The Books

Below is a list of books that I have reviewed since I began blogging. Of course this isn't a list of the total books I've ever read, rather just those that began at the end of 2009/start of 2010.

A note on the publisher: After each review I include the publisher and original publication date. The publisher I include corresponds with the edition I read.  

A
Alcott, Louisa May/ Little Women
Angelou, Maya/I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Atwood, Margaret/ Alias Grace (Part 1, Part 2)/ Cat's Eye/The Edible WomanOryx and CrakeThe Penelopiad/ SurfacingThe Year of the Flood
Auster, Paul/ Moon PalaceThe Book of Illusions/ The Brooklyn Follies/ The New York Trilogy


B
Barbury, Muriel/ The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Bauermeister, Erica/ The School of Essential Ingredients
Bauby, Jean-Dominique/ The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bechdel, Alison/ Are You My Mother?
Beigbeder, Frédéric/ Windows on the World
Bradbury, Ray/ Farewell Summer
Brontë,  Emily/ Wuthering Heights
Brown, Eleanor/ The Weird Sisters
Bukowski, Charles/ Ham on Rye / Post Office


C
Cain, James/ The Postman Always Rings Twice
Chandler, Raymond/ The Big Sleep
Coelho, Paulo/ The Alchemist 
Coetzee, J.M./ Summertime
Collins, Suzanne/ The Hunger Games, Catching Fire
Connolly, John/ The Book of Lost Things


D
DeLillo, Don/ Falling Man


E
Ebadi, Shirin/ Iran Awakening
Egan, Jennifer/ A Visit From the Goon Squad
Eggers, Dave/ Zeitoun
Ehrenreich, Barbara / Nickel and Dimed
Ellis, Bret Easton/ Glamorama
Erdrich, Louis/ The Round House
Eugenides, Jeffery/ Middlesex/ The Marriage Plot


F
Ferris, Joshua/ "The Dinner Party"/ Then We Came to The End / The Unnamed
Fford, Jasper / The Eyre Affair
Flynn, Gillian/ Gone Girl
Forester, E. M./ Howards End
Fowles, John/ The Collector


G
Gaiman, Neil/ The Graveyard Book
Genet, Jean / Our Lady of the Flowers
Giordano, Paolo/ The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Grossman, Lev/ The Magicians
Gruen, Sarah/ Water For Elephants


H
Halloway, Monica/ Driving With Dead People: A Memoir
Hamid, Mohsin/ The Reluctant Fundamentalist 
Hanff, Helene/ 84, Charing Cross Road
Harbach, Chad/ The Art of Fielding
Hay, Sheridan/ The Secret of Lost Things
Hely, Steve/ How I Became A Famous Novelist
Hemingway, Ernest/ The Old Man and the Sea
Holmqvist, Ninni/ The Unit
Hornby, Nick/ The Polysyllabic Spree
Horowitz, Alexandra/ Inside of a Dog
Hurston, Zora Neale/ Their Eyes Were Watching God


I
Ivey, Eowyn/ The Snow Child


J
James, Henry/ Daisy Miller/ The Turn of the Screw/ Washington Square
Jong, Erica/ Sugar in My Bowl
July, Miranda/ No One Belongs Here More Than You


K
King, Stephen/ 11/22/63
Kingston, Maxine Hong/ The Woman Warrior
Krauss, Nicole/ The History of Love/ Man Walks Into A Room


L
Lahiri, Jhumpa/ Interpreter of MaladiesThe Namesake
Lamb, Wally/ She's Come Undone
Langer, Adam/ The Thieves of Manhattan 
Larson, Nella/ Passing
Lawrence, D.H./ Lady Chatterley's Lover
Louis Stevenson, Robert/ Treasure Island



Mandery, Evan/ Q: A Novel
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia/ Eyes of a Blue Dog/ Love in the Time of Cholera/ Memories of My Melancholy Whores
McCann, Colum/ Let The Great World Spin
Menestu, Dinaw/ How To Read The Air
Moore, Lorrie/ Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?
Morgenstern, Erin/ The Night Circus
Morrison, Toni/ Sula
Murakami, Haruki/ Norwegian Wood

N
Nabokov, Vladimir/ Lolita
Newman, Sandra/ The Western Lit Survival Kit
Nicholls, David/ One Day 
Niffeneger, Audrey/ Her Fearful SymmetryThe Night Bookmobile
Norman, Matthew/ Domestic Violets


O
Oates, Joyce Carol/ Black Water / them / Zombie
Obama, Barack/ Dreams from My Father
Orwell, George/ Animal Farm


P
Palahnuik, Chuck/ Diary
Parkhurst, Carolyn/ The Nobodies Album
Parry, Richard Lloyd/ People Who Eat Darkness
Patchett, Ann/ Bel Canto
Pearl, Nancy/ Book Lust
Plath, Syliva/ The Bell Jar
Popek, Michael/ Forgotten Bookmarks

R
Roach, Mary/ Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers  
Rowling, JK / The Casual Vacancy



S
Safran Foer, Jonathan/ Everything Is Illuminated/ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 
Sagan, Françoise/ Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness)/ La Chamade (That Mad Ache)
Satrapi, Marjane / Chicken With Plums
Schlink, Bernhard / The Reader
Sedaris, David/ Me Talk Pretty One Day/ Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Selznick, Brian/ The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Semple, Maria / Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Setterfield, Diane / The Thirteenth Tale
Shaffer, Mary Ann & Annie Barrows/ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 
Shun-lien Bynum, Sarah/ Ms. Hempel Chronicles 
Sijie, Dai/ Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch
Sittenfeld, Curtis/ Man of My Dreams
Sloan, Robert/ "Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store"
Smith, Zadie/ On Beauty
Somerset Maugham, W./ The Painted Veil
Spiegelman, Art/ Maus I
Stein, Garth/ The Art of Racing in the Rain
Steinbeck, John/ East of Eden


T
Thatcher Ulrich, Laurel/ Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History 
Thompson, Craig/ Blankets 
Thompson, Jim/ The Killer Inside Me
Tóibín, Colm/ Brooklyn


U
Udall, Brady / The Lonely Polygamist 
Updike, John/ Rabbit, Run


V
Van Booy, Simon/ Love Begins in Winter/ "The Missing Statues"
Vonnegut, Kurt/ Armageddon in Retrospect / Slaughterhouse-FiveA Man Without A Country


W
Waldman, Amy/ The Submission
Welty, Eudora/ The Optimist's Daughter
Wharton, Edith/ The Age of Innocence (Book One) (Book Two)/ Ethan Frome  
Wiesel, Elie/ Night
Wilder, Thorton/ The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Woolf, Virginia/ A Room of One's Own
Wright, Richard/ Native Son


Z
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz / The Prince of Mist / The Prisoner of HeavenThe Angel's Game
Zangana, Haifa/ Dreaming of Baghdad
Zola, Émile/ Thérèse Raquin