- Cleopatra – Stacy Schiff ***
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson *****
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See *****
- Homecoming – Bernhard Schlink **
- Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri ****
- For One More Day – Mitch Albom ****
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom ***
- Have a Little Faith: A True Story – Mitch Albom ***
- The Last American Man – Elizabeth Gilbert **
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides ****
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver ***
- Sing You Home – Jodi Picoult ***
- Enduring Love – Ian McEwan ****
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman ***
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier *****
- The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht ***
- The Colour Purple – Alice Walker *****
- Rule Britannia – Daphne du Maurier ****
- The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami ****
- The Road – Comrac McCarthy ****
- After Dark – Haruki Murakami ***
- My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier ****
- The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes ****
- Jamaica Inn – Daphne du Maurier ****
- Handle With Care – Jodi Picoult ***
- The Birds and Other Stories – Daphne du Maurier ***
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman ***
- Rainwater – Sandra Brown ***
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides ****
- Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami ****
- The Whisper Jar – Lanham Carole **
- after the quake – Haruki Murakami ****
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith ***
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami ****
- Bel Canto – Ann Patchett *****
- Amsterdam – Ian McEwan ****
- Freedom – Jonathan Franzen *****
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *****
- Everyman – Philip Roth ***
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway ***
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer ***
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky ****
- Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami ***
- Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche – Haruki Murakami **
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens **
- Freakonomics: A Rouge Economist Explore the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt **
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerland ****
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood ****
- Ripley’s Game – Patricia Highsmith ***
- The House on the Strand – Daphne du Maurier ***
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass- Lewis Carroll ***
- Run – Ann Patchett ***
- Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier *****
- Dracula – Bram Stoker **
- Small Is Beautiful – E. F. Schumacher ***
- The King’s General – Daphne du Maurier ***
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid ***
- Faith – Jennifer Haigh *
- The Fall – Simon Mawer **
- Narcopolis – Jeet Thayil ***
- The Ghost Writer – Philip Roth ***
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami ***
- Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller ****