The Killing Doll by Ruth Rendell

Nom de Plume by Carmela Ciuraru

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Journalism by Joe Sacco

The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong

The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian

*Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale

Adeline Mowbray by Amelia Alderson Opie

A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America by Barbara Jensen

Mission to Paris by Alan Furst

Forged by Bart Ehrman

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays

The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by George MacDonald

Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Battle for the Arab Spring by Lin Noueihed and Alex Warren

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Trapeze by Simon Mawer

Jazz by Toni Morrison

*The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King

The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

American Gospel by Jon Meacham

*11/22/63 by Stephen King

A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee

Watching the English by Kate Fox

*This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: Stories by Jon McGregor

*When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

Shooting in the Dark by Carolyn Hougan

A Spirituality of Living by Henri Nouwen

A Kierkegaard Anthology by Søren Kierkegaard

The New Republic by Lionel Shriver

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer

Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham

True by Riika Pulkkinen

The Good Father by Noah Hawley (abandoned)

Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit by Laura Penny (abandoned)

Millennium People by J.G. Ballard (audio)

*The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

*Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

*If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino

Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane

My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (audio)

*HMS Surprise by Patrick O’Brian

Eep! by Joke van Leeuwen

Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian

Havana Blue by Leonardo Padura (abandoned)

The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Saacheri (abandoned)

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sidetracked by Henning Mankell

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt

Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Jack and Rochelle Sutin

*In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

Quiet by Susan Cain

Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Piñeiro

The Exception by Christian Jungerson

The Lie by Petra Hammesfahr

*A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (audio)

*The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch (abandoned)

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (audio)

Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato

2011 Reads

Deep River by Shusaku Endo

The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

*What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller

Zorro by Isabel Allende (audio)

The Winding Road (Morland Dynasty #34) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick

The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen

Everybody’s Right by Paulo Sorrentino (abandoned)

The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier

Glass by Sam Savage

The Taker by Alma Katsu

The Arrogant Years by Lucette Lagnado (abandoned)

Holy War by Nigel Cliff (abandoned)

Titus Awakes by Maeve Gilmore (abandoned)

You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero (reread)

River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (audio)

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Irma Voth by Miriam Toews

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (audio; reread)

Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton

Song of Susannah by Stephen King

Little, Big by John Crowley

The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright

Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

The Enchanted April (audio) by Elizabeth von Arnim

Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers

Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

After Midnight by Irmgard Keun

*The Book of Night Women (audio) by Marlon James

The World at Night by Alan Furst

So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor

The Fallen Kings (Morland Dynasty #32) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

*Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

Fair Food by Oran Hesterman

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

*Pirate King by Laurie R. King

*Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

The Gyrth Chalice Mystery by Margery Allingham

The Family That Couldn’t Sleep by D. T. Max (audio)

A New Kind of Christianity by Brian McLaren

The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Why Jane Austen?  by Rachel Brownstein

The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart

The Foreign Field (Morland Dynasty #31) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Children of Men by P.D. James

*The Waste Lands by Stephen King

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (audio)

Spirits of Just Men by Charles B. Thompson Jr.

Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

The Painted Drum (audio) by Louise Erdrich

Sisters of Sinai by Janet Soskice

*Nox by Anne Carson

Floater by Calvin Trillin

Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette

*The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

Take This Bread by Sara Miles

Martin Misunderstood by Karin Slaughter (audio)

Out of the Blackout by Robert Barnard

The Measure of Days (Morland Dynasty #30) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Flight by Sherman Alexie (audio)

French Leave by Anna Gavalda

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

Tigerlily’s Orchids by Ruth Rendell

*Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon

Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner

The Case for God by Karen Armstrong

Miss New India by Bharati Mukhergee

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

The White Devil by Justin Evans

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Small Memories by José Saramago

White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

Defiance by Nechama Tec (audio)

There Is No Year by Blake Butler

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Best American Magazine Writing: 2009 edited by Chris Anderson

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

The Crucified God by Jürgen Moltmann

We Had It So Good by Linda Grant

The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (audio)

The Great Starvation Experiment by Todd Tucker

Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh

Solo by Rana Dasgupta

The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepúlveda

Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky

The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

Triangle by Katharine Weber

The White Road (Morland Dynasty #28) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Roots of Evil by Sarah Rayne

The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor

The Genius Factory by David Plotz

The Glass Cell by Patricia Highsmith

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (audio)

The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life by Wendy Shanker

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein

Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles’ Creed by David Steindl-rast

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

The Restless Sea (Morland Dynasty #27) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates

Feathers (audio) by Jacqueline Woodson

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (audio)

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (reread)

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (audio)

Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami

The Dream Kingdom (Morland Dynasty #26) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Piano Teacher (audio) by Janice Y.K. Lee

Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

*Silence by Shusaku Endo (reread)

The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard

Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel

The Tapestry of Love Rosy Thornton

*To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin, SJ

Dear American Airlines (audio) by Jonathan Miles

The Radleys by Matt Haig

The Question (Morland Dynasty #25) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

2010 Reads

The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant

King Hereafter (reread) by Dorothy Dunnett

Resistance (audio) by Agnes Humbert

The Dark Half by Stephen King

The Belgariad, Part I by David Eddings

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

*He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Juliet, Naked (audio) by Nick Hornby

The Homecoming (Morland Dynasty #24) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (audio)

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (audio)

After Claude by Iris Owens

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

Paradise Lost by John Milton

A Void by Georges Perec

Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan (audio)

I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (reread)

Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero (audio)

The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

*Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 2 (audio) by M.T. Anderson

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Guarding the Golden Door by Roger Daniels

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 1 (audio) by M.T. Anderson

The Chalet Girl by Kate Lace

The Cause (Morland Dynasty #23) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Convent by Panos Karnezis

Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent (abandoned)

*Great House by Nicole Krauss

My Invented Country by Isabel Allende (audio)

What Good Is God? by Philip Yancey

Misery by Stephen King

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart (abandoned)

The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass

Half Magic by Edward Eager (audio)

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (reread)

The Mirage (Morland Dynasty #22) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (audio)

Godric by Frederick Buechner

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

The Language of God by Francis Collins

Devotion by Howard Norman

Henrietta’s War by Joyce Dennys

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

Reading Like a Writer (audio) by Francine Prose

Waiting for God by Simone Weil

Star Island by Carl Hiaasen (abandoned)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor (reread)

Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America by Ray Suarez

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (audio)

*Howard’s End by E.M. Forster (reread)

War on the Margins by Libby Cone

The Outcast (Morland Dynasty #21) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (audio)

The Captive Queen by Alison Weir

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Wrong by David H. Freedman

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (audio)

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

The Winter Journey (Morland Dynasty #20) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

*Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (audio)

*The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

*Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Slaughterhouse Five (audio) by Kurt Vonnegut

The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America by Pati Navalta Poblete

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

Fables 12: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham

*Before the Fact by Francis Iles

The Hidden Shore (Morland Dynasty #19) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Glass Castle (audio) by Jeannette Walls

*The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King

*The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King

2017by Olga Slavnikova (abandoned)

Every Eye by Isobel English

Prince Rupert’s Teardrop by Lisa Glass

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (audio) by Haruki Murakami

*Till We Have Faces (reread) by C.S. Lewis

Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson

The Abyss (Morland Dynasty #18) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

*Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace

On Art and Life by John Ruskin

The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

Kim (audio) by Rudyard Kipling

The Partly Cloudy Patriot (audio) by Sarah Vowell

*The Two Towers (reread) 1, 2 by J.R.R. Tolkien

*Ptolemy’s Gate (audio) by Jonathan Stroud

A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer

The Poison Tree (Morland Dynasty #17) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

*Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Golem’s Eye (audio) by Jonathan Stroud

Corrag by Susan Fletcher

Once Upon a Time in Englandby Helen Walsh

The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 1, Part 2 (Reread) by J.R.R. Tolkien

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

The Devil’s Horse (Morland Dynasty #16) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Amulet of Samarkand (audio) by Jonathan Stroud

Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner

Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor

Family Britain, 1951–1957 by David Kynaston

The Reckoning (Morland Dynasty #15) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (audio)

Testament by Alis Hawkins

The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (audio)

*Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

*Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (audio)

To Siberia by Per Petterson

*The Campaigners by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (Morland Dynasty #14)

2009 Reads

*The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

*The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (reread)

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (audio)

Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum (audio)

Winter’s End by Jean-Claude Mourlevat

The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Plato and a Platypus Walked into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

The Regency (Morland Dynasty #13) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (audio)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (reread)

How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson

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

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 Storiesby 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)

Daphneby 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