BookiesToo Past Reads
Sorted by Year and Alphabetical by Author
(Group rating in parentheses)*
Prior to 2001
Angelou, Maya … The Heart of a Woman (2.8)
Ansay, A. Manette … Vinegar Hill (2.8)
Atkinson, Kate … Behind the Scenes at a Museum (4.0)
Blume, Judy … Summer Sisters (2.6)
Bohjalian, Chris … Midwives (3.4)
Bray, Rosemary L. …Unafraid of the Dark (3.3)
Burgess, Anthony … A Clockwork Orange (3.6)
Chang, Iris … The Rape of Nanking (3.6)
Cleage, Pearl … What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (3.4)
Danticat, Edwidge … Breath, Eyes, Memory (3.1)
Dorris, Michael … A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (3.85)
Doyle, Roddy … The Woman Who Walked into Doors (3.45)
Dubus, Andre III … House of Sand and Fog (4.0)
Esquivel, Laura … Law of Love (2.35)
Faulks, Sebastian … Birdsong (4.05)
Fitch, Janet … White Oleander (4.0)
Gaines, Ernest J. … A Lesson Before Dying (3.9)
Gibbons, Kaye … A Virtuous Woman (3.3)
Gibbons, Kaye … Ellen Foster (3.5)
Golden, Arthur … Memoirs of a Geisha (4.05)
Guterson, David … Snow Falling on Cedars (3.9)
Hamilton, Jane … The Book of Ruth
Hamilton, Jane … A Map of the World
Harington, Donald … When Angels Rest (3.3)
Hegi, Ursula … Stones from the River (4.5)
Hegi, Ursula … Intrusions
Hoeg, Peter … Smilla’s Sense of Snow (3.25)
Hoffman, Alice …. Here on Earth (3.3)
Hoffman, Alice …. Turtle Moon (3.3)
Irving, John …. Cider House Rules (4.1)
Irving, John …. A Prayer for Owen Meany (4.5)
Keller, Nora Okja … Comfort Woman (3.1)
King, Steven … Bag of Bones (3.3)
Kingsolver, Barbara … Poisonwood Bible (4.5)
Krakauer, Jon … Into Thin Air (4.45)
Lamb, Wally … I Know This Much is True (4.3)
Lamb, Wally … She’s Come Undone
Lee, Harper … To Kill a Mockingbird (4.85)
Letts, Billie … Where the Heart Is (3.65)
Lott, Bret … Jewel (3.8)
Mayes, Frances … Under the Tuscan Sun (3.4)
McCourt, Frank … Angela’s Ashes (4.85)
McGabe, Patrick … Butcher Boy (2.65)
McGrath, Patrick … Asylum (3.85)
Mistry, Rohinton … A Fine Balance (4.3)
Mitchard, Jacquelyn … The Deep End of the Ocean
Morgan, Robert … Gap Creek (3.0)
Morris, Mary McGarry … Songs in Ordinary Times (1.8)
Morrison, Toni … Paradise (3.85)
Morrison, Toni … Beloved (4.0)
Morrison, Toni … Song of Solomon
O’Brien, Tim … In the Lake of the Woods (3.7)
O’Dell, Tawni … Back Roads (3.5)
Peters, Elizabeth … The Ape Who Guards the Balance (2.8)
Quindlan, Anna … Black and Blue (3.5)
Reynolds, Sheri … A Gracious Plenty (3.4)
Reynolds, Sheri … The Rapture of Canaan (3.85)
Roth, Philip … American Pastoral (3.1)
Roy, Arundhati … God of Small Things (4.1)
Saramago, Jose … Blindness
Schlink, Bernard … The Reader (3.6)
Shreve, Anita … The Pilot’s Wife (2.86)
Simpson, Mona … Anywhere But Here
Smith, Betty … A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (4.5)
Smith, Scott … A Simple Plan (3.0)
Stegner, Wallace … Crossing to Safety (3.7)
Winchester, Simon … The Professor and the Madman
Waugh, Evelyn … A Handful of Dust (3.2)
2001
Austen, Jane … Emma (4.0)
Cather, Willa … O Pioneers! (3.6)
Coetzee, J. M. … Disgrace (4.0)
Conroy, Pat … The Lords of Discipline (4.0)
Diamant, Anita … The Red Tent (4.0)
Franzen, Jonathan … The Corrections (3.75)
Greenwood, T. … Nearer Than the Sky
Hamilton, Jane … Disobedience: A Novel (4.0)
Lethem, Jonathon … Motherless Brooklyn (3.5)
Naipaul, V. S. … Half a Life (2.67)
Picoult, Jodi … The Pact (3.5)
Tademy, Lalita … Cane River (4.0)
Tan, Amy … The Bonesetter’s Daughter (3.5)
Tsukiyama,Gail … The Samurai’s Garden (4.0)
Watson, Larry … White Crosses (3.5)
2002
Amis, Kingsley … Lucky Jim (4.3)
Banks, Russell … The Sweet Hereafter (3.6)
Bronte, Charlotte … Jane Eyre (4.1)
Byatt, A. S. … Possession (4.02)
Chabon, Michael … The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (3.96)
Chopin, Kate … The Awakening (3.9)
Dumas, Alexandre … The Count of Monte Cristo (3.83)
Duncan, James David … The Brothers K (3.86)
Dunmore, Helen … The Siege (3.8)
Fforde, Jasper … The Eyre Affair (4.1)
Goldberg, Myla … Bee Season (3.4)
Hornby, Nick … How to be Good (3.65)
Knox, Elizabeth … The Vintner’s Luck (4.0)
MacDonald, Ann-Marie … Fall On Your Knees (3.9)
Marquez,Gabriel Garcia … Love in the Time of Cholera (3.32)
McEwan, Ian … Atonement (4.55)
Mistry, Rohinton … A Fine Balance (4.62)
Morrison, Toni … Sula (3.38)
O’Brien, Tim … The Things They Carried (4.25)
Ondaatje, Michael … In the Skin of a Lion (4.25)
O’Neill, Jamie … At Swim, Two Boys (3.5)
Patchett, Ann … The Patron Saint of Liars (3.15)
Pears, Iain … An Instance of the Fingerpost (3.79)
Rhys, Jean … Wide Sargasso Sea (3.25)
Rice, Ben … Pobby and Dingan (4.0)
Russo, Richard … Empire Falls (3.83)
Sebold, Alice … The Lovely Bones (3.6)
Tyler, Anne … Back When We Were Grownups (3.98)
Udall, Brady … The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (4.31)
2003
Atwood, Margaret … Cat’s Eye (3.96)
Austen, Jane … Pride and Prejudice (4.4)
Brown, Dan … The DaVinci Code (4.32)
Capote, Truman … Breakfast at Tiffany’s (3.44)
Cunningham, Michael … The Hours (4.3)
Eugenides, Jeffrey … Middlesex (4.25)
Faber, Michael … The Crimson Petal and The White (4.15)
Hemingway, Ernest … The Sun Also Rises (3.4)
Hillenbrand, Laura … Seabiscuit (4.4)
Hurston, Zora Neale … Their Eyes Were Watching God (4.4)
Kidd, Sue Monk … The Secret Life of Bees (4.22)
Lawson, Mary … Crow Lake (3.91)
Martel, Yann … Life of Pi (4.4)
Nafisi, Azar … Reading Lolita in Tehran (3.2)
Patchett, Ann … Bel Canto (3.66)
Paton, Alan … Cry The Beloved Country (4.2)
Proulx, Annie … The Shipping News (3.14)
Remarque, Erich Maria … All Quiet on the Western Front (4.37)
Smith, Alexander McCall … The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (3.93)
Steinbeck, John … East of Eden (4.82)
Toibin, Colm … The Blackwater Lightship (3.9)
Trevor, William … The Story of Lucy Gault (3.5)
Tyler, Anne … The Accidental Tourist (3.78)
Wharton, Edith … Ethan Frome (3.76)
2004
Ali, Monica … Brick Lane (3.77)
Atwood, Margaret … Alias Grace (4.19)
Buck, Pearl S. … The Good Earth (4.27)
Chevalier, Tracey … Girl With A Pearl Earring (3.5)
Collins, Wilkie … Woman in White (4.36)
Cunningham, Michael … A Home at the End of the World (3.79)
de Bernieres, Louis … Corelli’s Mandolin (4.0)
Donovan, Anne … Buddha Da (3.89)
Fowler, Karen Joy … The Jane Austen Book Club (3.1)
Greene, Graham … The Quiet American (3.97)
Haddon, Mark … The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (3.9)
Hosseini, Khaled … The Kite Runner (4.52)
Kingsolver, Barbara … Prodigal Summer (4.01)
Lahiri, Jhumpa … The Namesake (4.07)
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia … One Hundred Years of Solitude (4.07)
McCullers, Carson … The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (3.8)
Niffenegger, Audrey … The Time Traveler’s Wife (4.32)
Packer, Ann … The Dive from Clausen’s Pier (3.74)
Smith, Dodie … I Capture The Castle (3.39)
Steinbeck, John … The Grapes of Wrath (4.6)
Thackery, W. Makepeace … Vanity Fair (4.0)
Tolstoy, Leo … Anna Karenina (4.81)
Tyler, Anne … The Amateur Marriage (3.75)
2005
Brooks, Geraldine … March (4.02)
Brooks, Geraldine … Year of Wonders (4.15)
Courtenay, Bryce … Power of One (4.06)
du Maurier, Daphne … Rebecca (4.19)
Dicken, Charles … A Tale of Two Cities (4.1)
Dunant, Sarah … The Birth of Venus (3.57)
Eliot, George … Middlemarch (4.61)
Faulkner, William … As I Lay Dying (4.25)
Faulkner, William …. Light in August (3.82)
Faulkner, William …. The Sound and the Fury (4.0)
Forster, E.M. … A Passage to India (3.45)
Frey, James … A Million Little Pieces (4.02)
Greene, Graham … The End of the Affair (3.87)
Hornby, Nick … A Long Way Down (3.78)
Ishiguro, Kazuo … Never Let Me Go (4.02)
Levy, Andrea … Small Island (4.46)
McEwan, Ian … Saturday (3.7)
Mitchell, David … Cloud Atlas (4.25)
Picoult, Jodi … My Sister’s Keeper (3.92)
Plath, Sylvia … The Bell Jar (4.16)
Rushdie, Salman … Satanic Verses (3.86)
Shriver, Lionel … We Need to Talk About Kevin (4.5)
Tartt, Donna … The Secret History (3.52)
Trigiani, Adriana … Big Stone Gap (3.62)
Waugh, Evelyn …. Brideshead Revisited (4.27)
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz …. The Shadow of the Wind (3.54)
2006
Achebe, Chinua … Things Fall Apart (3.45)
Atwood, Margaret … Oryx and Crake (3.75)
Brennert, Alan … Moloka’i (4.56)
Chang, Jung … Wild Swans (4.23)
Collins, Wilkie … The Moonstone (3.91)
Costove, Elizabeth … The Historian (3.42)
Didion, Joan … The Year of Magical Thinking (3.82)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor … Crime and Punishment (4.59)
du Maurier, Daphne … The House on the Strand (3.9)
Gruen, Sara … Water for Elephants (4.56)
Huxley, Aldous … Brave New World (4.1)
Ishiguro, Kazuo … The Unconsoled (3.62)
King, Stephen … Cell (3.42)
McGregor, Jon … If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (3.61)
Oates, Joyce Carol … The Falls (3.28)
Robinson, Marilynne … Gilead (2.42)
See, Lisa … Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (4.48)
Smith, Zadie … On Beauty (3.68)
Stoker, Bram … Dracula (4.62)
Theroux, Paul … The Mosquito Coast (4.4)
Tyler, Anne … Saint Maybe (3.87)
Umrigar, Thrity … The Space Between Us (3.74)
Wharton, Edith … The Age of Innocence (3.61)
Wiesel, Elie … Night (4.13)
2007
Adiche,Chimamanda Ngozi … Half of a Yellow Sun (4.6)
Barnes, Julian … Arthur & George (4.06)
Bronte, Emily … Wuthering Heights (4.5)
Clarke, Brock … An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (2.38)
du Maurier, Daphne … My Cousin Rachel (4.21)
Edwards, Kim … The Memory Keeper’s Daughter ( 4.16)
Eliot, George … Silas Marner (4.25)
Feldman, Ellen … The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (4.06)
Hardy, Thomas … The Mayor of Casterbridge (4.31)
Heller, Joseph … Catch 22 (4.15)
Hemingway, Ernest … For Whom the Bell Tolls (3.75)
Hosseini, Khalid … A Thousand Splendid Suns (4.37)
McCarthy, Cormac … The Road (4.26)
McCarthy, Cormac … No Country for Old Men (4.13)
McEwan, Ian … On Chesil Beach (2.76)
McEwan, Ian … The Child in Time (3.89)
Murakami, Haruki … The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (4.56)
Nemirovsky. Irene … Suite Francaise (3.78)
Poitier, Sidney … The Measure of a Man (No Rating)
Powers, Richard … The Echo Maker (3.91)
Setterfield, Diane … The Thirteenth Tale (4.03)
Steinbeck, John … Of Mice and Men (4.96)
Vonnegut, Kurt … Slaughterhouse Five (4.22)
Zusak, Markus … The Book Thief (4.9)
2008
Ackerman, Diane … The Zookeeper’s Wife (3.73))
Austen, Jane … Northanger Abbey (3.8)
Barry, Brunonia … The Lace Reader (3.0)
Bloom, Amy … Away (3.39)
Boyle, T. C. … The Tortilla Curtain (4.67)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer … The Mists of Avalon (4.46)
Brooks, Geraldine … People of the Book (4.26)
du Maurier, Daphne … The Scapegoat (4.34)
Diaz, Junot … The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Dubus III, Andre … The Garden of Last Days
Eggars, Dave … A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2.66)
Enright, Anne … The Gathering (4.04)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott … The Great Gatsby (4.83)
Follett, Ken … Pillars of the Earth (4.19)
Follett, Ken … World Without End (4.5)
Gregory, Philippa … The Other Boleyn Girl (4.375)
Llewellyn, Richard … How Green Was My Valley (4.27)
Maugham, W. Somerset … Of Human Bondage (4.12)
Orwell, George … 1984 (3.68)
Russo, Richard … Bridge of Sighs (3.85)
Schlink, Bernard … The Reader (3.51)
Shriver, Lionel … The Post-Birthday World
Sparks, Muriel … Momento Mori (3.62)
Wroblewski, David … The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (3.86)
2009
Adiga, Aravind … The White Tiger (3.91)
Barbery, Muriel … The Elegance of the Hedgehog (3.73)
Barry, Sebastian … The Secret Scripture (4.07)
Carroll, Lewis … Through the Looking Glass (3.42)
Dickens, Charles … Great Expectations (3.07)
Highsmith, Patricia … The Talented Mr. Ripley (3.98)
Hill, Susan … The Woman in Black, A Ghost Story (3.5)
Horan, Nancy … Loving Frank (4.3)
Ishiguro, Kazuo … The Remains of the Day (3.63)
Larsson, Stieg … The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (4.22)
& Keeland, Reg
McCarthy, Cormac … Blood Meridian (3.53)
Mortenson, Greg … Three Cups of Tea (4.27)
Pettersen, Per … Out Stealing Horses (4.18)
Perrotta, Tom … The Abstinence Teacher (3.30)
Rushdie, Salman … Midnight’s Children (4.13)
Shaffer, Mary Ann … The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (4.272)
& Barrows, Annie
Stein, Garth … The Art of Racing in the Rain (3.89)
Steinbeck, John … Tortilla Flat (3.58)
Stockett, Kathryn … The Help (4.21)
Strout, Elizabeth … Olive Kitteridge (3.75)
Summerscale, Kate … The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (3.71)
Toole, Johm Kennedy … A Confederacy of Dunces (3.32)
Wharton, Edith … The House of Mirth (4.05)
Yates, Richard … Revolutionary Road (3.75)
2010
Atwood, Margaret … The Year of the Flood (3.45)
Blake, Sarah … The Postmistress
Carey, Peter … Oscar and Lucinda
Cather, Willa … My Antonia
Cleave, Chris … Little Bee (3.77)
Connelly, Karen … The Lizard Cage (4.53)
Connolly, John … The Book of Lost Things
Cronin, Justin … The Passage
Donoghue, Emma … Room
Eliot, George … The Mill on the Floss (4.5)
Franzen, Jonathan … Freedom
Galloway, Steven … The Cellist of Sarajevo
Jordan, Hillary … Mudbound (3.92)
Kesey, Ken … One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kingsolver, Barbara … The Lacuna (3.99)
Lee, Harper … To Kill a Mockingbird
Mantel, Hilary … Wolf Hall (4.2)
Niffenegger, Audrey … Her Fearful Symmetry (3.46)
Salinger, J.D. … The Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John … Travels With Charlie (4.01)
Tyler, Anne … Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Verghese, Abraham … Cutting for Stone
Welty, Eudora … The Optimist’s Daughter (3.26)
Woolf, Virginia … To the Lighthouse (3.9)
2011
Adamson, Gil… The Outlander
Allison, Dorothy… Bastard out of Carolina
Bender, Aimee…The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Boyd, William … Brazzaville Beach
Boyle, T.C. … Water Music
Bronte, Emily … Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Geraldine… Caleb’s Crossing
Franklin, Tom … Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Gilmore, Susan Gregg … Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Grissom, Kathleen… The Kitchen House
Harris, Robert …. Conspirata
Hart, John … The Last Child
Hillenbrand, Laura … Unbroken
Larson, Erik … Devil in the White City
Murphy, Louise… The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Obrecht, Tea… The Tiger’s Wife
Patchett, Ann… State of Wonder
Redmond, Michelle … The Year of Fog
Russo, Richard … That Old Cape Magic
Shute, Nevil … A Town Like Alice
Woodrell, Daniel … Winter’s Bone
*Rating Scale
5 = Highly recommended / Another “Bookies classic”.
4 = Recommended / A good read.
3 = Okay / An average book.
2 = Would not recommend / Less then satisfying.
1 = Poor / Lost interest.
0 = Don’t waste your time / One of the worst books I’ve ever read.
Ratings for some books were lost or not recorded.
