Bookshelf

Reads 2011

Fiction

1. The Girls – Lori Lansens
2. Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Sea – Amela Marin
4. Durable Goods – Elizabeth Berg
5. Joy School – Elizabeth Berg
6. Skinny – Ibi Kaslik
7. Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
8. The Girl Who Fell From The Sky – Heidi W. Durrow
9. Falling Angels – Barbara Gowdy
10. Remainder – Tom McCarthy
11. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern

Non-Fiction

1. Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers – Harry Bruce
2. Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
3. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship – Ann Patchett
4. When Memory Speaks – Jill Kerr Conway
5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
6. Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination – Hugh MacLeod
7. Darwin’s Notebook – Jonathan Clements
8. The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary – Andrew Westoll
9. Writers and their Notebooks – Diana M. Raab
10. Living to Tell the Tale – Jane Taylor McConnell

Short Stories and Collections

1. Self Help – Lorrie Moore
2. The Natural Elements – Lynn Coady
3. Here Come the Brides – Selena Anderson

Reads 2010

Non-Fiction

1. The New Diary – Tristine Rainier
2. Lynchpin – Seth Godin
3. Literary London – Ed Gunert

Fiction

1. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
3. The Children’s Book – A. S. Byatt
4. The Good Fairies of New York – Martin Millar
5. The Solitude of Prime Numbers – Paolo Giordano

Reads 2009

Non-Fiction

1. The Writer’s Diary – Virginia Woolf
2. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life – Twyla Tharp
3. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers – Renni Browne & Dave King
4. Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton
5. A Writer’s San Francisco – Eric Maisel
6. House Rules – Rachel Sontag
7. Giving Up the Ghost – Hilary Mantel
8. The 30-second Commute – Stephanie Dickison
9. An Embarrassment of Mangoes – Ann Vanderhoof
10. A Woman in Berlin – Anonymous
11. Long Quiet Highway – Natalie Goldberg

Fiction

1. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maquire
2. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
3. Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
4. Still Alice – Lisa Genova
5. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
7. Too Much Happiness – Alice Munro
8. The Reader – Bernhard Schink

Short Stories

1. “The Hanging Gardens of Babylon” (from Bad Imaginings) – Caroline Adderson
2. “My Karsh Picture” (from The Ability to Forget) – Norman Levine
3. “A Windmill in the West” (from Collected Stories) – Peter Carey
4. “Reincarnation” (from Believers) – Charles Baxter
5. “The Secret Sharer” – Joseph Conrad
6. “Barbie-Q” – Sandra Cisneros
7. “The Storm” – Kate Chopin
8. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” – Flannery O’Connor
9. “Separating” – John Updike
10. “Alyosha the Pot” – Leo Tolstoy
11. “Tapka” – David Bezmozgis
12. “Childcare” – Lorrie Moore
13. “They’re Not Your Husband” – Raymond Carver

Reads 2008

1. His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
2. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
3. Consolation – Michael Redhill
4. Lucky – Alice Sebold
5. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Edge Seasons – Beth Powning
7. Lighthousekeeping – Jeannette Winterson
8. A Room With A View – E. M. Forster
9. On Writing – Stephen King
10. The Writing Life – Annie Dillard
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
12. Quantum Wellness – Kathy Freston
13. The Petty Details of So-and-So’s Life – Camilla Gibb
14. Monkey Beach – Eden Robinson
15. Cowboys Are My Weakness – Pam Houston
16. Getting Things Done – David Allen
17. Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal – Samara O’Shea
18. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
19. How to Read Literature Like a Professor – Thomas C. FosterEn
20. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
21. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan