Below is a complete list of the books we’ve reviewed on Shelf Love, alphabetized by author.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
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Adams , Poppy : The Sister/The Behaviour of Moths
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun
Adiga , Aravind : The White Tiger
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Aickman , Robert : Painted Devils , Cold Hand in Mine
Aiken , Joan : Shadows and Moonshine, The Serial Garden
Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate)
Alcott, Louisa May: An Old-Fashioned Girl, Little Women
Alexander , Caroline : The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Alexie, Sherman: Flight (audio), The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Ali , Monica : In the Kitchen
Allende , Isabel : The House of the Spirits (Teresa’s review) , My Invented Country (audio), The House of the Spirits (Jenny’s review)
Allingham , Margery : Mystery Mile , The Gyrth Chalice Mystery, Police at the Funeral, Sweet Danger, Death of a Ghost, Flowers for the Judge, The Case of the Late Pig , Dancers in Mourning, The Fashion in Shrouds
Anderson, Chris (ed.): The Best American Magazine Writing: 2009
Anderson , Laurie Halse : Fever 1793, Catalyst , Speak
Anderson, M. T.: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 1 (audio), Vol. 2 (audio)
Anonymous (David Ferry, trans.): Gilgamesh (part 1, part 2)
Armstrong, Karen: The Case for God
Aston-Warner, Sylvia: Spinster
Athill, Diana: Stet: An Editor’s Life
Atkinson , Kate : Case Histories (Jenny’s review); Case Histories (audio, Teresa’s review);One Good Turn (Jenny’s review); When Will There Be Good News? (Jenny’s review); Human Croquet ; Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Teresa’s review), One Good Turn (audio, Teresa’s review), When Will There Be Good News? (audio, Teresa’s review), Emotionally Weird, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Jenny’s review), Started Early, Took My Dog, Life After Life
Atwood , Margaret : Oryx and Crake (Jenny’s review); Oryx and Crake (audio, Teresa’s review); The Year of the Flood , The Robber Bride (reread), Moral Disorder
Austen , Jane : Sense and Sensibility (film); Persuasion ; Persuasion (film); Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan
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Ba, Mariama: So Long a Letter (Une si longue lettre)
Baldwin , James : Go Tell It on the Mountain
Ballard, J.G.: Millennium People
Banville , John : The Untouchable
Barker , Pat : Life Class, The Ghost Road
Barlow , Toby : Sharp Teeth
Barnard, Robert: Out of the Blackout
Barnes, Djuna: Nightwood
Barnes , Julian : Flaubert’s Parrot , The Sense of an Ending, The Pedant in the Kitchen
Barrows , Annie : The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (audio)
Barry , Sebastian : The Secret Scripture
Bauby, Jean-Dominique: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Bawden , Nina : The Peppermint Pig
Beaton, M.C. : Death of a Gossip (audio), Death of a Cad (audio)
Bechdel, Alison: Fun Home
Beha, Christopher: What Happened to Sophie Wilder (Teresa); What Happened to Sophie Wilder (Jenny)
Bemelmans , Ludwig : Hotel Bemelmans
Bennett , Alan : The Uncommon Reader (Jenny); The Uncommon Reader (audio; Teresa)
Benson , E.F. : Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, Miss Mapp, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia’s Progress
Berendt , John : Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (audio)
Berger , John : From A to X
Bergreen , Laurence : Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Bernstein , Paula : Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Berton , Pierre : Arctic Grail
Bester , Alfred : The Stars My Destination
Birdsall , Jeanne : The Penderwicks , The Penderwicks of Gardam Street, The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
Bixby , William : The Impossible Journey of Sir Ernest Shackleton
Black , Benjamin : Christine Falls , The Silver Swan (audio)
Blount , Roy, Jr. : Alphabet Juice
Blum, Deborah: Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
Bondurant, Matt: The Wettest County in the World
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: The Cost of Discipleship
Borg , Marcus : The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, The First Christmas
Borges, Jorge Luis: Collected Fictions (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
Boston , L.M. : The Children of Green Knowe
Bowen , Elizabeth : The Death of the Heart
Boyle, T.C.: Drop City (abandoned)
Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (audio)
Bradley , Alan : The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Braunstein, Sarah: The Sweet Relief of Missing Children
Bray , Libba : A Great and Terrible Beauty
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Shirley, Villette
Brontë , Emily : Wuthering Heights (audio)
Brookner, Anita: Hotel Du Lac
Brooks , Geraldine : People of the Book
Brooks, Walter R. : To and Again (Freddy Goes to Florida)
Brown, Peter: The Body and Society
Brownstein, Rachel: Why Jane Austen?
Bryan, Christopher: Siding Star
Buchanan, Cathy Marie: The Day the Falls Stood Still
Buckley , Christopher : Thank You for Smoking
Bulgakov , Mikhail : The Master and Margarita (Jenny’s review); The Master and Margarita (Teresa’s review)
Bull, Emma: War for the Oaks
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange (audio)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Shuttle, The Making of a Marchioness
Butler, Blake: There Is No Year
Butler , Octavia : Fledgling (Teresa’s review); Fledgling (Jenny’s review), Dawn, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents
Byatt , A.S. : The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye , The Matisse Stories , The Children’s Book (Teresa), Ragnarok (Teresa), Ragnarok (Jenny), The Children’s Book (Jenny)
Byrd, Richard: Alone
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Cain , James M. : The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cain, Shannon: The Necessity of Certain Behaviors
Cain, Susan: Quiet
Calvino , Italo : If on a winter’s night a traveler (Jenny’s review), Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, If on a winter’s night a traveler (Teresa’s review), The Baron in the Trees
Campbell , Susan : Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
Capote , Truman : Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Card , Orson Scott : Ender’s Game (audio) , Speaker for the Dead (audio)
Carey , Ernestine Gilbreth : Cheaper by the Dozen (audio)
Carey, Peter: Parrot and Olivier in America
Carson, Anne: Nox
Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber
Cathcart, Thomas: Plato and a Platypus Walked into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Cather, Willa: The Professor’s House
Caudwell, Sarah: The Sybil in Her Grave
Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote (part 1: The Words and the Stories) (part 1: The Madness and the Cruelty) (part 1: Cherchez la Femme) (part 2: Madness, Folly, Lies, and Dreaming) (part 2: Metafictional Monkeyshines) (part 2: “You shall find me a grave man.”)
Chabon , Michael : The Yiddish Policeman’s Union , The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (audio), Maps and Legends , Gentlemen of the Road, Manhood for Amateurs
Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley: The Worst Journey in the World
Chesterton, G. K: The Man Who Was Thursday (audio)
Chevalier , Tracy : The Lady and the Unicorn
Chopin , Kate : The Awakening
Ciuraru, Carmela: Nom de Plume
Clark, Kelly James (ed.): Abraham’s Children
Clarke , Susanna : Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (audio)
Coetzee , J.M. : Summertime , Disgrace (audio)
Collins, Francis: The Language of God
Collins , Paul : The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World
Collins, Wilkie: Armadale, The Woman in White (reread)
Colquhoun , Keith : The Economist Book of Obituaries
Colwin , Laurie : Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object , Passion and Affect , Home Cooking, Family Happiness
Condé, Maryse: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem… (Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem…)
Cone, Libby: War on the Margins
Connolly, John: Nocturnes
Conrad , Barnaby : 101 Best Scenes Ever Written
Constantine, K.C.: The Rocksburg Railroad Murders
Cooper, Susan: The Dark is Rising
Cox , Michael : The Meaning of Night (Teresa’s review); The Glass of Time (Teresa’s review); The Meaning of Night (Jenny’s review); The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories; The Glass of Time (Jenny’s review)
Craven, Margaret: I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Crompton, Richmal: Family Roundabout
Cron, Ian Morgan: Chasing Francis
Crossan, John Dominic: The First Christmas
Crowley , John : Little, Big (Jenny) , The Solitudes, Love and Sleep, Daemonomania, Little, Big (Teresa), Endless Things, Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, The Translator
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Daniels, Roger: Guarding the Golden Door
Dasgupta, Rana: Solo
Datlow , Ellen : Snow White, Blood Red
D’Aulaire, Edgar and Ingri: The D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths, The D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
de Assis, Machado: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Dom Casmurro (part 1), Dom Casmurro (part 2)
de Caussade, Jean-Pierre, The Sacrament of the Present Moment
de Kretzer , Michelle : The Lost Dog
Delafield, E.M.: The Diary of a Provincial Lady
del Toro , Guillermo : The Strain
de Waal, Edmund: The Hare With Amber Eyes
Dennys, Joyce: Henrietta’s War
Dermansky, Marcy: Bad Marie
Desai, Anita: The Artist of Disappearance
Diaz, Junot: This Is How You Lose Her
DiCamillo , Kate : The Tale of Despereaux
Dickens , Charles : Our Mutual Friend (film) , Bleak House , Bleak House (film), Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens, Monica: Mariana
Didion , Joan : The Year of Magical Thinking
Dinesen , Isak : Out of Africa
Dirda , Michael : Classics for Pleasure
Doctorow, E.L.: Billy Bathgate
Dong-hwa, Kim: The Color of Earth
Dos Passos, John: The 42nd Parallel
Doyle, Arthur Conan: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Du Bois, W. E. B.: The Souls of Black Folk
Dumas, Alexandre (fils): The Count of Monte Cristo
du Maurier , Daphne : Don’t Look Now , Jamaica Inn , My Cousin Rachel, The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Duncan, Glen: The Last Werewolf
Dundy, Elaine: The Dud Avocado
Dunnett , Dorothy : House of Niccolò , Niccolò Rising , King Hereafter, The Game of Kings, Queens’ Play,
Duras, Marguerite: The Lover (L’Amant)
Dusi , Isabella : Vanilla Beans and Brodo
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Eager, Edward: Half Magic (audio)
Eco , Umberto : Foucault’s Pendulum , The Prague Cemetery, The Name of the Rose
Eddings, David: The Belgariad, Part I,
Edwards , Kim : The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Egan , Jennifer : The Keep
Eggers , Dave : What Is the What? (audio)
Ehrman, Bart: Forged
Eliot, George: The Mill on the Floss(Teresa’s review); The Mill on the Floss (Jenny’s review)
Ellis, Alice Thomas: The Inn at the Edge of the World
Ellroy , James : L.A. Confidential
Endo, Shusaku: Silence (Jenny’s review); Silence (Teresa’s review), Deep River, Kiku’s Prayer
Enger , Leif : So Brave, Young, and Handsome (audio)
English, Isobel: Every Eye
Enright, Anne: The Gathering, The Forgotten Waltz
Ephron, Nora: Heartburn
Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine, The Painted Drum (audio), The Beet Queen , The Plague of Doves
Ernaux, Annie: A Woman’s Story (Une femme)
Eugenides , Jeffrey : Middlesex , The Marriage Plot (audio)
Evans, Justin: The White Devil
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Fadiman , Anne : Ex Libris
Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong
Favorite, Eileen: The Heroines
Fermor, Patrick Leigh: A Time of Gifts
Ferrari-Adler , Jenni : Alone In the Kitchen With an Eggplant
Fforde, Jasper: Shades of Grey
Fine, Cordelia: Delusions of Gender
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield: The Home-Maker
Fitzgerald , F. Scott : The Great Gatsby (audio)
Fitzgerald , Penelope : Offshore
Fleming , Peter : One’s Company , News from Tartary, Brazilian Adventure
Fletcher, Susan: Corrag
Flynn, Gillian: Gone Girl
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything Is Illuminated
Follett , Ken : The Pillars of the Earth
Ford, Ford Madox: Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up–, The Last Post (Parade’s End, vol 1-4)
Ford , Mackenzie : Gifts of War
Forester , C.S. : Beat to Quarters
Forster, E. M.: Howard’s End (reread)
Foulds , Adam : The Quickening Maze
Fox, Kate: Watching the English
Fraction, Matt: Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon
Fraser, George MacDonald: Flashman
Freedman, David H.: Wrong
Fry, Stephen: The Ode Less Travelled
Furst , Alan : The Spies of Warsaw, The World at Night, Mission to Paris
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Gaiman , Neil : The Absolute Sandman, vol. 3 , The Graveyard Book , The Absolute Sandman, vol. 4 , Mr. Punch , Coraline (film),Neverwhere (film), Fragile Things
Garner, Helen: The Spare Room
Gaskell , Elizabeth : Cranford , North and South, Wives and Daughters , Wives and Daughters (film)
Gavalda, Anna: French Leave
Gawande, Atul: Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science (audio), Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Gee, Sue: The Mysteries of Glass
Ghosh, Amitav: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke
Gibbons , Dave : Watchman
Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm
Gibson , Tanya Egan : How to Buy a Love of Reading
Gibson, William: Neuromancer
Gilbert , R.A. : The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
Gilbreth , Frank : Cheaper by the Dozen (audio)
Gladstone, Brooke: The Influencing Machine
Glass, Julia: The Widower’s Tale
Glass, Lisa: Prince Rupert’s Teardrop
Glauser, Friedrich: In Matto’s Realm
Gopnik, Adam: Paris to the Moon
Gordon, Jaimy: Lord of Misrule
Goudge , Elizabeth : Linnets and Valerians , The Little White Horse, Island Magic, The Bird in the Tree, Pilgrim’s Inn (The Herb of Grace), The Heart of the Family, Green Dolphin Country
Gracq, Julien: Le roi pecheur (The Fisher King)
Grandin , Temple : Animals Make Us Human (audio)
Grann, David: The Lost City of Z
Grant, Linda: We Had It So Good
Graves, Robert: I, Claudius
Green , Henry : Loving
Greene , Graham : The Heart of the Matter , The End of the Affair
Greer , Andrew Sean : The Story of a Marriage
Gregory , Philippa : The Boleyn Inheritance
Griffin , John Howard : Black Like Me
Grimes, Martha: The Train Now Departing
Groff , Lauren : The Monsters of Templeton
Gruen , Sara : Water for Elephants (audio)
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Haddawy, Husein (trans) and Muhsin Mahdi (ed.): The Arabian Nights
Haig, Matt: The Radleys
Hall, Sarah: The Beautiful Indifference
Hammesfahr, Petra: The Lie
Hand, Elizabeth: Mortal Love
Hanif , Mohammed : A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Harding, Georgina: Painter of Silence
Hardy , Thomas : Far from the Madding Crowd , Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Harkness, Deborah: A Discovery of Witches
Harris , Joanne : Gentlemen and Players (audio)
Harrison, Jim: The English Major
Harrod-Eagles , Cynthia : The Founding (Morland Dynasty #1), The Dark Rose (Morland Dynasty #2), The Princeling (Morland Dynasty #3), The Oak Apple (Morland Dynasty #4), The Black Pearl (Morland Dynasty #5), The Long Shadow (Morland Dynasty #6) , The Chevalier (Morland Dynasty #7), The Maiden (Morland Dynasty #8) , The Flood-Tide (Morland Dynasty #9) , The Tangled Thread (Morland Dynasty #10), The Emperor (Morland Dynasty #11) , The Victory (Morland Dynasty #12), The Regency (Morland Dynasty #13), The Campaigners (Morland Dynasty #14), The Reckoning (Morland Dynasty #15), The Devil’s Horse (Morland Dynasty #16), The Poison Tree (Morland Dynasty #17), The Abyss (Morland Dynasty #18), The Hidden Shore (Morland Dynasty #19), The Winter Journey (Morland Dynasty #20), The Outcast (Morland Dynasty #21), The Mirage (Morland Dynasty #22), The Cause (Morland Dynasty #23), The Homecoming (Morland Dynasty #24), The Question (Morland Dynasty #25), The Dream Kingdom (Morland Dynasty #26), The Restless Sea (Morland Dynasty #27), The White Road (Morland Dynasty #28), The Burning Roses (Morland Dynasty #29), The Measure of Days (Morland Dynasty #30), The Foreign Field (Morland Dynasty #31), The Fallen Kings (Morland Dynasty #32), The Dancing Years (Morland Dynasty #33), The Winding Road (Morland Dynasty #34)
Hartley, L. P.: The Go-Between
Hartnett , Sonya : Surrender, Thursday’s Child
Harvey , Samantha : The Wilderness
Harwood , John : The Ghost Writer, The Seance
Hawking , Stephen : The Universe in a Nutshell
Hawkins, Alis: Testament
Hay, Daisy: Young Romantics
Hays, Mary: Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Hébert , Anne : Kamouraska
Heinlein , Robert : Citizen of the Galaxy
Heller, Zoe: What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
Hemingway , Ernest : The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast
Hessler , Peter : Oracle Bones
Hesterman, Oran: Fair Food
Heyer , Georgette : Cotillion (Jenny’s review), A Civil Contract, Cotillion (Teresa’s review)
Hiaasen, Carl: Star Island
Higashino, Keigo: The Devotion of Suspect X
Highsmith, Patricia: The Glass Cell
Hill , Joe : Heart-Shaped Box , Twentieth-Century Ghosts
Hill, Reginald: The Woodcutter
Hill , Susan : The Various Haunts of Men
Hoban, Russell: The Mouse and His Child
Hochgatterer, Paulus: The Sweetness of Life
Høeg, Peter: Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Hoffmann, E.T.A.: Weird Tales, vol. 1, The Golden Pot
Holmqvist , Ninni : The Unit
Homer: The Iliad, (Books 1-8), (Books 9-16), (Books 17-24); The Odyssey, (books 1-12), (books 13-24)
Hopkirk , Peter : Foreign Devils on the Silk Road , Trespassers on the Roof of the World, Like Hidden Fire, The Great Game
Hornbacher , Marya : Madness: A Bipolar Life
Hornby , Nick : Slam , About a Boy , Juliet, Naked, The Polysyllabic Spree
Hougan, Carolyn: Shooting in the Dark , The Romeo Flag
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D.: Farewell to Manzanar
Howe , Katherine : The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Hughes , Richard : A High Wind in Jamaica
Humbert , Agnes : Resistance (Jenny’s review); Resistance (audio; Teresa’ s review)
Hunt , Samantha : The Invention of Everything Else
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley , Aldous : Brave New World (audio)
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Idibly, Ranya: The Faith Club
Ignatius, David: Bloodmoney (abandoned)
Iles, Francis: Before the Fact
Innes, Michael: Seven Suspects
Ironside , Elizabeth : A Very Private Enterprise
Irwin, Robert: The Arabian Nights: A Companion
Isherwood, Christopher: The World in the Evening
Ishiguro , Kazuo : Never Let Me Go (audio) , When We Were Orphans (audio)
J
James , M.R. : Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories , The Haunted Doll’s House and Other Ghost Stories, Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
James, Marlon: The Book of Night Women (audio)
James , P.D. : The Lighthouse , Children of Men, Talking About Detective Fiction
James , Henry : The Portrait of a Lady
Janzen, Rhoda: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Jarrell, Randall: Pictures From an Institution, The Animal Family, Kipling, Auden & Co., The Bat-Poet
Jemisin, N. K.: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Jensen, Barbara: Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America
Jensen , Liz : The Rapture
Jerome , Jerome K. : Three Men in a Boat
Jones , Diana Wynne : The Game, The Merlin Conspiracy, Aunt Maria, Fire and Hemlock, Howl’s Moving Castle, Dark Lord of Derkholm
Jones , Lloyd : Mister Pip
Jones, Sadie: The Uninvited Guests
Jungerson, Christian: The Exception
Just, Ward: The Weather in Berlin
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Kane, Cheikh Hamidou: Ambiguous Adventure
Karnezis, Panos: The Convent
Kästner, Eric: Emil and the Detectives
Katsu, Alma: The Taker
Kay, Guy Gavriel: The Summer Tree
Kearsley, Susanna: Mariana, The Rose Garden
Keller, Helen: The Story of My Life
Kemper, Steve: A Labyrinth of Kingdoms
Kent, Kathleen: Wolves of Andover (abandoned)
Kerouac , Jack : On the Road
Kerr, Jean: Jenny Kissed Me
Kerr, Philip: March Violets (Berlin Noir)
Keun, Irmgard: After Midnight
Kierkegaard, Søren: A Kierkegaard Anthology
Kimmel, Haven: A Girl Named Zippy
Kincaid, Jamaica: A Small Place
King , Laurie R. : Touchstone , The Language of Bees (Jenny’s review), The God of the Hive (Jenny’s review), The Language of Bees/The God of the Hive (Teresa’s review), Beekeeping for Beginners, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows
King , Stephen : Duma Key , The Colorado Kid (audio) , Just After Sunset, Four Past Midnight, Misery, The Dark Half, Under the Dome, Full Dark, No Stars, The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower, 11/22/63, Everything’s Eventual
Kingsolver , Barbara : Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim (audio)
Klein, Daniel: Plato and a Platypus Walked into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Knapp , Caroline : Appetites: Why Women Want
Kogawa, Joy: Obasan
Kolata, Gina: Rethinking Thin
Kpomassie, Tété-Michel: An African in Greenland
Krauss , Nicole : The History of Love , Great House
Kynaston, David: Family Britain, 1951–1957
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Lace, Kate: The Chalet Girl
Lahiri, Jhumpa: Interpreter of Maladies
Lamb , Charles : Essays of Elia
Lamott, Anne: Blue Shoe, Some Assembly Required, Traveling Mercies
Lanagan, Margo: Tender Morsels
Lane, Harlan: The Wild Boy of Aveyron
Lansing, Alfred: Endurance
Larkin , Alison : The English American
Larsson , Steig : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Laski, Marghanita: The Village
Lawson, Jenny: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Laye, Camara: The Dark Child (L’enfant noir)
Lear , Linda : Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Le Carre, John: The Constant Gardener (audio)
Lee, Chang-rae: A Gesture Life
Lee, Janice Y.K.: The Piano Teacher (audio)
Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
Lehane , Dennis : Gone, Baby, Gone (film) , Shutter Island (audio)
Lehmann, Rosamond: Invitation to the Waltz
Lessing , Doris : Alfred and Emily
Lever , James : Me Cheeta
Levy, Andrea: Small Island (Teresa’s review), Small Island (Jenny’s review)
Levy, Deborah: Swimming Home
Levin , Ira : Stepford Wives , A Kiss Before Dying (audio)
Lewis , C.S. : The Great Divorce (Jenny’s review), Till We Have Faces, The Great Divorce (Teresa’s review)
Lippman , Laura : What the Dead Know (abandoned) ; What the Dead Know (take two)
Locke, Attica: Black Water Rising, The Cutting Season (Teresa’s review), The Cutting Season (Jenny’s brief review)
Lopate , Philip : The Art of the Personal Essay
Lovell , Mary S. : The Sisters
Lowry , Lois : The Giver, The Willoughbys
Luxenberg , Steve : Annie’s Ghosts
M
MacDonald, George: The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
MacQuarrie, Kim: The Last Days of the Incas
Madonna, Paul: All Over Coffee, Everything Is Its Own Reward
Maguire , Gregory : Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Maksik, Alexander: You Deserve Nothing
Malraux , André : Les Noyers de l’Altenburg (The Walnut Trees of Altenburg)
Mankell, Henning: Sidetracked (audio), The Fifth Woman
Mann , Charles C. : 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Mantel , Hilary : Wolf Hall , Bring Up the Bodies
Márai, Sándor: Embers
Margolick, David: Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Márquez , Gabriel García : Love in the Time of Cholera (Teresa’s review), Love in the Time of Cholera (Jenny’s review)
Marsh, Ngaio: A Man Lay Dead
Martin, James: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, Between Heaven and Mirth
Martin , Steve : Born Standing Up (audio)
Masefield , John : The Box of Delights
Masters , Edgar Lee : Spoon River Anthology
Matar, Hisham: Anatomy of a Disappearance
Maugham , W. Somerset : Cakes and Ale
Maurois, Andre: Climates
Mawer , Simon : The Glass Room , Trapeze
Max, D.T. : The Family That Couldn’t Sleep (audio)
McBain , Ed : Cop Hater, Doll, Lullaby
McCarry , Charles : The Last Supper , The Miernik Dossier, Shelley’s Heart, Bride of the Wilderness, Second Sight, Old Boys, Christopher’s Ghosts
McCarthy , Cormac : No Country for Old Men (audio), The Road
McCleery, William: Wolf Story
McCloud, Scott: Understanding Comics
McDermid , Val : A Place of Execution (film)
McEwan , Ian : On Chesil Beach (audio, Teresa’s review), Amsterdam, On Chesil Beach(Jenny’s review)
McGrath , Patrick : Asylum (Teresa’s review), Asylum (Jenny’s review)
McGregor, Jon: Even the Dogs, So Many Ways to Begin, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: Stories
McKay, Hilary: Saffy’s Angel, Indigo’s Star
McLaren, Brian: A New Kind of Christianity
McLain, Paula: The Paris Wife
McMahon, Jennifer: Don’t Breathe a Word
McPherson, William: Testing the Current
Meacham, Jon: American Gospel
Mendelsohn, Daniel: The Lost: a Search for Six of Six Million
Mérimée , Prosper : A Slight Misunderstanding
Metaxas, Eric: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
Miéville, China: The City & The City (abandoned), Railsea
Miles, Jonathan: Dear American Airlines (audio)
Miles, Sara: Take This Bread
Millhauser , Steven : The King in the Tree , Dangerous Laughter
Milton, John: Paradise Lost
Mistry, Rohinton: Family Matters
Mitchell, David: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green
Mitford , Nancy : The Pursuit of Love
Moaveni , Azadeh : Lipstick Jihad
Moehringer , J.R. : The Tender Bar
Moltmann, Jürgen: The Crucified God
Momaday, N. Scott: House Made of Dawn
Montalban, Manuel Vasquez: Tattoo
Montgomery, Lucy Maud: Jane of Lantern Hill, The Blue Castle
Moon, Fábio and Gabriel Bá: Daytripper
Moore , Alan : Watchman
Moore , Lorrie : Birds of America
Moore, Terry: Strangers in Paradise (Volumes 1 and 2)
Moran, Caitlin: How to Be a Woman
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye, Jazz
Morton , H.V. : In Search of London
Morton, Kate: The Distant Hours (audio)
Mourlevat, Jean-Claude: Winter’s End
Muir , John : Travels in Alaska
Mukherjee, Bharati: Miss New India
Mullan, John: What Matters in Jane Austen?
Mullen, Thomas: The Revisionists
Murakami , Haruki : After Dark (audio) , What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (audio)
Murakami, Ryu: Popular Hits of the Showa Era
Murasaki, Lady: The Tale of Genji (part 1) (part 2)
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Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire, Pnin, Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Nagel, Susan: Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein: The Heart of Islam
Nayman , Shira : Awake in the Dark
Némirovsky, Irène: The Wine of Solitude
Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Petals of Blood
Niven , Jennifer : The Ice Master
Norman, Howard: Devotion
Noueihed, Lin: The Battle for the Arab Spring
Nouwen, Henri: A Spirituality of Living, Life of the Beloved
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O’Brian, Patrick: Master and Commander, Post Captain, HMS Surprise, The Mauritius Command, Desolation Island, The Fortune of War, The Surgeon’s Mate,
O’Connor, Flannery: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Teresa’s review), Everything That Rises Must Converge, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
(Jenny’s review)
Oates, Joyce Carol: A Widow’s Story
O’Dell, Scott: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Ōe, Kenzaburō: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
O’Farrell , Margaret : The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
O’Hagan, Andrew: Be Near Me (audio)
Okri, Ben: The Famished Road
Oliver , Mary : New and Selected Poems: Vol. 2
Oliver, Suzanne: The Faith Club
Opie, Amelia Alderson: Adeline Mowbray
Orwell , George : 1984 (audio) , Down and Out in Paris and London
Ostler, Nicholas: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Ovid: Metamorphoses, Books 1-5, Books 6-10, Books 11-15
Owens, Iris: After Claude
Oyeyemi, Helen: White Is for Witching
Oyono, Ferdinand: Houseboy (Une vie de boy)
Ozick , Cynthia : The Puttermesser Papers, Levitation, The Messiah of Stockholm
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Pakenham, Thomas: The Scramble for Africa
Palahniuk, Chuck: Fight Club
Palin , Michael : Himalaya (audio)
Pargeter, Edith: The Heaven Tree
Parisi, Joseph and Katherine Welton, eds: 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women
Park , David : Swallowing the Sun
Parker , Robert : Rough Weather
Pascoe, Jim and Tom Fassbender (“Dashiell Loveless”): By the Balls
Patchett , Ann : Bel Canto
Peace, David: Nineteen Seventy-Four
Peacock, Thomas Love: Crotchet Castle
Peake, Mervyn: The Gormenghast Novels
Pears , Tim : In the Place of Fallen Leaves
Peck, Richard: A Year Down Yonder
Peck, Winifred: House-Bound
Pepys, Samuel: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Perec, Georges: A Void
Perotta , Tom : The Abstinence Teacher , The Leftovers
Petterson, Per: To Siberia
Phinn, Gervase: The Other Side of the Dale
Picardie , Justine : Daphne
Piñeiro, Claudia: Thursday Night Widows
Pittard, Hannah: The Fates Will Find Their Way
Plotz, David: The Genius Factory
Poblete, Pati Navalta: The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America
Pollan , Michael : The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Jenny’s review); The Omnivore’s Dilemma (audio; Teresa’s review); In Defense of Food (audio)
Pope, Elizabeth Marie: The Perilous Gard
Powell, Dawn: The Golden Spur
Powell, Gretchen: Terra
Powers, J.F.: Morte d’Urban
Preston, Richard: The Hot Zone
Prose, Francine: Reading Like a Writer (audio)
Prothero, Stephen: Religious Literacy (audio)
Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
Pulitzer , Lisa : Stolen Innocence
Pulkkinen, Riika: True
Pym , Barbara : Excellent Women , A Few Green Leaves
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Quammen, David: The Flight of the Iguana
Queneau, Raymond: Exercises de Style
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Radcliffe, Ann: The Romance of the Forest
Rakha , Naseem : The Crying Tree
Rayne, Sarah: Roots of Evil
Reichl , Ruth : Comfort Me with Apples (audio)
Remarque , Erich Marie : All Quiet on the Western Front
Rendell , Ruth : The Killing Doll (Jenny’s review), The Rottweiler , The Minotaur , Thirteen Steps Down , Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories (audio) , Tigerlily’s Orchids, The Killing Doll (Teresa’s review), The Child’s Child
Resch, Elyse: Intuitive Eating
Revoyr, Nina: The Age of Dreaming
Robinson , Marilynne : Gilead (audio); Home (Teresa); Home (Jenny); Housekeeping, When I Was a Child I Read Books (Teresa); When I Was a Child I Read Books (Jenny)
Robotham, Michael: Bleed For Me
Roethke, Theodore: Words for the Wind: the Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke
Roffey, Monique: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Rollins, Peter: The Idolatry of God
Ronson, Jon: The Men Who Stare at Goats (audio)
Roth, Joseph: The Tale of the 1002nd Night
Roy , Gabrielle : The Road Past Altamont
Rubio, Mary Henley: Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
Rushdie , Salman : The Enchantress of Florence
Ruskin, John: On Art and Life
Russell , Mary Doria : A Thread of Grace , The Sparrow
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Sabato, Ernesto: The Tunnel
Sacco, Joe: Journalism
Salih, Tayeb: Season of Migration to the North
Samet , Elizabeth : Soldier’s Heart
Sanders, Scott Russell: Staying Put
Sansom, C.J.: Dissolution
Saramago , José : The Double , Blindness , All the Names , Small Memories
Sarraute, Nathalie: Enfance (Childhood)
Satrapi , Marjane : The Complete Persepolis (Teresa’s review); Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood (Jenny’s review)
Savage, Sam: Glass
Sayers, Dorothy L.: Creed or Chaos?
Sedaris, David: When You Are Engulfed in Flames (audio)
See, Lisa: Shanghai Girls
Sembene, Ousmane: God’s Bits of Wood
Sepúlveda, Luis: The Shadow of What We Were
Seth: Clyde Fans
Seth, Vikram: Two Lives
Shaffer , Mary Ann : The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (audio)
Shanker, Wendy: The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life
Shein , Elyse : Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Shields, Carol: Jane Austen
Shikibu, Murasaki: The Tale of Genji (abridged)
Shippey, Tom (Ed.): The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories 1, 2, 3
Shonagon , Sei : The Pillow Book
Shors , John : Beneath a Marble Sky
Shriver, Lionel: So Much for That, The New Republic
Siddons , Anne Rivers : The House Next Door
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Simenon, Georges: Maigret et le voleur paresseux (Maigret and the Lazy Burglar)
Simmonds , Posy : Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe
Simmons , Dan : The Terror
Skibsrud, Johanna: The Sentimentalists
Slater , Lauren : Opening Skinner’s Box
Slaughter, Karin: Martin Misunderstood (audio)
Slavnikova, Olga: 2017 (abandoned)
Sleator , William : The Boy Who Reversed Himself
Smith , Tom Rob : Child 44 (Teresa’s review), Child 44 (Jenny’s review)
Smith , Zadie : White Teeth (Jenny’s review); White Teeth (Teresa’s review)
Söderberg, Hjalmar: Doctor Glas (Jenny’s review); Doctor Glas (Teresa’s review)
Sōseki, Natsume: I Am a Cat, The Gate
Soskice, Janet: The Sisters of Sinai (Jenny’s review); The Sisters of Sinai (Teresa’s review)
Spark , Muriel : Aiding and Abetting (audio)
Spencer-Fleming, Julia: In the Bleak Midwinter (Teresa’s review), In the Bleak Midwinter (Jenny’s brief review)
Spillane , Mickey : Kiss Me, Deadly ; Kiss Me, Deadly (film)
Spitz , Bob : The Beatles: The Biography (audio)
Spykman, E.C.: A Lemon and a Star, The Wild Angel
Stall , Sam : 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization
Stamm, Peter: We’re Flying
Stead, Christina: The Man Who Loved Children
Stead, Rebecca: When You Reach Me
Steindl-rast, David: Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles’ Creed
Steinbeck, John: Travels with Charley
Stephenson , Neal : Snow Crash
D.E. Stevenson: Miss Buncle’s Book, Miss Buncle Married
Stewart, Mary: The Ivy Tree
Stewart , Trenton Lee : The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
Story, Kate: Blasted
Stratton-Porter , Gene : A Girl of the Limberlost (Jenny’s review), The Keeper of the Bees, A Girl of the Limberlost (Teresa’s review)
Straub , Peter : Magic Terror , Houses Without Doors , Poe’s Children
Stroud, Jonathan: The Amulet of Samarkand (audio), The Golem’s Eye (audio), Ptolemy’s Gate (audio)
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris: Roadside Picnic
Stuart, Julia: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise (abandoned)
Suarez, Ray: The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America
Summerscale, Kate: Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace
Süskind , Patrick : Perfume
Sutin, Jack and Rochelle: Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
Swift, Katherine: The Morville Hours
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Tadjo, Véronique: Queen Pokou (Reine Pokou)
Taylor, Andrew: Caroline Minuscule, Waiting for the End of the World, Our Fathers’ Lies
Taylor, Daniel: The Myth of Certainty
Taylor , Mildred : Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tec, Nechama: Defiance
Tey , Josephine : The Daughter of Time
Thirkell, Angela: High Rising, Wild Strawberries
Thompson, Charles: Spirits of Just Men
Thompson , Craig : Blankets , Good-bye, Chunky Rice
Thompson, Jim: The Killer Inside Me
Thornton, Rosy: Crossed Wires, The Tapestry of Love
Tiptree, Jr., James: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Tobin , Betsy : Ice Land
Toews, Miriam: Irma Voth
Tóibín , Colm : Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 1, Part 2, The Two Towers 1, 2, The Return of the King, The Children of Hurin
Tolstoy , Leo : War and Peace
Toltz , Steve : A Fraction of the Whole
Tomalin, Claire: Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Tribole, Evelyn: Intuitive Eating
Trillin, Calvin: Floater
Trollope , Anthony : The Way We Live Now , Barchester Towers , He Knew He Was Right, The Eustace Diamonds, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage
Tucker, Todd: The Great Starvation Experiment
Turnbull , Sarah : Almost French
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Uglow, Jenny: The Lunar Men
Undset , Sigrid : Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath , Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wife , Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross
Updike , John : Rabbit, Run
Upson , Nicola : An Expert in Murder
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Vaill , Amanda : Everybody Was So Young
Van Leeuwen, Joke: Eep!
Vargas, Fred: L’homme aux cercles bleus (The Chalk Circle Man)
Vaughan , Brian : Pride of Baghdad
Vickers, Salley: Dancing Backwards
Vine , Barbara : The Minotaur, The Child’s Child
Virgil: The Aeneid (books 1-6), The Aeneid (books 7-12)
von Arnim , Elizabeth : The Enchanted April (Jenny’s review), The Enchanted April (audio; Teresa’s review)
Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five (audio)
Vowell, Sarah: The Partly Cloudy Patriot (audio)
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Waid, Mark: Superman: Birthright
Wall , Elissa : Stolen Innocence
Wallace , David Foster : Infinite Jest
Walls, Jeannette: The Glass Castle (audio)
Walsh, Helen: Once Upon a Time in England
Walton, Jo: Farthing, Ha’penny, Half a Crown
Ward, Katie: Girl Reading
Warner, Priscilla: The Faith Club
Warren, Alex: The Battle for the Arab Spring
Waters , Sarah : The Little Stranger , Fingersmith, The Night Watch (Teresa’s review), The Night Watch (Jenny’s review)
Watson, Winifred: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (audio)
Waugh , Evelyn : Brideshead Revisited (audio)
Weaver, Lila Quintera: Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White
Weber, Katharine: Triangle
Webster, Jean: Daddy-Long-Legs
Weil , Jiří : Life with a Star
Weil, Simone: Waiting for God
Weiner , Jennifer : Good in Bed (audio), Best Friends Forever
Weir , Alison : The Children of Henry VIII , The Lady Elizabeth , The Captive Queen
Welsh, Louise: Naming the Bones
West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier
Wharton, Edith: The Custom of the Country
Whipple, Dorothy: Someone at a Distance
White, Antonia: Frost in May
Willett , Jincy : Jenny and the Jaws of Life , The Writing Class
Williams , Marjorie : The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Williams, Tennessee: The Night of the Iguana
Willingham , Bill : Fables (1-11), Fables 12: The Dark Ages. Fables 14–16, Fables 4-7 and 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Willis , Connie : Bellwether , Miracle and Other Christmas Stories , Inside Job , The Winds of Marble Arch , Remake , Impossible Things , Fire Watch, Blackout, To Say Nothing of the Dog, All Clear, Doomsday Book, All About Emily
Wilson, Ethel: Hetty Dorval
Windling , Terri : Snow White, Blood Red
Winspear , Jacqueline : Pardonable Lies (audio)
Wodehouse, P.G.: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (audio), My Man Jeeves (audio)
Wolfe, Gene: The Best of Gene Wolfe
Wolfe, Tom: The Right Stuff
Wolff , Tobias : Old School , Our Story Begins
Wolitzer, Meg: The Uncoupling
Woodson, Jacqueline: Hush, Feathers (audio), Locomotion
Woolrich, Cornell: The Bride Wore Black
Wright , N.T. : The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, Surprised By Hope
Wroe , Ann : The Economist Book of Obituaries
Wurtzel , Elizabeth : Prozac Nation
Wyndham , John : The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Chrysalids
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Xueqin , Cao : The Story of the Stone, vol. 1 , The Story of the Stone, vol. 2 , The Story of the Stone, vol. 3 , The Story of the Stone, vol. 4 , The Story of the Stone, vol. 5
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Yancey, Philip: What Good Is God?
Yamashita, Karen Tei: I Hotel
Yang, Gene Luen: American Born Chinese
Yates , Richard : The Easter Parade, Revolutionary Road (audio)
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Zafón , Carlos Ruiz : The Angel’s Game
Zola, Emile: Thérèse Raquin
Zuckoff, Mitchell: Lost in Shangri-La, Frozen in Time
Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief (abandoned)


