On My Bookshelf
These are the books I physically have in my house. I try to do a lot of reading from this list, starting with the books I’ve owned the longest. There’s certainly enough here to keep me busy! As I read these books, I’ll be adding them to my books read list and linking to any reviews that I write.
Acquired in 2013
- Any Human Heart by William Boyd
- Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
- Mr Bridge by Evan S. Connell
- Wise Children by Angela Carter
- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
- Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
- Mary Lavelle by Kate O’Brien
- My Next Bride by Kate Boyle
- Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer
- The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
- The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King
- Baudolino by Umberto Eco
- Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
- The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
- Final Payments by Mary Gordon
- Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy
- Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
- The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
- Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
- Repeat It Today with Tears by Anne Peile
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
- A Jesuit Off Broadway by James Martin
- Digital Disciple by Adam Thomas
- Come Be My Light by Mother Teresa
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
- Tenth of December by George Saunders
- Dearest Anne by Judith Katzir
- The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
- NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Acquired in 2012
- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
- The Art of the Personal Essay ed. Phillip Lopate
- Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
- Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
- Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
- Capital by John Lanchester
- The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Colony by Hugo Wilcken
- Cool Water by Dianne Warren
- The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
- The Doctor’s Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing ed Rob Spillman
- A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes:Stories from Latin America ed Thomas Colchie
- The Heart of Islam by Seyyid Hossein Nasr
- A Human Being Died That Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner
- John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
- The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
- Learning to Swim by Clare Chambers
- Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
- Never the Bride by Paul Magrs
- The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
- Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
- Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell
- The Squire by Enid Bagnold
- Stoner by John Williams
- Stranger in the House by Julie Summers
- Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
- They Shoot Horses Don’t They by Horace McCoy
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- To Fear a Painted Devil by Ruth Rendell
- Vanity Dies Hard by Ruth Rendell
Acquired in 2011
- Alas Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
- The Beautiful and the Grotesque by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee
- Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane (M.J. Farrell)
- Doc by Mary Doria Russell
- Double Negative by David Carkeet
- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
- A Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff
- Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
- A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
- The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
- Light Boxes by Shane Jones
- The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
- The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis
- Old Filth by Jane Gardam
- Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa
- The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
- There Were No Windows by Norah Hoult
- The Weird World of Wes Beattie by John Norman Harris
Acquired in 2010
- Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
- As We Are Now by May Sarton
- Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor
- The Dark Child by Camara Laye
- Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
- Earth Hums in B-Flat by Mari Strachen
- Experiencing God Through Prayer by Madame Guyon
- Good Evening Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes
- The Guide by R. K. Narayan
- The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
- How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
- The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
- Joe Cinque’s Confession by Helen Garner
- A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz
- The King Must Die by Mary Renault
- Life at Grasmere by Dorothy Wordsworth
- My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
- My Place by Sally Morgan
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
- Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- The Poisoned Chocolate Case by Anthony Berkeley
- The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
- A Question of Power by Bessie Head
- Quicksand by Nella Larsen
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Secret Son by Laila Lalami
- The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
- Singled Out by Bella DePaulo
- Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
- Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
- The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
- Tell It to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berkeley
- Thomas Hardy: A Life by Claire Tomalin
- The Tsar’s Dwarf by Peter Fogtdal
- Under My Skin by Doris Lessing
- The Very Thought of You by Rosie Allison
- The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
- Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
- The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Acquired in 2009
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
- Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
- The China Governess by Margery Allingham
- Coroner’s Pidgin by Margery Allingham
- Good Behavior by Molly Keane
- The Guynd: A Scottish Journal by Belinda Rathbone
- The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
- Hide My Eyes by Margery Allingham
- How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
- Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler
- Lapsing by Jill Paton Walsh
- More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham
- Out of a Clear Sky by Sally Hinchcliffe
- The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
- Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
- The Sonnets by Warwick Collins
- The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
- Traitor’s Purse by Margery Allingham
- Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
- Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir by Stacy Horn
- The Well Beloved by Thomas Hardy



What a list!