MarshaReads.com

Welcome to MarshaReads.com. You will find a collection of short essays about books I’ve read starting in spring 2016. Your comments are welcomed.

Since this list has grown substantially since I started this website, I provide two tables to help you find a particular book.

Because I’m not an expert webmaster, I have the two tables on two pages to minimize your need to scroll seemingly endlessly.

This page has a table with the books aphabetized by title.

“Books by Title” has a table with the books aphabetized by author’s last name. If “The” or “An” is in the title, the second word is used for aphabetization.

NOTE: I’ve decided to classify any book that was published >50 years ago as “Classic”. This is my personal definition. If we’re still reading a book published more than 50 years ago it must have something that continues to resonate with readers today and likely in the future. Good enough definition for me.

The list is not exhaustive prior to spring 2016.

Author Last Name	Author First Name	Title
Haruf	Kent	All Souls At Night
Doerr	Anthony	All the Light We Cannot See
Quindlen	Anna	Alternate Side
Jones	Tayari	American Marriage, An
Winspear	Jacqueline	The American Agent (12)
El Akkad	Omar	American War
Winspear	Jacqueline	Among the Mad (6)*
Tolstoy	Leo	Anna Karenina
Sophocles		Antigone
Mahfouz	Naguig	Arabian Nights and Days
Strout	Elizabeth	Anything is Possible
Halliday	Lisa	Asymmetry
Lewis	Sinclair	Babbitt
Updike	John	Bech: A Book
Haurf	Kent	Benediction
Winspear	Jacqueline	Birds of a Feather (2) *
Oates	Joyce Carol	Black Water
Didion	Joan	Blue Nights
Hood	Ann	Book That Matters Most, The
Strout	Elizabeth	Burgess Boys, The
Ishiguro	Kozuo	Buried Giant, The
Walker	Martin	Bruno: Chief of Police
Charmock	Anne	Calculated Life, A
Winspear	Jacqueline	Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War, The
Galbraith	Robert	Career of Evil
Vonnegut	Kurt	Cat’s Cradle
Heller	Joseph	Catch 22
Galloway	Steven	Cellist of Sarajevo, The
Russo	Richard	Chances Are…
Black	Benjamin	Christine Falls
Tyler	Anne	Clock Dance
Twain	Mark	Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Gaskell	Mrs (Elizabeth)	Cranford
Galbraith	Robert	The Cuckoo’s Calling
Bradbury	Ray	Dandelion Wine
Winspear	Jacqueline	Dangerous Place (11)*, A
Napolitano	Ann	Dear Edward
Munro	Alice	Dear Life
Walker	Martin	The Devil’s Cave
Tyler	Anne	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Le Guin	Ursula	Dispossessed, The
Walsh	M. O.	Don’t Take My Sunshine
Walsh	M.O.	Don’t Take My Sunshine
Russell	Mary Doria	Dreamers of the Day
Tokarczuk	Olga	Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
Patchett	Ann	Dutch House, The
Smiley	Jane	Early Alert
Westover	Tara	Educated
Black	Benjamin	Elegy for April
Windspear	Jacqueline	Elegy for Eddy (9)*
Greene	Graham	The End of the Affair
Jaswal	Balli Kaur	Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Russo	Richard	Everybody’s Fool
Haruf	Kent	Eventide
Hamid	Moshin	Exit West
Wolitzer	Meg	Female Persuassion
Groff	Lauren	Florida
Nunez	Sigrid	Friend, The
Guskin	Sharon	Forgetting Time, The
Contreras	Ingrid Rojas	Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Tripp	Dawn	Georgia
Towles	Amor	A Gentleman in Moscow
Howell	Georgiana	Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
Hyeonseo	Lee	Girl with Seven Names, The
Zgheib	Yara	Girls at 17 Swan Street, The
Rao	Shobha	Girls Burn Brighter
Erpenbeck	Jenny	Go Went Gone
Smiley	Jane	Golden Age
O’Nan	Stewart	The Good Wife
Dickens	Charles	Great Expectations
Dweyer	Carol	Growth Mindset
Adichie	Chimanda Ngozi	Half of a Yellow Sun
Atwood	Margaret	Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood	Margaret	Heart Goes Last, The
Kelly	Jack	Heaven’s Ditch
Shetterly	Margot	Hidden Figures
Vance	JD	Hilbilly Elegy
Shamsie	Kamila	Homefire
Urrea	Luis Alberto	House of Broken Angels
Warton	Edith	House of Mirth
Ogawa	Yoko	Housekeeper and the Professor, The
Marais	Bianca	Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
Kang	Han	Human Acts
Sklott	Rebecca	Immortal Life of Henrietta lacks, The
Silber	Joan	Improvement
Capote	Truman	In Cold Blood
Godden	Rummer	In This House of Brede
Winspear	Jacqueline	In this grave hour
Winspear	Jacqueline	Incomplete Revenge (5) *, An
Desai	Kiran	Inheritance of Loss, The
Haruf	Kent	Introduction–Kent Haruf
Berry	Wendall	Jaybar Crow
Windspear	Jacqueline	Journey to Munich (12)*
Grann	David	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Benedict	Marie	Lady Clementine
Doig	Ivan	Last Bus to Wisdom
Goodwin	Doris Kearns	Leadership in Turbulent Times
Ko	Lisa	Leavers, The
Windspear	Jacqueline	Leaving Everything Most Loved (10)*
Geer	Andrew Sean	Less
Winspear	Jacqueline	Lesson in Secrets (8)*, A
Vida	Vendela	Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Galbraith	Robert	Lethal White
Ulrich	Laurel Thatcher	Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary 1785-1812, The
Saunders	George	Lincoln in the Bardo
Forman, Jr.	James	Locking Up Our Own
Allende	Isabel	A Long Petal of the Sea
Moore	Liz	Long Bright River
Atwood	Margaret	Madd Addam
Lewis	Sinclair	Main Street
Joukhadar	Zeyn	Map of Salt and Stars, The
Winspear	Jacqueline	Mapping of Love and Death (7)*, The
Winspear	Jacqueline	Massie Dobbs (1) *
Winspear	Jacqueline	Messenger of Truth (4)*
Quindlen	Anna	Miller’s Valley
Langer	Ellen	Mindfulness*
Dweck	Carol	Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Watson	Brad	Miss Jane
Modiano	Patrick	Missing Person
Wilke	Collin	Moonstone, The
Que Mai	Nguyen Phan	Mountains Sing, The
Hijuelos	Oscar	Mr. Ives’ Christmas
Macy	Caitlin	Mrs.
Ben-Moshe	Danny	My Lost Family
Strout	Elizabeth	My Name is Lucy Barton
Choo	Yangsze	Night Tiger, The
Russo	Richard	Nobody’s Fool*
Toibin	Colm	Nora Webster
Strout	Elizabeth	Olive Again!
Vuong	Ocean	On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Quindlen	Anna	One True Thing
Atwood	Margaret	Oryx and Crake
Dinensen	Isak	Out of Africa
Powers	Richard	Overstory, The
Lee	Min Jin	Pachinko
Winspear	Jacqueline	Pardonable Lies (3) *
Wilde	Oscar	Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Haruf	Kent	Plainsong
Doig	Ivan	Prairie Nocturne
Sparks	Muriel	Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
Kingsolver	Barbara	Prodigal Summer
Schnittman	Suzanne	Provocative Mothers and their Precocious Daughters
Chevalier	Tracy	Remarkable Creatures
Wright	Cameron	Rent Collector, The
DeFoe	Daniel	Robinson Crusoe
Larson	Kate Clifford	Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Orczy	Baroness	Scarlet Pimpernel, The
Brooks	Geraldine	Secret Chord, The
George	Alex	Setting Free the Kites
Yun	Jung	Shelter
Zimmer	Carl	She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Galbraith	Robert	The Silkworm
Ward	Jesmyn	Sing Unburied Sing
McTiernan	Dervla	The Sisters
Brennan-Jobs	Lisa	Small Fry
Lang	James	Small Teaching
Smiley	Jane	Some Luck
McDermott	Alice	Someone
Darznik	Jazmin	Song of a Captive Bird
Iweala	Uzodinma	Speak No Evil
Mandel	Emily St John	Station Eleven
Dawson	Evan	Summer in a Glass
Chancellor	Bryn	Sycamore
Michener	James	Tales of the South Pacific
Hardy	Thomas	Tess of d’Ubervilles
Atwood	Margaret	The Testaments
Friedman Mandelbaum	Thomas L Michael	That Used to be us: How America Fell Behind in the World it invented and how we can come back
Orange	Tommy	There, There
Adichie	Chimamanda Ngozi	Thing Around Your Neck, The
O’Brien	Tim	The Things They Carried

Kahneman	Daniel	Thinking Fast and Slow
Frankel	Laurie	This Is How It Always is
Haruf	Kent	Tie That Binds, The
Stowe	Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Ullmann	Linn	Unquiet: A Novel
Bennett	Brit	The Vanishing Half
Kang	Han	Vegetarian, The
Appanah	Natacha	Waiting for Tomorrow
Gundar-Goshen	Ayelet	Waking Lions
Tolstoy	Leo	War and Peace
Rum	Etaf	A Woman is No Man
Woolfe	Virginia	Waves, The
Roberts	Cokie	We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters
Kadish	Rachel	Weight of Ink, The
Kalanithi	Paul	When Breath Becomes Air
Haruf	Kent	Where You Once Belonged
Owens	Delia	Where the Crawdads Sing
Anderson	Carol	White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Rum	Etaf	A Woman is No Man
Collins	Wilkie	The Woman in White
Palacio	R.J.	Wonder
Coben	Harlan	The Woods
Atwood	Margaret	Year of the Flood, The