books list

I began this list in 2007 and keep it mostly for my own reference, but have included links to any reviews or discussion on any of the titles listed.

• Abe, Kobo: The woman in the dunes 1962
• Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women, 1868
• Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, 480-10 BCE
• Agee, Jonis: South of Resurrection, 1997
• Allende, Isabel: The Infinite Plan, 1991
• Akutagawa, Ryunosuke: Rashomon and Other Stories, 2006, trans. Jay Rubin
• Alegria, Claribel: Luisa in Realityland, 1987
• Amis, Martin: House of Meetings, 2007
• Amis, Martin: The Rachel Papers, 1973
• Amis, Martin: Time’s Arrow, 1991
• Anderson, Alison – Hidden Latitudes, 1996
• Aristophanes: Lysistrata, 411 BCE
• Aristophanes: Clouds, 419 BCE
• Aristotle: Poetics, 350 BCE
• Aristotle: Ethics: 350 BCE
• Aristotle: On Interpretation, 350 BCE
• Aristotle, On the Soul
• Aristotle, On dreams
• Arkin, Frieda: Hedwig and Berti, 2005
• Armand, Louis – Breakfast at Midnight, 2012
• Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assasin,
• Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale , 1985
• Atwood, Margaret: Lady Oracle, 1976
• Aubry, Gwenaelle: Personne, 2010
• Austen, Jane: Persuasion, 1818
• Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park, 1814
• Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, 1813
• Austen, Jane. Lady Susan, 1805
• Austen, Jane: Emma, 1817
• Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey, 1818
• Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility, 1811
• Austen Leigh, James Edward: Memoir of Jane Austen – by her nephew, 1871
• Auster, Paul: Oracle Night, 2004
• Baker, Nicholson: The Fermata, 2004
• Balazs, Thomas – Omicron Ceti III, 2012
• de Balzac, Honoré: Eugénie Grandet, 1833
• de Balzac, Honoré: Le Colonel Chabert, 1832
• de Balzac, Honoré. Modeste Mignon, 1844
• Banville, John: Eclipse, 2000
• Banville, John: The Sea, 2005
• Barbery, Muriel: L’élégance du hérisson, 2006
• Barbey, Claude Inga: Le Palais de Sucre, 2003
• Barker, Pat: Blow Your House Down, 1984
• Barnes, Julian – The Sense of an Ending, 2011
• Barthelme, Donald: Paradise, 1986
• Bauer, Douglas – The Very Air, 1993 (reissue 2012)
• Beigbeder, Frédéric: L’amour dure trois ans, 1997
• Bell, Matt – How the Broken Lead the Blind, 2009
• Bellow, Saul: A Theft, 1989
• Benioff, David: City of Thieves, 2009
• Bennett, Alan – The Uncommon Reader, 2007
• Berger, John. To The Wedding, 2001
• Bessette, Hélène – maternA, 1954
• Besson, Philippe: L’arriere-saison , 2002
• Bohjalian, Chris – The Double Bind, 2007
• Bolano, Roberto: Distant Star, 1996
• Boyd, William: Any Human Heart, 2002
• Bragance, Anne: Casus Belli , 2002
• Bragance, Anne. Une Succulente au fond de l’impasse, 2009
• Brink, André: The Rights of Desire, 2000
• Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey, 1847
• Bronte: Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848
• Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre, 1847
• Bronte, Charlotte:The Professor, 1857
• Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights, 1947
• Brookner, Anita. The Rules of Engagement, 2003
• Brookner, Anita: A Misalliance, 1986
• Brookner, Anita: Hotel du Lac, 1984
• Brooks, Geraldine: March, 2005
• Brown, Karen – Little Sinners & Other Stories, 2012
• Buchanan, Cathy Marie. The Day the Falls Stood Still, 2009
• Buck, Pearl: The Good Earth, 1931
• Burney, Frances. Evelina, 1787
• Byatt, A.S.: The Biographer’s Tale, 2001
• Canin, Ethan: Blue River, 1991
• Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland, 1865
• Chapman, Maile. Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, 2010 and here
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde, c. 1380-87
• Chauvet, Marie Vieux. Love, Anger, Madness – A Haitian Trilogy, 2009
• Chekhov, Anton: The Shooting Party, 1885
• Cheever, Susan: American Bloomsbury, 2006
• Chessex, Jacques. L’Ogre, 1973
• Chopin, Kate, At Fault, 1890
• Christine, Agatha: A Caribbean Mystery, 1964
• Claudel, Philippe: Les Ames Grises, 2003
• Claudel, Philippe: La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh , 2005
• Claudel, Philippe: Le Rapport de Brodeck, 2007
• Coetzee, J.M.: Dusklands, 1974
• Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace,
• Collins, Myfanwy – Echolocation, 2012
• Collins, Wilkie: The Frozen Deep, 1856
• Compton, Sheldon Lee – The Same Terrible Storm, 2011
• Comyns, Barbara – Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, 1952
• Comyns, Barbara – The Vet’s Daughter, 1959
• Comyns, Barbara – Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, 1954
• Comyns, Barbara – The Juniper Tree, 1986
• Condé, Maryse. Les Belles Ténébreuses, 2007
• Condé, Maryse. Moi, Tituba, Sorcière
• Cooper, Susan – The Dark is Rising, 1973
• Costello, Mary – The China Factory, 2012 and here
• Cowger, Ashley: Peter Never Came, 2011
• Croset, Laure Mi Hyun: Les Velléitaires, 2010
• Cunningham, Michael: The Hours, 1998
• Cusk, Rachel: The Lucky Ones , 2004
• Cusk, Rachel: Arlington Park , 2006
• Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion, 2006
• Dawson, Jill: Magpie, 1998
• Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders, 1722
• Delillo, Don: Falling Man , 2007
• Delillo, Don: The Body Artist , 2001. 2nd post here
• Delillo, Don: Running Dog, 1978
• Desai, Anita: Fasting, Feasting, 2000
• Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss, 2006
• Desai, Kishwar: Witness the Night, 2010
• Dickens, Charles: Bleak House, 1853
• Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol, 1843
• Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, 18??
• Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
• Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby, 1838
• Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking, 2005
• Dillard, Annie: The Writing Life, 1990
• Dixon, K.B. A Painter’s Life, 2010
• Docx, Edward: The Calligrapher, 2003
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground, 1864
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment, 1866
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1901
• Doyle, Roddy: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, 1993
• Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors, 1996
• Doyle, Roddy: A Star Called Henry, 1999
• Doyle, Roddy: Paula Spencer, 2006
• Dufay, Danielle. Mon Mariage Chinois, 2004
• Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent, 1800
• Egan, Jennifer: Visit from the Good Squad, 2011
• Ellis, Rhian: After Life, 2000
• Eliot, George: Adam Bede, 1859 2^nd post here
• Eliot, George: Silas Marner, 1861
• Eliot, George: Middlemarch, 1871
• Enchi, Fumiko: The Waiting Years, 1957
• Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine, 1993
• Erdrich, Louise: The Painted Drum, 2003
• Etter, Sarah Rose: Tongue Party, 2011
• Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex , 2002
• Euripedes, The Bacchae, 405 BCE
• Euripedes, Medea, 431 BC
• Euripedes, Hippolytus, 428 BC
• Euripedes, The Trojan Women, 415 BC
• Faulkner, William – Light in August, 1932
• Fauth, Jürgen – Kino, 2012
• Finn, Patrick Michael: From the Darkness Right Under our Feet, 2011
• Fisher, Catherine: The Snow Walker’s Son, 1993
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby, 1925
• Fitzgerald, F.Scott – May Day, 1920
• Flanagan, Caitlin – Girl Land, 2012
• Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary, 1856. 2nd post here
• Flaubert, Gustave: L’Education Sentimentale, 1869
• Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated, 2002
• Foer, Jonathan Safran: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 2005
• Folco, Michel: Dieu et nous seuls pouvons, 1991
• Ford, Richard: Wildfire, 1990
• Fournier, Alain: Le Grand Meaulnes, 1913
• Fournier, Jean-Louis: Où on va, papa?, 2008
• Fournier, Jean-Louis/Adriana Hunter: Where we going, Daddy, 2010
• Frame, Janet – Owls Do Cry, 1957
• Franzen, Jonathan: Freedom, 2010 and 2nd response here
• Frey, James: A Million Little Pieces, 2003
• Frisch, Max: Homo Faber, 1957
• Fuller, John. Flying to Nowhere, 1983
• Galgut, Damon. The Good Doctor, 2003
• Garbo, Norman: The Artist, 1978
• Garcia, Thor: TUND, 2011
• Gardner, Nina-Marie: Sherry & Narcotics, 2011
• Garner, Alan: The Owl Service, 1967
• Gary, Romain: La Promesse de l’Aube, 1960
• Gavalda, Anna: Je L’Aimais, 2002
• Gaudé, Laurent: Ouragan, 2010 (and here)
• Gawande, Atul. Complications: Notes on an imperfect science, 2003
• Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1788
• Giordano, Paolo. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, 2009
• Givens, John: A Friend in the Police, 2011
• Goldman, Francisco: The Divine Husband, 2004
• Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield, 1766
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Lying Days , 1953
• Gordimer, Nadine: A World of Strangers ,1958
• Gordimer, Nadine: Occasion for Loving , 1963
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Late Bourgeois World, 1966
• Gordimer, Nadine: A Guest of Honour, 1970
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Conservationist, 1972
• Gordimer, Nadine: Burger’s Daughter, 1979
• Gordimer, Nadine: Six Feet of the Country , 1982
• Gordimer, Nadine: A Sport of Nature, 1987
• Gordimer, Nadine: My Son’s Story, 1990
• Gordimer, Nadine: None to Accompany Me, 1994
• Gordimer, Nadine: The House Gun, 1998
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Pickup, 2001
• Gordimer, Nadine: Get a Life, 2005
• Gordimer, Nadine – No Time Like the Present, 2012
• Gorz, André. Lettre à D., 2006
• Grenville, Kate: The Secret River, 2005
• Gunn, Kirsty: Rain , 1994
• Gunn, Kirsty: Featherstone, 2002
• Gustaffson, Lars – Death of a Beekeeper, 1978
• Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars, 1994
• Guterson, David: East of the Mountains, 1999
• Haddon, Mark: The curious incident of the dog in the night time, 2003
• Hamid, Mohsin – The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007
• Hamilton, Jay, Madison: The Federalist, 1787-88
• Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 1891
• Harford, Tim. The Logic of Life, 2008
• Hayes, Derek – The Maladjusted, 2011
• Hazzard, Shirley: The Transit of Venus, 1980
• Hemon, Aleksandar (ed) – Best European Fiction 2013
• Hershman, Tania – My Mother Was an Upright Piano, 2012
• Highsmith, Patricia – The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1955
• Himmer, Steve: The Bee-Loud Glade, 2011
• Homer: The Iliad, 8th cent BCE, ending, metaphor, fate, Achilles and Helen.
• Horan, Nancy: Loving Frank, 2007
• Hornby, Nick: Slam, 2007
• Houellebecq, Michel: La Poursuite de Bonheur (Poésie), 1992
• Houellebecq, Michel: Rester Vivant (Essais), 1991
• Houellebecq, Michel: H.P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, Contre la vie, 1991 and here
• Houellebecq, Michel: Extension du Domaine de la Lutte, 1994
• Houellebecq, Michel: Les Particules Elémentaires, 1998
• Houellebecq, Michel: Platforme
• Houellebecq, Michel: La Possibilité d’une Ile
• Houellebecq, Michel: La Carte et le Territoire, 2010
• Hulme, Keri: The Bone People , 1984
• Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748
• Huston, Nancy: Instruments des Ténèbres, 1996
• Hustvedt, Siri – The Summer Without Men, 2011
• Hustvedt, Siri. The Sorrows of an American, 2008
• Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989
• Ishiguro, Kazuo: An Artist of the Floating World, 1986
• Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let me Go , 2005. 2nd post here
• Jansson, Tove – The True Deceiver, 1982
• Jansson, Tove – The Summer Book, 1972
• Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
• Jin, Ha: Waiting, 1999
• Jolley, Marcel. Neither Here Nor There, 2008
• Johnson, Dana – Elsewhere, California, 2012
• Jones, Edward P.: The Known World, 2003
• Jones, Lloyd: Mister Pip, 2006
• Josipovici, Gabriel: Goldberg: Variations, 2002
• Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1914 Book 1, Book 2, Book 3.
• Juul, Pia – The Murder of Halland, 2012
• Kawabata, Yasunari: Snow Country , 1957
• Keller, Gottfried: A Village Romeo and Juliet, 1856
• Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , 1962
• Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal Dreams, 1990
• Korkeakivi, Anne – An Unexpected Guest, 2012
• Kristof, Agota. Le Grand Cahier, 1986
• Kristof, Agota. La Preuve, 1988
• Kristof, Agota: Le Troisième Mensonge, 1991
• Kundera, Milan: The Art of the Novel, 1986
• Kundera, Milan – L’Ignorance, 2000
• Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1978
• Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984
• Kwei-Armah, Kwame: Elmina’s Kitchen, 2003
• Laferrière, Dany – Je suis un écrivain japonais, 2008
• Lawrenson, Deborah: Songs of Blue and Gold, 2008
• Lakoseljac, Bianca: Bridge in the Rain, 2010
• Lawson, Mary: Crow Lake, 2003
• Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
• Le Clezio, J.M.G: Onitsha, 1991
• Le Clezio, J.M.G: Le Procès Verbal, 1963
• L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time, 1962
• L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wind in the Door, 1973
• Lesbre, Michèle: Le Canapé Rouge, 2007
• Lessing, Doris: The Grass is Singing, 1950
• Lessing, Doris – The Fifth Child, 1988
• Lethem, Jonathan: The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, 1996
• Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn, 1999
• Lewycka, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, 2005
• Levy, Deborah – Swimming Home, 2011
• Lind, Jakov. Ergo (trans. Ralph Manheim), 1967
• Lispector, Clarice – The Hour of the Star, 1977
• Lispecter, Clarice – Agua Viva, 1973 (tr. 2012)
• Locke, John: Second Treatise of Government, 1690
• Longinus: On the Sublime, 1st century AD
• Luke the Physician: Acts of the Apostles, ca. 80
• Lustig, Arnost: Lovely Green Eyes, 2000
• Mabanckou, Alain: African Psycho, 2003
• Machiavelli: The Prince, 1515
• Maillart, Ella. La Voie Cruelle, 1939
• Maggetti, Daniel: La Mort, les Anges, la Poussière, 1995
• Makine, Andrei: Le Testament Français, 1995
• Malamud, Bernard – The Natural, 1952
• Malouf, David: The Conversations at Curlow Creek, 1996
• Malzieu, Mattias: Maintenant qu’il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi, 2005
• Mandel, Emily St. John – The Lola Quartet, 2012
• Martel, Yann: Life of Pi , 2002
• Martin, Lee: The Bright Forever, 2005
• Martin, Steve: Shopgirl, 2000
• Matthews, Rebekah – Hymnal for Dirty Girls, 2012
• Matthew the Evangelist: Gospel of Matthew, ca. 70-100
• Mattison, Alice: Hilda and Pearl, 2001
• McCarthy, Cormac: The Road , 2006
• McCarthy, Cormac – All the Pretty Horses, 1992
• McCullers, Carson – Reflections in a Golden Eye, 1941
• McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of the Sad Café , 1951
• McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter , 1940
• McCullers, Carson: The Member of the Wedding, 1948
• McMurtry, Larry: Lonesome Dove, 1985
• McDonald, Melanie – Eromenos, 2011
• McDermott, Alice: After This, 2006
• McDermott, Alice: Child of My Heart , 2002
• McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy , 1998
• McDermott, Alice: At Weddings and Wakes , 1992
• McDermott, Alice: That Night , 1987
• McDermott, Alice: A Bigamist’s Daughter , 1982
• McEwan, Ian: Amsterdam, 1998
• McEwan, Ian: Atonement, 2002
• Messud, Claire: The Emperor’s Children , 2006
• Messud, Claire – A Simple Tale, 2001
• Messud, Claire – The Hunters, 2001
• Miller, Sue: The Good Mother, 1986
• Millhauser, Steven: Martin Dressler, 1997
• Mistry, Rohinton: Family Matters , 2002
• Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas, 2003
• Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green, 2006
• Monterroso, Augusto. the black sheep and other fables, 2005
• Monzo, Quim. Gasoline, 2010
• Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye , 1970
• Morrison, Toni: Beloved
• Moustakis, Melinda: Bear Down, Bear North, 2011
• Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood, 2000
• Murdoch, Iris. Under the Net, 1954
• Murdoch, Iris: The Sandcastle, 1957
• Murdoch, Iris: The Nice and the Good, 1968
• Muslim, Kristine One – We Bury the Landscape, 2012
• Myant, Maureen: The Search, 2009
• Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 1955
• Nadolny, Sten. The Discovery of Slowness, 1983
• Nelson, Antonya: Living to Tell, 2000
• Némirovsky, Irène: Le Bal, 1930
• Oates, Joyce Carol: Rape: a love story , 2004
• Oates, Joyce Carol: We Were the Mulvaneys, 1996
• O’Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood, 1952
• Ogawa, Yoko – The Diving Pool, 1990 (tr. 2008)
• Otsuka, Julie – The Buddha in the Attic, 2011
• Ozecki, Ruth L.: My Year of Meat, 1998
• Packer, Ann: The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, 2002
• Patchett, Ann: Bel Canto , 2001
• Penne, A.S.: Reckoning, 2009
• Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar, 1963
• Plante, David – Difficult Women, 1983
• Plato: Meno, 380 BCE,
• Plato, Thaetetus, 360 BC
• Plato: Crito, c. 400 BCE
• Plato: The Republic , c. 400 BCE
• Plato: Apology, c. 400 BCE
• Plume, Amélie: Oui Emile Pour la Vie, 1984
• Polet, Grégoire: Excusez les fautes du copiste, 2006
• Powers, Richard: The Echo Maker , 2006
• Pullman, Philip: The Golden Compass, 1996
• Pullman, Philip: The Subtle Knife, 1997
• Pullman, Philip: The Amber Spyglass, 2000
• Pym, Barbara – Excellent Women, 1952
• Pym, Barbara – Some Tame Gazelle, 1950
• Pym, Barbara – No Fond Return of Love, 1961
• Pym, Barbara – Quartet in Autumn, 1977
• Ramuz, C.F.: La Beauté sur la Terre, 1927
• Ramuz, C.F.: Si le soleil ne revenait pas, 1937
• Ramuz, C.F.: Derborence, 1934
• Ramuz, CF – La Regne de l’Esprit Malin, 1917
• Ramuz, C.F.: Un Vieux de Campagne et autres nouvelles, ???
• Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead, 1943
• Reiken, Frederick: The Odd Sea,
• Reiken, Frederick: The Lost Legends of New Jersey, 2005
• Reiken, Frederick: Day for Night, 2010
• Revaz, Noelle – Rapport aux Bêtes, 2002
• Rhys, Jean: Good Morning, Midnight, 1939
• Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
• Richardson, Chuck: So it Seams, 2010
• Riippi, Joseph – A Cloth House, 2012
• Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping, 1980
• Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead, 2004
• Robinson, Ray: Electricity, 2006
• Roth, Philip: The Ghost Writer, 1979
• Roth, Philip. The Human Stain, 2000
• Roth, Philip: Everyman, 2006
• Ruocco, Joanna. The Mothering Coven, 2009. And here.
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract, 1762
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Discourse on Inequality, 1755
• Russell, Mary Doria: The Sparrow, 1996
• Sahlberg, Asko: The Brothers, 2012
• Sarton, May: As We Are Now, 1973
• Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel: Lorsque J’étais une Oeuvre d’art, 2002
• Schopenhauer, Arthur: Essays, 1819-1860, trans. Dircks
• Schutt, Christine – Florida, 2004
• Scott, Joanna: Tourmaline, 2002
• Sedaris, David: Me Talk Pretty One Day, 2005
• Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1602?
• Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale, 1594 or 1610
• Shakespeare: The Tempest
• Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
• Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
• Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
• Shakespeare: Othello
• Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, 1604
• Shakespeare: Cymbeline
• Shamsie, Kamila: Burnt Shadows, 2009
• Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein , 1818
• Sherl, Gregory: I Have Touched You, 2011
• Shields, Carol: Unless, 2002
• Shields, Carol: The Stone Diaries, 1994
• Smith, Alexander McCall: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, 1998
• Smith, Ali: The Accidental, 2005
• Smith, Charlotte – Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle, 1788
• Sophocles: Antigone, ca. 440 BCE
• Sophocles: Oedipus the King, ca. 429 BCE
• Southgate, Martha: The Fall of Rome , 2002
• Southgate, Martha – The Taste of Salt, 2011
• Spallholz, Julianna – The State of Kansas, 2012
• Spivey, Ben: Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, 2010
• Spyri, Johanna: Heidi, 1872
• Staal, Stephanie – Reading Women, 2011
• Stafford, Jean – The Mountain Lion, 1947
• Stamm, Peter: Seven Years, 2010 (trans. Michael Hofmann)
• Stein, Leigh – The Fallback Plan, 2012
• Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886
• Stevenson,Robert Louis: Kidnapped, 1886
• Stockett, Kathryn. The Help, 2009
• Stoner, Jess – I Have Blinded Myself Writing This, 2012
• Styron, William: Set This House on Fire, 1960
• Swift, Graham: Last Orders, 1996, 2nd post here
• Swift, Graham: Waterland, 1983
• Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair, 1847-48
• Thornton, Rosy: Hearts and Minds, 2007
• Thuong-Thuong, Tran Thi: Letters to a Teacher , 2007
• Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980
• Trevor, William: A Bit on the Side, 2004
• Trocchi, Alexander:Young Adam, 1954
• Tsutsui, Yasutaka. The Maid, 2010
• Tuck, Lily – I Married You For Happiness, 2011
• Tyler, J.A. – Variations of a Brother War, 2012
• Updike, John. Villages, 2003
• Urrea, Luis Alberto: Into the Beautiful North, 2009
• Urquhart, Jane: The Underpainter , 1997
• Urquhart, Jane: A Map of Glass, 2005
• Van Cauwelaert, Didier: La Maison des Lumières, 2009
• Verissimo, Luis Fernando – Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans, 2004
• Vida, Vendela: Let the Northen Lights Erase Your Name, 2007
• di Vegan, Delphine – Les Heures Souterraines, 2009
• Vieux Chauvet, Marie : Amour, Colère et Folie, 2005
• Vowell, Sarah: Assassination Vacation, 2005
• Walls, Jeannette: The Glass Castle, 2005
• Washington, George: Farewell address, 1796
• Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies, 1930
• Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth, 1905
• Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome, 1911
• Wharton, Edith: Summer, 1917
•  Wharton, Edith – The Custom of the Country, 1913
• Wharton, Edith: The Buccaneers, 1937/1993, with Marion Mainwaring
• Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence, 1920
• Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray , 1891
• Willis, Sarah: Some Things That Stay , 2000
• Wilson, Eric G.: My Business is to Create, 2011
• Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion, 1987
• Wood, James: How Fiction Works, 2008 (and here)
• Wood, John Colman – The Names of Things, 2012
• Woolley, Brian. The Wonderful Room, 2009
• Woolf, Leonard – The Wise Virgins, 1914
• Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out, 1915
• Woolf, Virginia: Diaries, vol 1 (1915-1919)
• Woolf, Virginia: Night and Day, 1919
• Woolf, Virginia: Jacob’s Room, 1922
• Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway , 1925
• Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse, 1927
• Woolf, Virginia: The Waves, 1931
• Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road, 1961
• Yoshimoto, Banana – Lizard, 1993
• Yoshimoto, Banana – Kitchen, 1988
• Young, Angela: Speaking of Love, 2007
• Yourcenar, Marguerite – Mémoires d’Hadrien, 1951
• Zambreno, Kate – Heroines, 2012 (and here)
• Zambra, Alejandro: The Private Lives of Trees, 2010