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Yearlong Monthly Serial Read Salka Viertel: The Kindness of Strangers (NYRBooks Classics)
January subscription bookSue Grafton: J is for Judgment (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)
Terry Tempest Williams: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Books Read in 2019
- Return from the Ashes, Hubert Monteilhet, tr. Richard Howard
- The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean, Mira Robertson
- Indifferent Heroes (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- "I" is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Nothing but the Night (NYRB Classics), John Williams
- A Spring of Love, Celia Dale
- Good Daughters (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
- An Experiment in Love: A Novel, Hilary Mantel
- Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, Kate Winkler Dawson
- "H" is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Alice Network: A Novel, Kate Quinn
- Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece, Camille Laurens, tr. Willard Wood
- Maigret's Mistake, Georges Simenon, tr. Howard Curtis
- "G" is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Emma, Vol. 1: Kaoru Mori
Books Read in 2018
- A Dark Corner, Celia Dale
- Christmas at High Rising (Virago Modern Classics), Angela Thirkell
- My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
- Before Mars (A Planetfall Novel), Emma Newman
- Sheep's Clothing (Virago Modern Classics), Celia Dale
- Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, William Boyd
- "F" is for Fugitive (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- The Mitford Murders: A Mystery: Jessica Fellowes
Audio Book - The Second Rider, Alex Beer, tr. Tim Mohr
- Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony, Andrew Bloomfield
- The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel, Kate Morton
- Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori
- E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Curtain Call, Anthony Quinn
- November Road: A Novel, Lou Berney
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel, Hank Green
- A Shilling for Candles, Josephine Tey
- D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Attachments: A Novel, Rainbow Rowell
- C Is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- On the Edge, Peter Lovesey
- A Little Bird Told Me, Marianne Holmes
- B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- August is a Wicked Month, Edna O'Brien
- A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysterie), Sue Grafton
- Tennison: Prime Suspect 1973, Lynda La Plante
- The Wildling Sisters, Eve Chase
- A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 (NYRB Classics), Iris Origo
- Holloway, Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards
- Sabrina, Nick Drnaso
- Clock Dance: A Novel, Anne Tyler
- How to Find Love in a Bookshop: A Novel, Veronica Henry
- The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel, Gail Honeyman
- I See You, Clare Mackintosh
- Act Like It, Lucy Parker
- Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine, Anaële Hermans, Delphine Hermans
- Miss Buncle's Book: D.E. Stevenson
- Coronet Among The Weeds, Charlotte Bingham
- Vinegar Girl: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare), Anne Tyler
- The Room on Rue Amélie, Kristin Harmel
- Merry Hall, Beverley Nichols
- Paper Girls Volume 2, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, Matt Wilson
- The Light of Paris, Eleanor Brown
- Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home, Susan Hill
- Sight: A Novel, Jessie Greengrass
- A Baby's Bones (Sage Westfield), Rebecca Alexander
- Tirra Lirra by the River: A Novel, Jessica Anderson
- The Female Persuasion: A Novel, Meg Wolitzer
- Paper Girls Volume 1, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K. Fletcher, Matthew Wilson
- Basic Black With Pearls (NYRB Classics), Helen Weinzweig
- We All Wish for Deadly Force, Leela Corman
- Medea [and Other Plays], Euripides, tr. Philip Vellacott
- Invitation to the Waltz (Virago Modern Classics), Rosamond Lehmann
- All for Nothing (NYRB Classics), Walter Kempowski, tr. Anthea Bell
- Keep the Home Fires Burning (War at Home 1915), Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Dying Voices, Laura Wilson
- Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa, tr. Alison Watts
- The Public Image (Virago Modern Classics), Muriel Spark
- Bodies of Light, Sarah Moss
- Little Reunions (NYRB Classics), Eileen Chang, tr. Martin Merz, tr. Jane Weizhen Pan
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- Three Floors Up, Eshkol Nevo, tr. Sondra Silverston
- Providence, Anita Brookner
- A London Child of the 1870s, Molly Hughes
- Call Me by Your Name: A Novel, André Aciman
- Exposure, Helen Dunmore
- In Other Words: Jhumpa Lahiri, tr. Ann Goldstein
- The Clothing of Books: Jhumpa Lahiri, tr. Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush
- The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
- The Cellars of the Majestic, Georges Simenon, tr. Howard Curtis
- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, tr. Anna Summers
- Woman in the Dark, Dashiell Hammett
Books Read in 2017
- Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Jane Smiley
- We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to be French, Emma Beddington
- Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King
- Carney's House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
- My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
- The Bastards of Pizzofalcone, Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Antony Shugaar
- Bread and Butter Stories, Mary Norton
- Browse: The World in Bookshops, Henry Hitchings
- Appointment with Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Agatha Christie
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, P.D. James
- The Woolgrower's Companion, Joy Rhoades
- Thornhill, Pam Smy
- The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin
- The Living Infinite: A Novel, Chantel Acevedo
- Carol, Patricia Highsmith
- The Madeleine Project: Clara Beaudoux, tr. Alison Anderson
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- Something Like Happy, John Burnside
- A Cold Day for Murder, Dana Stabenow
- Bilgewater, Jane Gardam
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
- Beautiful Animals: A Novel, Lawrence Osborne
- Six Bedrooms: [Short Stories], Tegan Bennett Daylight
- Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite, Suki Kim
- Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Stowaway to Mars, John Wyndham
- Under the Harrow: A Novel, Flynn Berry
- Paper Girls: Volume 3, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
- The Strays, Emily Bitto
- My Holidays, Sylvia Smith
- Hend and the Soldiers, Badriah Albeshr, tr. Sanna Dhahir
- Sindbad the Sailor (Penguin Little Black Classics), Anonymous, tr. Malcolm C. Lyons
- The Forgotten Garden: A Novel, Kate Morton
- The Child, Fiona Barton
- Leaving Home: A Novel, Anita Brookner
- Finding Nouf, Zoë Ferraris
- In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II, Rhys Bowen
- The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics), Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer, tr. Ida H. Washington and Carol E. Washington
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (Penguin Little Black Classics), Kate Chopin
- Swimming Home: A Novel, Mary-Rose MacColl
- Wait Till Next Year - A Memoir, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- A Likeness In Stone, Julia Wallis Martin
- The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Beatriz Williams
- The Dry: A Novel, Jane Harper
- Family Lexicon (NYRB Classics), Natalia Ginzburg, tr. Jenny McPhee
- In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Dark Circle, Linda Grant
- Their Finest: A Novel, Lissa Evans
- Dying: A Memoir, Cory Taylor
- Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Maggie Hope Mystery, Susan Elia MacNeal
- Homegoing: A Novel, Yaa Gyasi
- The Confidant: A Novel, Helene Gremillon, tr. Alison Anderson
- Stay with Me: A Novel, Ayobami Adebayo
- First Love, Gwendoline Riley
- Rosemary's Baby: A Novel, Ira Levin
- Closely Watched Trains, Bohumil Hrabal, tr. Edith Pargeter
- Nights At the Alexandra, William Trevor
- Little Deaths: A Novel, Emma Flint
- The Gingerbread Woman, Jennifer Johnston
- Household Saints, Francine Prose
- Magnus, Sylvie Germain, tr. Christine Donougher
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- A Touch of Mistletoe, Barbara Comyns
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
- Stolen Beauty: A Novel, Laurie Lico Albanese
- Paper Girls: Volume 2, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
- Paper Girls: Volume 1, Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
- Snow White: A Graphic Novel, Matt Phelan
- A Slip Under the Microscope (Penguin Little Black Classics), H.G.Wells
- The Beautiful Visit, Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man (NYRB Classics), U.R. Ananthamurthy, tr. A. K. Ramanujan
- London Calling, Sara Sheridan
- The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
- Third Miss Symons (Virago Modern Classics), F. M. Mayor
- A Florence Diary, Diana Athill
Books Read in 2016
- Goodbye, Piccadilly: War at Home - 1914, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Decision at Delphi, Helen Macinnes
- In a Lonely Place: Dorothy B. Hughes
- The Stormy Petrel, Mary Stewart
- Blood Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi, Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Anthony Shugaar
- The Game, Laurie R. King
- Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Penguin Little Black Classics), Giovanni Boccaccio, tr. Peter Hainsworth
- Early Warning, Jane Smiley
- The Invisibility Cloak (NYRB Classics), Ge Fei, tr. Canaan Morse
- Grand Hotel (NYRB Classics), Vicki Baum, tr. Basil Creighton, rev. Margot Bettauer Dembo
- The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Georges Simenon, tr. Shaun Whiteside
- The City Baker's Guide to Country Living: A Novel, Louise Miller
- Fair Play (NYRB Classics), Tove Jansson, tr. Thomas Teal
- Fiercombe Manor: A Novel, Kate Riordan
- Cabaret, Joe Masteroff
- The Crying Child, Barbara Michaels
- Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953, Elizabeth Winder
- Saga: Vol. 4, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (NYRB Classics), Teffi, tr. Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Elizabeth Chandler, Edythe Haber, Irina Steinberg
- The Namesake: A Novel, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Saga: Vol. 3, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Red Garden, Alice Hoffman
- The Dollhouse: A Novel, Fiona Davis
- A Sensible Life, Mary Wesley
- Family Life: A Novel, Akhil Sharma
- This Must Be the Place: A Novel, Maggie O'Farrell
- Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
- Indignation, Philip Roth
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner
- Some Luck, Jane Smiley
- The Girls in the Garden: A Novel, Lisa Jewell
- Music At Long Verney, Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Lawyer's Secret, M. E. Braddon
- Brighton Belle (A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery), Sara Sheridan
- Hello Bunny Alice, Laura Wilson
- Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl: The Summer of 1926 at the Horseshoe Inn, Kay Turnbaugh, Lee Tillotson
- Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
- A Quiet Drink, Deborah Moggach
- Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy, Ken Follett
- If I Forget You: A Novel, Thomas Christopher Greene
- Saga: Vol. 2, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Hunters: A Novel, James Salter
- Alex + Ada: Volume 3, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- The Green Road: A Novel, Anne Enright
- The China Factory, Mary Costello
- Alex + Ada: Volume 2, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- The Alchemist's Daughter: A Novel, Katharine McMahon
- The Canterbury Papers: A Novel, Judith Koll Healey
- Saga: Vol. 1, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- The Sins of the Fathers, Lawrence Block
- Alex + Ada: Volume 1, Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
- Hill (NYRB Classics), Jean Giono, tr. Paul Eprile
- The Moomins and the Great Flood, Tove Jansson, tr.David McDuff
- Death in Zanzibar, M. M. Kaye
- What We Talk About When We Talk about the Tube: The District Line, John Lanchester
- Long Red Hair, Meags Fitzgerald
- The Lost Garden: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The Blush (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Life Class: A Novel, Pat Barker
- I Will Have Vengeance (Commissario Ricciardi), Maurizio de Giovanni, tr. Anne Milano Appel
- The Woman in the Picture, Katharine McMahon
- In the Café of Lost Youth (NYRB Classics), Patrick Modiano, tr. Chris Clarke
- Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir, Tove Jansson, tr. Kingsley Hart
- Foster, Claire Keegan
- 1914: A Novel, Jean Echenoz, tr. Linda Coverdale
- Love and Summer: A Novel, William Trevor
- More Was Lost: A Memoir (NYRB Classics), Eleanor Perenyi
- Petty Theft, Pascal Girard, tr. Helge Dascher
- Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
- The Two-Family House: A Novel, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Photobooth: A Biography, Meags Fitzgerald
- Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict, Vanessa Gebbie
- A Good Parcel of English Soil: The Metropolitan Line, Richard Mabey
- Beyond the Glass (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- Black Wings Has My Angel (NYRB Classics), Elliott Chaze
- Travelling Light: Tove Jansson, tr. Silvester Mazzarella
- Even the Dead: A Quirke Novel, Benjamin Black
- Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
- The Crimson Rooms, Katharine McMahon
- The Sugar House (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- My History: A Memoir of Growing Up, Antonia Fraser
- Heads and Straights: The Circle Line, Lucy Wadham
- Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War, Jennifer Robson
- A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono , tr. ?
Books Read in 2015
- Poor Cow, Nell Dunn
- The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir
- Lanterns Across the Snow, Susan Hill
- A Jest of God, Margaret Laurence
- Jamilti and Other Stories, Rutu Modan, tr. Noah Stollman, Jesse Mishori
- Justice Hall, Laurie R. King
- At the Source: A Writer's Year, Gillian Clarke
- Macbeth, Gareth Hinds
- Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Wreath of Roses (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Ship Fever: Stories, Andrea Barrett
- The Property, Rutu Modan, tr. Jessica Cohen
- So Big, Edna Ferber
- Girl Waits with Gun, Amy Stewart
- The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman, Susanna Whatman
- Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, Kate Summerscale
- Death on Site, Janet Neel
- Exit Wounds: Rutu Modan, tr. Noah Stollman
- By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Shining Girls: A Novel, Lauren Beukes
- My Berlin Child, Anne Wiazemsky, tr. Alison Anderson
- The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
- My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past, Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair, tr. Carolin Sommer
- The Lady Agnès Mystery - Volume 1: The Season of the Beast and The Breath of the Rose, Andrea Japp, tr. Lorenza Garcia
- Chocky (NYRB Classics), John Wyndham
- The Devereaux Legacy, Carolyn Hart
- High Wages, Dorothy Whipple
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
- Dominion, C.J. Sansom
- The People in the Photo: Hélène Gestern, tr. Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz
- Legend in Green Velvet, Elizabeth Peters
- Half of the Human Race, Anthony Quinn
- O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
- The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery, Clare Langley-Hawthorne
- Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Winston Graham
- The Water's Lovely, Ruth Rendell
- The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich
- Death in the Fog, Mignon G. Eberhart
- A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald, tr. Alice Menzies
- Nora Webster: A Novel, Colm Toibin
- Consequences of Sin, Clare Langley-Hawthorne
- A Hundred Summers, Beatriz Williams
- Longbourn, Jo Baker
- All Passion Spent (Virago Modern Classics), Vita Sackville-West
- Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: The Grantchester Mysteries, James Runcie
- A Possibility of Violence: A Novel, D. A. Mishani, tr. Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- Infinite Riches: Classic Stories by Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Lynn Knight
- Rattle His Bones (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries), Carola Dunn
- The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman
- The Hilltop: A Novel, Assaf Gavron, tr. Steven Cohen
- Crooked Heart: A Novel, Lissa Evans
- Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel, Laura Lippman
- Dolly City, Orly Castel-Bloom, tr. Dalya Bilu
- The Missing File: A Novel, D. A. Mishani, tr. Steven Cohen
- Station Eleven: A novel, Emily St. John Mandel
- Sisters of Shiloh, Kathy Hepinstall, Becky Hepinstall Hilliker
- Gillespie and I: A Novel, Jane Harris
- Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, Richard Rhodes
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani, tr. William Weaver
- Second Person Singular, Sayed Kashua, tr. Mitch Ginsburg
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- The Evening Chorus: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The People of Forever Are Not Afraid: A Novel, Shani Boianjiu
- The Girl on the Train: A Novel, Paula Hawkins
- Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel, Peter Robinson
- Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story, Ari Folman, David Polonsky
- Sputnik Sweetheart: A Novel, Haruki Murakami, tr. Philip Gabriel
- The Spy Game: A Novel, Georgina Harding
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore
- Up the Junction (Virago Modern Classics), Nell Dunn
Books Read in 2014
- Tristana (NYRB Classics), Benito Perez Galdos, tr. Margaret Jull Costa
- Before the Poison, Peter Robinson
- The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)
- The Curious Gardener: A Gardening Year, Anna Pavord
- Seven Lives and One Great Love, Memories of a Cat, Lena Divani, tr. Konstantine Matsoukas
- Beaufort, Ron Leshem, tr. Evan Fallenberg
- A Florentine Revenge, Christobel Kent
- Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Almost Dead: A Novel, Assaf Gavron, tr. James Lever
- Fear, Stefan Zweig, tr. Anthea Bell
- Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman
- My Dear I Wanted to Tell You: A Novel, Louisa Young
- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History, Art Spiegelman
- The Moor: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King
- The Lover, A. B. Yehoshua, tr. Philip Simpson
- The English Girl, Margaret Leroy
- This House is Haunted, John Boyne
- Every Eye: Isobel English
- My Michael, Amos Oz, tr. Nicholas de Lange
- Parnassus on Wheels (The Art of the Novella), Christopher Morley
- Fallen Women, Sandra Dallas
- Poisoned Ground: A Hakim and Arnold Mystery, Barbara Nadel
- Khirbet Khizeh, S. Yizhar, tr. Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck
- Her Royal Spyness: A Royal Spyness Mystery, Rhys Bowen (Audio Book)
- The Summer of Dead Toys: A Thriller, Antonio Hill, tr. Laura McGloughlin
- Maigret in Holland, Georges Simenon, tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury
- The Country of the Pointed Firs (The Art of the Novella), Sarah Orne Jewett
- The Lie, Helen Dunmore
- A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel, Ruth Ozeki
- Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, Andrea Wulf
- Silence for the Dead, Simone St. James
- Shadow Sister, Simone van der Vlugt, tr. Michele Hutchison
- On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Eline Vere: A Novel of the Hague, Louis Couperus, tr. Ina Rilke
- Ruth & Gisela, Elizabeth Wix
- During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (NYRB Classics), Joan Chase
- Mad Puppetstown (Virago Modern Classics), Molly Keane
- Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill, Dimitri Verhulst, tr. David Colmer
- Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories, Janwillem Van De Wetering
- Black Lake: A Novel, Johanna Lane
- Wildfire at Midnight, Mary Stewart
- An Appetite for Violets, Martine Bailey
- Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo
- How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books, Joan Bodger
- The Wicked Girls: A Novel, Alex Marwood (Audio Book)
- Me Before You: A Novel, Jojo Moyes
- Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac, tr. Henry Reed
- The Man in the Queue, Josephine Tey
- My Life (The Art of the Novella series), Anton Chekhov, tr. Constance Garnett
- Toby's Room, Pat Barker
- The Girl Is Murder, Kathryn Miller Haines
- The Lesson of the Master (The Art of the Novella series), Henry James
- An Inquiry Into Love and Death, Simone St. James
- The Ghost of the Mary Celeste: A Novel, Valerie Martin
- Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, Angela Carter
- The Winter People: A Novel, Jennifer McMahon
- Dark Tide: A Novel, Elizabeth Haynes
- Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (NYRB Classics), William H. Gass
- Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, Sarah Weinman
- The Lost Traveller (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen, Bob Greene
- Mind the Child: The Victoria Line, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Kids Company
- In the Dark, Deborah Moggach
- Vienna Blood: A Max Liebermann Mystery, Frank Tallis
- The Emperor of Paris, CS Richardson
- Under the Jeweled Sky, Alison McQueen
- The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War, Howard Bahr
- The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie
- Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Dead (The Art of the Novella), James Joyce
- The Lieutenant's Lady, Bess Streeter Aldrich
- Frost in May (Virago Modern Classics), Antonia White
- Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Books Read in 2013
- My Face for the World to See (NYRBooks Classics), Alfred Hayes
- Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
- The Frozen Deep, Wilkie Collins
- The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories (NYRB Classics), Saki
- The Lewis Man, Peter May
- Fenny, Lettice Cooper
- A Commonplace Killing: A Novel, Siân Busby
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, tr. Willa and Edwin Muir
- The Quincunx, Charles Palliser
- The Winter Rose, Jennifer Donnelly
- Stella Bain, Anita Shreve
- Alexander's Bridge (The Art of the Novella), Willa Cather
- The Wall, Marlen Haushofer, tr. Shaun Whiteside
- The Duel (The Art of the Novella), Giacomo Casanova, tr. James Marcus
- Everything Flows (NYRB Classics), Vasily Grossman, tr. Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler with Anna Aslanyan
- The Haunted Looking Glass, (NYRB Classics), Edward Gorey
- The Haunted Hotel, Wilkie Collins
- Joyland, Stephen King
- There's No Home, Alexander Baron
- Crusoe's Daughter, Jane Gardam
- Airs Above the Ground, Mary Stewart
- In a Good Light, Clare Chambers
- Flush: A Biography, Virginia Woolf
- The Man in the Picture, Susan Hill
- Nature Cure, Richard Mabey
- Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy), Jean-Claude Izzo, tr. Howard Curtis
- Grey Souls, Philippe Claudel, tr. Adriana Hunter
- The Persephone Book of Short Stories
- How the Two Ivans Quarrelled (The Art of the Novella), Nikolai Gogol, tr. John Cournos
- Turtle Diary (NYRB Classics), Russell Hoban
- The Stubborn Season, Lauren B. Davis
- A Grave Talent, Laurie R. King
- Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War, Assia Djebar, tr. Marjolijn de Jager
- The Duel (The Art of the Novella), Heinrich von Kleist, tr. Annie Janusch
- Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, Emma Straub
- The Continental Op, Dashiell Hammett
- The Last Detective: Introducing Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond, Peter Lovesey
- Transit (NYRB Classics), Anna Seghers, tr. Margot Bettauer Dembo
- Quiet as a Nun: A Jemima Shore Mystery, Antonia Fraser
- The Distracted Preacher (The Art of the Novella), Thomas Hardy
- Winter in Wartime, Jan Terlouw (translated)
- Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries), Louise Penny
- Alex, Pierre Lemaitre, tr. Frank Wynne
- Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil: Essays on Marseilles, The Mediterranean, and Noir Fiction: Jean-Claude Izzo, tr. Howard Curtis
- Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Agatha Christie
- Crampton Hodnet, Barbara Pym
- Lady Susan (The Art of the Novella), Jane Austen
- Jacob's Room (The Art of the Novella), Virginia Woolf
- Jack Absolute: A Novel, C.C. Humphreys
- Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Girl in Berlin, Elizabeth Wilson
- Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Hotel Paradise, Martha Grimes
- Pitch Dark (NYRB Classics), Renata Adler
- Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times, Jennifer Worth
- Grey Mask (A Miss Silver Mystery), Patricia Wentworth
- The Wars, Timothy Findley
- An Armenian Sketchbook (NYRB Classics), Vasily Grossman, tr. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
- A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
- The Alienist (The Art of the Novella), Machado De Assis, tr. William L. Grossman
- The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe, Paula Fox
- Petite Mort, or A Little Death, Beatrice Hitchman
- Economy Must Be Our Watchword, Joyce Dennys
- The Horla (The Art of the Novella), Guy de Maupassant, tr. Charlotte Mandell
- Testing the Current (NYRB Classics), William McPherson
- Stet: An Editor's Life, Diana Athill
- Bread and Butter Stories (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Norton
- The Devil (The Art of the Novella), Leo Tolstoy, tr. Louise and Alymer Maude
- Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, Paula Fox
- Letters from Constance (Virago Modern Classics), Mary Hocking
- Cashelmara, Susan Howatch
- The Flowers of War, Geling Yan, tr. Nicky Harman
- The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (The Art of the Novella), Mark Twain
- At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel, Alice McDermott
- Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe, Christina Hardyment
- Last Of Summer (Virago Modern Classics), Kate O'Brien
- A Countess Below Stairs, Eva Ibbotson
- Fanfarlo (The Art of the Novella), Charles Baudelaire, tr. Edward K. Kaplan
- The Yellow Birds: A Novel, Kevin Powers
- Doctor Glas: A Novel, Hjalmar Soderberg, tr. Paul Britten Austin
- Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Julia Strachey
- An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- Guard your daughters: A novel, Diana Tutton
- Dispatches, Michael Herr
- May Day (The Art of the Novella), F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books Read in 2012
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella), Herman Melville
- The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- Rock Crystal, Adalbert Stifter, tr. Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Mayer
- Ghost Story, Peter Straub
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II, Gert Ledig, tr. Michael Hofmann
- The Progress of Love, Alice Munro
- Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Alexandre Dumas, tr. Joachim Neugroschel
- Windflower, Gabrielle Roy, tr. Phyllis Webb
- The Skin Chairs, Barbara Comyns (Virago Modern Classics)
- The Blackhouse: A Novel, Peter May
- Pharmacist, Ingrid Noll, tr. Ian Mitchell
- Romantic Fairy Tales, Goethe, Tieck, Fouque and Brentano, tr. Carol Tully
- A Letter of Mary, Laurie R. King
- Fraulein Else: Arthur Schnitzler, tr. F. H. Lyon
- Crewe Train (Virago Modern Classics), Rose Macaulay
- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Audio Book - The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Violin of Auschwitz: A Novel, Maria Angels Anglada, tr. Martha Tennent
- Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart
- Mythology, Edith Hamilton
- The Murders in Volume 2, Elizabeth Daly
- Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease, Cecil Beaton
- The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel, Joanne Harris
- A Little Dinner Before the Play (Penguin Great Food), Agnes Jekyll
- Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell
- Peace, Richard Bausch
- Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, Roger Deakin
- A Childhood In Scotland, Christian Miller
- The Hunting Ground, Cliff McNish
- The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Simone St. James
- The Age of Desire: A Novel, Jennie Fields
- This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart
- The Story of a Life, Aharon Appelfeld, tr. Aloma Halter
- Falcons of Montabard, Elizabeth Chadwick
- Broken Harbor: A Novel, Tana French
- Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties, Marion Meade
- Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, A.S. Byatt
- Koula, Menis Koumandareas, tr. Kay Cicellis
- Black Rain, Masuji Ibuse, tr. John Bester
- The Winter House, Judith Lennox
- Divorce Islamic Style, Amara Lakhous, tr. Ann Goldstein
- The Prestige, Christopher Priest, Simon Vance
Audio Book - Tales of the City: A Novel, Armistead Maupin
- Hetty Dorval, Ethel Wilson
- Dead Scared, S. J. Bolton
- The Chatelet Apprentice, Jean-Francois Parot, tr. Michael Glencross
- The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty
- What Dies in Summer, Tom Wright
- The Terra-Cotta Dog, Andrea Camilleri, tr. Stephen Sartarelli
- Swamp Angel, Ethel Wilson
- Julia, Otto de Kat, Ina Rilke
- The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty
- The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, Maurice DeKobra, tr. Neal Wainwright
- The Uninvited Guests: A Novel, Sadie Jones
- In the Springtime of the Year, Susan Hill
- Darkness Falls from the Air, Nigel Balchin
- Fly Away Peter, David Malouf
- The Song of Achilles: A Novel, Madeline Miller
- From Newbury With Love: Letters of Friendship Across the Iron Curtain, Anna Horsbrugh-Porter and Marina Aidova
- A Brief History of Montmaray, Michelle Cooper
- The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle 1), Elizabeth Jane Howard
- The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel, Adriana Trigiani
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
Audio Book - Coventry: A Novel, Helen Humphreys
- The Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
- The Lover of the Grave (Lydmouth Mysteries), Andrew Taylor
- Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Duel, Anton Chekhov, tr. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
- Girl Reading: A Novel, Katie Ward
- The Black Spider, Jeremias Gotthelf, tr. H.M. Waidson
- To the Slaughterhouse, Jean Giono, tr. Norman Glass
- Mortal Sickness (Lydmouth Mysteries), Andrew Taylor
- My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather
- The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, tr. Richard Pevear
- Revelations: Diaries of Women, Mary Jane Moffat, Charlotte Painter
- Q's Legacy, Helene Hanff
- A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
- The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson
- At Mrs Lippincote's, Elizabeth Taylor
- A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs, Alexandra Johnson
- Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate), Amy Thomas
- The Gastronomical Me, M. F. K. Fisher
- Girls of Riyadh, Rajaa Alsanea, tr. Marilyn Booth
- A Diary without Dates, Enid Bagnold
- Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore
- Hotel Du Lac, Anita Brookner
- Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived, Penelope Lively
- Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi, tr. Anjali Singh
- Hell Hath No Fury, Ingrid Noll, tr. Ian Mitchell
- From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming
- Two for the Dough, Janet Evanovich
Books Read in 2011
- Love Among the Daughters: Memories of the Twenties in England and America, Elspeth Huxley
- Ice Cold, Andrea Schenkel, Anthea Bell
- War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944, Iris Origo
- A Lighthearted Quest, Ann Bridge
- The Greenhouse, Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Brian FitzGibbon
- The City and the House, Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis
- April in Paris, Michael Wallner, John Cullen
- The Rose Garden, Susanna Kearsley
- The Silent Angel, Heinrich Boll, Breon Mitchell
- Head Count, Ingrid Noll, Ian Mitchell
- Wild Life, Molly Gloss
- Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane, Hugh Rorrison, Helen Chambers
- Journey Into the Past, Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell
- The Murder Farm, Andrea M. Schenkel, Anthea Bell
- The Lotus Eaters: A Novel, Tatjana Soli
- North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Uncommon Reader: A Novella, Alan Bennett
- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
- The Lantern: A Novel, Deborah Lawrenson
- The Long Shadow (Morland Dynasty), Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Dark Matter: A Ghost Story, Michelle Paver
- A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell
- Now You See Me S. J. Bolton
- The Lady Vanishes, Ethel Lina White
- One Fine Day, Mollie Panter-Downes
- The Last Letter from Your Lover: A Novel, Jojo Moyes
- The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
- My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart
- This Is How, M.J.Hyland
- The World My Wilderness, Rose Macaulay
- Bath Tangle, Georgette Heyer
- House of Silence, Linda Gillard
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- Rules of Civility: A Novel, Amor Towles
- Studio 69, Liza Marklund, Kajsa von Hofsten
- Almost Blue, Carlo Lucarelli, Oonagh Stransky
- Sylvester: or The Wicked Uncle, Georgette Heyer
- The Last Enemy, Grace Brophy
- The Vendetta, Honore de Balzac, (Katharine Prescott Wormeley)
- Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel, S. J. Watson
- The Return of Captain John Emmett, Elizabeth Speller
- Survival In Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity, Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf
- Portrait of the Mother As a Young Woman, Friedrich Christian Delius, Jamie Bulloch
- Losing Nicola, Susan Moody
- The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer
- Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
- Paradise, Liza Marklund, Ingrid Eng-Rundlow
- River of Shadows, Valerio Varesi, Joseph Farrell
- Across the Common, Elizabeth Berridge
- On Borrowed Wings, Chandra Prasad
- The Sea and Poison, Shusaku Endo, Michael Gallagher
- Death of an Englishman: A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation, Magdalen Nabb
- Frozen Moment, Camilla Ceder, Marlaine Delargy
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, Kate Simon
- The Shape of Water, Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
- A Covenant with Death, Stephen Becker
- Early Stories, Daphne Du Maurier
- Places in the Dark, Thomas H. Cook
- The Paris Wife: A Novel, Paula McLain
- Death on a Galician Shore, Domingo Villar, Sonia Soto
- The Winter of the World: A Novel, Carol Ann Lee
- Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
- Silent On The Moor, Deanna Raybourn
- 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
- Hotel Bosphorus, Esmahan Aykol, Ruth Whitehouse
- The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
- The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
- The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
- A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- Common or Garden Crime: An Irish Gardening Mystery, Sheila Pim
- Chasing AllieCat, Rebecca Fjelland Davis
- Ghost Light: A Novel, Joseph O'Connor
- Beside the Sea, Veronique Olmi, Adriana Hunter
- How Many Miles to Babylon?, Jennifer Johnston
- Gay Life, E.M. Delafield
- This Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel, Elizabeth George
- Stone in a Landslide, Maria Barbal, Paul Mitchell, Laura McGloughlin
- Taking Chances (Virago Modern Classics), M.J. Farrell
- The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Summer Book, Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal
- Thank Heaven Fasting (Virago Modern Classics), E.M. Delafield
- Strange Meeting, Susan Hill
- The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Metropolis Case: A Novel, Matthew Gallaway
- What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel, Zoe Heller
- Heart of the Night, Judith Lennox
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan