Lifetime Reading List in Chronological Order


Part 7: 2001-2009


 

1942-

John Irving: The Fourth Hand (2001)

 

1926-2007

John Gardner: Day of Absolution (2001)

 

1920-

P. D. James: Death in Holy Orders (2001)

 

1964-

Dan Brown: Deception Point (2001)

 

1947-

James Patterson: First to Die (2001)

 

1963-

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto (2001)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: Tell No One (2001)

 

1957-

George Pelecanos: Right as Rain (2001)

 

1963-

Yann Martel: Life of Pi (2001)

 

1945-

Steve Martin: Shopgirl (2001)

 

1939-

Stuart Woods: Orchid Blues (2001)

 

1939-

Stuart Woods: Cold Paradise (2001)

 

1941-

Ed Gorman: Wake Up Little Susie (2001)

 

1946-

John J. Nance: Headwind (2001)

 

1957-

Nick Hornby: How to Be Good (2001)

 

 

J. N. Stroyar: The Children’s War (2001)

 

1927-2001

Robert Ludlum: The Sigma Protocol (2001)

 

1931-

John le Carré: The Constant Gardener (2001)

 

1965-

Dennis Lehane: Mystic River (2001)

 

1949-

Ken Follett: Jackdaws (2001)

 

1947-

Thomas Perry: Death Benefits (2001)

 

1947-

Thomas Perry: Pursuit (2001)

 

1957-

Robert Wilson: The Company of Strangers (2001)

 

1955-

Lisa Scottoline: The Vendetta Defense (2001)

 

1950-

Nicholas Evans: The Smoke Jumper (2001)

 

1949-

Richard Russo: Empire Falls (2001)

 

1945-

Dean Koontz: One Door Away From Heaven (2001)

 

1953-

Tess Gerritsen: The Surgeon (2001)

 

1963-

Jeff Abbott: A Kiss Gone Bad (2001)

 

1946-

Joseph Kanon: The Good German (2001)

 

1960-

Neil Gaiman: American Gods (2001)

 

1943-

Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang (2001)

 

1969

John Altman: A Gathering of Spies (2001)

 

1931-

Clive Cussler: Valhalla Rising (2001)

 

1938-

Frederick Forsyth: The Veteran (short stories ) (2001)

 

1960-

David Baldacci: Wish You Well (2001)

 

1956-

Michael Connelly: A Darkness More Than Night (2001)

 

1943-

Janet Evanovich: Seven Up (2001)

 

1965-

Jess Walter: Over Tumbled Graves (2001)

 

1935-

Robert Littell: The Company (2002)

 

1932-

Robert B. Parker: Shrink Rap (2002)

 

1956-

Michael Connelly: City of Bones (2002)

 

1953-

Henry Porter: A Spy’s Life (2002)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: Gone for Good (2002)

 

1945-

Dean Koontz: By the Light of the Moon (2002)

 

1939-

Stuart Woods: The Short Forever (2002)

 

1939-

Stuart Woods: Blood Orchid (2002)

 

1925-

Elmore Leonard: Tishomingo Blues (2002)

 

1960-

Neil Gaiman: Coraline (2002)

 

1943-

David Morrell: Long Lost (2002)

 

1943-

Janet Evanovich: Hard Eight (2002)

 

1947-

Thomas Perry: Dead Aim (2002)

 

1956- / 1957-

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)

 

1948-

John Lescroart: The Oath (2002)

 

1954-

Lee Child: Without Fail (2002)

 

1952-

Nevada Barr: Hunting Season (2002)

 

1948-

Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

 

1957-

George Pelecanos: Hell to Pay (2002)

 

1954-

Andrea Barrett: Servants of the Map (short stories) (2002)

 

1963-

Jeff Abbott: Black Jack Point (2002)

 

1947-

Stephen King: From a Buick 8 (2002)

 

1947-

Stephen King: Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002)

 

1943-

Nelson DeMille: Up Country (2002)

 

1946-

Stephen Mertz: Nightwind (2002)

 

1962-

Chuck Palahniuk: Lullaby (2002)

 

1969-

John Altman: A Game of Spies (2002)

 

1936-

Larry McMurtry: Sin Killer (2002)

 

1944-

J.A. Jance: Paradise Lost (2002)

 

1963-

Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones (2002)

 

1969-

Brad Thor: The Lions of Lucerne (2002)

 

1956-

Michael Connelly: Chasing the Dime (2002)

 

c. 1970-

David Benioff: The 25th Hour (2002)

 

1955

Yasmina Khadra: The Swallows of Kabul (2002)

 

1970-

Cecily von Ziegesar: Gossip Girl (2002)

 

1960-

Daniel Silva: The English Assassin (2002)

 

 

John Fusco: Paradise Salvage (2002)

 

1947-2007

Michael Dibdin: And Then You Die (2002)

 

1942-

Michael Palmer: Fatal (2002)

 

1948-

Jayne Ann Krentz: Smoke in Mirrors (2002)

 

1936-

Larry McMurtry: By Sorrow’s River (2003)

 

1956-

Michael Connelly: Lost Light (2003)

 

1942-

Donna Leon: Uniform Justice (2003)

 

1965-

Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island (2003)

 

1962-

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: No Second Chance (2003)

 

1943-

Janet Evanovich: To the Nines (2003)

 

1969-

Brad Thor: Path of the Assassin (2003)

 

1969-

James Frey: A Million Little Pieces (2003)

 

1943-

David Morrell: The Protector (2003)

 

1957-

Fred Vargas: Have Mercy On Us All (2003)

 

1970-

Olen Steinhauer: The Bridge of Sighs (2003)

 

1975-

Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club (2003)

 

1944-

J.A. Jance: Partner in Crime (2003)

 

1957-

George Pelecanos: Soul Circus (2003)

 

1948-

T. Coraghessan Boyle: Drop City (2003)

 

1964-

Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code (2003)

 

1943-

Peter Carey: My Life as a Fake (2003)

 

1948-

John Lescroart: The First Law (2003)

 

1949-

Richard Price: Samaritan (2003)

 

1931-

Clive Cussler: Trojan Odyssey (2003)

 

1956-

Patricia Cornwell: Blow Fly (2003)

 

1955-

Val McDermid: The Distant Echo (2003)

 

1958-

James Grippando: Last to Die (2003) [Jack Swyteck #3]

 

1945-

Dean Koontz: Odd Thomas (2003)

 

1960-

David Baldacci: Split Second (2003)

 

1952-

Loren D. Estleman: Poison Blonde (2003)

 

1965-

Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner (2003)

 

1956-

William Lashner: Fatal Flaw (2003)

 

1955-

Jeff Mariotte: The Slab (2003)

 

1947-

Ted Bell: Hawke (2003) 

 

1933-2008

Donald Westlake: Money for Nothing (2003)

 

1953-

Tess Gerritsen: The Sinner (2003)

 

1963-

Jeff Abbott: Cut and Run (2003)

 

1956- / 1957-

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: Still Life with Crows (2003)

 

1957-

Robert Wilson: The Blind Man of Seville (2003)

 

1955-

Steve Berry: The Amber Room (2003) 

 

1954-

Melvin Burgess: Doing It (2003)

 

1956-

Patricia Cornwell: Blow Fly (2003) 

 

1943-

Pete Dexter: Train (2003)

 

1960-

Daniel Silva: The Confessor (2003)

 

1950-

Sarah Dunant: The Birth of Venus (2003)

 

1936- 

Larry McMurtry: Folly and Glory (2004)

 

1925-

Elmore Leonard: Mr. Paradise (2004)

 

1942-

Donna Leon: Doctored Evidence (2004)

 

1947-

Ron McLarty: The Memory of Running (2004)

 

1953-

T. Jefferson Parker: California Girl (2004)

 

1939-

Michael McGarrity: Slow Kill (2004)

 

1957-

Nick Hornby: The Polysyllabic Spree (2004)

 

1903-1942

Irène Némirovsky: Suite Française (2004, posthumous)

 

1946-

Stephen Mertz: Fade to Tomorrow (2004)

 

1939-

Lily Tuck: The News From Paraguay (2004)

 

1969-

Brad Thor: State of the Union (2004)

 

1955-

Russell Andrews [Peter Gethers]: Aphrodite (2004)

 

1943-

Peter Straub: In the Night Room (2004)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: Just One Look (2004)

 

1958-

Joseph Finder: Paranoia (2004)

 

1955-

Steve Berry: The Romanov Prophecy (2004)

 

1931-

Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)

 

1961-

Tom Perrotta: Little Children (2004)

 

1953-

David Hewson: A Season for the Dead (2004)

 

1931- / 1961-

Clive and Dirk Cussler: Black Wind (2004)

 

1958-

Deon Meyer: Heart of the Hunter (2004)

 

1943-

Nelson DeMille: Night Fall (2004)

 

1948-

John Lescroart: The Second Chair (2004)

 

1948-

John Lescroart: The Motive (2004)

 

1960-

Daniel Silva: A Death in Vienna (2004)

 

1955-

Val McDermid: The Torment of Others (2004)

 

1956-

Michael Connelly: The Narrows (2004)

 

1956-

William Lashner: Past Due (2004)

 

1969-

Greg Rucka: A Gentleman’s Game (2004)

 

1957-

Robert Wilson: The Vanished Hands (2004)

 

1955-

Lisa Scottoline: Killer Smile (2004)

 

1954-

Lee Child: The Enemy (2004)

 

1944-

Phillip Margolin: Sleeping Beauty (2004)

 

1970-

Olen Steinhauer: The Confession (2004)

 

1959-

Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2004)

 

1956- / 1957-

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: Brimstone (2004)

 

1967-

Sam Harris: The End of Faith (2004)

 

1943-

Barry Miles: Hippie (2004)

 

1942-

John Irving: Until I Find You (2005)

 

1954-

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (2005)

 

1933-

Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men (2005)

 

1947-

Paulo Coelho: The Zahir (2005)

 

1957-

Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down (2005)

 

1970-

Brad Meltzer: The Zero Game (2005)

 

1947-2007

Michael Dibdin: Back to Bologna (2005))

 

1939-

Stuart Woods: Iron Orchid (2005)

 

1960-

Daniel Silva: Prince of Fire (2005)

 

1946-

Joseph Kanon: Alibi (2005)

 

1935-

Robert Littell: Legends (2005) 

 

1957-

George Pelecanos: Drama City (2005)

 

1956- / 1957-

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: Dance of Death (2005)

 

1960-

Kaye Gibbons: The Life All Around Me (2005)

 

1955-

Lisa Scottoline: Devil’s Corner (2005)

 

1975-

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief (2005)

 

1969-

Brad Thor: Blowback (2005)

 

1931-

Clive Cussler (with Paul Kemprecos): Polar Shift (2005)

 

1956-

Michael Connelly: The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)

 

1956-

Michael Connelly: The Closers (2005)

 

1961-

James Rollins: Map of Bones (2005)

 

1947-

James Patterson: Mary, Mary (2005)

 

1960-

David Baldacci: The Camel Club (2005)

 

1944-

Phillip Margolin: Lost Lake (2005)

 

1955-

Steve Berry: The Third Secret (2005)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: The Innocent (2005)

 

1947-

Sara Paretsky: Fire Sale (2005)

 

1943-

Janet Evanovich: Eleven On Top (2005)

 

1920-

Ray Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder & Other Stories (2005)

 

1953-

Tess Gerritsen: Vanish (2005)

 

1936-

Anne Rivers Siddons: Sweetwater Creek (2005)

 

1960-

Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys (2005)

 

1969-

James Frey: My Friend Leonard (2005)

 

1952-

Diana Gabaldon: A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005)

 

1964-

Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian (2005)

 

1958-

Joseph Finder: Company Man (2005)

 

1970-

Olen Steinhauer: 36 Yalta Boulevard (2005)

 

1954-2004

Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)

 

1948-

Henning Mankell: The Man Who Smiled (2005)

 

1965- 

John Hart: The King of Lies (2006)

 

1933-

Cormac McCarthy: The Road (2006)

 

1973-

Alex Berenson: The Faithful Spy (2006)

 

1947-

Stephen King: Lisey’s Story (2006)

 

1943-

William Gay: Twilight (2006)

 

1947-

James Patterson: Cross (2006)

 

1945-

Dean Koontz: The Husband (2006)

 

1969-

Boris Starling: Visibility (2006)

 

1960-

Daniel Silva: The Messenger (2006)

 

1955-

Val McDermid: The Grave Tattoo (2006)

 

1956- / 1957-

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: The Book of the Dead (2006)

 

1966-

Claire Messud: The Emperor’s Children (2006)

 

1932-

Robert B. Parker: Appalosa (2006)

 

1952-

Robert Baer: Blow the House Down (2006)

 

1947-

Thomas Perry: Nightlife (2006)

 

1955-

Steve Berry: The Templar Legacy (2006)

 

1965-

Scott Smith: The Ruins (2006)

 

1949-

Elizabeth George: What Came Before He Shot Her (2006)

 

1950-

Sarah Dunant: In the Company of the Courtesan (2006)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: Promise Me (2006)

 

1957-

George Pelecanos: The Night Gardener (2006)

 

1961-

James Rollins: Black Order (2006)

 

1948-

Sandra Brown: Ricochet (2006)

 

 

David Rosenfelt: Dead Center (2006)

 

1954-2004

Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006)

 

1969- / 1972-

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan: Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist (2006)

 

1943-

Nelson DeMille: Wild Fire (2006)

 

1953-

Henry Porter: Brandenburg Gate (2006)

 

1950-

Charles Frazier: Thirteen Moons (2006)

 

1957-

Robert Wilson: The Hidden Assassins (2006)

 

 

Ken Kuhlken: The Do-Re-Mi (2006)

 

1970-

Olen Steinhauer: Liberation Movements (2006)

 

1949-

Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke (2007)

 

1964-

John Hart: Down River (2007)

 

1958-

James Grippando: Lying with Strangers (2007)

 

1933-

Gene Wilder: My French Whore (2007)

 

1949-

Ken Follett: World Without End (2007)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: The Woods (2007)

 

1961-

Tom Perrotta: The Abstinence Teacher (2007)

 

1955-

Steve Berry: The Venetian Betrayal (2007)

 

1955-

Steve Berry: The Alexandria Link (2007)

 

1940-

Michael Gruber: The Book of Air and Shadows (2007)

 

1925-

Elmore Leonard: Up in Honey’s Room (2007)

 

1979-

Noah Charney: The Art Thief (2007)

 

1955-

Jeffrey J. Mariotte: Missing White Girl (2007)

 

1946-

David Stone [Carston Stroud]: The Echelon Vendetta (2007)

 

1945-

Dean Koontz: The Good Guy (2007)

 

1957-

Lincoln Child: Deep Storm (2007)

 

1954-

Lee Child: Bad Luck and Trouble (2007)

 

1956-

William Lashner: Marked Man (2007)

 

1945-

Dean Koontz: The Darkest Evening of the Year (2007)

 

1953-

Tess Gerritsen: The Bone Garden (2007)

 

1936-

James Lee Burke: The Tin Roof Blowdown (2007)

 

1958-

Joseph Finder: Vanished (2007)

 

1955-

John Grisham: Playing for Pizza (2007)

 

1961-

James Rollins: The Judas Strain (2007)

 

 

Peter Pezzelli: Italian Lessons (2007)

 

1969-

Brad Thor: The First Commandment (2007)

 

1960-

Neil Gaiman: Interworld (2007)

 

1957- 

Nicholas Coleridge: A Much Married Man (2007)

 

1966-

Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)

 

1945-

Michael Wallis: Billy the Kid. The Endless Ride (2007)

 

1948-

Dan Simmons: The Terror (2007)

 

1972-

Joe Hill: Heart-Shaped Box (2007)

 

1950-

Wally Lamb: The Hour I First Believed (2008)

 

1956-

Douglas Preston: Blasphemy (2008)

 

1962-

Harlan Coben: Hold Tight (2008)

 

1936-

Anne Rivers Siddons: Off Season (2008)

 

1960-

Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book (2008)

 

1957-

Fred Vargas: This Night’s Foul Work (2008)

 

1958-

James Collins: Beginner’s Greek (2008)

 

1947-

Thomas Perry: Runner (2009)

 

1925-

Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs (2009)

 

1964-

Dan Brown: The Lost Symbol (2009)

 

1957-

Fred Vargas: The Chalk Circle Man (2009)

 

1954-

Stephen L. Carter: Jericho’s Fall (2009)

 

1950-

Sarah Dunant: Sacred Hearts (2009)

 

1945-

Pat Conroy: South of Broad (2009)

 

1930-2009

J. G. Ballard: The Complete Stories (2009)