Fiction

• A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles (12/??/17)

• After You, by Jojo Moyes (02/07/16)

• Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood [didn't finish]

• All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (06/??/15)

• All the Little Live Things, by Wallace Stegner

• All New People, by Anne Lamott (08/29/04)

• All Over Creation, by Ruth Ozeki (03/24/07)

• Amsterdam, by Ian MacEwan

• Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout

• An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones (05/31/19)

• And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini (08/24/14)

• Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner

• Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver

• Anywhere But Here, by Mona Simpson

• The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach (01/20/13)

• At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon

• Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid

• Away, by Amy Bloom (08/14/08)

• Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison

• Beach Music, by Pat Conroy

• The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver

• Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter (05/??/13)

• The Beet Queen, by Louise Erdrich

• Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg

• Before and After, by Rosellen Brown

• Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

• Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty (12/26/18)

• The Big Rock Candy Mountain, by Wallace Stegner

• A Big Storm Knocked it Over, by Laurie Colwin (12/21/05)

• The Bird Artist, by Howard Norman

• Birds Without Wings, by Louis DeBernieres (liked, but couldn't get through it; gave up May 2008)

• Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, by Sebastian Faulks (05/15/16)

• Blue Shoe, by Anne Lamott (05/08/04)

• Blues Lessons, by Robert Hellenga

• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (07/16/12)

• Braided Lives, by Marge Piercy

• Brick Lane, by Monica Ali (05/22/05)

• The Bridges of Madison County, by James Waller

• Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo (05/09/10)

• The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier (02/??/14)

• Brothers and Sisters, by Bebe Moore Campbell

• Bliss Remembered, by Frank DeFord (11/03/11)

• Buster Midnight's Cafe, by Sandra Dallas

• Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks (12/12/11)

• The Calligrapher's Daughter, by Eugenia Kim (11/27/12)

• Cane River, by Lalita Tademy

• Cast of Shadows, by Kevin Guilfoile (03/13/12)

• Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (07/26/12)

• Cat's Eye, by Margaret Atwood [didn't finish]

• Caucasia, by Danzy Senna

• Cavedweller, by Dorothy Allison

• The Cazalet Chronicle, by Elizabeth Jane Howard

  • The Light Years

  • Marking Time

  • Confusion

  • Casting Off

• The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel

• Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott

• Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons

• Chocolat, by Joanne Harris

• The Chosen Place, the Timeless People, by Paule Marshall

• The Cider House Rules, by John Irving

• Cleopatra's Daughter, by Michele Moran (09/24/12)

• Clover, by Dori Saunders

• The Coffee Trader, by David Liss (08/24/05)

• Coffee Will Make You Black, by April Sinclair

• Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier

• Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns

• Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett (08/10/18)

• A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole [didn't finish]

• Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis DeBernieres

• Crooked Little Heart, by Anne Lamott

• Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner

• A Cup of Tea, by Amy Ephron

• The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown (04/17/04)

• Daughters, by Paule Marshall

• The Dearly Departed, by Elinor Lipman

• The Debt to Pleasure, by John Lanchester [didn't finish]

• The Diary of Mattie Spenser, by Sandra Dallas

• The Distant Hours, by Kate Morton (07/08/18)

• Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells

• Divining Women, by Kaye gibbons (09/02/07)

• Le Divorce, by Diane Johnson

• Dreaming Water, by Gail Tsukiyama (10/26/03)

• Duplicate Keys, by Jane Smiley

• Early Decision, by Lacy Crawford (04/??/17)

• East of Eden, by John Steinbeck (in the late '70s and 03/22/04)

• Eden Close, by Anita Shreve

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (08/01/18)

• Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell (02/??/15)

• Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn

• Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons

• Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (07/05/07)

• The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje

• Eve in Hollywood (09/20/13)

• The Evolution of Jane, by Catherine Schine

• Falling Angels, by Tracy Chevalier

• The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson (08/12/12)

• The Family Markowitz, by Allegra Goodman [didn't finish]

• Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff (03/??/17) [didn't finish]

• Fault Line, by C. Desir (01/03/16)

• The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green (06/30/14)

• Feast of Love, by Charles Baxter

• A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry

• Five Minutes in Heaven, by Lisa Alther

• The Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris

• The Flamingo Rising, by Larry Baker

• Flesh and Blood, by Michael Cunningham (11/17/07)

• Follow Your Heart, by Susanna Tamaro

• The Foreign Student, by Susan Choi

• The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton (12/9/18)

• Fortune's Rocks, by Anita Shreve

• Four Letters of Love, by Niall Williams

• Four Spirits, by Sena Jeter Naslund (11/26/05 -- really great; maybe should be on my "best of all time," but not sure)

• The Game, by A. S. Byatt

• Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan

• Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn (02/22/05; not sure what compelled me to finish -- it's utter bizarreness?)

• A Gesture Life, by Chang-Rae Lee

• The Giant's House, by Elizabeth McCracken

• The Ginger Tree, by Oswald Wynd

• Girl in Hyacinth Blue, by Susan Vreeland

• Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier

• Girls in the Grass, by Melanie Rae Thon

• The Giver, by Lois Lowry (10/06/12)

• The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (06/09/14)

• Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn (02/17/13)

• Gone To Soldiers, by Marge Piercy

• Good People of New York, The, by Thisbe Nissen

• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

• The Great Santini, by Pat Conroy

• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Green Line, by E. C. Diskin (08/10/13)

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (06/25/11)

• Hanna's Daughters, by Marianne Fredricksson

• Headlong, by Michael Frayn

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers (09/03/06)

• Heat Wave, by Penelope Lively

• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (08/17/10)

• Here On Earth, by Alice Hoffman

• The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss (10/05/06)

• The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, by Jenny Wingfield (06/20/13)

• The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, by Billie Letts

• Hoopi Shoopi Donna, by Suzanne Strempek Shea

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford (08/01/13)

• The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving

• The Hours, by Michael Cunningham

• House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus

• The House on the Lagoon, by Rosario Ferre

• The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa (11/06/09)

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez

• How to Be Both, by Ali Smith (08/23/15)

• The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan

• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (05/04/12)

• The Husband's Secret, by Liane Moriarty (10/??/13)

• I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb

• In the Memory of the Forest, by Charles Powers [didn't finish]

• In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez (11/17/03)

• Incidents in the Rue Laugier, by Anita Brookner

• An Inconvenient Woman, by Dominick Dunne

• The Infinite Plan, by Isabel Allende

• The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman

• Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (06/02/06)

• The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd (04/24/14)

• Iona Moon, by Melanie Rae Thon

• Isabel's Bed, by Elinor Lipman

• Jewel, by Brett Lott

• The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan

• Justice, by Larry Watson

• Kate Vaiden, by Reynolds Price

• Kitchen, by Banana Yashimoto

• The Kitchen God's Wife, by Amy Tan

• The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (11/21/04)

• The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (02/14/07)

• The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry (07/06/119)

• The Lake House, by Kate Morton (07/26/18)

• The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (02/01/12)

• The Language of Threads, by Gail Tsukiyama

• Lark and Terminte, by Jayne Anne Phillips (06/12/11)

• The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore (10/26/18)

• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich (01/09/04)

• Laura, by Larry Watson

• Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (02/15/19)

• A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines

• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (01/23/04)

• The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Steadman (1/10/19)

• A Light in the Window, by Jan Karon

• Light on Snow, by Anita Shreve (01/19/06)

• Like People In History, by Felice Picano

• Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel

• Little Altars Everywhere, by Rebecca Wells

• Little Children, by Tom Perrotta (04/17/07)

• Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng (01/14/18)

• A Little Too Much Is Enough, by Kathleen Tyao

• The Living is Easy, by Dorothy West

• The Long View, by Elizabeth Jane Howard

• The Longings of Women, by Marge Piercy

• The Lords of Discipline, by Pat Conroy

• The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

• The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri (03/11/14)

• Love and Work, by Reynolds Price

• Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich

• Loving Edith, by Mary Tannen

• The Mammoth Hunters, by Jean M. Auel

• A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Bachman (06/25/16)

• The Mark of the Angel, by Nancy Huston

• The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman (01/02/16)

• The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (04/17/12)

• The Mathematician's Shiva, by Stuart Rojstaczer (11/25/14)

• The Matisse Stories, by A. S. Byatt

• Mazel, by Rebecca Goldman

• Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes (01/17/16)

• Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden

• Meteors in August, by Melanie Rae Thon

• Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (07/??/04)

• Midnight Champagne, by A. Manette Ansay

• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan (12/23/12)

• Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (07/30/12)

• Montana 1948, by Larry Watson

• Moo, by Jane Smiley [didn't finish]

• Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

• Mudbound, by Hilary Jordan (07/26/15)

• The Music Lesson, by Katharine Weber

• Music and Silence, by Rose Tremain

• My Antonia, by Willa Cather

• My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One, by Elena Ferrante (12/20/15)

• My Little Blue Dress, by Bruno Maddox [didn't finish]

• My Year of Meats, by Ruth Ozeki

• The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri (08/10/07)

• The Nanny Diaries, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

• The News from Paraguay, by Lily Tuck (03/05/06)

• Night of Many Dreams, by Gail Tsukiyama

• The Nightingale, by Hannah Kristin (06/??/17)

• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith

• Nobody's Fool, by Richard Russo (11/26/16)

• An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin (01/09/12)

• Object Lessons, by Anna Quindlen

• Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, by Katherine Weber

• Odd Girl Out, by Elizabeth Jane Howard

• Off Keck Road, by Mona Simpson

• Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (09/03/10)

• On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, by Kaye Gibbons

• On Turpentine Lane, by Elinor Lipman (05/28/18)

• One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus (01/31/19)

• Ordinary Love and Good Will, by Jane Smiley

• Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline (07/??/15)

• Other Women, by Lisa Alther

• The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton (10/14/13)

• Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee (03/16/19)

• A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain (08/29/11)

• The Passion of Artemisia, by Susan Vreeland

• Patti Jane's House of Curl, by Lorna Landvik

• Peony in Love, by Lisa See (06/24/08)

• People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (04/28/19)

• The Persian Pickle Club, by Sandra Dallas

• Pigs In Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve

• Places to Stay the Night, by Ann Hood

• Plain Truth, by Jodi Picoult (07/13/07) [didn't finish]

• Plainsong, by Kent Haruf

• Poison, by Kathryn Harrison [didn't finish]

• Praisesong for the Widow, by Paule Marshall

• A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving

• The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy

• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

• Possession, by A. S. Byatt

• Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, by Elinor Lipman (07/12/05; not sure why I bothered to finish this clunker!)

• Putting on the Ritz, by Joe Keenan

• Rattlebone, by Maxine Clair

• Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier (01/??/17)

• Recapitulation, by Wallace Stegner

• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

• Regeneration, by Pat Barker

• The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Remembering Laughter, by Wallace Stegner

• Resistence, by Anita Shreve

• Restoration, by Rose Tremain

• Rich Rewards, by Alice Adams

• River, Cross My Heart, by Breena Clarke

• Rock, Paper, Scissors, by Fenton Johnson

• The Romance Reader, by Pearl Abraham

• The Romantic, by Barbara Gowdy (06/29/05)

• Room, by Emma Donoghue (11/08/10)

• Roxanna Slade, by Reynolds Price

• Rosie, by Ann Lamott

• Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles (08/31/13)

• The Samurai's Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama

• The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

• Selling the Light of Heaven, by Suzanne Strempek Shea

• The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher

• Shelter, by Jung Yun (08/18)

• She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb

• The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx

• A Ship Made of Paper, by Scott Spencer (08/29/08)

• Shopgirl, by Steve Martin (the comedian!)

• Sights Unseen, by Kaye Gibbons

• Silk, by Alessandro Baricco

• Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward (09/18)

• Singing Songs, by Meg Tilly

• Sister of My Heart, by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni

• The Sixteen Pleasures, by Richard Hellenga

• Sleep Toward Heaven, by Amanda Eyre Ward (02/17/08)

• Small Changes, by Marge Piercy

• Snow in August, by Pete Hamill

• Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See (04/16/06)

• The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel, by Paolo Giordano (03/07/13)

• The Soloist, by Mark Salzman

• Someone Knows My Name, by Lawrence Hill (06/14/09)

• Something Blue, by Ann Hood

• A Son of the Circus, by John Irving

• A Southern Exposure, by Alice Adams

• The Spectator Bird, by Wallace Stegner

• Stay With Me, by Adebayo Ayobami (05/15/19)

• The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields

• Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi

• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin (07/04/16)

• Storm Tide, by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood

• Straight Man, by Richard Russo (01/28/15)

• Street of a Thousand Blossoms, by Gail Tsukiyama (02/18/10)

• The Summer House, by Alice Thomas Ellis (10/25/14)

• Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene (11/22/06)

• Summer People, by Marge Piercy

• The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

• Superior Women, by Alice Adams

• Sweetbitter, by Reginald Gibbons

• The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen [didn't finish]

• A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki (04/15/14)

• Talk Before Sleep, by Elizabeth Berg

• Talking in Bed, by Antonya Nelson

• Talking to the Dead, by Helen Dunmore

• Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith (12/21/04)

• Then She Found Me, by Elinor Lipman

• Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher (06/01/13)

• Those Who Save Us, by Jenna blum (10/13/08)

• A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley

• A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini (07/29/08)

• Three Daughters of Madame Liang, by Pearl S. Buck

• Three Junes, by Julia Glass (08/14/04)

• Three Women, by Marge Piercy

• Till We Have Faces, by C. S. Lewis

• Today Will Be Different, by Maria Semple (12/??/16)

• Turtle Moon, by Alice Hoffman

• Typical American, by Gish Jen

• Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (04/??/09)

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

• Unravelling, by Elizabeth Graver

• The Valley of Horses, by Jean M. Auel

• The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides [didn't finish; 10/28/04]

• A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons

• Vida, by Marge Piercy

• Waiting, by Ha Jin

• Walking Across Egypt, by Clyde Edgerton

• Was it Something I Said, by Valerie Block [didn't finish]

• Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen (12/13/07)

• The Way Men Act, by Elinor Lipman

• The Wedding, by Dorothy West

• The Weekend, by Peter Cameron

• The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve

• Welcome to the Great Mysterious, by Lorna Landvik [didn't finish] (08/29/05)

• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, by Pearl Cleage

• When the World was Steady, by Claire Messud

• Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens (07/27/19)

• Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts

• Where or When, by Anita Shreve

• Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Sempel (09/12/14)

• White Crosses, by Larry Watson

• The Whole World Over, by Julia Glass (02/08/08)

• A Widow for One Year, by John Irving

• The Winds of War, by Herman Wouk

• The Woman in the Window, by A. J. Finn (12/17/18)

• Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy

• Women of the Silk, by Gail Tsukiyama

• Wonder, by R. J. Palacio (10/07/13)

• The Wonder Book of the Air, by Cynthia Shearer

• The World According to Garp, by John Irving

• Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks

• The Yokota Officers Club, by Sarah Bird

• Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, by Bebe Moore Campbell

• Your Oasis on Flame Lake, by Lorna Landvik