Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature

Augusten Burroughs
Magical Thinking
Running with Scissors

Paul Collins
Banvard’s Folly
Not Even Wrong
Sixpence House

Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Great Expectations

John Dunning
Booked to Die
The Bookman’s Wake
The Sign of the Book

Bruce Feiler
Abraham
Looking for Class

Michael Thomas Ford
Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Live Me
It’s Not Mean if It’s True
That’s Mr Faggot to You

Neil Gaiman
Harlequin Valentine
Neverwhere
Sandman 1
Sandman 2
Sandman 3

Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Q’s Legacy

Thomas Harris
Red Dragon
The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Hannibal Rising

Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch
High Fidelity
The Polysyllabic Spree
Housekeeping vs the Dirt

PD James
A Mind to Murder
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Florence King
Southern Ladies and Gentlemen
With Charity Toward None

Stephen King
Lisey’s Story (half-read/half-skimmed)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
(I have attempted to read:)
Gerald’s Game
Misery
The Shining

Jeff Lindsay
Dexter in the Dark

Patrick McCabe
Winterwood

Vladimir Nabokov
Ada, or Ardor
Bend Sinister
The Defence
The Enchanter
The Eye
The Gift
Glory
Invitation to a Beheading
King, Queen, Knave
Laughter in the Dark
Lolita
Mary
Pnin
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

William Nicholson
Shadowlands (play)
The Society of Others
The Trial of True Love

Matthew Pearl
The Dante Club
The Poe Shadow

Barbara Pym
Crampton Hodnet
Excellent Women
No Fond Return of Love

Ruth Rendell
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Face of Trespass
Harm Done
Judgement in Stone
Piranha to Scurvy
Thirteen Steps Down

Mary Roach
Spook
Bonk
Stiff
Packing for Mars

Dorothy L. Sayers
Gaudy Night
The Nine Tailors

Harold Schechter
The Hum Bug
Nevermore
The Serial Killer Files

Cathleen Schine
The Love Letter
Rameau’s Niece

David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Muriel Spark
The Finishing School
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Donna Tartt
The Little Friend
The Secret History

Sue Townsend
Adrian Mole: Age 13 1/3
Adrian Mole: The Lost Years
The Queen and I
Rebuilding Conventry

Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
Slaughter-house Five

Minette Walters
Acid Row
The Breaker
The Dark Room
Disordered Minds
The Echo
The Ice House
The Scold’s Bridle
The Sculptress
The Shape of Snakes

Sarah Waters
Affinity
Fingersmith
The Little Stranger
The Night Watch
Tipping the Velvet