TBR: Teresa

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 2014

  1. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  2. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
  3. Housebound by Elizabeth Gentry
  4. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Acquired in 2013

  1. The Circle by Dave Eggers (ebook)
  2. Lexicon by Max Barry
  3. Let’s Kill Uncle by Rohan O’Grady
  4. Bellwether by Connie Willis
  5. The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
  6. Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
  7. Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo
  8. The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehmann
  9. The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
  10. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
  11. Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
  12. The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold
  13. None Turn Back by Storm Jameson
  14. Rumour of Heaven by Beatrix Lehmann
  15. The Gentlewoman by Laura Talbot
  16. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
  17. Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
  18. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
  19. The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
  20. The White Album by Joan Didion
  21. Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
  22. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  23. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
  24. The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer
  25. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
  26. How It All Began by Penelope Lively
  27. Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
  28. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
  29. Unless by Carol Shields
  30. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  31. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
  32. Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
  33. Beyond the Glass by Antonia White
  34. The Sugar House by Antonia White
  35. The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
  36. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
  37. South Riding by Winifred Holtby
  38. The Seas by Samantha Hunt
  39. Love by Elizabeth von Arnim
  40. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
  41. Any Human Heart by William Boyd
  42. Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
  43. Mr Bridge by Evan S. Connell
  44. Wise Children by Angela Carter
  45. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
  46. The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
  47. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
  48. Mary Lavelle by Kate O’Brien
  49. My Next Bride by Kate Boyle
  50. Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer
  51. The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
  52. The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
  53. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
  54. Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King
  55. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
  56. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
  57. Final Payments by Mary Gordon
  58. Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy
  59. Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
  60. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
  61. Repeat It Today with Tears by Anne Peile
  62. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
  63. A Jesuit Off Broadway by James Martin
  64. Digital Disciple by Adam Thomas
  65. Come Be My Light by Mother Teresa
  66. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
  67. Tenth of December by George Saunders
  68. Dearest Anne by Judith Katzir
  69. The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell

Acquired in 2012

  1. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
  2. Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello
  3. Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
  4. Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
  5. Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
  6. The Brontes by Juliet Barker
  7. Capital by John Lanchester
  8. The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
  9. Colony by Hugo Wilcken
  10. Cool Water by Dianne Warren
  11. The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
  12. The Doctor’s Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
  13. Embers by Sandor Marai
  14. Fat: The Owner’s Manual by Ragen Chastain
  15. A Human Being Died That Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
  16. Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner
  17. John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
  18. The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
  19. Learning to Swim by Clare Chambers
  20. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
  21. Never the Bride by Paul Magrs
  22. The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
  23. Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
  24. Seed to Harvest by Octavia Butler
  25. Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell
  26. The Squire by Enid Bagnold
  27. Stoner by John Williams
  28. Stranger in the House by Julie Summers
  29. Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
  30. They Shoot Horses Don’t They by Horace McCoy
  31. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
  32. To Fear a Painted Devil by Ruth Rendell
  33. Vanity Dies Hard by Ruth Rendell

Acquired in 2011

  1. Alas Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
  2. The Beautiful and the Grotesque by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  3. Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee
  4. Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane (M.J. Farrell)
  5. Doc by Mary Doria Russell
  6. Double Negative by David Carkeet
  7. A Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff
  8. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
  9. A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
  10. The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
  11. Light Boxes by Shane Jones
  12. The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
  13. The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis
  14. Old Filth by Jane Gardam
  15. Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa
  16. The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
  17. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
  18. Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
  19. There Were No Windows by Norah Hoult
  20. The Weird World of Wes Beattie by John Norman Harris

Acquired in 2010

  1. Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
  2. As We Are Now by May Sarton
  3. Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor
  4. Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
  5. Experiencing God Through Prayer by Madame Guyon
  6. Good Evening Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes
  7. The Guide by R. K. Narayan
  8. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
  9. Joe Cinque’s Confession by Helen Garner
  10. A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz
  11. The King Must Die by Mary Renault
  12. Life at Grasmere by Dorothy Wordsworth
  13. My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
  14. My Place by Sally Morgan
  15. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
  16. Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
  17. Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
  18. Passing by Nella Larsen
  19. The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
  20. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
  21. The Poisoned Chocolate Case by Anthony Berkeley
  22. The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
  23. A Question of Power by Bessie Head
  24. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
  25. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  26. Secret Son by Laila Lalami
  27. Singled Out by Bella DePaulo
  28. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
  29. Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
  30. The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
  31. Tell It to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berkeley
  32. Thomas Hardy: A Life by Claire Tomalin
  33. The Tsar’s Dwarf by Peter Fogtdal
  34. Under My Skin by Doris Lessing
  35. The Very Thought of You by Rosie Allison
  36. The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
  37. Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
  38. The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

Acquired in 2009

  1. The China Governess by Margery Allingham
  2. Hide My Eyes by Margery Allingham