Below are a wide variety of genres read throughout the years. I hope you find one or two of interest. Please visit my page on GOODREADS.
Here is a list of authors, in alphabetical order, with their titles for easy reference with notations as follows: F=fiction, FM=fiction/mystery, NF=non-fiction, J=children’s literature, J-YA=children/young adult.
- Ackerman, Jennifer, and Karen Groz, illus. Notes From the Shore (NF)
- Albright, Madeleine. Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948 (NF)
- Ali, Bachtya and Kareem Abdulrahman (Translator). The Last Pomegranate Tree (F)
- Arikawa, Hiro, & Philip Gabriel, trans. The Travelling Cat Chronicles (F)
- Allen, Ida Bailey. Food For Two (NF)
- Anderson, M.T. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dimitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (NF)
- Appelfeld, Aharon. Jeffrey M. Green, trans., and Philippe Dumas, illus. Adam & Thomas (J)
- Atkinson, Kate. Shrines of Gaiety (F)
- Auxier, Jonathan. The Night Gardener: A Scary Story (J)
- Avi. Traitor’s Gate (J)
- Bailey, Elisabeth Tova. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (NF)
- Bang, Molly. Picture This: How Pictures Work (NF)
- Bass, Allan I. Anna Roitman – Her Story (NF)
- Black, Cara. Murder On the Champ de Mars (FM)
- Bolen, Jean Shinoda. The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self (NF)
- Bullen, J.B. Thomas Hardy: the World of His Novels (NF)
- Bijan, Donia. The Last Days of Cafe Leila: a novel (F)
- Camilleri, Andrea, and Stephen Sartarelli, trans. A Beam of Light (FM)
- Christie, Agatha. Murder On the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (FM)
- Christie, Agatha. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (FM)
- Christie, Alix. Gutenberg’s Apprentice (F)
- Clark, Robert. Art, Disaster, and Redemption In Florence: Dark Water(NF)
- Cotterill, Colin. The Coroner’s Lunch (A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery)(FM)
- Cliff, Nigel. Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story—How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (NF)
- Cummins, Jeanine. American Dirt (F)
- Currimbhoy, Nayana. Miss Timmins’ School for Girls: a novel (F)
- deGramont, Nina. The Christie Affair (FM)
- DePoy, Phillip. The English Agent, a Christopher Marlowe Mystery (FM)
- Doerr, Anthony. The Shell Collector (F)
- Dunning, Stephen, and Edward Lueders, and High Smith, Editors. Reflections On a Gift of Watermelon Pickle…and other modern verse (NF)
- Dowd, Will. Areas of Fog (NF)
- Eberhardt, Jennifer Dr. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (NF)
- Elliott, Jessica. Murder In An English Village: a Beryl and Edwina mystery (FM)
- Emmerson, Miranda. Miss Treadway & the Field of Stars (F)
- Ferrante, Elaine. My Brilliant Friend (F)
- Finch, Charles. A Beautiful Blue Death: a Mystery (FM)
- Foley, Lucy. The Guest List (FM)
- Franklin, Ariana. Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, Bk 1) (FM)
- Frazer, Andrea. Strangeways to Oldham: The Belchester Chronicles (FM)
- Gallaway, Matthew. The Metropolis Case: a Novel (FM)
- Garber, Elizabeth W. Implosion: A Memoir of An Architect’s Daughter (NF)
- Gardam, Jane. God On the Rocks (F)
- Gardam, Jane. The Hollow Land (J)
- Garfield, Leon. Smith (J)
- Giovanni, Maurizio, and Antony Shugaar. Everyone In their place: the summer of Commissario Ricciardi (FM)
- Goodman, Alison. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (FM)
- Giovanni, Maurizio, and Antony Shugaar. Blood Curse: the Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi (FM)
- Griffiths, Elly. The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway series)(FM)
- Griffiths, Elly. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur series) (FM)
- Grove, S.E. The Glass Sentence (J-YA)
- Gunning, Sally. The Widow’s War: a Novel (F)
- Hanff, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road (NF)
- Harms, Kelly. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler: a Novel (F)
- Henry, Veronica. How To Find Love In a Bookshop (F)
- Herman, George. A Comedy of Murders (FM)
- Hertmans, Stefan, and David McKay, trans. War & Turpentine: a novel (F)
- Historic Takoma Park, Inc. Images of America: Takoma Park (NF)
- Horowitz, Anthony. Magpie Murders (FM)
- James, P.D. The Black Tower (FM)
- Jansson, Tove, and Thomas Teal, trans. The Summer Book (F)
- Jensen, Jane. Kingdom Come: An Elizabeth Harris novel (F)
- Jiles, Paulette. News of the World (F)
- Joyce, James. The Dead (F)
- Kacenberg, Mala. Mala’s Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl’s survival during the Holocaust (NF)
- Khavari, Kate. A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons (FM)
- Kay, Jim, illus. The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War (J)
- Kelly, Julia. The Last Garden In England (F)
- Kephart, Beth. Ghosts In the Garden: Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of the Self (NF); Various references to her titles (NF); and William Sulit, Illus. The Walls Between Us (NF)
- Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of Wings (F)
- Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (NF)
- Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman (F)
- Limón, Martin. The Joy Brigade (FM)
- Lin-Greenberg, Karin. You Are Here (F)
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift From the Sea (NF)
- Lindelauf, Benny. Nine Open Arms (J)
- Lindsay, Erin. Murder On Millionaires’ Row: A Mystery (F)
- Lively, Penelope. The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. (F)
- MacNeal. Susan Elia. The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent: a Maggie Hope Mystery (FM)
- Mankell, Henning, and Laura Thompson, trans. Italian Shoes (F)
- Massey, Sujata. The Bombay Prince. (The Perveen Mistry series) (FM)
- Maxwell, Jessa. The Golden Spoon (FM)
- Moore, Graham. The Last Days of Night (F)
- Morowa, Yejidé, Creatures of Passage (F)
- Morley, Christopher & Douglas Gorsline, illus. Parnassus On Wheels. (F)
- Morpurgo, Michael. Singing for Mrs. Pettigrew: a Storymaker’s Journey (NF)
- Neville, Emily. It’s Like This, Cat (J)
- Ndibe, Okey. Foreign Gods, Inc. (F)
- Norman, Howard. I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place (NF)
- Nussbaum, Jeff. Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History (NF)
- Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. The Mountains Sing. (F)
- Olsen, Maria Leonard. 50 After 50 (NF)
- O’Neill, Helen. Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives (NF)
- Ottenberg, Eve. Sojourn At Dusk (F) and Homegrown (F)
- Pataki, Allison, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post (F)
- Paterson, Katherine. Stories of My Life (NF)
- Pearl, Matthew. The Technologists (FM)
- Pötzsch, Oliver, and Lee Chadeayne, trans. The Play of death: A Hangman’s daughter tale Book One (FM)
- Pulley, Natasha. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (F)
- Read, Miss. Village School (F)
- Rehak, Melanie. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (NF)
- Robertson, Imogen. Theft of Life (FM) and Instruments of Darkness (FM)
- Rooney, Kathleen. Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk (F)
- Rosoff, Meg. There Is No Dog (J-YA)
- Rutgers van der Loeff, A. and Gustave Schrotter, illus. Avalanche! (J)
- Sarton, May. Various memoir titles (NF)
- Saunders, Kate. The Secrets of Wishtide (Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1) (FM)
- Schanoes, Veronica, Burning Girls and other stories (F)
- Schwartz, Joanne, and Sydney Smith, illus. Town Is by the Sea (J)
- Scottoline, Lisa. Accused (FM)
- Sedgwick, Marcus. Blood Red Snow White: a novel (J-YA)
- Shapiro, Barbara Stern. From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut (NF)
- Simonson, Helen. The Summer Before the War (F)
- Sims, Michael. The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White’s Eccentric Life In Nature and the Birth of An American Classic (NF)
- Smith, Alexander McCall, and Iain McIntosh, illus. Love Over Scotland (F)
- Stranger, Joyce. The Fox At Drummer’s Darkness (J)
- Street, Karen Lee. Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru: A Poe and Dupin Mystery #2 (F)
- Stewart, Kate. Lady Cop Makes Trouble #2 (FM)
- Sweet, Melissa. Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White (J)
- Subramanian, Mathangi. A People’s History of Heaven: a novel (A & YA)
- Swyler, Ericka. The Book of Speculation (F)
- Thorogood, Robert. The Marlow Murder Club #1 (FM)
- Towles, Amor. A Gentleman In Moscow (F)
- Tiraboschi, Roberto and Katherine Gregor, trans. The Eye of the Stone: the First Medieval Noir about the Birth of Venice (FM)
- Tursten, Helene, and Laura A. Wideburg. The Golden Calf (FM)
- Vickers, Salley. Miss Garnet’s Angel (F)
- Walrath, Dana. Like Water on Stone (F)
- Wan, Michelle. Deadly Slipper: a novel of death in the Dordogne (FM)
- Wegelius, Jakob, and Peter Graves, trans. The Murderer’s Ape (J)
- Wein, Elizabeth. The Pearl Thief (J)
- Weiner, Jennifer. Good In Bed (F)
- Wexler, R. The Risk of reading: How literature helps us to understand ourselves and the world (NF)
- Winawer, Melodie. The Scribe of Siena: a novel (F)
- Winspear, Jacqueline. Among the Mad: a Maisie Dobbs Novel (FM) and Journey To Munich (FM)
- Wioletta Greg, and Eliza Marciniak, trans. Swallowing Mercury (F)
- Womersley, Chris, City of Crows (FM)
- Wynne, Anthony Murder of a Lady: A British Library Crime Classic.(FM)
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