On My Bookshelf

OPB - Big BookshelfThese books are currently sitting on my bookshelf or Kindle waiting to be read. Many I’ve purchased in chunks (Boston Book Festival, Harvard Bookstore Warehouse Sale, Goodwill, etc.) and others are on my Kindle. There are even a few I’ve lugged up from NC from childhood/high school to re-read. I hope that one day this’ll be a zero list, but let’s face it the list increases much faster than it decreases!

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A–G
  • Find Me – André Aciman
  • Queer City – Peter Ackroyd
  • The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Omnibus) – Douglas Adams
  • The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
  • El Cuaderno de Maya – Isabel Allende
  • Jedi Search (Jedi Academy Trilogy #1) – Kevin J. Anderson¹
  • Dark Apprentice (Jedi Academy Trilogy #2) – Kevin J. Anderson¹
  • Champions of the Force (Jedi Academy Trilogy #2) – Kevin J. Anderson¹
  • The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen – Lindsay Ashton
  • Mr. Darcy’s Daughters – Elizabeth Aston
  • Life Before Man – Margaret Atwood
  • Moral Disorder and Other Stories – Margaret Atwood
  • Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  • A Memoir of Jane Austen – J.E. Austen-Leigh
  • Dark Quartet: The Story of the Brontës – Lynne Reid Banks
  • Gourmet Rhapsody – Muriel Barbery
  • The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors – Juliet Barker³
  • Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy #1) – Pat Barker
  • The Eye in the Door (Regeneration Trilogy #2) – Pat Barker
  • The Ghost Road (Regeneration Trilogy #3) – Pat Barker
  • Peter and Wendy – J. M. Barrie³
  • The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett
  • Defining Marriage: Voices from a Forty-Year Labor of Love – Matthew Baume³
  • Codependent No More – Melody Beattie
  • The Sellout – Paul Beatty
  • Pride and Prescience
  • Straight Expectations – Julie Bindel²
  • Amelia Elkins Elkins – A.M. Blair³
  • The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Jane Eyre Laid Bare – Charlotte Brontë and Eve Sinclair
  • Jane Slayre – Charlotte Brontë and Sherri Browning Erwin
  • Shirley – Charlotte Brontë³
  • The Complete Poems – Emily Brontë
  • Wuthering Bites – Emily Brontë and Sarah Cray
  • Hotel Du Lac – Anita Brookner
  • The Sword of Shannara (The Sword of Shannara #1) – Terry Brooks³
  • The Elfstones of Shannara (The Sword of Shannara #2) – Terry Brooks³
  • The Wishsong of Shannara (The Sword of Shannara #3) – Terry Brooks³
  • Armageddon’s Children (Genesis of Shannara #1) – Terry Brooks
  • The Elves of Cintra (Genesis of Shannara #2) – Terry Brooks
  • The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara #3) – Terry Brooks
  • Red Notice – Bill Browder
  • Still Life (The Frederica Quartet #2) A.S. Byatt
  • Babel Tower (The Frederica Quartet #3) – A.S. Byatt
  • The Real Jane Austen: A Live in Small Things – Paula Byrne
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
  • James Fairfax – Adam Campan
  • Time and Tide in Acadia – Christopher Camuto
  • Music for Chameleons – Truman Capote
  • Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
  • Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
  • The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare – G.K. Chesterton³
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
  • The Water Dancer – Ta-Nehisi Coates³
  • Brida – Paulo Coelho (en español)
  • El Zahir – Paulo Coelho (en español)
  • The Valkyries – Paulo Coelho
  • The Puma Years – Laura Coleman³
  • The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • Jane Austen Girl – Inglath Cooper³
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
  • The Paradise Snare (Han Solo Trilogy #1) – A. C. Crispin¹
  • The Hutt Gambit (Han Solo Trilogy #2) – A. C. Crispin¹
  • Rebel Dawn (Han Solo Trilogy #3) – A. C. Crispin¹
  • The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  • The Other Man – Farhad J. Dadyburjor³
  • Matilda – Roald Dahl
  • This Book is Gay – James Dawson
  • The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
  • The Wisdom of Finance – Mihir Desai³
  • The Last Days of Dogtown – Anita Diamant
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
  • A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle
  • Stonewall – Martin Duberman
  • The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas³
  • The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas³
  • Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës – Terry Eagleton
  • The Prague Cemetery – Umberto Eco
  • Georgiana Darcy’s Diary – Anna Elliott³
  • The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Troubles (Empire Trilogy #1) – J. G. Farrell³
  • The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy #2) – J. G. Farrell³
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Little Book of Neuroses – Michael Thomas Ford
  • What We Remember – Michael Thomas Ford
  • The Man Who Left Too Soon – Barry Forshaw³
  • A Room With A View – E.M. Forster³
  • Howard’s End – E.M. Forster³
  • Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain³
  • Mrs. Mike – Benedict and Nancy Friedman
  • The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
  • North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell³
  • The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George
  • Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks – Ethan Gilsdorf²
  • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
  • Boulevard – Jim Grimsley³
  • Comfort & Joy – Jim Grimsley³
  • Winter Birds – Jim Grimsley

H–N
  • H. The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights – Lin Haire-Sargeant
  • Summer Hours at the Robbers Library – Sue Halpern
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid³
  • Jane’s Fame – Claire Harman
  • I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend – Cora Harrison
  • The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne³
  • Game Change – John Heilemann³
  • The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway³
  • Pride/Prejudice – Ann Herendeen
  • Victory – Linda Hirshman
  • Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen – Jane Aiken Hodge³
  • The Spell – Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Stranger’s Child – Alan Hollinghurst
  • Shady Characters – Keith Houston³
  • I Served the King of England -f Bohumil Hrabal
  • In One Person – John Irving³
  • The World According to Garp – John Irving
  • The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Jane Austen Marriage Manual – Kim Izzo
  • The Bostonians – Henry James³
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James³
  • The Children of Men – P.D. James
  • Death Comes to Pemberley – P.D. James
  • Waiting – Ha Jin
  • The Weight of Ink – Rachel Kadish³
  • The Briar King (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone Quartet #1) – Gregory Keyes²
  • 11/22/63 – Stephen King³
  • The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver³
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad -Robert Kiyosaki
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  • The Bloodletter’s Daughter – Linda Lafferty³
  • The Arabian Nights – Andrew Lang (trans.)³
  • Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) – Jenny Lawson³
  • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle #5) – Ursula K. Le Guin³
  • The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories – David Leavitt & Mark MItchell (Eds.)
  • The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux³
  • Briefing for a Descent into Hell – Doris Lessing
  • A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian – Marina Lewycka
  • The Bad Girl: A Novel – Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The Star Wars Trilogy: Episodes IV, V & VI – George Lucas, Donald F. Glut & James Kahn
  • The Brontë Cabinet – Deborah Lutz
  • Mother Dear – Nova Lee Maier³
  • The Ardent Swarm – Yamen Manai³
  • Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
  • Bring up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell #2) – Hilary Mantel³
  • The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell #3) – Hilary Mantel³
  • Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 – Eric Marcus
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel³
  • I am Having So Much Fun Here Without You – Courtney Maum³
  • Emma (The Austen Project #3) – Alexander McCall Smith
  • The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (#1) – Alexander McCall Smith
  • Clock Without Hands – Carson McCullers
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
  • Atonement – Ian McEwan
  • The Book Lover – Maryann McFadden³
  • Princesses Behaving Badly – Linda Rodriguez McRobbie³
  • Moby Dick – Herman Melville³
  • The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller³
  • The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing – Mark Mitchell (Ed.)
  • The Easy Life in Kamusari – Shion Miura³
  • Becoming a Man: Half A Life Story – Paul Monette
  • Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  • Charlotte and Emily – Jude Morgan
  • A World Without Heroes – Brandon Mull
  • Blind Willow, Sleepwing Woman – Haruki Murakami
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami
  • Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  • The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
  • Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Strings Attached – Nick Nolan³
  • Arena Mode (The Arena Mode Saga #1) – Blake Northcott³

O–T
  • The Rook – Daniel O’Malley
  • The Accursed – Joyce Carol Oates³
  • Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
  • Lost Classics – Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding (Eds.)
  • The Map of Time – Félix J. Palma
  • The Bees – Laline Paull
  • The Forgotten Sister – Jennifer Paynter³
  • Caveat Emptor – Ken Perenyi³
  • Woman on the Edge of Time – Marge Piercy
  • Active Duty: Gay Military Erotic Romance – Neil Plakcy (Ed.)
  • Flesh and the Word – John Preston (Ed.)
  • Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose³
  • The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) – Philip Pullman
  • The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2) – Philip Pullman
  • The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3) – Philip Pullman
  • To the Sky Kingdom – Tang Qi³
  • One for the Books – Joe Queenan
  • Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  • The Private Lives of the Impressionists – Sue Roe
  • Lady Vernon and Her Daughter – Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway
  • The Things You Find on the Appalachian Trail – Kevin Runolfso³
  • Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  • The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
  • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1) – Brandon Sanderson³
  • In Search of Stonewall – Richard Schneider (Ed.)
  • The Bookseller of Kabul – Åsne Seierstad
  • Mississippi Sissy – Kevin Sessums³
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
  • My Undoing – Aiden Shaw¹
  • Jane Austen: A Life – Carol Shields
  • The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  • All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year Long Journey with Jane – Amy Smith
  • Where the Desert Meets the Sea – Werner Sonne³
  • Becoming Jane Austen – Jon Spence
  • The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead³
  • Treasure Island – Robert Lewis Stevenson³’
  • The Silver Branch (The Roman Britain Trilogy #2) – Rosemary Sutcliff
  • The Lantern Bearers (The Roman Britain Trilogy #3) – Rosemary Sutcliff
  • The Book of Speculation – Erika Swyler³
  • The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt³
  • The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope³
  • Sense & Sensibility (The Austen Project #1) – Joanna Trollope
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain³
  • Roughing It – Mark Twain³

U–Z
  • North to Paradise – Ousman Umar³
  • A Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne³
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne³
  • Fleabag: The Scriptures – Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
  • Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  • How to Ruin Everything – George Watsky
  • Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  • The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead³
  • Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman³
  • The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays – Oscar Wilde
  • Portals to Prayer: Jane Austen – Rachel Hart Winter
  • Android Karenina – Leo Tolstoy, Ben H. Winters, Eugene Smith, Constance Garnett³
  • Oranges are not the only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  • Dear Girls – Ali Wong³
  • To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  • An Eye for an Eye – Carol Wyer³
  • Among the Janeites – Deborah Yaffe³
  • Pray the Gay Away (A Southern Thing #1) – Sara York³

¹Denotes a book permanent addition to my “collection.”
²Denotes an autographed book.
³Denotes a digital book.