Welcome to my ever-expanding TBR list! This list is organized by the date I acquired books. If you want to see my TBR list sorted another way – i.e. by author – you can visit it at my LibraryThing catalog.
Books that I have cleared from my TBR pile are crossed out. If there is a plus sign in front of the listing, clicking on the link will take you to my review at LibraryThing; otherwise, the link will take you to my review on this blog.
Note that these are not all of my reviews – audiobooks I’ve listened to, as well as books I read but didn’t own aren’t included here. You can see a list of my reviews sorted chronologically, or alphabetically by author.
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Additions To My TBR Pile
Prior to Aug 2006
- Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals by Marlene Zuk
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- People Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior by Adrian Forsyth
- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory & Other Sources by John Steinbeck (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Tess of the Durbervilles by Thomas Hardy (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (purged 04 Apr 09)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Demian by Hermann Hesse (purged 04 Apr 09)
- A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (missing)
- Nineteenth-Century American Short Fiction by William James Holmes (missing)
- Harry Potter y la Órden del Fénix by J. K. Rowling
- The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
- Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Taoist Tales by Raymond Van Over
- The Myths of the North American Indians by Lewis Spence
- American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes
- The Iliad by Homer
Aug 2006
+ Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
+ She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
+ Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
+ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
+ Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
+ The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
+ Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
+ The Canterbury Papers by Judith Koll Healey
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Sept 2006
+ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
+ Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Essylte by Nancy McKenzie
+ To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
+ Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
- The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian
- The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
- The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
- The Magus by John Fowles
Oct 2006
+ Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
+ The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey
+ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
+ I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
+ Witch Child by Celia Rees
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
- Throwing Shadows by E.L. Konigsburg
- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
- The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
- The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
- Quicker Than the Eye by Ray Bradbury
Nov 2006
+ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
+ I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
+ The Thirteenth Room by Siobhán Parkinson
+ Sea Dragon Heir by Storm Constantine
+ The Crown of Silence by Storm Constantine
+ Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About TV by Tara Ariano & Sarah Bunting
+ Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
+ The Prestige by Christopher Priest
+ Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII by Jean Plaidy
+ A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White
- Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Feist
- Dirt, Undress, And Difference: Critical Perspectives On The Body’s Surface by Adeline Masquelier (abandoned)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig
- Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Dec 2006
+ Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Markus Zusak
+ The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
+ Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
+ In Search of the Golden Frog by Marty Crump
+ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
+ Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
+ Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
+ Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
+ The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
- Night by Elie Wiesel (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist (purged 04 Apr 09)
- High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver
- Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Father’s Arcane Daughter by E.L. Konigsburg
- H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O’Brian
- One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury
Jan 2007
+ Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
+ Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
+ Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede
+ Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
+ His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
+ The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
+ The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
- The Book of Night with Moon by Diane Duane
- High Wizardry by Diane Duane
- Book of Enchantments by Patricia C. Wrede
- King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green (purged 04 Apr 09)
- A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Wizard’s Dilemma by Diane Duane (purged 04 Apr 09)
- A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Wizard’s Holiday by Diane Duane (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
Feb 2007
+ The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley
+ Evolution’s Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin’s Voyage Aboard the Beagle by Peter Nichols
+ A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks (purged 04 Apr 09)
- A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond Feist (purged 04 Apr 09)
- Irish Stories & Tales by Devin A. Garrity (purged 04 Apr 09)
Mar 2007
+ Shadowland by Meg Cabot
+ Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
+ Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
+ The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
+ Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
+ Eldest by Christopher Paolini
- Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
- The Way of Light by Storm Constantine
- The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
Apr 2007
+ The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
+ Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchet
- The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
- White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
May 2007
+ Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
+ The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter by David Colbert
Jun 2007
+ Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Made in America by Bill Bryson
- Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
- Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
- A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Jul 2007
+ A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
+ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
+ Adam’s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form by Michael Sims
Aug 2007
- The Guardians by Ana Castillo
- A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
- The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Sept 2007
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- Schrödinger’s Ball by Adam Felber
- Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
- Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
- Lobscouse & Spotted Dog: Which It’s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Anne Chotzinoff Grossman
- The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O’Brian by Dean King
- A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales by Dean King
- The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian
- Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
Oct 2007
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
- The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Paradise War by Stephen Lawhead
- What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin (abandoned)
- The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
- The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
- Little Children by Tom Perrotta
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Nov 2007
- S is for Space by Ray Bradbury
- Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print — and How to Avoid Them by Bill Walsh
- The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- Practical Demonkeeping: A Comedy of Horrors by Christopher Moore
- Magician: Master by Raymond Feist (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
- Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
- A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle
Dec 2007
- The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
- The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block
- The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
- Talyn: A Novel of The Korre by Holly Lisle
- The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold
- If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways by Daniel Quinn
- InterWorld by Neil Gaiman
- Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
- California Demon: The Secret Life of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
- Demons Are Forever: Confessions of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
- Angel’s Rest by Charles Davis
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
- The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
- The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
- Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
- Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
- A Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
- Harry Potter y el Misterio del Principe by J. K. Rowling
Jan 2008
- Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
- The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton
- The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
- Tithe by Holly Black
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
- Black Ships by Jo Graham
- The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
- Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
- The Serpent’s Shadow by Mercedes Lackey
- The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
- The Keep by Jennifer Egan
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Feb 2008
- The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
- Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
- Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
- The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
- Shield of Three Lions by Pamela Kaufman (abandoned)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
- The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Mar 2008
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
- Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
- Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
- Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night by Nina Dreyer Hensley
- The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
- The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
- The Talisman by Stephen King
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
- Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede
- Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ancestors of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson
Apr 2008
- Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
- Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow
- Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize by Kate Torgovnick
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Pope Joan by Donna Cross
May 2008
- The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
- Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan
- Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
- The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
- The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
- The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski
- Shade’s Children by Garth Nix
- The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
- The Innamorati by Midori Snyder
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- The Wave Theory of Angels by Alison MacLeod
- Little, Big by John Crowley
Jun 2008
- Farworld: Water Keep by J. Scott Savage
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories by Garth Nix
- The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
- The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (returned)
- Stowaway by Karen Hesse
- Remember Me 2: The Return by Christopher Pike
- Remember Me 3: The Last Story by Christopher Pike
- Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
- Bury Me Deep by Christopher Pike
- The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart
- Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
- Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnett
- Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
- Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
- The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal
Jul 2008
- The Questory of Root Karbunkulus: Item One: Miist by Kamilla Reid
- A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale: Geology and Paleontology in Yoho National Park by Murray Coppold
- Abarat by Clive Barker
- The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
- The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
- Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip
- The Religion by Tim Willocks
Aug 2008
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
- Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
- The Magickers by Emily Drake (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Curse of Arkady by Emily Drake (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
- The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller
- Shaman’s Crossing by Robin Hobb
- Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
- Heir of Autumn by Giles Carwyn
- Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan
- Last of the Wilds by Trudi Canavan
- Voice of the Gods by Trudi Canavan
- The Alchemist’s Daughter by Katharine McMahon
- The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Celtic Lore: The History of the Druids and Their Timeless Traditions by Ward Rutherford
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
- You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
- Gob’s Grief by Chris Adrian
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories by Marty Crump
Sept 2008
- Austenland by Shannon Hale
- The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Immortal by Traci L. Slatton
- The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
- Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
- Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
- In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck
- The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh
- The Children’s War by Monique Charlesworth
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
- Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Oct 2008
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
- The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld
- Alcatraz Versus The Scrivener’s Bones by Brandon Sanderson
- Quadehar the Sorcerer by Erik L’Homme
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard E. Cytowic (to be re-read)
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
- Woman of a Thousand Secrets by Barbara Wood
- Into the Green by Charles de Lint
- Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
- Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis by Joan Bolker
Nov 2008
- Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
- Buried Treasure: Travels Through the Jewel Box by Victoria Finlay
- The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones
- Hitler and Mars Bars by Dianne Ascroft
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- The Glister by John Burnside
- In the Woods by Tana French
- Blindness by José Saramago (Abandoned 30 May 2009)
- Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
- Tunnels by Roderick Gordon
- First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
- The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian
- Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
- Feed by M. T. Anderson
Dec 2008
- The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld
- Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
- Etta by Gerald Kolpan
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
- Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean by Justin Somper
- The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York by Joel Rose
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
- Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
- Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing by Robert Wolff
- Zen and the Art of Knitting: Exploring the Links Between Knitting, Spirituality, and Creativity by Bernadette Murphy (purged 04 Apr 09)
- The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov (to be re-read)
- Stardust: Being A Romance Within the Realms of Faerie by Neil Gaiman (to be re-read)
- Prague by Arthur Phillips
- A Model World: and Other Stories by Michael Chabon
- The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose
- Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon
- The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
- The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
- Valiant by Holly Black
- Ironside by Holly Black
- The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
- Lord of the Dead by Tom Holland
- The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
- The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
- Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
- On Fire’s Wings by Christie Golden
- Fifth Quarter by Tanya Huff
Jan 2009
- Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
- Beyond This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- Elisha’s Bones by Don Hoesel
- Starfinder by John Marco
- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich
- Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
- Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
- The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
- Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie (purged)
- Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
- To Ride Hell’s Chasm by Janny Wurts
- The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
- Magyk by Angie Sage
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
- Bellwether by Connie Willis
Feb 2009
- The Mystery of Lord Sha by Erik L’Homme
- The Face of the Shadow by Erik L’Homme
- The Sound of Building Coffins by Louis Maistros
- Amberville by Tim Davys
- The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess
- Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
- The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem
- The Changeling of Finnistuath by Kate Horsley
- Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
- Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
- Fine Prey by Scott Westerfeld
- A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
- Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
- A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
- The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow
- Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker
- The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales by Diane Ackerman
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
- The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
- The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson
- The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
- I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot by Nancy Springer
Mar 2009
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
- Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
- Polymorph by Scott Westerfeld
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- Mathematics and Sex by Clio Cresswell
- Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin
- The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
- Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
Apr 2009
- Darkwood by M. E. Breen
- Exodus by Julie Bertagna
- Zenith by Julie Bertagna
- Palace Circle by Rebecca Dean
- Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue
- Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen
- Midnighters: Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
- Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
- Midnighters: Blue Moon by Scott Westerfeld
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant
- Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy edited by Robert Silverberg
- Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
- What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist – The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool
- The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman
May 2009
- An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
- The Wet Nurse’s Tale by Erica Eisdorfer
- Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell
- Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie (purged)
- Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon
- Guinevere’s Gift by Nancy McKenzie
- The Ha-Ha by Dave King
- The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
- Booth’s Sister by Jane Singer
- Priestess of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
June 2009
- The Rough Guide to Evolution by Mark Pallen
- Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
- A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin
- Oathbreaker, Vol. 1: Assassin’s Apprentice by S. R. Vaught and J. B. Redmond
- Patriot’s Dream by Barbara Michaels
- The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
- Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Twilight of Avalon: A Novel of Trystan & Isolde by Anna Elliott
- A Primate’s Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M. Sapolsky
July 2009
- Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
- The Purloined Boy by Mortimus Clay
- Ice Land by Betsy Tobin
- Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
- The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax
- City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
- The Trouble with Testosterone: and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament by Robert Sapolsky
August 2009
- Colman by Monica Furlong
- The Underdog by Markus Zusak
September 2009
- Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
- Liar by Justine Larbalestier
- Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
- Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
- Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
- Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
- Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
- All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
October 2009
- Where the Hell is Matt?: Dancing Badly Around the World by Matt Harding
- The Naming by Alison Croggon
- From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
- The Likeness by Tana French
- Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
- The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
November 2009
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
