These are the books that have recently made their way onto our bookshelves. Whether I will ever read them all is a question for another day.
2009
October (4)
Mine
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi by Geoff Dyer
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Heaven to Betsy/Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
Ben’s
- The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
September (4)
Mine
- Foreign Tongue by Vanina Marsot
Ben’s
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Continental Drift by Russell Banks
August (8)
Mine
- Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
- Jane Austen by Carol Shields
- America, America by Ethan Canin
Ben’s
- Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July (4)
Mine
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Ben’s
- Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
- You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
June (8)
Mine
- Marked: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
- The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner
- The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Ben’s
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Prague by Arthur Phillips
- The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
- The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
May (17)
Mine
- The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
- Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
- A Hunger Like Fire by Greg Stolze
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
- The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
- What is the What by Dave Eggers
Ben’s
- The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
- Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
- The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare by Bertram Fields
- American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
April (23)
Mine
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Look Me in the Eyes by John Elder Robison
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
- Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
- All I Want is Everything: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar
Ben’s
- Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
- The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
- McTeague by Frank Norris
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
- The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
- How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
March (24)
Mine
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
- Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Ben’s
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
- The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Eventide by Kent Haruf
- The Truth About Chuck Norris by Ian Spector
- 1776 by David McCullough
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
- Absolom, Absolom! by Willaim Faulkner
- Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
February (16)
Mine
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Lawyer Boy by Rick Lax
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Ben’s
- The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- Our Dumb World by The Onion
- The Book of Lost Tales 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Prayer and the Glory by Graham Greene
- Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
- Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
- The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
- The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
- The One True Ocean by Sarah Beth Martin
January (24)
Mine
- The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedmant
- The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory
- Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh
- Dateline: Toronto by Ernest Hemingway
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Ben’s
- Dawn by Elie Wiesel
- The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien
- A Man Without a Country
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Dry by Augusten Burroughs
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
2009
September (4)
Mine
- Foreign Tongue by Vanina Marsot
Ben’s
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Continental Drift by Russell Banks
August (8)
Mine
- Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
- Jane Austen by Carol Shields
- America, America by Ethan Canin
Ben’s
- Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July (4)
Mine
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Ben’s
- Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
- You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
June (8)
Mine
- Marked: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
- The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner
- The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Ben’s
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Prague by Arthur Phillips
- The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
- The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
May (17)
Mine
- The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
- Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
- A Hunger Like Fire by Greg Stolze
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
- The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
- What is the What by Dave Eggers
Ben’s
- The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
- Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
- The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare by Bertram Fields
- American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
April (23)
Mine
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Look Me in the Eyes by John Elder Robison
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
- Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
- All I Want is Everything: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar
Ben’s
- Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
- The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
- McTeague by Frank Norris
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
- The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
- How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
March (24)
Mine
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
- Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Ben’s
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
- The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Eventide by Kent Haruf
- The Truth About Chuck Norris by Ian Spector
- 1776 by David McCullough
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
- Absolom, Absolom! by Willaim Faulkner
- Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
February (16)
Mine
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Lawyer Boy by Rick Lax
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Ben’s
- The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- Our Dumb World by The Onion
- The Book of Lost Tales 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Prayer and the Glory by Graham Greene
- Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
- Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
- The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
- The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
- The One True Ocean by Sarah Beth Martin
January (24)
Mine
- The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedmant
- The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory
- Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh
- Dateline: Toronto by Ernest Hemingway
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Ben’s
- Dawn by Elie Wiesel
- The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien
- A Man Without a Country
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Dry by Augusten Burroughs
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
