Books

Books read in 2012
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling
Blue Nights, Joan Didion
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Innocent, Ian McEwan
Papa Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Life Class, Pat Barker
The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man, Claire Tomalin
Book of Clouds, Chloe Aridjis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin

Books read in 2011
Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
Night, Elie Wiesel
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
Foreskin’s Lament, Shalom Auslander
The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch
True Grit, Charles Portis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, Elna Baker
The Green Fool, Patrick Kavanagh
Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Hey Nostradamus! Douglas Coupland
Sleepwalk with Me, Mike Birbiglia
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Astral, Kate Christensen
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
Grace (Eventually), Anne Lamott
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Great Man, Kate Christensen
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , Susanna Clarke
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
Columbine, Dave Cullen
The Reserve, Russell Banks
A Man of Means, P.G. Wodehouse and C.H. Bovill
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
The Ambassadors, Henry James
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, Agatha Christie

Books read in 2010:
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
Liza of Lambeth, Somerset Maugham
The Summing Up, Somerset Maugham
Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Villette, Charlotte Bronte
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
Ulysses, James Joyce
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Sons, Pearl S. Buck
Deep Church, Jim Belcher
The Innocence of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
Mudhouse Sabbath, Lauren Winner
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Blue Parakeet, Scot McKnight
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Nieffenegger
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
In the Beginning, Chaim Potok
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Psmith, Journalist, P.G. Wodehouse
Push, Sapphire
A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
The Human Factor, Graham Greene
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré
The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Clouds of Witness, Dorothy Sayers
Leave it to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
Mystic River, Dennis Lehane
Nothing Serious, P.G. Wodehouse
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon
New Europe, Michael Palin
Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambros
Literature Lost, John M. Ellis
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger
Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Moneyball, Michael Lewis
The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs
O Pioneers, Willa Cather
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Restless, William Boyd
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Stasiland, Anna Funder
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
The Beautiful and the Damned, F. S. Fitzgerald
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
The Europeans, Henry James
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K. Jerome
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Death in Venice and Other Stories, Thomas Mann
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Unnatural Death, Dorothy Sayers
Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers
Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
No Name, Wilkie Collins
My Man Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse

Books read in 2009:
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald
The Princess and Curdie, George MacDonald
The Light Princess, George MacDonald
God and My Father, Clarence Day
Life with Father, Clarence Day
Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emma Orczy
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
The Masters, C.P. Snow
The Promise, Chaim Potok
Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Very Good, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
The Family Moskat, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Gift of Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Whose Body, Dorothy Sayers
Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Supreme Courtship, Christopher Buckley
The Pacific and Other Stories, Mark Helprin
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
Losing Mum and Pup, Christopher Buckley
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The World According to Garp, John Irving
Straight Man, Richard Russo
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Cakes and Ale, Somerset Maugham
Peter the Great, Robert K. Massie
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Naked, David Sedaris
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
A Girl Named Zippy, Haven Kimmel