12 Edmondstone Street (Malouf) June 28/09

A Complicated Kindness (Toews) Jan 5/05

A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole) Fall Reading 2010

A Life of Privilege, Mostly (Botsford) Dec 31/05

A Long Way Gone (Beah) Fall Reading 2010

A Mind of Its Own (Friedman) Nov 7/11

A Romance on Three Legs (Hafner) March 17/10

A Short History of Progress (Wright) June 8/07

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Lewycka) Dec 27/06

A Stolen Life (Dugard) Nov 27/11

A Year in the Merde (Clarke) June 27/06

About Alice (Trillin) Jan 11/10

Abraham Lincoln (Keneally) Dec 31/05

Adventures of Lucky Pierre, The (Coover) Jan 11/06

After These Things (Diski) Sept 1/05

Aloft (Chang-rae Lee) Sept 6/06

All Souls' Day (Nooteboom) Books page

American Purgatorio (Haskell) Sept 16/05

Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The (Wood) Dec 5/04

An American Childhood (Dillard) Sept 18/07

Analyst, The (Katzenbach), July 18/06

Anatomy School, The (MacLaverty) Books page

And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Morrison) Books page

Annabel (Winter) March 24/11

At Mrs. Lippincote's (Taylor) Dec 27/06

At Swim Two Boys (O'Neill) Books page

Author, Author (Lodge) Nov 4/05

Bad Science (Goldacre) Dec 12/11

Barrel Fever (Sedaris) May 18/08

Be Near Me (O'Hagan) Summer Reading 2010

Being Caribou (Heuer) Oct 4/07

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself (Wroe) June 23/08

Bel Canto (Patchett) July 18/06

Belonging (Huggans) Jan 19/05

Ben in the World (Lessing) June 4/08

(The) Best Laid Plans (Fallis) Fall Reading 2010

(The) Bible Unearthed (Finkelstein and Silberman) March 8/07

(The) Birthday Party (Alpert) Fall Reading 2010

Blackbird (Basilières) Dec 21/10

Black Swan Green (Mitchell) Aug 2/10

Black Veil, The (Moody) March 17/06

(The) Book of Getting Even (Taylor) Summer Reading 2010

Born Standing Up (Martin) March 1/09

Bossypants (Fey) June 25/11

Breakfast on Pluto (McCabe) Books page

Breaking the Spell (Dennett) Nov 7/11

Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney) March 11/11

Byron: The Flawed Angel (Grosskurth) Nov 25/05

Captivity (Loney) Apr 29/11

Careless Love (Guralnick) Nov 27/11

Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women (Flem) Aug 10/05

Cathedral (Carver) Nov 8/06

(The) Christian World (Marty) July 31/09

City of Falling Angels, The (Berendt) Feb 16/06

Cloud Atlas (Feb 4/05)

Confessions (Kang) Oct 4/07

Confessions of an Innocent Man (Sampson) Oct 22/09

Cure of Folly, The (Werme) Nov 28/06

(The) Curious Case of Sidd Finch (Plimpton) March 21/05

(The) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon) March 1/09

(The) Da Vinci Code (Brown) Books page

Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage

with Barry Humphries (Lahr) Books page

Dancer(McCann) Books page

Darwin: A Sense of Place (Browne) Books page

De Niro's Game (Hage) April 14/07

(The) Divine Husband (Goldman) Sept 5/08

Diviners, The (Moody) Dec 27/06

(The) Do-Gooder's Diet (Vale) Sept 18/07

Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) Dec 11/06

Drawing Is Thinking (Glaser) Aug 9/10

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Sedaris) May 18/08

(The) Drunkard's Walk (Mlodinow) Summer Reading 2010

Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing (Leonard) Feb 13/08

Elvis: In the Twilight of Memory (Juanico) Summer Reading 2011

Empire of the Sun (Ballard) July 17/09

England, England (Barnes) July 18/06

Englishman's Boy, The (Vanderhaeghe) Sept 22/06

Erratic North (Frutkin) Nov 24/09

Eventide (Haruf) May 23/06

Everyman (Roth) Nov 28/06

Everything in This Country Must (McCann) May 21/07

Exit Ghost (Roth) Oct 25/07

Falling Man (DeLillo) Sept 5/08

Falling Towards England (James) Sept 5/08

Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul (Hendra) July 10/05

Finding Myself (Litt) Sept 6/06

Fisher King, The (Powell) March 21/05

Flaubert (Brown) Fall Reading 2010

Foreskin's Lament (Auslander) Nov 7/11

(The) Forgotten Waltz (Enright) Jan 15/12

Fraud (Rakoff) Feb 1/06

(The) Free World (Bezmozgis) June 20/11

Galileo's Finger (Atkins) Feb 16/06

(The) Gathering (Enright) May 4/08

Glass  Cage: The Crest Theatre Story (Illidge) August 12/06

(The) God Delusion (Dawkins) May 21/07

God's Secretaries (Nicolson) March 24/11

Good Priest's Son, The (Price) Aug 10/05

Greene on Capri (Hazzard) July 18/06

Hallelujah Junction (Adams) July 19/11

Hardcore Zen (Warner) Feb 26/08

Hart's War (Katzenbach) July 18/06

Heat (Buford) Oct 25/07

History of Shit (Laporte) Jan 11/06

Hitch-22 (Hitchens) Summer Reading 2011

Housekeeping (Robinson) On a page of its own, just above Oct 22/09

How Fiction Works (Wood) on a page of its, just above Nov 24/09

How Insensitive (Smith) Sept 1/05

How Jesus Became Christian (Wilson) Fall Reading 2010

I Am America (And So Can You!) (Colbert) July 21/08

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (McGregor) March 9/06

(The) Immaculate Conception (Soucy) April 14/07

In America (Sontag) June 15/05

In Patagonia (Chatwin) Aug 23/09

In Pursuit of Silence (Prochnick) Summer Reading 2011

In Search of Time (Falk) Dec 31/09

In Spite of Myself (Plummer) June 3/10

In The Beginning Was The Worm (Brown) Dec 20/04

In The Blink of an Eye (Parker) August 12/06

In The Blood (Motion) Fall Reading 2010

In The Garden of Beasts (Larson) Dec 20/11

In The Land of Long Fingernails (Wilkins) Nov 16/08

(The) Jesus Sayings (Weyler) On a page of its own, just above Feb 8/09

John Clare (Bate) Feb 28/05

(The) Judgment of Paris (King) Jan 30/08

Kite Runner, The (Hosseini) May 18/05

Last American Man, The (Gilbert) Books page

Last Train to Memphis (Guralnick) Summer Reading 2011

Late Nights on Air (Hay) Dec 30/07

Leaving Home (Brookner) Sept 7/05

Leonardo (Kemp) June 15/05

(The) Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe (O'Hagan) June 2/11

Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The (Bryson) Dec 27/06

Life of Pi (Martel) Books page

Light and Dark (Howard) Jan 23/12

(The) Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst) Summer Reading 2010

Lolita (Nabokov) Aug 9/10

(The) Longest Trip Home (Grogan) July 17/09

Look At It This Way (Cartwright) Books page

Losing It (Cumyn) Feb 1

Lost In Place (Salzman) March 21/05

Love and Louis XIV (Fraser) Summer Reading 2010

Man in the Dark (Auster) Jan 10/09

(The) Man Who Would Be Queen (Bailey) Oct 25/07

Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Fraser) Jan 24/07 

Master, The (Toibin)  April 8/05

Matisse: The Master (Spurling) April 17/10

May Week Was In June (James) Sept 5/08

Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris) Feb 16/07

Metraville (Popowich) Jan 7/12

Michael Tolliver Lives (Maupin) Sept 5/08

Misquoting Jesus (Ehrman) May 23/06

(The) Missionary Position (Hitchens) Aug 2/10

Mothers and Sons (Tóibín) May 2/07

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter (Nahani) Sept 16/05

Muriella Pent (Smith) Sept 7/05

Must You Go? (Fraser) Aug 11/11

My Lobotomy (Dully) June 23/08

(The) Naked Tourist (Osborne) Dec 21/10

Netherland (O'Neill) May 10/09

No Great Mischief (MacLeod) July 18/06

Norman Bray In The Performance Of His Life (Cole) Feb 1/06

Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Barnes) Feb 7/11

Of This Earth (Wiebe) Nov 24/09

On Chesil Beach (McEwan) June 8/07

On Human Nature (Wilson) Oct 25/07

One Soldier's War (Babchenko) July 31/09

Open Net (Plimpton) Dec 31/05

(The) Order of Good Cheer (Gaston) Aug 23/09

Our Fathers (O'Hagan) Dec 30/07

Oxygen (Miller) Sept 18/09

Pack Up the Moon (Teleky) Feb 1/06

(The) Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem 1951-1961 (Rorem) Feb 23/11

Paula Spencer (Doyle) Dec 27/06

Plays Well With Others (Gurganus) Books page

Plot Against America, The (Roth)  Oct 24/05

Primates and Philosophers (de Waal) July 31/09

Promise of Happiness, The (Cartwright) Sept 16/05

Red Queen, The (Drabble) Feb 21/05

Remember Me (Azzopardi) Books page

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker (Mehta) Summer Reading 2011

Remembering the Bones (Itani) Dec 8/07

Reservation Blues (Alexie) Sept 1/05

(The) Retreat (Bergen) Dec 24/08

Room (Donoghue) Dec 6/10

Ruined By Reading (Schwartz) March 21/05

Rumi, Gazing at the Beloved: The Radical Practice of Beholding the Divine (Johnson) Jan 17/08

Running Away to Sea (Fetherling) June 28/09

Saturday (McEwan) March 17/06

(The) Savage Detectives (Bolaño) June 4/08

Sea, The (Banville) Nov 28/06

Seasons on Harris (Yeadon) May 18/08

(The) Sense of An Ending (Barnes) Dec 20/11

Sex, Sin and Zen (Warner) Nov 18/11

Shake Hands With the Devil (Dallaire) Dec 5/04

She Got Up Off The Couch (Kimmel) March 23/07

Sit Down and Shut Up (Warner) April 14/09

Skating to Antarctica (Diski) Sept 16/05

Skeletons on the Zahara (King) Aug 12/06

Slow Man (Coetzee) May 2/06

(The) Snow Leopard (Matthiessen) Nov 18/11

So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Enger) Nov 16/08

Solar (McEwan) Fall Reading 2010

(The) Solitude of Prime Numbers (Giordano) July 19/11

(The) Soul Thief (Baxter) Sept 18/09

Sovereign: Elizabeth II and the Windsor Dynasty (Flamini) April 12/06

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Sedaris) May 14/11

Story of My Father, The (Miller) Oct 25/05

Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects (Miller) May 18/05

Suite Française (Némirovsky) Feb 22/10

Sweetness in the Belly (Gibb) April 14/07

Sweetest Dream, The (Lessing) Books page

Terrorist (Updike) Nov 8/06

Things I Didn't Know (Hughes) Sept 18/09

Things My Mother Never Told Me (Morrison) July 18/06

Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (Tomalin) Jan 30/08

Tomorrow (Swift) March 26/08

Too Close to the Falls (Gildiner) March 9/06

Trauma (McGrath) Summer Reading 2010

Trauma Farm (Brett) Summer Reading 2011

Truth and Beauty (Patchett) July 18/06

(The) Uncommon Reader (Bennett) Summer Reading 2010

Under the Holy Lake (Haigh) Summer Reading 2010

Untold Stories (Bennett) Nov 22/07

Uproar's Your Only Music (Brett) July 10/05

Villages (Updike) BOOKS page

(The) Way I Found Her (Tremain) July 18/06

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (Meeks) Sept 26/08

What Is the What (Eggers) Oct 27/08

What Paul Meant (Wills) Nov 11/09

When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris) July 21/08

Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster) Aug 9/10

Where I'm Calling From (Carver) Nov 8/06

White Gold (Milton) Aug 10/05

Why I Am A Catholic (Wills) Nov 24/09

Why Socrates Died (Waterfield) Fall Reading 2010

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Greenblatt) Aug 10/05

Will This Do? (Waugh) Sept 18/07

Winter on Diamond (Bondrup-Nielsen) Nov 4/05

Wish I Could Be There (Shawn) Fall Reading 2010

(The) Word "Desire" (Ducornet) July 18/06

Yellowknife (Zipp) Oct 4/07

(The) Yiddish Policemen's Union (Chabon) June 4/08

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig) Summer Reading 2010

Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate (Warner) June 28/09

Zoli (McCann) June 28/07

SINGLE SHORT STORIES (i.e. not collections)

A Brief Encounter with the Enemy (Sayrafiezadeh) Jan 23/12

An Ex-Mas Feast (Akpan) June 15/05

Asleep in the Lord (Eugenides) Aug 11/11

Atria (Ausubel) July 28/11

(The) Cat's Table (Onjaatje) July 19/11

(The) Climber Room (Lipsyte) Dec 12/11

El Moro (Means) Nov 18/11

Expectations (Lanchester) Jan 23/12

Goo Book (Ridgway) July 19/11

(The) Good Samaritan (McGuane) July 28/11

Homage to Hemingway (Barnes) July 28/11

Home (Saunders) Aug 11/11

(The) House at Sand Creek (McGuane) Nov 18/11

Leaving Maverley (Munro) Dec 12/11

On Chesil Beach (MacEwan) Dec 27/06

Paranoia (Sayrafiezadeh) July 28/11

Prefiguration of Lalo Cura (Bolaño) April 17/10

Starlight (Beattie) Sept 30/11

(The) Trusty (Rash) July 19/11

What Have You Done? (Marcus) Aug 11/11

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Englander) Jan 7/12

Year's End (Lahiri) Jan 30/08

(The) Years of My Birth (Erdrich) July 28/11

MYSTERIES and CRIME

61 Hours (Child) Dec 21/10

Acqua Alta (Leon) Summer Mysteries 07

All the Flowers Are Dying (Block) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Angels Passsing (Hurley) July 21/05

Arctic Chill (Indridason) Fall Reading 2010

Bad Business (Parker) May 5/10

Bangkok 8 (Burdett) Summer Mysteries 07

Belfast Confidential (Bateman) Oct 6/09

Birdman (Hayder) July 21/05

(The) Birthday Present (Vine) Jan 11/10

Blood Is the Sky (Hamilton) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Bones and Silence (Hill) Mysteries/Crime page

Case Histories (Atkinson) Fall Reading 2010

Chasing the Dime (Connelly) Sept 18/09

Chourmo (Izzo) Summer Reading 2010

Clea's Moon (Wright) Sept 18/09

Cold Pursuit (Parker) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Cold Service (Parker) May 18/08

(The) Concrete Blonde (Connelly) Nov 18/11

Cut to Black (Hurley) Sept 5/08

Deadlight (Hurley) April 14/07

Dialogues of the Dead (Hill) Mysteries/Crime page

Disordered Minds (Walters) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Dissolution (Sansom) Dec 4/08

(The) Distant Echo (McDermid) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Echo Park (Connelly) Aug 23/09

(The) Exception (Jungersen) Fall Reading 2010

Fat Ollie's Book (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page

Fell of Dark (Hill) June 4/08

Final Solution, The (Chabon) July 10/05

Fire Sale (Paretsky) Mar 17/10

Flight of Aquavit (Bidulka) Summer Mysteries 07

Four Corners of Night (Holden) Dec 31/05

(The) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson) Aug 23/09

(The) Girl Who Played with Fire (Larsson) Feb 3/10

Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page

Gone Tomorrow (Child) April 17/10

Have Mercy On Us All (Vargas) Aug 10/05

High Profile (Parker) March 26/08

(The) Hot Kid (Leonard) Aug 2/10

In The Forest (O'Brien) Mysteries/Crime page

Indecent Secrets (Vella) May 23/06

Instruments of Night (Cook) Mysteries/Crime page

(The) Interrogation (Cook) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Killing Floor (Child) March 17/10

Kiss (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page

Land of the Living (French) Jan 5/05

Last Best Hope, The (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page

Last Car to Elysian Fields (Burke) Summer Mysteries 07

Last Dance, The (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page

(The) Lincoln Lawyer (Connelly) Nov 11/09

Lost Light (Connelly) Mysteries/Crime page

Maigret and the Fortuneteller (Simenon) Summer Mysteries 07

(The) Man Who Smiled (Mankell) Sept 26/08

Master of the Moor (Rendell) Sept 5/08

Morning, Noon and Night (Sheldon) July 18/06

(The) Murder of My Aunt (Hull) Summer Mysteries 07

(The) Night Gardener (Pelecanos) Oct 22/09

Nine Dragons (Connelly) June 20/11

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The (McCall Smith) May 23/06

North Of Montana (Smith) Oct 6/09

One Shot (Child) Summer Mysteries 07

One Step Behind (Mankell) Summer Mysteries 07

Persuader (Child) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Portobello (Rendell) Myriad Mysteries 2009

(The) Price of Malice (Mayor) Summer Reading 2010

(The) Private Patient (James) Oct 16/08

Q Is For Quarry (Grafton) Sept 7/05

(The) Red Mandarin Dress (Xiaolong) Summer Reading 2010

Revelation (Sansom) June 3/10

River of Darkness (Airth) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Rottweiler, The (Rendell) Mysteries/Crime page

School Days (Parker) Summer Mysteries 07

(The) Sentimentalists (Skibsrud) May 14/11

Singled Out (Brett) May 21/07

Skinny Dip (Hiassen) Myriad Mysteries 2009

Sleepyhead (Billingham) Jan 5/05

Started Early, Took My Dog (Atkinson) June 20/11

Sunset Limited (Burke) August 12/06

Tigerlily's Orchids (Rendell) July 28/11

Thirteen Steps Down (Rendell) Summer Mysteries 07

To the Power of Three (Lippman) Myriad Mysteries 2009

(The) Treatment (Hayder) August 12/06

(The) Troubled Man (Mankell) July 28/11

Troubling Love (Ferrante) Fall Reading 2010

(The) Two Minute Rule (Crais) Myriad Mysteries 2009

(The) Water's Lovely (Rendell) May 21/07

Wonderland (Brady) June 9/06

Worth Dying For (Child) June 20/11

A Writer's Notebook (Maugham)

A Question of Upbringing (Powell)

Aspern Papers, The (James)

Edge of Day, The (Lee)

Iris Murdoch

L'Etranger (Camus)

La Chute (Camus)

Please Don't Eat The Daisies (Kerr)

Turn of the Screw, The (James)

Ulysses (Joyce)

Waterfall, The (Drabble)