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TBR List

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 Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
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 (taken off list 29 Jan 11)
Taoist Tales by Raymond Van Over (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Myths of the North American Indians by Lewis Spence (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
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
American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes
The Iliad by Homer
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins

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
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (purged 15 Nov 09)

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
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
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)
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough (purged 15 Nov 09)
The Magus by John Fowles (purged Sept 10)
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (purged 27 Jun 14)
Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian

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
Quicker Than the Eye by Ray Bradbury
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Holes by Louis Sachar
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (purged 15 Nov 09)
The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart (purged 22 Dec 12)
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart (purged 22 Dec 12)

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)
Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig (purged 15 Nov 09)
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (purged 15 Nov 09)
Empire Falls by Richard Russo (purged 15 Nov 09)
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (purged Aug 2012)
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Father’s Arcane Daughter by E.L. Konigsburg
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
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
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
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 Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (purged 22 Dec 12)
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin (purged)
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi (purged 27 Jun 14)

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
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
The Way of Light by Storm Constantine (purged 15 Nov 09)

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
White Oleander by Janet Fitch (purged 15 Nov 09)
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (purged 22 Dec 12)
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 (purged Sept 10)
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (purged 22 Dec 12)
Wideacre by Philippa Gregory (purged)
A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (purged Nov/Dec 2015)

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 (purged 27 Jun 14)

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
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian

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
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin (abandoned)
Little Children by Tom Perrotta (purged 15 Nov 09)
Possession by A.S. Byatt (DNF January 2014)
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
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Magician: Master by Raymond Feist (purged 04 Apr 09)
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle (purged 27 Jun 14)
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

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
Harry Potter y el Misterio del Principe by J. K. Rowling (taken off list 29 Jan 11)
A Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevermer (purged Nov/Dec 2015)

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 (purged 15 Nov 09)
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Serpent’s Shadow by Mercedes Lackey

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)
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris (purged 15 Nov 09)
The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton (abandoned April 2011)
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (purged 27 Jun 14)
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (purged Nov/Dec 2015)

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
Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede
The Talisman by Stephen King
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (purged 22 Dec 12)
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (purged 27 Jun 14)
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ancestors of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson (purged 27 Jun 14)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent

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 Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (purged 27 Jun 14)
Pope Joan by Donna Cross (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize by Kate Torgovnick

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
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland (purged Mar 11)
The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Innamorati by Midori Snyder (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Wave Theory of Angels by Alison MacLeod (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Little, Big by John Crowley (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Shade’s Children by Garth Nix

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)
Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
Remember Me 2: The Return by Christopher Pike
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart (purged 22 Dec 12)
Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnett (purged 22 Dec 12)
Stowaway by Karen Hesse (purged 27 Jun 14)
Remember Me 3: The Last Story by Christopher Pike (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Bury Me Deep by Christopher Pike (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

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 Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman (purged 22 Dec 12)
The Religion by Tim Willocks (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Sunshine by Robin McKinley (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

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
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories by Marty Crump
The Magickers by Emily Drake (purged 04 Apr 09)
The Curse of Arkady by Emily Drake (purged 04 Apr 09)
Heir of Autumn by Giles Carwyn (purged 22 Dec 12)
Celtic Lore: The History of the Druids and Their Timeless Traditions by Ward Rutherford (purged 17 Oct 15)
Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Last of the Wilds by Trudi Canavan (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Voice of the Gods by Trudi Canavan (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Alchemist’s Daughter by Katharine McMahon (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Gob’s Grief by Chris Adrian (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller
Shaman’s Crossing by Robin Hobb
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

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
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison (purged 22 Dec 12)
In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck (purged 22 Dec 12)
The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh (purged 22 Dec 12)
The Children’s War by Monique Charlesworth (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

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 Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (purged 15 Nov 09)
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis by Joan Bolker (purged July 2010)
Woman of a Thousand Secrets by Barbara Wood (purged 27 Jun 14)
Into the Green by Charles de Lint (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler

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
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Feed by M. T. Anderson
Blindness by José Saramago (Abandoned 30 May 2009)
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg (purged 27 Jun 14)
Tunnels by Roderick Gordon (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

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
The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
On Fire’s Wings by Christie Golden
Valiant by Holly Black
Ironside by Holly Black
Fifth Quarter by Tanya Huff
The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
Zen and the Art of Knitting: Exploring the Links Between Knitting, Spirituality, and Creativity by Bernadette Murphy (purged 04 Apr 09)
The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (purged 22 Dec 12)
Lord of the Dead by Tom Holland (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Prague by Arthur Phillips
A Model World: and Other Stories by Michael Chabon
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon
The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett

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)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Magyk by Angie Sage
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Bellwether by Connie Willis
To Ride Hell’s Chasm by Janny Wurts (DNF Sept 2011)
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon (purged Nov/Dec 2015)

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
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot by Nancy Springer
The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem
M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
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 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow
The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales by Diane Ackerman
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

Mar 2009
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Mathematics and Sex by Clio Cresswell
Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Polymorph by Scott Westerfeld
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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
The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The Sharing Knife: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold
Midnighters: Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
Midnighters: Blue Moon by Scott Westerfeld
Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen
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
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

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
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie (purged)
Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon
The Ha-Ha by Dave King (purged)
Guinevere’s Gift by Nancy McKenzie (purged 27 Jun 14)
Priestess of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (purged 27 Jun 14)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Booth’s Sister by Jane Singer

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
Twilight of Avalon: A Novel of Trystan & Isolde by Anna Elliott
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky
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
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (purged 27 Jun 14)

October 2009
Where the Hell is Matt?: Dancing Badly Around the World by Matt Harding
The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
The Likeness by Tana French
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Naming by Alison Croggon (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen

November 2009
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Witch’s Trinity by Erika Mailman (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

December 2009
Captivate by Carrie Jones
The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene by Niles Eldredge (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrless

January 2010
The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
Mélusine by Sarah Monette
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Summer Country by James A. Hetley (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Diplomacy of Wolves by Holly Lisle
Vengeance of Dragons by Holly Lisle
Dust by Elizabeth Bear

February 2010
Heresy by S. J. Parris
Year of the Horse by Justin Allen
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck
The Origins of Life and the Universe by Paul F. Lurquin
The King’s Peace by Jo Walton
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber

March 2010
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans by Brian M. Fagan
The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson
Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey
Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde
Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright
Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools by Eugenie C. Scott
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald (purged)
Life After God by Douglas Coupland (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People by David P. Barash

April 2010
The Time of Terror by Seth Hunter
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl’s Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons Game by Shelly Mazzanoble
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Starry Rift by Jonathan Strahan
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Story of a Marriage by Sean Andrew Greer (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Raven Ring by Patricia C. Wrede
Westmark by Lloyd Alexander

May 2010
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick (purged August 2017)
Pendragon’s Banner by Helen Hollick (purged August 2017)
Shadow of the King by Helen Hollick (purged August 2017)
Vincalis the Agitator by Holly Lisle

June 2010
Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin
Stealing Fire by Jo Graham
The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck

July 2010
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff
Blindspot by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
Daughter of Witches by Patricia C. Wrede
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Harp of Imach Thyssel by Patricia C. Wrede

August 2010
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
The Pindar Diamond by Katie Hickman
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
The Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley (purged 27 Jun 14)

September 2010
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire
Corrag by Susan Fletcher
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis

October 2010
Of Bees and Mist by Eric Setiawan
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me ed. by Kate Bernheimer
Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Great Animals by Jay Kirk
Dark Moon of Avalon by Anna Elliott
The House on Durrow Street by Galen Beckett
What’s Love Got To Do With It: The Evolution of Human Mating by Meredith Small (DNF March 2011)
Lady’s Maid by Margaret Forster (purged 27 Jun 14)
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Monkey Bible by Mark Laxer
Drake’s Bay by T. A. Roberts
Firebirds by Sharyn November

November 2010
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Virgin Widow by Anne O’Brien
Out For Blood by Alyxandra Harvey
Entice by Carrie Jones
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
Old Magic by Marianne Curley

December 2010
The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas ed. by Robin Harvie and Stephanie Meyer
The Emperor’s Body by Peter Brooks (DNF)
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure by Julian Smith
Illuminations: A Bestiary by Rosamond Purcell Wolff & Stephen Jay Gould
Songs of Love and Death: Tales of Star-Crossed Lovers ed. by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
American Subversive by David Goodwillie
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me, Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart
The Fart Party by Julia Wertz
The Fart Party, Vol. 2 by Julia Wertz
The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz

January 2011
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain
Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Poison by Sara Poole
Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
Fast Ships, Black Sails ed. by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Size 14 is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot (purged Aug 2012)
Big Boned by Meg Cabot (purged Aug 2012)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Caught in Crystal by Patricia C. Wrede
Feed by Mira Grant
Snow White, Blood Red ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling
Black Thorn, White Rose ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

February 2011
Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey
Deerskin by Robin McKinley (purged 27 Jun 14)
The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould

March 2011
Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick
Prophecy by S. J. Parris
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Tide of War by Seth Hunter
Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston (purged 17 Oct 15)
Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt

May 2011
The River Kings’ Road by Liane Merciel
Heaven’s Needle by Liane Merciel
Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World by Catherine E. McKinley
The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma
Centuries of June by Keith Donohue
Wildefire by Karsten Knight
Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
Fire Watch by Connie Willis
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer (purged 27 Jun 14)
Wild Cards, Vol. 1 by George R. R. Martin
Fool by Christopher Moore

June 2011
The Borgia Betrayal by Sara Poole
Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
Godslayer by Jacqueline Carey
Illyria by Elizabeth Hand

July 2011
Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
The Ravens of Falkenau & Other Stories by Jo Graham
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi
Robin’s Country by Monica Furlong

August 2011
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

September 2011
Sleight of Hand by Peter S. Beagle
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder (purged Aug 2012)
Courage of Falcons by Holly Lisle
The Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede

October 2011
The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth by Richard Conniff
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones by Anthony Bourdain

November 2011
Switched by Amanda Hocking

December 2011
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley
Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison
The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City–Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages by Catharine Arnold
Mistborn: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Planesrunner by Ian McDonald
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands ed. by Holly Black
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo by Kate Jackson
Impossible Things by Connie Willis
Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys by Rob Dunn
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

January 2012
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Mirage by Matt Ruff
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

February 2012
The Last Witch of Langenburg by Thomas Robisheaux

March 2012
The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd
Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language by Patricia T. O’Conner & Stewart Kellerman
The Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Plain Kate by Erin Bow
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain

April 2012
The Unseen by Katherine Webb
A Song Called Youth by John Shirley

May 2012
The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook by Christopher Kimball

June 2012
Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by Robert Silverberg

July 2012
Silence of the Songbirds by Bridget Stutchbury

August 2012
Kushiel’s Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
The Second Empress by Michelle Moran
Kushiel’s Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
The Map of the Sky by Félix J. Palma
Kushiel’s Scion by Jacqueline Carey
The Quartered Sea by Tanya Huff
River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
No Quarter by Tanya Huff

September 2012
Epic: Legends of Fantasy ed. by John Joseph Adams
The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

October 2012
100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod by Scott Christianson
Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald
Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig by Russell Potter
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson

November 2012
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch

December 2012
The Underwater Welder – Jeff Lemire
A Murder for Her Majesty – Beth Hilgartner
Between Man and Beast: A Tale of Exploration and Evolution – Monte Reel
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version – Philip Pullman
Bloodshot – Cherie Priest
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer – Nathaniel Fick
The Alchemy of Stone – Ekaterina Sedia

January 2013
A Memory of Light – Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

February 2013
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks – Amy Stewart

March 2013
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
Unnatural Creatures – ed. by Neil Gaiman
Blood & Beauty – Sarah Dunant
Kushiel’s Justice – Jacqueline Carey
The Virtu – Sarah Monette (DNFed August 2016)

April 2013
Fevre Dream – George R. R. Martin
Snapper – Brian Kimberling
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip – Confessions of a Cynical Waiter – Steve Dublanica
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black – E. B. Hudspeth
The Boleyn King – Laura Andersen
The Wood Wife – Terri Windling (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Caleb’s Crossing – Geraldine Brooks
The Line Between – Peter S. Beagle
Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories – Lauren Groff

May 2013
The Tragedy of Arthur – Arthur Phillips
Firebirds Soaring – ed. by Sharyn November
Magic Under Glass – Jaclyn Dolamore
Firebirds Rising – ed. by Sharyn November

June 2013
Q – Evan J. Mandery
Leonardo’s Foot: How 10 Toes, 52 Bones, and 66 Muscles Shaped the Human World – Carol Ann Rinzler
The Keeper of Secrets – Julie Thomas
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Love Among the Particles – Norman Lock (purged 27 Jun 14)

July 2013
A Fatal Likeness – Lynn Shepherd
Hounded – Kevin Hearne (purged Nov/Dec 2015)

August 2013
Hunted – Kevin Hearne (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Easter Island – Jennifer Vanderbes (purged Nov/Dec 2015)

September 2013
State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
Kushiel’s Mercy – Jacqueline Carey
XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths – ed. by Kate Bernheimer
The Privilege of the Sword – Ellen Kushner
Warriors – ed. by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

October 2013
Humans of New York – Brandon Stanton
The Boleyn Deceit – Laura Andersen
Mouse Guard, Labyrinth, and Other Stories: A Free Comic Book Day Hardcover Anthology – David Petersen
Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein
The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious — and Perplexing — City – David Lebovitz
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise – Ruth Reichl
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World – Mark Kurlansky
Ship Breaker – Paolo Bacigalupi
Pirates! – Celia Rees
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Evolution’s Darling – Scott Wessterfeld
A Confederation of Valor – Tanya Huff

November 2013
Ape House – Sara Gruen (purged Nov/Dec 2015)

December 2013
The Warded Man – Peter V. Brett
Among Others – Jo Walton
Restoration – Olaf Olafsson
Dangerous Women – George R. R. Martin

January 2014
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Hollow City – Ransom Riggs
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? – Jared Diamond
Broken Harbor – Tana French
The Half-Made World – Felix Gilman
Black Order – James Rollins

February 2014
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis – Thomas Goetz

March 2014
The Quick – Lauren Quick

April 2014
Bossypants – Tina Fey
The Queen of the Tearling – Erika Johansen
The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
The Fall of the Kings – Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman
Midnight Never Come – Marie Brennan
Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
Glamour in Glass – Mary Robinette Kowal
Without a Summer – Mary Robinette Kowal
Passage – Connie Willis
Once Upon a Time: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales – ed. Lester del Ray

May 2014
Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
The Angel of Darkness – Caleb Carr

June 2014
Invisible Beasts – Sharona Muir
Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
Tinkers – Paul Harding (purged Nov/Dec 2015)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer
Wondrous Beginnings – ed. Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg

July 2014
The Boleyn Reckoning – Laura Andersen
The Snowman – Jo Nesbø (purged August 2017)
The Desert Spear – Peter V. Brett (purged August 2017)
The Daylight War – Peter V. Brett (purged August 2017)
The Republic of Thieves – Scott Lynch

August 2014
Dr. Mütter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine – Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
The Ghost Bride – Yangsze Choo

September 2014
Rose Under Fire – Elizabeth Wein
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble – Marilyn Johnson
The Falcon Throne – Karen Miller (DNFed)
Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future – ed. by Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer

October 2014
Mortal Heart – Robin LaFevers
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan
Santa Olivia – Jacqueline Carey
Death Comes to Pemberley – P. D. James
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing – Jasper Fforde

November 2014
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks – Kathleen Flinn
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt – Kara Cooney
The Pierced Heart – Lynn Shepherd
Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn

December 2014
The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac – Sharma Shields
In Real Life – Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll & Camille Rose Garcia

January 2015
A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
The Martian – Andy Weir
Troll’s-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales – Ellen Datlow
City of Stairs – Robert Jackson Bennett
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren – Jonathan Lopez

February 2015
Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers – Amir D. Aczel
Landline – Rainbow Rowell

March 2015
For Darkness Shows the Stars – Diana Peterfreund
The Weight of Blood – Laura McHugh
Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Supervillain – Richard Roberts

April 2015
The Glass Arrow – Kristen Simmons
The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett
Crucible of Gold – Naomi Novik
Blood of Tyrants – Naomi Novik
Dark Currents – Jacqueline Carey
The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection – ed. by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant

May 2015
In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France – Susan Herrmann Loomis
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History – Cynthia Barnett
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout

June 2015
The Tutor – Andrea Chapin
The Book of Madness and Cures – Regina O’Melveny
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary – Pamela Dean

July 2015
Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring – Alexander Rose
The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
The Tide Watchers – Lisa Chaplin
Across a Star-Swept Sea – Diana Peterfreund

August 2015
After Alice – Gregory Maguire (DNFed)

September 2015
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand

October 2015
Humans of New York: Stories – Brandon Stanton
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances – Neil Gaiman
The Wicked and the Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act – Kieron Gillen
Saints Astray – Jacqueline Carey

November 2015
Slade House – David Mitchell
The Diviners – Libba Bray
The Monuments Men: Allied Heros, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History – Robert M. Edsel

December 2015
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World – Andrea Wulf
A Companion to Wolves – Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human – Noah Strycker
Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson
A Natural History of Dragons – Marie Brennan
The Tropic of Serpents – Marie Brennan
Spellwright – Blake Charlton

January 2016
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe – Andrew Dickson (DNFed December 2016)

February 2016
Remembrance – Meg Cabot
The Winds of Folly – Seth Hunter
Lab Girl – Hope Jahren

April 2016
The Atomic Weight of Love – Elizabeth J. Church
Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
Thomas Jefferson’s Creme Brulee: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America – Thomas J. Craughwell
In the Devil’s Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food – Stewart Allen Lee
Longbourn – Jo Baker
Autumn Bones – Jacqueline Carey

May 2016
The Price of Glory – Seth Hunter
Summer Days and Summer Nights – ed. by Stephanie Perkins

June 2016
Hamilton: The Revolution: Being the Complete Libretto of the Broadway Musical, with a True Account of its Creation, and Concise Remarks on Hip-Hop, the Power of Stories, and the New America – Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

July 2016
Outlander Kitchen: The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook – Theresa Carle-Sanders
How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners – The Monks of New Skete
We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Rat Queens, Volume 3: Demons – Kurtis J. Wiebe

August 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two – J. K. Rowling
The Bookman’s Tale – Charles Lovett
Library of Souls – Ransom Riggs
Afterworlds – Scott Westerfeld

September 2016
The Sellout – Paul Beatty (purged August 2017)
Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair – Emma Tarlo

October 2016
Bellman & Black – Diane Setterfield
The Comet Seekers – Helen Sedgwick
The Fifth Petal – Brunonia Barry
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body – Neil Shubin
The Just City – Jo Walton
The Witch’s Daughter – Paula Brackston
The Fifth Season – N. K. Jemisin
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares – Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection – ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection – ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

November 2016
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

December 2016
Crosstalk – Connie Willis
The Bands of Mourning – Brandon Sanderson
Toad Rage – Morris Gleitzman

January 2017
March, Vol. 1 – John Lewis
March, Vol. 2 – John Lewis
March, Vol. 3 – John Lewis

March 2017
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion – M. T. Anderson
Valour and Vanity – Mary Robinette Kowal
Of Noble Family – Mary Robinette Kowal

May 2017
A Fine Imitation – Amber Brock
Murder as a Fine Art – David Morrell
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters – Ursula K. LeGuin

June 2017
Saga, Vol. 7 – Brian K. Vaughan

July 2017
The Day the Angels Fell – Shawn Smucker

August 2017
The Jane Austen Project – Kathleen Flynn
The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black

September 2017
These Vicious Masks – Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
My Life in France – Julia Child

October 2017
Turtles All The Way Down – John Green
Rat Queens, Vol. 4: High Fantasies – Kurtis J. Wiebe

eTBR pile
The Fiddler’s Gun – A. S. Peterson
Soulless – Gail Carriger
Changeless – Gail Carriger
Blameless – Gail Carriger
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide – Peter Allison
The Stress of Her Regard – Tim Powers
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – Catherynne M. Valente
The Rithmatist – Brandon Sanderson
Shadow Magic – Patricia C. Wrede
Just Kids – Patti Smith (DNF)
The Color of Magic – Terry Pratchett
Cinder – Marissa Meyer
Fuzzy Nation – John Scalzi
Attachements – Rainbow Rowell
The Woodcutter – Kate Danley
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice – Paula Byrne
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Seth Grahame-Smith
Sourcery – Terry Pratchett
Penric’s Demon – Lois McMaster Bujold
The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories – Connie Willis
A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
The House of Velvet and Glass – Katherine Howe
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense – ed. by Jack Dann & Nick Gevers
Hide Me Among the Graves – Tim Powers
Carnival of Souls – Melissa Marr
Graveminder – Melissa Marr
Pandemonium – Lauren Oliver
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
Spin – Robert Charles Wilson
Boneshaker – Cherie Priest
Just a Geek – Wil Wheaton
Machine of Death – ed. by Ryan North
The Poison Eaters: And Other Stories – Holly Black
The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
Mort – Terry Pratchett
Lost Things – Melissa Scott & Jo Graham
Mogworld – Yahtzee Croshaw
The Happiest Days of Our Lives – Wil Wheaton
Jumper – Steven Gould
Homeland – Cory Doctorow
Bleeding Violet – Dia Reeves
The God Engines – John Scalzi
Arcanum 101: Welcome New Students – Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill
To Be or Not To Be – Ryan North
A History of the World in 6 Glasses – Tom Standage
Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Ben H. Winters
Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Steel Blues – Melissa Scott & Jo Graham
Silver Bullet – Melissa Scott & Jo Graham
The Iron King – Julie Kagawa
Rebel Queen – Michelle Moran
Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 – Winston Graham
Timebound – Rysa Walker
The Invasion of the Tearling – Erika Johansen
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – Jesse Andrews
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Tales of Ariland – Alethea Kontis
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
Girl Waits with Gun – Amy Stewart
Prince Lestat – Anne Rice
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis – Anne Rice
Between Shades of Grey – Ruta Sepetys
Lady Cop Makes Trouble – Amy Stewart
Too Like the Lightning – Ada Palmer
The Burning World – Isaac Marion
Rogues – ed. by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Genuine Fraud – E. Lockhart
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore – Matthew Sullivan
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
Uprooted – Naomi Novik
A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J. Maas

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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal – Mary Roach
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The End of All Things – John Scalzi
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R. King
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times – Jennifer Worth
The Shepherd’s Crown – Terry Pratchett
The Sleeper and the Spindle – Neil Gaiman
Ice Like Fire – Sara Raasch
Newt’s Emerald: Magic, Maids, and Masquerades – Garth Nix
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
The Android’s Dream – John Scalzi
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Cruel Crown – Victoria Aveyard
A Monstrous Regiment of Women – Laurie R. King
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen – Lois McMaster Bujold
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Glass Sword – Victoria Aveyard
Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
The Spirit Ring – Lois McMaster Bujold
Texts from Jane Eyre – Mallory Ortberg
A Letter of Mary – Laurie R. King
Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi
Farthing – Jo Walton
The Moor – Laurie R. King
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison – Piper Kerman
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride – Cary Elwes
The Secret Chord – Geraldine Brooks
Yes Please – Amy Poehler
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War – Mary Roach
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
The Collapsing Empire – John Scalzi
Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
Children of Earth and Sky – Guy Gavriel Kay
Mary Poppins – P. L. Travers
The Bishop’s Wife – Mette Ivie Harrison
Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
The Paper Magician – Charlie N. Holmberg
Fairy-Tale Detectives – Michael Buckley
The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Ha’Penny – Jo Walton
Half a Crown – Jo Walton
King’s Cage – Victoria Aveyard
O Jerusalem – Laurie R. King
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
The Pearl Thief – Elizabeth Wein
Strange the Dreamer – Laini Taylor
Dorothy Must Die – Danielle Paige
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space – Margot Lee Shetterly
Welcome to Night Vale – Joseph Fink

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