- Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
- The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
- The Lives of Margaret Fuller by John Matteson part one and part two
- Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
- Kill Shakespeare: A Sea of Troubles by Conor McCreery, Andy Belanger, Anthony Del Col
- A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
- Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions by Sandra M. Gilbert
- War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art by Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler
- Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books by Leah Price
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Summer by Edith Wharton
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
- The Pleasures of Reading in and Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
- Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life by Stephanie Staal
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
- Q’s Legacy by Helene Hanff
- Fly Away Peter by Davod Malouf
- Map of Time by Felix Palma (abandoned)
- On Rereading by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Wow! You’ve read all these book already this year! Good grief! What a nice collection. I’m making notes to see what I want to put on my reading list. I just finished O Pioneers! and loved it. Can’t believe I’ve never read Willa Cather. What’s next on your list?
I’m really enjoying your site. Don’t remember how I found, but I’m glad I did!
Thanks for your wonderful comment Verna! Yes, and I am actually behind on adding a few m ore I’ve read. some of them are rather short and quick and easy so it isn’t as lengthy in terms of effort and time as it might appear
O Pioneers is one I haven’t read yet. As to what’s next? We’ll see where my whims take me!
Hi,
I am making serious effort into reading books (as I love reading) but one thing that really makes it hard is my poor vocabulary. I mean I am currently reading “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Marquez and to be honest there are at least 2 or 3 words in every page that I have never heard of or don’t know the meaning.
How do I improve my vocabulary? keenly waiting on your response. Thanks.