THE BOOKS I'VE READ ORGANIZED BY YEAR OF PUBLICATION

Updated December 31, 2024

Updated through #18, 2025 

Here's a very incomplete master list of books I've read. This is my list organized by year of publication. I've got another list organized by author and another by rating. I tend to focus on good books or authors I've read a lot. I don't see the point of including a book I didn't like by someone most people haven't heard about.

I've only got year-by-year lists of my reading going back to 2006. Before that, it's very catch as catch can. Since I've also considerably winnowed down my personal library without noting the books I got rid of over the years, I don't even have a good record of the books I SAVED for decades. So please understand that this isn't remotely comprehensive. If I seem overly generous in the number of 3 1/2 and 4 star books, well those are simply the ones I remember best. The many minor books I consumed over the years (especially reams and reams of sci-fi, fantasy and mysteries) have faded from memory. Any weird gaps (I've read a lot more Dickens than I've listed, for example) are perhaps because I don't remember with enough specificity what I thought of certain books to rate them.

Art Garfunkel and Peter Bogdanovich had the right idea! Keep a list, everyone; you'll be glad you did. What I wouldn't give for index cards with my brief thoughts on the movies I watched, books I read, albums I heard from a young age onward....

THE BOOKS LIST BY YEAR
(titles under each author listed in order of publication)

700 BCE

*Iliad by Homer; translated by Robert Fagles (≈700 BCE; 1990) *** 1/2 

650 BCE 

*Odyssey by Homer; translated by Robert Fagles (≈650 BCE; 1996) **** 

500 BCE 

*A Book of Psalms, Selected and Adapted From The Hebrew by Stephen Mitchell (≈500 BCE; 1994) *** 1/2

414 BCE 

*The Birds by Aristophanes (414 BCE) *** 1/2 

411 BCE 

*Lysistrata by Aristophanes (411 BCE) *** 

405 BCE 

*The Frogs by Aristophanes (405 BCE) *** 

300 BCE 

*Tao Te Ching by Laozi; translated by Stephen Mitchell (≈300 BCE; 1988) *** 

100 BCE 

*Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa; translated by Stephen Mitchell (≈100 BCE; 2002) ***  

*Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa; translated by Laurie L. Patton (≈100 BCE; 2008) *** 1/2 

8 CE 

*Metamorphoses by Ovid; translated by Ted Hughes (8 CE/1997) **** 

180 CE 

*Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; translated by Martin Hammond (180 CE/2006) **** 

500 CE

1021 CE

*The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu; translated by Royall Tyler (1021/2001) *** 1/2 

1400 

*The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400) **** 

1485 

*Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (1485) **** 

1500 

1550 

1580 

*Essays by Michael de Montaigne (1580) **** 

1588 

*Tamburlaine Parts I and II by Christopher Marlowe (1588) *** 

1592 

*The Taming of The Shrew by William Shakespeare (1592) ** 1/2 

1593 

*Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (1593) ** 

*The Two Gentlemen Of Verona by William Shakespeare (1593) ** 1/2 

1594 

*Richard III by William Shakespeare (1594) ** 1/2 

*The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (1594) *** 

1595 

*Richard II by William Shakespeare (1595) *** 1/2 

*Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1595) ** 

1596 

*A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1596) *** 

1597 

*Love's Labour Lost by William Shakespeare (1597) *** 

*Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare (1597) *** 1/2 

*The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (1597) ** 

1598 

*The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1598) *** 1/2 

*All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare (1598) *** 

1599 

*Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1599) ***  

*Henry IV Part II by William Shakespeare (1599) *** 1/2 

*As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1599) **** 

*Henry V by William Shakespeare (1599) *** 

*Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599) *** 1/2  

1600 

1601

*Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1601) ****  

1602 

*Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (1602) *** 1/2 

1603 

*Othello by William Shakespeare (1603) ** 1/2 

1604 

*Measure For Measure  by William Shakespeare (1604) *** 

1605 

*Don Quixote Part 1 by Miguel Cervantes (1605) (trans by Edith Grossman 2003) *** 1/2 

1606 

*King Lear by William Shakespeare (1606) *** 1/2 

*Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606) *** 1/2 

*Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton (1606) ***  

1607 

*Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1607) ** 

1608 

1609 

*Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1609) **** 

1610 

1611 

*King James Version/King James Bible by committee (1611) *** 1/2 

*Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (1611) ** 1/2 

*The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611) *** 1/2 

*The Winter's Tale As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1611) *** 

1615 

*Don Quixote Part 2 by Miguel Cervantes (1615) (trans by Edith Grossman 2003) ***  

1620 

1623 

*First Folio by William Shakespeare (1623) *** 1/2 

1660 

*The Imaginary Cuckold by Molière; translated by Richard Wilbur (1660) *** 1/2 

 

1661 

*The School For Husbands by Molière; translated by Richard Wilbur (1661) *** 1/2

1662 

*The School For Wives by Molière; translated by Richard Wilbur (1662) *** 1/2 

1665 

1666

*The Misanthrope by Molière; translated by Richard Wilbur (1666) ****  

1668 

*Fables by Jean de la Fontaine (1668) *** 1/2 

1669 

*The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1669) *** 1/2 

1670 

1678 

*The Princess Of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (1678) *** 1/2 

1691 

*The Narrow Road To The Deep North & other travel sketches by Matsuo Bashō (1691) *** 

1700 

1719 

*Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719) **

1725 

1726 

*Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) **** 

1750 

1759 

*Candide by Voltaire (1759) **** 

1766 

*The Vicar Of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1766) ** 1/2 

1767 

*The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1767) ****

1770 

1777 

*No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon (1777) ***

1780 

1789 

*Songs of Innocence by William Blake (1789) **** 

1790 

1794 

*Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (1794) **** 

1798 

*Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798) *** 1/2 

1800 

*Lyrical Ballads (revised w preface) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1800) **** 

1805 

1810 

1811 

*Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) ****

1812 

*The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm; edited by Jack Zipes (1812/1864/1987) *** 1/2 

1813 

*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) **** 

1814 

*Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814) ***

1815 

1816 

*Emma by Jane Austen (1816) *** 1/2 

1817 

1818 

*Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818) *** 1/2
*Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1803 completed; published 1818) *** 

*Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818) ** 1/2 

1820 

1825 

1826 

*The Book of Job by William Blake (1826) **** 

1827 

*Tamerlane and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1827) **  

1830 

1835 

1837 

*Fairy Tales Told For Children First Collection by Hans Christian Anderson (1837) **** 

1838 

*The Adventures Of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838) *** 1/2 

1839 

*Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1839) 

1840 

*Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe (1840) ** 1/2 

1841 

*Fairy Tales Told For Children New Collection by Hans Christian Anderson (1841) *** 1/2 

*The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (1841) ** 1/2 

*The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (1841) 

 

1842 

1843 

*A Christmas Carol novella by Charles Dickens (1843) *** 1/2 

1844 

*The Chimes novella by Charles Dickens (1844) *  

*The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; translated by Richard Pevear (1844/2023) ****

1845 

*New Fairy Tales First Volume by Hans Christian Anderson (1845) **** 

*The Cricket On The Hearth novella by Charles Dickens (1845) * 1/2 

*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Himself (1845) ***  

1846 

*The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (1846) *** 1/2 

1847 

*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) ***
*Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847) *** 

1848 

*New Fairy Tales Second Volume by Hans Christian Anderson (1848) *** 1/2 

1850 

*David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850) **** 

1851 

*Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (1851) **** 

1852 

1853 

*Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1853) *** 1/2 

*Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (1853) *** 

1854 

*Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854) *** 1/2 

*Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854) *** 

1855 

*The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire Book One) by Anthony Trollope (1855) *** 1/2 

*Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855) *** 1/2 

1857 

*Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens (1857) *** 

*Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire Book Two) by Anthony Trollope (1857) *** 1/2 

1859 

*A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) *** 

1860 

*The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins (1860) *** 

1861 

*Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861) **** 

1864 

*Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky; trans Peavear and Volokhonsky (1864) **** 

*The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm; edited by Jack Zipes (1812/1864/1987) *** 1/2 

1865 

*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) **** 

*Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1865) *** 1/2 

*Hans Brinker, Or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865) ***\ 

1866 

*Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; trans Peavear and Volokhonsky (1866) **** 

1867 

*The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County And Other Sketches by Mark Twain (1867) *** 

1868 

*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (the original 1868 novel) *** 

*The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) ** 1/2 

1869

*Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott (1869, now packaged w first book as Little Women) ** 1/2

*The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; trans Peavear and Volokhonsky (1869) 

*War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, trans by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky (serialized and rewritten 1864-1869; 1869) **** 

*The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (1869) *** 1/2 

1870

*The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (1870)  

1871 

*Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (1871) * 1/2

*Lady Susan by Jane Austen (1871) 

*Through The Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871) *** 1/2  

*Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne (1871) ***  

1872 

*Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872) **** 

1873 

*The Gilded Age by Mark Twain (1873) *** 1/2 

*Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1873) *** 

1875 

*Sketches New And Old by Mark Twain (1875) *** 1/2 

1876 

*The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876) *** 

1877 

*Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877) *** 

1878 

*Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, trans by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (serialized 1875-1877; published 1878) **** 

1880 

*The Brothers Karamasov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; trans Peavear and Volokhonsky (1880) 

*Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Everyman's Library) by Guy de Maupassant; translated by Marjorie Laurie and Brian Rhys (1880-1890; 2021) *** 1/2 

1881 

*The Prince And The Pauper by Mark Twain  (1881) *** 

1882 

1883 

*The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (1883) **** 

*The Story Of An African Farm by Olive Schreiner (1883) ***  

*Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) **** 

1884 

 

*Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884) **** 

1885 

*One Thousand And One Nights translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1885) *** 1/2 

*King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard (1885) ** 1/2 

*A Child's Garden Of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885) *** 1/2 

1886 

*Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott (1886) * 1/2 

*Strange Case Of Dr. Jeckyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) *** 

*Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) **** 

1887 

*A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) *** 

1888 

*Plain Tales From The Hills by Rudyard Kipling (1888) *** 
*The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales by Rudyard Kipling (1888) *** 

*The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (1888) **  

1889 

*Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling (1889) *** 

*The Blue Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1889) **** 

*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1889) ***  

1890 

*Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890) *** 

*The Sign Of The Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890) *** 

*The Red Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1890) **** 

*Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Everyman's Library) by Guy de Maupassant; translated by Marjorie Laurie and Brian Rhys (1880-1890; 2021) *** 1/2 

1891 

*Poems: Second Series by Emily Dickinson (1891) *** 

*Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) by Herman Melville (1891/1924) *** 

*Leaves of Grass (revised) by Walt Whitman (1891) **** 

1892 

*The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) ****  

*The Green Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1892) ****  

*"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins (short story) (1892) *** 1/2

*Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde (1892) *** 

1893 

*A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde (1893) ***  

1894 

*The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1894) *** 1/2 

*The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894) *** 1/2 

*The Yellow Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1894) *** 1/2 

1895 

*The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame (1895) **** 

*The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1895) *** 1/2 

*The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895) ** 1/2 

*An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1895) *** 1/2 

*The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895) **** 

1896 

*Poems: Third Series by Emily Dickinson (1896) *** 

*Captain's Courageous by Rudyard Kipling (1896) *** 

*The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (1896) *** 

*Salomé by Oscar Wilde (1896) *** 

1897 

*Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) *** 1/2 

*Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (1897) *** 1/2 

*The Pink Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1897) *** 

1898 

*Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898) ** 

*Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame (1898) *** 

*The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells  (1898) ** 1/2 

1899 

*The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899) *** 1/2

*Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Stalky And Co. by Rudyard Kipling (1899) *** 

1900 

*The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900) **  

*Lord Jim By Joseph Conrad (1900)  

*The Grey Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1900) *** 

1901 

*Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (1901) *** 1/2 

*Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901) **** 

*The Violet Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1901) *** 

*The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1901) ****  

1902 

*The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) *** 1/2
*Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902) *** 1/2 

*Five Children And It by E. Nesbit (1902) *** 

*The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902) **** 

1903 

*The Riddle Of The Sands by Erskine Childers (1903) ** 

*The Crimson Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1903) *** 

*The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (1903) *** 1/2 

*The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter (1903) *** 

1904 

*The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (1904) ****  

*Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (1904) ****
*The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (1907) *** 

*The Brown Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1904) *** 

*The Sea-Wolf by Jack London (1904) 

*The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter (1904) *** 

1905 

*A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905) *** 

*The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1905) *** 1/2 

*Where Angels Fear To Tread by E.M. Forster (1905) *** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905) *** 1/2 

1906 

*The Orange Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1906) *** 

*White Fang by Jack London (1906) *** 1/2

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906) *** 

1907 

*Jock Of The Bushveld by J. Percy Fitzpatrick (1907) *** 

*The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats (1907) ** 1/2 

*Collected Verse by Rudyard Kipling (1907) *** 1/2 

*The Olive Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1907) *** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (1907) ** 1/2 

1908 

*A Room With A View by E.M. Forster (1908) *** 1/2 

*The Wind In The Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame *** 1/2 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (1908) *** 1/2 

1909 

*Martin Eden by Jack London (1909) 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Anne Of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery (1909) *** 1/2  

1910 

*Howards End by E.M. Forster (1910) **** 

*The Lilac Fairy Book by Nora Lang (credited to Andrew Lang) (1910) *** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

1911 

*Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie (1911) **** 

*The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) ** 1/2  

*South Sea Tales by Jack London (1911) 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911) *** 

1912 

*Riders Of The Purple Sage by Zane Grey (1912) ** 1/2 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (1912) *** 1/2 

1913 

*Krazy Kat by George Herriman (1913-1944) **** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1913) **** 

1914 

*Tarzan Of The Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914) *** 1/2 

*Maurice by E.M. Forster (1914/1971) *** 

*Dubliners by James Joyce (1914) **** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

1915 

*The Underdogs aka Los de Abajo by Mariano Azuela (1915) *** 1/2 

*The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915) *** 

*The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1915) ***

*The Valley Of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle (1915) *** 

*The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (1915) **** 

*Anne Of The Island by L.M. Montgomery (1915) ** 1/2 

1916 

*The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1916) ** 1/2 

*A Portrait Of the Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce (1916) *** 1/2 

*To Ruhleban and Back by Geoffrey Pyke (1916) ***

1917 

*A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1917) * 

*His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle (1917) *** 

*Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot (1917) *** 1/2 

*Anne's House Of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery (1917) ** 1/2 

1918 

*The Gods Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1918) ** 

*My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918) **** 

*The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (1918) *** 1/2 

1919 

*Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919) *** 1/2 

*The Warlord Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919) ** 1/2 

*The Mark Of Zorro aka The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley (1919) ** 
*Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery (1919) *** 1/2 

*Poems by Wilfred Owen (1920) *** 

*In The Shadow of Young Girls In Flower by Marcel Proust (1919) **** 

1920 

*Call Mr. Fortune by H.C. Bailey (1920) *** 

*The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) **** 

1921 

*Gasoline Alley aka Walt and Skeezix Vol. 1: 1921-1922 by Frank King *** 
*Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays 1920-1922 Volume One by Frank King **  

*Rilla Of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery (1921) *** 

*The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust (1921) **** 

1922 

*The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin (1922) *** 1/2

*Just William by Richmal Crompton (1922) ** 1/2 

*The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) **** 

*Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (1922) * 1/2 

*Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 

*Gasoline Alley aka Walt and Skeezix Vol. 1: 1921-1922 by Frank King *** 

*The Voyages Of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1922) ** 

*Sodom and Gomorrah aka Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust (1922) **** 

*The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922) *** 1/2 

1923 

*The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes (1923) **** 

*Krazy Kat by George Herriman (1913-1944) **** 

*Gasoline Alley aka Walt and Skeezix Complete Daily Strips 1923-1924 by Frank King *** 

*Emily Of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery (1923) ** 1/2 

*The Prisoner by Marcel Proust (1923) **** 

*Bambi: A Life In The Woods by Felix Salten (1923) **** 

*Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) (1923) ** 1/2 

*Cane by Jean Toomer (1923) ** 1/2 

*The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (1923) *** 1/2 

1924 

*Some Do Not... by Ford Maddox Ford (1924) 

*Gasoline Alley aka Walt and Skeezix Complete Daily Strips 1923-1924 by Frank King *** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) by Herman Melville (1891/1924) *** 

*When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (1924) *** 1/2 

1925 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1925-1927 by Percy Crosby (1927) *** 1/2 

*The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) *** 

*No More Parades by Ford Maddox Ford (1925) 

*The Trial by Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir (1925) *** 

*Gasoline Alley aka Walt and Skeezix Complete Daily Strips 1925-1926 by Frank King *** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*The Fugitive by Marcel Proust (1925) **** 

*Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) **** 

1926 

*The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926) *** 1/2 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1925-1927 by Percy Crosby (1927) *** 1/2 

*A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Maddox Ford (1926) 

*The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) *** 1/2 

*The Castle by Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir (1926) *** 

*Gasoline Alley aka Walt and Skeezix Complete Daily Strips 1925-1926 by Frank King *** 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (1926) **** 

*Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees (1926) *** 1/2 

*Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke; translated by Stephen Mitchell (1926/1995) *** 1/2 

*Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) (1926) *** 

1927 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1925-1927 by Percy Crosby (1927) *** 1/2 

*The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1927) ** 1/2 

*Gasoline Alley aka Walt and Skeezix Complete Daily Strips 1927-1928 by Frank King ** 1/2 

*Little Nemo in Slumberland/The Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay (1905-1914; 1924-1927) *** 1/2 

*Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (1927) *** 1/2 

*Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust (1927) **** 

*In Search of Lost Time aka Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (1927/1992) **** 

*Unnatural Deaths by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) (1927) *** 1/2 

*To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927) **** 

*Decisive Moments in History by Stefan Zweig (1927) *** 1/2 

1928 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1928-1930 by Percy Crosby (1930) *** 

*The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer (1928) *** 1/2 

*The House At Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (1928) **** 

*The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1928) *** 1/2

*Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (1928) *** 

*Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1928) *** 

1929 

*Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (1929) *** 1/2 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1928-1930 by Percy Crosby (1930) *** 

*The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929) *** 1/2 

*Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves (1929) **** 

*A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929) *** 1/2 

*All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) **** 

*A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929) **** 

1930 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1928-1930 by Percy Crosby (1930) ***

*The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930) **** 

*Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930) *** 

*Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1930) *** 1/2 

*Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (1930) *** 

1931 

*Death Walks In Eastrepp by Francis Beeding (1931) *** 

*The Story of Babar The Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (1931) *** 

*The Sitaford Mystery by Agatha Christie (1931) ** 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1931-1933 by Percy Crosby (1933) *** 

*Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1931) **** 

*The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers (1931) *** 

*Pietr The Latvian by Georges Simenon (1931) (Maigret #1) ** 1/2 
*The Carter Of La Providence by Georges Simenon (1931) (Maigret #2) ***/  
*The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon (1931) (Maigret #3) *** 

1932 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1931-1933 by Percy Crosby (1933) *** 

*Sunset Song by Lewis Gibbons (1932) **** 

*Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) ** 1/2 

*Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1932) *** 

*Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh (1932) *** 

*Little House In The Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932) *** 

1933 

*A Passionate Prodigality by Guy Chapman (1933) *** 1/2 

*Skippy: Daily Comics 1931-1933 by Percy Crosby (1933) *** 

*Krazy Kat by George Herriman (1913-1944) **** 

*Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1933) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Poems of Robert W. Service by Robert W. Service (1933) *** 

1934 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol 1: 1934-1936 by Milton Caniff (1936) ** 1/2 

*Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934) ** 1/2 

*Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934) *** 1/2 

*A London Child of the 1870s by M.V. Hughes (Molly Hughes) (1934) *** 

*A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh (1934) ** 1/2 

*Quick Curtain by Alan Melville (1934) ** 1/2 

*The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1934) *** 1/2 

*Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (1934) ** 1/2 

*Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (1934) *** 1/2 (despite "comic" blackface) 

*Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse (1934) **** 

1935 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol 1: 1934-1936 by Milton Caniff (1936) ** 1/2 

*Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (1935) ** 1/2 

*Green Hills Of Africa by Ernest Hemingway (1935) ** 1/2 

*Enter A Murderer by Ngaio Marsh (1935) ** 1/2 

*The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; translated by Richard Zenith  (1935/1991 in English) *** 1/2 

*Gaudy Nights (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935) **** 

*The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout (1935) ** 1/2 

*Little House On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935) *** 

1936 

*Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1936) ** 1/2 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol 1: 1934-1936 by Milton Caniff (1936) ** 1/2 
*Skippy: Daily Comics 1934-1936 by Percy Crosby (1936) *** 1/2 

*A London Girl of the 1880s by M.V. Hughes (Molly Hughes) (1936) *** 

*Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) *** for story/* for ugliness 

*Anne Of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery (1936) **  

*Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield (1936) *** 1/2 

1937 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol 2: 1937-1938 by Milton Caniff (1938) *** 1/2  

*Out Of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937) *** 1/2 

*Beat To Quarters aka The Happy Return by C.S Forester (1937) ****

*A London Home in the 1890s by M.V. Hughes (Molly Hughes) (1937) *** 1/2 

*Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) **** 

*Bright Island by Mabel L. Robinson (1937) *** 

*Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1937) **** 

*Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) *** 

*The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien **** 

*On The Banks Of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1937) *** 1/2 

1938 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol 2: 1937-1938 by Milton Caniff (1938) *** 1/2 

*Ship Of The Line by C.S Forester (1938) **** 

*Flying Colours by C.S Forester (1938) *** 1/2 

*Prince Valiant Volume 1: 1937-1938 by Hal Foster (1938) *** 

*Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (1938) *** 

*Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (1938) *** 

*Out Of The Silent Planet by C.S.  Lewis (1938) ** 

*Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) *** 

*The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1938) **** 

*Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938) *** 1/2 

*The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (1938) *** 1/2 

*The Code Of The Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse (1938) *** 1/2 

1939 

*A Coffin For Dimitrios by Eric Ambler (1939) *** 1/2 

*Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (1939) **** 

*Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton (1939) *** 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 3: 1939-1940 by Milton Caniff (1940) *** 1/2 

*The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) **** 

*Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (1939) ***  

*Prince Valiant Volume 2: 1939-1940 by Hal Foster (1940) *** 

*Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (1939) *** 

*Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce (1939) 

*Anne Of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery (1939) *** 

*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) **** 

1940 

*Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler (1940) ***

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 3: 1939-1940 by Milton Caniff (1940) *** 1/2 

*The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940) ** 1/2 

*Prince Valiant Volume 2: 1939-1940 by Hal Foster (1940) *** 

*Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler (1940) **** 

*The Leviathan by Joseph Roth (trans Michael Hoffmann) (1940) *** 1/2 

*The House in Cornwall by Noel Streatfield (1940) * 1/2 

*Cue For Treason by Geoffrey Trease (1940) *** 

1941 

*Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by James Agee; photographs by Walker Evans (1941) text ** 1/2 ; photos **** 

*The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown (1941)  *** 1/2  

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 4: 1941-1942 by Milton Caniff (1942) *** 1/2 

*Prince Valiant Volume 3: 1941-1942 by Hal Foster (1942) *** 1/2 

*A Taste For Honey by H.F. Heard (1941) ** 1/2 

*My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara (1941) *** 

*Storm by George R. Stewart (1941) *** 1/2 

1942 

*The Little Grey Men by B.B. (1942) *** 1/2 

*The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (1942) *** 1/2

*The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942) **** 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 4: 1941-1942 by Milton Caniff (1942) *** 1/2 

*Prince Valiant Volume 3: 1941-1942 by Hal Foster (1942) *** 1/2 

*Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton (1942) ****

*West With The Night by Beryl Markham (1942) *** 1/2 

1943 

*Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton (1943) **  

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 5: 1943-1944 by Milton Caniff (1944) *** 1/2 

*The Spirit Archives Vol. 1 by Will Eisner (1943) ** ½ 

*Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1943) *** 1/2 

*Prince Valiant Volume 4: 1943-1944 by Hal Foster (1943) *** 1/2 

*Perelandra by C.S.  Lewis (1943) ** 

*Thunderhead by Mary O'Hara (1943) *** 1/2 

*The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943) *** 

*A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943) *** 1/2 

1944 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 5: 1943-1944 by Milton Caniff (1944) *** 1/2 

*Prince Valiant Volume 4: 1943-1944 by Hal Foster (1943) *** 1/2 

*Krazy Kat by George Herriman (1913-1944) **** 

*The Sea Witch by Alexander Laing (1944) *** ½ 

*The Wind On The Moon by Eric Linklater (1944) *** 

*The Magic Bedknob by Mary Norton (1944) *** 

Transit by Anna Seghers (1944) *** 1/2 

1945 

*Maddy Alone by Pamela Brown (Blue Door #2) (1945) ** 1/2 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 6: 1945-1946 by Milton Caniff (1946) *** 1/2 

*Commodore Hornblower aka The Commodore by C.S Forester (1945) *** 

*That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis (1945) ** 

*Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (1945) *** 

*Two Adolescents aka Agostino (1945) and Luca (La Disubbidienza aka The Disobedience) (1950) by Alberto Moravia (1945/1950)*** 1/2 

*Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945) *** (the miniseries is better) 

*Stuart Little by E.B. White (1945) *** 

*The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman; edited by Mark Van Doren (1945/2003) **** 

1946 

*The Portable Blake by William Blake (1946) **** 

*The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 6: 1945-1946 by Milton Caniff (1946) *** 1/2 

*The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin (1946) *** 

*The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1946) *** 

*Lord Hornblower by C.S Forester (1946) *** 

*The Portable Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner (1946) *** 

*The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers (1946) *** 1/2 

*Green Grass Of Wyoming by Mary O'Hara (1946) *** 

*Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (1946) *** 1/2 

*The Portable Wilde by Oscar Wilde (1946) **** 

1947 

*Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown; picture by Clement Hurd (1947) **** 

*Golden Pavements by Pamela Brown (Blue Door #3) (1947) ***/ 

*The Portable Chekhov by Anton Chekhov; edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1947) *** 1/2 

*Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert Heinlein (1947) * 

*Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (1947) ** ½ 

*Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (serialized 1935-1937; pub 1948) *** (lost in trans) 

*Willie And Joe Back Home by Bill Mauldin (1947) *** 

*Tales of The South Pacific by James A Michener (1947) *** 

*Bonfires and Broomsticks by Mary Norton (1947) *** 

*The Evenings by Gerard Reve; translated by Sam Garrett  (1947/2016) *** 1/2 

*The Portable Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1947) *** 1/2 

1948 

*Down The Bright Stream by B.B. (1948) ** 1/2 

*Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote (1948) ** 1/2 

*Autumn Term by Antonia Forest (1948) **** 

*The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1948) 

*The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1948) **** 

*The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader (1948) ** 

*Space Cadet by Robert Heinlein (1948) ** 1/2 

*Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (1948) **** 

*I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith (1948) *** 1/2 

*The Portable Swift by Jonathan Swift (1948) *** 1/2 

*Here Is New York by E.B. White (1948) *** 1/2 

1949 

*The Tevye Stories And Other Stories by Sholem Aleichem (orig Englisah 1949/this trans  by Hillel Halkin 1987) *** 1/2

*Blue Door Venture by Pamela Brown (Blue Door #4) (1949) ***/  

*Clifford (comic strip) by Jules Feiffer (1949-1950) *** 1/2 

*Red Planet by Robert Heinlein (1949) ** 

*Pogo: Through The Wild Blue Yonder–The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 1 1949-1950 by Walt Kelly **** 

*Shane by Jack Schaefer (1949) *** 

1950 

*I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1950) *** 

*The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950) *** 

*The Portable Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1950) **** 

*Clifford (comic strip) by Jules Feiffer (1949-1950) *** 1/2 

*Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S Forester (1950) ** 1/2

*Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert (1950) *** 1/2 

*The Third Man by Graham Green (novella) (1950) 

*Farmer In The Sky by Robert Heinlein (1950) * 1/2 

*Pogo: Through The Wild Blue Yonder -- The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 1 1949-1950 by Walt Kelly **** 

*The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950) *** 

*Two Adolescents aka Agostino (1945) and Luca (La Disubbidienza aka The Disobedience) (1950) by Alberto Moravia (1945/1950)*** 1/2 

*Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (1950) *** 1/2

*The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*A Woman Of Means by Peter Taylor (1950) *** 1/2 

1951 

*Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951) *** 1/2

*The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (1951) ** 1/2 

*The Big Show by Pierre Closterman (1951) *** 1/2 

*The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert Van Gulik (1951/1956 in English) *** 

*From Here To Eternity by James Jones (1951) *** 1/2 

*Pogo: Bona Fide Balderdash -- The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol 2 1951-1952 by Walt Kelly **** 

*Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (1951) ** 1/2 

*The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951) *** 1/2 

1952 

*The Tiger In The Smoke  by Margery Allingham (1952) *** 1/2

*Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (1952) ***
*David Starr, Space Ranger by Isaac Asimov (1952) ** 1/2

*Maybelle The Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton (1952) ** 

*Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952) **** 

*Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S Forester (1952) *** 

*The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952) *** 

*"A Child's Christmas In Wales" (1952) **** 

*Pogo: Bona Fide Balderdash -- The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol 2 1951-1952 by Walt Kelly **** 

*The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (1952) ** 

*The Borrowers by Mary Norton (1952) *** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*Collected Poems 1934-1952 by Dylan Thomas (1952) *** 1/2 

*The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola (1952) *** 1/2 

*Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (1952) **** 

1953 

*Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1953) *** 1/2
*Lucky Starr and the Pirates Of the Asteroids by Isaac Asimov (1953) ** 1/2

*Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin (1953) *** 1/2 

*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953) 

*Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze (1953) ****

*Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke (1953) *** 

*Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953) *** 

*Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S Forester (1953) *** 1/2 

*Pogo: Evidence To The Contrary–The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol 3 1953-1954 by Walt Kelly **** 

*The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis (1953) * 1/2 

*Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (1953) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

1954 

*The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov (1954) ***
*Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus by Isaac Asimov (1954) ** 1/2

*Half Magic by (1954) Edward Eager *** 

*Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming (1954) *** 1/2 

*Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) ***

*Pogo: Evidence To The Contrary–The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol 3 1953-1954 by Walt Kelly **** 

*The Searchers By Alan Le May (1954) *** 1/2 

*The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis (1954) * 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) ****
*The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) **** 

*My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola (1954) *** 1/2 

1955 

*The October Country by Ray Bradbury (1955) ** 1/2 

*Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson (1955) **** 

*Moonraker by Ian Fleming (1955) ** 1/2 

*The Quiet American by Graham Greene (1955) 

*The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1955) *** 

*Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson (1955) *** 1/2 

*The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (1955) *** 1/2
*Pogo: Under The Bamboozle Bush–The Complete Syndicated Strips Volume 4 1955-1956 by Walt Kelly *** 

*The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis (1955) *  

*Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) **** 

*The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton (1955) ** 1/2 

*A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor (1955) **** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*A Child's Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas (1955) **** 

*The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955) **** 

1956 

*Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury by Isaac Asimov (1956) **

*Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) 

*Maddy Again by Pamela Brown (Blue Door #5) (1956) *** 

*My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (1956) **** 

*Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming (1956) *** 

*Harold's Fairy Tale (1956) by Crockett Johnson *** 

*Pogo: Under The Bamboozle –The Complete Syndicated Strips Volume 4 1955-1956 by Walt Kelly *** 

*The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis (1956) ** 

*The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian (1956) *** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

1957 

*A Death in the Family by James Agee (1957) ***** 

*Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter by Isaac Asimov (1957) **

*Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (1957) **** 

*4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie (1957) ** 1/2 

*From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming (1957) *** 

*Fly High Fly Low by Don Freeman (1957) ***  

*Citizen Of The Galaxy by Robert Heinlein (1957) ** 1/2 

*A Rage in Harlem aka For Love Of Imabelle by Chester Himes (1957) **** 

*Harold's Trip To The Sky (1957) by Crockett Johnson ** 1/2 

*Pogo: Out Of This World At Home–The Complete Syndicated Strips Volume 5 1957-1958 by Walt Kelly **** 

*On The Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) *** 1/2 

*Bedknobs and Broomsticks by Mary Norton (omnibus edition) (1957) *** 

*Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (1957) ** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2 

1958

*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ****
*Lucky Starr and the Rings Of Saturn by Isaac Asimov (1958) ** 

*A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond; illustrations by R.W. Alley (1958) *** 

*Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote (1958) *** 1/2

*Sick Sick Sick by Jules Feiffer (1958) *** 1/2 

*Dr. No by Ian Fleming (1958) **  

*Admiral Hornblower In The West Indies by C.S Forester (1958) *** 

*Warlock by Oakley Hall (1958) *** 1/2 

*Pogo: Out Of This World At Home–The Complete Syndicated Strips Volume 5 1957-1958 by Walt Kelly **** 

*The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1958) **** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2 

*Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson (1958) *** 

*The Once and Future King by T.H. White (1958) *** 1/2 

*Night by Elie Wiesel; translated by Stella Rodway (1958/1960)  **** 

1959

*More About Paddington by Michael Bond; illustrations by R.W. Alley (1959) ** 1/2  

*Munro (little boy drafted into army) by Jules Feiffer (1959) **** 

*Boom by Jules Fieffer (1959) *** 

*Goldfinger by Ian Fleming (1959) ** 1/2 

*My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (1959) ***   

*Act One by Moss Hart (1959) ****
*Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (1959) ** 1/2 

* A Separate Peace by John Knowles (1959) *** 

*The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton (1959) ** 1/2 

*The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian (1959) *** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 by Charles M. Schulz **** 

*Young Nicholas by Rene Goscinny; illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe (1959) *** 1/2 

*Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake (1959) *** 1/2 

*The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (1918/1959) **** 

1960 

*Paddington Helps Out by Michael Bond; illustrations by R.W. Alley (1960) ** 

*The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding novella by Agatha Christie (1960) ** 

*Shadows On The Grass by Isak Dinesen (1960) ** 

*To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) *** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 by Charles M. Schulz **** 

*The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden (1960) *** 

*Bump In The Night: A Flaxborough Mystery by Colin Watson (1960) *** 

*Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (1960) *** 1/2 

 

1961 

*James And The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (1961) ** 1/2 

*Thunderball by Ian Fleming (1961) ** 1/2 
*Young Nicholas by Rene Goscinny; illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe (1961 English trans) *** 1/2 

*Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (1961) *** 

*The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway (1961) **** 

*The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster; illustrations by Jules Feiffer (1961) *** 

*Hombre by Elmore Leonard (1961) *** 1/2 

*A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis (1961) *** 

*The Borrowers Aloft by Mary Norton (1961) ** 

*Huge Harold by Bill Peet (1961) *** 

*Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (1961) ** 

*Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (1961) **** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962 by Charles M. Schulz **** 

*Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961) **** 

1962 

*The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken (1962) *** 

*Another Country by James Baldwin (1962) 

*Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962) 

*The Ipcress File by Len Deighton (1962) *** 

*The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming (1962) ** 

*Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S Forester (1962) *** 1/2 

*Nicholas Again by Rene Goscinny; illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe (1962? English trans) *** 

*Cover Her Face by P.D. James (first Inspector Dalgliesh) (1962) *** 

*The Thin Red Line by James Jones (1962) **** 

*One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) ** 1/2 

*A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962) ** 1/2 

*Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962 by Charles M. Schulz **** 

*The Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak (1962) *** 

*The Guns Of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1962) *** 1/2 

1963 

*The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963) **** 

*Selected Writings Of Truman Capote (1963) *** 1/2

*The Spy Who Came In From  The Cold by John Le Carré (1963) *** 1/2 

*On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming (1963) *** 

*Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Che Guevara (1963) * 1/2 

*The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima (1963) *** 1/2 

*The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen (1963) *** 1/2 

*Raise High The Roof Beams, Carpeneters and Seymour, An Introduction by J.D. Salinger (1963) *** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2 

*Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963) **** 

*The Graduate by Charles Webb (1963) *** 1/2 

1964 

*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964) ** 1/2 

*Funeral In Berlin by Len Deighton (1964) *** 

*Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (1964) *** 1/2 

*You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming (1964) ** 

*Jack Holborn by Leon Garfield (1964) *** 

*A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) *** 

*Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey (1964) ** 

*The Deep Blue Goodbye by John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee #1) (1964) *** 1/2
*Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee #2) (1964) ** 1/2 
*A Purple Place For Dying by John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee #3) (1964) ** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2 

*The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (1964) * 

1965 

*In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965) **** 

*The Great Comic Book Heroes by Jules Feiffer (1965) *** 

*The Man With The Golden Gun by Ian Fleming (1965) ** 

*The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley (1965) **** 

*Dune by Frank Herbert (1965) **** 

*Midnight Plus One by Gavin Lyall (1965) *** 

*Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (1965) **** 

*Kermit The Hermit by Bill Peet (1965) *** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966 by Charles M. Schulz **** 

*Nicholas Again by Rene Goscinny; illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe (1965) *** 

*Stoner by John Williams (1965) **** 

1966 

*Swamp Sister by Robert Edmond Alter (1966) *** 1/2 

*Miracle At Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen (1966) *** ½ 

*Devil-in-the-Fog by Leon Garfield (1966) *** 

*Boris by Jaap ter Haar; translated by Martha Mearns (1966) *** 1/2 

*The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein (1966) ** 1/2 

*The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales by William Maxwell (1966) ***

*Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (1966) *** 

*The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966) ***/ 

*The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966 by Charles M. Schulz **** 

*The Tolkien Reader by J.R.R. Tolkien (1966) *** 

1967 

*Endless Night by Agatha Christie (1967) ** 1/2  

*Hornblower During The Crisis by C.S Forester (1967) *** 1/2 

*Smith by Leon Garfield (1967) *** 

*The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1967) *** 

*From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1967) *** 

*The Light Princess by George MacDonald w illus by Maurice Sendak (1969) ** 1/2\ 

*One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) ****  

*Valerian and Laureline: The Empire Of A Thousand Planets by JC Mezieres and P. Christin (1967-2010 for series) ** 

*Curious George Goes To The Hospital by Margaret and H.A. Rey (1967) ** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2 

*Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life by Maurice Sendak (1967) *** 

1968 

*The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (1968) ** 

*2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (1968) *** 

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968) *** 

*Black Jack by Leon Garfield (1968) *** 1/2 

*Setting Free The Bears by John Irving (1968) *** 

*A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (1968) *** 1/2 

*Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (1968) *** 1/2 

*The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (read by Edward Herrmann) (1968) ****  

*True Grit by Charles Portis (1968) **** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2 

1969 

*I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969) *** 1/2 

*The Search For Delicious by Natalie Babbitt (1969) *** 

*The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost (1969) *** 1/2 

*Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (1969) *** 

*The Light Princess by George MacDonald w illus by Maurice Sendak (1969) ** 1/2\ 

*Them by Joyce Carol Oates (1969) *** 

*Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (1969) **** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 by Charles M. Schulz *** ½ 

*The Collected Stories Of Peter Taylor (1969) *** 1/2 

**The Singapore Wink by Ross Thomas (1969) ** 

*Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969) ***  

*Love, Roger by Charles Webb (1969) ** 

1970 

*Knee-Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (1970) ** 1/2 

*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1970) **** 

*Ball Four by Jim Bouton (1970) *** 1/2 

*Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (1970) *** 

*Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (1970) ** 

*The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman (1970) *** 1/2 

*Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz (1970) *** 

*Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard (1970) **** 

*Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey (1971) *** 

*The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970) *** 

*The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 by Charles M. Schulz *** ½ 

*In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (1970) ** 1/2 

*Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1970-present) **** 

*The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White (1970) *** 

1971 

*Maurice by E.M. Forster (1914/1971) *** 

*The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir and Tania & James Stern (1971) *** 1/2 

*The Steam Pig by James H. McClure (1971) *** 1/2 

*In A Free State by V.S. Naipul (1971) *** 1/2 

*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats Of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1971) *** 

*The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (1971) **** 

*Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson (1971) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*Tow-Truck Pluck by Annie M.G. Schmidt (1971) *** 

*Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1970-present) **** 

1972 

*Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972) **** 

*Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (1972) 

*Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972) *** 1/2 

*Charlie and the Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl (1972) * 1/2 

*Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (1972) ***  

*The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway (1972) *** 

*All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (1972) *** 1/2 

*The Water Method Man by John Irving (1972) ** 1/2 

*Deryni Checkmate  by Katherine Kurtz (1972) *** 

*Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Steven Millhauser (1972) *** 1/2 

*Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian (1972) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1970-present) **** 

1973 

*Last Summer In The City by Gianfranco Calligarich (1973) ** 

*Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973) *** 

*The Siege Of Krishnapur by JG Farrell (1973) *** 1/2 

*The Princess Bride by William Goldman (1973) *** 1/2 

*High Deryni  by Katherine Kurtz (1973) ** 1/2 

*HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian (1973) *** 1/2 

*The Portable Dorothy Parker Deluxe Edition by Dorothy Parker (1973) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (1973) *** 

*Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1970-present) **** 

1974 

*Tales of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov (1974) *** 

*The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt (1974) *** 1/2 

*If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974) ***/  

*Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré (1974) **** 

*The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1974) ** 

*M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton (1974) *** 1/2 

*All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot (1974) ***  

*Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins (1974) *** 

*The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving (1974) ** 1/2 

*The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer (1974) *** 1/2 

*Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray (1974) **** 

*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig (1974) * 

*The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 by Charles M. Schulz *** 

*Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974) **** 

*Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1970-present) **** 

1975 

*Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (1975) **** 

*Forever... by Judy Blume (1975) **** 

*Curtain by Agatha Christie (1975) *** 

*Ragtime by EL Doctorow (1975) **** 

*A Dove Of The East and Other Stories by Mark Helprin (1975) *** 1/2

*Cart And Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones (1975) ** 1/2 

*The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout (1975) *** 

*The Doonesbury Chronicles by Garry Trudeau (1975) **** 

1976 

*Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer (1976) ***

*More Tales of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov (1976) ** 1/2

*Little Man, Little Man by James Baldwin and illos by Yoran Cazac (1976) *** 1/2 

*Saving The Queen by William F. Buckley Jr. (1976) ***
*The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault (1976/1984/2018) *** 

*Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (1976) ** 

*Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey (1976) *** 

*Abel's Island by William Steig (1976) *** 1/2

*The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien (1976) *** 

1977 

*Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz  (1977) *** 1/2 

*The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré (1977) *** 1/2 

*In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (1977) **** 

*All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot  (1977) ** 1/2 

*The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot  (1977) ** 

*A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne (1977) *** 1/2 

*Unknown Man #89 by Elmore Leonard (1977) *** 1/2 

*Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin (1977) ** 1/2 

*Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey (1977) *** 

*Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) *** 1/2 

*The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian (1977) *** 1/2 

*Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1977) *** 1/2 

*In The Miro District and Other Stories by Peter Taylor (1977) *** 

*The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien; edited by Christopher Tolkien with Guy Gavriel Kay (1977) *** 

1978 

*Go Saddle The Sea by Joan Aiken (1978) ** 1/2

*Hickory by Palmer Brown (1978) ***  

*Stained Glass by William F. Buckley Jr. (1978) ** 1/2 

*Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (1978) *** 1/2 

*Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran (1978) *** 1/2

*The World According To Garp by John Irving (1978) *** 1/2 

*The Street Where I Live by Alan Jay Lerner (1978) *** 1/2 

*Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (1978) ****  

*The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey (1978) *** 

*Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian (1978) *** 1/2 

*Eli by Bill Peet (1978) (grumpy old lion) *** 

*Doonesbury's Greatest Hits by Garry Trudeau(1978) **** 

1979 

*The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979) ****

*Smiley's People by John Le Carré (1979) **** 

*Tulku by Peter Dickinson (1979) *** 1/2 

*Sorceror's Son by Phyllis Eisenstein (1979) *** 

*Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe (1979) ***  

*The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (1979) *** 1/2 

*The Far Side (the comic strip in general) by Gary Larson (1979-1995) *** 1/2 

*Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey (1979) *** 

*The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (1979) **** 

*The Fortune Of War by Patrick O'Brian (1979) *** 1/2 

*Endless Love by Scott Spencer (1979) **** 

*Jitney! by August Wilson (1979) *** 1/2 

*The Duke Of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff (1979) *** 

1980 

*The Restaurant at the End of The Universe by Douglas Adams (1980) ** 1/2

*Casebook of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov (1980) ** 1/2

*Superfudge by Judy Blume (1980) 

*Who's On First by William F. Buckley Jr. (1980) ** 1/2
*Music For Chameleons by Truman Capote (1980) ***

*The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate (1980) *** 

*The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980) *** 

*Firestarter by Stephen King (1980) ** 

*The Far Side (the comic strip in general) by Gary Larson (1979-1995) *** 1/2 

*The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum (1980) ** 

*More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (1980) *** 

*So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1980) **** 

*The Covenant by James Michener (1980) *** 1/2 

*The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian (1980) *** 1/2 

*Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980) *** 1/2 

*Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien; edited by Christopher Tolkien (1980) ** 1/2 

*States of Desire by Edmund White (1980) *** 

*A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1980) *** 1/2 

1981 

*Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (1981) *** 

*Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (1981) *** 1/2 

*What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (1981) **** 

*Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell (1981) *** 1/2 

*July's People by Nadine Gordimer (1981) *** 

*Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (1981) *** 

*Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin (1981) **** 

*God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (1981) * 1/2  

*The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (1981) ***  

*Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (1981) *** 

*Young Once by Patrick Modiano (1981) *** 

*The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian (1981) *** 1/2 

*Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) **** 

*A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein (1981) ****  

*Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith (1981) *** 

*Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (1981) *** 1/2 

*The People's Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1981) **** 

*In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs by Tobiass Wolff (1981) *** 

1982 

*Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (1982) ** 1/2

*Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (1982) ** 1/2

*The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1982) **** 

*Atlantic High by William F. Buckley Jr. (1982) *** 
*Marco Polo If You Can by William F. Buckley Jr. (1982) *** 

*The Years Of Lyndon Johnson: The Path To Power by Robert A. Caro (1982) **** 
 *The BFG by Roald Dahl (1982) ** 1/2

*At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald (1982) *** 1/2 

*Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls (1982) *** 1/2 

*The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982/2003 expanded edition) by Stephen King **
*Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982) *** 1/2 

*Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (1982) *** 

*War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (1982) ** ½ 

*Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman (1982) ** 1/2 

*The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982) *** 

*A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White (1982) **** 

*Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson (1982) *** 

1983 

*Bridle The Wind by Joan Aiken (1983) ** 

*The Wreck Of The Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg (1983) ***

*Growing Up by Russell Baker (1983) **** 

*The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin (1983) *** 

*Fup by Jim Dodge (1983) *** 1/2 

*A Gathering Of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines (1983) ***

*A Matter For Men: War of The Chtorrs by David Gerrold (1983) ** 

*The Assassination Of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen (1983) *** 1/2 

*Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (1983) **** 

*Nights In Aruba by Andrew Holleran (1983) *** 

*I Served The King Of England by Bohumil Hrabal (1983/1989 in English) *** ½ 

*The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Visions Of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester (1983) **** 

*Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian (1983) *** 1/2 

*The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett (1983) *** 

1984 

*So Long, And Thanks for All The Fish by Douglas Adams (1984) ***

*The Mysteries Of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg (1984) ****

*The Story Of Henri Tod by William F. Buckley Jr. *(1984) ** 

*Mr. Majeika by Humphrey Carpenter (1984) * 1/2 

*The Final Reflection: A Star Trek Novel by John M. Ford (1984) *** 

*The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault (1976/1984/2018) *** 

*Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (1984) ** 

*Mygale by Thierry Jonquet (1984/2005 trans) ** 

*The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984) **** 

*The Far Side Of The World by Patrick O'Brian (1984) *** 1/2 

*Edisto by Padgett Powell (1984) **** 

*Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years by Garry Trudeau (1984) **** 

*Miami Blues by Charles Willeford (1984) **** 

*The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff (1984) *** 1/2 

1985 

*The Unwomanly Face Of War by Svetlana Alexievich (1985) **** 
*Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich (kids during WW II oral history) (1985) *** 

*The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (1985) ****

*The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)

*Right Reason by William F. Buckley Jr. (1985) ***
*See You Later, Alligator by William F. Buckley Jr. (1985) ** 1/2 

*Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985) *** 1/2 

*The Shortest Way To Hades by Sarah Caudwell (1985) *** 

*Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis (1985) *** 1/2 

*Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert (1985) ** 

*The Cider House Rules by John Irving (1985) *** 1/2 

*The Far Side (the comic strip in general) by Gary Larson (1979-1995) *** 1/2 

*Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1985) **** 

*In The Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser (1985) *** 1/2 

*The Ruby In The Smoke by Philip Pullman (1985) *** 1/2 

*The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks (1985) *** 1/2 

*The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor (1985) **** 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*New Hope For The Dead by Charles Willeford (1985) *** 

*Fences by August Wilson (1985) *** 1/2 

*Back In The World by Tobias Wolff (1985) *** 

1986 

*Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov (1986) **

*High Jinx by William F. Buckley Jr. (1986) ** 

*Speaker For The Dead by Orscon Scott Card (1986) **  

*Deadwood by Pete Dexter (1986) *** ½ 

*The World Of The Short Story edited by Clifton Fadiman (1986) **** 

*Seven Rivers West by Edward Hoagland (1986) *** 

*The Falcon's Malteser by Anthony Horowitz (1986) **  

*The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes (1986) **** 

*The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum (1986) *(stopped, couldn’t keep reading) 

*Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (1986) *** 

*The Reverse Of The Medal by Patrick O'Brian (1986) *** 1/2 

*The Shadow In The North by Philip Pullman (1986) *** 1/2 

*Enter Talking by Joan Rivers with Richard Meryman (1986) *** 1/2 

*Social Disease by Paul Rudnick (1986) *** 

*Kara Kush by Idries Shah (1986) *** 1/2 

*Waking The Dead by Scott Spencer (1986) *** 

*A Summons To Memphis by Peter Taylor (1986) *** 1/2 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson (1986) **** 

1987 

*Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (1987) ** 

*The Tevye Stories And Other Stories by Sholem Aleichem (orig Englisah 1949/this trans  by Hillel Halkin 1987) *** 1/2

*The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg (1987) ** 1/2

*The Devil's Other Storybook by Natalie Babbitt (1987) ** 1/2 

*Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme (1987) **** 

*Racing Through Paradise by William F. Buckley Jr. (1987) *** 

*A Capote Reader by Truman Capote (1987) *** 1/2 

*The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter (1987) *** 

*The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (1987) ****
*Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb (1987) *** 1/2

*The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais (1987) *** 

*The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (1987) ** 1/2 

*How Much For Just The Planet? by John M. Ford (1987) *** 

*The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm; edited by Jack Zipes (1812/1864/1987) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway (1987) *** 1/2 

*Public Enemy Number Two by Anthony Horowitz (1987) ** 

*The Dark Tower II: The Drawing Of The Three by Stephen King (1987) *** 

*Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (1987) *** 

*Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (1987) ****  

*Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen In The 1980s by Dave Marsh (1987) ** 

*Watchmen by Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, colorist John Higgins (1987) *** 1/2 

*Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987) *** 1/2 

*Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1987) *** 1/2 

*A Woman Named Drown by Padgett Powell (1987) ** 1/2 

*Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (1987) *** 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*Nebraska by George Whitmore (1987) *** 

*Sideswipe by Charles Willeford (1987) *** 1/2 

*The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (1987) *** 1/2 

*Ride With The Devil aka Woe To Live On by Daniel Woodrell (1987) *** 1/2 

1988 

*The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul by Douglas Adams (1988) **

*The Teeth Of The Gale by Joan Aiken (1988) ***

*Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg (1988) ** 1/2

*Talking Heads by Alan Bennett (1988; TV and stage) **** 

*Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988) *** 1/2 

*Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver (1988) *** 1/2 

*The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon (1988) *** 

*Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988) ** 

*The Collected Works Vol. 1: Clifford by Jules Feiffer (1988) *** 1/2

*A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley #1) by Elizabeth George (1988) *** 

*The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (1988) *** ½ 

*Ground Zero: Essays by Andrew Holleran (1988) ** 1/2 

*Immortality by Milan Kundera (1988) *** 

*All About Sam by Lois Lowry (1988) ** 1/2 

*The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester (1988) **** 

*Tao Te Ching by Laozi; translated by Stephen Mitchell (≈300 BCE; 1988) *** 

*Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano (1988) *** 

*The Letter Of Marque by Patrick O'Brian (1988) *** 1/2 

*A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1988) **** 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White (1988) *** 

*The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford (1988) *** 1/2 

1989 

*Swan Lake by Chris Van Allsburg (illo) and Mark Helprin (1989) ****

*The Man Who Was Poe by Avi (1989) ** 1/2

*Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by David Beresford (1989) *** 

*The Sirens Sang Of Murder by Sarah Caudwell (1989) *** 

*The Collected Works Vol. 2: Clifford by Jules Feiffer (1989?) *** 

*The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (1989) **** 

*A Rage For Revenge: War of The Chtorrs by David Gerrold (1989) *1/2  

*Swan Lake by Mark Helprin with Chris Val Allsburg (illo) (1989) **** 

*A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving (1989) *** 

*The Remains Of The Day by Kazu0 Ishiguro (1989) *** 

*Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis (1989) *** 

*Here by Richard McGuire (1989/2014) **** 

*The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian (1989) *** 1/2 

*Spring-Heeled Jack by Philip Pullman (1989) ** 

*The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke; translated by Stephen Mitchell (1926/1989) *** 1/2 

*I'll Take It by Paul Rudnick (1989) ** 1/2 

*Bicycle Days by John Burnham Schwartz (1989) *** 1/2 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff (1989) **** 

 

1990 

*Dickens by Peter Ackroyd (1990) *** 1/2 
*Just A Dream by Chris Van Allsburg (1990) ** 1/2 

*A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (1990) *** 

*The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (1990) ****

*The Reluctant King: George VI by Sarah Bradford (1990) *** 

*The Years Of Lyndon Johnson: Means Of Ascent by Robert A. Caro (1990) **** 

*AK by Peter Dickinson (1990) *** 

*Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990) ** 

*The French Admiral (Alan Lewrie series) by Dewey Lambdin (1990) *** 

*The Far Side (the comic strip in general) by Gary Larson (1979-1995) *** 1/2 

*The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser (1990) *** 1/2 

*Devil In A Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (1990) **** 

*The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1990) **** 

*Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (1990) *** 

*The Tiger In The Well by Philip Pullman (1990) *** 
*The Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman (1990) ** 1/2 

*Haroun and the Sea Of Stories by Salman Rushdie (1990) * 1/2 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*Recycled Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1990) *** 1/2 

*Two Trains Running by August Wilson (1990) *** 1/2 

1991 

*The Madness Of George III by Alan Bennett (1991; stage and film) *** 1/2 

*Xenocide by Orscon Scott Card (1991) * 1/2 

*American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991) *** 

*The Collected Works Vol. 3: Clifford by Jules Feiffer (1991) *** 

*Night Over Water by Ken Follett (1991) ** 1/2  

*Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1991) ** 1/2

*A Soldier Of The Great War by Mark Helprin (1991) *** 1/2 

*Castles Of Steel by Robert Massie (1991) **** 

*A Red Death by Walter Mosley (1991) *** 1/2 

*The Spyglass Tree by Albert Murray (1991) *** 

*The Nutmeg Of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian (1991) *** 1/2 

*The Scramble For Africa by Thomas Pakenham (1991) *** 1/2 

*The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; translated by Richard Zenith  (1935/1991 in English) *** 1/2 

*Typical by Padgett Powell (1991) *** 

*Roman Blood by Steven Saylor (1991) *** 1/2 

*The Vampire Diaries: Awakening by L.J. Smith (1991) * 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters Of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf (1991) *** 1/2 

1992 

*Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (1992) ** 1/2 

*The Widow's Broom by Chris Van Allsburg (1992) ***

*Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn (1992) ***
*Bad News by Edward St. Aubyn (1992) *** 

*Green Shadows, White Whale by Ray Bradbury (1992) 

*A Bone From A Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson (1992) *** 

*Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (1990) *** 

*Jumper by Steven Gould (1992) *** 

*Fatherland by Robert Harris (1992) *** 

*The King's Privateer by Dewey Lambdin, an Alan Lewrie adventure (1992) *** 

*Death At La Fenice by Donna Leon (1992) ** 1/2 

*The Portable Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln (1992) *** 1/2 

*Attaboy, Sam by Lois Lowry (1992) ** 1/2 

*All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) *** 

*Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley (1992) *** 

*Truman by David McCullough (1992) *** 1/2 

*The Book of Job translated by Stephen Mitchell (1992) **** 

*White Butterfly by Walter Mosley (1992) *** 1/2 

*Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (1992) *** 

*Clarissa Oakes aka The Truelove by Patrick O'Brian (1992) *** 1/2 

*The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992) *** 1/2 

*In Search of Lost Time aka Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (1927/1992) **** 

*The White Mercedes aka The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman (1992) *** 

*Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1992) **** 

*Arms Of Nemesis by Steven Saylor (1992) *** 

*Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992) ***; but in terms of influence ****  

*The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) *** 1/2 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

1993 

*Mrs. Jeffries Dusts For Clues by Emily Brightwell (1993) ** 1/2 
*Mrs. Jeffries and the Ghost by Emily Brightwell (1993) ** 1/2 

*Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993) ** 1/2 

*The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993) *** 

*Death In A Strange Country by Donna Leon (1993) *** 

*The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993) ** 1/2 

*Tomorrow, When The World Began by J0hn Marsden (1993) * 1/2 

*Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser (1993) *** 

*The Gospel According To Jesus by Stephen Michell (1993) *** 1/2  

*The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian (1993) *** 1/2 

*Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (1993) *** 

*Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1993) *** 1/2 

*We Are All In The Dumps With Jack And Guy by Maurice Sendak (1993) ** 

*The Oracle At Stoneleigh Court by Peter Taylor (1993) *** 1/2 

*The Portable Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1993) *** 1/2 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

1994 

*Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn (1994) *** 1/2 

*Writing Home by Alan Bennett (1994; memoir) **** 

 *The Alienist by Caleb Carr (1994) *** 

*Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (1994) 

*God's Country by Percival Everett (1994) *** 

*Cousins: A Memoir by Athol Fugard (1994) ** 

*Julie by Jean Craighead George (1994) ** 1/2 

*Bolivian Diary by Che Guevara (1994) * 1/2 

*The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz (1994) *** 1/2 

*A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane (1994) *** 

*The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (1994) ** 1/2 

*A Book of Psalms, Selected and Adapted From The Hebrew by Stephen Mitchell (≈500 BCE; 1994) *** 1/2  

*Black Betty by Walter Mosley (1994) *** 1/2 

*Girl by Blake Nelson (1994) ** 

*The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian (1994) *** 1/2 

*The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman (1994) ** 1/2
*Thunderbolt's Waxwork by Philip Pullman (1994) ** 

*The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman (1994) ** 1/2 

*Barrel Fever by David Sedaris (1994) *** 

*In The Tennessee Country by Peter Taylor (1994) *** 

*The Sign Of The Cross: Travels In Catholic Europe by Colm Tóibín (1994) ** 1/2 

*Felicia's Journey by William Trevor (1994) *** 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*In Pharoah's Army by Tobias Wolff (1994) *** 

*Flashbacks: 25 Years of Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (1995) **** 

1995 

*Bad Day At Riverbend by Chris Van Allsburg (1995) **

*The Big Bazoohley by Peter Carey (1995) ** 

*Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (1995) *** 1/2 

*The Watsons Go To Birmingham–1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (1995) ** 

*Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska (1995) ** 1/2 

*Enigma by Robert Harris (1995) *** 

*Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin (1995) *** 

*Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (1995) *** 

*Slowness by Milan Kundera (1995) ** 1/2 

*The Far Side (the comic strip in general) by Gary Larson (1979-1995) *** 1/2 

*A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1995) **** 

*Sabriel by Garth Nix (1995) ** 

*Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (1995) *** 1/2 

*The Gasfitter's Ball by Philip Pullman (1995) ** 
*The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman (1995) ** 

*His Dark Materials: Northern Lights aka The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1995) **** 

*Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke; translated by Stephen Mitchell (1926/1995) *** 1/2 

*Blindness by Jose Saramago (1995) *** 1/2 

*The Rings Of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (1995) **** 

*Men in Black by Scott Spencer (1995) *** 1/2 

*Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson (1985-1995) **** 

*Seven Guitars by August Wilson (1995) **** 

1996 

*Milton In America by Peter Ackroyd (1996) *** 1/2 

*Tales From Watership Down by Richard Adams (1996) *** 

*A City In Winter by Chris Van Allsburg and Mark Helprin (1996) *** 1/2

*Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996) 

*Beyond The Western Sea Book 1 by Avi (1996) ***
*Beyond The Western Sea Book 2 by Avi (1996) *** 1/2 

*Drown by Junot Diaz (1996) *** 1/2 

*Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (1996) *** 

*The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke (1996) ** ½ 

*A City In Winter by Mark Helprin with Chris Van Allsburg (illo) (1996) *** 1/2  

*The Beauty Of Men by Andrew Holleran (1996) ** 1/2 

*Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane (1996) *** 

*A Game Of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (1996) **** 

*The Man Of The House by Stephen McCauley (1996) *** 1/2 

*Martin Dressler: The Tale Of An American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (1996)  **** 

*A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley (1996) *** 1/2 

*The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian (1996) *** 1/2 

*Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996) *** 

*The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman (1996) *** 

*Edisto Revisited by Padgett Powell (1996) **** 

*Clockwork, or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman (1996) ** 1/2 

*Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1996) ***1/2 

*Push by Sapphire (1996) ** 1/2 

*Battling Against Castro by Jim Shepard (1996) *** 

*Falling Up by Shel Silverstein (1996) *** 1/2 

*The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (1996) *** 

*Patient: The True Story Of A Rare Illness by Ben Watt (1996) *** 

1997 

*Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Hero by Jon Lee Anderson (1997) **** 

*The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (1997) *** ½ 

*Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (1997) *** 1/2 

*The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver (1997) *** 

*Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997) **** 

*Julie's Wolf Pack by Jean Craighead George (1997) *** 

*The Veil of Snows by Mark Helprin with Chris Van Allsburg (illo) (1997) 

*Tales From Ovid by Ted Hughes (8 CE/1997) ****

*Sacred by Dennis Lehane (1997) *** 

*Farm Boy by Michael Morpurgo (1997) * 1/2 

*Starting Out In The Evening by Brian Morton (1997) *** 

*Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley (1997) *** 

*His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (1997) *** 1/2 

*American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997) **** 

*Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling (1997) **** 

*Naked by David Sedaris (1997) *** 
*Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (1997) *** 

*The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White (1997) *** 

*The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff (1997) ** 1/2 

1998 

*Skellig by David Almond (1998) ***

*Talking Heads 2 by Alan Bennett (1998; TV and stage) *** 1/2 

*The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (1998) ****  

*The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (1998) ** 

*The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1998) *** 1/2 

*We Wish To Inform You... by Philip Gourevitch (1998) **** 

*Rocket Boys (aka October Sky) by Homer Hickam (1998) **** 

*The Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998) *** 1/2 

*A Widow For One Year by John Irving (1998) ** 1/2 

*Identity by Milan Kundera (1998) ** 1/2 

*Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane (1998) *** 

*A Pound Of Flesh by Art Linson (1998) ** 

*A Clash Of Kings by George R.R. Martin (1998) *** 1/2 

*No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (1998) *** 

*The Folding Cliffs by W.S. Merwin (1998) **** 

*The Knife Thrower by Steven Millhauser (1998) *** 

*Keats by Andrew Motion (1998) *** 

*A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (1998) *** 1/2 

*The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian (1998) *** 1/2 

*A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck (1998) *** 1/2 

*Cruel As The Grave by Sharon Kay Penman (1998) *** 

*Aliens Of Affection by Padgett Powell (1998) *** 

*I Married A Communist by Philip Roth (1998) *** 1/2 

*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (1998) *** 1/2 

*Holes by Louis Sachar (1998) *** 

*Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz (1998) *** 

*Nosferatu by Jim Shepard (1998) *** 1/2 

*Amsterdam by Russell Shorto (1998) *** 1/2 

*The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (1998) *** 

*On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times Of Billy Wilder by Ed Sikov (1998) **** 

*Stupid, Stupid Rat Tales by Jeff Smith et al (1998) ** 

1999 

*Midnight Magic by Avi (1999) ** 1/2 

*The Lady In The Van by Alan Bennett (1999; stage) *** 

*Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (1999) *** 

*Bark, George by Jules Feiffer (1999) *** 1/2 

*Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman (1999) *** 

*In September, The Light Changes by Andrew Holleran (1999) ** 1/2 

*Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999) 

*Slapboxing With Jesus by Victor LaValle (1999) *** 1/2 

*Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane (1999) *** 1/2 

*Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales as told by Julius Lester; illustrated by Jerry Linkney (1999) *** 1/2 

*The New New Thing by Michael Lewis (1999) ** 

*Enchanted Night by Steven Millhauser (1999) *** 1/2 

*Blue At The Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian (1999) *** 1/2 

*I Was A Rat! or, The Scarlet Slippers by Philip Pullman (1999) ** 

*The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson (1999) *** 

*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (1999) *** 

*Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve (1999) ** 1/2 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (1999) **** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket (1999) *** 

*Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1999) *** 1/2 

*The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (1999) *** 

*The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America by T.H. Watkins (1999) *** 1/2 

*The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead (1999) *** 1/2 

*King Hedley II by August Wilson (1999) *** 1/2 

2000 

*Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong (2000) ** 1/2 

*The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000) **** 

*The Feast Of Love by Charles Baxter (2000) *** 1/2 

*The Laying On Of Hands by Alan Bennett (2000; stories) ** 1/2 

*By Night In Chile by Roberto Bolaño (2000) *** 

*Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (2000) ** 1/2   

*Storm Front (Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher (2000) **
*True History Of The Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2000) **** 

*The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000) **** 

*Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2000) *** 1/2 

*David Boring by Daniel Clowes (2000) 

*Because Of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (2000) *** 

*A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000) *** 1/2 

*Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin (2000) ** 1/2 

*Stephen King–On Writing by Stephen King (2000) *** 

*The Fisher King by Paule Marshall (2000) *** 1/2 

*A Storm Of Swords by George R.R. Martin (2000) *** 1/2 

*Shopgirl by Steve Martin (2000) ** 1/2 

*Tears Of The Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith (2000) ** 

*Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates (2000) *** 1/2 

*A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (2000) *** 1/2 

*Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men aka Hologram by Padgett Powell (2000/2014)*** 

*His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (2000) *** 1/2 

*The Human Stain by Philip Roth (2000) ** 1/2 

*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (2000) *** 

*Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000) *** 1/2  

*The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva (2000) *** 1/2 

*The Queen Of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (2000) *** 1/2 

*The Married Man by Edmund White (2000) ** 

*The Last Samurai by  Helen De Witt (2000) **** 

*Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (2000) *** 

*Death Of A Red Heroine (Inspector Chen mystery) by Qiu Xialong (2000) *** 

2001 

*Don't You Know There's A War On? by Avi (2001) ** 1/2

*The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett (2001 novella) ** 1/2 

*From The Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury (2001) ** 1/2 

*Close To Shore by Michael Capuzzo (2002) *** 

*An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter (2001) *** 

*Pafko At The Wall by Don DeLillo (2001) *** 1/2 

*The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo (2001) *** 

*The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (2001) *** 1/2 

*Jackdaws by Ken Follett (2001) **  

*Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox (2001) *** 1/2 

*Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (2001) **** 

*Cosmos Coyote and William The Nice by Jim Heynen (2000) * 

*The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam (2000) *** 1/2 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket (2000) *** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket (2000) *** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket (2000) *** 

*Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (2001) ** 1/2 

*The Boys' House: New and Selected Stories by Jim Heynen (2001) *** 1/2 

*The Keeper's Son by Homer Hickam (2001) *** 

*Seabiscuit by Lauren Hillenbrand (2001) **** 

*Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (2000) ** 1/2 
*Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz (2001) ** 1/2  

*The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd (2001) ** 1/2 

*Up In The Air by Walter Kirn (2001) ** 1/2 

*Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (2001) *** 1/2 

*Morality For Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith (2001) ** 1/2 

*John Adams by David McCullough (2001) *** 1/2 

*Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001) *** 1/2 

*Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (2001) *** ½ 

*Fair Weather by Richard Peck (2001) *** 

*Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2001) ****  

*Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides (2001) *** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket (2001) *** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket (2001) *** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket (2001) *** 

*John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead (2001) *** 

2002 

*City Of The Beasts by Isabel Allende (2002) ** 

*Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg (2002) **

*Feed by M.T. Anderson (2002) ***/
*Crispin: The Cross Of Lead by Avi (2002) ** 

*E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: From Concept To Classic by Laurent Bouzereau (2002) *** 

*Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (2002) ** 

*The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master Of The Senate by Robert A. Caro (2002) **** 

*The Lady With The Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov; translated by Ronald Wilks (2002) *** 1/2 

*Achilles by Elizabeth Cook (2002) ***

*I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan (2002) * 1/2 

*The Spider and the Fly illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi; poem by Mary Howitt (2002) *** 

*Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002) *** 1/2 

*The House Of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2002) *** 1/2 

 *Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002) **** 

*Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris (2002) *** 

*Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke (2002) 

*Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (2002) *** 

*Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz (2002) ** 

*The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle (2002) **** 

*What Just Happened? by Art Linson (2002) *** 

*The Kalahari Typing School For Men by Alexander McCall Smith (2002) *** 

*Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa; translated by Stephen Mitchell (2002) ***  

*Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley (2002) **** 

*When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2002) *** 1/2 

*The Revenant by Michael Punke (2002) *** 1/2 

*The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2002) *** 1/2 

*Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (2002) *** 

*The English Assassin by Daniel Silva (2002) *** 

*Kisscut by Karin Slaughter (2002) ***/ 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket (2002) *** 

*Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín (2002) ** 

*New Cardiff by Charles Webb (2002) *** 

*How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson (2002) *** 

*Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar (2002) ** 

2003 

*Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003) *** 1/2 

*Saul and Patty by Charles Baxter (2003) *** 

*The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003) ** 

*Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (1605 Part 1/1615 Part 2; trans by Edith Grossman 2003) *** 1/2 

*Rodzina by Karen Cushman (2003) *** 

*The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (2003) *** 1/2 

*The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2003) **** 

*The Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003) *** 

*Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (2003) *** 

*The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003) * ½ 

*The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2003) **** 

*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003) *** 

*Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Capture by Kathryn Lasky (2003) *1/2 
*Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Journey by Kathryn Lasky (2003) ** 

*The Full Cupboard Of Life  by Alexander McCall Smith (2003) ** 

*I Love You, Philip Morris by Steve McVicker (2003) ** (but story ***) 

*The King In The Tree by Steven Millhauser (2003) *** 

*Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (2003) *** 

*Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley (2003) *** 

*A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl (2003) *** 

*Dragon's Lair by Sharon Kay Penman (2003) *** 

*Out Stealing Horses by Pers Petersen (2003) *** 1/2 

*Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (2003) ** 

*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling (2003) ** 1/2 

*Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2003) *** 

*The Confessor by Daniel Silva (2003) *** 

*A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter (2003) ***/ 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket (2003) *** 

The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman; edited by Mark Van Doren (1945/2003) **** 

*Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson (2003) *** 1/2 

*Old School by Tobias Wolff (2003) *** 

2004

*Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas (2004) ** 1/2

*Kingdom Of The Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende (2004) ** 

*Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (2004) *** 1/2 

*The End Of The Beginning by Avi (2004) ****

*The History Boys by Alan Bennett (2004; play) *** 1/2 

*2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) 

*The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (2004) *** 1/2

*Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004) **** 

*The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill (2004) *** 

*Chronicles Volume One by Bob Dylan (2004) *** ½ 

*Scribbling The Cat by Alexandra Fuller (2004) ** 1/2 

*Demon of the Waters by Gregory Gibson (2004) ** 1/2 

*Dead To The World by Charlaine Harris (2004) ** 1/2 

*The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin (2004) ** 

*Prince of Thieves aka The Town by Chuck Hogan (2004) *** 

*Guardians of Ga'Hoole: Rescue by Kathryn Lasky (2004) * 1/2 

*Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie (2004) **** 

*In the Company Of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith (2004) ** 

*The Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman (2004) *** 

*Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004) **** 

*Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley (2004) *** 1/2 

*Airborn by Kenneth Oppel (2004) *** 

*The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy In Three Parts (2004) ** 1/2 

*The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2004) *** 1/2 

*Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi (2004) *** 

*Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2004) ** 1/2 

*Indelible by Karin Slaughter (2004) *** 1/2 

*The Complete Bone by Jeff Smith (2004) *** 1/2 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket (2004) *** 

*The Master by Colm Tóibín (2004) *** 1/2 

2005

*Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn (2005) *** 1/2

*The Book Without Words by Avi (2005) **

*Untold Stories by Alan Bennett (2005; memoir) *** 1/2 

*The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (2005) *** 1/2 

*Black Hole by Charles Burns (2005) *** 1/2 

*The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005) *** 1/2 

*The Portable Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (2005) *** 1/2 

*Looking For Alaska by John Green (2005) *** 

*Fly By Night by Frances Hardinage (2005) *** 

*Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris (2005) ** 

*Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) ** 1/2 

 *The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard (2005) **** 

*A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin (2005) *** 1/2 

*No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (2005) *** ½  

*1776 by David McCullough (2005) *** 

*Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin (2005) *** 1/2 

*The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo (2005) ** 1/2 

*Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley (2005) *** 

*Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel (2005) *** 

*Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker (2005) *** 

*Prince Of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman (2005) *** 

*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling (2005) ** 1/2 

*Drive by James Sallis (2005) ** 

*Old Man's War by John Scalzi (2005) ** 1/2 

*Faithless by Karin Slaughter (2005) *** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket (2005) *** 

*Kipling’s Choice by Geert Spillebeen (2005) ** 

*The Complete Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Waterson (2005) *** 1/2 (too bulky) 

*Radio Golf by August Wilson (2005) *** 

2006 

*The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing Volume 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (2006) ****
*Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2006) ***  

*Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery by James R. Benn (2006) *** 

*Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury (2006) *** 

*My Life In France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme (2006) *** 1/2 

*The Ladies Of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke (2006) ** 

*The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo; illus by Bagram Ibatoulline  (2006) **** 

*Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman (2009) *** 

*Always Magic In The Air: The Bomp and Brilliance Of The Brill Building by Ken *Emerson (2006) ** 1/2 

*Their Finest aka Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans (2009) *** 1/2 

*Toby Alone by Timothee de Fombelle (2006) ** 1/2 

*Grief by Andrew Holleran (2006) ** ½ 

*The Few (about Battle Of Britain) by Alex Kershaw (2006) *** 

*The Lies Of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (2006) *** 1/2 

*Blue Shoes And Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith by Alexander McCall Smith (2006) ** 

*The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) *** ½ 

*Alternatives To Sex by Stephen McCauley (2006) ** 

*Temeraire by Naomi Novik (Book 1 of Temeraire series) (2006) *** 1/2 
*Throne Of Jade by Naomi Novik (Book 2 of Temeraire series) (2006) *** 1/2 
*Black Powder War by Naomi Novik (Book 3 of Temeraire series) (2006) ***

*Blood And Thunder by Hampton Sides (2006) *** 

*A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The End by Lemony Snicket (2006) *** 

*Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (2006) *** 1/2 

*Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín (2006) *** 

*The King Of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (2006) *** 1/2 

*Farthing by Jo Walton (2006) *** 

2007

*Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (2007) *** 1/2
*The Outlander by Gil Adamson (2007) *** 1/2 

*The Absolutely True Adventures of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (2007) *** 1/2 

*Traitor's Gate by Avi *(2007) * 1/2 

*Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt (2007) *** 

*The First Wave (Billy Boyle WW II mystery) by James R. Benn (2007) ** 1/2 

*The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (2007) ** 1/2 

*The Panic Of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner and Sean Carr (2007/2nd ed 2023) *** 

*Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon (2007) ** 1/2 

*The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007) **** 

*Napoleon's Pyramids by William Dietrich (2007) ** 

*Toby And The Secrets Of The Tree by Timothee de Fombelle (2007) ** 

*Jumper: Griffin's Story by Steven Gould (2007) *** 

*Include Me Out by Farley Granger (2007) ** 1/2 

*Supreme Conflict by Jan Crawford Greenburg (2007) ** 

*The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2007) ** 

*The Vegetarian by Han Kang (2007) **** 

*Selected Poems of John Keats by John Keats (2007) *** 1/2 

*Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (2007) *** 

*Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (2007) *** 1/2 

*Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon (2007) *** 

*Born Standing Up by Steve Martin (2007) *** 1/2 

*The Lost Books Of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason (2007) *** 1/2 

*The Good Husband Of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith by Alexander McCall Smith (2007) ** 1/2 

*On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2007) *** 

*Hero by Perry Moore (2007) *** 

*Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley (2007) *** 1/2 

*Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik (Book 4 of Temeraire series) (2007) *** 

*Grace After Midnight by Felicia "Snoop" Pearson (2007) ** 

*On The Wings Of Heroes by Richard Peck (2007) *** 1/2 

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (2007) *** 

*The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (2007) *** 

*Dark Victory: The Life Of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov (2007) *** ½ 

*Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds (2007) ** 

*Taking Woodstock by Eliot Tiber with Tom Monte (2007) ** 1/2 

*The Children Of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien; edited by Christopher Tolkien (2007) ** 1/2 

*Home School by Charles Webb (2007) ** 1/2 

*Hotel de Dream by Edmund White (2007) *** 

*Fair Game by Valerie Plame Wilson (2007) ** 

2008

*Newton by Peter Ackroyd (2008) ** 1/2 

*The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2008) ***

*The Serial Garden: Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken (2008) *** 1/2

*The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing Volume 2: The Kingdom On *The Waters by M.T. Anderson (2008) ****

*The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (2008) ***

*The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter (2008) ** 

*Blood Alone (Billy Boyle WW II mystery) by James R. Benn *(2008) ** 

*A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs (2008) * 

*The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008) ***
*The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant (2008) ** 1/2 

*The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2008) *** 

*Angler by Barton Gellman (Dick Cheney book) (2008) ** 

*Sea Of Poppies by Amitov Ghosh (2008) *** 1/2 

*Hubert's Freaks by Gregory Gibson (2008) ** 1/2 

*Paper Towns by John Green (2008) ***\  

*The Case Of The Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (2008) *** 

*The Last Lincoln Conspirator by Andrew Jampoler (2008) * 1/2 
*Things I've Learned From Women Who Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin (2008) * 

*The Man Who Made Lists (Roget's Thesaurus) by Joshua Kendall (2008) ** 

*The Learners by Chip Kidd (2008) *** 

*High Crimes: The Fate Of Everest In An Age Of Greed by Michael Kodas (2008) ** 1/2 

*The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (2008) ** 

*The Miracle At Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith by Alexander McCall Smith (2008) **1/2 maybe *** 

*Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser (2008) **** 

*The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. Morris (2008) *** 

*The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (2008) ** 1/2 
*Victory Of Eagles by Naomi Novik (Book 5 of Temeraire series) (2008) *** 1/2  

*Submarine by Joe Dunthorne (2008) *** 

*Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (2008) *** 

*Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel (2008) ** 1/2 

*Resolution by Robert B. Parker (2008) *** 1/2 

*Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa; translated by Laurie L. Patton (2008) *** 1/2 

*Dawn Dusk Or Night by Yasmina Reza (2008) ** 1/2 

*The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz (2008) *** 

*The Lump Of Coal by Lemony Snicket, illus by Brett Helquist (2008) *** 

*An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor (2008) ** 

*An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor (2008) ** 

*The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (2008) *** 1/2 

2009

*The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood (2009) 

*Murder At Midnight by Avi (2009) **

*The Habit Of Art by Alan Bennett (2009 novella) *** 

*The Vast Fields Of Ordinary by Nick Burd (2009) ** 

*Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009) *** 

*Soulless by Gail Corriger (2009) *** 

*The Maze Runner by James Dashner (2009) * 1/2 

 *The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Yoko Tanaka (2009) *** 1/2 

*The Ground Truth by John Farmer (2009) ** 1/2 

*The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (2009) **** 

*Game Six by Mark Frost (2009) *** 

*The Magician by Lev Grossman (2009) *** 

*The Siege by Ismail Kadare (2009) *** 

*The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (2009) *** 1/2 

*Big Machine by Victor LaValle (2009) *** 

*Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel (2009) **** 

*Tea Time For The Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith (2009) ** 1/2 

*Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann (2009) *** 1/2 

*The Silver Hearted by David McConnell (2009) * 1/2 

*Abraham Lincoln by James M McPherson (2009) ** 1/2 

*Brimstone by Robert B. Parker (2009) *** 

*The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell (2009) *** 1/2 

*Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (2009) *** 

*Genius For Deception by Nicholas Rankin (2009) *** 

*A-Rod: The Many Lives Of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts (2009) ** 

*The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket; illus Carson Ellis, music Nathaniel Stookey (2009) ** 1/2 

*Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (2009) **** 

*The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (2009) ** 1/2 

*The Collected Stories by William Trevor (2009) **** 

*Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (2009) *** 1/2 

 

2010 

*Wilson by Daniel Clowes (2010) 

*Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (2010) *** 1/2 

*Unforgivable by Phillipe Djian (2010) ** 

*Backing Into Forward by Jules Feiffer (2010) *** 

*The Case Of The Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall (2010) *** 

*Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (2011) *** 

*The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach (2011) *** 1/2 

*Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand (2010) *** 1/2 

*Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan (2010) ***/ 

*The Big Short by Michael Lewis (2010) *** 

*The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith by Alexander McCall Smith (2010) ** 

*Insignificant Others by Stephen McCauley (2010) ** 1/2 

*Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik (Book 6 of Temeraire series) (2010) *** 

*Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker (2010) *** 

*The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman (2010) ** 1/2 

*Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (2010) ** 1/2 

*Stitches by David Small (2010) *** 1/2 

*Just Kids by Patti Smith (2010) *** 

*Showtime by Larry Stempel (2010) ** 

*The Living Constitution by David A. Strauss (2010) *** 

*An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor (2010) ** 

*An Irish Country Courtship by Patrick Taylor (2010) * 1/2 

*40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by Garry Trudeau (2010) **** 

*A Conspiracy Of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (2010) ** 1/2 

*Innocent by Scott Turow (2010) *** 

*Savages by Don Winslow (2010) *** 

2011 

*The Great Night by Chris Adrian (2011) ** 1/2

*Queen Of The Falls by Chris Van Allsburg (2011) ***
*The Chronicles Of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg (2011) ** 1/2

*Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles Vol 1) by Jeffrey Archer (2011) ***
*On Being: A Scientist's Exploration Of The Great Questions Of Existence by Peter Atkins (2011) **

*Floors by Patrick Carman (2011) ** 

*Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver (2011) **

*The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (2011) *** 1/2 

*Dodsworth in Rome by Tim Egan (2011) *** 

*The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (2011) ** 1/2 

*Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge (2011) *** 

*My Side of the Car by Kate Feiffer; illustrated by Jules Feiffer (2011) *** 1/2 

*Civilization: The West And The Rest by Niall Ferguson (2011) ** 1/2 

*Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller (2011) *** 1/2 

*George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis (2011) *** 

*River Of Smoke by Amitov Ghosh (2011) *** 1/2 

*The Magician King by Lev Grossman (2011) *** 

*The House Of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (2011) ** 1/2 

*Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2011) *** 
*Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling (2011) ** 1/2 

*Berlin, 1961: Kennedy, Kruschev and The Most Dangerous Place On Earth by Frederick Kempe (2011) *** 1/2 

*The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (2011) ** 1/2 

*The Siege Of Washington by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood (2011) *** 

*Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention by Manning Marable (2011) **** 

*A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin (2011) *** 1/2  

*The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith (2011) ** 1/2 

*The Greater Journey by David McCullough (2011) ** 1/2 

*The Apothecary by Maile Meloy (2011) *** 

*The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (2011) *** 1/2 

*We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser (2011) *** 1/2 

*Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar (2011) *** 

*A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (2011) *** 1/2 

*The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka (2011) **** 

*The Cut by George Pelecanos (2011) ** 1/2 

*East Of The West by Miroslav Penkov (2011) *** 

*Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman (2011) *** 

*Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (2011) ** 

*Divergent by Veronica Roth (2011) ** 

*The Story Of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago (2011) ** 1/2 

*The Little Red Pen by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel (2011) * 1/2 

*Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir by John Paul Stevens (2011) * 1/2 

*A Dublin Student Doctor by Patrick Taylor (2011) ** 1/2 

*Habibi by Craig Thompson (2011) *** 1/2 

*High Strung: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe And The Untold Story Of Tennis's Fiercest *Rivalry by Stephen Tignor (2011) ** 1/2 

*Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin (2011) *** 

*The House That Ruth Built by Robert Weintraub (2011) *** 1/2 

2012 

*The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas by David Almond (2012) *** 

*The One And Only Ivan (2012) *** 
*The Sins Of The Father (Clifton Chronicles Vol 2) by Jeffrey Archer (2012) ***

*Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry (2012) **** 

*Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (2012) *** 

*Dead Cat Bounce by Nic Bennett (2012) ** 1/2 

*38 Nooses by Scott W. Berg (2012) *** 

*A Million Heavens by John Brandon (2012) *** 

*Hinterland by Caroline Brothers (2012) ***  

*The Years Of Lyndon Johnson Vol. Four: The Passage Of Power by Robert A. Caro (2012) **** 

*Unterzakhn by Leela Corman (2012) ** 

*The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech (2012) ** 1/2 

*Showdown At Shepherd's Bush by David Davis (2012) *** 

*This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (2012) ****  

*I Am Spartacus: Making A Film, Breaking The Blacklist by Kirk Douglas (2012) *** 

*Making "Tootsie" 30th Anniv. edition by Susan Dworkin (2012) * 1/2 

*A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers (2012) *** 1/2 

*The Malice Of Fortune by Michael Ennis (2012) ** 

*A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks (2012) *** 

*Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012) *** 

*Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner (2012) ** 

*City Of Women by David R. Gillham (2012) ** 1/2 

*The Yard by Alex Grecian (2012) *** 1/2 

*The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (2012) *** 

*The Case Of The Deadly Butter Chicken by Tarquin Hall (2012) ***  

*Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton (2012) *** 1/2 

*In Sunshine And In Shadow by Mark Helprin (2012) ** 

*In One Person by John Irving (2012) **  

*Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson (2012) ** 1/2 

*Garment Of Shadows by Laurie R. King (2012) ** 1/2 

*The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen (2012) ** 1/2 

*Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (2012) **
*Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal (2012) ** 

*The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Defender Of The Realm 1940-1965 by *William Manchester with Paul Reid (2012) *** 

*Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2012) *** 1/2 

*The Limpopo Academy Of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith (2012) ** 

*The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy (2012) *** 1/2 

*Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (2012) *** 

*Big Sky Mountain by Linda Lael Miller (2012) ** 

*John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk (2012) *** 

*Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik (Book 7 of Temeraire series) (2012) ** 1/2 

*The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012) *** 

*The 500 by Matthew Quirk (2012) ** 

*2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (2012) *** 1/2 

*Sidney Chambers And The Shadow Of Death by James Runcie (2012) ** 

*Elsewhere: A Memoir by Richard Russo (2012) ** 1/2 

*Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks (2012) *** 1/2 

*Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective by Richard Schickel (2012) ** 1/2 

*A Boy And A Bear In A Boat by Dave Shelton (2012) **** 

*The Twelve Rooms Of The Nile by Enid Shomer (2012) ** 1/2 

*Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight For Bataan and Corregidor by Bill Sloan (2012) ** 1/2 

*Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man by Walter Stahr (2012) *** 1/2 

*Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale (2012) ** 1/2 

*An Irish Country Wedding by Patrick Taylor (2012) ** 

*The Testament Of Mary by Colm Tóibín (2012) ** 

*The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (2012) ** 

*Jack Holmes and His Friends by Edmund White (2012) *** 

*Alif The Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (2012) ** 1/2 

*The Kings of Cool by Don Winslow (2012) *** 

*What's Left Of Me: The Hybrid Chronicles Vol. 1 by Kat Zhang (2012) *** 1/2 

2013 

*Three Brothers by Peter Ackroyd (2013) ***

*Best Kept Secret (Clifton Chronicles Vol 3) by Jeffrey Archer (2013) ** 1/2

*Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (2013) ***

*MaddAdam by Margaret Atwood (2013) 

*Longbourn by Jo Baker (2013) *** 1/2 

*Journey by Aaron Becker (2013) *** 1/2

*A Blind Goddess (Billy Boyle WW II mystery) by James R. Benn (2013) ** 1/2

*A Natural History Of Dragons by Marie Brennan (2013) ** 1/2 

*Junius And Albert's Adventures In The Confederacy by Peter Carlson (2013) *** 1/2 
*Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights... by Larry Carlton (2013) *** 

*Delilah Dirk and The Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff (2013) ** 1/2

*London Falling by Paul Cornell (2013) ***  

*Flora & Ulysses: The  Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by K.G. Campbell (2013) 

*Blockbusters by Anita Elberse (2013) ** 

*Revolutionary Summer by Joseph Ellis (2013) *** 

*Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine (2013) ** 1/2 

*Toms River by Dan Fagin (2013) *** 

*Jacob's Eye Patch by Beth Kobliner Shaw and Jacob Shaw; illustrated by Jules Feiffer (2013) ** 

*Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel (2013) **** 

*Quiet Until The Thaw by Alexandra Fuller (2013) ***/ 

*The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman (2013) *** 

*Flora by Gail Godwin (2013) ** 

*The Black Country by Alex Grecian (2013) *** 

*An Officer And A Spy by Robert Harris (2013) *** 1/2 

*I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (2013) * 1/2 

*A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon (2013) *** 1/2 

*Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen (2013) *** 

*How To Catch A Bogle by Catherine Jenkins (2013) *** 
*Queen Of The Air by Dean Jensen (2013) *** 1/2 

*Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse by Robert Knott (2013) ** 1/2 

*Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg (2013) ** 1/2 

*The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (2013) *** 1/2 

*Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem (2013) *** 

*Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (2013) ** 1/2 

*Proxy by Alex London (2013) *** 

*The Republic Of Thieves by Scott Lynch (2013) ** 1/2 

*His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal (2013) ** 1/2 

*The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith (2013) ** 

*Transatlantic by Colum McCann (2013) *** 1/2 

*Someone by Alice McDermott (2013) *** 1/2 

*Beatles Vs. Stones by John McMillian (2013) *** 

*The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin by W.S. Merwin (2013) *** 1/2 

*The Son by Philipp Meyer (2013) *** 1/2 

*Little Green by Walter Mosley (2013) *** 1/2 

*The Returned by Jason Mott (2013) ** 1/2 

*Invasion by Walter Dean Myers (2013) ** 1/2 

*More Than This by Patrick Ness (2013) *** 1/2 

*Blood Of Tyrants by Naomi Novik (Book 8 of Temeraire series) (2013) *** 1/2 

*The Unwinding by George Packer (2013) **** 

*The Mouse With The Question Mark Tail by Richard Peck; illustrations by Kelly Murphy (2013) ** 1/2 

*The Double by George Pelecanos (2013) ** 

*Elect H. Mouse State Judge by Nelly Reifler (2013) * 1/2 

*Moonday by Adam Rex (2013) *** 

*The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling (2013) *** 

*Tenth of December by George Saunders (2013) ** 1/2 

*The War Below by James Scott (2013)  ** 1/2 

*Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris (2013) *** 

*The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (2013) * 

*Stella Bain by Anita Shreve (2013) ** 1/2 

*Winger by Andrew Smith (2013) *** 

*The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illus by Jon Klassen (2013) *** 1/2 

*American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah Solomon (2013) *** 

*Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe (2013) *** 

*Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor by Patrick Taylor (2013) ** 1/2 

*Duke: A Life Of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout (2013) *** 

*The Vatican Diaries by John Thavis (2013) *** 

*The Cleaner of Chartres by Sally Vickers (2013) *** 

*Mister Max: The Book Of Lost Things by Cynthia Voigt (2013) *** 

*The Fantastic Family Whipple by Matthew Ward (2013) ** 1/2 

*Why Priests? by Garry Wills (2013) ** 1/2 

*Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang (2013) *** 1/2 

2014

*The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond (2014) ****

*Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou (2013) *** 

*Be Careful What You Wish For (Clifton Chronicles Vol. 4) by Jeffrey Archer (2014) ** 1/2

*A Massacre in Memphis by Steven V. Ash (2013) ***

*All The Truth Is Out by Matt Bai (2014) ** 1/2 

*Jane And The Twelve Days Of Christmas by Stephanie Barron (2014) ** 1/2 

*The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry (2014) *** 

*Lucky Us by Amy Bloom (2014) *** 

*The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley (2014) *** 

*The Tropic Of Serpents by Marie Brennan (2014) *** 

*Lincoln's Gamble by Todd Brewster (2014) ** 1/2 

*The Case Against The Supreme Court by Erwin Chemerinsky (2014) *** 

*The Three Emperors by William Dietrich (2014) ** 1/2 

*All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014) *** 1/2 

*Jack Of Spies by David Downing (2014) ** 

*As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From Making Of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes (2014) *** 

*Nest by Esther Erlich (2014) *** 1/2 
*Of Bone And Thunder by Chris Evans (2014) *** 

*Kill My Mother by Jules Feiffer (2014) *** 

*Dog Beach by John Fusco (2014) * 

*The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein (2014) ** 1/2 

*The Devil's Workshop by Alex Grecian (2014) ** 1/2 

*Animas: Legacy of The Claw by C.R. Grey (2014) ** 

*The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman (2014) *** 

*The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove (2014) ***/ 

*We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler (2014) ** 

*Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris (2014) ** 1/2 

*Joan Of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison (2014) *** 
*The Bishop's Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison (2014) ** 
*The Spark And The Drive by Wayne Harrison (2014) *** 1/2 

*Losing Our Way by Bob Herbert (2014) *** 

*Skink -- No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen (2014) *** 

*Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb (2014) *** 1/2 

*The Devil In The Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson (2014) *** 1/2 

*The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm (2014) ** 

*Neverhome by Laird Hunt (2014) *** 

*Sound Man by Glyn Johns (2014) ** 

*Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (2014) *** 

*Robert B. Parker's Bull River by Robert Knott (2014) ** 1/2 

*Empire Of Sin by Gary Krist (2014) *** 1/2 

*The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn (2014) ** 1/2 

*The House Of The Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory (2014) ** 1/2
*Juliet's Nurse by Lois Leveen (2014) *** 

*A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre (2014) *** 1/2 

*The Ghost Of The Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin (2014) ** 1/2  

*The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe by Alexander McCall Smith (2014) ** 

*The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid (2014) *** 

*The Children Act by Ian McEwan (2014) *** 1/2 

*Here by Richard McGuire (1989/2014) **** 

*God: A Biography by Jack Miles (2014) *** 1/2 

*Greenglass House by Kate Milford (2014) ** 

*Rose Gold by Walter Mosley (2014) *** 1/2 

*Revolutionary by Alex Myers (2014) *** 

*The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit (2014) *** 

*Young Houdini: The Magician's Fire by Simon Nicholson (2014) ** 1/2 

*The Quick by Lauren Owen (2014) ** 

*A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman (2014) *** 1/2 

*A New York Christmas by Anne Perry (2014) * 

*The Remarkable Courtship Of General Tom Thumb by Nicholas Rinaldi (2014) ** 

*Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker... by John F. Ross (2014) ** 1/2 

*Dominion by C.J. Samson (2014) *** 

*Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul (2014) ** 1/2 

*Playing By The Book by S. Chris Shirley (2014) * 1/2 

*In The Kingdom Of Ice by Hampton Sides (2014) *** 

*Cop Town by Karin Slaughter (2014) *** 

*Some Luck by Jane Smiley (2014) **** 

*Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (2014) *** 

*Six Amendments by John Paul Stevens (2014) ** 

*The Emissary aka The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada; translated by Margaret Mitsutani (2014/2018) *** 

*An Irish Doctor In Peace And At War by Patrick Taylor (2014) ** 1/2 

*The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition by Dylan Thomas (2014) *** 1/2 

*The Land Of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson (2014) *** 

*Mister Max: The Book Of Secrets by Cynthia Voigt (2014) *** 1/2 

*The Late Scholar (A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery) by Jill Paton Walsh (2014) *** 

*War Of The World Records (The Family Whipple) by Matthew Ward (2014) **1/2 

*Murder At The Brightwell by Ashley Weaver (2014) ** 1/2 

*The Marriage Game by Alison Weir (2014) *** 

*The Young World by Chris Weitz (2014) *** 

*Cosby: His Life And Times by Mark Whitaker (2014) *** 

*The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky And Death by Colson Whitehead (2014) *** 

*Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014) *** 1/2 

*Lincoln's Boys by Joshua Zeitz (2014) ** 1/2 

*Hope by Richard Zoglin (2014) ** 1/2 

*The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan (2014) *** 

 

2015 

*The Francis Miracle by John L. Allen (2015) ** 1/2 

*Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid (2015) ***

*Mightier Than The Sword (Clifton Chronicles Vol. 5) by Jeffrey Archer (2015) * 1/2

*Irrationally Yours by Dan Ariely (2015) ** 1/2 

*The School For Unusual Girls by Kathleen Baldwin (2015) ** 

*Beatlebone by Kevin Barry (2015) *** 

*The Sellout by Paul Beatty (2015) *** 1/2 

*We Believe The Children by Richard Beck (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Bill Of Rights by Carol Berkin (2015) *** 

*In The Unlikely Event by Judy Blume (2015) ***  

*As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust by Alan Bradley (2015) ***  

*Voyage Of The Basilisk by Marie Brennan (2015) *** 

*The Cinder Spires: Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher (2015) *** 1/2 

*Sorcerer To The Crown by Zen Cho (2015) ***

*A Brief History Of Creation by Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II (2015) *** 1/2

*Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) ****

*Memory Theater by Simon Critchley (2015) *** 

*Our Man In Charleston by Christopher Dickey (2015) *** 

*Hissing Cousins by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer (2015) *** 

*South Toward Home by Margaret Eby (2015) *** 

*Bryant And May And The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Age Of Acquiescence by Steve Fraser (2015) ***/ 

*Flood of Fire by Amitov Ghosh (2015) 

*Words Without Music by Philip Glass (2015) *** 

*Slice Harvester by Colin Atrophy Hagendorf (2015) *** 1/2 

*Day Shift by Charlaine Harris (2015) *** 

*Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart (2015) *** 

*The Fifth Season by N.J. Jemisin (Broken Earth Trilogy Vol. 1) (2015) *** 1/2
*A Plague Of Bogles by Catherine Jenkins (2015) *** 
*A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston (2015) *** 

*Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan (2015) ** 1/2 

*The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (2015) ***  

*Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King (2015) *** 

*Hostile Takeover by Shane Kuhn (2015) *** 

*The Remarkable Education Of John Quincy Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin (2015) *** 

*America's Bank by Roger Lowenstein (2015) *** 

*Finale by Thomas Mallon (2015) *** 

*One Nation, Under Gods by Peter Manseau (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays (2015) ** 1/2 

*The Woman Who Walked In Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith (2015) ** 

*The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (2015) *** 

*Circling The Sun by Paula McLain (2015) *** 

*A Brief History Of Creation by Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II (2015) *** 1/2 

*Voices In The Night by Steven Millhauser (2015) **** 

*Slade House by David Mitchell (2015) *** 

*And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley (2015) ***  

*The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (2015) *** 

*Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix (2015) ** 1/2 

*Between You And Me by Mary Norris (2015) *** 

*Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2015) *** 1/2 

*Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker (2015) *** 1/2 

*Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins (2015) ** 1/2 

*Hissing Cousins by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer (2015) *** 

*The Monopolists by Mary Pilon (2015) *** 

*Pope Francis Among The Wolves by Marco Politi (2015) ** 1/2 
*God's Bankers by Gerald Posner (2015) *** 

*The Great Surge by Steve Radelet (2015) *** 

*Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich (2015) ** 1/2 

*Razzle Dazzle by Michael Riedel (2015) ** 1/2 

*Katrina by Gary Rivlin (2015) ** 1/2 

*Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts (2015) *** 

*Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (2015) *** 1/2 

*Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Marvels by Brian Selznick (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Book Of Aron by Jim Shepard (2015) *** 1/2 

*Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (2015) *** 1/2 

*Early Warning by Jane Smiley (2015) **** 
*Golden Age by Jane Smiley (2015) *** 1/2 

*Stand-Off by Andrew Smith (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Constable's Tale by Donald Smith (2015) ** 1/2 

*Murder Is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens (2015) ** 1/2 

*This Divided Island by Samanth Subramanian (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Curious World Of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Tate (2015) *** 
*The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor (2015) ** 1/2 

*An Irish Doctor In Love and At Sea by Patrick Taylor (2015) ** 1/2 

*Cast Of Characters by Thomas Vinciguerra (2015) ** 1/2 

*Mister Max: The Book Of Kings by Cynthia Voigt (2015) **** 

*Anything Could Happen by Will Walton (2015) ** 

*I'm Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil (2015) ** 1/2 

*The Future Of The Catholic Church With Pope Francis by Garry Wills (2015) ** 1/2 

*My First Hundred Years In Show Business by Mary Louise Wilson (2015) *** 1/2 

*1944: FDR and The Year That Changed History by Jay Winik (2015) *** 1/2 

*The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (2015/2016 in English) *** 1/2 

*Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (2015) ** 1/2 

2016

*Jane And The Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron (2016) *** 

*Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett (2016 memoir) *** 

*Orphans Of The Carnival by Carol Birch (2016) *** 

*The Facefaker's Game by Chandler J. Birch (2016) ** 1/2 

*Lizzie and the Lost Baby by Cheryl Blackford (2016) *** 

*The First Congress by Fergus M. Bordewich (2016) *** 

*Court-Martial by Chris Bray (2016) *** 

*Moonglow by Michael Chabon (2016) *** 

*The Goblin's Puzzle by Andrew S. Chilton (2016) ** 1/2

*The Unknown Universe by Stuart Clark (2016) *** 

*Then And Now by Barbara Cook (2016) * 1/2

*Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016) **** 

*Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo (2016) *** 1/2 

*Play It Loud by Brad Tolinski and Alan Di Perna (2016) *** 

*Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis (2016) **** 

*The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle (2016) ** 1/2 

*The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg (2016) ** 

*Bryant And May: Strange Tides by Christopher Fowler (2016) *** 

*Four Futures: Visions Of The World After Capitalism by Peter Frase (2016) *** 

*The Bad-Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu by Josh Hammer (2016) *** 

*Waiting by Kevin Henkes (2015) ***/ 

*Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam (2015) ***/ 

*Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb (2015) *** 

*Nightbird by Alice Hoffman (2015) ** 

*Avenue Of Mysteries by John Irving (2015) *** 

*A Friend Of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan (2016) ** 1/2 

*Night Shift by Charlaine Harrius (2016) **1/2 

*The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 1: Emperor Of The Eight Islands by Lian Hearn (2016) *** 1/2 
*The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 2: Autumn Princess, Dragon Child by Lian *Hearn (2016) *** 1/2 

*The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 3: Lord Of Darkwood by Lian Hearn (2016) *** 

*The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 4: The Tengu's Game Of Go by Lian Hearn (2016) *** 

*The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks (2016) *** 

*The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson (2016) *** 1/2 

*The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth (2016) *** 

*IQ by Joe Ide (2016) *** 1/2 

*The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth Trilogy, Vol. 2) (2016) *** 1/2 

*The Last Bogler by Catherine Jenkins (2016) *** 
*Children of Earth And Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay (2016) *** 1/2 

*The Murder Of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King (2016) *** 1/2 

*The Translation Of Love by Lynne Kutsukaka (2016) *** 

*In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (2016) *** 

*My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier (2016) ** 1/2 

*Waiting For Augusta by Jessica Lawson (2016) ** 1/2 

*The Gentleman by Forrest Leo (2016) *** 

*Draw The Line by Laurent Linn (2016) ** 

*Eight Flavors by Sarah Lohman (2016) ** 1/2 

*Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith (2016) ** 

*Hero Of The Empire by Candice Millar (2016) *** 

*Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley  (2016) *** 

*Tru and Nelle by G. Neri (2016) ** 1/2 

*Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016) *** 

*League Of Dragons by Naomi Novik (Book 9 of Temeraire series) (2016) *** 

*My Father, The Pornographer by Chris Offutt (2016) *** 1/2 

*Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey (2016) *** 

*The French Chef In America by Alex Prud'homme (2016) ** 1/2 

*Switched On by John Elder Robinson (2016) *** 

*The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe (2016) *** 

*It's All Your Fault by Paul Rudnick (2016) *** 

*Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (2016) *** 1/2 

*Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Elaine Scarry (2016) *** 

*The Secret Horses Of Briar Hill by Megan Shepherd (2016) ** 1/2 

*The Summer Before The War by Helen Simonson (2016) *** 1/2 

*Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy by Bishop John Shelby Spong (2016) *** 

*Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen (2016) *** 1/2 

*An Irish Country Love Story by Patrick Taylor (2016) ** 

*Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier (2016) ** 1/2 

*Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne (2016) ** 

*Play It Loud by Brad Tolinski and Alan Di Perna (2016) *** 

*Countdown To Pearl Harbor by Steve Twomey (2016) *** 

*Bobby Kennedy by Larry Tye (2016) *** 

*Teddy and Co. by Cynthia Voigt (2016) ** 1/2 

*The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016) *** 1/2 

*Writing To Save A Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman (2016) *** 

*A Series Of Catastrophes And Miracles by Mary Elizabeth Williams (2016) *** 

*Journey To Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear (2016) ** 

*Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (2016) *** 

*Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (2016) *** 1/2 

*The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon (2016) *** 

2017

*Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017) **

*Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering Of The All-American Town by Brian Alexander (2017) ** 1/2 

*You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie (2017) *** 1/2

*Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search For Extra-Terrestrial Life edited by Jim Al-khalili (2017) *** 

*The Bear And The Nightingale by Katherine Arden (2017) *** 1/2
*The Girl in The Tower by Katherine Arden (2017) *** 1/2 

*The Most Important Thing by Avi (2017) *** 

 *Why Time Flies by Alan Burdick (2017) *** 

 *A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey (2017) *** 

*Global Discontents by Noam Chomsky; interviews w David Barsamian (2017) *** 

*Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-nehisi Coates/ illos by Brian Stelfreeze (2017) ** 1/2 

*Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell (2017) *** 

*An Alchemy of Masks and Mirrors by Curtis Craddock (2017) ** 1/2 

*Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (2017) *** 

*How America Lost Its Secrets by Edward Jay Epstein (2017) ** 1/2 

*Hank and Jim (Bio of Henry Fonda/Jimmy Stewart) by Scott Eyman (2017) ** 1/2 

*The Evangelicals by Frances Fitzgerald (2017) *** 

*The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller (2017) *** 

*The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard (2017) ***/ 

*Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin (2017) ** 

*Otis Redding by Jonathan Gould (2017) ***/ 

*Refugee by Alan Gratz (2017) *** 

*Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (2017) *** 1/2 

*The Road To Jonestown by Jeff Guinn (2017) *** 

*All The Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler (2017) *** 1/2 

*The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris (2017) ** 

*The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker (2017) ***/ 

*Paris In The Present Tense by Mark Helprin (2017) ** 

*The Stone Heart: The Nameless City Volume 2 by Faith Erin Hicks (2017) ***/ 

*Aladdin (a new translation by Paolo Lemos Horta) (2017) *** 

*Righteous by Joe Ide (2017) *** 

*When The World Stopped To Listen by Stuart Isakoff (2017) ** 1/2 
*We'll Always Have Casablanca by Noah Isenberg (2017) **

*The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (Broker Earth Trilogy Vol 3) (2017) *** 1/2 

*Direct Action by L.A. Kaufman (2017) ** 1/2 

*Economism by James Kwak (2017) ** 1/2 

*The Changeling by Victor LaValle (2017) *** 

*Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017) *** 1/2 

*The End Of Eddy by Édouard Louis (2017) ** 1/2 

*Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (2017) *** 1/2 

*The World Of Tomorrow by Brendan Matthews (2017) *** 

*The House Of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith (2017) ** 

*Quakeland by Kathryn Miles (2017) *** 

*Release by Patrick Ness (2017) ** 1/2 

*The Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann (2017) *** 1/2 

*The Horseman by Tim Pears (2017) *** 1/2 

*The Lost City Of The Monkey God by Douglas Preston (2017) ** 1/2 
*Letters To his Neighbor by Marcel Proust, trans Lydia Davis (2017) ** 

*The Adventures Of John Blake: Mystery Of the Ghost Ship by Philip Pullman and illos by Fred Fordham (2017) ** 

*The Book Of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (2017) *** 

*Decelerate Blue by Adam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro (2017) ** 1/2 

*The Doorman's Repose by Chris Raschka (2017) *** 1/2 

*New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) *** 

*Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders (2017) **** 

*The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillip Sendker (2017) ** 1/2 

*Night Thoughts by Wallace Shawn (2017) *** 

*Demon Vol. 2 by Jason Shiga (2017) *** 

*Round by Joyce Sidman and Taeeun Yoo (2017) ** 

*The Bad Mood and the Stick by Lemony Snicket, illus by Matthew Forsythe (2017) ** 1/2 

*Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket, illus by Lisa Brown (2017) ** 1/2 

*The Last Cowboys Of San Geronimo by Ian Stansel (2017) *** 

*The Secret Of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange (2017) *** 1/2  

*I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi (2017) *** 1/2

*An Irish Country Practice by Patrick Taylor (2017) ** 

*Thick As Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner (2017) *** 

*The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius (2017) *** 1/2 

*Falling Ill by CK Williams (2017) *** 

*NewsPrints by Ru Xu (2017) ** 

*Reckless Daughter (Joni Mitchell bio) by David Yaffe (2017) ** 1/2 

*Genius and Discovery: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig (2017) ***
*Triumph and Disaster: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig (2017) *** 1/2 

2018 

*The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018) *** 1/2
*Endling The Last by Katherine Applegate (2018) *** 1/2 

*The Button War by Avi (2018) ** 1/2 

*Hello, Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall (2018) *** (she does great waves!) 

*The Mandela Plot by Kenneth Bonert (2018) *** 

*We The People by Erwin Chemerinsky (2018) ** 1/2 

*The War Before The War by Andrew Delbanco (2018) *** 

*Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo (2018) 

*The Triumph of Christianity by Bart Ehrman (2018) ** 1/2 

*The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault (1976/1984/2018) *** 

*Small Country by Gaël Faye (2018) *** 1/2 

*Conan Doyle For The Defense by Margalit Fox (2018) *** 

*The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan (2018) ** 

*The Reckoning by John Grisham (2018) *  

*A Knife In The Fog by Bradley Harper (2018) ** 1/2 

*The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker (2018) *** 1/2 

*The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks (2018) *** 1/2 

*A Bandit's Tale by Deborah Hopkinson (2018) ** 

*Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston (2018) *** 

*Wrecked by Joe Ide (2018) *** \ 

*Beneath A Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King (2018) *** 1/2 

*Island Of The Mad by Laurie R. King (2018) ** 1/2 

*Robert B. Parker's Revelation by Robert Knott (2018) ** 1/2 

*Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner (2018) *** 

*Austerity Britain: 1945-1951 by David Kynaston (2018) *** 1/2 

*Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead; illustrations by Nicholas Gannon (2018) ** 1/2 

*The Colours Of All The Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith (2018) ** 

*Wolves Of Eden by Kevin McCarthy (2018) *** 1/2 

*Marilla Of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy (2018) *** 

*Skylark's War aka Love To Everyone by Hilary McKay (2018) *** 1/2 

*God in the Qu'ran by Jack Miles (2018) *** 

*Circe by Madeline Miller (2018) *** 1/2 

*The Philosopher's Flight by Tom Miller (2018) *** 

*Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee (bio of John W Campbell and sci-fi) (2018) *** 
*Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2018) *** 1/2  

*Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien (2018) *** 1/2 

*Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older (2018) ** 

*There There by Tommy Orange (2018) *** 1/2 

*Fence Vol. 1 by C.S. Pacat; illustrator Johanna The Mad (2018) ***  

*DogMan: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey (2018) ** 1/2 

*Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt (2018) *** 1/2 

*Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Scott S. Purdum (2018) *** 

*The Tangled Tree by David Quammen (2018) *** 1/2 

*Factfulness by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund (2018) ** 1/2 

*Playing To The Gods by Peter Rader (2018) *** 1/2 

*The Common Good by Robert Reich (2018) ** 

*Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson (2018) ** 1/2 

*Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (2018) ** 

*The Throne Of Caesar by Steven Saylor (2018) ** 1/2 

*Calypso by David Sedaris (2018) *** 1/2 

*The Stowaway by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (2018) ** 1/2 

*Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter (2018) ** 1/2 

*An Irish Country Cottage by Patrick Taylor (2018) ** 

*#SAD!: Doonesbury In The Time of Trump by Garry Trudeau (2018) *** 1/2 

*Toaff's Way by Cynthia Voigt (2018) *** 

*Smoketown by Mark Whitaker (2018) ***  

*The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams (2018) ** 1/2 

2019 

*Find Me by André Aciman (2019) 

*This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews (2019) ** 1/2 

*Endling #2: The First by Katherine Applegate (2019) *** 

*The Winter Of The Witch by Katherine Arden (2019) *** 1/2

*The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong (2019) *** 

*Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll (2019) ***/ 

*Ghosts Of Gold Mountain by Gordon H. Chang (2019) *** 

*The Binding By Bridget Collins (2019) ** 1/2
*The Falconer by Dana Czapnik (NYC coming of age basketballer) (2019) *** 1/2 

*Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo (2019) 

* Girl, Woman, Other (2019) *** 1/2  

*The Second Founding by Eric Foner (2019) *** 

*Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller (2019) *** 

*Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey (2019) ** 

*Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald (2019) 

*The Vagabonds by Jeff Guinn (2019) ** 1/2 

*The Porpoise by Mark Haddon (2019) ** 1/2 

*The Golden Wolf by Linnea Hartsuyker (2019) 

*Midnight In Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (2019) *** 1/2 

*Underground: A Human History Of The World Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt (2019) *** / 

*A Hero Born by Jin Yong (Legends Of The Condor Heroes Vol. 1) trans Anna Holmwood (2019) *** 1/2 

*A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay (2019) *** 1/2 

*The Players Ball by David Kushner (2019) *** 

*The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal (2019) ** 

*To The Land Of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith (2019) ** 

*The Pioneers by David McCullough (2019) ** 

*Falter by Bill McKibben (2019) ** 1/2 

*The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicholas Meyer (2019) ** 

*Religion As We Know It: An Origin Story by Jack Miles (2019) *** 

*The Philosopher's War by Tom Miller (2019) *** 1/2 

*Fence Vol. 2 by C.S. Pacat; illustrator Johanna The Mad (2019) ***  

*Fence Vol. 3 by C.S. Pacat; illustrator Johanna The Mad (2019) ***  

*The Book Of Dust Volume Two: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (2019) ** 1/2 

*That Will Never Work: The Birth Of Netflix by Marc Randolph (2019) ** 

*The Season: A History Of The Debutante by Kristen Richardson (2019) *** 

*The Finance Curse by Nicholas Shaxson (2019) *** 1/2 

*The Book Case by Dave Shelton (2019) ** 1/2 

*Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman and Julian Smith (2019) ** 1/2 

*Swarm Of Bees by Lemony Snicket, illus by Rilla Alexander (2019) ** 

*Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (2019) ** 1/2 

*What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare by Andrew McConnell Stott (2019)  *** 

*Our Castle by The Sea by Lucy Strange (2019) ** 

*An Irish Country Family by Patrick Taylor (2019) ** 

*The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina (2019) ** 1/2 

*Cherokee America by Margaret Verble (2019) *** 1/2 

*Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions And What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans De Waal (2019) *** 

*Camelot's End by Jon Ward (2019) *** 

*The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss (2019) *** 1/2 

*The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019) *** 

*This Is Happiness by Niall Williams (2019) *** 1/2 

*Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman and Julian Smith (2019) ** 1/2 

2020

*Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson (2020) ** 1/2 

*Apropos Of Nothing by Woody Allen (2020) **  

*Gold Rush Girl (2020) ** 1/2 

*150 Glimpes Of The Beatles aka One Two Three Four: The Beatles In Time by Craig Brown (2020)  *** 

*The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg (2020) ** 1/2 

*Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020) **  

*Trumpocalypse by David Frum (2020) * 

*Surviving Autocracy (2020) *** 

*Hi Five by Joe Ide (2020) ** 1/2 

*Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein (2020) ** 

*Bubble In The Sun by Christopher Knowlton (2020) ** 1/2 

*Tightrope by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn (2020) ** 1/2 

*Arguing With Zombies by Paul Krugman (2020) *** 

*The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (2020) ** 1/2 

*The End Of Everything by Katie Mack (2020) *** 

*The Mirror and the Light (2020) *** 1/2  

*The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchhant (2020) *** 1/2 

*How To Raise An Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith (2020) ** 

*A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik  (2020) *** 

*Fence Vol. 4 by C.S. Pacat; illustrator Johanna The Mad (2020) *** 

*The Ministry For The Future (2020) *** 1/2 

*The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg (2020) ** 1/2 

*Owls Of The Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght (2020) *** 

*Rigged by David Shimer (2020) *** 

*A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind (2020) ** 

*An Irish Country Welcome by Patrick Taylor (2020) ** 

*Fifty Two Stories by Anton Chekhov; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2020) *** 1/2 

2021

*King by Ho Che Anderson (2021) *** 1/2

*There Is No Planet B: A Handbook For The Make Or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee (2021) ** 

*Leviathan Awakes by James S.A. Carey (2021) *** 

*The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Sophie Blackall (2021) *** 1/2 

*Freedom From The Market by Mike Konczal (2021) ** 1/2 

*The Confidence Men by Margalit Fox (2021) *** 

*A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke (2021) 

*Regeneration by Paul Hawken (2021) *** 

*Later by Stephen King (2021) *** 

*Putting It Together by James Lapine (2021) *** 

*The Joy and Light Bus Company by Alexander McCall Smith (2021) ** 

*Blood Grove by Walter Mosley (2021) ** 1/2   

*The Raging 2020s by Alec Ross (2021) *** 

*Playing The Palace by Paul Rudnick (2021) *** 

*Poison For Breakfast by Lemony Snicket (2021) *** / 

*An Irish Country Yuletide by Patrick Taylor (2021) ** 

*The Creepy Case Files Of Margo Maloo by Drew Weing (2021) ** 1/2 

*Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (2021) *** 1/2 

*Today A Woman Went Mad in The Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer (2021) *** 1/2 

 

2022

*The Method: How The Twentieth Century Learned To Act by Isaac Butler (2022) *** 1/2 

*Knight Owl by Christophe Denise (2022) *** 

*I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein (2022) ***  

*Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative by Mark Fisher (2022) **** 

*All The Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay (2022) 

*Disruptions by Steven Millhauser (2023) ***\ 

*Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates (2022) *** 

*The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (2022) *** 1/2 

*Fence Vol. 5 by C.S. Pacat; illustrator Johanna The Mad (2022) *** 

*Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris (2022) *** 

*The Year We Learned To Fly by Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Rafael López  (2022) ***  

 

2023

*The Panic Of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner and Sean Carr (2007/2nd ed 2023) *** 

*Monica by Daniel Clowes (2023) *** 

*Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond (2023) ** 1/2  

*The Puppets Of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Julie Horstad (2023) **** 

*The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos; illustrated by Doug Salati (2023) *** 

*The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; translated by Richard Pevear (1844/2023) **** 

*Orbital by Samantha Harvey (2023) ***/ 

*Bear and Bird: The Stars and Other Stories by Jarvis (2023) *** 

*The Destroyer Of Worlds: Return To Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (2023) *** 

*Monster in the Woods by Dave Shelton (2023) *** 1/2 

*The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Vol 1 by Bill Waterson (2023) **** 

*Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (2023) *** 

2024

*Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024) *** 

*Lost in the Empire City (2024) *** 

*Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi (2024) *** 

*Killing Time by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett (2024 novella) *** 

*The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood (2024) *** 1/2 

*Heavyweight by Solomon J. Brager (2024) *** 

*Final Cut by Charles Burns (2024) **** 

*The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke (2024) *** 

*King Alfred and the Ice Coffin by Kevin Crossley-Holland; illustrated by Chris Riddell (2024) *** 

*Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado (2024) ** 1/2 

*Ferris by Kate DiCamillo (2024) *** 1/2 

*Orris and Timble: The Beginning by Kate DiCamillo; illustrations by Carmen Mok (2024) ** 1/2 

*The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Julia Sarda (2024) *** 1/2 

*The Perilous Performance at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos; illustrated by Doug Salati (2024) *** 

*James by Percival Everett (2024) *** 1/2 \ 

*Amazing Grapes by Jules Feiffer (2024) ** 1/2 

*The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum by Margalit Fox (2024) *** 

*Fi: A Memoir Of My Son by Alexandra Fuller (2024) 

*The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman (2024) ***/ 

*The Evolution Of Annabel Craig by Lisa Grunwald (2024) *** 

*Bunny Should Be Sleeping by Amy Hest; illustrations by Renata Liwska (2024) ***/ 

*Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing by Amy Hest; illustrated by Erin E. Stead (2024) **** 

*The Wolf-Girl, The Greeks and the Gods by Tom Holland; illo by Jason Cockcroft (2024) *** 1/2 
*The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (2024) ** 

*Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (2024) *** 

*Adventures of Mary Jane by Hope Jahren (2024) ** 1/2 

*Bear and Bird: The Adventure and Other Stories by Jarvis (2024) *** 

*Alexander at the End of the World by Rachel Kousser (2024) *** 

*I'm SorryYou Got Mad by Kyle Lukoff; illustrated by Julie Kwon (2024) *** 

*The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies Of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon (2024) *** 
*The Great When by Alan Moore (2024) *** 1/2 
*Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley (2024) *** 

*Worst Case Scenario by T. J. Newman (2024) ** 1/2 

*Into The Uncut Grass by Trevor Noah; illustrated by Sabina Hahn (2024) ** 1/2 

*21 by Patrick O'Brian (2024) *** 

*Fence Vol. 6 by C.S. Pacat; illustrator Johanna The Mad (2024) ***  

*By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (2024) *** 

*Low-Hanging Fruit by Randy Rainbow (2024) *** 

*Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (2024) ***/ 

*This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter (2024) *** 

*Polostan by Neal Stephenson (2024) *** 1/2 

*The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Vol 2 by Bill Waterson (2024) **** 

*The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Vol 3 by Bill Waterson (2024) **** 

*Time of the Child by Niall Williams (2024) **** 

2025 

*Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born To Run by Peter Ames Carlin (2025) ** 1/2 

*Orris and Timble: Lost and Found by Kate DiCamillo; illustrations by Carmen Mok (2024) ** 1/2 

*The Gate, The Girl and The Dragon by Grace Lin (2025) ** 

*John & Paul: A Love Story by Ian Leslie (2025) *** 

*Yoko by David Sheff (2025) ** 

*Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow (2025) ** 1/2

*The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Vol 4 by Bill Waterson (2025) **** 

*The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Vol 5 by Bill Waterson (2025) **** 

Updated December 31, 2024