My Favorite Books

Favorite Books of 2011:

• The Virginian by Owen Wister
• Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
• Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
• Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
• Across the River and Into The Trees by Ernest Hemingway
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Favorite Books of 2010:

• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
• Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
• Out by Natsuo Kirino
• Silence by Shusako Endo
• Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
• The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Favorite Books of 2009:

• Perfumes: The Guide by Lucas Turin
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
• Blindness by Jose Saramego
• The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

American:

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

British:

• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
• The Victorian Chaise Longue by Maghanita Laski
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Canadian:

• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Children's:

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
• Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Crow Boy by Taro Yashima
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
• I'm in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor
• Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkein

Chinese:

• Death of a Red Heroine by Xiaolong
• The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Fantasy:

• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

French:

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

Japanese:

• Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Silence by Shusaku Endo
• Out by Natsuo Kirino
• A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
• The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari

Philosophy:

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Religion:

• The Bible

Russian:

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
• Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Short Stories:

• Collected Stories by Raymond Carver
• Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Western:

• The Virginian by Owen Wister
• A Whistling Season by Ivan Doig