A list of the books I’ve read, along with the month and year in which I finished each one. An asterisk indicates it is a “best of” book: one of the very best I read that year.
2019
The Reluctant Heiress, Eva Ibbotson (on deck)
Eva Dolan, This Is How It Ends (on deck)
Orley Farm, Anthony Trollope (reading now)
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (11/19)
The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (11/19)
Come Closer, Sara Gran (11/19)
*Washington Black, Esi Edugyan (11/19)
Transcription, Kate Atkinson (11/19)
The Mystics of Mile End, Sigal Samuel (10/19)
The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng (10/19)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (10/19)
The Witch Elm, Tana French (10/19)
Stitches, David Small (10/19)
An Angel at My Table, Janet Frame (10/19)
*The Travelers, Regina Porter (10/19)
Big Sky, Kate Atkinson (10/19)
The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge (10/19)
*Exhalation, Ted Chiang (10/19)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeannette Winterson (10/19)
Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace (10/19)
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi (9/19)
Vintage Murder, Ngaio Marsh (9/19)
*Orlando, Virginia Woolf (9/19)
The Institute, Stephen King (9/19)
White Nights, Ann Cleeves (9/19)
Available Dark, Elizabeth Hand (9/19)
*Plainsong, Kent Haruf (9/19)
*A Mercy, Toni Morrison (9/19)
*The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wang (9/19)
Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers (re-read, 9/19)
Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy Sayers (re-read, 9/19)
Whose Body? Dorothy Sayers (re-read, 9/19)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple (9/19)
H.M.S. Surprise, Patrick O’Brian (re-read, 9/19)
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read, 9/19)
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones (8/19)
*Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot (8/19)
*The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (8/19)
*The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich (8/19)
*HHhH, Laurence Binet (8/19)
Our Nig, Harriet Wilson (8/19)
*The Scarlet Seed, Edith Pargeter (8/19)
*The Green Branch, Edith Pargeter (8/19)
American Gods graphic novel, vol.2, Neil Gaiman (8/19)
Stranger on a Train, Jenny Diski (8/19)
Mr. Wray’s Cash-Box, Wilkie Collins (8/19)
*The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai (7/19)
The Overstory, Richard Powers (7/19)
Gnomon, Nick Harkaway (7/19)
The Frozen Deep, Wilkie Collins (7/19)
Promising Young Women, Suzanne Scanlon (7/19)
Girl Waits With Gun, Amy Stewart (7/19)
*All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Soojung Chung (7/19)
Robert Lowell: Setting the River On Fire, Kay Jamison (7/19)
Pars vite et reviens tard, Fred Vargas (7/19)
Archer’s Goon, Diana Wynne Jones (6/19)
Independent People, Halldor Laxness (6/19)
Cheerfulness Breaks In, Angela Thirkell (6/19)
*Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, Sylvia Townes-Warner (6/19)
Truismes, Marie Darieussecq (6/19)
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Euripedes (6/19)
The Time of the Ghost, Diana Wynne Jones (6/19)
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood (6/19)
Raven Black, Ann Cleeves (6/19)
*Counternarratives, John Keene (6/19)
Long Way Home, Eva Dolan (6/19)
Upon Some Midnights Clear, Mario Balzic (5/19)
You Can Do Anything, George Anders (5/19)
*The Summerhouse Trilogy, Alice Thomas Ellis (5/19)
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (5/19)
The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich (5/19)
*Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine (5/19)
The Language of Secrets, Ausma Zehanat Khan (5/19)
Beyond the Woods, Paula Guran, ed. (5/19)
In Our Strange Gardens, Michel Quint (5/19)
*Yellow Face, David Henry Hwang (5/19)
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (5/19)
Small World, David Lodge (5/19)
The Chaos, Nalo Hopkinson (4/19)
My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite (4/19)
*Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (4/19)
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis (re-read, 4/19)
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (4/19)
Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson (4/19)
*All the Crooked Saints, Maggie Stiefvater (4/19)
The First Person, Ali Smith (4/19)
Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin (4/19)
Barking to the Choir, Gregory Boyle (4/19)
Anne of Green Gables series 1-4, L.M. Montgomery (re-read, 3/19)
What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge (re-read, 3/19)
The Talisman, Stephen King (re-read, 3/19)
The Stand, Stephen King (re-read, 3/19)
*The Bostonians, Henry James (3/19)
Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott (re-read, 3/19)
Malory Towers series 1-6, Enid Blyton (re-read, 3/19)
*The Moon Is Down, John Steinbeck (3/19)
Britt-Marie Was Here, Frederik Backman (3/19)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (3/19)
The Child From the Sea, Elizabeth Goudge (3/19)
Amazing Grace, Kathleen Norris (2/19)
Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (2/19)
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (2/19)
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (2/19)
The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones (2/19)
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders (2/19)
*Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich (2/19)
A Sudden Wild Magic, Diana Wynne Jones (1/19)
*There There, Tommy Orange (1/19)
*Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (1/19)
Tattoos on the Heart, Gregory Boyle (1/19)
A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza (1/19)
