Books Read & (Mostly) Reviewed

A

• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Amercianah (2014)
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Purple Hibiscus (2016)
• Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women (2013)
• Alderman, Naomi, The Power (2018)
• Ambler, Eric, A Kind of Anger (2017)
• Ambler, Eric, The Light of Day (2014)
• Anderson, Laurie Halse, Fever 1793 (2014)
• Angela, Alberto, A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome (2018)
• Athill, Diana, Stet: An Editor’s Life (2016)
• Atkinson, Kate, A God in Ruins (2016)
• Atkinson, Kate, Life After Life (2016)
• Atkinson, Kate, Transcription (2018)

B

• Barnham, Lu, The Cicada’s Summer Song (2017)
• Barrett, Shirley, Rush Oh! (2017)
• Barry, Sebastian, Days Without End (2017)
• Beauman, Sally, The Visitors (2016)
• Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man (2017)
• Binet, Laurent, HHhH (2016)
• Boyd, William, The Blue Afternoon (2014)
• Brooks, Geraldine, March (2016)
• Buck, Pearl S., The Good Earth (2015)
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson, The Secret Garden (2018)
• Burton, Jesse, The Miniaturist (2016)

C

• Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood (2018, audiobook)
• Carson, Rachel, The Sea Around Us (2018)
• Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (2016)
• Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop (2017)
• Cather, Willa, O Pioneers! (2016)
• Cather, Willa, The Professor’s House (2015)
• Cather, Willa, The Song of the Lark (2018)
• Catton, Eleanor, The Luminaries (2015)
• Chabon, Michael, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2017)
• Chast, Roz, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (2017)
• Clark, Walter von Tilburg, The Ox-Bow Incident (2017)
• Cline, Ernest, Ready Player One (2017)

D

• Davidson, Lionel, Kolymsky Heights (2018)
• de Waal, Elisabeth, The Exiles Return (2016)
• deWitt, Patrick, The Sisters Brothers (2014)
• Diaz, Junot, Drown (2018)
• Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (2018, audiobook)
• Didion, Joan, Where I Was From (2018)
• Doerr, Anthony, All the Light We Cannot See (2015)

E

• Eckbäck, Cecilia, Wolf Winter (2015)
• Egan, Jennifer, A Visit from the Good Squad (2017)
• Eliot, George, Middlemarch (2017)
• Endō, Shūsaku, Silence (2017)
• Endō, Shūsaku, Volcano (2018)
• Eng, Tan Twan, The Gift of Rain (DNF)
• Erdrich, Louise, The Round House (2016)

F

• Ferrante, Elena, My Brilliant Friend (2016)
• Ferrante, Elena, The Story of a New Name (2016)
• Ferrante, Elena, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2016)
• Ferrante, Elena, The Story of the Lost Child (2016)
• Fraser, Caroline, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2018)
• Fremantle, Elizabeth, Queen’s Gambit (2014)

G

• Ghosh, Amitav, The Hungry Tide (2016)
• Gilbert, Elizabeth, The Signature of All Things (2017, audiobook)
• Gilbert, Elizabeth, Big Magic (2016, audiobook)
• Glaspell, Susan, Fidelity (2016)
• Goff, Lauren, Arcadia (2018)
• Grau, Shirley Ann, The Keepers of the House (2017)
• Graves, John, Goodbye to a River (2018)
• Greer, Andrew Sean, Less (2018)
• Guthrie, Jr., A. B, The Big Sky (2014)
• Guthrie, Jr. A. B., The Way West (2016)

H

• Hall, Daniel Weston, Arctic Rovings or The Adventures of a New Bedford Boy on Sea and Land (2017)
• Hamid, Mohsin, Exit West (2017)
• Harris, Robert, Pompeii (reread 2014)
• Harris, Robert, An Officer and a Spy (2014)
• Hill, Nathan, The Nix (2018, audiobook)
• Hill, Pamela Smith, Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life (2014)
• Hiraide, Takashi, The Guest Cat (2015)
• Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay, The Blank Wall (2016)
• Horowitz, Anthony, Magpie Murders (2017)
• Hughes, Robert, A High Wind in Jamaica (2019)
• Hurston, Zora Neal, Barracoon (2018)

I

• Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Buried Giant (2016, audiobook)

J

• Jahrens, Hope, Lab Girl (2017
• Jansson, Tove, The Summer Book (2018)
• Johnson, Denis, Train Dreams (2017)
• Jiles, Paulette, News of the World (2017)

K

• Kawakami, Hiromi, Strange Weather in Tokyo (2014)
• Kent, Hannah, Burial Rites (2016)
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Flight Behavior (2014)
• Kushner, Rachel, Telex from Cuba (2013)
• Kushner, Rachel, The Flamethrowers (2013)

L

• Lakshmi, Padma, Love, Loss, and What We Ate (2016)
• Lane, Rose Wilder, Young Pioneers (2015)
• Lebovitz, David, L’appart (2018, audiobook)
• Lee, Min Jin, Pachinko (2018)
• Lively, Penelope, Cleopatra’s Sister (2017)
• Lurie, Allison, Foreign Affairs (2017)

M

• Macdonald, Helen, H is for Hawk (2015)
• Magdalena, Carlos, The Plant Messiah (2018, audiobook)
• Mandel, Emily St. John, Station Eleven (2015)
• Martin, George R. R.,  A Clash of Kings (2014)
• Martin, George R. R., A Feast for Crows (2014)
• Matthiessen, Peter, The Snow Leopard (2016)
• McCullers, Carson, The Member of the Wedding (2017)
• McFarlane, Fiona, The Night Guest (2018)
• McGuire, Ian, The North Water (2016)
• McMurtry, Larry, Lonesome Dove (2013)
• Meyer, Philipp, The Son (2013)
• Miller, Sarah, Caroline (2018)
• Miller, Madeline, Circe (2018)
• Mitchell, David, Black Swan Green (2016)
• Mitchell, David, number9dream (2016)
• Mitchell, David, The Bone Clocks (2015)
• Miyazaki, Tateki, Visiting the Sacred Sites of Kukai: A Guidebook to the Shikoku Pilgrimage (2017)
• Mizumura, Minae, A True Novel (2015)
• Moor, Robert, On Trails: An Exploration (2017)
• Morgan, C.E., The Sport of Kings (2017)
• Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84 (2015)
• Murakami, Haruki, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2014)
• Murakami, Haruki, Norwegian Wood (2017)
• Murphy, Robert, The Peregrine Falcon (2018)

N

• Norfolk, Lawrence, John Saturnall’s Feast (2013)

O

• Obama, Michelle, Becoming (2019)
• Obreht, Téa, The Tiger’s Wife (2018)
• Ogawa, Yoko, Revenge (2014)
• Okuda, Hideo, In the Pool (2017)
• Ozeki, Ruth,  A Tale for the Time Being (2014)

P

• Patchett, Ann, Commonwealth (2018, audiobook)
• Penney, Stef, Under a Pole Star (DNF, 2017))
• Penny, Louise, A Great Reckoning (2017)
• Perry, Sarah, The Essex Serpent (2016)
• Pike, Signe, The Lost Queen (2018)
• Popova, Maria and Claudia Bedrick, editors, A Velocity of Being (2019)
• Powers, Richard, The Overstory (2018)
• Pym, Barbara, Some Tame Gazelle (2017)

R

• Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, Cross Creek (2014)
• Revoyr, Nina, Wingshooters (2016)
• Richter, Conrad, The Sea of Grass (2020)
• Roach, Mary, Gulp, Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2014)
• Roffey, Monique, The White on the Green Bicycle (2013)
• Rowell, Rainbow, Attachments (2017)
• Rowell, Rainbow, Eleanor & Park (2015)
• Rowell, Rainbow, Fangirl (2015)
• Rowell, Rainbow, The Attachments (2017)
• Russell, Mary Doria, The Sparrow (2015, audiobook)

S

• Saga, Dr. Junichi, Memories of Silk and Straw (2014)
• Satrapi, Marjane, Persepolis (2015)
• Saunders, George, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)
• Schmidt, Mary M., Cat Lady (2015)
• Semple, Maria, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (2016)
• Semple, Maria, Today Will Be Different (2017, audiobook)
• Shapiro, B. A., The Art Forger (2014)
• Shimada, Soji, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (2018)
• Shute, Nevil, Pastoral (2017)
• Smith, Emma, The Far Cry (2016)
• Smith, Gregory Blake, The Maze at Windermere (2018, audiobook)
• Smith, Patti, M Train (2017)
• Smith, Phyllis T., I am Livia (2015)
• Spark, Muriel, Memento Mori (2014)
• Statler, Oliver, Japanese Pilgrimage (2017)
• Stegner, Wallace, Angle of Repose (2016)
• Stegner, Wallace, Crossing to Safety (2018)
• Steinbeck, John, The Pearl (2015)
• Stevenson, D. E., Miss Buncle’s Book (2016)
• Strayed, Cheryl, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail (2014)
• Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge (2017)

T

• Tamaki, Mariko & Tamaki, Jillian, Skim (2015)
• Tartt, Donna,  The Goldfinch (DNF, 2014)
• Taylor, Mildred D.,  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (2017)
• Theroux, Marcel, Far North (2013)
• Theroux, Paul, The Lower River (2016)
• Tomlinson, H. M., The Sea and the Jungle  (2015)
• Towles, Amor, A Gentleman in Moscow (2016)

U

• Umrigar, Thrity, The World We Found (2014)

V

• von Kleist, Heinrich, The Marquise of O— (2017)

W

• Walter, Jess, The Financial Lives of the Poets (2015)
• Ward, Jesmyn,  Salvage the Bones (2015)
• Ward, Jesmyn, Sing, Unburied, Sing (2018)
• Warren, Robert Penn, All the King’s Men (2016)
• Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisted (2018)
• Wecker, Helen, The Golem and the Jinni (2014)
• West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust (2016)
• Westover, Tara, Educated (2018)
• Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence (2016)
• Whipple, Dorothy, Someone at a Distance (2016)
• White, T. H., The Sword in the Stone (2015)
• Whitehead, Colin, The Underground Railroad (2017)
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie (reread 2014)
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls, On the Banks of Plum Creek (reread 2014)
• Wilder, Thornton, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2016)
• Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns (2019)
• Wilson, G. Willow, Alif the Unseen (2013)
• Winchester, Simon, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded August 27, 1883 (2018)
• Wolitzer, Meg, The Female Persuasion (2019)
• Wolitzer, Meg, The Interestings (2014)
• Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny (2018)

Y

• Yaffe, David, Reckless Daughter:  A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (2018)

Z

• Zevin, Gabrielle, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2015)