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Favourite Works: 2004-2013
Two Novels by BARBARA PYM
Sabbath's Theater by PHILIP ROTH
July 18/13
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Feb 25/13
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Dec 19/12
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Books are listed first. Towards the end of this Index, you'll find separate listings for Short StoriesMagazine Articles, Poetry, Mysteries and Re-readings (2nd or 3rd looks at old favourites). 
 

Originally, items were posted according to genre and then archived accordingly.  That's why the older items are indexed by genre and the rest by date.

To find an item, scroll down to see what page it's on, then click on the appropriate page in the navigation bar to the left of the screen.


BOOKS



10:04 (Lerner) Fall Reading 2014


11/22/63 (King) May 20/12


12 Edmondstone Street (Malouf) June 28/09


1982 (Ghomeshi) Feb 11/14


A Complicated Kindness (Toews) Jan 5/05


A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole) Fall Reading 2010


A Gentleman in Moscow (Towles) Oct 3/18


A God in Ruins (Atkinson) Winter Reading 2016


A Life of Privilege, Mostly (Botsford) Dec 31/05


A Long Long Way (Barry) Summer Reading 2014


A Long Way Gone (Beah) Fall Reading 2010


A Mind of Its Own (Friedman) Nov 7/11


A Romance on Three Legs (Hafner) March 17/10


A Short History of Progress (Wright) June 8/07


A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Lewycka) Dec 27/06


A Special Providence (Yates) Apr 30/14


A Spool of Blue Thread (Tyler) Dec 19/16


A Stolen Life (Dugard) Nov 27/11


A Thousand Small Sanities (Gopnik) June 22/19


A Year in the Merde (Clarke) June 27/06


About Alice (Trillin) Jan 11/10


Abraham Lincoln (Keneally) Dec 31/05


Adventures of Lucky Pierre, The (Coover) Jan 11/06


After These Things (Diski) Sept 1/05


All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) May 26/'19


All Souls' Day (Nooteboom) Books page


All That Is (Salter) Summer Reading 2013


All the Living (Morgan) July 17/16


Aloft (Chang-rae Lee) Sept 6/06


American Boy  (Watson) April 21/12


American Dirt (Cummins) Aug 12/20


American Purgatorio (Haskell) Sept 16/05


American Philosophy: A Love Story (Kaag) Apr 22/19


Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The (Wood) Dec 5/04


An American Childhood (Dillard) Sept 18/07


An Unfinished Life (Dallek) Feb 11/14


Analyst, The (Katzenbach), July 18/06


Anatomy of a Disappearance (Matar) Summer Reading 2012


Anatomy School, The (MacLaverty) Books page


And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Morrison) Books page


Annabel (Winter) March 24/11


(The) Art of Losing Control (Evans) Sept 9/18


At Last (St. Aubyn) Spring Reading 2013


At Mrs. Lippincote's (Taylor) Dec 27/06


At Swim Two Boys (O'Neill) Books page


At the Strangers' Gate (Gopnik) Aug 2/19


Author, Author (Lodge) Nov 4/05


Autumn (Knausgaard) Oct 3/18


Avid Reader (Gottlieb) May 25/20


Bad Science (Goldacre) Dec 12/11


Barchester Towers (Trollope) Feb 11/14


Barrel Fever (Sedaris) May 18/08


Be Near Me (O'Hagan) Summer Reading 2010


Being Caribou (Heuer) Oct 4/07


Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself (Wroe) June 23/08


Being Mortal (Gawande) Aug 21/16


Bel Canto (Patchett) July 18/06


Belonging (Huggans) Jan 19/05


Ben in the World (Lessing) June 4/08


Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (Ridley) Winter Reading 2015


(The) Best Laid Plans (Fallis) Fall Reading 2010


Between Them (Ford) Sept 21/17


(The) Bible Unearthed (Finkelstein and Silberman) March 8/07


(The) Birthday Party (Alpert) Fall Reading 2010


Blackbird (Basilières) Dec 21/10


Black Swan Green (Mitchell) Aug 2/10


Black Veil, The (Moody) March 17/06


(The) Body in Question (Ciment) Nov 10/19


(The) Book of Delights (Gay) Sept 30/19


(The) Book of Getting Even (Taylor) Summer Reading 2010


(The) Book of Revelation (Thomson) Feb 11/14


Born Standing Up (Martin) March 1/09


Born to Run (Springsteen) Nov 22/17


Bossypants (Fey) June 25/11


Breakfast on Pluto (McCabe) Books page


Breakfast with Lucian (Greig) Summer Reading 2014


Breaking the Spell (Dennett) Nov 7/11


Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney) March 11/11


Bring Up the Bodies (Mantel) Spring Reading 2013


Byron: The Flawed Angel (Grosskurth) Nov 25/05


Call Me By Your Name (Aciman) Spring Reading 2013


Calypso (Sedaris) Oct 3/18


Canada (Ford) July 14/12


Captivity (Loney) Apr 29/11


Careless Love (Guralnick) Nov 27/11


Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women (Flem) Aug 10/05


Cathedral (Carver) Nov 8/06


Chances Are (Russo) Nov 10/19


(The) Charming Predator (Mackenzie) Aug 3/17


Cheaper by the Dozen (Gilbreth) Summer Reading 2012


(The) Children Act (McEwan) Summer Reading 2015


(The) Christian World (Marty) July 31/09


Christianity: The First 3,000 Years (MacCulloch) Summer Reading 2014


City of Falling Angels, The (Berendt) Feb 16/06


Closing Time (Queenan) Summer Reading 2012


Cloud Atlas (Mitchell) (Feb 4/05)


Confessions (Kang) Oct 4/07


Confessions of an Innocent Man (Sampson) Oct 22/09


Country Girl (O'Brien) Fall Reading 2014


Cure of Folly, The (Werme) Nov 28/06


(The) Curious Case of Sidd Finch (Plimpton) March 21/05


(The) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon) March 1/09


(The) Da Vinci Code (Brown) Books page


Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage


with Barry Humphries (Lahr) Books page


Dancer(McCann) Books page


Darwin: A Sense of Place (Browne) Books page


Days by Moonlight (Alexis) Sept 30/19


De Niro's Game (Hage) April 14/07


Dear Edward (Napolitano) May 25/20


Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather) Feb 11/14


Deep Down Dark (Tobar) May 14/18


(The) Devil in the White City (Larson) Sept 9/18


(The) Divine Husband (Goldman) Sept 5/08


Diviners, The (Moody) Dec 27/06


(The) Do-Gooder's Diet (Vale) Sept 18/07


Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) Dec 11/06


Drawing Is Thinking (Glaser) Aug 9/10


Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Sedaris) May 18/08


(The) Drunkard's Walk (Mlodinow) Summer Reading 2010


Dunbar (St. Aubyn) Dec 3/18


(The) Easter Parade (Yates) Apr 16/14


Educated (Westover) Sept 30/19


Eight White Nights (Aciman) Summer Reading 2013


(The) Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery) Winter Reading 2013


Elevation (King) June 22/19


Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing (Leonard) Feb 13/08


Elsewhere (Russo) Feb 11/14


Elvis: In the Twilight of Memory (Juanico) Summer Reading 2011


Empire of the Sun (Ballard) July 17/09


(The) End (Knausgaard) Feb 23/19


(The) End of Eddy (Louis) May 25/20


England, England (Barnes) July 18/06


Enlightenment Now (Pinker) May 26/'19


Englishman's Boy, The (Vanderhaeghe) Sept 22/06


Enigma Variations (Aciman), Apr 23/18


Erratic North (Frutkin) Nov 24/09


Escape from Camp 14 (Harden) Summer Reading 2012


Eventide (Haruf) May 23/06


Everyman (Roth) Nov 28/06


Everything in This Country Must (McCann) May 21/07


Everything Is F*cked (Manson) Sept 30/19


(The) Examined Life (Grosz) Winter Reading 2015


Excellent Women (Pym)  On page "Two Novel by Barbara Pym," listed near the top of the navigation bar, just under "Favourite Works: 2004-2013"


Exit Ghost (Roth) Oct 25/07


Exposure (Dunmore) Feb 9/17


Falling Man (DeLillo) Sept 5/08


Falling Towards England (James) Sept 5/08


Family Planning (Mahajan) July 17/16


Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul (Hendra) July 10/05


Fiction Ruined My Family (Darst) Spring Reading 2013


Finding Myself (Litt) Sept 6/06


First Person (Flanagan) June 22/19


Fisher King, The (Powell) March 21/05


Flaubert (Brown) Fall Reading 2010


Foreskin's Lament (Auslander) Nov 7/11


(The) Forgotten Waltz (Enright) Jan 15/12


Fraud (Rakoff) Feb 1/06


(The) Free World (Bezmozgis) June 20/11


From Grave to Cradle to Now (Powell) June 28/12


From the Memoires of a Non-Enemy Combatant (Gilvarry) March 13/14


Galileo's Finger (Atkins) Feb 16/06


(The) Gathering (Enright) May 4/08


Girl (O'Brien) Dec 6/19


Giving Up the Ghost (Mantel) Summer Reading 2012


Glass  Cage: The Crest Theatre Story (Illidge) August 12/06


(The) Glass Castle (Walls) Fall Reading 2014


(The) God Delusion (Dawkins) May 21/07


God's Secretaries (Nicolson) March 24/11


(The) Golden Mean (Lyon) Feb 11/14


Good Priest's Son, The (Price) Aug 10/05


The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) Winter Reading 2013


(The) Green Road (Enright) Aug 21/16


Greene on Capri (Hazzard) July 18/06


Hallelujah Junction (Adams) July 19/11


Hardcore Zen (Warner) Feb 26/08


Hart's War (Katzenbach) July 18/06


Harvard Square (Aciman) Feb 11/14


Heat (Buford) Oct 25/07


Heavy (Laymon) Apr 22/19


Her First American (Segal) Feb 11/14


Here I Am (Foer) Aug 3/17


(The) Highly Sensitive Person (Aron) Aug 21/16


Hiking With Nietzsche (Kaag) Apr 22/19


Hillbilly Elegy (Vance) Aug 2/19


History of Shit (Laporte) Jan 11/06


History of Violence (Louis) Jan 29/20


Hitch-22 (Hitchens) Summer Reading 2011


Housekeeping (Robinson) On a page of its own, just above Oct 22/09


Hotels, Hospitals and Jails (Swofford) Spring Reading 2013


How Can I Help? (Goldbloom) July 17/16


How Fiction Works (Wood) on a page of its, just above Nov 24/09


How Green Was My Valley (Llewellyn) Feb 11/14


How Insensitive (Smith) Sept 1/05


How It All Began (Lively) May 20/12


How Jesus Became Christian (Wilson) Fall Reading 2010


How to Live: A Life of Montaigne (Bakewell) Summer Reading 2013


I Am Abraham (Charyn) May 28/14


I Am America (And So Can You!) (Colbert) July 21/08


(The) Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Bailyn) Apr 30/14


If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (McGregor) March 9/06


I'm A Stranger Here Myself (Bryson) Feb 11/14


(The) Immaculate Conception (Soucy) April 14/07


In A Sunburned Country (Bryson) Feb 11/14


In America (Sontag) June 15/05


In One Person (Irving) Winter Reading 2013


In Patagonia (Chatwin) Aug 23/09


In Pursuit of Silence (Prochnick) Summer Reading 2011


In Search of Time (Falk) Dec 31/09


In Spite of Myself (Plummer) June 3/10


In The Beginning Was The Worm (Brown) Dec 20/04


In The Blink of an Eye (Parker) August 12/06


In The Blood (Motion) Fall Reading 2010


In The Garden of Beasts (Larson) Dec 20/11


In The Land of Long Fingernails (Wilkins) Nov 16/08


In The Memorial Room (Frame) Summer Reading 2014


(The) Intimates (Sassone) May 28/14


Into the Gray Zone (Owen) Aug 9/18


Jarhead (Swofford) Spring Reading 2013


(The) Jesus Sayings (Weyler) On a page of its own, just above Feb 8/09


John Clare (Bate) Feb 28/05


Julius Winsome (Donovan) Summer Reading 2012


(The) Judgment of Paris (King) Jan 30/08


kaddish.com (Englander) Sept 30/19


Kite Runner, The (Hosseini) May 18/05


Ladies' Man (Price) Spring Reading 2015


Last American Man, The (Gilbert) Books page


Last Train to Memphis (Guralnick) Summer Reading 2011


Late In the Day (Hadley) June 22/19


Late Nights on Air (Hay) Dec 30/07


Laughin at My Nightmare (Burcaw) Winter Reading 2016


Leaving Home (Brookner) Sept 7/05


(The) Legend of Colton H. Bryant  (Fuller) Summer Reading 2012


Leonardo (Kemp) June 15/05


Less (Greer) Oct 3/18


Let Me Be Frank With You (Ford) Winter Reading 2015


Liar (Roberge) June 2/16


Life After Death (Echols) Feb 11/14


(The) Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe (O'Hagan) June 2/11


Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The (Bryson) Dec 27/06


Life of Pi (Martel) Books page


Light and Dark (Howard) Jan 23/12


(The) Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst) Summer Reading 2010


Local Knowledge (Geertz) Dec 19/16


Lolita (Nabokov) Aug 9/10


(The) Longest Trip Home (Grogan) July 17/09


Look At It This Way (Cartwright) Books page


Losing It (Cumyn) Feb 1/06


The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age (Rudgley) Winter Reading 2015


Lost Genius (Bazzana) Fall Reading 2012


Lost In Place (Salzman) March 21/05


Love and Louis XIV (Fraser) Summer Reading 2010


Love, etc (Barnes) Jan 15/19


Love Like Salt (Stevenson) Oct 3/18


(The) Love of My Youth (Gordon) Feb 11/14


Lucking Out (Wolcott) Summer Reading 2012


Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (Monk) March 13/14


Making An Elephant (Swift) Feb 11/14


Man in the Dark (Auster) Jan 10/09


Man Made (Stein) March 12/20


(The) Man Who Would Be Queen (Bailey) Oct 25/07


(The) Map and the Territory (Houellebecq) Fall Reading 2012


(The) Marriage Plot (Eugenides) Mar 22/12


Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Fraser) Jan 24/07 


Master, The (Toibin)  April 8/05


Matisse: The Master (Spurling) April 17/10


May Week Was In June (James) Sept 5/08


Me Before You (Moyes) March 13/14


Me, Myself and Us (Little) Fall Reading 2015


Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris) Feb 16/07


Metraville (Popowich) Jan 7/12


Michael Tolliver Lives (Maupin) Sept 5/08


Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (King) Winter Reading 2015


Misquoting Jesus (Ehrman) May 23/06


(The) Missionary Position (Hitchens) Aug 2/10


Moab Is My Washpot (Fry) Summer Reading 2015


Moi, J’Écris Pour Agir (Gallo) Summer Reading 2013


Mortality (Hitchens) Fall Reading 2012


Mothers and Sons (Tóibín) May 2/07


Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune (Wolff) Winter Reading 2015


Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter (Nahani) Sept 16/05


Muriella Pent (Smith) Sept 7/05


Must You Go? (Fraser) Aug 11/11


My Brilliant Friend (Ferrrante) Dec 3/18


My History (Fraser) June 2/16


My Lobotomy (Dully) June 23/08


My Old Man (Major) Feb 11/14


My Young Life (Tuten) June 22/19


(The) Naked and the Dead (Mailer) Feb 11/14


(The) Naked Tourist (Osborne) Dec 21/10


Napolen (Bell) Oct 3/18


Netherland (O'Neill) May 10/09


Nevertheless (Baldwin) Aug 9/18


Next (Hynes) Fall Reading 2012


No Great Mischief (MacLeod) July 18/06


No One Is Here Except All of Us (Ausubel) Fall Reading 2012


Nora Webster (Tóibín) Winter Reading 2016


Normal People (Rooney) March 12/20


Norman Bray In The Performance Of His Life (Cole) Feb 1/06


Not In Front of the Corgis (Hoey) Sept 9/18


Not That Kind of Girl (Dunham) Winter Reading 2016


Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Barnes) Feb 7/11


Nutshell (McEwan) Dec 3/18


NW (Smith) Oct 23/12


Of This Earth (Wiebe) Nov 24/09


Old Filth (Gardham) Feb 11/14


On Canaan's Side (Barry) Summer Reading 2014


On Chesil Beach (McEwan) June 8/07


On Human Nature (Wilson) Oct 25/07


One Day (Nicholls) Summer Reading 2015


One of These Things First (Gaines) Dec 19/16


One Soldier's War (Babchenko) July 31/09


(The) Only Story (Barnes) Dec 3/18


Open Heart (Wiesel) Feb 11/14


Open Net (Plimpton) Dec 31/05


Opening Windows (Hamilton) Apr 30/14


(The) Order of Good Cheer (Gaston) Aug 23/09


(The) Other Family (Trollope) Fall Reading 2012


Other People's Houses (Segal) Feb 11/14


Our Fathers (O'Hagan) Dec 30/07


Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Hanif) Fall Reading 2012


Out of Egypt (Aciman) Feb 11/14


Out of the Blue (Wong) Summer Reading 2013


Oxygen (Miller) Sept 18/09


Pack Up the Moon (Teleky) Feb 1/06


(The) Parade (Eggers) Apr 22/19


(The) Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem 1951-1961 (Rorem) Feb 23/11


Patrick Leigh Fermor (Cooper) Winter Reading 2015


(The) Patrick Melrose Novels (St. Aubyn) Spring Reading 2013


Paula Spencer (Doyle) Dec 27/06


Perilous Question (Fraser) June 2/16


Pinboy (Bowering) Spring Reading 2013


Plays Well With Others (Gurganus) Books page


Plot Against America, The (Roth)  Oct 24/05


Pops (Chabon) Apr 22/19


(The) Power of Silence (Turner) Winter Reading 2016


Presidio (Kennedy) Jan 29/20


Primates and Philosophers (de Waal) July 31/09


Prince Albert (Wilson) Dec 6/19


Prince Charles (Smith) Sept 9/18


Private Myths (Stevens) Summer Reading 2015


Promise of Happiness, The (Cartwright) Sept 16/05


The Psycopath Test (Ronson) May 20/12


Quartet in Autumn (Pym) On page "Two Novels by Barbara Pym," on the navigation bar, just under "Favourite Works: 2004-2013"


Queen Elizabeth II: Her LIfe in Our Times (Bradford) May 14/18


Quiet (Cain) Winter Reading 2013


Reading the Bible Again for the First Time (Borg) Winter Reading 2013


The Receptionist (Groth) Feb 11/14


Red Queen, The (Drabble) Feb 21/05


Remember Me (Azzopardi) Books page


Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker (Mehta) Summer Reading 2011


Remembering the Bones (Itani) Dec 8/07


Reservation Blues (Alexie) Sept 1/05


(The) Retreat (Bergen) Dec 24/08


(The) Road to Little Dribbling (Bryson) June 16/'17


Robin (Itzkoff) Aug 2/19


Room (Donoghue) Dec 6/10


Ruined By Reading (Schwartz) March 21/05


Rumi, Gazing at the Beloved: The Radical Practice of Beholding the Divine (Johnson) Jan 17/08


Running Away to Sea (Fetherling) June 28/09


Sabbath's Theatre (Roth) On a page of its own, near the top of the navigation bar, just above page dated "July 18, 2013")


Saint Augustine's Confession (Wills) Feb 11/14


Sapiens (Harari) Fall Reading 2015


Saturday (McEwan) March 17/06


(The) Savage Detectives (Bolaño) June 4/08


Sea, The (Banville) Nov 28/06


Seasons on Harris (Yeadon) May 18/08


Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation (Donovan) Aug 3/17


Secrets of My Life (Jenner) June 2/18


(The) Sense of An Ending (Barnes) Dec 20/11


(The) Sentimentalists (Skibsrud) May 14/11


Serving Victoria (Hubbard) Apr 23/18


Sex at Dawn (Ryan and Jethà) Summer Reading 2013


Sex, Sin and Zen (Warner) Nov 18/11


Shake Hands With the Devil (Dallaire) Dec 5/04


(The) Shoe on the Roof (Ferguson) Dec 3/18


She Got Up Off The Couch (Kimmel) March 23/07


Sit Down and Shut Up (Warner) April 14/09


Skating to Antarctica (Diski) Sept 16/05


Skeletons on the Zahara (King) Aug 12/06


Slow Man (Coetzee) May 2/06


Smut (Bennett) Mar 9/12


(The) Snow Leopard (Matthiessen) Nov 18/11


So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Enger) Nov 16/08


Solar (McEwan) Fall Reading 2010


Solitude (Harris) Jan 29/20


(The) Solitude of Prime Numbers (Giordano) July 19/11


(The) Soul Thief (Baxter) Sept 18/09


Sounds Like Titanic (Hindman) June 22/19


Sovereign: Elizabeth II and the Windsor Dynasty (Flamini) April 12/06\


Specimen Days (Cunningham) Fall Reading 2012


(The) Spirituality of Gardening (Sinclair) Feb 23/19


Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Sedaris) May 14/11


Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit (Magness) Aug 21/16


Stoner (Williams) Feb 11/14


The Story of My Assassins (Tejpal) Summer Reading 2014


(The) Story of My Father (Miller) Oct 25/05


Stranger, Father, Beloved (Larsen) Feb 9/17


(The) Stranger in the Woods (Finkel) Nov 3/17


Submission (Houellebecq) June 2/16


Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects (Miller) May 18/05


Suite Française (Némirovsky) Feb 22/10


Sweetness in the Belly (Gibb) April 14/07


Sweetest Dream, The (Lessing) Books page


Talking About Detective Fiction (James) Winter Reading 2013


Terrorist (Updike) Nov 8/06


(The) Testament of Mary (Tóibín) Fall Reading 2012


Theft by Finding (Sedaris) May 14/18


Things I Didn't Know (Hughes) Sept 18/09


Things My Mother Never Told Me (Morrison) July 18/06


Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman) Winter Reading 2013


Thirteen Ways of Looking (McCann) Winter Reading 2016


This Party's Got to Stop (Thomson) Feb 11/14


This Won't Hurt a Bit (Gabereau) Dec 3/18


Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (Tomalin) Jan 30/08


Tinkers (Harding) Feb 11/14


Tomorrow (Swift) March 26/08


Too Close to the Falls (Gildiner) March 9/06


Too Far From Home (Jones) Summer Reading 2015


Touch the Dragon (Connelly) Oct 3/18


Transcription (Atkinson) June 22/19


Trauma (McGrath) Summer Reading 2010


Trauma Farm (Brett) Summer Reading 2011


(The) Trauma of Everyday Life (Epstein) Summer Reading 2015


Truth and Beauty (Patchett) July 18/06


Twenty Poems that Could Save America (Hoagland) Aug 2/19


Two Pints (Doyle) Feb 11/14


(The) Uncommon Reader (Bennett) Summer Reading 2010


Under the Holy Lake (Haigh) Summer Reading 2010


Unearthed (Risen) Sept 21/17


Untold Stories (Bennett) Nov 22/07


Uproar's Your Only Music (Brett) July 10/05


Us (Nicholls) Summer Reading 2015


(The) Vanished Years (Everett) Fall Reading 2015


Villages (Updike) BOOKS page


(The) Virtues of Poetry (Longenbach) Feb 11/14


Waiting for Eden (Ackerman) Jan 29/20


Waiting for Sunrise (Boyd) Feb 11/14


Walks With Men (Beattie) Fall Reading 2012


Wanderer (Leon) May 26/'19


Washington Black (Edugyan) Feb 23/19


Wave (Deraniyagala) Apr 16/14


(The) Way I Found Her (Tremain) July 18/06


We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (Meeks) Sept 26/08


We Are the Weather (Foer) March 12/20


What Is the What (Eggers) Oct 27/08


What Paul Meant (Wills) Nov 11/09


When Breath Becomes Air (Kalinithi) Aug 9/18


When God Was A Rabbit (Winman) Winter Reading 2013


When Skateboards Will Be Free (Sayrafiezadeh) May 20/12


When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris) July 21/08


Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster) Aug 9/10


Where I'm Calling From (Carver) Nov 8/06


White Gold (Milton) Aug 10/05


Who Killed My Father (Louis) Jan 29/20


Why I Am A Catholic (Wills) Nov 24/09


Why Socrates Died (Waterfield) Fall Reading 2010


Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Greenblatt) Aug 10/05


Will This Do? (Waugh) Sept 18/07


Winter on Diamond (Bondrup-Nielsen) Nov 4/05


(The) Winter Palace (Stachniak) Fall Reading 2012


(The) Wisdom of Frugality (Westacott) June 16/'17


Wish I Could Be There (Shawn) Fall Reading 2010


Wish You Were Here (Swift) Feb 11/14


Wolf Hall (Mantel) Spring Reading 2013


(The) Woman Upstairs (Messud) Fall Reading 2014


(The) Wonder (Donoghue) Feb 9/17


(The) Word "Desire" (Ducornet) July 18/06


Writing About Your Life (Zinsser) Aug 21/16


(The) Yacoubian Building (Aswany) Feb 26/12


Yellowknife (Zipp) Oct 4/07


(The) Yiddish Policemen's Union (Chabon) June 4/08


Young Hearts Crying (Yates) Apr 30/14


Your Fathers, Where Are They And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (Eggers) Fall Reading 2014


Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig) Summer Reading 2010


Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate (Warner) June 28/09


Zoli (McCann) June 28/07


 


SINGLE SHORT STORIES (i.e. not collections)


A Brief Encounter with the Enemy (Sayrafiezadeh) Jan 23/12


A Love Story (Hunt) June 16/'17


A Prairie Girl (McGuane) Apr 6/12


A Sheltered Woman (Li) March 21/14


Alan Bean Plus Four (Hanks) Fall Reading 2014


Amundsen (Munro) Aug 26/12


An Ex-Mas Feast (Akpan) June 15/05


Anhedonia, Here I Come (Barrett) Apr 23/16


Another Life (LaFarge) Aug 8/12


Asleep in the Lord (Eugenides) Aug 11/11


Atria (Ausubel) July 28/11


Back Then (Grimm) Aug 2/19


Bedtimes (Parks) Feb 28/16


Blueprints for St. Louis (Marcus) Oct 5/17


Boarder, The (Singer) May 14/18


Boys Town (Shepard) Jan 22/13


Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant (Chast) Aug 8/14


Cat Person (Roupenian) Feb 22/18


(The) Cat's Table (Onjaatje) July 19/11


Cattle Praise Song (Mukasonga) Dec 3/18


(The) Cheater's Guide to Love (Diaz) Aug 8/12


Checking Out (Adichie) Mar 29/13


Citizen Conn (Chabon) Feb 11/12


(The) Climber Room (Lipsyte) Dec 12/11


Color and Light (Rooney) May 26/'19


Come Together (Knausgaard) March 21/14


Cream (Murakami) Nov 10/19


Curfew, The (Doyle) Jan 29/20


Cut (Lacey) May 26/'19


(The) Dark Arts (Marcus) May 30/13


Displaced (Ford) Aug 9/18


El Moro (Means) Nov 18/11


Ever Since (Antrim) Apr 6/12


Expectations (Lanchester) Jan 23/12


Fable (Yu) June 2/16


Fifty-Seven (Kushner) Feb 1/16


Flaubert Again (Carson) Dec 3/18


Found Wanting (Stuart) Jan 29/20


(The) Frog King (Greenwell) Feb 23/19


(The) Golden Vanity (Lerner) Aug 26/12


Gender Studies (Sittenfeld) Sept 17/16


Goo Book (Ridgway) July 19/11


(The) Good Samaritan (McGuane) July 28/11


Hand on the Shoulder (McEwan) May 4/12


Homage to Hemingway (Barnes) July 28/11


Home (Saunders) Aug 11/11


(The) House at Sand Creek (McGuane) Nov 18/11


How Did We Come to Know You (Gessen)  Apr 23/18


Intermediate Class (Allingham)  Apr 23/18


Jack, July (Lodato) Fall Reading 2014


Javi (Ong) June 22/19


(The) Judge's Will (Jhabvala) Mar 29/13


Kid Positive (Levin) May 25/20


(The) Largesse of the Sea Maiden (Johnson) March 21/14


Last Meal at Whole Foods (Sayrafiezadeh) Aug 8/14


Leaving Maverley (Munro) Dec 12/11


Los Gigantes (Boyle) Feb 11/12


Maybe It Was the Distance (Foer) Aug 21/16


Means of  Suppressing Demonstrations (Boianjiu) Aug 8/12


Member/Guest (Gilbert) Feb 7/13


Mother's Day (Saunders)  Feb 28/16


My Curls Have Blown All the Way to China (Oz)  Feb 28/16


My Purple Scented Novel (McEwan) Apr 23/16


No More Maybe (Jen)  Apr 23/18


Old Hope (Sestanovich) Jan 29/20


On Chesil Beach (McEwan) Dec 27/06


Out There (Folk) May 25/20


Paranoia (Sayrafiezadeh) July 28/11


Permission to Enter (Smith) Aug 26/12


Philosophy of the Foot (Soomro) Jan 15/19


Prefiguration of Lalo Cura (Bolaño) April 17/10


(The) Proxy Marriage (Meloy) May 20/12


(The) Referees (O'Neill) Summer Reading 2014


(The) Relive Box (Boyle) March 21/14


(The) Resident Poet (Dunn) May 25/20


She Said He Said (Kureishi) Aug 2/19


Shirley Temple Three (Pierce) Jan 12/13


Show Recent Some Love (Lipsyte) Dec 3/18


(The) Sinking of the Houston (O'Neill) Feb 22/18


Sleep (Toibin) June 7/15


Son of Friedman (Cline) Aug 2/19


(The) Start of the Affair (Farah) Jan 20/15


Starlight (Beattie) Sept 30/11


State, The (Orange) Apr 23/18


State of Nature, The (Bordas) Apr 23/18


Stay Down and Take It (Marcus) June 2/18


(The) Trusty (Rash) July 19/11


Uncle Jim Called (Rabe) Aug 2/19


Upside-Down Cake (Theroux) Sept 17/16


-Waugh (Washington) Dec 3/18


(The) Ways (Barrett) Jan 20/15


What Can You Do With a General (Cline) Feb 23/19


What Have You Done? (Marcus) Aug 11/11


What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Englander) Jan 7/12


What We Worried About When I Was Ten (Rabe) May 25/20


(The) Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor (Gurganus) May 25/20


Year's End (Lahiri) Jan 30/08


(The) Years of My Birth (Erdrich) July 28/11


 


MAGAZINE ARTICLES


Altered States (Sacks) (Aug 26/12)


(The) Assad Files (Taub) Apr 23/16


Catastrophe (Sacks) (June 7/15)


(The) Color of Law (Menand) (July 18/13)


Cover Story (Batuman)  Feb 28/16


Cranial Fracking (Frazier) (Sept 28/12)


(The) Doomsday Invention (Khatchadourian) (Feb 1/16)


God's Blog (Sims) (Aug 11/11)


Hurricane Season (Sedaris) Jan 29/20


I Was Gandhi's Boyfriend (Rudnick) (July 19/11)


My Man (Rudnick) (Oct 4/12)


Not A Creature Was Stirring (Allen) (Sept 28/12)


(The) River Martyrs (Mogelson) (May 10/13)


"Robinson Crusoe" and the Art of Solitude (Franzen) (July 19/11)


Several Articles -- The New Yorker's 95th Anniversary Edition, Dec 3/18 (Jan 15/19)


Scars (Owen) (Apr 6/12)


Silence, The (Diaz)  Apr 23/18


Sixty-nine Days (Tobar) Aug 8/14


Special Seder (Rudnick) June 2/16


(The) Story of a Suicide (Parker) (Feb 11/12)


Suggestions for International Diplomacy (Frazier)  (July 18/13)


Test Your Fashion I.Q. (Rudnick) (Sept 28/12)


Three Trials for Murder (Schmidle) (Nov 18/11)


Transfiguration (Khatchadourian) (Apr 6/12)


(The) Transition (Caro) (Apr 6/12)


Vengeance Is Ours (Jared Diamond) (May 4/08)


(The) Voyeur's Motel (Talese) Apr 23/16


(The) Writer's Process (Cantor) June 16/'17


 


POETRY


In Wonder (Simic) Apr 23/16


Tissue Gallery (Collins Klobah) Feb 1/16


Two Lives (Dennis) Apr 23/16


 


MYSTERIES and CRIME


(The) 18th Abduction (Patterson and Paetro) Sept 30/19


61 Hours (Child) Dec 21/10


A Trick of the Light (Penny) Mar 22/12


A Wanted Man (Child) Spring Reading 2013


Acqua Alta (Leon) Summer Mysteries 07


(The) Adversary (Carrere) March 21/14


(The) Affair (Child) May 4/12


All the Flowers Are Dying (Block) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Angels Passsing (Hurley) July 21/05


Arab Jazz (Miske) Sept 21/17


Arctic Chill (Indridason) Fall Reading 2010


The Babes in the Wood (Rendell) Apr 21/12


Bad Blood (Sandford) Feb 23/19


Bad Business (Parker) May 5/10


Bad Luck and Trouble (Child) Mar 22/12


Bangkok 8 (Burdett) Summer Mysteries 07


Bangkok Haunts (Burdett) May 28/14


Belfast Confidential (Bateman) Oct 6/09


(The) Best Man to Die (Rendell) Winter Reading 2015


Birdman (Hayder) July 21/05


(The) Birthday Present (Vine) Jan 11/10


Blood Is the Sky (Hamilton) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Blood On Snow (Nesbo) Fall Reading 2015


Blue Moon (Child) March 12/20


Bones and Silence (Hill) Mysteries/Crime page


Bring Me Back (Paris) May 26/'19


(The) Broker (Grisham) Sept 21/17


Buried Prey (Sandford) Dec 3/18


(The) Burning Room (Connelly) Summer Reading 2015


Case Histories (Atkinson) Fall Reading 2010


(Caught (Coben) Fall Reading 2014


Chasing the Dime (Connelly) Sept 18/09


Chicago (Mamet) Dec  20/18


(The) Child's Child (Vine) Winter Reading 2013


(The) Child Finder (Denfeld) July 19/18


Chourmo (Izzo) Summer Reading 2010


Clea's Moon (Wright) Sept 18/09


Cockroaches (Nesbo) Fall Reading 2015


Cold Case Squad (Buchanan) June 16/14


Cold Pursuit (Parker) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Cold Service (Parker) May 18/08


(The) Concrete Blonde (Connelly) Nov 18/11


(The) Crossing (Connelly) Feb 9/17


Cut to Black (Hurley) Sept 5/08


Dark Places (Flynn) Winter Reading 2013


Dark Sacred Night (Connelly) June 22/19


Deadlight (Hurley) April 14/07


Deadline (Sandford) Dec 3/18


Deep Freeze (Sandford) Aug 2/19


Dialogues of the Dead (Hill) Mysteries/Crime page


Disordered Minds (Walters) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Dissolution (Sansom) Dec 4/08


(The) Distant Echo (McDermid) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Don't Let Go (Coben) July 19/18


Doors Open (Rankin) Spring Reading 2015


(The) Drop (Connelly) Summer Reading 2012


Echo Park (Connelly) Aug 23/09


End of Watch (King) Dec 19/16


Escape Clause (Sandford) Dec 3/18


Eyes of Prey (Sandford) Dec 3/18


(The) Exception (Jungersen) Fall Reading 2010


Extreme Prey (Sandford) Dec 3/18


Fat Ollie's Book (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page


Fell of Dark (Hill) June 4/08


(The) Feral Detective (Lethem) Apr 22/19


Field of Prey (Sandford) Sept 9/18


(The) Fifth Witness (Connelly) Winter Reading 2013


Final Solution, The (Chabon) July 10/05


Finders Keepers (King) Apr 23/16


Fire Sale (Paretsky) Mar 17/10


(The) Fixer (Finder) Sept 17/16


Flight of Aquavit (Bidulka) Summer Mysteries 07


Fool Me Once (Coben) July 17/16


Four Corners of Night (Holden) Dec 31/05


(The) Galton Case (Macdonald) July 17/16


Gathering Prey (Sandford) Dec 3/18


(The) Girl Next Door (Rendell) Spring Reading 2015


(The) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson) Aug 23/09


(The) Girl Who Played with Fire (Larsson) Feb 3/10


Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page


(The) Gods of Guilt (Connelly) June 16/'17


Golden Prey (Sandford) Oct 3/18


Gone Girl (Flynn) Oct 4/12


Gone Tomorrow (Child) April 17/10


(The) Great Leader (Harrison) Spring Reading 2013


(The) Hanged Man's Song (Sandford) Dec 3/18


Have Mercy On Us All (Vargas) Aug 10/05


He Said/She Said (Kelly) Sept 9/18


High Profile (Parker) March 26/08


Holy Ghost (Sandford) May 26/'19


Home (Coben) Feb 9/17


Holy Orders (Black) Winter Reading 2015


(The) Hot Kid (Leonard) Aug 2/10


I Heard that Song Before (Clark) Feb 11/14


I Let You Go (Mackintosh) Feb 23/19


In The Forest (O'Brien) Mysteries/Crime page


Indecent Secrets (Vella) May 23/06


Instruments of Night (Cook) Mysteries/Crime page


(The) Interrogation (Cook) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Jack 1939 (Mathews) June 16/14


Just One Look (Coben) Summer Reading 2015


Kennedy's Brain (Mankell) Summer Reading 2015


Killing Floor (Child) March 17/10


Kiss (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page


Knots and Crosses (Rankin) Sept 9/18


Land of the Living (French) Jan 5/05


Last Best Hope, The (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page


Last Car to Elysian Fields (Burke) Summer Mysteries 07


Last Dance, The (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page


(The) Late Show (Connelly) Sept 9/18


(The) Lincoln Lawyer (Connelly) Nov 11/09


Live Wire (Coben) Summer Reading 2013


Local Girl Missing (Douglas) Sept 9/18


Lost Light (Connelly) Mysteries/Crime page


Maigret and the Fortuneteller (Simenon) Summer Mysteries 07


Make Me (Child) Feb 9/17


(The) Man Who Smiled (Mankell) Sept 26/08


Maskerade (Pratchett) Feb 11/14


Master of the Moor (Rendell) Sept 5/08


(The) Midnight Line (Child) Oct 3/18


Midnight Sun (Nesbo) Feb 9/17


Missing You (Coben) Summer Reading 2015


Mission to Paris (Furst) Summer Reading 2015


Moonlight Mile (Lehane) June 2/16


Morning, Noon and Night (Sheldon) July 18/06


Mr. Mercedes (King) Fall Reading 2015


(The) Murder of My Aunt (Hull) Summer Mysteries 07


(The) Neruda Case (Ampuero) Winter Reading 2015


Never Go Back (Child) July 19/18


Never Tell (Gardner) Nov 10/19


(The) Next Right Thing (Barden) Spring Reading 2013


(The) Night Fire (Connelly) March 12/20


(The) Night Gardener (Pelecanos) Oct 22/09


Night Over Water (Follett) Summer Reading 2012


Night School (Child) Aug 3/17


Nine Dragons (Connelly) June 20/11


No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The (McCall Smith) May 23/06


No Middle Name (Child) Aug 9/18


North Of Montana (Smith) Oct 6/09


Nothing to Lose (Child) Summer Reading 2012


(The) October List (Deaver) Sept 9/18


One Good Turn (Atkinson) Summer Reading 2012


One Shot (Child) Summer Mysteries 07


One Step Behind (Mankell) Summer Mysteries 07


(The) Overlook (Connelly) Dec 20/18


Past Tense (Child) Apr 22/19


Personal (Child) Summer Reading 2015


Persuader (Child) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Peter Pan Must Die (Verdon) Sept 9/18


Phantom Prey (Sandford) Sept 9/18


Portobello (Rendell) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Presumed Innocent (Turow) Aug 9/18


(The) Price of Malice (Mayor) Summer Reading 2010


(The) Private Patient (James) Oct 16/08


Q Is For Quarry (Grafton) Sept 7/05


(The) Quiet Twin (Vyleta) March 13/14


(The) Red Mandarin Dress (Xiaolong) Summer Reading 2010


Revelation (Sansom) June 3/10


River of Darkness (Airth) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Rogue Lawyer (Grisham) Aug 3/17


Rottweiler, The (Rendell) Mysteries/Crime page


Run Away (Coben) May 26/'19


Sandrine's Case (Cook) Dec 3/18


Say You're Sorry (Robotham) Dec 19/16


School Days (Parker) Summer Mysteries 07


(The) Second Sister (Kendal) July 19/18


((The) Secret History (Tartt) March 13/14


(The) Secret of Annexe 3 (Dexter) Aug 21/16


Sharp Objects (Flynn) Winter Reading 2013


Silken Prey (Sandford) Dec 3/18


(The) Silkworm (Galbraith) Summer Reading 2015


Singing in the Shrouds (Marsh) Winter Reading 2013


Singled Out (Brett) May 21/07


(The) Sisters Brothers (deWitt) Fall Reading 2015


Skinny Dip (Hiassen) Myriad Mysteries 2009


Sleepyhead (Billingham) Jan 5/05


(The) Son (Nesbo) Fall Reading 2015


Stagestruck (Lovesey) Winter Reading 2013


Started Early, Took My Dog (Atkinson) June 20/11


Stay Close (Coben) Winter Reading 2013


(The) Stranger (Coben) Fall Reading 2015


Stolen Prey (Sandford) Dec 3/18


Storm Prey (Sandford) Dec 3/18


Sunset Limited (Burke) August 12/06


Suspicion (Finder) Sept 17/16


Tigerlily's Orchids (Rendell) July 28/11


Thirteen Steps Down (Rendell) Summer Mysteries 07


To the Power of Three (Lippman) Myriad Mysteries 2009


(The) Treatment (Hayder) August 12/06


(The) Troubled Man (Mankell) July 28/11


Troubling Love (Ferrante) Fall Reading 2010


Twisted Prey (Sandford) Dec 20/18


Two Kinds of Truth (Connelly)  Apr 23/18


(The) Two Minute Rule (Crais) Myriad Mysteries 2009


(The) Water's Lovely (Rendell) May 21/07


(The) Witch Elm (French) Aug 2/19


Wolf Lake (Verdon) Feb 23/19


Wonderland (Brady) June 9/06


(The) Woods (Coben) Apr 23/16


Worth Dying For (Child) June 20/11


(The) Wrong Side of Goodbye (Connelly) Aug 3/17


 


RE-READINGS : These are all on the "Re-Readings" page


A Writer's Notebook (Maugham)


A Question of Upbringing (Powell)


Aspern Papers, The (James)


Edge of Day, The (Lee)


Iris Murdoch


L'Etranger (Camus)


La Chute (Camus)


Please Don't Eat The Daisies (Kerr)


Turn of the Screw, The (James)


Ulysses (Joyce)


Waterfall, The (Drabble)

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