TBR: Teresa

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

1. Any Human Heart by William Boyd
2. Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
3. Mr Bridge by Evan S. Connell
4. Wise Children by Angela Carter
5. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
6. The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
7. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
8. Mary Lavelle by Kate O’Brien
9. My Next Bride by Kate Boyle
10. Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer
11. The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
12. The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
13. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
14. Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King
15. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
16. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
17. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
18. Final Payments by Mary Gordon
19. Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy
20. Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
21. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
22. Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
23. Repeat It Today with Tears by Anne Peile
24. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
25. A Jesuit Off Broadway by James Martin
26. Digital Disciple by Adam Thomas
27. Come Be My Light by Mother Teresa
28. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
29. Tenth of December by George Saunders
30. Dearest Anne by Judith Katzir
31. The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
32. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Acquired in 2012

1. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
2. The Art of the Personal Essay ed. Phillip Lopate
3. Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
4. Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
5. Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
6. Capital by John Lanchester
7. The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
8. Colony by Hugo Wilcken
9. Cool Water by Dianne Warren
10. The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
11. The Doctor’s Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
12. Embers by Sandor Marai
13. Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing ed Rob Spillman
14. A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes:Stories from Latin America ed Thomas Colchie
15. The Heart of Islam by Seyyid Hossein Nasr
16. A Human Being Died That Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
17. Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner
18. John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
19. The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
20. Learning to Swim by Clare Chambers
21. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
22. Never the Bride by Paul Magrs
23. The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
24. Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
25. Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell
26. The Squire by Enid Bagnold
27. Stoner by John Williams
28. Stranger in the House by Julie Summers
29. Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
30. They Shoot Horses Don’t They by Horace McCoy
31. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
32. To Fear a Painted Devil by Ruth Rendell
33. Vanity Dies Hard by Ruth Rendell

Acquired in 2011

1. Alas Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
2. The Beautiful and the Grotesque by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3. Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee
4. Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane (M.J. Farrell)
5. Doc by Mary Doria Russell
6. Double Negative by David Carkeet
7. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
8. A Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff
9. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
10. A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
11. The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
12. Light Boxes by Shane Jones
13. The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
14. The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis
15. Old Filth by Jane Gardam
16. Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa
17. The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
18. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
19. Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
20. There Were No Windows by Norah Hoult
21. The Weird World of Wes Beattie by John Norman Harris

Acquired in 2010

1. Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
2. As We Are Now by May Sarton
3. Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor
4. The Dark Child by Camara Laye
5. Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
6. Earth Hums in B-Flat by Mari Strachen
7. Experiencing God Through Prayer by Madame Guyon
8. Good Evening Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes
9. The Guide by R. K. Narayan
10. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
11. How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
12. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
13. Joe Cinque’s Confession by Helen Garner
14. A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz
15. The King Must Die by Mary Renault
16. Life at Grasmere by Dorothy Wordsworth
17. My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
18. My Place by Sally Morgan
19. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
20. Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
21. Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
22. Passing by Nella Larsen
23. The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
24. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
25. The Poisoned Chocolate Case by Anthony Berkeley
26. The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
27. A Question of Power by Bessie Head
28. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
29. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
30. Secret Son by Laila Lalami
31. The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
32. Singled Out by Bella DePaulo
33. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
34. Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
35. The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
36. Tell It to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berkeley
37. Thomas Hardy: A Life by Claire Tomalin
38. The Tsar’s Dwarf by Peter Fogtdal
39. Under My Skin by Doris Lessing
40. The Very Thought of You by Rosie Allison
41. The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
42. Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
43. The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

Acquired in 2009

1. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
2. Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
3. The China Governess by Margery Allingham
4. Coroner’s Pidgin by Margery Allingham
5. Good Behavior by Molly Keane
6. The Guynd: A Scottish Journal by Belinda Rathbone
7. The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
8. Hide My Eyes by Margery Allingham
9. How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
10. Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler
11. Lapsing by Jill Paton Walsh
12. More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham
13. Out of a Clear Sky by Sally Hinchcliffe
14. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
15. Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
16. The Sonnets by Warwick Collins
17. The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
18. Traitor’s Purse by Margery Allingham
19. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
20. Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir by Stacy Horn
21. The Well Beloved by Thomas Hardy