12 Edmondstone Street (Malouf) June 28/09
A Complicated Kindness (Toews) Jan 5/05
A Life of Privilege, Mostly (Botsford) Dec 31/05
A Short History of Progress (Wright) June 8/07
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Lewycka) Dec 27/06
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
At Mrs. Lippincote's (Taylor) Dec 27/06
At Swim Two Boys (O'Neill) Books page
Author, Author (Lodge) Nov 4/05
Barrel Fever (Sedaris) May 18/08
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) Bible Unearthed (Finkelstein and Silberman) March 8/07
Black Veil, The (Moody) March 17/06
Born Standing Up (Martin) March 1/09
Breakfast on Pluto (McCabe) Books page
Byron: The Flawed Angel (Grosskurth) Nov 25/05
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
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Sedaris) May 18/08
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing (Leonard) Feb 13/08
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\
Fraud (Rakoff) Feb 1/06
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
Good Priest's Son, The (Price) Aug 10/05
Greene on Capri (Hazzard) July 18/06
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
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
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 Search of Time (Falk) Dec 31/09
In The Beginning Was The Worm (Brown) Dec 20/04
In The Blink of an Eye (Parker) August 12/06
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
Late Nights on Air (Hay) Dec 30/07
Leaving Home (Brookner) Sept 7/05
Leonardo (Kemp) June 15/05
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The (Bryson) Dec 27/06
Life of Pi (Martel) Books page
(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
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
May Week Was In June (James) Sept 5/08
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris) Feb 16/07
Michael Tolliver Lives (Maupin) Sept 5/08
Misquoting Jesus (Ehrman) May 23/06
Mothers and Sons (Tóibín) May 2/07
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter (Nahani) Sept 16/05
Muriella Pent (Smith) Sept 7/05
My Lobotomy (Dully) June 23/08
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
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
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 the Bones (Itani) Dec 8/07
Reservation Blues (Alexie) Sept 1/05
(The) Retreat (Bergen) Dec 24/08
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
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
So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Enger) Nov 16/08
(The) Soul Thief (Baxter) Sept 18/09
Sovereign: Elizabeth II and the Windsor Dynasty (Flamini) April 12/06
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
Truth and Beauty (Patchett) July 18/06
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 I'm Calling From (Carver) Nov 8/06
White Gold (Milton) Aug 10/05
Why I Am A Catholic (Wills) Nov 24/09
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
(The) Word "Desire" (Ducornet) July 18/06
Yellowknife (Zipp) Oct 4/07
(The) Yiddish Policemen's Union (Chabon) June 4/08
Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate (Warner) June 28/09
Zoli (McCann) June 28/07
SINGLE SHORT STORIES (i.e. not collections)
An Ex-Mas Feast (June 15/05)
On Chesil Beach (Dec 27/06)
Year's End (Jan 30/08)
MYSTERIES and CRIME
Acqua Alta (Leon) Summer Mysteries 07
All the Flowers Are Dying (Block) Myriad Mysteries 2009
Angels Passsing (Hurley) July 21/05
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
Chasing the Dime (Connelly) Sept 18/09
Clea's Moon (Wright) Sept 18/09
Cold Pursuit (Parker) Myriad Mysteries 2009
Cold Service (Parker) May 18/08
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
Fat Ollie's Book (McBain) Mysteries/Crime page
Fell of Dark (Hill) June 4/08
Final Solution, The (Chabon) July 10/05
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
Have Mercy On Us All (Vargas) Aug 10/05
High Profile (Parker) March 26/08
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
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
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) Private Patient (James) Oct 16/08
Q Is For Quarry (Grafton) Sept 7/05
River of Darkness (Airth) Myriad Mysteries 2009
Rottweiler, The (Rendell) Mysteries/Crime page
School Days (Parker) Summer Mysteries 07
Singled Out (Brett) May 21/07
Skinny Dip (Hiassen) Myriad Mysteries 2009
Sleepyhead (Billingham) Jan 5/05
Sunset Limited (Burke) August 12/06
Thirteen Steps Down (Rendell) Summer Mysteries 07
To the Power of Three (Lippman) Myriad Mysteries 2009
(The) Treatment (Hayder) August 12/06
(The) Two Minute Rule (Crais) Myriad Mysteries 2009
(The) Water's Lovely (Rendell) May 21/07
Wonderland (Brady) June 9/06
RE-READINGS : These are all on the "Re-Readings" page
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)