- Gabriel Josipovici, Goldberg: Variations
- Patricia Meyer Spacks, Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
- Best American Essays, 2007
- P.D. James, Devices and Desires
- Sophia Lee, The Recess
- Alan Garner, The Owl Service
- Frances Willard, A Wheel Within a Wheel
- Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
- Seneca, Letters From a Stoic
- Phyllis Rose, The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time
- Rosamund Lehmann, A Note in Music
- Dale Spender, Mothers of the Novel
- Georgette Heyer, Lady of Quality
- Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
- Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
- Walter Scott, Waverley
- Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
- Andrei Makine, The Woman Who Waited
- Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
- Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk
- John Keats, Essential Keats
- Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
- Andrew O’Hagan, Be Near Me
- Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
- Kate Sutherland, All in Together Girls
- Janet Todd, Jane Austen in Context
- Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Susan Ferrier, Marriage
- Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking
- Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
- Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
- Roger Shattuck, Proust’s Way
- David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress
- Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
- Marcel Proust, The Prisoner and The Fugitive
- Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind
- Adam Sisman, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task
- Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
- Jeffrey Robinson, The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image
- Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
- Anita Brookner, Leaving Home
- Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son
- Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World
- Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer
- John Brewer, A Sentimental Murder
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
- Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
- Jane Austen, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
- Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It
- The Best American Essays 2006
- Marie Howe, What the Living Do
- Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
- Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
- Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children
- Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
- Jane Kenyon, Otherwise
- Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter
- Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe
- Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks
- Michael Dirda, Book by Book
- Richard Holmes, Footsteps
Of Books and Bicycles 
This list blows me away–very impressive. I’m looking forward to reading your reviews….
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