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Past Articles

2008

August

Antonia White: Diaries 1926-1957, edited by Susan Chitty
Journals, by John Cheever
Stories, by John Cheever

July

Look at Me, by Jennifer Egan
Shadow People, by Molly Lynn Watt
Arts of the Possible, by Adrienne Rich
Locked Rooms, by Laurie R. King

June

Keeping the World Away, by Margaret Forster
Stand Proud, by Elmer Kelton
Outwitting Ants, by Cheryl Kimball
The Body Farm, by Patricia Cornwell
The Lighthouse, by P.D. James

May

The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, by Elizabeth Smart
Necessary Secrets, by Elizabeth Smart
The Lost Upland, by W.S. Merwin
Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai

April

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
Mason’s Retreat, by Christopher Tilghman
Linnets and Valerians, by Elizabeth Goudge
A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny

March

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, by G.B. Edwards
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
Watch with Me, by Wendell Berry
Mohawk, by Richard Russo
Saturday, by Ian McEwan

February

Down into Darkness, by David Lawrence
The Cambridge Theorem, by Tony Cape
The Untouchable, by John Banville
Be Near Me, by Andrew O'Hagan

January

Atonement, by Ian McEwan
The Conjuror's Bird, by Martin Davies
Flaubert's Parrot, by Julian Barnes
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud

2007

December

Riding Lessons, by Sara Gruen
Deep Economy, by Bill McKibbon
Human Traces, by Sebastian Faulks
The Big Sky, by A.B. Guthrie
Sons of Texas, by Elmer Kelton

November

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

October

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Testing of Luther Albright, by MacKenzie Bezos
Wish You Were Here, by Stewart O’Nan
The Sea, by John Banville
The Gate, by Soseki Natsume

September

The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
Blue Screen, by Robert B. Parker
A Noble Radiance, by Donna Leon
Playlist 2007

August

Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson
Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson
Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett

July

The Last Friend, by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Playing in the Light, by Zoe Wicomb
Ince Memed, Parts I and II, by Yashar Kemal
People of Paper, by Salvador Plascencia
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen; Toby Tyler, by James Otis

June

Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres
Home at Last, by Jean McGarry
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Istanbul: Memories and the City, by Orhan Pamuk

May

Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters

April

The Courage Consort, by Michel Faber
The Babes in the Wood, by Ruth Rendell
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, by Michael Patrick MacDonald

March

The Last Lovely City, by Alice Adams
Casa Rossa, by Francesca Marciano
The Songcatcher, by Sharyn McCrumb
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

February

What Narcissism Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland
Small Island, by Andrea Levy
The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan
The Last Good Chance, by Tom Barbash

January

Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
No Good Deeds, by Laura Lippman
The Bones, by Seth Greenland
Children of Men, by P.D. James
We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver

2006

December

Of Woman Born, by Adrienne Rich
Freshwater Road, by Denise Nicholas
One Last Breath, by Stephen Booth
The Transparent Feather, by BJ Appelgren

November

The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 & Creative Nonfiction, No. 29
Don’t Look Back, by Karin Fossum
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Diamond in the Window, by Jane Langton

October

March, by Geraldine Brooks
Upstream: A Voyage on the Connecticut River, by Ben Bachman