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Alan Furst, Blood of Victory


2008

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Reza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower

2007

Dorothy Sayers, Clouds of Witness
Jonathan Coe, The Winshaw Legacy: or, What a Carve Up!
Dorothy Sayers, Have His Carcase
P.D. James, Death of an Expert Witness
D.T. Max, The Family That Couldn't Sleep
Kevin Brockmeier, Things That Fall from the Sky
Dorothy Sayers, Clouds of Witness
Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Daniel Clowes, Ghost World
Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
Michael Lewis, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
Jane Austen, Emma
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Ian McEwan, Saturday
J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Jim Crace, Being Dead
Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Tailors
Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Agatha Christie, A Murder is Announced
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
Agatha Christie, Thirteen at Dinner
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
P.D. James, The Murder Room
Deborah Sayers, Gaudy Night
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories
Roald Dahl, Matilda
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Robert Graves, I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Morton N. Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography
John Grogan, Marley and Me
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Don DeLillo, Libra
Colm Toibin, The Master
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

2006

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black
Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Dorothy Sayers, Unnatural Death
Dorothy Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun
Mary Wesley, Not That Sort of Girl
Agatha Christie, Sparkling Cyanide
Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater (abandoned)
Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
John le Carre, The Constant Gardener
Mary Wesley, Part of the Furniture
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
Philip Roth, Deception
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Arthur Phillips, Prague
Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
Michael Chabon, The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
Lily Tuck, The News from Paraguay
Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
E.L. Doctorow, The Waterworks
Alan Furst, Kingdom of Shadows
The Lonely Planet Guide to Budapest
Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
Julian Barnes, Arthur and George

2005

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Jack Balkin, ed., What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said
James Meek, The People's Act of Love
Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, Nation of Rebels
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Paul Auster, Oracle Night
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
Jim Crace, Genesis
John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick
Richard Smoke, National Security and the Nuclear Dilemma
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
Alan Lightman, Reunion
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Michael Ignatieff, Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

2004

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
John Updike, Couples
Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Roald Dahl, The BFG
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (abandoned)
Bill Walsh (who would roll over in his grave if he saw the way my stylesheet is making lowercase every word on this page) (and if he saw my compression of style-sheet into a single unhyphenated word) (and if he were dead and thus had a grave in which to roll over), Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print - and How to Avoid Them
Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, America: The Book
Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events:
The Bad Beginning
The Reptile Room
The Wide Window
The Miserable Mill
The Austere Academy
The Ersatz Elevator
The Vile Village
The Hostile Hospital
The Carniverous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Grim Grotto
Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Helen Fielding, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
Renee Gladman, The Activist
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Joe Klein, The Natural
Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos
Angela Carter, Love
Dennis Cooper, My Loose Thread
Tracy Chevalier, Girl With A Pearl Earring
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love