The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
The Fault In Our Stars – John Green
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
Do Not Ask What Good We Do – Robert Draper
The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
The O’Briens – Peter Behrens
The Sense of An Ending – Julian Barnes
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin – Erik Larson
The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett
Stories I Only Tell My Friends – Rob Lowe
The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
Then Again – Diane Keaton
Hiroshima In the Morning – Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Life With A Star – Jiri Weil
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Catcher In the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal – Chris Moore
Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
The English Patient – Michael Ondaaje
The Help – Katherine Stockett
Fall On Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
Just Kids – Patti Smith
The Romanov Prophecy – Steve Berry
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Circle of Three – Patricia Gaffney
The Fig Eater – Jody Shields
Bag Of Bones – Stephen King
Everything’s Eventual : 14 Dark Tales – Stephen King
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Ten Thousand Sorrows – Elizabeth Kim
Shakespeare’s Three Tragedies (Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear)
Cutting For Stone – Abraham Verghese
The Adults – Alison Espach
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Water For Elephants – Sara Gruen
Wicked – Gregory Maguire
The Reader – Berhardt Schlink
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Sisters – Caroline Saline and Sharon J. Wahlmuth
The City of Falling Angels – John Berendt
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The Weight Of Water – Anita Shreve
Where God Was Born – Bruce Feiler
The Devil In the White City – Erik Larson
The Last Lecture – Mitch Albom
How To Read the Air – Dinaw Mengestu
The Widower’s Tale – Julia Glass
The Rule of Four – Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
For the Record – Donald T. Regan
The Greatest Generation – Tom Brokaw
Madam Secretary – Madeleine Albright
Jackie Ethel Joan – J. Randy Taraborrelli
The Secret Man – Bob Woodward
Game Change – John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
This Side of the Sky – Elyse Singleton
An Irish Country Doctor – Patrick Taylor
A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
Body Surfing – Anita Shreve
Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
The Last Cato – Matilde Asensi
Paradigm – Robert Taylor
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
For One More Day – Mitch Albom
And the Band Played On – Randy Shilts
The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
The DaVinci Code –Dan Brown
Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
The Poe Shadow – Matthew Pearl
The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl
Selu : Seeking the Corn Mother’s Wisdom – Marilou Awiakta
The Last Pope – David Osborn
The Eight – Katherine Neville
For Love – Sue Miller
That Night – Alice McDermott
A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
The Dive From Claussen’s Pier – Ann Packer
My Life – Bill Clinton
A Million Little Pieces – James Frey (I was reading this when the revelation came out that it was embellished. I never finished it.)
Sea Glass – Anita Shreve
A Wedding In December – Anita Shreve
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
That Old Cape Magic – Richard Russo
The Lake of Dead Languages – Carol Goodman
The Seduction of Water – Carol Goodman
Where the Heart Is – Billie Letts
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming – Joshilyn Jackson
The Fire – Katherine Neville
Unnatural Exposure – Patricia Cornwell
Trace – Patricia Cornwell
The Last Precinct – Patricia Cornwell
Postmortem – Patricia Cornwell
Body of Evidence – Patricia Cornwell
All that Remains – Patricia Cornwell
Predator – Patricia Cornwell
Blow Fly – Patricia Cornwell
Black Notice – Patricia Cornwell
Cruel & Unusual – Patricia Cornwell
Cause of Death – Patricia Cornwell
Cat & Mouse – James Patterson
Along Came A Spider – James Patterson
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat – Anne Rice
Merrick – Anne Rice
Lasher – Anne Rice
Taltos – Anne Rice
The Deep End of the Ocean – Jacqueline Mitchard
The Body Farm – Patricia Cornwell
Body of Evidence – Patricia Cornwell
The Magic Circle – Katherine Neville
The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
Saving Faith – David Baldacci
The First Law – John Lescroart
The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
Hey… don’t know if you’ve checked out the BookList part of my blog, but because I’m OCD, I keep a running list (by year) of what I’ve read (starting last year, though I have MSWord lists dating back to 1997). Since we seem to have similar taste, I may be able to spare you a few of the books I’ve suffered through. 🙂
BTW – I love your bookcase. And I keep my books shelved 2-3 deep on my bookcase. It’s the best work-around I’ve found for not getting a new one. Yet.
Look at you! Grades. Brilliant. I couldn’t do years… I know what I’ve read in the last year, but beyond that I’m all, “uh…” But from now on, I’ll just add each new one I read at the top. The way it’s listed now is how they appear on my bookshelf. For realsies. Because apparently I couldn’t do it any other way. Alphabetical? Nah. By genre? Pfft. Oh BTW, totally with you about “State of Wonder.” Why on earth did she jump the shark at the end? But still a great read. Also yes, I’m with you on 2-3 deep. That’s already happening in some spots. Sigh… I need a house so I can store my books…
I like your bookshelf too, although in tougher times I sold most of my books except for cookbooks, knitting books, dictionaries, my Jane Austen titles and most of my poetry books. Space was also part of the reasons I sold my books, since we live in a townhouse and have lots of hobbies, grandkids visiting, pictures and treasured souvenirs from trips. So, I keep a card file, with reviews, of every book I have read from 1999. It’s almost full.
A card file? Phew. I’m not nearly that ambitious. I have a little book I’m supposed to keep track in. I think I’ve written down three books in it. Guess this page will have to do!
I’m adding book lists to my blog, with pithy (hopefully) small reviews from my files. I thought I should put those cards to some use!
I like your list! I’m going to check out some of your reads that I haven’t tackled yet.
Great! Pithypants has a good list on her blog, too, with grades.
That is a good list? Have you read Bel Canto? I really didn’t care for it maybe I missed something???
Yes, I think Bel Canto is on my list but I might have fogotten it. I did like it very much. But then, I’m a classical singer, so that might have been part of the reason. Thanks for visiting and subscribing!
Pingback: Target Conspires To Turn Me Into A Drooling Moron | thesinglecell
Love many of the books you list! Thanks for the suggestions of ones I have yet to read!
You’re welcome! Hope you enjoy those, too!