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A Mercy, by Toni Morrison
The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa
Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
And Then, by Natsume Soseki
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
Trent’s Last Case, by E. C. Bentley
Robert B. Parker, an Appreciation
World War Z—An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooks
Day, by A. L. Kennedy
Best books I read in 2009
Playlist 2009
The Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson
Life Sentences, by Laura Lippman
The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe
Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime, by Patricia Hampl
Stoner, by John Williams
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
Whistling Woman, by A.S. Byatt
Run, by Ann Patchett
Babel Tower, by A.S. Byatt
On Reading
The Painter of Battles, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Sixty Poems, by Alexander Petöfi, translated by Eugénie Bayard Pierce and Emil Delmár
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
In the Woods, by Tana French
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
Still Life, by A.S. Byatt
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
Fire in the Blood, by Irene Nemirovsky
The Virgin in the Garden, by A.S. Byatt
The Franchise Affair, by Josephine Tey
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
As We Are Now, by May Sarton
The Water’s Lovely, by Ruth Rendell
Oxford Mourning, by Veronica Stallwood
Hiding from the Light, Barbara Erskine
The Secret of Lost Things, by Sheridan Hay
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
Journal of a Solitude, by May Sarton
The Gateway, by T. M. McNally
Caucasia, by Danzy Senna
Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The Friends of Meager Fortune, by David Adams Richards
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, by Michael Chabon
Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals, by Sandra McPherson
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Waiting, by Ha Jin
Clockers, by Richard Price
Death at La Fenice, by Donna Leon
Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
Just Breathe Normally, by Peggy Shumaker
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Visions, ed. by Bradley R. Strahan
Maps and Legends, by Michael Chabon
Out, by Natsuo Kirino
The Office of Desire, by Martha Moody
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
Best books of 2008
Lost Geography, by Charlotte Bacon
The Lost Highway, by David Adams Richards
The Boys in the Trees, by Mary Swan
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, by Kate Summerscale
Playlist 2008
The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean
Inspecting Carol, by Daniel Sullivan
One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson
Close to Home, by Peter Robinson
Killing Floor, by Lee Child
The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar
The Gathering, by Anne Enright
The Battle for Wine and Love, by Alice Feiring
Meadowlands, by Louise Gluck
The Three-Cornered World (Kusa Makura), by Natsume Soseki
The Mysteries of Glass, by Sue Gee
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard
Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Antonia White: Diaries 1926-1957, edited by Susan Chitty
Journals, by John Cheever
Stories, by John Cheever
Look at Me, by Jennifer Egan
Shadow People, by Molly Lynn Watt
Arts of the Possible, by Adrienne Rich
Locked Rooms, by Laurie R. King
Keeping the World Away, by Margaret Forster
Stand Proud, by Elmer Kelton
Outwitting Ants, by Cheryl Kimball
The Body Farm, by Patricia Cornwell
The Lighthouse, by P.D. James
The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, by Elizabeth Smart
Necessary Secrets, by Elizabeth Smart
The Lost Upland, by W.S. Merwin
Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
Mason’s Retreat, by Christopher Tilghman
Linnets and Valerians, by Elizabeth Goudge
A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, by G.B. Edwards
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
Watch with Me, by Wendell Berry
Mohawk, by Richard Russo
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
Down into Darkness, by David Lawrence
The Cambridge Theorem, by Tony Cape
The Untouchable, by John Banville
Be Near Me, by Andrew O'Hagan
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
The Conjuror's Bird, by Martin Davies
Flaubert's Parrot, by Julian Barnes
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud
Riding Lessons, by Sara Gruen
Deep Economy, by Bill McKibbon
Human Traces, by Sebastian Faulks
The Big Sky, by A.B. Guthrie
Sons of Texas, by Elmer Kelton
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Testing of Luther Albright, by MacKenzie Bezos
Wish You Were Here, by Stewart O’Nan
The Sea, by John Banville
The Gate, by Soseki Natsume
The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
Blue Screen, by Robert B. Parker
A Noble Radiance, by Donna Leon
Playlist 2007
Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson
Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson
Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett
The Last Friend, by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Playing in the Light, by Zoe Wicomb
Ince Memed, Parts I and II, by Yashar Kemal
People of Paper, by Salvador Plascencia
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen; Toby Tyler, by James Otis
Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres
Home at Last, by Jean McGarry
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Istanbul: Memories and the City, by Orhan Pamuk
Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters
The Courage Consort, by Michel Faber
The Babes in the Wood, by Ruth Rendell
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, by Michael Patrick MacDonald
The Last Lovely City, by Alice Adams
Casa Rossa, by Francesca Marciano
The Songcatcher, by Sharyn McCrumb
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
What Narcissism Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland
Small Island, by Andrea Levy
The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan
The Last Good Chance, by Tom Barbash
Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
No Good Deeds, by Laura Lippman
The Bones, by Seth Greenland
Children of Men, by P.D. James
We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
Of Woman Born, by Adrienne Rich
Freshwater Road, by Denise Nicholas
One Last Breath, by Stephen Booth
The Transparent Feather, by BJ Appelgren
The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 & Creative Nonfiction, No. 29
Don’t Look Back, by Karin Fossum
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Diamond in the Window, by Jane Langton
March, by Geraldine Brooks
Upstream: A Voyage on the Connecticut River, by Ben Bachman