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- The Women: A Novel, Kristin Hannah
- The Sleeping Car Murders, Sebastien Japrisot
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- Long Island, Colm Toibin
- Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross
- The Ex Talk, Rachel Lynn Solomon
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- The Road from Belhaven: A Novel, Margot Livesey
- Lunar New Year Love Story, Gene Luen Yang
- Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea, Morgan Callan Rogers
- The Breaker, Minette Walters
- Tuesday's Gone: A Frieda Klein Mystery, Nicci French
- The Lost Bookshop, Evie Woods
- Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
- Kala, Colin Walsh
- Ruined, Sarah Vaughn ; Sarah Winifred Searle ; Niki Smith
- Heaven and Earth: A Novel, Paolo Giordano
- A Guest in the House, Emily Carroll
- The Last Summer, Karen Swan
- Done and Dusted, Lyla Sage
- Antarctica, Claire Keegan
- Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin
- Taka-chan and I: A Dog's Journey to Japan, Runcible ; Betty Jean Lifton
- Mr. Wilder and Me, Jonathan Coe
- The Body Falls, Andrea Carter
- Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
Books Read in 2022
- Radium Girls, Cy
- The Swimmer, Graham Norton
- The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey
- Death in the Andamans, M.M. Kaye
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton
- The Wonder Spot, Melissa Bank
- Gender Queer: A Memoir, Maia Kobabe
- King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine
- The Outrun: A Memoir, Amy Liptrot
- Alte Zachen / Old Things, Ziggy Hanaor
- A Dying Fall, Elly Griffiths
- The Cut, Chris Brookmyre
- Bobby March Will Live Forever, Alan Parks
- 1989, Val McDermid
- House of Glass, Susan Fletcher
- These Dark Things, Jan Merete Weiss
- Death in Zanzibar, M.M. Kaye
- February's Son, Alan Parks
- Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley
- The Nature of Witches, Rachel Griffin
- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
- Bloody January, Alan Parks
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
- Brought up in Bloomsbury, Polly Hobson
- Tiny Little Thing, Beatriz Williams
- Walk Me to the Corner, Anneli Furmark, tr. Hanna Stromberg
- Murder at Brightwell, Ashley Weaver
- Alias Emma, Ava Glass
- Death in Kenya, M.M. Kaye
- A Trouble of Fools, Linda Barnes
- Better Than the Movies, Lynn Painter
- The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak.
- The Key to Deceit, Ashley Weaver.
- An Academic Question, Barbara Pym
- Acts of Violet, Margarita Montimore
- U is for Undertow, Sue Grafton
- Liberty Bar, Georges Simenon, tr. David Watson
- River of Darkness, Rennie Airth
- Three, Valerie Perrin, tr. Hildegarde Serle
- Marzahn, Mon Amour, Katja Oskamp, tr. Jo Heinrich
- Mrs. England, Stacey Halls
- Postcard Stories, Jan Carson
- A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Axie Oh
- Book Lovers, Emily Henry
- A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
- Footprints on the Sand, Judith Lennox
- Death in Cyprus, M.M. Kaye
- Ridley Road, Jo Bloom
- Today Tonight Tomorrow, Rachel Lynn Solomon
- Love, Maayan Eitan
- Pandora, Susan Stokes-Chapman
- Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide, Kan Takahama, Emmanuelle Maisoneuve, Julia Pavlowitch
- Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
- Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
- Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason
- Natural Born Charmer, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- A Sunlit Weapon, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Well of Ice, Andrea Carter
- Passing, Nella Larsen
- Violeta, Isabel Allende, tr. Frances Riddle
- Death in Berlin, M.M. Kaye
- You'll Be the Death of Me, Karen M. McManus
- Bird in a Cage, Frederic Dard, tr. David Bellos
- Jezebel's Daughter, Wilkie Collins
- What's Left of Me Is Yours, Stephanie Scott
- Someone to Cherish, Mary Balogh
- The Fencing Master : Arturo Perez-Reverte, tr. Margaret Jull Costa
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo
- Crushing, Sophie Burrows
- Before My Actual Heart Breaks, Tish Delaney
- Very Cold People: A Novel, Sarah Manguso
- Himawari House, Harmony Becker
- The Maid: A Novel, Nita Prose
- Death in Kashmir: A Mystery, M.M. Kaye
- The Fountains of Silence, Ruta Sepetys
- Tunnels, Rutu Modan, tr. Ishai Mishory
- A Court of Thorns, Sarah J. Maas
- The Case of the Borrowed Brunette: A Perry Mason Mystery, Erle Stanley Gardner
- Why is Everybody Yelling, Marisabina Russo
Books Read in 2021
- Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover
- Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime, Debora Harding
- The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
- Treacherous Strand (Inishowen Mysteries #2), Andrea Carter
- Blue Monday: A Frieda Klein Mystery, Nicci French
- Stranger Planet, Nathan W. Pyle
- Christmas By the Book, Anne Marie Ryan
- This One Summer, Mario Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki
- Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
- Her Royal Spyness, Rhys Bowen
- 1979: An Allie Burns Novel, Val McDermid
- When I Lived in Modern Times, Linda Grant
- Death at Whitewater Church, Andrea Carter
- Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune
- The Other Side of Midnight, Simone St James
- The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, Amy E. Reichert
- Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
- The Strange Files of Fremont Jones, Dianne Day
- Ruth's First Christmas Tree, Elly Griffiths
- White Ivy: A Novel, Susie Yang
- Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
- No Gods, No Monsters: A Novel, Cadwell Turnbull
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
- Pirate King, Laurie R. King
- Take Me with You When You Go, David Levithan and Jennifer Niven
- Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Clark and Division: A Novel, Naomi Hirahara
- A Room Full of Bones, Elly Griffiths
- The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
- All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
- Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising), Susan Cooper
- Intimacies: A Novel, Katie Kitamura
- An Unlikely Spy, Rebecca Starford
- Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
- T Is for Trespass, Sue Grafton
- Beach Read, Emily Henry
- A Peculiar Combination: An Electra McDonnell Novel, Ashley Weaver
- The Great Godden, Meg Rosoff
- The God of the Hive, Laurie R. King
- Lucky Us: A Novel, Amy Bloom
- Whereabouts: A Novel, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The House at Sea's End, Elly Griffiths
- People From My Neighbourhood, Hiromi Kawakami, tr. Ted Goossen
- The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King
- What Angels Fear: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, C.S. Harris
- The Secrets of Wishtide, Kate Saunders
- Summer: A Novel, Ali Smith
- Oceanic, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Magpie Lane, Lucy Atkins
- A Madness of Sunshine, Nalini Singh
- Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology, Kendra Boileau
- Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers
- Slow Horses, Mick Herron
- Kusama: The Graphic Novel, Elisa Macellari
- Comes the War, Ed Ruggero
- The Dancing Floor, Barbara Michaels
- Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines, Lulah Ellender
- No Ivy League, Hazel Newlevant
- The Less People Know about Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, Axton Betz-Hamilton
- Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
- The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell
- Mrs. Tim of the Regiment: A Novel, D.E Stevenson
- Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I, Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb
- The German House, Annette Hess, tr. Elisabeth Lauffer
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
- The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh
- Spring: A Novel, Ali Smith
- Fresh Water for Flowers Valerie Perrin, tr. Hildegarde Serle
- Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
Books Read in 2020
- Displacement, Kiku Hughes
- The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper
- The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanizaki, tr. Edward G. Seidensticker
- The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
- S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
- After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next, Jana Hensel
- Broke City, Wendy McGrath
- North East, Wendy McGrath
- Santa Rosa, Wendy McGrath
- Farewell, Ghosts, Nadia Terranova, tr. Ann Goldstein
- Bunny Lake Is Missing, Evelyn Piper
- Dancing at the Pity Party, Tyler Feder
- Invisible Differences, Julie Dachez, Madememoiselle Caroline, tr. Edward Gauvin
- The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
- Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, Penelope Bagieu
- An Unmarked Grave: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles Todd
- The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
- Sweet Little Lies, Caz Frear
- Over Sea, Over Stone, Susan Cooper
- The Rescuers, Margery Sharp
- A Map of the Damage, Sophia Tobin
- Eva Underground, Dandi Daley Mackall
- The Godwulf Manuscript, Robert B. Parker
- The Phantom Twin, Lisa Brown
- "R" Is For Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, Natasha Trethewey
- Winter: A Novel, Ali Smith
- At Bertram's Hotel: A Miss Marple Mystery, Agatha Christie
- How To Be Autistic, Charlotte Amelia Poe
- Maigret in Montmartre, Georges Simenon, tr.Daphne Woodward
- The Mountains Wild, Sarah Stewart Taylor
- The Summer Wives: A Novel, Beatriz Williams
- The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Fordham, Aya Morton
- The Cutting Season: A Novel, Attica Locke
- Haunting Of Strawberry Water, Tara Gould
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel, Otessa Moshfegh
- Summer Solstice: An Essay, Nina MacLaughlin
- Little Jewel, Patrick Modiano, tr. Penny Hueston
- American Girl: Scenes from a Small-Town Childhood, Mary Cantwell
- Angel (Virago Modern Classics), Elizabeth Taylor
- Stepping Stones (Peapod Farm), Lucy Knisley
- Not Our Kind: A Novel, Kitty Zeldis
- Book Love, Debbie Tung
- The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths
- Blame the Dead, Ed Ruggero
- Strike Your Heart, Amélie Nothomb, tr, Alison Anderson
- "Q" is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Underground Time, Delphine de Vigan, tr. George Miller
- Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, Julia Alekseyeva
- The Vet's Daughter (NYRB Classics), Barbara Comyns
- The Aloe, Katherine Mansfield
- Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult, Marianne Boucher
- The Wolf Of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland, Carol Isaacs (The Surreal McCoy)
- The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
- Dominicana: A Novel, Angie Cruz
- Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat, Aimée de Jongh, tr. (Dutch)
- Algeria Is Beautiful like America, Olivia Burton, Mahi Grand, tr. Edward Gauvin
- "P" is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries), Sue Grafton
- Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story, Debbie Tung
- The Ashes of London, Andrew Taylor
- The Mars Room: A Novel, Rachel Kushner
- Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir, Robin Ha
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Richard Peck
- The Mischief, Assia Djebar, tr. Frances Frenaye
- Two Girls Down, Louisa Luna
- Heart Berries: A Memoir, Terese Marie Mailhot
- Penny Nichols, MK Reed, Greg Means, Matt Wiegle
- Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy, Larry Loftis
- Sanditon: [Jane Austen], Kate Riordan
- Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, Nora Krug