My To Read List: Fiction
- Alyan, Hala, Salt Houses
- Barnes, Kim, In the Kingdom of Men
- ben Izzy, Joel: The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
- Binchy, Maeve, Evening Class
- Card, Orson:
- Speaker for the Dead
- Enchantment
- Past Watch (rec. by Phil S.)
- Dunnett, Dorothy: The Game of Kings and other historical fiction
- Fasman, Jon:
- The Geographer’s Library
- The Coroner’s Lunch
- Flanery, Patrick: Fallen Land
- Galbraith, Robert (aka J. K. Rowling): The Cuckoo’s Calling
- George, Nina: The Little Paris Bookshop
- Gerber, Robin: Eleanor vs. Ike (rec. by Julie)
- Gloss, Molly: Hearts of Horses
- Godwin, Gail: Father Melancholy’s Daughter
- Hannah, Kristin: The Nightingale (2 sisters embark on separate dangerous paths toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France)
- Hawkins, Paula: The Girl on the Train
- Hill, Lawrence, Someone Knows My Name (aka The Book of Negroes or Aminata)
- Hislop, Victoria: The Island (rec. by Litsa B)
- Holsinger, Bruce: A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire (novels set in 14th-century London)
- Israel, Steve: The Global War on Morris (reviewed by Karen Heller in WP Style 1/7/15)
- Jiles, Paulette: The Color of Lightning (cultural clashes with Plains Indians in mid-nineteenth-century Texas)
- Kaga, Otohiko: Riding the East Wind: A Novel of War and Peace translated from the Japanese by Ian Hideo Levy “helps fill a void in our understanding of what it was really like to live in Japan during the dark years of World War II” (Kunio Francis Tanabe, The Washington Post Book World)
- Kostova, Elizabeth, The Swan Thieves
- Lethem, Jonathan: Dissident Gardens
- Lewis, Sinclair: It Can’t Happen Here (fascism in the US)
- Li, Yiyun, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short stories, The Vagrants, Kinder Than Solitude
- Martin, Andrew: Early Work
- Mbue, Imbolo: Behold the Dreamers (The trials and tribulations of a young Cameroonian couple and their attempts to build a life in the U.S. PEN/Faulkner Award winner)
- McCarthy, Cormac: All the Pretty Horses (rec. by Helen)
- Michaels, Ann: Fugitive Pieces
- Miller, Madeleine: Circe
- Miyabe, Misuke: Shadow Family
- Oyeyemi, Helen: Boy, Snow, Bird
- Pamuk, Orhan:
- My Name Is Red (recommended by Linda Sarigol)
- A Strangeness in My Mind
- Patchett, Ann:
- Commonwealth
- Nashville
- Pears, Iain: An Instance of the Fingerpost (historical mystery)
- Picoult, Jodi: Small Great Things (A poignant story about parental love, friendship, and loss)
- Powers, Rich: The Overstory (a novel about trees)
- Rayburn, Deanna: A Curious Beginning (An intrepid adventuress in Victorian England thwarts her own abduction.)
- Roy, Arundhati: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (added 6.5.17)
- Rylant, Cynthia: A Couple of Kooks (rec. by Margaret France)
- Sciascia, Leonardo: To Each His Own (mystery set in Sicily)
- See, Lisa:
- Dreams of Joy
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
- Shafak, Elif, The Architect’s Apprentice (set in 16th century Ottoman Empire) and other novels
- Shem, Samuel (pseudonym of Stephen Bergman) House of God (recommended by Dimitri Balatsias)
- Suri, Manil: The City of Devi, Wash. Post review
- Tartt, Donna: The Goldfinch (different people gave mixed reviews)
- Thomas, Matthew: We Are Not Ourselves
- Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn (A young Irish woman starts a new life in NYC)
- Turner, Megan Whalen: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia (recommended by Beth; historical fantasy)
- Walton, Jo, My Real Children
- Wells, Rebecca: Ya-Yas in Bloom
- Wilson, Kevin: Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (short stories)
- Yoshikawa, Mako: One Hundred and One Ways, Bantam 1999, A Japanese American woman tells the story of her geisha grandmother…
- Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief (mystery, Holocaust)
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