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.
2016
Phineas Redux, Anthony Trollope (on deck)
The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm (on deck)
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (reading now)
The Sandman: Overture, Neil Gaiman (9/16)
We Live in Water, Jess Walters (9/16)
Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino (9/16)
The Brandons, Angela Thirkell (8/16)
Always a Body to Trade, K.C. Constantine (8/16)
*Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald (8/16)
Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi (8/16)
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, Elinor Lipman (8/16)
The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny (8/16)
*The Home and The World, Rabindranath Tagore (8/16)
How to be Both, Ali Smith (8/16)
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (8/16)
Greensleeves, Eloise Jarvis McGraw (7/16)
The Kingdom of Gods, NK Jemisin (7/16)
How to Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell (7/16)
End of Watch, Stephen King (7/16)
What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton (7/16)
The Secret Place, Tana French (6/16)
Darkness Visible, William Styron (6/16)
*Silas Marner, George Eliot (6/16)
The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George (6/16)
*A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (6/16)
*Life After Life, Kate Atkinson (6/16)
A Rule Against Murder, Louise Penny (6/16)
The Rook, Daniel O’Malley (6/16)
The Goddess Chronicle, Natsuo Kirino (6/16)
*Americanah, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie (5/16)
Kraken, China Miéville (5/16)
The Scent of Water, Elizabeth Goudge (5/16)
Crazy Brave, Joy Harjo (5/16)
My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki (5/16)
Interior Darkness, Peter Straub (5/16)
*The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope (4/16)
*Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman (4/16)
*The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane (4/16)
Broken Harbor, Tana French (3/16)
*Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (3/16)
*Dreaming Spies, Laurie King (3/16)
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Amelia Edwards (3/16)
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (3/16)
Thorn, Intisar Khanani (3/16)
Broken Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (2/16)
*The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens (2/16)
Evil Under the Sun, Agatha Christie (2/16)
Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (2/16)
An Old School Tie, Andrew Taylor (2/16)
*The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald (2/16)
*The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes, K.C. Constantine (2/16)
The Force of Spirit, Scott Russell Sanders (1/16)
This House of Sky, Ivan Doig (1/16)
Pomfret Towers, Angela Thirkell (1/16)
*Fools Crow, James Welch (1/16)
The Dinner, Herman Koch (1/16)
A Fix Like This, K.C. Constantine (1/16)
Unexplained Laughter, Alice Thomas Ellis (1/16)
Elementals, A.S. Byatt (1/16)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (1/16)
*Mountains of the Mind, Robert Macfarlane (1/16)
