2009

2009

Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (12/09)

The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton (12/09)

Big Fish, Daniel Wallace (12/09)

*The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys (12/09)

The City & the City, China Mieville (12/09)

Freddy Goes to Florida, Walter R. Brooks (11/09)

*North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (11/09)

Thursday’s Child, Sonya Hartnett (11/09)

The Writing Class, Jincy Willett (11/09)

Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert Heinlein (11/09)

Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow (11/09)

What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman (11/09)

Saffy’s Angel, Hilary McKay (11/09)

Trespassers on the Roof of the World, Peter Hopkirk (11/09)

Armadale, Wilkie Collins (11/09)

The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis (re-read, 10/09)

Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis (re-read, 10/09)

These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read, 10/09)

Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read, 10/09)

L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy (10/09)

In the Place of Fallen Leaves, Tim Pears (10/09)

Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell (10/09)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (10/09)

*The Solitudes, John Crowley (10/09)

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (9/09)

Poe’s Children, ed. Peter Straub (9/09)

Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin (9/09)

The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer (9/09)

*The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (9/09)

*Life with a Star, Jiri Weil (9/09)

An Expert in Murder, Nicola Upson (9/09)

A Slight Misunderstanding, Prosper Merimee (9/09)

*Human Croquet, Kate Atkinson (9/09)

*War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (9/09)

Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (8/09)

The Spies of Warsaw, Alan Furst (8/09)

The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart (8/09)

The Miernik Dossier, Charles McCarry (7/09)

Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (7/09)

*The Language of Bees, Laurie King (7/09)

*The Puttermesser Papers, Cynthia Ozick (7/09)

Soldier’s Heart, Elizabeth Samet (7/09)

Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters (7/09)

The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford (7/09)

Opening Skinner’s Box, Lauren Slater (7/09)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley (7/09)

The Story of the Stone, vol. 5, Cao Xueqin (7/09)

Hotel Bemelmans, Ludwig Bemelmans (7/09)

The Story of the Stone, vol. 4, Cao Xueqin (7/09)

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray (7/09)

Maps and Legends, Michael Chabon (6/09)

The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon (6/09)

The Lost City of Z, David Grann (6/09)

*Surrender, Sonya Hartnett (6/09)

The Story of the Stone, vol. 3, Cao Xueqin (6/09)

The Matisse Stories, A.S. Byatt (6/09)

The Game, Diana Wynne Jones (6/09)

Les Noyers de l’Altenburg, André Malraux (6/09)

The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett (6/09)

*The Story of the Stone, vol. 2, Cao Xueqin (5/09)

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell (5/09)

*The Story of the Stone, vol. 1, Cao Xueqin (5/09)

A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton-Porter (5/09)

Fire Watch, Connie Willis (5/09)

Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel (5/09)

Rabbit, Run, John Updike (5/09)

A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (5/09)

Twentieth Century Ghosts, Joe Hill (5/09)

The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (5/09)

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, ed. Michael Cox (5/09)

Impossible Things, Connie Willis (5/09)

*The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge (5/09)

Snow White, Blood Red, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (5/09)

*Linnets and Valerians, Elizabeth Goudge (re-read, 4/09)

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (4/09)

Beatrix Potter, Linda Lear (4/09)

*Asylum, Patrick McGrath (4/09)

The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier (4/09)

About A Boy, Nick Hornby (4/09)

Cop Hater, Ed McBain (re-read, 4/09)

*News From Tartary, Peter Fleming (4/09)

One’s Company, Peter Fleming (4/09)

*Perfume, Patrick Süskind (4/09)

The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis (re-read, 4/09)

Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff (4/09)

The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox (4/09)

*New and Selected Poems, vol.2, Mary Oliver (4/09)

The Children of Green Knowe, L.M. Boston (3/09)

The Various Haunts of Men, Susan Hill (3/09)

*Fledgling, Octavia Butler (3/09)

The Lighthouse, P.D. James (3/09)

Blankets, Craig Thompson (3/09)

*When Will There Be Good News?, Kate Atkinson (3/09)

Just After Sunset, Stephen King (3/09)

The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking (3/09)

*All the Names, Jose Saramago (3/09)

The Giver, Lois Lowry (3/09)

Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (3/09)

One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson (3/09)

Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (3/09)

*Travels in Alaska, John Muir (3/09)

Jamaica Inn, Daphne Du Maurier (3/09)

The Boy Who Reversed Himself, William Sleator (abandoned)

A Few Green Leaves, Barbara Pym (3/09)

*Bleak House, Charles Dickens (3/09)

Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, Laurence Bergreen (2/09)

Remake, Connie Willis (2/09)

Kamouraska, Anne Hébert (2/09)

Beat To Quarters, C.S. Forester (2/09)

Don’t Look Now, Daphne du Maurier (2/09)

*Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope (2/09)

White Teeth, Zadie Smith (2/09)

Alphabet Juice, Roy Blount, Jr. (2/09)

Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell (2/09)

*Home, Marilynne Robinson (2/09)

*The Cross, Sigrid Undset (1/09)

Catalyst, Laurie Halse Anderson (1/09)

*Resistance, Agnes Humbert (1/09)

Mr. Punch, Neil Gaiman (1/09)

Appetites: Why Women Want, Caroline Knapp (1/09)

Rough Weather, Robert Parker (1/09)

Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler (1/09)

The Peppermint Pig, Nina Bawden (1/09)

*The Wife, Sigrid Undset (1/09)

The Haunted Doll’s House and Other Stories, M.R. James (1/09)

Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson (1/09)

*The Wreath, Sigrid Undset (1/09)

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (1/09)