Books I've Read Recently

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Each author is represented by only one novel. If you enjoy a book, you might try another one by the same writer.

Recommended

About a Boy (1998) by Nick Hornby

Alias Grace (1996) by Margaret Atwood

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) by Ernest Gaines

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast (1993) by Bill Richardson

Back When We Were Grownups (2001) by Anne Tyler    

Banishing Verona (2004) by Margot Livesey

The Bean Trees (1988) by Barbara Kingsolver

Bel Canto (2001) by Ann Patchett

The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler

Blue Shoes and Happiness (2007) by Alexander McCall Smith

The Chosen (1967) by Chaim Potok

The Cider House Rules (1985) by John Irving

Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons

Cold Sassy Tree (1984) by Olive Ann Burns

Cotillion (1953) by Georgette Heyer

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) by Sarah Orne Jewett

Cranford (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon

The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey

A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2001) by Terry McMillan

The Diary of a Nobody (1892) by George and Weedon Grosssmith

The Enchanted April (1923) by Elizabeth von Arnim

Excellent Women (1952) by Barbara Pym

The Feast of Love (2000) by Charles Baxter

Foreign Affairs (1984) by Alison Lurie

Forrest Gump (1986) by Winston Groom

The Fountain Overflows (1956) by Rebecca West

Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café (1986) by Fannie Flagg

The Gate of Angels (1990) by Penelope Fitzgerald

Gaudy Night (1936) by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Getting of Wisdom (1910) by Henry Handel Richardson

The Grass Harp (1951) by Truman Capote

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Happy All the Time (1978) by Laurie Colwin

Harry and Catherine (1990) by Frederick Busch

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997) by J. K. Rowling

Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) by Arthur Conan Doyle

How I Became a Famous Novelist (2009) by Steve Hely

I Capture the Castle (1948) by Dodie Smith

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino

In Country (1985) by Bobbie Ann Mason

Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë

The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) by Anthony Trollope

Last Orders (1996) by Graham Swift

Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel

Like Water for Chocolate (1989) by Laura Esquivel

Lincoln (1984) by Gore Vidal

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott

The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) by Fay Weldon

Lives of Girls and Women (1971) by Alice Munro

Lolly Willowes (1926) by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lonesome Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen (2008) by Sylvie James

Love among the Ruins (1947) by Angela Thirkell

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) by Sloan Wilson

March (2005) by Geraldine Brooks

Mariette in Ecstasy (1991) by Ron Hansen

A Month in the Country (1980) by J. L. Carr

Mother and Son (1955) by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1971) by Elizabeth Taylor

My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather

The Nice and the Good (1968) by Iris Murdoch

North of Hope (1990) by Jon Hassler

Norwood (1966) by Charles Portis

Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982) by John Cheever

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (1998) by Kaye Gibbons

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson

Paradise Postponed (1985) by John Mortimer

A Peaceful Retirement (1996) by Miss Read

Persuasion (1817) by Jane Austen

The Pillars of the Earth (1989) by Ken Follett

Plainsong (2000) by Kent Haruf

Possession (1990) by A. S. Byatt

Practical Magic (1995) by Alice Hoffman

Praisesong for the Widow (1983) by Paule Marshall

The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift (2003) by Elinor Lipman

The Pursuit of Love (1945) by Nancy Mitford

The Queen of the Tambourine (1991) by Jane Gardam

Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier

The Razor's Edge (1944) by W. Somerset Maugham

The Red Tent (1997) by Anita Diamant

Right Ho, Jeeves (1922) by P. G. Wodehouse

The Rise to Rebellion (2002) by Jeff Shaara 

A Room with a View (1908) by E. M. Forster

Roxanna Slade (1998) by Reynolds Price

Scoop (1937) by Evelyn Waugh

The Screwtape Letters (1942) by C. S. Lewis

The Secret Life of Bees (2002) by Sue Monk Kidd

The Spectator Bird (1976) by Wallace Stegner

The Stone Diaries (1993) by Carol Shields

Stones for Ibarra (1984) by Harriet Doerr

Theophilus North (1973) by Thornton Wilder

Therapy (1995) by David Lodge

Time and Again (1986) by Jack Finney

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee

A Town Like Alice (1950) by Nevil Shute

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith

The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James

The Uncommon Reader (2007) by Alan Bennett

Vein of Iron (1935) by Ellen Glasgow

Walking Across Egypt (1997) by Clyde Edgerton

White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith

The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins

Mixed reviews

The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coehlo

The Archivist (1998) by Martha Cooley

The Best of Friends (1995) by Joanna Trollope

Chocolat (1999) by Joanne Harris

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles

How to Make an American Quilt (1991) by Whitney Otto

The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) by Karen Joy Fowler

The Lovely Bones (2002) by Alice Sebold

The Magnificent Spinster (1985) by May Sarton

Open House (2000) by Elizabeth Berg

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2003) by Elizabeth Buchan

The Shell Seekers (1987) by Rosamunde Pilcher

Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse

The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough

The Time-Traveler's Wife (2003) by Audrey Niffenegger

Some might not find these upbeat

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon

Anna's Book (1993) by Barbara Vine

Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995) by Kate Atkinson

Cold Mountain (1997) by Charles Frazier

Delta Wedding (1946) by Eudora Welty

The Girls of Slender Means (1963) by Muriel Spark

Housekeeping (1981) by Marilynne Robinson

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) by Julia Alvarez

The Joy Luck Club (1989) by Amy Tan

Moon Tiger (1986) by Penelope Lively

The Moviegoer (1960) by Walker Percy

Queen Lear (1988) by Molly Keane

Ragtime (1976) by E. L. Doctorow

The Risk Pool (1986) by Richard Russo

The Sparrow (1996) by Mary Doria Russell

Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison

A Summons to Memphis (1986) by Peter Taylor

What's Bred in the Bone (1985) by Robertson Davies

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987) by Michael Dorris

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