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A
Aiding and Abetting, Muriel Spark (2000)
All About Emily, Connie Willis (2012)
All Clear, Connie Willis (2011)
All This Heavenly Glory, Elizabeth Crane (2005)
Amphigorey, Edward Gorey (1972)
Amphigorey Also, Edward Gorey (1983)
Amphigorey Too, Edward Gorey (1975)
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, read by Dan Stevens (2008)
Ant Farm, Simon Rich (2007)
Art and Lies, Jeanette Winterson (1994)
Ascending Peculiarity, Edward Gorey (2002)
Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis (1955)
B
Barmy in Wonderland, P.G. Wodehouse (1952)
The Bay of Angels, Anita Brookner (2001)
Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper (1991)
The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald (1988)
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (2001)
Bellwether, Connie Willis (1996)
The Best of It, Kay Ryan (2010)
Bigfoot Dreams, Francine Prose (1986)
Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same, Sloane Tanen (2003)
Black Plumes, Margery Allingham (1940)
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell (2006)
Blackout, Connie Willis (2010)
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (2000)
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald (1995)
The Bowl Is Already Broken, Mary Kay Zuravleff (2006)
The Box Garden, Carol Shields (1977)
Boy Gets Girl, Rebecca Gilman (2000)
Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey (1949)
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, Susan Orlean (2001)
C
The Cabal and Other Stories, Ellen Gilchrist (2000)
Calamity and Other Stories, Daphne Kalotay (2006)
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
The Center of Things, Jenny McPhee (2001)
Cheerfulness Breaks In, Angela Thirkell (1940)
Children of God Go Bowling, Shannon Olson (2004)
Christopher and Columbus, Elizabeth von Arnim (1919)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1981)
The Clothes They Stood Up In, Alan Bennett (1998)
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
Cocktail Time, P.G. Wodehouse (1958)
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (1932)
Colour Scheme, Ngaio Marsh (1943)
Come Up and See Me Sometime, Erika Krouse (2001)
The Complete Short Stories, Saki (Penguin Modern Classics edition, 2000)
The Complete Talking Heads, Alan Bennett (2003)
Confessions of Georgia Nicholson (series), Louise Rennison (1999)
The Courts of Love, Ellen Gilchrist (1996)
Crewe Train, Rose Macaulay (1926)
Crossing California, Adam Langer (2004)
D
The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey (1951)
Day for Night, Frederick Reiken (2010)
Death and the Dancing Footman, Ngaio Marsh (1942)
Death in Berlin, M.M. Kaye (1955)
Death in the Andamans, M.M. Kaye (1960)
Death in Zanzibar, M.M. Kaye (1959)
Death of a Peer, Ngaio Marsh (1940)
Death of an Englishman, Magdalen Nabb (1981)
The Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams and John Lloyd (1990)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams (1987)
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, A.S. Byatt (1994)
Do the Windows Open?, Julie Hecht (1997)
Don't Get too Comfortable, David Rakoff (2005)
Don't Point That Thing at Me, Kyril Bonfiglioli (1972)
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?, Marion Meade (1987)
Dreaming of the Bones, Deborah Crombie (1997)
Dressing Up for the Carnival, Carol Shields (2000)
E
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn (2001)
Emotionally Weird, Kate Atkinson (2000)
The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim (1922)
Eucalyptus, Murray Bail (1998)
F
The Face of a Stranger, Anne Perry (1990)
Fadeaway Girl, Martha Grimes (2011)
Fair Peril, Nancy Springer (1996)
The False Inspector Dew, Peter Lovesey (1982)
Feeling Sorry for Celia, Jacyln Moriarty (2000)
A Few Corrections, Brad Leithauser (2002)
The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West (1956)
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (1961)
Fraud, David Rakoff (2001)
The Frequency of Souls, Mary Kay Zuravleff (1996)
Freshwater: A Comedy (1923)
Further Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin (1982)
G
The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald (1990)
Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris (2005)
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell (1999)
The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark (1963)
Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips (2007)
Going to Meet the Man, James Baldwin (1965)
The Good Children, Kate Wilhelm (1998)
The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti (2008)
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy, Nick Bantock (1991)
The Gun Seller, Hugh Laurie (1996)
Guys and Dolls and Other Writing, Damon Runyon (Penguin Classics edition) (2008)
H
The Half, Simon Annand (2008)
Happy Trails to You, Julie Hecht (2008)
Hark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton (2011)
The Headhunters, Peter Lovesey (2008)
The Heir, Vita Sackville-West (1922)
Henrietta's War, Joyce Dennys (1940)
Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, Merrill Feitell (2004)
High Rising, Angela Thirkell (1933)
Him Her Him Again the End of Him, Patricia Marx (2006)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (1979)
Human Croquet, Kate Atkinson (1997)
I
I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes, Jaclyn Moriarty (2004)
I Know I Am, But What Are You?, Samantha Bee (2010)
I Married a Dead Man, Cornell Woolrich (1948)
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, Anna Gavalda (2003)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino (1979)
In a Dark House, Deborah Crombie (2005)
The Infatuations, Javier MarÃas (2012)
Innocence, Penelope Fitzgerald (1986)
The Ivy Tree, Mary Stewart (1961)
J
Jill the Reckless, P.G. Wodehouse (1921)
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins (1984)
The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm (1990)
Just an Ordinary Day, Shirley Jackson (1998)
K and L
Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde (1893)
Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan (2007)
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson (2013)
Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams (1982)
Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle, Ellen Gilchrist (1988)
Lincoln's Dreams, Connie Willis (1987)
Local Girls, Alice Hoffman (1999)
Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark (1981)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams (1988)
Love Lies Bleeding, Edmund Crispin (1948)
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh (1948)
M
Magdalena the Sinner, Lilian Faschinger (1996)
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell (1848)
The Mating Season, P.G. Wodehouse (1949)
Meme, Susan Wheeler (2012)
Memento Mori, Muriel Spark (1959)
The Mermaids Singing, Val McDermid (1995)
Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz (1978)
Middlemarch, George Eliot (1874)
Misalliance, George Bernard Shaw (1910)
Miss Pym Disposes, Josephine Tey (1946)
Monologue of a Dog, Wislawa Szymborska (2005)
Moominvalley in November, Tove Jansson (1971)
More Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin (1980)
The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin (1946)
Mr. Chartwell, Rebecca Hunt (2011)
Much Obliged, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (1971)
My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart (1959)
N and O
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (1983)
Night at the Vulcan, Ngaio Marsh (1951)
No Ordinary Mattter, Jenny McPhee (2004)
Nora Jane: A Life in Stories, Ellen Gilchrist (1996)
Not the End of the World, Kate Atkinson (2002)
The Object of My Affection, Stephen McCauley (1987)
On Histories and Stories, A.S. Byatt (2000)
One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson (2006)
Open to the Public, Muriel Spark (1997)
Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater (2004)
Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles, Kira Henehan (2010)
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens (1865)
P
Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik (2000)
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell (2002)
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson (1987)
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood (2005)
Personal Days, Ed Park (2008)
Personal Velocity, Rebecca Miller (2001)
The PowerBook, Jeanette Winterson (2000)
Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
The Princess Bride, William Goldman (1973)
Psmith, Journalist, P.G. Wodehouse (1915)
Pulse, Julian Barnes (2011)
Q and R
Random Harvest, James Hilton (1941)
The Real Inspector Hound, Tom Stoppard (1968)
The Reaper, Peter Lovesey (2000)
The Red House, Mark Haddon (2012)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams (1980)
Ripple Effect, Elaine Equi (2007)
The Rituals of Dinner, Margaret Visser (1991)
The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood (1993)
S
The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams (2002)
Saturday Night, Susan Orlean (1990)
Schott's Original Miscellany, Ben Schott (2002)
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Library Classics edition) (2002)
Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg (1992)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams (1984)
Social Studies, Fran Lebowitz (1981)
Sontag & Kael, Craig Seligman (2004)
The Sound of Broken Glass, Deborah Crombie (2013)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl (2006)
A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon (2006)
Started Early, Took My Dog, Kate Atkinson (2010)
Summer Half, Angela Thirkell (1937)
Sweet Danger, Margery Allingham (1933)
Symptoms of Culture, Marjorie Garber (1998)
T
Take the Cannoli, Sarah Vowell (2001)
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin (1978)
Tamara Drewe, Posy Simmonds (2008)
Territory, Emma Bull (2007)
Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, Richard Grant (1996)
Thank You for Smoking, Christopher Buckley (1994)
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett (1934)
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis (1997)
Told by an Idiot, Rose Macaulay (1923)
The Tournament, John Clarke (2003)
The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay (1956)
Traitor's Purse, Margery Allingham (1941)
U and V
Uncertain Voyage, Dorothy Gilman (1967)
Uncle Dynamite, P.G. Wodehouse (1948)
The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett (2007)
The Undertaker's Gone Bananas, Paul Zindel (1978)
The Unprofessionals (2008)
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, George Saunders (2000)
Victory Over Japan, Ellen Gilchrist (1984)
W
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull (1987)
The Washington Story, Adam Langer (2005)
The Way We Are, Margaret Visser (1994)
Weight, Jeanette Winterson (2005)
Welcome to My Planet, Where English Is Sometimes Spoken, Shannon Olson (2000)
When the Messenger Is Hot, Elizabeth Crane (2003)
When Will There Be Good News?, Kate Atkinson (2008)
White Swan, Black Swan, Adrienne Sharp (2002)
The Witch of Exmoor, Margaret Drabble (1996)
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (1859)
X, Y, and Z
The Year of Secret Assignments, Jaclyn Moriarty (2003)
You Must Be This Happy to Enter, Elizabeth Crane (2008)
Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911)