2011

2011

Half a Crown, Jo Walton (12/11)

*The Morville Hours, Katherine Swift (12/11)

*Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (12/11)

*What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller (12/11)

A Man Lay Dead, Ngaio Marsh (12/11)

March Violets, Philip Kerr (12/11)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (12/11)

The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal (12/11)

*Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino (12/11)

Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens (12/11)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Machado de Assis (12/11)

Dawn, Octavia Butler (11/11)

*Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis (11/11)

The Ghost Orchid, Carol Goodman (abandoned)

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie King (re-read; 11/11)

River of Smoke, Amitav Ghosh (11/11)

The Dark Tower, Stephen King (11/11)

*Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov (11/11)

*Ha’Penny, Jo Walton (11/11)

*Young Romantics, Daisy Hay (10/11)

Child 44, Tom Rob Smith (10/11)

Song of Susannah, Stephen King (10/11)

The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, Shannon Cain (10/11)

Jane Austen, Carol Shields (10/11)

The Romance of the Forest, Anne Radcliffe (10/11)

Family Roundabout, Richmal Crompton (10/11)

The Inn at the Edge of the World, Alice Thomas Ellis (10/11)

*Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh (10/11)

The Gift of Wings, Mary Henley Rubio (9/11)

Black Water Rising, Attica Locke (9/11)

Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde (9/11)

Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (9/11)

Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King (9/11)

*High Rising, Angela Thirkell (9/11)

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter (9/11)

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes (9/11)

House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende (8/11)

Wizard and Glass, Stephen King (8/11)

The Aeneid, Virgil (8/11)

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (8/11, abandoned)

The Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby (8/11)

*Staying Put, Scott Russell Sanders (8/11)

*Endless Things, John Crowley (8/11)

**Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (8/11)

*Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck (8/11)

The Odyssey, Homer (8/11)

Pirate King, Laurie King (7/11)

The Waste Lands, Stephen King (7/11)

Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell (7/11)

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie (7/11)

Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers (re-read, 7/11)

All Over Coffee, Paul Madonna (7/11)

*The Iliad, Homer (7/11)

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, Jeanne Birdsall (6/11)

Goodbye, Chunky Rice, Craig Thompson (6/11)

*The Sibyl In Her Grave, Sarah Caudwell (6/11)

*The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy (6/11)

The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King (6/11)

Le Scaphandre et le papillon, Jean-Dominique Bauby (6/11)

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (6/11)

*Metamorphoses, Ovid (6/11)

Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Oscar Hijuelos (DNF, 6/11)

On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (6/11)

The D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myth (6/11)

The D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myth (6/11)

Old Boys, Charles McCarry (6/11)

The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich (5/11)

Miss Mapp, E.F. Benson (5/11)

Crotchet Castle, Thomas Love Peacock (5/11)

*Daemonomania, John Crowley (5/11)

The Gunslinger, Stephen King (5/11)

White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (5/11)

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (5/11)

The Lunar Men, Jenny Uglow (5/11)

The Golden Pot, E.T.A. Hoffmann (5/11)

*Exercises de Style, Raymond Queneau (5/11)

The Shuttle, Frances Hodgson Burnett (5/11)

Weird Tales, vol.1, E.T.A. Hoffmann (4/11)

Jane of Lantern Hill, Lucy Maud Montgomery (4/11)

*Embers, Sándor Márai (4/11)

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen (4/11)

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (re-read, 4/11)

*The Bat-Poet, Randall Jarrell (4/11)

The Gathering, Anne Enright (4/11)

The Shipping News, Annie Proulx (4/11)

The Weather in Berlin, Ward Just (4/11)

The Rocksburg Railroad Murders, K.C. Constantine (4/11)

*Started Early, Took My Dog, Kate Atkinson (4/11)

Jenny Kissed Me, Jean Kerr (3/11)

*The Tale of the 1002nd Night, Joseph Roth (3/11)

The 42nd Parallel, John dos Passos (3/11)

A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck (3/11)

Alone, Adml. Robert Byrd (3/11)

*The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot (3/11)

The Blue Castle, Lucy Maud Montgomery (2/11)

Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King (2/11)

Farthing, Jo Walton (2/11)

*The World in the Evening, Christopher Isherwood (2/11)

Waiting for the End of the World, Andrew Taylor (2/11)

A Lemon and a Star, E.C. Spykman (2/11)

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2/11)

Le Roi Pecheur (The Fisher King), Julien Gracq (2/11)

The Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham (2/11)

Morte d’Urban, J.F. Powers (1/11)

The Bride Wore Black, Cornell Woolrich (1/11)

Flashman, George Fraser (1/11)

Caroline Minuscule, Andrew Taylor (1/11)

The Oresteia, Aeschylus (1/11)

Drop City, T.C. Boyle (abandoned)

Endurance, Alfred Lansing (1/11)

*Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1/11)

Second Sight, Charles McCarry (1/11)

The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson (1/11)

*Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson (1/11)

Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon (1/11)

The Golden Spur, Dawn Powell (1/11)