"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." ~ Louisa May Alcott ~

2007,  so far.....

1. Suite Française -  Irène Némirovsky  translated by Sandra Smith
2. I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron
3. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
4. The Hours - Michael Cunnningham
5. The Light of Evening - Edna O'Brien
6. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
7. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
8. About Alice - Calvin Trillin
9. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam
10. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
11. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida
12. Children of My Heart - Gabrielle Roy translated by Alan Brown
13. Mothers and Sons - Colm Tóibín

2006

1. A Perfect Night To Go To China - David  Gilmour
2. Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
3. Sightseeing - Rattawut Lapcharoensap
4. Eva Moves the Furniture - Margot Livesey
5. The Tent - Margaret Atwood
6. London Holiday - Richard Peck
7. The Gardens of Kyoto - Kate Walbert
8. Enchantments - Linda Ferri - translated by John Casey
9. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
10. Leaving Home - Anita Brookner
11. Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
12. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept* - Elizabeth Smart
13. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
14. The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
15. Where She Went - Kate Walbert
16. A Family Daughter - Maile Meloy
17. The Birth House - Ami McKay
18. American Purgatorio - John Haskell
19. A Wall of Light - Edeet Ravel
20. Stop that Girl: A Novel in Stories - Elizabeth McKenzie
21. The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
22. Please Don't Come Back from the  Moon -  Dean  Bakopoulos
23. The Accidental - Ali Smith
24. Intuition - Allegra Goodman
25. And She Was - Cindy Dyson
26. Frangipani - Celestine Hitiura Vaite
27. Love and Other Possible  Pursuits - Ayelet Waldman
28. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
29. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
30. Malinche - Laura Esquivel
31. The Huncback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
32. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
33. Theft: A Love Story - Peter Carey
34. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
35. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
36. A Room With a View - E. M. Forester
37. The Brambles - Eliza Minot
38. The Girls - Lori Lansens
39. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
40. Loveship, Hateship, Friendship, etc. - Alice Munro
41. Pleased to Meet You -  Caroline Adderson
42. Eye Contact - Cammie McGovern
43. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
44. Before I Wake - Robert J. Wiersema
45. Which Brings Me to You - Steve  Almond and  Julianna Baggott
46. Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood
47. Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden
48. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
49. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
50. Wicked: The Life and Times  of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
51. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency -  Alexander McCall Smith
52. Buddha Da - Anne Donovan
53. Ice Road - Gillian Slovo
54. The Tin Flute - Gabrielle Roy
55. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
56. Larry's Party - Carol Shields
57. When Madeline Was Young - Jane Hamilton
58. The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
59. The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
60. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
61. The Christmas Tree - David Adams Richards
62. Little Children - Tom Perrotta

2005

1. The Devil and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
2. Dressing Up for the Carnival - Carol Shields
3. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Helene Hanff
4. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
5. Women With Men - Richard Ford
6. Autobiography of a Family Photo - Jacqueline Woodson
7. Snow - Maxene Fermine
8. Am I Disturbing You? - Anne Herbet
9. Green Angel - Alice Hoffman
10. Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe
11. A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell
12. Next Episode - Hubert Aquin
13. A Season in the Life of Emmanuel - Marie-Claire Blais
14. Music for Torching - A. M. Homes
15. Gilead: A Novel - Marilynne Robinson
16. The Madness of Love - Kateraine Davies
17. A Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
18. Bliss and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
19. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
20. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
21. Same Place, Same Things - Tim Gautreaux
22. Kafka on the Shore -  Haruki Murakami
23. Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood
24. Me & Emma - Elizabeth Flock
25. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
26. Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
27. The Plague - Albert Camus
28. Creation - Katherine Govier
29. Saturday - Ian McEwan
30. The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
31. Never Let Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
32. Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson
33. The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
34. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
35. A Ripple From the Storm - Doris Lessing
36. The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
37. Ben, In the  World - Doris Lessing
38. The Grandmothers: Four Short  Novels - Doris Lessing
39. A Long Way Down -  Nick  Hornby
40.  Specimen Days - Michael  Cunningham
41.  The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters - Elisabeth Robinson
42. If You Want Me to Stay - Michael Parker
43. The Painted Drum - Louise Erdich
44. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
45.  Bleak House -  Charles Dickens
46.  Until I Found You - John Irving
47. The World According to Garp - John Irving
48. Luck - Joan Barfoot
49. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
50. Life Before Man - Margaret Atwood
51. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
52. The Love Wife - Gish Jen
53. The March -  E. L.  Doctorow
54. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
55. Runaway - Alice Munro
56. Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2004

1. The Shawl - Cynthia Ozick
2. Four Spirits - Sena Jeter Naslund
3. Reunion - Alan Lightman
4. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hasseini
5. Garbo Laughs - Elizabeth Hay
6. Six - Jim Crace
7. Double Vision - Pat Barker
8. River of the Brokenhearted - David Adams Richards
9. Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee *
10. Our Lady of the Forest - David Guterson
11. In the Cut - Susana Moore
12. The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin
13. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpra Lahiri
14. When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka
15. Why Girls are Weird - Pameal Ribon
16. Love - Toni Morrison
17. My Year of Meats - Ruth L. Ozeki
18. Blankets - Craig Thompson
19. Stevenson Under the Palm Trees - Alberto Manguel
20. The Man in My Basement - Walter Mosley
21. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22. Ask the Dusk - John Fante
23. Old School - Tobias Wolff
24. A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor *
25. Pastoralia - George Saunders
26. Rape: A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates
27. The Romantic - Barbara Gowdy
28. My Life in Heavy Metal - Steve Almond
29. A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Towes
30. Love Monkey - Kyle Smith
31. Summer of My Amazing Luck - Miriam Toews
32. House of Sighs - Jocelyne Saucier
33. Now You Care - Di Brandt
34. A Hard Witching & Other Stories - Jacqueline Baker
35. Loving Che - Ana Menendez
36. Twinkle Twinkle - Kaori Ckuni
37. Happy Baby - Stephen Elliot
38. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett *
39. Verandah People - Jonathan Bennett
40. Loop - Anne Simpson
41. Now You Care - Di Brandt
42. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare *
43. Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
44. I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammanti
45. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf *
46. What the Living Won't Let Go - Lorna Crozier
47. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
48. The Knife Thrower and Other Stories - Steven Millhauser
49. Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill *
50. Natasha and Other Stories - David Bezmozgis
51. Tent of Blue - Rachael Preston
52. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
53. The Hunter - George Murray
54. In Search of April Raintree - Beatrice Culleton
55. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
56. Sweet Land Stories - E. L. Doctorow
57. Heartbreak House - Bernard Shaw *
58. Novelties & Souvenirs - John Crowley
59. The Rez Sisters - Tomson Highway *
60. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
61. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner *
62. Thieves - Janice Kulyk Keefer
63. The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
64. Maurice - E. M. Forster *
65. Collected Stories - Carol Shields
66. Running in Prospect Cemetery - Susan Glickman
67. Monday or Tuesday - Virginia Woolf
68. How to Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
69. Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker
70. The Lemon Table - Julian Barnes
71. Elegance - Kathleen Tessaro
72. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
73. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov


*A favourite that I return to time and time again.