Fiction:

1. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
2. Exit Ghost, Philip Roth
3. The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono
4. The Lost Uplands, W.S. Merwin
5. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
6. Esther’s Inheritance, Sandor Marai
7. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
8. Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles
9. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
10. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
11. So Long, See you Tomorrow, William Maxwell
12. The Jump Artist, Austin Ratner
13. My Father’s Tears, John Updike
14. The English Major, Jim Harrison
15. Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
16. Still Alice, Lisa Genova
17. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
18. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
19. Indignation, Philip Roth
20. Just Desserts, Carl Reiner
21. To Siberia, Per Pettersen
22. The Echo Makers, Richard Powers
23. Cheating at Canasta, William Trevor
24. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
25. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
26. Gain, Richard Powers
27. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The Humbling, Philip Roth

Non-Fiction:

1. Nothing to be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes
2. The Book of Letters, Lawrence Kushner
3. The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall
4. The Cave Painters, Gregory Curtis
5. A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
6. Books, A Memoir, Larry McMurtry
7. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
8. Reading Life, Sven Birkerts
9. Wanderlust, A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit
10. The Book that Changed my Life, Roxanne Coady and Joy Johannessen
11. The Discovery of France, Graham Robb
12. Dime Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, Charles Simic
13. The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs
14. The End of Overeating, David Kessler
15. Let’s See, Peter Schjeldahl
16. Deidre Scherer: Works in Fabric and Thread, D. Scherer
17. The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
18. The Crofter and the Laird, John McPhee
19. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
20. State by State, eds. Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey
21. Under the Sign of Saturn, Susan Sontag
22. Other Colors: Essays and a Story, Orhan Pamuk
23. 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff

Drama/Poetry:

1. The Light Within the Light, Jeanne Graham
2. Facts About the Moon, Dorianne Laux
3. Carnival Evening, New and Selected Poems 1968-98, Linda Pastan
4. Unpacking the Boxes, Donald Hall
5. The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems, Charles Simic
6. The Shadow of Sirius, WS Merwin
7. Time and Materials: 1997-2005, Robert Hass
8. One Hundred Essential American Poems, ed. Leslie Pockell
9. Leavings, Wendell Berry
10. The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare

Gardening/Nature/Science:

1. Our Life in Gardens, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterowd
2. The Lightness of Being, Frank Wilczek
3. Egg and Nest, Rosamund Purcell
4. Proust was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrar
5. Goat Song, Brad Kessler
6. The Beaver: Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer, D. Muller-Schwaze
7. The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking

Mystery

1. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
2. Drowned Hopes, Donald Westlake
3. The Brass Verdict, Michael Connelly
4. Judas Horse, April Smith
5. Hell Bent, William Tappley
6. Night and Day, Robert Parker
7. About Face, Donna Leon
8. Brimstone, Robert Parker
9. The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
10. The Professional, Robert Parker
11. Nine Dragons, Michael Connelly
12. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larssen