books read in 2023

1. Garth Risk Hallberg/CITY ON FIRE
2. Gabrielle Zevin/TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
3. W. Scott Poole/IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
4. Barbie Latza Nadeau/THE GODMOTHER
5. Heather Frese/THE BADDEST GIRL ON THE PLANET
6. Dolen Perkins-Valdez/TAKE MY HAND
7. Danya Kukafka/NOTES ON AN EXECUTION
8. Sujata Massey/THE SALARYMAN’S WIFE
9. Sujata Massey/THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY
10. Wanda Morris/ALL HER LITTLE SECRETS
11. Zack Jordan/THE LAST HUMAN
12. Dorothy Sayers/A STRONG POISON
13. Patrick Rothfuss/THE NAME OF THE WIND
14. Jacqueline Winspear/THE WHITE LADY
15. R.F. Kuang/BABEL
16. Ellen Raskin/THE WESTING GAME*
17. China Mieville/THE CITY AND THE CITY
18. Arnold Steinhardt/VIOLIN DREAMS
19. Jo Baker/LONGBOURN
20. Elizabeth McKenzie/THE DOG OF THE NORTH
21. Parini Schroff/THE BANDIT QUEENS
22. Bonnie Garmus/LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
23. Dorothy Sayers/BUSMAN’S HONEYMOON
24. Annie Hartnett/RABBIT CAKE
25. THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY & SUSPENSE 2022, edited by Jess Walter and Steph Cha
26. Kristina Gaddy/WELL OF SOULS: UNCOVERING THE BANJO’S HIDDEN HISTORY
27. Eugenia Leigh/BIANCA
28. Scott Lynch/THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA
29. Jenny Jackson/PINEAPPLE STREET
30. Agatha Christie/THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD*
31. Laurie Colwin/HAPPY ALL THE TIME
32. Martin Cruz Smith/NIGHTWING
33. Gene Wolfe/THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER
34. Ursula K. LeGuin/THE DISPOSSESSED
35. John Darnielle/DEVIL HOUSE
36. Jess Walter/THE COLD MILLIONS
37. Lucy Ives/LOUDERMILK
38. Nita Prose/THE MAID
39. Mary Gordon/JOAN OF ARC
40. Wanda Morris/ANYWHERE YOU RUN
41. Valerie Perrin/FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS
42. William Faulkner/AS I LAY DYING
43. Jasper Fforde/THE EYRE AFFAIR*
44. Octavia E. Butler/PARABLE OF THE SOWER
45. Jasper Fforde/RED SIDE STORY
46. Martin Edwards/THE LIFE OF CRIME
47. Andrea Camilleri/THE VOICE OF THE VIOLIN, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
48. David Grann/KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
49. Olga Tokarczuk/DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD, translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones
50. Robert Galbraith/THE RUNNING GRAVE
51. Ed Park/SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS
52. John LeCarre/THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
53. Alice McDermott/ABSOLUTION
54. Deborah Levy/AUGUST BLUE
55. Rodolphe Kreutzer/42 ETUDES OR CAPRICES

I only physically read 16 of these books, though. The others were all audio book. It doesn’t exactly feel like I’ve been true to my vow of 52 books a year.

books read in 2022

I totally thought I’d posted this six months ago. The years bleed together in a very cliche fashion.

1. Jason Mott/HELL OF A BOOK
2. Erin Swan/WALK THE VANISHED EARTH
3. JS Dewes/THE LAST WATCH
4. Robert Jordan/THE FIRES OF HEAVEN*
5. Rebecca Skloot/THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
6. Kirstin Valdez Quade/THE FIVE WOUNDS
7. Maggie Shipstead/GREAT CIRCLE
8. Sarah Weinman/SCOUNDREL
9. John Ruskin/THE STONES OF VENICE
10. Brendan Slocumb/THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY
11. Mick Herron/RECONSTRUCTION
12. Barbara Quick/VIVALDI’S VIRGINS
13. Mick Herron/DOWN CEMETERY ROAD
14. Alex Segura/SECRET IDENTITY
15. Mick Herron/THE LAST VOICE YOU HEAR
16. Katie Kitamura/INTIMACIES
17. Martin Cruz Smith/GORKY PARK
18. Xochitl Gonzalez/OLGA DIES DREAMING
19. Toby Faber/STRADIVARI’S GENIUS: FIVE VIOLINS
20. Elsie Arnold & Jane Baldauf-Berdes/MADDALENA LOMBARDINI SIRMEN
21. Juno Dawson/HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL COVEN
22. Nicola Griffith/SPEAR
23. Connie Willis/THE DOOMSDAY BOOK
24. Sloan Crosley/CULT CLASSIC
25. Richard Osman/THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
26. David Schoenbaum/THE VIOLIN: A SOCIAL HISTORY
27. Tim Powers/THE ANUBIS GATES
28. Ed Lin/DEATH DOESN’T FORGET
29. Lucy Foley/THE GUEST LIST
30. Malcolm Boyd/BACH
31. Noa Tishby/ISRAEL: A SIMPLE GUIDE TO THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD COUNTRY
32. Jamie Ford/THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY
33. Denise Mina/RIZZIO
34. Kate Brody/RABBIT HOLE
35. Tamsyn Muir/GIDEON THE NINTH
36. Mark Thompson/THE WHITE WAR*
37. Danielle Trussoni/THE ANCESTOR
38. Lynda Cohen Loigman/THE MATCHMAKERS GIFT
39. Cynthia Ozick/FOREIGN BODIES
40. Ilaria Tuti/FLOWERS OVER THE INFERNO
41. Emilio Lussi/A SOLDIER ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT (Un anno sull’Altopiano, translated by Gregory Conti)
42. Jill Lepore/THE NAME OF WAR
43. Virginia Euwer Wolff/THE MOZART SEASON*
44. Haruki Murakami/A WILD SHEEP CHASE (translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
45. Suzette Mayr/THE SLEEPING CAR PORTER
46. SA Cosby/RAZORBLADE TEARS
47. Raquel Reyes/MANGO, MAMBO, AND MURDER
48. Kate Manning/GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
49. Jim Harrison/LEGENDS OF THE FALL, REVENGE, THE MAN WHO GAVE UP HIS NAME
50. Edith Wharton/HOUSE OF MIRTH
51. Robert Jordan/THE LORD OF CHAOS*
52. Joanna Quinn/THE WHALEBONE THEATER
53. Elizabeth Wein/CODE NAME VERITY

books read in 2021

1. Susan Sontag/THE VOLCANO LOVER: A ROMANCE
2. Robert Galbraith/TROUBLED BLOOD
3. Julie Schumacher/DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS
4. Andromeda Romano-Lax/ANNIE AND THE WOLVES
5. Casey McQuiston/RED, WHITE, AND ROYAL BLUE
6. Paul Harding/TINKERS
7. P. Djeli Clark/THE BLACK GOD’S DRUMS
8. Maggie O’Farrell/HAMNET
9. Mariana Leky/WHAT YOU CAN SEE FROM HERE, translated from the German by Tess Lewis
10. John Julius Norwich/A HISTORY OF VENICE
11. K Chess/FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED
12. Don DeLillo/UNDERWORLD
13. Kate Elizabeth Russell/MY DARK VANESSA
14. C. Pam Zhang/HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD
15. Luanne Rice/THE SHADOW BOX
16. Wendy J. Fox/WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE?
17. Kazuo Ishiguro/KLARA AND THE SUN
18. Iain M. Banks/USE OF WEAPONS
19. SAPPHO: A NEW TRANSLATION, translated from the Classical Greek by Mary Barnard
20. J.K. Rowling/HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE*
21. Magda Szabo/ABIGAIL, translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix
22. Iris Murdoch/A FAIRLY HONOURABLE DEFEAT
23. Rachel DeWoskin/BANSHEE
24. Helen DeWitt/SOME TRICK
25. Malinda Lo/LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB
26. Amy Rose Cappetta/THE BRILLIANT DEATH
27. Helen DeWitt/THE LAST SAMURAI*
28. Laudomia Bonanni/THE REPRISAL, translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart and Sara Teardo
29. emily m. danforth/PLAIN BAD HEROINES
30. Jessie Chaffee/FLORENCE IN ECSTASY
31. Dawnie Watson/THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL AND NEV
32. Liv Stratman/CHEAT DAY
33. Sonia Sotomayor/MY BEAUTIFUL WORLD
34. John Crowley/LITTLE, BIG, OR: THE FAIRIES’ PARLIAMENT
35. Jeff Schlegelmilch/RETHINKING READINESS
36. Ed Park/PERSONAL DAYS
37. Jenny Tinghui Zhang/FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY
38. R.F. Kuang/THE POPPY WAR
39. Joseph Hansen/FADEOUT
40. J.G. Farrell/TROUBLES
41. Lisa Halliday/ASSYMETRY
42. Oyinkan Braithwaite/MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER
43. Joan Didion/PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
44. Nino Haratischvili/THE EIGHTH LIFE (FOR BRILKA), translated from the German by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin
45. Jean Hanff Korelitz/THE PLOT
46. Tom Steel/THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ST. KILDA
47. Donna Freitas/THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO
48. Jenny Offill/WEATHER
49. Steven Rowley/THE GUNCLE
50. Matt Haig/THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
51. Robert Jordan/THE EYE OF THE WORLD*
52. Michael Connelly/THE BLACK ECHO
53. Kimberly McCreight/FRIENDS LIKE THESE
54. Samuel R. Delany/TIME CONSIDERED AS A HELIX OF SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES
55. Angeline Boulley/FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER
56. Maggie Nelson/THE ARGONAUTS
57. Robert Jordan/THE GREAT HUNT*
58. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers/THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DUBOIS
59. Robert Jordan/THE DRAGON REBORN*
60. Salman Rushdie/THE SATANIC VERSES
61. Ngaio Marsh/BLACK AS HE’S PAINTED
62. Susanna Clarke/PIRANESI
63. Robert Jordan/NEW SPRING
64. J. Ryan Stradal/THE LAGER QUEENS OF MINNESOTA
65. Mary Bly/LIZZIE & DANTE
66. V.E. Schwab/THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
67. Robert Jordan/THE SHADOW RISING*
68. Claire North/THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST
69. Louise Erdrich/THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

books read in 2020

1. DIALOGHI GRECI DI CALABRIA
2. Ellen Raskin/THE WESTING GAME*
3. Mary Beth Keane/ASK AGAIN, YES
4. Saverio Strati, translated by Peter Moule/EMPTY HANDS
5. Taylor Jenkins Reid/DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
6. Lynda Cohen Loigman/THE WARTIME SISTERS
7. Denise Mina/CONVICTION
8. Velma Wallis/TWO OLD WOMEN
9. Katy Simpson Smith/THE EVERLASTING
10. Jan Morris/VENICE*
11. Ann Cornelisen/WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: ITALY 1954
12. Jessica Simpson/OPEN BOOK
13. Stephanie Gorton/CITIZEN REPORTERS: S.S. MCCLURE, IDA TARBELL, AND THE MAGAZINE THAT REWROTE AMERICA
14. Elizabeth von Arnim/THE ENCHANTED APRIL
15. Dorothy Sayers/GAUDY NIGHT
16. Erica Ruth Neubauer/MURDER AT THE MENA HOUSE
17. Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder/THE MEMORY POLICE
18. Elin Hilderbrand/WINTER IN PARADISE
19. Jesmyn Ward/SALVAGE THE BONES
20. Carolyn Keene/THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK
21. Peter Lovesey/WOBBLE TO DEATH
22. Britt Bennett/THE VANISHING HALF
23. Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg/EDEN
24. Rebecca Starford/AN UNLIKELY SPY
25. Barbara Neely/BLANCHE ON THE LAMB
26. Lauren Wilkerson/AMERICAN SPY
27. Jane Austen/PRIDE AND PREJUDICE*
28. Robert Hellenga/THE SIXTEEN PLEASURES
29. Karen Odden/A LADY IN THE SMOKE
30. Julia Claiborne Johnson/BE FRANK WITH ME
31. Geraldine Brooks/YEAR OF WONDERS
32. B. Amore/JOURNEYS ON THE WHEEL
33. Clare Pooley/THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT
34. Rumaan Alam/LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
35. Charles Yu/INTERIOR CHINATOWN
36. Lydia Millet/A CHILDREN’S BIBLE
37. John Vercher/THREE-FIFTHS
38. Raven Leilani/LUSTER
39. David Heska Wanbli Weiden/WINTER COUNTS
40. Umberto Zanotti Bianco/TRA LA PERDUTA GENTE
41. Liz Moore/LONG BRIGHT RIVER
42. James Baldwin/GIOVANNI’S ROOM
43. Ayad Akhtar/HOMELAND ELEGIES
44. Mick Herron/SLOUGH HOUSE

*denotes a reread

books read in 2019

1. Maggie O’Farrell/THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE
2. Adriana Trigiani/TONY’S WIFE
3. Julie Langsdorf/THE WHITE ELEPHANT
4. Sheri S. Tepper/THE GATE TO WOMEN’S COUNTRY
5. Chris Pavone/THE ACCIDENT
6. Stephanie Barron/THAT CHURCHILL WOMAN
7. Erika Swyler/LIGHT FROM OTHER STARS
8. Chris Pavone/THE TRAVELERS
9. Camille Acker/TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS
10. Peter S. Beagle/IN CALABRIA
11. James Sallis/THE LONG-LEGGED FLY*
12. Amor Towles/RULES OF CIVILITY
13. Catherine Chung/THE TENTH MUSE
14. Lisa See/THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN
15. Angie Kim/MIRACLE CREEK
16. Sally Rooney/CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS
17. Susan Choi/TRUST EXERCISE
18. Delia Owens/WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
19. Esi Edugyan/WASHINGTON BLACK
20. Juliet Escoria/JULIET THE MANIAC
21. Sigrid Nunez/THE FRIEND
22. Lisa Taddeo/THREE WOMEN
23. Ruth Reichl/SAVE ME THE PLUMS
24. Emily Bernard/BLACK IS THE BODY
25. Alex Perry/THE GOOD MOTHERS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WOMEN WHO TOOK ON THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL MAFIA
26. Amber Phillips/CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ‘NDRANGHETA
27. Ann Cornelisen/VENDETTA OF SILENCE
28. Tina Cassidy/MR. PRESIDENT, HOW LONG MUST WE WAIT?
29. Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Frances Frenaye/THE DRY HEART
30. Morris West/THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
31. Linda Holmes/EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER
32. Corrado Alvaro, translated by Frances Frenaye/REVOLT IN ASPROMONTE*
33. Nancy Pearl/GEORGE AND LIZZIE
34. Saverio Montalto, translated Archibald Colquhoun/A VOICE FROM THE CELL
35. Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer/THE MASK COLLECTORS
36. Ocean Vuong/ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS
37. Colson Whitehead/NICKEL BOYS
38. Melissa Rivero/THE AFFAIRS OF THE FALCONS
39. Miciah Bay Gault/GOODNIGHT, STRANGER
40. George Orwell/ANIMAL FARM*
41. Susan Elia MacNiel/MR. CHURCHULL’S SECRETARY
42. Edward Lear/JOURNALS OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN SOUTHERN CALABRIA
43. Steph Cha/YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY

*denotes a reread

books read in 2018

1. Carmen Maria Machado/HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES
2. Ellen Raskin/THE WESTING GAME*
3. Christine Pelisek/THE GRIM SLEEPER: THE LOST WOMEN OF SOUTH CENTRAL
4. Ivy Pochoda/WONDER VALLEY
5. Margaret Millar/STRANGER IN MY GRAVE
6. Miriam Parker/THE SHORTEST WAY HOME
7. John Dickie/BLOOD BROTHERHOODS: A HISTORY OF ITALY’S THREE MAFIAS
8. Christine Mangan/TANGERINE
9. Ellen Raskin/THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF LEAN (I MEAN NOEL)*
10. N.K. Jemison/THE FIFTH SEASON
11. Charles McCarry/THE MIERNIK DOSSIER
12. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan/SARONG PARTY GIRLS
13. Tayari Jones/AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
14. Sari Wilson/GIRL THROUGH GLASS
15. Jesse Ball/CENSUS
16. Louis de Berniers/CORELLI’S MANDOLIN
17. Min Jin Lee/PACHINKO
18. Matt Haig/HOW TO STOP TIME
19. Ian Rankin/KNOWS AND CROSSES
20. Attica Locke/BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD
21. Philip Hoare/THE WHALE: IN SEARCH OF THE GIANTS OF THE SEA
22. Nathaniel Philbrick/IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: THE TRAGEDY OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX
23. Gina Apostol/INSURRECTO
24. Madeline Miller/CIRCE
25. Anthony Bourdain/KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
26. Carlo Levi/CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI
27. George Saunders/LINCOLN IN THE BARDO
28. Gail Honeyman/ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE
29. Anthony Bourdain/MEDIUM RAW
30. Robert B. Parker/THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT
31. Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver/HISTORY
32. Rachel Khong/GOODBYE, VITAMIN
33. Norman Douglas/OLD CALABRIA*
34. W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse/THE RINGS OF SATURN
35. Neal Stephenson/CRYPTONOMICON
36. Tommy Orange/THERE, THERE
37. John Straley/THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED A BEAR
38. Michelle McNamara/I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK
39. Patrick DeWitt/FRENCH EXIT
40. Bethany C. Morrow/MEM
41. Adriana Trigiani/LUCIA, LUCIA
42. James Sallis/DRIVE
43. Ottessa Moshfegh/MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
44. Suzy Giordano, Lisa Abidin/TWELVE HOURS OF SLEEP BY TWELVE WEEKS OLD
45. Brandon Hobson/WHERE THE DEAD SIT TALKING
46. Helen DeWitt/THE LAST SAMURAI
47. Sarah Weinman/THE REAL LOLITA: THE KIDNAPPING OF SALLY HORNER
48. Rebecca Makkai/THE GREAT BELIEVERS
49. Robert Galbraith/LETHAL WHITE
50. Tana French/BROKEN HARBOR
51. Jonathan Letham/THE FERAL DETECTIVE
52. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney/THE NEST
53. Todd S. Purdum/SOMETHING WONDERFUL: RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S BROADWAY REVOLUTION
54. Erin Kelly/HE SAID/SHE SAID
55. Imogen Hermes Gower/THE MERMAID AND MRS. HANDCOCK

*denotes a reread

books read in 2017

1. Ken Liu/THE GRACE OF KINGS
2. SJ Sindu/MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES
3. Jan Morris/VENICE*
4. Lidia D. Sciama/A VENETIAN ISLAND: ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY, AND CHANGE IN BURANO
5. Carl Hiaasen/TOURIST SEASON
6. Thomas Madden/VENICE: A NEW HISTORY
7. Yaa Gyasi/HOMEGOING
8. Clarissa Goenawan/RAINBIRDS
9. Raymond Chandler/FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
10. Sister Bartolomea riccoboni, edited and translated by Daniel Bornstein/LIFE AND DEATH IN A VENETIAN CONVENT: THE CHRONICLE AND NECROLOGY OF CORPUS DOMINI, 1395-1436
11. Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield/LADIES OF LETTERS
12. Agatha Christie/MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS*
13. Dorsey Armstrong/THE BLACK DEATH: THE WORLD’S MOST DEVASTATING PLAGUE
14. Jacqueline Woodson/ANOTHER BROOKLYN
15. Emily Arsenault/THE LEAF READER
16. Alan Watt/THE 90-DAY NOVEL
17. Carl Hiaasen/DOUBLE WHAMMY
18. Justine Larbalestier/MY SISTER ROSA
19. Naomi Hirahara/SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI
20. Ann Cornelisen/TORREGRECA: LIFE, DEATH, MIRACLES
21. Stephen Hawking/A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
22. Arthur Conan Doyle/A STUDY IN SCARLET*
23. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE SIGN OF FOUR
24. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
25. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
26. Karen Haid/CALABRIA: THE OTHER ITALY
27. Rachel Kadish/THE WEIGHT OF INK
28. George Gissing/BY THE IONIAN SEA: NOTES ON A RAMBLE IN SOUTHERN ITALY
29. Helene Stapinski/MURDER IN MATERA: A TRUE STORY OF PASSION, FAMILY, AND FORGIVENESS IN SOUTHERN ITALY
30. Carl Hiaasen/SKIN TIGHT
31. Elizabeth McKenzie/THE PORTABLE VEBLEN
32. Timothy Hallinan/PULPED
33. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES*
34. Carl Hiaasen/NATIVE TONGUE
35. Mick Herron/SLOW HORSES
36. Angie Thomas/THE HATE U GIVE
37. Anthony Horowitz/MAGPIE MURDERS
38. Umberto Eco/THE NAME OF THE ROSE*
39. Charmain Craig/MISS BURMA
40. Kate Manning/MY NOTORIOUS LIFE
41. Saverio Strati, translated by Elizabeth Ellman/TERRAROSSA
42. Joe Ide/IQ
43. Amor Towles/A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
44. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
45. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE VALLEY OF FEAR
46. George Simenon/PIETR THE LATVIAN
47. Frederick Exley/A FAN’S NOTES
48. Gabriel Tallent/mY ABSOLUTE DARLING
49. Margaret Millar/BEAST IN VIEW
50. Con Lehane/MURDER IN THE MANUSCRIPT ROOM

*denotes a reread

books read in 2016

1. Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie/AMERICANAH
2. Margaret Millar/THE WEAK-EYED BAT
3. Francine Mathews/DEATH IN ROUGH WATER
4. Lauren Groff/FATES AND FURIES
5. Truman Capote/IN COLD BLOOD
6. Philip Pullman/THE GOLDEN COMPASS
7. Philip Pullman/THE SUBTLE KNIFE
8. Margaret Millar/MERMAID
9. Elena Ferrante/THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY (translated by Ann Goldstein)
10. Philip Pullman/THE AMBER SPYGLASS
11. Yoko Ogawa/THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR (translated by Allison Markin Powell)
12. Garth Greenwell/WHAT BELONGS TO YOU
13. Jenny Erpenbeck/THE END OF DAYS (translated by Susan Bernofsky)
14. John Julius Norwich/SICILY: AN ISLAND AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
15. Angela Flournoy/THE TURNER HOUSE
16. Elizabeth Little/DEAR DAUGHTER
17. Andrea Camilleri/THE SHAPE OF WATER (translated by Stephen Sartarelli)
18. Maria Messina/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (translated by Elide Magistero)
19. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa/THE LEOPARD (translated by Archibald Colquhoun)
20. Dawn Foster/LEAN OUT
21. C. Alexander Hortis/THE MOB AND THE CITY
22. Peter Robb/MIDNIGHT IN SICILY
23. Leonardo Sciascia/TO EACH HIS OWN (translated by Adrienne Foulke)
24. Elena Ferrante/THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD (translated by Ann Goldstein)
25. Andrea Camilleri/THE SHAPE OF WATER (translated by Stephen Sartarelli)*
26. Elio Vittorini/CONVERSATIONS IN SICILY (translated by Alane Salierno Mason)
27. Andrea Camilleri/THE SNACK THIEF (translated by Stephen Sartarelli)
28. Leonardo Sciascia/THE DAY OF THE OWL (translated by Archibald Colquhoun and Anthony Oliver)
29. Curtis Sittenfeld/ELIGIBLE
30. Robert Jordan/THE EYE OF THE WORLD*
31. Robert Jordan/THE GREAT HUNT*
32. JK Rowling/HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN*
33. Francine Mathews/DEATH IN MOOD INDIGO
34. JK Rowling/HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE*
35. Viet Thanh Nguyen/THE SYMPATHIZER
36. Eowyn Ivey/THE SNOW CHILD
37. Marie Vieux-Chauvey/DANCE ON THE VOLCANO (translated by Kaiama L. Glover)
38. Barry Gifford/SAILOR AND LULA
39. Margaret Millar/EXPERIMENT IN SPRINGTIME
40. Dashiell Hammett/RED HARVEST
41. Sabahattin Ali/MADONNA IN A FUR COAT (translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe)
42. John Boyne/THE ABSOLUTIST
43. Andrea Camilleri/THE TERRA COTTA DOG (translated by Stephen Sartarelli)
44. Annie Liontas/LET ME EXPLAIN YOU
45. Molly Prentiss/THURSDAY NIGHTS IN 1980
46. Rachel Cantor/GOOD ON PAPER
47. Thomas Mullen/DARKTOWN
48. Tomáš Zmeškal/LOVE LETTER IN CUNEIFORM (translated by Alex Zucker)
49. Graham Greene/THE THIRD MAN
50. Delores Phillips/THE DARKEST CHILD

*denotes a reread

books read in 2015

1. Caleb Carr/THE ALIENIST
2. Corrado Alvaro/REVOLT IN ASPROMONTE (translated by Frances Frenaye)
3. Laurie Fabbiano/ELIZABETH STREET
4. Eleanor Catton/THE LUMINARIES
5. Gay Talese/UNTO THE SONS
6. Alison Weir/THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII
7. Mark Thompson/THE WHITE WAR: LIFE AND DEATH ON THE ITALIAN FRONT 1915-1919
8. Joan Didion/THE WHITE ALBUM
9. Hilary Mantel/WOLF HALL
10. Paula Hawkins/THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
11. Lyndsay Faye/THE GODS OF GOTHAM
12. Claudia Rankine/CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC
13. Josephine Tey/DAUGHTER OF TIME
14. Chester Hymes/THE CRAZY KILL
15. Joan Wickersham/THE NEWS FROM SPAIN
16. Attica Locke/BLACK WATER RISING
17. Scott Phillips/THE ICE HARVEST
18. Salvatore Scibona/THE END
19. Francine Mathews/TOO BAD TO DIE
20. Roz Chast/CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT?
21. Elena Ferrante/THE STORY OF A NEW NAME (translated by Ann Goldstein)
22. Elizabeth Kolbert/THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY
23. Thomas Mann/DEATH IN VENICE (translator unlisted)
24. Kamel Daoud/THE MERSAULT INVESTIGATION (translated by John Cullen)
25. Thomas F. Madden/VENICE: A NEW HISTORY
26. Ottessa Moshfegh/EILEEN
27. Pietro di Donato/CHRIST IN CONCRETE
28. Emily St. John Mandel/STATION ELEVEN
29. Agatha Christie/MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
30. P.D. James/AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN
31. Margaret Millar/AN AIR THAT KILLS
32. Agatha Christia/THE MURDER OF ROGER AKROYD
33. Sue Grafton/A IS FOR ALIBI
34. Margaret Millar/WIVES AND LOVERS
35. Wilkie Collins/THE MOONSTONE
36. Francine Mathews/DEATH IN THE OFF-SEASON
37. Gustave Flaubert/MADAME BOVARY (translator unlisted)
38. Daniel Ehrenhaft/THE AFTER LIFE
39. Miranda July/THE FIRST BAD MAN
40. Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew/BLIND MAN’S BLUFF: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUBMARINE ESPIONAGE
41. Stuart O’Nan/SONGS FOR THE MISSING
42. Paul Strathern/DEATH IN FLORENCE: THE MEDICI, SAVANAROLA, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE RENAISSANCE CITY
43. James Sallis/THE LONG-LEGGED FLY
44. Hanya Yanagihara/A LITTLE LIFE
45. John Fusco/PARADISE SALVAGE
46. Margaret Millar/BEYOND THIS POINT ARE MONSTERS
47. Connie Willis/TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG

books read in 2014

Half a year late in posting this. Still worth making it internet findable for myself.

1. Kate Atkinson/LIFE AFTER LIFE

2. Siddhartha Mukerjee/THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A BIOGRAPHY OF CANCER

3. Timothy Williams/CONVERGING PARALLELS

4. Jane Gardam/OLD FILTH

5. Megan Abbott/DARE ME

6. Jan Morris/VENICE

7. Timothy Williams/THE PUPPETEER

8. Donna Leon/ACQUA ALTA

9. Jacqueline Winspear/MAISIE DOBBS

10. Franco La Cecla/PASTA AND PIZZA

11. Muriel Spark/THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

12. Jonathan Franzen/THE CORRECTIONS

13. Graham Greene/THE END OF THE AFFAIR

14. Susan Jane Gilman/UNDRESS ME IN THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN

15. Timothy Williams/PERSONA NON GRATA

16. Ted Lewis/G.B.H.

17. Ted Lewis/GET CARTER

18. Adele Griffin/THE UNFINISHED LIFE OF ADDISON STONE

19. Ted Lewis/JACK CARTER’S LAW

20. Elena Ferrante/MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (translated by Ann Goldstein)

21. Ted Lewis/JACK CARTER AND THE MAFIA PIGEON

22. Norman Douglas/OLD CALABRIA

23. Ignazio Silone/BREAD AND WINE (translated by Eric Mosbacher)

24. Timothy Williams/BLACK AUGUST

25. Jerre Mangione & Ben Morreale/LA STORIA: FIVE CENTURIES OF THE ITALIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE*

26. Rebecca Musser with M. Bridget Cook/THE WITNESS WORE RED: THE 19TH WIFE WHO BROUGHT POLYGAMOUS CULT LEADERS TO JUSTICE

26. Donna Tartt/THE GOLDFINCH

27. Dan Possumato/KING OF THE MOUNTAINS: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF GIUSEPPE MUSOLINO

28. Clarence Maloney et al/THE EVIL EYE (collection of essays by various authors, Columbia University Press, 1976)

29. Brando Skyhorse/TAKE THIS MAN

30. Robert Galbraith/THE SILKWORM

31. Kingsley Amis/THE GREEN MAN

32. J.K. Rowling/HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE* (see what happened there with The Silkworm?)

33. TRAVELLERS CALABRIA (2009 edition)

34. Barry Lancet/JAPANTOWN

35. Marc Morris/THE NORMAN CONQUEST: THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS AND THE FALL OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

36. Adelle Waldman/THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P.

37. Colin Cotterill/THE CORONER’S LUNCH*

38. Ann Cornelisen/WOMEN OF THE SHADOWS: WIVES AND MOTHERS OF SOUTHERN ITALY

39. Mindy Kaling/IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?

40. Jacqueline Winspear/THE CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF LIES

41. Ted Lewis/BILLY RAGS

42. Colin Cotterill/THIRTY-THREE TEETH

43. Mark Rotella/STOLEN FIGS: AND OTHER ADVENTURES

44. Giovanni Verga/THE SHE-WOLF AND OTHER STORIES (translated by Giovanni Cecchetti)

45. Celeste Ng/EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU

46. Edwidge Danticat/CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT

47. Sara Zarr/THE LUCY VARIATIONS

48. Scott Anderson/LAWRENCE IN ARABIA: WAR, DECEIT, IMPERIAL FOLLY, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST

49. Ovidia Yu/AUNTY LEE’S DELIGHTS

50. Isabel Wilkerson/THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICA’S GREAT MIGRATION

(I missed my 52-title goal by 2 this year.)

*indicates reread