Book List

Read so far in 2010:

  1. Rabbit, Redux by John Updike
  2. Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead–Audiobook
  3. The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
  4. A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger–Audiobook
  5. Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
  6. In the Drink by Kate Christensen
  7. Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
  8. The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike–Audiobook
  9. Queenpin by Megan Abbott
  10. Life Class by Pat Barker–Audiobook
  11. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  12. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
  13. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
  14. Undone by Karin Slaughter–Audiobook
  15. Still Life by Louise Penny
  16. Big Machine by Victor LaValle
  17. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo–Audiobook
  18. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  19. The Hidden Man by David Ellis
  20. The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
  21. The Kids are All Right by Diana, Liz, Amanda and Dan Welch
  22. The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
  23. Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
  24. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
  25. The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
  26. Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke
  27. Security by Stephen Amidon
  28. The Magicians by Lev Grossman–Audiobook
  29. Borkmann’s Point by Håkan Nesser
  30. The Skull Beneath the Skin by P. D. James–Audiobook
  31. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
  32. The Heights by Peter Hedges
  33. A Room With a View by E. M. Forster–Audiobook
  34. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  35. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
  36. Final Witness by Simon Tolkien
  37. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  38. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
  39. Empire Falls by Richard Russo–Audiobook
  40. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
  41. The Believers by Zoe Heller
  42. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman–Audiobook
  43. The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
  44. Under the Dome by Stephen King–Audiobook
  45. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
  46. Vanished by Joseph Finder
  47. The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
  48. Locke & Key Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
  49. Locke & Key Vol. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
  50. Butcher’s Hill by Laura Lippman–Audiobook
  51. Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
  52. The Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin
  53. Innocent by Scott Turow
  54. Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi
  55. Real World by Natsuo Kirino
  56. Hero-Type by Barry Lyga–Audiobook
  57. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  58. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
  59. Devices and Desires by P.D. James–Audiobook
  60. The Third Rail by Michael Harvey
  61. Still Midnight by Denise Mina–Audiobook
  62. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark–Audiobook
  63. Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi
  64. The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld–Audiobook
  65. Elegy for April by Benjamin Black–Audiobook
  66. Faithful Place by Tana French
  67. Deception by Denise Mina–Audiobook
  68. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky–Audiobook
  69. Savages by Don Winslow
  70. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo–Audiobook
  71. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan–Audiobook
  72. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

Read in 2009:

  1. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
  2. The Comedians by Graham Greene
  3. Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
  4. I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich
  5. The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
  6. Black & White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
  7. Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan
  8. Missing by Karin Alvtegen
  9. Calumet City by Charlie Newton
  10. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
  11. The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
  12. Fractured by Karin Slaughter
  13. Open Season by C. J. Box
  14. Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
  15. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
  16. Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
  17. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
  18. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
  19. A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes
  20. A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
  21. A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
  22. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
  23. Chinatown Beat by Henry Chang
  24. Blackburn by Bradley Denton
  25. My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru
  26. The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
  27. The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  28. The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry
  29. Dream House by Valerie Laken
  30. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie* (re-read)
  31. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
  32. A Certain Justice by P. D. James–Audiobook
  33. The Séance by John Harwood
  34. Transmission by Hari Kunzru
  35. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  36. After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
  37. City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
  38. The Lighthouse by P. D. James–Audiobook
  39. The Republic of Love by Carol Shields
  40. Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
  41. Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
  42. A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs–Audiobook
  43. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  44. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
  45. The Dead Father’s Club by Matt Haig
  46. The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
  47. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
  48. The Observations by Jane Harris
  49. Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer
  50. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
  51. The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 2: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry
  52. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead–Audiobook
  53. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
  54. Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
  55. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell–Audiobook
  56. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
  57. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner–Audiobook
  58. The Last Child by John Hart
  59. The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer
  60. The Dragon Man by Garry Disher
  61. Human Capital by Stephen Amidon
  62. Flight by Sherman Alexie
  63. The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
  64. The Program by Gregg Hurwitz
  65. The New City by Stephen Amidon
  66. The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
  67. So Far From God by Ana Castillo
  68. Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher
  69. Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
  70. And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi
  71. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  72. Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough
  73. The Woods by Harlan Coben–Audiobook
  74. The Abortionist’s Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
  75. Secret Son by Laila Lalami
  76. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  77. Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
  78. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
  79. Jericho’s Fall by Stephen L. Carter
  80. I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates–Audiobook
  81. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edogawa Rampo
  82. A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian
  83. Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow–Audiobook
  84. Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
  85. John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
  86. The Headmaster’s Wife  by Jane Haddam
  87. Death of an Expert Witness by P. D. James
  88. The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
  89. In Chancery by John Galsworthy
  90. To Let by John Galsworthy
  91. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
  92. Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen
  93. The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
  94. South of Broad by Pat Conroy
  95. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
  96. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike–Audiobook
  97. Miami Blues by Charles Willeford
  98. The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian
  99. The Professor’s Daughter by Emily Raboteau
  100. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  101. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
  102. Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
  103. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  104. The Black Tower by P.D. James–Audiobook
  105. The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
  106. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
  107. The Water’s Edge by Karin Fossum
  108. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley–Audiobook* (re-read)
  109. The Long Division by Derek Nikitas
  110. Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan–Audiobook
  111. Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher
  112. In the Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde
  113. Cell by Stephen King–Audiobook

Read in 2008:

  1. The Headmaster Ritual by Taylor Antrim
  2. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
  3. Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
  4. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
  5. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
  6. The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
  7. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe* (re-read)
  8. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
  9. Slam by Nick Hornby
  10. Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek
  11. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  12. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
  13. Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
  14. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  15. Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
  16. Down River by John Hart
  17. Priest by Ken Bruen
  18. Pyres by Derek Nikitas
  19. A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
  20. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
  21. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe–Audiobook* (re-read)
  22. The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
  23. The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell
  24. The Crazy School by Cornelia Read
  25. What I Was by Meg Rosoff
  26. Echo Park by Michael Connolly–Audiobook
  27. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
  28. The Abduction by Mark Gimenez
  29. The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham
  30. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
  31. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
  32. Lush Life by Richard Price–Audiobook
  33. The King of Lies by John Hart
  34. Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
  35. Howards End by E. M. Forster–Audiobook
  36. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
  37. Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
  38. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
  39. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote–Audiobook* (re-read)
  40. On Beauty by Zadie Smith* (re-read)
  41. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  42. Along Comes a Stranger by Dorie McCullough Lawson
  43. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner–Audiobook
  44. The Player by Michael Tolkin
  45. Unwind by Neal Shusterman
  46. A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
  47. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen–Audiobook
  48. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz–Audiobook
  49. Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
  50. Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
  51. Eye of the Beholder by David Ellis
  52. In the Woods by Tana French–Audiobook
  53. The Philosopher’s Apprentice by James Morrow
  54. Judas Horse by April Smith
  55. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson–Audiobook
  56. Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
  57. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
  58. The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits
  59. Beginner’s Greek by James Collins
  60. The Light of Day by Graham Swift
  61. Under the Skin by Michel Faber
  62. The Astonishing Adventures of Fan Boy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga–Audiobook
  63. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
  64. Night Train by Martin Amis
  65. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess–Audiobook
  66. PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
  67. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
  68. Master of the Delta by Thomas H. Cook
  69. Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
  70. Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
  71. Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb
  72. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
  73. Breakable You by Brian Morton
  74. Dead Clever by Scarlett Thomas
  75. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith–Audiobook
  76. Nineteen Seventy-Four by David Peace
  77. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
  78. Duma Key by Stephen King
  79. Trauma by Patrick McGrath
  80. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
  81. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  82. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  83. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
  84. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
  85. Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
  86. Palace Council by Stephen L. Carter
  87. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
  88. City of Thieves by David Benioff
  89. The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
  90. Black Seconds by Karin Fossum
  91. The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
  92. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  93. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 by Hunter S. Thompson
  94. The Likeness by Tana French
  95. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters *(re-read)
  97. The Sister by Poppy Adams
  98. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
  99. The Turnaround by George Pelecanos
  100. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
  101. Charm City by Laura Lippman
  102. Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson
  103. Executive Privilege by Phillip Margolin
  104. No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
  105. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
  106. Wild Justice by Phillip Margolin
  107. Notorious by Michele Martinez
  108. The Legal Limit by Martin Clark
  109. The Grift by Debra Ginsberg
  110. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson* (re-read)
  111. A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
  112. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume I* (re-read)
  113. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume II
  114. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  115. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
  116. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
  117. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  118. End in Tears by Ruth Rendell
  119. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  120. One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
  121. The Last Place by Laura Lippman
  122. Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon
  123. Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
  124. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  125. When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
  126. gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson* (re-read)
  127. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
  128. The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
  129. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
  130. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  131. The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
  132. What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
  133. Wonder When You’ll Miss Me by Amanda Davis
  134. Breath by Tim Winton
  135. Dramarama by E. Lockhart
  136. Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
  137. Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
  138. The Dead & The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  139. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
  140. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
  141. The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing