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
- This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
- Prostitute Laundry by Charlotte Shane
- Surveys by Natasha Stagg
- The Book of the People by A.N. Wilson
- The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
- Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
- The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
- In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
- Factory Man by Beth Macy
Acquired in 2015
- The Hours of the Night by Sue Gee
- Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
- The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
- Cluny Brown by Marjory Sharp
- A Candle for St. Jude by Rumer Godden
- Smaller and Smaller Circles by F. H. Batagan
- The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
- 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
- More Than Love Letters by Rosy Thornton
- 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
- Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge
- The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
- Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
Acquired in 2014
- Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
- Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater
- Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
- The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower
- A Wilder Rose by Susan Witting Albert
- The Great Western Beach by Emma Smith
- What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
- The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer
- Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair
- This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
- A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
- The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- The Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila
- Red Bird by Mary Oliver
- The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
- Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
- A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
- Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James
- A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead
- Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- The Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton
- Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
- A View of the Harbor by Elizabeth Taylor
- The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
- In Memory of Her by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
- Parnassas on Wheels by Christopher Morley
- Judging a Book by Its Lover by Lauren Leto
- Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
- Housebound by Elizabeth Gentry
Acquired in 2013
- Lexicon by Max Barry
- Let’s Kill Uncle by Rohan O’Grady
- 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
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
- Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
- The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold
- None Turn Back by Storm Jameson
- Rumour of Heaven by Beatrix Lehmann
- The Gentlewoman by Laura Talbot
- The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
- Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
- Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
- The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
- The White Album by Joan Didion
- Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
- The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
- How It All Began by Penelope Lively
- Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
- Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- Unless by Carol Shields
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
- Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
- Beyond the Glass by Antonia White
- The Sugar House by Antonia White
- The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
- The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
- South Riding by Winifred Holtby
- The Seas by Samantha Hunt
- Love by Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
- Any Human Heart by William Boyd
- Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
- Mr Bridge by Evan S. Connell
- Wise Children by Angela Carter
- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
- Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
- Mary Lavelle by Kate O’Brien
- My Next Bride by Kate Boyle
- Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer
- The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
- The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Baudolino by Umberto Eco
- The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
- Final Payments by Mary Gordon
- Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy
- Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
- The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
- Repeat It Today with Tears by Anne Peile
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
- Come Be My Light by Mother Teresa
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
- Dearest Anne by Judith Katzir
- The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
Acquired in 2012
- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
- Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello
- Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
- Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
- Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
- The Brontes by Juliet Barker
- Capital by John Lanchester
- The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Colony by Hugo Wilcken
- Cool Water by Dianne Warren
- The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
- The Doctor’s Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- A Human Being Died That Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner
- John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
- The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
- Learning to Swim by Clare Chambers
- Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
- Never the Bride by Paul Magrs
- The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
- Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
- Seed to Harvest by Octavia Butler
- Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell
- The Squire by Enid Bagnold
- Stoner by John Williams
- Stranger in the House by Julie Summers
- Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
- They Shoot Horses Don’t They by Horace McCoy
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- To Fear a Painted Devil by Ruth Rendell
- Vanity Dies Hard by Ruth Rendell
Acquired in 2011
- Alas Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
- The Beautiful and the Grotesque by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane (M.J. Farrell)
- Doc by Mary Doria Russell
- A Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff
- Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
- A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
- Light Boxes by Shane Jones
- The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
- The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis
- Old Filth by Jane Gardam
- Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa
- The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
