On the Bedside Table:
Less - Andrew Sean Greer
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
Outrageous Openness - Tosha Silver
The Husband’s Secret - Liane Moriarity
Feel Free - Zadie Smith
Well-Read Black Girl - Glory Edim
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
2021 & 2022
(*) Best book(s) of the year
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
Little Secrets - Jennifer Hillier
Burnout - Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks
Hunger - Roxane Gay
The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
Anxious People - Frederik Backman
The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave
The River Home - Hannah Richell
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell (*)
Originals - Adam Grant
2020
(*) Best book(s) of the year
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
Unfu*k Yourself - Gary John Bishop
Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
Half the Sky - Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett (re-read)
Untangled - Lisa Damour
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith
2019
(*) Best book(s) of the year
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
Heavy - Kiese Laymon
A Place for Us - Fatima Farheen Mirza (*)
Truth & Beauty - Ann Patchett
The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
To the Bright Edge of the World - Eowyn Ivey
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Farm - Joanne Ramos
Sum: Tales From the Afterlives - David Eagleman
Brown Girl Dreaming - Jaqueline Woodson
There There - Tommy Orange
Ordinary People - Diana Evans
Normal People - Sally Rooney
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett (*)
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Object Lessons - Anna Quindlen
City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert (*)
The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert (*)
Hard Laughter - Ann Lamott
2018
The Power - Naomi Alderman (*)
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake - Anna Quindlen
After Her - Joyce Maynard
The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles (*)
Alternate Side - Anna Quindlen
Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout
Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson
Educated - Tara Westover*
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Something in the Water - Catherine Steadman
Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman
Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems - Louise Gluck
Thirst - Mary Oliver
The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin
Summer Wives - Beatriz Williams
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
If They Come for Us - Fatimah Asghar
In Pieces - Sally Field
The Rules of Magic - Alice Hoffman
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
Lethal White - Robert Galbraith
Creative Visualization - Shakti Gawain
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
2017
West with the Night - Beryl Markham (*)
Amy & Isabelle - Elizabeth Strout
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett*
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier
A Line Made by Walking - Sara Baume
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton - Jane Smiley
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Falls - Joyce Carol Oates
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande*
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir - Alexandira Marzano-Lesnevich
Stay with Me - Ayobami Adebayo
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Rainbow Comes and Goes - Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah (*)
A Life in Parts - Bryan Cranston
Spill Simmer Falter Wither - Sara Baume
Artemis - Andy Weir
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
2016
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Muhammad (his life based on the earliest sources) - Martin Lings
The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith
The Widow - Fiona Barton
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (*)
Defining Moments - Joseph L. Badaracco
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Miller's Valley - Anna Quindlen
Every Last One - Anna Quindlen
The Hundred-Foot Journey - Richard C. Morais
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett*
Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman - Nora Ephron
Better Than Before - Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee (*)
Swing Time - Zadie Smith
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
Faithful - Alice Hoffman
2015
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (*)
Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt (*)
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl - Yiyun Li
A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler
Gift from the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
Peace Like a River - Leif Enger*
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage - Ann Patchett (*)
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays - Michael Paterniti
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
Domestic Affairs - Joyce Maynard
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Martian - Andy Weir
Clair of the Sea Light - Edwidge Danticat
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling
2014
Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg (*)
One More Thing - BJ Novak
Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me (And Other Concerns) - Mindy Kaling
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott*
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti - Mohammad Hanif
Love Saves The Day - Gwen Cooper
The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown*
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin (*)
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
True Grit - Charles Portis
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
The Gravity of Birds - Tracy Guzeman
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Still Life With Breadcrumbs - Anna Quindlen*
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
I'll See You Again - Jackie Hance
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
Kohl and Chalk - Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Praise - Robert Hass
Field Guide - Robert Hass
Olives - AE Stallings
Hip Logic - Terrance Hayes
2013
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Past Imperfect - Julian Fellowes
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Help - Kathryn Stockett*
The End of the Affair - Garaham Greene
The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman (*)
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling*
The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey*
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Atonement - Ian McEwan*
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (*)
Curiosities - Brittany Perham
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
Carrie - Stephen King
2012
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Animal Farm - George Orwell
"A" is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (*)
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (*)
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (*)
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
The Age of Grief - Jane Smiley
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Sula - Toni Morrison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker