Books Read

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• Various Authors: Love Stories (2009)
• Various Authors: Golf Stories (2011)
• Various Authors: Cat Stories (2011)
• Various Authors: The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012)
• Various Authors: London Stories (2013)
• Various Authors: Stories from the Kitchen (2015)
• Various Authors: Wedding Stories (2017)
• Various Authors: Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (2015)
• Various Authors: The Long Arm of the Law: Classic Police Stories (2017) 
• Various Authors: The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (2018)
• Various Authors: Deep Waters: Mysteries on the Waves (2019)
• Various Authors: Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (2020)
• Various Authors: A Surprise For Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (2020)
• Various Authors: Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (2018)
• Various Authors: Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet (2018)
• Various Authors: The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes (2019)
• Various Authors: Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System (2020)

A

• Adebayo, Ayobami: Stay with Me (2017)
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
• Adler, Renata: Pitch Dark (1983)
• Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (~480 BC)
• Alam, Rumaan: Leave the World Behind (2020)
• Alderman, Naomi: The Power (2016)
• Alharthi, Jokha: Celestial Bodies (2010)
• Allende, Isabel: In the Midst of Winter (2017)
• Altan, Ahmet: Like a Sword Wound (1998)
• Amis, Kingsley: Ending Up (1974)
• Anderson, James: Lullaby Road (2018)
• Armstrong, Ken & Miller, T. Christian: A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (2018)
• Atwood, Margaret: Stone Mattress (2014), Hag-Seed (2016)
• Aubyn, Edward St.: Dunbar (2017)
• Audrain, Ashley: The Push (2021)

B

• Backman, Fredrik: A Man Called Ove (2012)
• Barker, Pat: The Silence of the Girls (2018)
• Banville, John: The Sea (2005)
• Barkan, Josh: Mexico: Stories (2017)
• Barnes, Julian: The Noise of Time (2016)
• Barry, Kevin: Night Boat to Tangier (2019), That Old Country Music (2020)
• Batuman, Elif: The Idiot (2017)
• Beck, Haylen: Here and Gone (2017)
• Bennett, Margot: The Man Who Didn’t Fly (1957)
• Berdzenishvili, Levan: Sacred Darkness (2019)
• Berg, Laura van den: The Third Hotel (2018)
• Berkowitz, Joe: American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World (2020)
• Bond, Cynthia: Ruby (2014)
• Booth, Michael: Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan (2020)
• Boylan, Jennifer Finney: Long Black Veil (2017)
• Boyne, John: The Heart’s Invisible Furies (2017), A Ladder to the Sky (2018)
• Braithwaite, Oyinkan: My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
• Broder, Melissa: Milk Fed (2021)
• Bruce, Camilla: You Let Me In (2020)
• Buchanan, Cathy Marie: Daughter of Black Lake (2020)
• Bude, John: Death in White Pyjamas and Death Knows no Calendar (1944/42), Death Makes a Prophet (1947)
• Burnet, Graeme Macrae: His Bloody Project (2015)
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Shuttle (1906)
• Burns, Anna: Milkman (2018)
• Busquets, Milena: This Too Shall Pass (2015)

C

• Campbell, Michele: She Was the Quiet One (2018)
• Cannon, Joanna: Three Things About Elsie (2018)
• Card, Maisy: These Ghosts Are Family (2020)
• Carr, John Dickson: The Corpse in the Waxworks (1932)
• Carter, Bella Mahaya: Raw: My Journey from Anxiety to Joy (2018)
• Chapman, Julia: Date with Malice (2018)
• Chevalier, Tracy: Girl With a Pearl Earring (1999), New Boy (2017)
• Christie, Agatha: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), The Murder on the Links (1923), Poirot Investigates (1924), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), The Big Four (1927), The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928), The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
• Clements, Oliver: The Eyes of the Queen (2020)
• Comyns, Barbara: The Juniper Tree (1985)
• Cooper, Duff: Operation Heartbreak (1951)
• Cooper, Ellison: Caged (2018)
• Crouch, Blake: Dark Matter (2016)
• Crucet, Jennine Capo: My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education (2019)
• Cunningham, Michael: The Hours (1998)

D

• Dalcher, Christina: Vox (2018), Master Class (2020)
• Di Pietrantonio, Donatella: A Girl Returned (2017)
• Déry, Tibor: Niki: The Story of a Dog (1956)
• Dimberg, Kelsey Rae: Girl in the Rearview Mirror (2019)
• Downes, Mollie Panter: My Husband Simon (1931), Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories (1999)

E

• Eggers, Dave: The Parade (2019)
• Enright, Anne: The Green Road (2015)
• Enríquez, Mariana: Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories (2017)
• Escobar, Mario: Auschwitz Lullaby (2016)

F

• Farjeon, J. Jefferson: The Z Murders (1932), Thirteen Guests (1936)
• Farley, Ashley: Dream Big, Stella! (2020)
• Farrell, J. G.: Troubles (1970), The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)
• Faulks, Sebastian: Paris Echo (2018)
• Feeney, Alice: Sometimes I Lie (2017)
• Finn, A. J.: The Woman in the Window (2018)
• Foer, Jonathan Safran: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019)
• Fowler, Therese Anne: A Well-Behaved Woman (2018)
• Fox, Candice: Redemption Point (2019)
• Franzen, Jonathan: End of the End of the Earth (2018)
• Frear, Caz: Sweet Little Lies (2017)
• Frey, Rea: Until I Find You (2020)

G

• Gavalda, Anna: French Leave (2001), Billie (2013)
• George, Nina: The Little French Bistro (2017)
• Giddings, Megan: Lakewood (2020)
• Gilbert, Michael: Smallbone Deceased (1950), Death Has Deep Roots (1951), Death in Captivity (1952)
• Gilly, Alex: Death Rattle (2020)
• Goodman, Joanna: The Forgotten Daughter (2020)
• Gotthelf, Jeremias: The Black Spider (1842)
• Gould-Bourn, James: Bear Necessity (2020)
• Gowar, Imogen Hermes: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock (2018)
• Grant, Linda: The Dark Circle (2016)
• Greengrass, Jessie: Sight (2018)
• Greenland, Seth: A Kingdom of Tender Colors: A Memoir of Comedy, Survival, and Love (2020)
• Gregory, Philippa: The Virgin’s Lover (2004)
• Grodstein, Lauren: Our Short History (2017)
• Groff, Lauren: Fates and Furies (2015)
• Grossman, David: A Horse Walks into a Bar (2014)

H

• Hall, Rachel Howzell: They All Fall Down (2019)
• Hamilton, Cicely: William – An Englishman (1919)
• Handler, Leslie: Rats, Mice, And Other Things You Can’t Take to The Bank (2018)
• Hannah, Sophie: The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (2020)
• Harari, Yuval Noah: Sapiens – A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (2020)
• Harris, Thomas: Cari Mora (2019)
• Hawkins, Paula: The Girl on the Train (2015)
• Hendricks, Greer & Pekkanen, Sarah: The Wife Between Us (2018), An Anonymous Girl (2019)
• Hoffman, Alice: The World That We Knew (2019)
• Honeyman, Gail: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)
• Hrabal, Bohumil: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964)
• Hutchins, Maude: Victorine (1959)
• Huyler, Frank: White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine (2020)

I

• Isherwood, Christopher: A Single Man (1964)

J

• Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery and Other Stories (1948)
• Jaeger, Muriel: The Man with Six Senses (1927)
• Jefferies, Dinah: The Tea Planter’s Wife (2015)
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: Heat and Dust (1975)
• Johnson, Daisy: Everything Under (2018)
• Jones, Sandie: The Other Woman (2018), The First Mistake (2019), The Half Sister (2020)
• Jones, Tayari: An American Marriage (2018)

K

• Kang, Han: The Vegetarian (2007), The White Book (2016)
• Kawakami, Hiromi: The Ten Loves of Nishino (2003)
• Khong, Rachel: Goodbye, Vitamin (2017)
• Kingsolver, Barbara: Unsheltered (2018)
• Knight, Renée: The Secretary (2019)
• Kumarasamy, Akil: Half Gods (2018)

L

• Lacey, Catherine: Certain American States: Stories (2018)
• Lacey, Robert: The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1 (2017)
• Lapena, Shari: A Stranger in the House (2017)
• Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972)
• Levinson, David Samuel: Tell Me How This Ends Well (2017)
• Levy, Andrea: Six Stories and an Essay (2014)
• Levy, Lawrence H.: Last Stop in Brooklyn (2018)
• Lewis, Phillip: The Barrowfields (2017)
• Li, Lillian: Number One Chinese Restaurant (2018)
• Lin, Chia-Chia: The Unpassing (2019)
• Lindstrøm, Merethe: Days in the History of Silence (2013)
• Llewyn, Sophie van: Bottled Goods (2018)
• Loedel, Daniel: Hades, Argentina (2021)
• Logan, T. M.: Lies (2018), 29 Seconds (2019), The Vacation (2020)
• Lorac, E. C. R.: Checkmate to Murder: A Second World War Mystery (1944), Murder by Matchlight (1945), Murder in the Mill-Race: A Devon Mystery (1952)
• Love, Melissa Scrivner: Lola (2017)
• Luiselli, Valeria: Lost Children Archive (2019)
• Lunde, Maja: The End of the Ocean (2017)

M

• Macaulay, Rose: Dangerous Ages (1921)
• Mackenzie, Caroline: One Year of Ugly (2020)
• Marriott, Emma: Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion (2019)
• Martin, Andrew: Early Work (2018)
• Maupassant, Guy de: Like Death (1888)
• Maurensig, Paolo: Theory of Shadows (2015)
• Maynard, Joyce: Under the Influence (2014)
• Mbue, Imbolo: Behold the Dreamers (2016)
• Miller, Madeline: Circe (2018)
• Miller, T. Christian & Armstrong, Ken: A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (2018)
• Modiano, Patrick: Young Once (1981)
• Morelli, Laura: The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and da Vinci’s Italy (2020)
• Morgan, C. E.: The Sport of Kings (2016)
• Moriarty, Jaclyn: Gravity is the Thing (2019)
• Moshfegh, Ottessa: Eileen (2015)
• Munaweera, Nayomi: What Lies Between Us (2016)
• Murakami, Haruki: Killing Commendatore (2017)

N

• Naipaul, V. S.: In a Free State (1971)
• Némirovsky, Irène: The Misunderstanding (1924), David Golder (1929), Le Bal (1930), The Courilof Affair (1933), The Wine of Solitude (1935), Jezebel (1936), The Dogs and the Wolves (1940), All Our Worldly Goods (1947), The Fires of Autumn (1957), Suite Française (2004), Fire in the Blood (2007), Dimanche and Other Stories (2010)
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh: The Sympathizer (2015), The Refugees (2017)

O

• O’Connor, Nuala:  Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce (2021)
• Ogawa, Yōko: The Memory Police (1994)
• Ondaatje, Michael: Warlight (2018)
• Origo, Iris: War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 (1947), A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939–1940 (2017)
• Osborne, Lawrence: Hunters in the Dark (2015)

P

• Parsons, Kimberly King: Black Light (2019)
• Pieri, Lorenza: The Garden of Monsters (2020)
• Plath, Sylvia: Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom (1952)
• Pujol, Pascale: Little Culinary Triumphs (2018)

R

• Rachman, Tom: The Imperfectionists (2010), The Italian Teacher (2018)
• Reid, Taylor Jenkins: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017)
• Riley, Gwendoline: First Love (2017)
• Robertson, Robin: The Long Take (2018)
• Robson, Jennifer: The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding (2018)
• Rose, M. J. and Davis, Fiona: Stories from Suffragette City (2020)
• Rosnay, Tatiana de: The Rain Watcher (2018)
• Rooney, Kathleen: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (2017)
• Ruffin, Amber and Lamar, Lacey: You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism (2020)
• Russo, Richard: Chances Are… (2019)
• Ryan, Jennifer: The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir (2017)

S

• Salih, Tayeb: The Wedding of Zein (1969)
• Saunders, George: Tenth of December (2013)
• Savage, Lila: Say Say Say (2019)
• Schmidt, Sarah: See What I Have Done (2017)
• Seiffert, Rachel: A Boy in Winter (2017)
• Shamsie, Kamila: Home Fire (2017)
• Shelton, Paige: Lost Books and Old Bones (2018)
• Shriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
• Simenon, Georges: Pietr the Latvian (1931), Maigret and the Lazy Burglar (1961), Maigret and the Saturday Caller (1962), Maigret and the Tramp (1963), Maigret’s Anger (1963), Maigret and the Ghost (1964), Maigret Defends Himself (1964), Maigret’s Patience (1965), Maigret and the Nahour Case (1966), Maigret’s Pickpocket (1967)
• Skaife, Christopher: The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (2018)
• Slimani, Leïla: The Perfect Nanny (2016)
• Sloan, Robin: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)
• Smith, Ali: The First Person and Other Stories (2008)
• Stanton, David: The Judges of the Secret Court (1961)
• Symons, Julian: The Colour of Murder (1957), The Progress of a Crime (1960), The Belting Inheritance (1965)

T

• Taylor, Elizabeth: A View of the Harbour (1947)
• Taylor, Goldie: Paper Gods (2018)
• Temple, William F.: Four-Sided Triangle (1949), Shoot at the Moon (1966)
• Thien, Madeleine: Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
• Towers, Frances: Tea with Mr. Rochester (1949)
• Tudor, C. J.: The Chalk Man (2018), The Hiding Place (2019)
• Tyce, Harriet: Blood Orange (2019)
• Tyler, Anne: Clock Dance (2018)

U

• Uglow, Jenny: Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2018)
• Usher, Shaun: Letters of Note: Cats (2020), Letters of Note: War (2020)

V

• Vapnyar, Lara: Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love (2008)
• von Rezzori, Gregor: An Ermine in Czernopol (1958)

W

• Waldman, Adelle: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (2013)
• Walker, Wendy: Emma in the Night (2017), The Night Before (2019)
• Ware, Ruth: The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016)
• Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine (1895)
• Wescott, Glenway: The Pilgrim Hawk (1940)
• Westover, Tara: Educated (2018)
• White, T. H.: The Goshawk (1951)
• Whitehead, Colson: The Underground Railroad (2016)
• Winman, Sarah: Tin Man (2017)
• Wilkinson, Ellen: The Division Bell Mystery (1932)
• Williams, Eley: The Liar’s Dictionary (2021)
• Williams, Ian: Reproduction (2019)
• Wilson, Daniel H.: The Andromeda Evolution (2019)
• Worley, Jennifer: Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power (2020)

Y

• Yates, Christopher J.: Grist Mill Road (2018)
• Youngson, Anne: Meet Me at the Museum (2018)