Bob's Little Household Reference Library

Past Reading Lists

2006

2005

Mignon G. Eberhart, The White Dress

Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave

Gary Indiana, Do Everything in the Dark

Dick Francis, Driving Force

Miyuki Miyabe, Shadow Family

Pierre Souvestre et Marcel Allain, Un roi prisonnier de Fantômas

Joyce Carol Oates, Them

Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Mignon G. Eberhart, Death in the Fog

Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

Day Keene, Home is the Sailor

Agatha Christie, At Bertram’s Hotel

Boris Akunin, Leviathan

Robin Einhorn, American Taxation, American Slavery

Agatha Christie, La mort dans les nuages

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

A. A. Fair, Up For Grabs

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Demure Defendant

Mignon G. Eberhart, Dead Men’s Plans

Georges Simenon, La Jument-Perdue

Fred Vargas, Sous les vents de Neptune

August Wilson, Seven Guitars

Ed McBain, The Gutter and the Grave

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Runaway Corpse

Wade Davis, Branded Woman

Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac

Anthony Trollope, The Warden

Frederick C. Davis, The Mole Men Want Your Eyes
Donald E. Westlake, 361
David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein's Poker
Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski, We Are Not Forgotten: George Anderson's Messages of Hope from the Other Side
Allan Guthrie, Kiss Her Goodbye
P. D. James, The Lighthouse
Myla Goldberg, Time's Magpie
John Le Carré, A Murder of Quality
Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense
Harry Mathews, My Life in CIA
James Patterson, The Big Bad Wolf
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Emile Zola, The Kill
Claude M. Bristol, The Magic of Believing
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Singing Skirt
John Le Carré, Call For the Dead
A. A. Fair, Cut Thin To Win
Mark Sullivan, Slag
Robert Crais, The Forgotten Man
Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother

 

 

2004

2003

Richard Stark, Nobody Runs Forever
John Burdett, Bangkok 8
Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
Herman Wouk, The Winds of War
Graham Greene, Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
Richard Stark, Slayground
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
Michael Connelly, The Harry Bosch Novels, volume 1
Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?
Frances Crane, The Cinnamon Murder
Richard Stark, The Split
Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Richard Stark, The Score
Fred Vargas, Pars vite et revient tard
Richard Stark, The Outfit
Jean Giono, Harvest
Anne Tyler, Patchwork Planet
Michael Connelly, The Narrows
Richard Stark, The Jugger
A. A. Fair, Cut Thin to Win
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Horrified Heirs
Cornell Woolrich, Hotel Room
Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman
Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress
Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Margaret Yorke, A Case to Answer
Paul Auster, Oracle Night
Georges Simenon, La nuit du carrefour
Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
Boris Akunin, The Winter Queen
Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
Feodor Dostoevskii, The Idiot (tr. Alan Myers)

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
A. A. Fair, Bachelors Get Lonely
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Frances Crane, The Golden Box
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
Marion Johnson, The Borgias
Kaylie Jones, Speak Now
Georges Simenon, L'Ours en peluche
A. M. Homes, Music for Torching
Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Negligent Nymph
Fred Vargas, Coule la Seine
Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler
Walter Kirn, Up in the Air
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Frances Crane, The Amethyst Spectacles
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
James Patterson, Four Blind Mice
Robert Stone, Bay of Souls

Robert Decker Home Page