Read in 2013 (38 -- includes my personal rating of 1-5 stars)
- The Middlesteins (Jami Attenberg) ***
- The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker)***
- The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)
- Beautiful Ruins (Jess Walter)****
- Swamplandia! (Karen Russell)****
- When It Happens to You (Molly Ringwald)***
- The Epicure's Lament (Kate Christensen)***
- The Good House (Ann Leary)***
- The Chaperone (Laura Moriarty)***
- Faithful Place (Tana French)***
- The Beginner's Goodbye (Anne Tyler)***
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Rachel Joyce)****
- Tinkers (Paul Harding)**
- Photographic (KD Lovgren)**
- Sweet Tooth (Ian McEwan)***
- The Dog Stars (Peter Heller)****
- Marry Me (John Updike)*
- Monsters of Templeton (Lauren Groff)****
- Foodist (Darya Pino Rose) N/A
- A Reliable Wife (Robert Goolrick) **
- The Obituary Writer (Ann Hood) ***
- The Silent Wife (A.S.A. Harrison) ***
- The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (Anton DiSclafani) ***
- Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (Therese Ann Fowler) **
- The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman) ***
- The Aviator's Wife (Melanie Benjamin) ***
- Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Ayana Mathis) ***
- Tollesbury Time Forever (Stuart Ayris) **
- Miss Me When I'm Gone (Emily Arsenault) ***
- Miss Perregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs) ***
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple) ***
- The Great House (Nicole Krauss) ***
- In Zanesville (Jo Ann Beard) ****
- When I Found You (Catherine Ryan Hyde) ****
- The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) ****
- The Gravity of Birds (Tracy Guzeman) ***
- Broken Harbor (Tana French) ***
- We Are Water (Wally Lamb) ****
Read in 2012 (43)
- Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
- The Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh)
- Before I Go to Sleep (S.J. Watson)
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Johnathan Safran Foer)
- The Wonder of Ordinary Magic (Lilli J. Day)
- The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides)
- The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)
- The Tiger's Wife (Tea Obrecht)
- The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
- Rules of Civility (Amor Towles)
- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair (Nina Sankovitch)
- The Highest Tide (Jim Lynch)
- The Sunday Philosophy Club (Alexander McCall Smith)
- The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
- The Cat's Table (Michael Ondaatje)
- Sag Harbor (Colson Whitehead)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
- Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog (Lisa Scottoline)
- The Space Between Us (Thrity Umrigar)
- The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home (Howard Frank Mosher)
- In One Person (John Irving)
- An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace (Tamar Adler)
- The Likeness (Tana French)
- Neverwhere (Neil Gaimon)
- The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)
- The Used World (Haven Kimmel)
- The Red House (Mark Haddon)
- One Day (David Nicholls)
- Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Alexander McCall Smith)
- What Is Left the Daughter (Howard Norman)
- The Distant Hours (Kate Morton)
- Maine (J. Courtney Sullivan)
- 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
- Left Neglected (Lisa Genova)
- The Story of Beautiful Girl (Rachel Simon)
- Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
- Trapeze (Simon Mawer)
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)
- The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
- What the Dead Know (Laura Lippman)
- The Orchardist (Amanda Coplin)
- The Expats (Simon Mawer)
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Carol Rifka Brunt)
Read in 2011 (44)
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (Steig Larsson)
- Out Stealing Horses (Per Petterson)
- On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town (Susan Hermann Loomis)
- Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Laurie Colwin)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Scones: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Alexander McCall Smith)
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Steig Larsson)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
- Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
- The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman)
- The Widower's Tale (Julia Glass)
- Before You Know Kindness (Chris Bohjalian)
- Noah's Compass (Anne Tyler)
- The Piano Teacher (Janice Y.K. Lee)
- Labor Day (Joyce Maynard)
- Family Album (Penelope Lively)
- Home Safe (Elizabeth Berg)
- The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (Tarquin Hall)
- Chat (Archer Mayor)
- The Hand That First Held Mine (Maggie O'Farrell)
- A Scattered Life (Karen McQuestion)
- These Hidden Things (Heather Gudenkauf)
- Await Your Reply (Dan Chaon)
- The Postmistress (Sarah Blake)
- French Fried (Chris Dolley)
- The Pig Did It (Joseph Caldwell)
- States of Confusion (Paul Jury)
- Food and Worry (Becky Wolsk)
- Commencement (J. Courtney Sullivan)
- Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Gabrielle Hamilton)
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Tom Franklin)
- Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
- Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
- Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
- Room: A Novel (Emma Donoghue)
- The Solider's Wife (Margaret Leroy)
- Corduroy Mansions (Alexander McCall Smith)
- The House at Riverton (Kate Morton)
- The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach)
- The Dog Who Came in From the Cold (Alexander McCall Smith)
- In the Woods (Tana French)
- The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
- The Buddha in the Attic (Julie Otsuka)
- How to Be an American Housewife (Margaret Dilloway)
- The Good Daughters (Joyce Maynard)
Read in 2010 (35)
- Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle (Peter Kerr)
- Sarah's Key (Tatiana de Rosnay)
- The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa)
- Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House (Sarah Messer)
- Next of Kin (Joanna Trollope)
- The Scent of Sake (Joyce Lebra)
- How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) (Henry Alford)
- The Attack (Yasmina Khadra)
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Diane Ackerman)
- Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese (Brad Kessler)
- Love Over Scotland: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Alexander McCall Smith)
- Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
- Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes (Amanda Hesser)
- The Senator's Wife (Sue Miller)
- An Irish Country Doctor (Patrick Taylor)
- The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution (David Kamp)
- Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
- Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Louise Riotte)
- The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (Kathleen Flinn)
- The Case of the Missing Servant: A Vish Puri Mystery (Tarquin Hall)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (M. Shaffer & A. Barrows)
- The House on Fortune Street (Margot Livesey)
- The School of Essential Ingredients (Erica Bauermeister)
- The Weight of Heaven (Thrity Umrigar)
- In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Carl Honore)
- The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
- Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (Rhoda Janzen)
- The Madonnas of Leningrad (Debra Dean)
- The World According to Bertie: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Alexander McCall Smith)
- The World to Come (Dara Horn)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steig Larsson)
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Anthony Bourdain)
- Peace Like a River (Leif Enger)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)
