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 2016
- Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
- Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller
- Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
- Trash Sex Magic by Jennifer Stevenson
- After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh
- Kalpa Imperial by Angelica, Gorodischer
- The Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett
- The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
- North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
- Couch by Benjamin Parzybok
- Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
- Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
- Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison
- Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks
- Tyrannia by Alan DeNiro
- A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
- The Entropy of Bones by Ayize Jama-Everett
- The Fire Beneath the Seas by Lydia Millett
- Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich
- The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
- Broken Glass Park by Alina Bronsky
- Grand Hotel Vicki Baum
- Prostitute Laundry by Charlotte Shane
- Surveys by Natasha Stagg
- Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
- The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
- In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
Acquired in 2015
- The Hours of the Night by Sue Gee
- Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
- The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
- Smaller and Smaller Circles by F. H. Batagan
- The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski
- London War Notes 1939-1945 by Mollie Panter-Downes
- Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy Martin
- An Education by Lynn Barber
- Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
- In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
- New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
- Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham
- The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
Acquired in 2014
- The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower
- The Great Western Beach by Emma Smith
- What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
- The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer
- This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
- The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- The Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila
- Red Bird by Mary Oliver
- Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
- A View of the Harbor by Elizabeth Taylor
- The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
- Judging a Book by Its Lover by Lauren Leto
- Housebound by Elizabeth Gentry
Acquired in 2013
- Lexicon by Max Barry
- The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
- Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo
- The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehmann
- The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
- The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold
- None Turn Back by Storm Jameson
- The Gentlewoman by Laura Talbot
- Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
