What I've Read

I keep a running list of what I'm reading this year in the right-hand sidebar of every page, but from this page you can also check out what I've read in previous years.

Read in 2012 (43)

• Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
• The Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh)
• Before I Go to Sleep (S.J. Watson)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Johnathan Safran Foer)
• The Wonder of Ordinary Magic (Lilli J. Day)
• The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides)
• The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)
• The Tiger's Wife (Tea Obrecht)
• The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
• Rules of Civility (Amor Towles)
• Tolstoy and the Purple Chair (Nina Sankovitch)
• The Highest Tide (Jim Lynch)
• The Sunday Philosophy Club (Alexander McCall Smith)
• The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
• The Cat's Table (Michael Ondaatje)
• Sag Harbor (Colson Whitehead)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
• Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog (Lisa Scottoline)
• The Space Between Us (Thrity Umrigar)
• The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home (Howard Frank Mosher)
• In One Person (John Irving)
• An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace (Tamar Adler)
• The Likeness (Tana French)
• Neverwhere (Neil Gaimon)
• The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)
• The Used World (Haven Kimmel)
• The Red House (Mark Haddon)
• One Day (David Nicholls)
• Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Alexander McCall Smith)
• What Is Left the Daughter (Howard Norman)
• The Distant Hours (Kate Morton)
• Maine (J. Courtney Sullivan)
• 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
• Left Neglected (Lisa Genova)
• The Story of Beautiful Girl (Rachel Simon)
• Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
• Trapeze (Simon Mawer)
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)
• The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
• What the Dead Know (Laura Lippman)
• The Orchardist (Amanda Coplin)
• The Expats (Simon Mawer)
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Carol Rifka Brunt)

Read in 2011 (44)

• The Girl Who Played with Fire (Steig Larsson)
• Out Stealing Horses (Per Petterson)
• On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town (Susan Hermann Loomis)
• Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Laurie Colwin)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Scones: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Alexander McCall Smith)
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Steig Larsson)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
• Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
• The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman)
• The Widower's Tale (Julia Glass)
• Before You Know Kindness (Chris Bohjalian)
• Noah's Compass (Anne Tyler)
• The Piano Teacher (Janice Y.K. Lee)
• Labor Day (Joyce Maynard)
• Family Album (Penelope Lively)
• Home Safe (Elizabeth Berg)
• The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (Tarquin Hall)
• Chat (Archer Mayor)
• The Hand That First Held Mine (Maggie O'Farrell)
• A Scattered Life (Karen McQuestion)
• These Hidden Things (Heather Gudenkauf)
• Await Your Reply (Dan Chaon)
• The Postmistress (Sarah Blake)
• French Fried (Chris Dolley)
• The Pig Did It (Joseph Caldwell)
• States of Confusion (Paul Jury)
• Food and Worry (Becky Wolsk)
• Commencement (J. Courtney Sullivan)
• Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Gabrielle Hamilton)
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Tom Franklin)
• Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
• Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
• Room: A Novel (Emma Donoghue)
• The Solider's Wife (Margaret Leroy)
• Corduroy Mansions (Alexander McCall Smith)
• The House at Riverton (Kate Morton)
• The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach)
• The Dog Who Came in From the Cold (Alexander McCall Smith)
• In the Woods (Tana French)
• The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
• The Buddha in the Attic (Julie Otsuka)
• How to Be an American Housewife (Margaret Dilloway)
• The Good Daughters (Joyce Maynard)

Read in 2010 (35)

• Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle (Peter Kerr)
• Sarah's Key (Tatiana de Rosnay)
• The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa)
• Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House (Sarah Messer)
• Next of Kin (Joanna Trollope)
• The Scent of Sake (Joyce Lebra)
• How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) (Henry Alford)
• The Attack (Yasmina Khadra)
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Diane Ackerman)
• Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese (Brad Kessler)
• Love Over Scotland: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Alexander McCall Smith)
• Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
• Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes (Amanda Hesser)
• The Senator's Wife (Sue Miller)
• An Irish Country Doctor (Patrick Taylor)
• The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution (David Kamp)
• Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
• Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Louise Riotte)
• The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (Kathleen Flinn)
• The Case of the Missing Servant: A Vish Puri Mystery (Tarquin Hall)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (M. Shaffer & A. Barrows)
• The House on Fortune Street (Margot Livesey)
• The School of Essential Ingredients (Erica Bauermeister)
• The Weight of Heaven (Thrity Umrigar)
• In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Carl Honore)
• The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
• Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (Rhoda Janzen)
• The Madonnas of Leningrad (Debra Dean)
• The World According to Bertie: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Alexander McCall Smith)
• The World to Come (Dara Horn)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steig Larsson)
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Anthony Bourdain)
• Peace Like a River (Leif Enger)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)