Books Read

Here’s a list of all the books I’ve written about here at Booked All Week or other blogs at which I’m hosting projects or read-a-longs, alphabetized by author’s last name, with a link to the post in which they were featured or mentioned.

A

Abramsky, Sasha–American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment LINK

Ackerman, Diane–A Natural History of the Senses  LINK

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi–Half of a Yellow Sun LINK

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi–The Thing Around Your Neck  LINK

Ahmed, Leila–A Border Passage: From Cairo to America–A Woman’s Journey  LINK

Alexie, Sherman–War Dances LINK

Anaya, Rudolfo–Bless Me, Ultima  LINK

Angier, Natalie–Woman: An Intimate Geography LINK

Antonio de Alarcon, Pedro–The Three-Cornered Hat  LINK

Atwood, Margaret–Cat’s Eye LINK

Atwood, Margaret–Alias Grace LINK

Atwood, Margaret–Wilderness Tips LINK

Austen, Jane–Pride and Prejudice LINK

Austen, Jane–Emma LINK

Austen, Jane–Persuasion  LINK

B

B., David–Epileptic  LINK

Ba, Mariama–So Long a Letter LINK

Baldwin, James–Go Tell it on The Mountain LINK

Barker, Pat–Regeneration LINK

de Beauvoir, Simone–The Second Sex  LINK

Bechdel, Alison–The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For LINK

Bell-Scott, Patricia, with Juanita Johnson-Bailey–Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives  LINK

Benatar, Stephen–Wish Her Safe at Home  LINK

Bergman, Megan Mayhew–Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories  LINK

Blackburn, Julia–Old Man Goya  LINK

Burge, James–Heloise and Abelard: A New Biography LINK

C

Cable, Mary–Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad  LINK

Castillo, Ana–So Far From God  LINK

Cather, Willa–Death Comes for the Archbishop LINK

de Cervantes, Miguel–Don Quixote LINK

Chabon, Michael–The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay LINK

Chang, Iris–The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotton Holocaust of World War II  LINK

Christie, Agatha–Three Act Tragedy  LINK

Cisneros, Sandra–Caramelo  LINK

Coetzee, J.M.–Disgrace  LINK

Collins, Wilkie–The Woman in White LINK

Collins, Wilkie–The Moonstone  LINK

Crosley, Sloane–I Was Told There’d Be Cake LINK

Crummey, Michael–Galore  LINK

D

Daneshvar, Simin–A Persian Requiem  LINK

Darko, Amma–The Housemaid  LINK

Davies, Robertson–Fifth Business LINK

Davies, Robertson–The Manticore LINK

Davies, Robertson–World of Wonders  LINK

Dazai, Osamu–Schoolgirl  LINK

Dickens, Charles–A Tale of Two Cities LINK

Didion, Joan–The Year of Magical Thinking  LINK

Doctorow, E.L.–The Waterworks  LINK

Douglass, Frederick–Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave LINK

Duras, Marguerite–The Lover  LINK

E

Eisenberg, Robert–Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground LINK

Elkins, Caroline–Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya  LINK

F

Fessler, Ann–The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades  Before Roe v. Wade  LINK

Flaubert, Gustave–Madame Bovary LINK

Forster, E.M.–A Room With a View LINK

G

Gaskell, Elizabeth–North and South  LINK

Gibson, William–Neuromancer  LINK

Goldsmith, Barbara–Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull  LINK

Gregorio, Renee; Logghe, Joan; and Sagan, Miriam–Love and Death: Greatest Hits  LINK

Groneman, Carol–Nymphomania: A History  LINK

H

Hardy, Thomas–Jude the Obscure LINK

Hernandez, Jaime–Locas: A Love & Rockets Book: The Maggie and Hopey Stories LINK

hooks, bell–Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics  LINK

Horwtiz, Tony–Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War  LINK

Hulme, Keri–The Bone People  LINK

I

Ibsen, Henrik–A Doll’s House LINK, LINK, LINK

Ivey, Eowyn–The Snow Child  LINK

J

Jacobs, Harriet–Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl LINK

Jansson, Tove–The True Deceiver LINK

Joyce, James–Dubliners LINK

K

Katz, Jonathan Ned–The Invention of Heterosexuality  LINK

Kingston, Maxine Hong–The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts  LINK, LINK

Kosinski, Jerzy–The Painted Bird LINK

L

Lawrence, D.H.–Lady Chatterley’s Lover LINK

Levy, Andrea–Small Island LINK

Li, Yiyun–The Vagrants LINK

Lorde, Audre–Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches  LINK, LINK

Lovell, Mary S.–The Sisters: Saga of the Mitford Family LINK

Lovell, Mary S.–Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings  LINK

M

Maier-Katkin, Daniel–Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness LINK

Manguel, Alberto–The Library at Night LINK

Marcus, Sara–Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution LINK

Marcus, Sharon–Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England  LINK

Marshall, Paule–Brown Girl, Brownstones  LINK

du Maurier, Daphne–Rebecca  LINK

McCarthy, Mary–The Group  LINK

McFarland, Philip–Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a  New Century  LINK

Melville, Herman–Benito Cereno/Bartleby the Scrivener/The Encantadas/Billy Budd, Foretopman  LINK

Menchu, Rigoberta–I, Rigoberta: An Indian Woman in Guatemala LINK

Meriwether, Louise–Daddy Was a Number Runner LINK

Mill, John Stuart–The Subjection of Women LINK

Min, Anchee–Red Azalea LINK

Mistry, Rohinton–A Fine Balance  LINK

Momaday, M. Scott–House Made of Dawn  LINK

Morrison, Toni (ed. by)–Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality LINK

Morrison, Toni–Beloved  LINK

Murdoch, Iris–Under the Net  LINK

N

Naylor, Gloria–The Women of Brewster Place LINK

O

Ogola, Margaret–The River and the Source  LINK

Okri, Ben–The Famished Road  LINK

Oyono, Ferdinand–Houseboy LINK

P

de Pizan, Christine–The Book of the City of Ladies  LINK

Pollitt, Katha–Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture  LINK

Potok, Chaim–My Name is Asher Lev LINK

Potok, Chaim–Davita’s Harp  LINK

Q

R

Robinson, Marilynne–Housekeeping LINK

Rose, Alex–The Musical Illusionist and Other Tales  LINK

Roy, Arundhati–Power Politics  LINK

S

el Saadawi, Nawal–God Dies By the Nile  LINK

Scahill, Jeremy–Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army LINK

Skloot, Rebecca–The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks LINK

Smith, Patti–Just Kids LINK

Smith, Zadie–NW  LINK

Sobel, Dava–Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love  LINK

Spark, Muriel–The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie LINK

Staal, Stephanie–Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life LINK

T

Tea, Michelle (ed. by)–Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class  LINK

wa Thiong’o, Ngugi–Wizard of the Crow  LINK

Thomas, Dylan–Quite Early One Morning LINK

Tolstoy, Leo–The Death of Ivan Ilyich  LINK

Toole, John Kennedy–A Confederacy of Dunces LINK

Trollope, Anthony–The Warden  LINK

Turgenev, Ivan–Fathers and Sons LINK

U

V

W

Walbert, Kate–A Short History of Women LINK

Waters, Sarah–The Little Stranger  LINK

Waters, Sarah–Affinity  LINK

Weisberg, Barbara–Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism  LINK

Weller, Sheila–Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon–and the Journey of a Generation  LINK

Wharton, Edith–Ethan Frome LINK

Wharton, Edith–The House of Mirth LINK

Wilder, Thornton–The Bridge of San Luis Rey LINK

Winchester, Simon–The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary  LINK

Wollstonecraft, Mary–A Vindication of the Rights of Woman LINK

Wood, Gaby–Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life  LINK

Woolf, Virginia–A Room of One’s Own LINK

Wright, William–Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals  LINK

Wyld, Evie–After the Fire, A Still Small Voice LINK

X

Xinran–The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices  LINK

Y

Yoshimoto, Banana–Kitchen LINK

Z

Zola, Emile–Germinal LINK