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- 01/2018
- Brat Farrar ~ by Josephine Tey
- Commonwealth ~ by Ann Patchett
- Delta Wedding ~ by Eurdora Welty
- Dunbar ~ by Edward St. Aubyn
- Fire and Fury: ~ by Michael Wolff
- Flowers For Algernon ~ by Daniel Keyes
- Holy the Firm ~ by Annie Dillard
- Libertarians on the Prairie: ~ by Christine Woodside
- Montaigne in Barn Boots ~ by Michael Perry
- One of Us is Lying ~ by Karen M. McManus
- Robicheaux ~ by James Lee Burke
- She Rides Shotgun ~ by Jordan Harper
- Shutter Island ~ by Dennis Lehane
- Some Danger Involved ~ by Will Thomas
- Stillhouse Lake ~ by Rachel Caine
- Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger
- The Birdwatcher ~ by William Shaw
- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper ~ by Phaedra Patrick
- The Fearless Benjamin Lay ~ by Marcus Rediker
- The Remains of the Day ~ by Kazuo Ishiguro x2
- The Widows of Malabar Hill ~ by Sujatta Massey
- Winter ~ by Ali Smith (review)
- Wolf in White Van ~ by John Darnielle
- 02/2018
- Autumn ~ by Ali Smith
- Evicted: ~ by Matthew Desmond
- Flat Spin ~ by David Freed
- Kristin Lavransdatter: the Trilogy ~ by Ingrid Undset
- Longbourn ~ by Jo Baker
- Lord Jim ~ by Joseph Conrad
- Murder on Astor Place ~ by Victoria Thompson
- Pride and Prejudice ~ by Jane Austen x2
- Reservoir 13 ~ by Jon McDonald
- Rules of Civility ~ by Amor Towles
- The Good Lawyer ~ by Thomas Benigno
- 03/2018
- A Grave Talent ~ by Laurie R. King
- Any Human Heart ~ by William Boyd
- Bad Moon Rising ~ by Ed Gorman
- City of the Lost ~ by Kelley Armstrong
- Don’t Let Go ~ by Harlan Coban
- Enlightenment Now ~ by Steven Pinker
- Evicted ~ by Matthew Desmond x2
- Guilt by Association ~ by Marcia Clark
- How to Read the Bible: ~ by James L. Kugel
- I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: ~ by Michelle McNamara
- Jar City ~ by Arnuldur Indridason
- Kane and Abel ~ by Jeffrey Archer
- Murder on St. Mark’s Place ~ by Victoria Thompson
- Nomadland ~ by Jessica Bruder
- The Half-Drowned King ~ by Linnea Hartsuyker
- The Persimmon Tree ~ by Bryce Courtenay
- The Third Victim ~ by Phillip Margolin
- 04/2018
- A Higher Loyalty ~ by James Comey
- Elmet ~ by Fiona Mozley
- Little Novels of Sicily ~ by Giovanni Verga
- Murder on Gramercy Park ~ by Victoria Thompson
- Paris in the Present Tense ~ by Mark Helprin
- Poison ~ by John Lescroart
- Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly ~ by Adrian McKinty
- The House of Broken Angels ~ by Luis Alberto Urrea
- The House of Government ~ by Yuri Slezkine
- The Known World ~ by Edward P. Jones
- The Only Story~ by Julian Barnes
- The Painted Queen ~ by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
- The Red-Haired Woman ~ by Orhan Pamuk
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: ~ by Robert J. Gordon
- The Trouble with Goats and Sheep ~ by Joanna Cannon
- 05/2018
- Before He Finds Her ~ by Michael Kardos
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky ~ by Mark Sullivan /notes
- Circe ~ by Madeline Miller
- Ethan Frome ~ by Edith Wharton x2
- Norse Mythology ~ by Neil Gaiman
- Plato at the Googleplex ~ by Rebecca Goldstein
- Silent Child ~ by Sarah A. Denzil
- Silent Lies ~ by Kathryn Croft
- The Autobiography of Gucci Mane ~ by Gucci Mane
- The Good Soldier ~ by Ford Maddox Ford
- The House of Morgan ~ by Ron Chernow: review
- The Inner Life of Animals ~ by Peter Wohlleben
- The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
- The Story of Lucy Gault ~ by William Trevor
- Where the Hell is Tesla? ~ by Rob Dircks
- Wuthering Heights ~ by Emily Bronte (DNF!)
- 06/2018
- Don’t Touch the Blue Stuff! by Rob Dirck
- Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
- In the Kingdom of Ice: ~ by Hampton Sides
- Little Novels of Sicily ~ by Giovanni Verga (story summaries)
- Missing You ~ by Harlan Coben
- People Who Eat Darkness ~ by Richard Lloyd Parry
- Russka ~ by Eduard Rutherford
- Shakespeare and Company ~ by Sylvia Beach
- The Deep Dark Descending ~ by Allen Eskins
- The Feather Thief: ~ by Kirk Wallace Johnson
- The Monk of Mokha ~ by Dave Eggers
- The Overstory ~ by Richard Powers
- The Queen’s Gambit ~ by Walter Tevis
- The Soul of America: ~ by Jon Meacham
- 07/2017
- 08/2017
- 09/2017
- American Nations ~ by Colin Woodward
- Beyond Belief: ~ by Elaine Pagels
- Celine ~ by Peter Heller
- Crocodile on the Sandbank ~ by Elizabeth Peters
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ~ by Gail Honeyman
- Hold Tight ~ by Harlan Coben
- House of 8 Orchids ~ by James Thayer
- Idaho ~ by Emily Ruskovich
- In the Waning Light ~ by Loreth Anne White
- Lab Girl ~ by Hope Jahren
- Missing, Presumed ~ by Susie Steiner
- Pachinko ~ by Min Jin Lee
- Since We Fell ~ by Dennis Lehane (notes)
- St Urbain’s Horseman ~ by Mordecai Richler
- The Moviegoer ~ by Walker Percy
- The Shadow Land ~ by Elizabeth Kostova
- The Traitor’s Story ~ by Kevin Wignall
- To Speak For the Dead ~ by Paul Levine
- 10/2017
- All That Man Is ~ by David Szaylay (Notes)
- American War ~ by Omar El Akkad
- Care Homes Are Murder ~ by Mike Befeler
- Don’t Look Back ~ by Gregg Hurwitz
- Fantasyland: ~ by Kurt Andersen
- Little Boy Lost ~ by J.D. Trafford
- Lyrics Alley ~ by Leila Aboulela
- Magpie Murders ~ by Anthony Horowitz- notes
- Moon Tiger ~ by Penelope Lively
- Murder in an Irish Village ~ by Carlene O’Connor
- North and South ~ by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Golden House ~ by Salman Rushdie
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ~ by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Late Show ~ by Michael Connelly
- 11/2017
- Bruno’s Dream ~ by Iris Murdoch / notes
- Killers of the Flower Moon ~ by David Grann
- Mothering Sunday ~ by Graham Swift
- Once We Were Brothers ~ by Robert Balson
- Prairie Fires ~ by Caroline Fraser
- The Cuckoo’s Calling ~ by Robert Galbraith x2
- The Evangelicals ~ by Frances FitzGerald
- The Ex- ~ by Alafair Burke
- The Good Daughter ~ by Karin Slaughter
- The Gustav Sonata ~ by Rose Tremain
- The House of Unexpected Sisters ~ by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Invisible Ones ~ by Stef Penney
- The Man Who Loved Children ~ by Christina Stead
- The Rooster Bar ~ by John Grisham
- The Soul of an Octopus ~ by Sy Montgomery
- The Trust ~ by Robert Bolson
- Two Kinds of Truth ~ by Michael Connelly
- What Are You Looking At?: ~ by Will Gompertz
- 12/2017
- A Christmas Return ~ by Anne Perry
- Dead Certain ~ by Adam Mitzner
- Dead Mountain ~ by Donnie Eichar
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing ~ by Madeleine Thein
- Fields Where They Lay ~ by Tim Hallinan x2
- Fogbound ~ by Joseph T. Klempner
- Fool’s River ~ by Timothy Hallinan
- History of Wolves ~ by Emily Fridlund
- How To Live: ~ by Sarah Bakewell
- Marine One ~ by James W. Huston
- Mrs Osmond ~ by John Bancroft
- Mystery in White ~ by J. Jefferson Farjean
- Radio Free Vermont: ~ by Bill McKibbon
- Rest You Merry ~ by Charlotte MacLeod
- Shyness and Dignity ~ by Dag Solstad
- Special Circumstances ~ by Sheldon Siegel
- The Buried Giant ~ by Kazuo Ishiguro x2
- The Christmas Train ~ by David Baldacci
- The Quantum Spy ~ by David Ignatius
- The Scarred Woman ~ by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- The Seventh Function of Language ~ by Laurent Binet
- 2013
- 01/2013
- 02/2013
- 03/2013
- A Distant Shore
- All Cry Chaos
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers:
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
- Eye of the Red Tsar
- Feasting, Fasting
- HHhH
- Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
- Jefferson: The Art of Power
- Resurrection Men
- The Chemistry of Tears
- The Cold Dish
- The Fallen Angel
- The Human Comedy
- The Preacher
- The Thirty Years War
- Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
- You’re Next
- 04/2013
- 05/2013
- 06/2013
- 15 Seconds
- A Brief History of Finland
- A Case Against Redemption
- Beowulf
- Cat’s Cradle
- Fly Away Peter
- Garden of the Evening Mists x2
- Leftover Lutefisk
- Letters From Four Seasons
- Nothing But the Truth
- Odds Against Tomorrow
- Poppa John
- Scenes From Village Life
- Stagecoach Heyday
- Swann’s Way
- The Bookseller
- The Fault in Our Stars
- The Forest Unseen
- The Garden of the Evening Mists
- The Hearing
- The Immense Journey
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Professor’s House
- The Teahouse
- The Thief
- The Zen Teachings of Jesus
- This Is How You Lose Her
- Touch and Go
- Trust Your Eyes
- Waiting For the Barbarians
- 07/2013
- Americanah
- Final Theory
- Life After Life
- Light of the World
- Norwegian by Night
- Reef
- River Thieves
- The Golem and the Jinni
- The House of the Dead
- The Science Fiction Omnibus
- The Second Chair
- The Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
- The Stockholm Octavo
- The Winter of Frankie Machine
- Vanity Fair
- Wind, Sand and Stars
- 08/2013
- 09/2013
- 10/2013
- 11/2013
- Civilization: The West and the Rest
- David and Goliath
- Howards End
- My Brilliant Friend
- Norwegian by Night x2
- Pilgrim’s Wilderness
- Questions of Travel
- Return of the Native
- Sanctuary
- The Fourth Watcher
- The Last Chinese Chef
- The Luminaries – review +
- The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- The Ophelia Cut
- Zoo Station
- 12/2013
- 2014
- 01/2014
- 02/2014
- 03/2014
- 04/2014
- 05/2014
- 06/2014
- A Tale For the Time Being
- A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Asunder
- Death With Interruptions
- Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
- How Jesus Became God
- Singapore Grip
- The Gnostic Gospels
- The Hanging Garden
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
- The Master
- The Red and the Black
- The Unicorn
- 07/2014
- 08/2014
- 09/2014
- Big Little Lies
- Fallen
- Fourth of July Creek
- Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris 1932 (review)
- Orfeo
- Six Years
- The Blazing World
- The Chatham School Affair
- The Conservationist
- The Emperor Far Away
- The Farm
- The Gods of Guilt
- The Keeper
- The Museum of Literary Souls
- The Quincunx – review
- The Silkworm
- The Taliban Cricket Club
- Those Who Stay and Those Who Leave
- Wayfaring Stranger
- 10/2014
- 11/2014
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- Factory Man
- Human Voices
- Lawrence in Arabia
- Manon Lescaut
- My Son’s Story
- Skippy Dies
- Standing in Another Man’s Grave
- Station Eleven
- The Amazing Mrs Pollifax
- The Miniaturist
- The Peripheral
- The Son
- The Sound of One Hand Clapping
- We Are All Completely Beside Ouselves
- 12/2014
- All the Light We Cannot See
- An Evil Eye
- An Unnecessary Woman
- Broken Harbor
- Gospel Truth
- I Hear the Sirens in the Street
- Mrs Queen Takes the Train x2
- Mrs. Queen Takes the Train
- The Absent One
- The Children Act
- The Dog Stars
- The Drowning Spool
- The Innovators
- The Testament of Mary
- The World’s Strongest Librarian
- 2014 – summary
- 2015
- 01/2015
- 02/2015
- 03/2015
- 1177: The Year Civilization Collapsed
- A Tale for the Time Being
- Arctic Summer
- Being Mortal
- Consolation
- Darned If You Do
- Dept. of Speculation
- Dreamers of the Day
- Epitaph
- Everything I Never Told You
- My First Murder
- On Such a Full Sea
- On Such a Full Sea x2
- Savage Harvest:
- The Burning Room
- The War of the Roses:
- The Woods
- The World We Found
- Those Who Wish Me Dead
- 04/2015
- A Beautiful Blue Death
- A Spool of Blue Thread
- City of God
- Days of Rage – review
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- Her Enemy
- Sputnik Sweetheart – review
- Suspended Sentences
- The Man in the High Castle (review)
- The Martian
- The Paying Guests
- The Word Exchange
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- 05/2015
- 06/2015
- 07/2015
- 08/2015
- 09/2015
- A Brief History of the Soul
- A Head Full of Ghosts
- California Fire and Life
- Death on a High Floor
- Did You Ever Have a Family
- Flood of Fire
- Nora Webster
- Our Souls at Night
- Purity
- Raven Black
- The Cartel
- The Girl in the Spider’s Web
- The Heart Goes Last
- The Neapolitan Quartet
- The Riders
- The Rise of Silas Latham
- The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
- The Story of the Lost Child
- Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
- 10/2015
- A Conspiracy of Faith
- Career of Evil
- City on Fire
- J
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Living with Your Kids is Murder
- Missing Person
- The Boys in the Boat
- The Case of the Late Pig
- The Hanging Girl
- The Marco Effect
- The Marco Effect x2
- The Purity of Vengeance
- The Suspect
- The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
- Trespass
- 11/2015
- 12/2015
- Alias Olympia
- Away in a Manger
- Between the World and Me
- Breathing Water
- Countdown City
- Diamond Solitaire
- Elizabeth is Missing
- House of the Rising Sun
- Justice Redeemed
- Karnak Cafe
- Marriage of Opposites
- Men Explain Things To Me
- Notorious RBG
- Numero Zero
- Playing God
- Reykjavik Nights
- Senior Moments Are Murder
- Slade House
- The Dead Key
- The Gate of Angels
- The Last Policeman
- The Octopus
- The Righteous Mind
- The Secret Chord
- The Shepherd’s Life
- The Skeptic’s Guide to American History
- The Story of Human Language
- World of Trouble
- Challenges – 2015
- Memoirs?
- Y’rs best -2015
- 2016
- 01/2016
- Avenue of Mysteries
- Brooklyn
- Cruising in your Eighties is Murder by Mike Befeler
- Falling in Love
- Gate of Angels x 2
- Losing Faith
- My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
- Near to the Wild Heart
- Safe House
- Tell No Lies
- The Clockwork Universe
- The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- The Fear Artist
- The Life We Bury
- The Queen of Patpong
- The Short Drop
- The Summer Before the War
- The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
- 02/2016
- 03/2016
- Betrayal by John Lescroart
- Daisy Miller x3
- In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist by Ruchama King Feuerman
- Jesus Before the Gospels
- Mean Streak
- Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel by William Trevor – notes
- My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Notorious RBG x2
- NYPD Red 3
- Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
- Reconstructing Amelia
- The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy – notes 1
- The Hot Countries by Tim Hallinan
- The Incarnations by Susan Barker x2
- The Kind Worth Killing
- The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
- The Water Knife by Pablo Bacigalupi
- 04/2016
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James x2
- A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
- An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt
- Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick
- Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
- Confucius Mecius Laozi Xhuangzi Xunzi: by Michael Pruett
- Cyberstorm by Matthew Mather
- Darknet by Matthew Mather
- Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg x2
- Disclaimer by Reneé Knight
- For the Major by Constance Fenimore Woolson
- Saving Sophie by Ronald H. Balson
- The Advocate’s Daughter by Anthony Franze
- The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
- The Girl From Home: A Thriller by Adam Mitzner
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
- The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
- Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie – review
- Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
- Zero K by Don DeLillo
- 05/2016
- A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett – Notes
- A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett – review
- A Deadly Grind by Victoria Hamilton
- All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry
- Arcadia by Lauren Groff – notes
- Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
- Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman – notes
- Moving Day by Jonathan Stone
- Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym – notes
- Ravensbruck by Sarah Helm
- Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
- Shaker by Scott Frank
- The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer x2
- The Portable Veblen
- The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra / notes
- Valiant Ambition: by Nathaniel Philbrick- review
- Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
- 06/2016
- 07/2016
- 08/2016
- Agaat by Marlene van Nierkerk
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates x2
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- The Underground Railroad by Colin Whitehead
- The Year of the Runaways
- 09/2016
- 10/2016
- A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- Between Black and White by Robert Bailey
- Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu
- Ireland by Frank Delaney
- Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- The Bible: The Biography by Karen Armstrong
- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner x2
- The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan
- The Professor by Robert Bailey
- The Trespasser by Tana French
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
- 11/2016
- Are We Smart Enough To know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- Bryant & May and the Burning Man by Christopher Fowler
- Fishbowl by Bradley Somer
- Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Home by Harlan Coben
- Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
- Musseled Out by Barbara Ross
- The Likeness by Tana French
- The Nix by Nathan Hall
- The Nutshell by Ian McEwan
- The Question of the Missing Head by E. J. Copperman
- The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Vanishing Velázquez by Laura Cumming
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
- Unintended Consequences by Marti Green
- White Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenbert
- 12/2016
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
- Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch
- Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
- Fields Where They Lay by Timothy Hallinan
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
- Mr Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Serious Sweet by A.L. Kennedy
- Terms of Use by Scott Allen Morrison
- The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma x2
- The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
- The One Man by Andrew Gross
- The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
- The Undoing Project: by Michael Lewis
- Twelve Drummers Drumming by C.C. Benison
- Write to Die by Charles Rosenberg
- You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and August Rodin by Rachel Corbett
- Year in Review – 2016
- 01/2016
- 2017
- 01/2017
- A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
- His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- I’m Traveling Alone by Samuel Bjork
- LaRose by Louise Erdrich
- Rites of Passage by William Golding
- Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- The North Water by Ian McGuire
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- Time Travel: A History by James Glick
- Under the Dome by Stephen King
- 02/2017
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (reread)
- Clotel: by William Wells Brown
- IQ by Joe Ide
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
- The Verdict by Nick Stone
- Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
- Victoria: The Queen: by Julia Baird
- Worst. President. Ever. by Robert Strauss
- 03/2017
- A Proper Pursuit by Lynn Austen
- All Things Cease To Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
- An American Genocide by Benjamin Madley
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – DNF
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Sanders
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Piccadilly Jim by P.G. Wodehouse
- Say No More by Hank Phillippi Ryan
- The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
- The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun x2 – Review
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
- The Light of Day by Graham Swift
- The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
- The Old Man by Thomas Perry
- The Stranger in the Woods ~ by Michael Finkel
- 04/2017
- A Criminal Defense ~ by William L. Meyers
- A Power Governments Cannot Suppress ~ by Howard Zinn
- A Quiet Life in the Country ~ by T.E. Kinsey
- Autumn ~ by Ali Smith
- Blood, Salt, Water ~ by Denise Mina
- High Crimes ~ by Joseph Finder
- Judas ~ by Amos Oz
- Kitchens of the Great Midwest ~ by J. Ryan Stradal
- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was ~ by Sjön
- Most Dangerous Place by James Grippando
- Mrs Dalloway ~ by Virginia Woolf
- My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni
- Requiem for the American Dream ~ by Chomsky
- Somebody I Used to Know ~ by David Bell
- The Aspern Papers ~ by Henry James
- The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald x2
- The Book of Mirrors ~ by E.O. Chirovici
- The Heavens May Fall ~ by Allen Eskens
- The Neon Lawyer ~ by Victor Methos
- The Refugees ~ by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda
- The Widow by Fiona Barton
- Truly, Madly Guilty ~ by Liane Moriarity
- Umami ~ by Laia Jufresa
- Vanished ~ by Joseph Finder
- When Breath Becomes Air ~ by Paul Kalanithi
- 05/2017
- American Kingpin ~ by Nick Bilton
- Born a Crime ~ by Trevor Noah
- Eileen ~ by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Hidden Figures ~ by Margo Lee Shetterly
- Homegoing ~ by Yaa Gyasi
- In the Lake of the Woods ~ by Tim O’Brien
- Men Without Women ~ by Haruki Murakami
- Open Secrets ~ by Alice Munro
- The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto
- The House on the Strand ~ by Daphne Du Maurier
- The Idiot ~ by Fyodor Dostoevsky x3 (notes)
- The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon ~ by Richard Zimler
- The Painter of Souls ~ by Phillip Kazan
- 06/2017
- 2017 summary
- 01/2017
- Other
- ** My Blog’s Name in Books – a meme
- 2011
- 05/2011
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany
- Doctor Zhivago
- Doctor Zhivago – Pevear
- Enemies: A History of the FBI
- God on the Rocks
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 (notes)
- The Best of Science and Nature Writing
- The Blue Mountain
- The House of Blue Mangoes
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- The Trees
- The Yacoubian Building
- 10/2011
- 11.22.63
- 12/2011
- 1Q84
- 1Q84 – redux
- 2009/10
- A Month in the Country
- A Visit From the Goon Squad
- Just Kids
- Little Bee
- Ransom
- The Greater Journey
- The Greenlander Notes
- The Litigators
- The Marriage Plot
- The Prague Cemetery
- The Worst Hard Time:
- Thirteen Hours
- 05/2011
- 2012
- 01/2012
- A Conflict of Interest
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Boomerang
- Byzantium
- Elizabeth the Queen
- Ferdydurky (notes)
- Lord of the Flies
- Middlemarch
- Midnight Rising
- Moonwalking With Einstein
- Ordinary Love & Good WIll
- River of Smoke
- Still Midnight
- Swamplandia
- The Chicago Way
- The Crime of Martin Sostre
- The Hare with the Amber Eyes
- The Hare with the Amber Eyes – notes 1
- The Ministry of Special Cases
- The Slap
- 02/2012
- 03/2012
- 04/2012
- 05/2012
- 06/2012
- A New Light on Tiffany
- A Stitch in TIme
- Doctor Zhivago: A Critical Companion
- Framed in Lace
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
- Open City – R
- Pigeon English
- Steve Jobs
- The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
- The Murder of the Century
- The Poisoner’s Handbook
- The Secret Agent – Review
- The Windup Girl
- Tortilla Flat
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey,
- 07/2012
- 08/2012
- A Moveable Feast
- By Nightfall
- Catherine the Great
- Creole Belle
- Doctor Zhivago – x3
- From Eternity to Here
- Gardens of Water
- Home
- Le Père Goriot
- The Beggar Maid
- The Better Angels of Our Natures
- The Brothers K.
- The Cat’s Table
- The Gods of Gotham
- The Song of the Lark
- To the End of the Land
- WIsh You Were Here
- 09/2012
- 10/2012
- A Casual Vacancy
- Cards On the Table
- Dubliners
- Galore
- Half Blood Blues
- Hanging By a Thread
- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Last Night in Montreal
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
- New FInnish Grammar
- Scumbler
- The Cossacks
- The First American: The LIfe and Times of Benjamin Franklin
- The Kitchen Daughter
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- The Nose
- The Racketeer
- Travels With Charley
- 11/2012
- 12/2012
- A Killing in the Hills
- And Then You Dye
- Blood and Beauty
- Care of Wooden Floors
- Istanbul Passage
- NW
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Slouching Toward Bethlehem
- Split Second
- The Bell Jar
- The Black Box
- The Book of Evidence
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The End of the Affair
- The End Of Your Life Book Club
- The Sense of an Ending x 2
- Walden
- Wild
- Best of 2012
- 01/2012
- 6 Degrees of Separation … The Myth of Beauty to
- Challenges
- Fiction which truly changed my life
- I Spy Book Challenge
- me
- Resolutions for 2017
- Some bests
- “best of list for sci-fi”
- Best crime/mystery novels –
- Best Historical Fiction
- Crime Novels – a rant –
- did not finish – :-(
- Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
- Happy Thanksgiving –
- If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
- misc
- Ratings
- Reading India
- Sorting books?
- Sputnik Sweetheart
- The 10s!
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- TBR
- X (moi)
I enjoy your site very much–in fact have added books to my “to read” list based on your reviews. Today, I just wonder where you got that new photo of the fern with the blue highlights. Really beautiful.
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Well thank you, Mij! The photo came with the “Twenty Ten” theme – a freebie.
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I am sorry to report I have no idea what the “Twenty Ten” theme refers to. No doubt you wrote about it and I just skimmed right over it!
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Nevermind–I just googled it and got my answers.
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