The list jogs my memory, reminding me of good stories read and some I may want to reread.  Maybe you will find some old favorites in the lists or a few good books you’ve missed.

You can read my reviews by typing in the book title into the “Search” box on the website but here are a few direct links to books I still remember reading – just not sure when:

Books I can still remember reading…

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
• Son by Lois Lowry
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Undertow by Jo Baker
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House

Reviews of Oldies but Goodies

• The Art of Fielding
• Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
• The Buddha in the Attic
• The Forgotten Waltz
• The Heights
• The House I Loved
• The House on Fortune Street
• How It All Began
• I’ve Got Your Number
• The Language of Flowers
• Lunatics (humor)
• The Marriage Plot
• The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
• The Sense of an Ending
• The Sojourn
• Smut
• The Stranger’s Child
• The Time in Between
• Ape House by Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants)

• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle 
• Beginner’s Greek by James Collins (Romance)
• The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace 
• A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve 
• Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton Paterson
• Every Last One by Anna Quindlin 
• The Family Man by Eleanor Lipman
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Grange House by Sarah Blake (author of The Postmistress)
  
• The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell 
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (ghost story – author of “Time Traveler’s Wife)
  
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 
• The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman 
• Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
• The Lonely Polygamist by Barry Udall
•  Lord of Misrule by Jamie Gordon
• Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek 
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson 
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
  
• Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton
• Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler  
• Old Filth by Jane Gardam
• The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
• Rescue by Anita Shreve 
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard by Erin McGraw 
• South of Broad by Pat Conroy 
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
• Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin 
• This Must Be the Place by kate Bacculia
• The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine 
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin 
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
  
• Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom 
• Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass

 

Chronologically, the list of books reviewed since starting this site.

2009   (Short list – started writing in December)

• A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
• The Almond Picker by S.A. Hornby (family saga set in Sicily)
• Drood by Dan Simmons (long but worth it, especially if you are a fan of Charles Dickens)
• Sweetwater by  Roxanna Robinson (good Southern mystery with a little romance)
• The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones (alternative to Julia and French cooking with good storyline)
• A Trace of Smoke by O.J. Bryson (tobacco industry suspense/thriller )
• Mary Lincoln: Biography by Jean Baker (different perspective of a first lady)
• The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson (embroidery ala tales ofArabian nights)
• Geography of Bliss by Erin Weiner (happiness is not where you think it is)
• The Lace Reader by Brunomia Barrry (Salem witches tear-jerker)
• The Women by T.C. Boyle (more on Frank Lloyd Wright’s women – expanded Loving Frank)
• The Thirteenth Tale
• Crossing to Safety
• Plato and Platypus
• Sugar Queen
• The Commoner
• Beginner’s Greek
• The Lightning Thief

2010

• The Cellist of Sarajevo
• Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
• Our Life in Gardens by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd 
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• Queen of the Underworld by Gail Godwin
• Wherever you Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 
• Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
• Here Comes Everybody – The Power of  Organizing Without Organizations
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• A Reliable Wife
• Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin
• The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard
• Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Waiting by Ha Jin
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• Crazy in the Kitchen by Louise DeSalvo
• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
• The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
• The Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Magician’s Assistant – A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Major Pettigrew by Helen Simonson
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of  Work by Alain de Botton
• The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris
• Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
• The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
• The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
• The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
• The Wild Places by Robert Marfarlane
• Run by Ann Patchett
• Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
• 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan
• The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
• I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
• The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
• Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
• Plato and Platypus Walk into a Bar by Cathcart, Klein, and Heller
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
• The Wives of Henry Oades by Joanna Moran
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Romancing Miss Brontë by Juliet Gael
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
• In Good Things I Wish for You by A. Manette Ansay
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
• The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone
• The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
• Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
• A Short History of Women by Dorothy Trevor Townsend
• Remembering Smell by Bonnie Blodgett
• Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
• An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Amy Vanderhoof
• Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin
• Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era  by Caroline Moorehead
• This Must Be The Place by Kate Racculia
• The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
• The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees
• Abby Carnelia’s One and Only Magical Power by David Progue
• Ape House by Sara Gruen
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Invisible by Paul Auster
• The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
• Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
• A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Widower’s Tale by Julie Glass
• The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
• The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
• The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
• When Everything Changed  by Gail Collins
• Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Julian Alter
• Great House by Nicole Krauss
• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
• Rescue by Anita Shreve
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

2011   (This year I decided to try to post everyday – and did – only the books are included below)

1. The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
2. By Nightfall by Michael CunninghamThe Wave by Susan Casey
3. Old Filth by Jane Gardam
4. Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
5. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
6. How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
7. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
8. The Wave by Susan Casey
9. Earth: A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart
10. Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton
11. Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko
12. The Lord of Misrule by Jamie Gordon
13. True Grit by Charles Portis
14. Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
15. Barefoot Contessa, How Easy Is That? by Ina Garten
16. Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
17. The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
18. Room by Emma Donoghue
19. As Always, Julia by Joan Reardon
20. Yoga in Bed by Edward Vilga
21. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
22. An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
23. Where Writers, and Readers, Feel at Home and Ursula Under
24. It’s A Book by Lane Smith
25. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
26. The New Yorker Cartoons of the Year
27. The Yellow House by Martin Gayford
28. Delirious by Daniel Palmer
29. The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
30. Honolulu by Alan Brennert
31. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother 
32. The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent
33. Half Broken Things by Morag Joss
34. Love Among the Greats by Edith Pearlman
35. Redwall by Brian Jacques
36. Just Kids by Patti Smith
37. Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
38. The Last Summer of the World by Emily Mitchell
39. The Billionaire’s Vinegar by  Benjamin Wallace
40. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
41. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
42. This Book is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson
43. Enough About Love by Herve le Tellier
44. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
45. Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld
46. The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
47. A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Stead
48. The Confession by John Grisham
49. I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
50. Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey
51. The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
52. Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
53. A New Light on Tiffany by Margaret K. Hofer, Martin Edelberg, Nina Gray
54. The Adjustment Bureau by Philip Dick
55. The Metropolis Case by Matthew Gallaway
56. Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond
57. A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
58. Grange House by Sarah Blake
59. Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
60. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allan
61. Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robinson
62. Night Road by Kristin Hannah
63. Come to the Edge by Christina Haag
64. The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
65. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
66. A Covert Affair by  Jennet Conant
67. Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
68. The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
69. Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
70. The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace
71. Beginner’s Guide to Edible Herbs by Charles Smith
72. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by  Ruppel Shell
73. Shakespeare’s Kitchen by Francine Segan
74. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
75. Ann Beattie – The New Yorker Stories
76. The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
77. Never Say Die – the Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age by Susan Jacoby
78. Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
79. All My Patients Have Tales by Jeff Wells
80. The Book Club Cook Book by Judy Gelman
81. How to Live – A Life of Montagne In One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by  Sarah Bakewell
82. The Millennium Cookbook by Eric Tucker
83. The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman
84. Bossypants by Tina Fey
85. The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
86. Physics of the Future by Mikio Kaku
87.  The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
88. In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite by Melissa Clark
89. The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
90. Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress
91. The Tiger’s Wife, continued
92. One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
93. The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
94. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
95. Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama
96. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal
97. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
98. Swamplandia! by karen Russell
99.  Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
100. Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
101. Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Jane Goodall)
102. The Valcourt Heiress by Catherine Coulter
103. She Walks in Beauty by Caroline Kennedy
104. Mu Father’s Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow
105. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
106. Nesting Tips – Avian Architecture
107. Books That Put Me to Sleep
108. Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
109. City of Thieves by David Benioff
110. Nom De Plume by Carmela Ciuraru
111. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
112. To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
113.  The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
114. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
115. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
116. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
117. The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
118. The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg
119. City of Thieves by David Benioff’
120.  Gone by Mo Hadley
121. Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
122. Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
123. Trapped by Michael Northrup
124. Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan
125. One Summer by David Baldacci
126. Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
127. American Heiress by Daisy Miller
128. Private Life by Jane Smiley
129. Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
130. Forgotten by Cat Patrick
131. Julia Spencer-Fleming’s In the Bleak Midwinter
132. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
133. Julia’s Chocolates by Cathy Lamb
134. S.J. Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep
135. Monica Ali’s Untold Story
136. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
137. Mary Doria Russell’s  Doc 
138. Clotilde Dusoulier’s Chocolate and Zucchini
139. The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
140. Francine Prose’s My New American Life
141. The Last Letter from Your Lover by JoJo Moyes
142. Wendy and the Lost Boys by Julie Salamon
143. Cathy Lamb’s The First Day of the Rest of My Life
144. Michael Parker’s The Watery Part of the World
145. The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
146. Amanda Hodgkinson’s 22 Britannia Road
147. Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
148. The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
149. Jo Nesbø’s  The Snowman
150. Nina Sankowitch’s Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
151. Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein
152. Margaret Leroy’s The Soldier’s Wife
153. Kitty Pilgrim’s The Explorer’s Code
154. The Moment by Douglas Kennedy 
155. Joanne Harris’s Gentlemen and Players
156. Dominique Browning’s Paths of Desire – The Passions of a Suburban Gardener
157. Madeleine Wickham’s 40 Love
158. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
159. David Eagleman’s Incognito – The Secret Lives of the Brain
160.  A Fountain Filled With Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming
161. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
162. The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes
163. Doreen Cronin’s children’s book – Click, Clack, Moo-Cows That Type
164. Elizabeth Berg’s Once Upon a Time There Was You
165. Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room
166. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
167. Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck
168. Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility
169. Carol Birch’s Jamrach’s Menagerie
170. Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
171. Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
172. Peter Hedges’ The Heights
173. Rosamund Lupton’s Sister
174. Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding
175. Thanhha Lai’s National Book Award finalist Inside Out & Back Again
176. Urban Homesteading by Rachel Kaplan and K. Ruby Blume
177. Ben Loory’s Stories for Nighttime and Some for Day
178. Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz
179. Annie Jacobsen’s Area 51 – An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
180. Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak
181. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
182.  Katherine Paterson and John Paterson edited the 1910 British fantasy The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts
183. Daphne Kalotay’s Russian Winter
184. Lois Lowry and Eric Rohmann collaborated on Bless This Mouse
185. Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s The Language of Flowers
186.  Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddons
187. Maile Meloy’s collection of 11 short stories in Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
188. Allan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child
189. Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
190. I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
191. Maile Meloy’s The Apothecary
192. Neville by Norton Juster
193. Spontaneous Happiness by Andrew Weil
194. Sybil Brinton’s 1913 publication – Old Friends and New Fancies
195. William Joyce’s The Man in the Moon 
196. Susan Orlean’s Rin Tin Tin
197. Alan Bradley’s  precocious British detective in I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
198. Stephen King’s 11/22/63
199. Jessica Day George’s Tuesdays at the Castle
200.  Ellie Krieger’s Comfort Food Fix

Whew – that was a lot of books – plus 165 assorted posts on news articles, essays, books lists, book awards… for 365 posts.  Glad this was not a leap year.

2012    (I slowed down a bit – no more post-a-day.  Below is a selected list of reads from 2012)

• The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
• The House at Sea’s End  by Elly Griffiths
• Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
• Colin Meloy’s Wildwood
• The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
• Bella Pollen’s Cold War mystery –The Summer of the Bear
• Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II by Philip Eade
• John Grisham’s  legal thriller – The Litigators
• Meghan Daum’s humorous memoir Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
• Denis Johnson’s  116 page novella – Train Dreams
• A Stitch in Time by British author Penelope Lively
• The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Caroline Preston
• Margot Livesey’s gothic romance –  The Flight of Gemma Harding
• Maris Duenas’s The Time In Between
• Margot Livesey’s The House on Fortune Street
• Penelope Lively’s How It All Began
• Jeffrey Archer’s Only Time Will Tell
• Jack Gantos award-winning young adult book – Dead End in Norvelt
• Anne Sebba’s biography of Wallis Simpson – That Woman
• Kathryn Harrison’s historical fiction – Enchantments
• An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer
• The Technologists – historical thriller by Matthew Pearl
• Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall – Bring Up the Bodies
• Anne Tyler’s The Beginner’s Goodbye
• William Landay’s courtroom crime story –Defending Jacob
• Christopher Moore’s Sacré Bleu
• Anna Quindlen’s memoir – Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
• Jon Agee’s children’s book – The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau
• Maggie Hope’s spy mystery  – Mr. Churchill’s Secretary 
• Katherine Howe’s historical novel The House of Velvet and Glass
• Chomp  by Carl Hiaasen
• Harriet Lane’s Alys, Always
• Ruiz Zafón’s Gothic tale of mystery and political intrigue – The Prisoner of Heaven
• M.L. Stedman ‘s The Light Between Oceans
• A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night  by Deborah Harkness
• Lois Lowry’s Son
• Alan Furst’s Mission to Paris
• Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
• Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Dr. Andrew Weil’s cookbook – True Food
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

2013

• Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
• B. A. Shapiro’s The Art Forger
• Ann Leary’s The Good House
• Jenny Milchman’s debut thriller – Cover of Snow
• Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan – 2013 Newbery Winner
• Herman Koch’s The Dinner
• Clare Vanderpool’s Navigating Early
• Jennifer Egan’s The Keep
• Elizabeth Berg’s Tapestry of Fortunes
• Clare Messud’s  The Woman Upstairs
• Elizabeth Strou’s The Burgess Boys
• Kent Haruf’s Benediction
• Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life
• Theresa Anne Fowler’s Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
• Jane Gardam’s Last Friends
• Liane Moriarty’s What Alice Forgot
• Paul Rudnick’s  Gorgeous
• James Salter’s All That Is
• Maggie O’Farrell’s Instructions for a Heatwave
• Faye Weldon’s Habits of the House and Long Live the King
• Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope mystery series – His Majesty’s Hope
• Kate Klise’s In the Bag
• A. L. Kennedy’s Blue Book
• Anton DiSclafani’s coming of age tale The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
• Chris Bohjalian’s Light in the Ruins
• Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
• Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes
• Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum 
• Khaled Hosseini’s sad tale of an Afghan family – And the Mountains Echoed
• Priya Basil’s “quick read” short novel – Strangers on the 16:02
• Tessa Hadley’s The London Train
• Dan Brown’s latest mystery thriller – Inferno
•  A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Julie Fogliano’s children’s picture book If You Want To See A Whale
• Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret
• Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
• The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie
• Elizabeth Black’s Gothic mystery – The Drowning House
• Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
• Anita Shreve’s Stella Bain
• Émile Zola’s classic – Au Bonheur Des Dames (The Ladies’ Delight)
• The Cuckoo’s Calling by J.K. Rowling
• Jo Baker’s Longbourn
• Liane Moriarty’s The Hypnotist’s Love Story
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Mark Slouka’s  Brewster
• Curtis Sittenfeld’s Sisterland
• Deb Caletti’s psychological thriller –He’s Gone
• Alice Hoffman’s Survival Lessons
• Tom Perrotta’s Nine Inches
• Jennifer Worth’s Call the Midwife
• JoJo Moyes – The Girl You Left Behind
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
• Katherine Rundell’s Rooftoppers
• Diane Setterfield’s strange new fiction – Bellman and Black
• Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Sound of Things Falling
• Rick Hanson’s Hardwiring Happiness
• Stephen King’s sequel, Doctor Sleep
• Cynthia Voigt’s Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things

Still reading – An update of the most recent list of books I’ve reviewed in 2014 and 2015 appears below.  My favorites are highlighted.

2014

• The Devil in the Marshallsea by Antonia Hodgson
• Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party by Alexander McCall
• West of the Moon by Margi Preus
• The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
• Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty
• The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of PIlgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• DePotter’s Grand Tour by Joanna Scott
• Curiosity by Brian Selznick
• A Sudden Light by Garth Stein
• Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bojahlian
• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
• The Hundred Year Old House by Rebecca Makkai
• Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
• The Arsonist by Sue Miller
• Remember Me Like This by Brett Anthony Johnston
• A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
• Perfect by Rachel Joyce
• Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
• The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
• The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin
• Under the Sign of the Moon by Tessa Hadley
• Gemini by Carol Cassella
• Still Life With Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
• A Circle of Wives by Alice LaPlante
• Vienna Nocturne by Vivienne Shotwell
• By Its Cover by Donna Leon
• Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
• Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
• The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
• Someone by Alice McDermott
• Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
• The New Countess by Fay Weldon
• The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• Fin and Lady by Cathering Schine
• Waking Kate by Sarah Addison Allan
• Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
• Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2015

• Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
• The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam
• Her by Harriet Lane
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
• The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Distance by Helen Gitrow
• Nightbird by Alice Hoffman
• At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
• The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer
• A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin
• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
• Lost and Found by Brooke Davis
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Magician’s Lie by Greer Macallister
• Mightier Than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer
• As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
• Vanessa and Her Sister by Prima Parmar
• First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
• In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
• Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
• The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
• The Fixer by Joseph Finder
• Euphoria by Lily King
• The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
• The Adventures of Beetle by Dan Santat
• Aquarium by David Vann
• In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
• Luckiest Girl Alice by Jessica Knoll
• Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland
• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
• The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg
• Stoner by John Williams
• Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobias
• The Marvels by Brian Selznik
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua
• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
• The Woman Who Stole My Live by Marion Keyes
• Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
• The Language of Food – A Linguist Reads the Menu by Daniel Jurafsky
• The Muralist B.A. Shapiro
• Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
• So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighnorhood by Patrick Modiano
• Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

2016

To check the list of books read and reviewed in 2016, read the list from the post “Books of 2016” – click here

2017   (Favorites are in bold.)

1. News of the World by Paulette Giles
2. This Was a Man by Jeffery Archer
3. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
4. Mary Astor’s Purple Diary by Edward Sorel
5. The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano
6. Squirrels to the Nuts by Margery Sharp
7. The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
8. The Queen’s Accomplice by Susan Ella MacNeal
9. Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
10. The Vanishing Velázquez
11. Conclave by Robert Harris
12. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
13. So Big by Edna Ferber
14. The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
15. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
16. On Turpentine Lane by Eleanor Lipman
17. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
18. My (not so) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
19. The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian
20. Swann’s Way translated by Linda Davis
21. Why Time Flies by Alan Burdick
22. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
23. The Widow’s House by Carol Goodwin
24. Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
25. A Piece of the World by Christina Baker
26. The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
27. When a Pig Meets an Elephant bu Mo Williams
28. The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
29. Horse Dancer by JoJo Moyes
30. Always by Sarah Jio
31. Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro
32. The Hearts of Men by Nicholas Butler
33. Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
34. Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner
35. Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
36. Bridge by Evan Connell
37. Ties by Domenico Starnone
38. Possession by A.S. Byatt
39. Autumn by Ali Smith
40. The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth Church
41. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
42. My Notorious Life by Kate Manning
43. The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Progg
44. The Scribe of Sienna by Melodie Winower
45. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
46. City of Friends by Joanna Trollope
47. Evening by Susan Minot
48. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
49. Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
50. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
51. The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
52. Earthly Remains by Donna Leon
53. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
54. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
55. The Little French Bistro by Nina George
56. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
57. Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
58. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
59. The Things You Can See Only When You Slowdown by Haemin Sunim
60. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
61. The Summer Girls by Mary Alice Munroe
62. Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon
63. A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass
64. The Nix by Nathan Hill
65. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
66. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
67. Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
68. The Heirs by Susan Rieger
69. The Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
70. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
71. The Doll House by Fiona Davis
72. Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams
73. The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
74. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
75. The Chalk Artist by Allegra Goodman
76. The Fall Guy by James Lasdum
77. Design for Dying by Renee Patrick
78. Lions by Bonnie Nasdam
79. The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison
80. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
81. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
82. Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
83. Klee Wyck by Emily Carr
84. Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
85. Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
86. The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
87. Mindset by Carol Dweck
88. The Secret to Marriage is Not Getting Married by Gabrielle Zevin
89. About Alice by Calvin Trillin
90. The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
91. Lions by Bonnie Nazdam
92. What She Ate by Laura Shapiro
93. Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah
94. Sweet by Yotan Ottalenghi
95. Beautiful Animals by Larry Osborne
96. The Answers: A Novel by Catherine Lacey
97. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
98. Tell Tale by Jeffrey Archer
99. Careers for Women
100. The  Power by Naomi Alderman

101. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
102. In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
103. Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
104. Love and Other Consolations by Jamie Ford
105. The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
106. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
107. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
108. The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine by Philip and Erin Stead
109. Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn
110. Sourdough by Robin Sloane
111. Feather by Remi Courgeon
112. King of the Sky by Nicola Davis and Laura Carlin
113. On a Magical Do Nothing Day by Beatrice Alamagna
114. The Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig
115. Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig