reading list

2013
if on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino (apr 20)
the spies of warsaw, Alan Furst (apr 10)
morality play, Barry Unsworth (apr 4)
a traitor to memory, Elizabeth George
missing joseph, Elizabeth George
in the presence of the enemy, Elizabeth George
bring up the bodies, Hilary Mantel (feb 18)
the handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood (feb 4)
the orphan master's son, Adam Johnson (jan 28)**
the fault in our stars, John Green (jan 19)
arcadia, Lauren Groff (jan 17)
the song of achilles, Madeline Miller (jan 8)
i feel bad about my neck, Nora Ephron (jan 8)
tender at the bone, Ruch Reichl (jan 7)
may we be forgiven, A. M. Homes (jan 6)
busman's honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers (jan 5)

2012 (beginning in may)
the middlesteins, Jami Attenberg (dec 27)
the man of property, John Galsworthy (dec 26)
i remember nothing, Nora Ephron
autobiography of a fat bride, Laurie Notaro 
the marseille caper, Peter Mayle 
brain on fire, Susannah Cahalan
vanity fair, William Makepeace Thackeray (dec 8)
the twelve, Justin Cronin (nov 17)
the passage, Justin Cronin (nov 4)
sphere, Michael Crichton
the power of habit, Charles Duhigg
the lost world, Michael Crichton
jurassic park, Michael Crichton
stuff: compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things, Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee
white cargo, Felicity Kendal (october 4)
reading lolita in tehran, Azar Nafisi (september 29)
84, charing cross road, Helene Hanff (september 23)
timoleon vieta come home, Dan Rhodes (september 23)
maiden voyage, Tania Aebi with Bernadette Brennan (september 21)
don't let's go to the dogs tonight, Alexandra Fuller (september 17)
olive kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout (september 8)
visit sunny chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell (september 7)
the devil's teeth, Susan Casey (september 1)
the wave, Susan Casey (august 19)
northanger abbey, Jane Austen (august 13)
quiet: the power of introverts in  a world that can't stop talking, Susan Cain (august 9)
sotherton abbey, Inez Ross, (august 7)
your voice in my head, Emma Forrest (july 30)
economy of the unlost, Ann Carson (july 19)
the privileges, Jonathan Dee (july 2)
the imperfectionists, Tom Rachman (june 29)
mildred pierce, James M. Cain (june 25)
bel canto, Ann Patchett (june 24)
the funny man, John Warner (june 5)
le comte de monte cristo, Alexandre Dumas (may 30)
paris, I love you but you're bringing me down, Rosecrans Baldwin (may 14)
the private diaries of catherine deneuve: up close and personal, Catherine Deneuve (may 8)
a gathering of ghost stories, Robertson Davies (may 1)

partial list of books read and unremarked on before I started the reading list november 2011-april 2012
the last brother, Nathacha Appanah
emma, Jane Austen
sense & sensibility, Jane Austen
the sense of an ending, Julian Barnes
the professor, Terry Castle
the sisters brothers, Patrick Dewitt
lightning rods, Helen DeWitt
middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
the marriage plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
bossypants, Tina Fey
how should a person be, Sheila Heti
the stranger's child, Alan Hollinghurst
is everyone hanging out without me, Mindy Kaling
the no. 1 ladies' detective agency, Alexander McCall Smith
the bachelors, Henri de Montherlant
1q84, Haruki Murakami
the tiger's wife, Téa Obrecht
the cat's table, Michael Ondaatje
state of wonder, Ann Patchett
the devil all the time, Donald Ray Pollock
swamplandia!, Karen Russell
gaudy night, Dorothy Sayers
the death of ivan ilyich, Leo Tolstoy

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