Maggie Hope

by Susan Elia MacNeal

1. Mr Churchill's Secretary (audiobook) 2013
2. Princess Elizabeth's Spy (audiobook) 2014
3. Her Majesty's Hope (audiobook) 2014
4. The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (audiobook) 2014
5. Mrs Roosevelt's Confidente (audiobook) 2016
6. The Queen's Accomplice (audiobook) 2017
7. The Paris Spy (audiobook) 2017

8. The Prisoner in the Castle

Mistress of the Art of Death

by Ariana Franklin

1. Mistress of the Art of Death
2. The Serpent's Tale
3. Grave Goods (audiobook)
4. A Murderous Procession (audiobook)

NYT Notable Books 2013

FICTION & POETRY (read 7/50)

THE ACCURSED. By Joyce Carol Oates. 

ALL THAT IS. By James Salter. 

AMERICANAH. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

BLEEDING EDGE. By Thomas Pynchon. 

CHILDREN ARE DIAMONDS: An African Apocalypse. By Edward Hoagland. 

THE CIRCLE. By Dave Eggers. 

CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT. By Edwidge Danticat. 

THE COLOR MASTER: Stories. By Aimee Bender.

A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA. By Anthony Marra.

THE DINNER. By Herman Koch. 

DIRTY LOVE. By Andre Dubus III. 

DISSIDENT GARDENS. By Jonathan Lethem. 

DOCTOR SLEEP. By Stephen King. 

DUPLEX. By Kathryn Davis. 

THE END OF THE POINT. By Elizabeth Graver. 

THE FLAMETHROWERS. By Rachel Kushner. 

THE GOLDFINCH. By Donna Tartt. 2014

THE GOOD LORD BIRD. By James McBride. 

A GUIDE TO BEING BORN: Stories. By Ramona Ausubel. 

HALF THE KINGDOM. By Lore Segal. 

I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE: Stories. By Jamie Quatro. 

THE IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF GRETA WELLS. By Andrew Sean Greer. 

THE INFATUATIONS. By Javier Marías.

THE INTERESTINGS. By Meg Wolitzer. 

LIFE AFTER LIFE. By Kate Atkinson. 2013

LOCAL SOULS: Novellas. By Allan Gurganus. 

LONGBOURN. By Jo Baker. 2014

LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH. By David Rakoff. 

THE LOWLAND. By Jhumpa Lahiri. 

THE LUMINARIES. By Eleanor Catton. 

MADDADDAM. By Margaret Atwood. 2014

A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT. By Alexander Maksik. 

METAPHYSICAL DOG. By Frank Bidart. 

OUR ANDROMEDA. By Brenda Shaughnessy. 

SCHRODER. By Amity Gaige.

THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS. By Elizabeth Gilbert. 

SOMEONE. By Alice McDermott.

THE SON. By Philipp Meyer. 

THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING. By Juan Gabriel Vásquez. 

SUBMERGENCE. By J. M. Ledgard.

SUBTLE BODIES. By Norman Rush. 

TENTH OF DECEMBER: Stories. By George Saunders.(audiobook)

THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE. By Ayana Mathis. 

THE TWO HOTEL FRANCFORTS. By David Leavitt. 

THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT. By Amy Tan. 

WANT NOT. By Jonathan Miles. 

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES. By Karen Joy Fowler.2014

*WE NEED NEW NAMES. By NoViolet Bulawayo.

WOKE UP LONELY. By Fiona Maazel. 

THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS. By Claire Messud. (audiobook) 2013

NONFICTION

AFTER THE MUSIC STOPPED: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead. By Alan S. Blinder. 

THE AMERICAN WAY OF POVERTY: How the Other Half Still Lives. By Sasha Abramsky. 

THE BARBAROUS YEARS. The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675. By Bernard Bailyn. 

THE BILLIONAIRE’S APPRENTICE: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund. By Anita Raghavan.

THE BLOOD TELEGRAM: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide. By Gary J. Bass. 

BOOK OF AGES: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. By Jill Lepore. 

THE BOY DETECTIVE: A New York Childhood. By Roger Rosenblatt. 

THE BULLY PULPIT: Theodore Roose­velt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. 

THE CANCER CHRONICLES: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery. By George Johnson. 

CATASTROPHE 1914: Europe Goes to War. By Max Hastings. 

COMMAND AND CONTROL: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. By Eric Schlosser.

COUNTRY GIRL: A Memoir. By Edna O’Brien. 

DAYS OF FIRE: Bush and Cheney in the White House. By Peter Baker.

ECSTATIC NATION: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877. By Brenda Wine­apple. 

EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. By Jung Chang. 

THE FARAWAY NEARBY. By Rebecca Solnit.

FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. By Sheri Fink. 

GOING CLEAR: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. By Lawrence Wright. 

THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945. By Rick Atkinson. 

THE HEIR APPARENT: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince. By Jane Ridley. 

A HOUSE IN THE SKY. By Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett. 

JONATHAN SWIFT: His Life and His World. By Leo Damrosch. 

KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR: The Path to a Better Way of Death. By Katy Butler. 

LAWRENCE IN ARABIA: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. By Scott Anderson. 

LEAN IN: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. By Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. (audiobook)

LOST GIRLS: An Unsolved American Mystery. By Robert Kolker.

MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY: Collected Lectures. By Mary Ruefle.

MANSON: The Life and Times of Charles Manson. By Jeff Guinn. 

MARGARET FULLER: A New American Life. By Megan Marshall. 

MEN WE REAPED: A Memoir. By Jesmyn Ward. 

MISS ANNE IN HARLEM: The White Women of the Black Renaissance. By Carla Kaplan. 

MY BELOVED WORLD. By Sonia Sotomayor.

MY PROMISED LAND: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. By Ari Shavit. 

PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: An Adventure. By Artemis Cooper. 

THE RIDDLE OF THE LABYRINTH: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. By Margalit Fox. 

THE SKIES BELONG TO US: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking. By Brendan I. Koer­ner. 

THE SLEEPWALKERS: How Europe Went to War in 1914. By Christopher Clark. 

THE SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD: And How They Got That Way. By Amanda Ripley. 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. By David Finkel. 

THE THIRD COAST: When Chicago Built the American Dream. By Thomas Dyja. 

THIS TOWN: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus Plenty of Valet Parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital. By Mark Leibovich. 

THOSE ANGRY DAYS: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941. By Lynne Olson. 

TO SAVE EVERYTHING, CLICK HERE: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. By Evgeny Morozov. 

TO THE END OF JUNE: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care. By Cris Beam..

UNTHINKABLE: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy. By Kenneth M. Pollack. 

THE UNWINDING: An Inner History of the New America. By George Packer. 

THE WAR THAT ENDED PEACE: The Road to 1914. By Margaret Mac­Millan. 

WAVE. By Sonali Deraniyagala. 

WILD ONES: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. By Jon Mooallem. 

YEAR ZERO: A History of 1945. By Ian Buruma. 

Anne Perry's Christmas Novellas

1. A Christmas Journey  
2. A Christmas Visitor audiobook 2013
3. A Christmas Guest  
4. A Christmas Secret audiobook 2013
5. A Christmas Beginning audiobook 2014
6. A Christmas Grace audiobook 2014
7. A Christmas Promise audiobook 2013
8. A Christmas Odyssey
9. A Christmas Homecoming
10. A Christmas Garland
11. A Christmas Hope: A Novel

NY Times Notable Books 2012

FICTION & POETRY

 

ALIF THE UNSEEN. By G. Willow Wilson. 

ALMOST NEVER. By Daniel Sada. 

AN AMERICAN SPY. By Olen Steinhauer. 

ARCADIA. By Lauren Groff. 

AT LAST. By Edward St. Aubyn. 

BEAUTIFUL RUINS. By Jess Walter. 

BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK. By Ben Fountain. 

BLASPHEMY. By Sherman Alexie. 

THE BOOK OF MISCHIEF: New and Selected Stories. By Steve Stern. 

BRING UP THE BODIES. By Hilary Mantel. 

BUILDING STORIES. By Chris Ware. 

BY BLOOD. By Ellen Ullman. 

CANADA. By Richard Ford. 

CARRY THE ONE. By Carol Anshaw. 

CITY OF BOHANE. By Kevin Barry. 

COLLECTED POEMS. By Jack Gilbert. 

DEAR LIFE: Stories. By Alice Munro. 

THE DEVIL IN SILVER. By Victor LaValle. 

ENCHANTMENTS. By Kathryn Harrison. 

FLIGHT BEHAVIOR. By Barbara Kingsolver. 

FOBBIT. By David Abrams. 

THE FORGETTING TREE. By Tatjana Soli. 

GATHERING OF WATERS. By Bernice L. McFadden.

GODS WITHOUT MEN. By Hari Kunzru.

HHhH. By Laurent Binet. Translated by Sam Taylor. 

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. By Dave Eggers. 

HOME. By Toni Morrison. 

HOPE: A TRAGEDY. By Shalom Auslander. 

HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? By Sheila Heti.

IN ONE PERSON. By John Irving. 

A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME. By Wiley Cash. 

MARRIED LOVE: And Other Stories. By Tessa Hadley. 

NW. By Zadie Smith. 

ON THE SPECTRUM OF POSSIBLE DEATHS. By Lucia Perillo. 

PURE. By Julianna Baggott. 

THE RIGHT-HAND SHORE. By Christopher Tilghman. 

THE ROUND HOUSE. By Louise Erdrich. 

SALVAGE THE BONES. By Jesmyn Ward. 

SAN MIGUEL. By T. Coraghessan Boyle. 

SHINE SHINE SHINE. By Lydia Netzer. 

SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME. By Natalie Serber. 

SILENT HOUSE. By Orhan Pamuk. Translated by Robert Finn. 

THE STARBOARD SEA. By Amber Dermont. 

SWEET TOOTH. By Ian McEwan.

SWIMMING HOME. By Deborah Levy. 

TELEGRAPH AVENUE. By Michael Chabon. 

THE TESTAMENT OF MARY. By Colm Toibin. 

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER. By Junot Díaz.

THREE STRONG WOMEN. By Marie NDiaye. Translated by John Fletcher. 

TOBY’S ROOM. By Pat Barker. 

WATERGATE. By Thomas Mallon. 

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK: Stories. By Nathan Englander. 

THE YELLOW BIRDS. By Kevin Powers. 

NONFICTION

ALL WE KNOW: Three Lives. By Lisa Cohen. 

AMERICAN TAPESTRY: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama. By Rachel L. Swarns. 

AMERICAN TRIUMVIRATE: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf. By James Dodson. 

ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A Comic Drama. By Alison Bechdel. 

BARACK OBAMA: The Story. By David Maraniss. 

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. By Katherine Boo. 

BELZONI: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate. By Ivor Noël Hume. 

THE BLACK COUNT: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss. 

BREASTS: A Natural and Unnatural History. By Florence Williams. 

COMING APART: The State of White America, 1960-2010. By Charles Murray. 

DARWIN’S GHOSTS: The Secret History of Evolution. By Rebecca Stott. 

A DISPOSITION TO BE RICH: How a Small-Town Preacher’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States. By Geoffrey C. Ward. 

FAR FROM THE TREE: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. By Andrew Solomon. 

FLAGRANT CONDUCT. The Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans. By Dale Carpenter. 

THE FOLLY OF FOOLS: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. By Robert Trivers. 

THE GREY ALBUM: On the Blackness of Blackness. By Kevin Young. 

HAITI: The Aftershocks of History. By Laurent Dubois. 

HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. By Paul Tough. 

HOW MUSIC WORKS. By David Byrne. 

IRON CURTAIN: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. By Anne Applebaum. 

KAYAK MORNING: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats. By Roger Rosenblatt. 

LINCOLN’S CODE: The Laws of War in American History. By John Fabian Witt. 

LITTLE AMERICA: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. By Rajiv Chandrasekaran. 

MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: Enduring Ovarian Cancer. By Susan Gubar. 

MY POETS. By Maureen N. McLane. 

THE OBAMAS. By Jodi Kantor. 

ODDLY NORMAL: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms With His Sexuality. By John Schwartz. 

ON A FARTHER SHORE: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. By William Souder. 

ON SAUDI ARABIA: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — and Future. By Karen Elliott House. 

THE ONE: The Life and Music of James Brown. By RJ Smith. 

THE PASSAGE OF POWER: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. By Robert A. Caro. 

THE PATRIARCH: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. By David Nasaw. 

PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up. By Richard Lloyd Parry. 

RED BRICK, BLACK MOUNTAIN, WHITE CLAY: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival. By Christopher Benfey. 

RULE AND RUIN. The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party: From Eisenhower to the Tea Party. By Geoffrey Kabaservice.

SAUL STEINBERG: A Biography. By Deirdre Bair. 

SHOOTING VICTORIA: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy. By Paul Thomas Murphy.

SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. By Timothy Egan. 

THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH. By Edward O. Wilson. 

SOMETIMES THERE IS A VOID: Memoirs of an Outsider. By Zakes Mda. 

SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. By David Quammen. 

THE TASTE OF WAR: World War II and the Battle for Food. By Lizzie Colling­ham. 

THOMAS JEFFERSON: The Art of Power. By Jon Meacham. 

VICTORY: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. By Linda Hirshman. 

WHEN GOD TALKS BACK: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship With God. By T. M. Luhrmann. 

WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? By Jeanette Winterson.

WHY DOES THE WORLD EXIST? An Existential Detective Story. By Jim Holt. 

Matthew Shardlake by CJ Sansom

Dissolution
Dark Fire
Sovereign
Revelation
Heartstone

Deon Meyer

• (1994) Wie met vuur speel
• (1996) Feniks ( English title: Dead Before Dying)
• (1997) Bottervisse in die jêm: 13 kortverhale (A collection of thirteen short stories)
• (2000) Orion (also dramatized for television) (English title: Dead at Daybreak)
• (2002) Proteus (English title: Heart of the Hunter)
• (2004) Infanta (English title: Devil's Peak)
• (2007) Onsigbaar (English title: Blood Safari)
• (2009) "Transito" (series written for television)
• (2009) 13 Uur (English title: Thirteen Hours)
• (2010) Karoonag en ander verhale (A collection of short stories)
• (2010) Spoor (English title: Trackers)
• (2011) 7 Dae (English title: Seven Days)
•  (2014)           (English title: Cobra)
• (2016) English Title: Icarus

Mrs Pollifax

by Dorothy Gilman

1. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
2. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
3. The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
4. A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
5. Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
6. Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
7. Mrs Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
8. Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle
9. Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish
10. Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
11. Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
12. Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer
13. Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
14. Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled

MRE: Kate Atkinson

Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)
Human Croquet (1997)
Emotionally Weird (2000) 2019
Not the End of the World (2002) 2014
Life After Life (2013) 2013

A God in Ruin (2015) 2016

Transciption (2018) 2018

Featuring Jackson Brodie
Case Histories (2004)
One Good Turn (2006)
When Will There Be Good News? (2008)
Started Early, Took My Dog (2010)

Big Sky (2020) 2021

Commissario Guido Brunetti

by Donna Leon

1. Death at La Fenice
2. Death in a Strange Country
3. The Anonymous Venetian / Dressed for Death
4. A Venetian Reckoning / Death and Judgement
5. Acqua Alta / Death in High Water
6. The Death of Faith / Quietly in Their Sleep
7. A Noble Radiance
8. Fatal Remedies
9. Friends in High Places
10. A Sea of Troubles
11. Wilful Behaviour
12. Uniform Justice
13. Doctored evidence
14. Blood from a Stone
15. Through a glass, darkly
16. Suffer the Little Children
17. The Girl of His Dreams
18. About Face
19. A Question of Belief
20. Drawing Conclusions

MRE: Douglas Coupland

Fiction
Generation X (1991) slight review
Shampoo Planet (1992)
Life After God (1994)
Microserfs (1995)
Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)
Miss Wyoming (2000)
All Families are Psychotic (2001) before blogging
God Hates Japan (2001) only in Japanese
Hey Nostradamus! (2003) before blogging (loved!)
Eleanor Rigby (2004) review
jPod (2006) longlisted Giller
The Gum Thief (2007) review
Generation A (2009) review
Player One (2010)
Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People (2011) (with Graham Roumieou)

Non-Fiction
Polaroids from the Dead (1996)
Lara's Book:Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenom
City of Glass (2001) updated version (2010)
Souvenir of Canada (2002) review
School Spirit (2002)
Souvenir of Canada 2 (2004)
Terry (2005)
Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan (2009)

MRE: Tracy Chevalier

The Virgin Blue (1997) review
The Girl With the Pearl Earring (1999) read before blogging
Falling Angels (2001) revie
The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) read before blogging
Burning Bright (2007) read in 2013
Remarkable Creatures (2009) read in 2015
The Last Runaway (2012)
At the Edge of the Orchard (2016) read in 2016

New Boy 2017

A Single Thread 2019

Flavia de Luce Mysteries

by Alan Bradley

1. Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2. The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag oct 12
3. A Red Herring Without Mustard nov 12
4. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows dec 12
5. Speaking From Among the Bones feb 13
6. Dead in Their Vaulted Arches feb 14
7. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust  feb 15
8. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd nov 16

NYT Notable Books 2011

 FICTION AND POETRY (2/45)

THE ANGEL ESMERALDA: Nine Stories.By Don DeLillo.
THE ART OF FIELDING. By Chad Harbach.
THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES. By Héctor Tobar.
BIG QUESTIONS. Or, Asomatognosia: Whose Hand Is It Anyway? Written and illustrated by Anders Brekhus Nilsen.
THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC. By Julie Otsuka. April 2012
CANTI. By Giacomo Leopardi. Translated by Jonathan Galassi.
THE CAT’S TABLE. By Michael Ondaatje.
CHANGÓ’S BEADS AND TWO-TONE SHOES. By William Kennedy.
COME ON ALL YOU GHOSTS. By Matthew Zapruder.
*11/22/63. By Stephen King.
THE FREE WORLD. By David Bezmozgis.
GHOST LIGHTS. By Lydia Millet.
THE GRIEF OF OTHERS. By Leah Hager Cohen.
GRYPHON: New and Selected Stories. By Charles Baxter.
HOUSE OF HOLES: A Book of Raunch. By Nicholson Baker.
THE LAST WEREWOLF. By Glen Duncan.
THE LEFTOVERS. By Tom Perrotta.  2016
LIFE ON MARS. By Tracy K. Smith.
THE LONDON TRAIN. By Tessa Hadley
LONG, LAST, HAPPY: New and Selected Stories. By Barry Hannah.
LOST MEMORY OF SKIN. By Russell Banks.
THE MARRIAGE PLOT. By Jeffrey Eugenides.
A MOMENT IN THE SUN. By John Sayles.
MR. FOX. By Helen Oyeyemi.
MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE. By Francine Prose.
1Q84. By Haruki Murakami. Translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.
OPEN CITY. By Teju Cole.
THE PALE KING: An Unfinished Novel. By David Foster Wallace.
PARALLEL STORIES. By Peter Nadas. Translated by Imre Goldstein.
SAY HER NAME. By Francisco Goldman.
SCENES FROM VILLAGE LIFE. By Amos Oz. Translated by Nicholas de Lange
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING. By Julian Barnes.
SEVEN YEARS. By Peter Stamm. Translated by Michael Hofmann.
SHARDS. By Ismet Prcic.
SPACE, IN CHAINS. By Laura Kasischke.
STONE ARABIA. By Dana Spiotta.
THE STRANGER’S CHILD. By Alan Hollinghurst.
THE SUBMISSION. By Amy Waldman.
SWAMPLANDIA! By Karen Russell.
TALLER WHEN PRONE: Poems. By Les Murray.
TEN THOUSAND SAINTS. By Eleanor Henderson.
THIS BEAUTIFUL LIFE. By Helen Schulman.
THE TIGER’S WIFE. By Téa Obreht.
THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR. By Arthur Phillips.
TRAIN DREAMS. By Denis Johnson.

NON-FICTION

AND SO IT GOES. Kurt Vonnegut: A Life. By Charles J. Shields.
ARGUABLY: Essays. By Christopher Hitchens.
THE ART OF CRUELTY: A Reckoning. By Maggie Nelson.
ASSASSINS OF THE TURQUOISE PALACE. By Roya Hakakian.
THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY: Explanations That Transform the World. By David Deutsch.
BELIEVING IS SEEING: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography. By Errol Morris.
THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: Why Violence Has Declined. By Steven Pinker.
BLOOD, BONES AND BUTTER: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. By Gabrielle Hamilton.
BLUE NIGHTS. By Joan Didion.
THE BOY IN THE MOON: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son. By Ian Brown.
CARAVAGGIO: A Life Sacred and Profane. By Andrew Graham-Dixon.
CATHERINE THE GREAT: Portrait of a Woman. By Robert K. Massie.
CLARENCE DARROW: Attorney for the Damned. By John A. Farrell.
COCKTAIL HOUR UNDER THE TREE OF FORGETFULNESS. By Alexandra Fuller.
DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President. By Candice Millard.
THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE: Nonfictions, Etc. By Jonathan Lethem.
1861: The Civil War Awakening. By Adam Goodheart.
EXAMINED LIVES: From Socrates to Nietzsche. By James Miller.
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. By Charles C. Mann.
GEORGE F. KENNAN: An American Life. By John Lewis Gaddis.
GREAT SOUL: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India. By Joseph Lelyveld.
HARLEM IS NOWHERE: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. (Little, Brown, $24.99.)
HOLY WAR: How Vasco da Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations. By Nigel Cliff.
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin. By Erik Larson.
INFERNO: The World at War, 1939-1945. By Max Hastings.
THE INFORMATION: A History. A Theory. A Flood. By James Gleick.
INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion. By Janet Reitman.
IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. By David Bellos.
JERUSALEM: The Biography. By Simon Sebag Montefiore.
THE KEATS BROTHERS: The Life of John and George. By Denise Gigante.
*KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. By Lisa Randall.
MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention. By Manning Marable.
THE MEMORY CHALET. By Tony Judt.
MIDNIGHT RISING: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. By Tony Horwitz.
MOBY-DUCK: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them. By Donovan Hohn.
MY SONG: A Memoir. By Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson.
THE NET DELUSION: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. By Evgeny Morozov.
ONE DAY I WILL WRITE ABOUT THIS PLACE: A Memoir. By Binyavanga Wainaina.
THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama.
PAULINE KAEL: A Life in the Dark. By Brian Kellow.
PULPHEAD. By John Jeremiah Sullivan.
THE QUEST: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. By Daniel Yergin.
RIGHTS GONE WRONG: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality. By Richard Thompson Ford.
*RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend. By Susan Orlean.
[SIC]: A Memoir. By Joshua Cody.
THE STORM OF WAR: A New History of the Second World War. By Andrew Roberts.
THE SWERVE: How the World Became Modern. By Stephen Greenblatt.
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW. By Daniel Kahneman.
TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET. By Colin Thubron.
TO END ALL WARS: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. By Adam Hochschild.
A TRAIN IN WINTER: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France. By Caroline Moorehead.
VAN GOGH: The Life. By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.
WHO’S AFRAID OF POST-BLACKNESS? What It Means to Be Black Now. By Touré.
WHY THE WEST RULES — FOR NOW: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future. By Ian Morris.
A WORLD ON FIRE: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War. By Amanda Foreman.

Inspector Darko Dawson

by Kwai Quartey

1. The Wife of the Gods
2. Children of the Street
3. Murder at Cape Three Points (march 2014?)

The Dublin Murder Squad

by Tana French

1. In the Woods March 2011
2. The Likeness  August 2011
3. Faithful Place March 2012
4. Broken Harbour August 2012
5. The Secret Place  2014

6. The Trespasser 2016

The Spellman Files

by Lisa Lutz

1. The Spellman Files
2. The Curse of the Spellmans
3. Revenge of the Spellmans
4. The Spellmans Strike Again
5. The Trail of the Spellmans 
6. The Last Word 

MRE: Carol Shields Collection

novels

Small Ceremonies, 1976 my review
The Box Garden, 1977 (Later published in a joint edition with Small Ceremonies as Duet) my review
Happenstance, 1980 my review
A Fairly Conventional Woman, 1982 (published with Happenstance as The Wife's Tale and The Husband's Tale)
Swann: A Mystery, 1987 my review
A Celibate Season, my review 1991 (with Blanche Howard)
The Republic of Love, 1992
The Stone Diaries, my review 1993 (winner of the Governor General's Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize)
Larry's Party, 1997 (winner of the Orange Prize, and the Prix de Livre), my review
Unless, 2002 my review (winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize)

short story collections

Various Miracles, 1985 my review
The Orange Fish, 1989
Dressing Up for the Carnival, 2000 my review
Collected Stories. Toronto: Random House, 2004.

Criticism

Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision, 1976

Biography 
Jane Austen. New York: Viking, 2001.

Anthologies

Dropped Threads: What We aren't Told. Toronto: Vintage, 2001. (edited with Marjorie Anderson)
Dropped Threads 2: More of What We aren't Told. Toronto: Vintage, 2003. (edited with Marjorie Anderson)

Letters

A Memoir of Friendship: the letters between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard
The Staircase Letters: an extraordinary friendship at the end of life my review

NY Times Notable Books 2010

read 5/48

AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE By David Goodwillie.
ANGELOLOGY By Danielle Trussoni.
THE ASK By Sam Lipsyte.
BOUND By Antonya Nelson.
COMEDY IN A MINOR KEY By Hans Keilson. Translated by Damion Searls.
DOUBLE HAPPINESS: Stories By Mary-Beth Hughes.
FOREIGN BODIES By Cynthia Ozick.
FREEDOM By Jonathan Franzen.
FUN WITH PROBLEMS: Stories By Robert Stone.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT: A Novel of Vietnam By David Rabe.
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST By Stieg Larsson.
*GREAT HOUSE By Nicole Krauss.
HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE By Charles Yu.
HOW TO READ THE AIR By Dinaw Mengestu.
I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME By Per Petterson. Translated by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson.
ILUSTRADO By Miguel Syjuco.
THE IMPERFECTIONISTS By Tom Rachman.
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE By Julie Orringer.
LISA ROBERTSON’S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP By Lisa Robertson.
THE LIVING FIRE: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2010 By Edward Hirsch.
*THE LONG SONG By Andrea Levy. 2014
THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY By Zachary Mason.
THE LOTUS EATERS By Tatjana Soli.
*MATTERHORN: A Novel of the Vietnam War By Karl Marlantes.
MEMORY WALL: Stories By Anthony Doerr.
MR. PEANUT By Adam Ross.
THE NEAREST EXIT By Olen Steinhauer.
THE NEW YORKER STORIES By Ann Beattie.
ONE DAY By David Nicholls.
THE PRIVILEGES By Jonathan Dee.
ROOM By Emma Donoghue.
THE SAME RIVER TWICE By Ted Mooney.
SELECTED STORIES. By William Trevor.
*SHADOW TAG By Louise Erdrich.
SOLAR By Ian McEwan.
SOMETHING RED By Jennifer Gilmore.
SOURLAND: Stories By Joyce Carol Oates.
THE SPOT: Stories By David Means.
*SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY By Gary Shteyngart.
THE SURRENDERED By Chang-rae Lee.
*THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET By David Mitchell.
THE THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT By Cathleen Schine.
TO THE END OF THE LAND By David Grossman. Translated by Jessica Cohen.
VIDA By Patricia Engel.
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD By Jennifer Egan.
WHAT BECOMES: Stories By A. L. Kennedy.
WHITE EGRETS: Poems By Derek Walcott.
WILD CHILD: Stories By T. Coraghessan Boyle.


NONFICTION (read 2)


ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera.
APOLLO’S ANGELS: A History of Ballet. By Jennifer Homans.
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women. By Rebecca Traister.
THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE. By Andrew Pettegree.
THE BRIDGE: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick.
CHANGING MY MIND: Occasional Essays. By Zadie Smith.
CHARLIE CHAN: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History. By Yunte Huang.
CHRISTIANITY: The First Three Thousand Years. By Diarmaid MacCulloch.
CLEOPATRA: A Life. By Stacy Schiff.
COLONEL ROOSEVELT. By Edmund Morris.
COMMON AS AIR: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. By Lewis Hyde.
CONTESTED WILL: Who Wrote Shakespeare? By James Shapiro.
COUNTRY DRIVING: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory. By Peter Hessler.
THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A Biography of Cancer. By Siddhartha Mukherjee.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. By S. C. Gwynne.
ENCOUNTER. By Milan Kundera. Translated by Linda Asher.
THE FIERY TRIAL: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. By Eric Foner.
FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. By Stephen Sondheim.
FOUR FISH: The Future of the Last Wild Food. By Paul Greenberg.
HITCH-22: A Memoir. By Christopher Hitchens.
THE HONOR CODE: How Moral Revolutions Happen. By Kwame Anthony Appiah.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. By Rebecca Skloot.
INSECTOPEDIA. By Hugh Raffles.
KOESTLER: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell.
THE LAST BOY: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood. By Jane Leavy.
LAST CALL: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. By Daniel Okrent.
THE LAST HERO: A Life of Henry Aaron. By Howard Bryant.
THE LAST STAND: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. By Nathaniel Philbrick.
LIFE. By Keith Richards with James Fox.
LONG FOR THIS WORLD: The Strange Science of Immortality. By Jonathan Weiner.
THE MIND’S EYE. By Oliver Sacks.
OPERATION MINCEMEAT: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory. By Ben Macintyre.
ORIGINS: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives. By Annie Murphy Paul.
PARISIANS: An Adventure History of Paris. By Graham Robb
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA: Journey to “The Good Earth.” By Hilary Spurling. 
POPS: A Life of Louis Armstrong. By Terry Teachout.
THE POSSESSED: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. By Elif Batuman.
THE PRICE OF ALTRUISM: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. By Oren Harman.
THE PROMISE: President Obama, Year One. By Jonathan Alter.
THE PUBLISHER: Henry Luce and His American Century. By Alan Brinkley.
RATIFICATION: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. By Pauline Maier.
THE SABBATH WORLD: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time. By Judith Shulevitz.
SCORPIONS: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. By Noah Feldman.
SECRET HISTORIAN: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade. By Justin Spring.
SUPREME POWER: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court. By Jeff Shesol.
THE TALENTED MISS HIGHSMITH: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. By Joan Schenkar.
THE TENTH PARALLEL: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam. By Eliza Griswold.
TRAVELS IN SIBERIA. By Ian Frazier.
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. By Isabel Wilkerson.
WASHINGTON: A Life. By Ron Chernow. s.
*THE WAVE: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean. By Susan Casey.
WILLIE MAYS: The Life, the Legend. By James S. Hirsch.

An Irish Country Series

 An Irish Country Series by Patrick Taylor

An Irish Country Doctor Mar/11
An Irish Country Village Dec/11
An Irish Country Christmas Dec/13

An Irish Country Girl audiobook June/14
An Irish Country Courtship audiobook Mar 17
A Dublin Student Doctor 2019
Home is the Sailor 2019
An Irish Country Wedding 2019
Fingal O`Reilly, Irish Doctor 2020
An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War
The Wiley O'Reilly (prequel)
An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea 2020
An Irish Country Love Story 2021
An Irish Country Practice 2021

An Irish Country Cottage