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Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter, by Antonia Fraser
No Time Like the Present, by Nadine Gordimer
The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje
The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart, by Mathias Malzieu
Wordsmith Studio, an Appreciation
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine, by McKay Jenkins
My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
House of Breath, by William Goyen
Twilight of the Superheroes, by Deborah Eisenberg
A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore
Virgin Soil, by Ivan Turgenev
Look at Me, by Anita Brookner
On Thin Ice: Short Stories of Life and Dating After 50, by Johanna van Zanten
Prospero's Daughter, by Elizabeth Nunez
Memento Mori, by Muriel Spark
A Note in Music, by Rosamond Lehmann
The Betrayal, by Helen Dunmore
David's Story, by Jill Sadowsky
Best books I read in 2012
Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear
Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Cheese and the Worms, by Carlo Ginzburg
Purity of Blood, by Arturo Pérez- Reverte
Dear Life, by Alice Munro
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families, by Colm Tóibín
Playlist 2012
The Reserve, by Russell Banks
A Silver Lining, by Elaine Benton
The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes, by Robert Jacoby
The Weird Sisters, by Eleanor Brown
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
Belshazzar's Daughter, by Barbara Nadel
Townie, by Andre Dubus III
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Italian Journeys, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Light Years, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Writing Contests
Whispers Under Ground, by Ben Aaronovitch
Reveries of the Solitary Walker, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Rescuer's Path, by Paula Friedman
Summers' Horses, by Ralph Cotton
Eventide, by Kent Haruf
61 Hours, by Lee Childs
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
Family Constellation, by Margaret S. Mullins
The Forever Queen, by Helen Hollick
A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
The Tale of Murasaki, by Liza Dalby
The Narrow Road to the Interior, by Kimiko Hahn
Free Enterprise, by Michelle Cliff
The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith, Edited by Michelle Cliff
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
Liebster Award
The Spanish Game, by Charles Cumming
Suburban Myths, by Sam Schmidt
Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner
Memory's Wake, by Derek Owens
Believe in Me: A Teen Mom's Story, by Judith Dickerman-Nelson
Vermilion Drift, by William Kent Krueger
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
This Möbius Strip of Ifs, by Mathias B. Freese
The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka
The Door, by Margaret Atwood
Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, by Colin Cotterill
Absalom, Absalom, by William Faulkner
Divisidero, by Michael Ondaatje
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis, by Cara Black
A Tidewater Morning, by William Styron
Playlist 2011
Best books I read in 2011
The Sun, Sy Safransky Editor
Blind to the Bones, by Stephen Booth
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, by Marion Winik
Sketches from a Hunter's Album, by Ivan Turgenev
Don Giovanni
Tinkers, by Paul Harding
Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying, by Robert Jacoby
Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally, by Alice Feiring
Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell
Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson
Saidie May: Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting, by Susan Helen Adler
In the Temple of a Patient God, by Bejan Matur
Innocent Blood, by P.D. James
Wash the Blood Clean from My Hand, by Fred Vargas
Hamlet (Michael Almereyda's 2000 film)
The Most Dangerous Thing, by Laura Lippman
A Night Too Dark, by Dana Stabenow
All the Strange Hours, by Loren Eiseley
The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey
Breaker, by Sue Sinclair
Moonlight Mile, by Dennis Lehane
Precious Bane, by Mary Webb
A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
Not Dead Enough, by Peter James
The Glass Room, by Simon Mawer
East Wind, Rain, by Caroline Paul
Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin
The Solace of Leaving Early, by Haven Kimmel
The Offensive Internet, ed. by Saul Levmore and Martha C. Nussbaum
Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
The Sun Over Breda, by Arturo Perez-Réverte
Searching for Caleb, by Anne Tyler
To the End of the Land, by David Grossman
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Epitaph for a Peach, by David Mas Masumoto
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
Full Dark House, by Christopher Fowler
Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party, by M. T. Anderson
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
The Forest of Sure Things, Poems by Megan Snyder-Camp
My Sister, My Love, by Joyce Carol Oates
Mad Dogs of Trieste, by Janine Pommy Vega
Storm Glass, by Jane Urquhart
Where Crows & Men Collide, Poetry by Kate Gale
Journey from the North: Autobiography of Storm Jameson
Highlights of AWP 2011
Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, edited by Waugh, Greenberg & Donovan
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, by Paul Theroux
Best books I read in 2010
Playlist 2010
The Professional, by Robert B. Parker
The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds
The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson
Shoes Hair Nails, by Deborah Batterman
The Surrendered, by Chang-Rae Lee
Pearl of China, by Anchee Min
Away, by Jane Urquhart
Resolution, by Robert B. Parker
My Dream of You, by Nuala O'Faolain
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
The Biographer’s Tale, by A.S. Byatt
The Scream, by Rohinton Mistry
Post Captain, by Patrick O'Brien
The Cabinet of Curiosities, by Preston & Child
Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
The Devil in Music, by Kate Ross
The Wives of Henry VIII, by Antonia Fraser
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
Mourning Ruby, by Helen Dunmore
Shop Class as Soul Craft, by Matthew B. Crawford
The Origin of Species, by Nino Ricci
The Winter Vault, by Anne Michaels
The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
A Vineyard Killing/Murder at a Vineyard Mansion, by Philip R. Craig
The Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Drood, by Dan Simmons
The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, edited by Mike Ashley
An Interlude
Bleeding Heart Square, by Andrew Taylor
March Violets, by Philip Kerr
Being Dead, by Jim Crace
Collected Poems 1090-1962, by T. S. Eliot
Acqua Alta, by Donna Leon
The Cruelest Month, by Louise Penny
Home, by Marilynne Robinson
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
Lanark: A Life in Four Acts, by Alasdair Gray
The Wayfarer (Kojin), by Natsume Soseki
Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry
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