I offer a rating from 0 to 5 for each of the items in the following list. The scale I use is:
| 5 | - | Outstanding; a life-changing book |
| 4 | - | One or more outstanding qualities |
| 3 | - | Generally worthwhile but not outstanding |
| 2 | - | Unremarkable or mildly disappointing |
| 1 | - | Of personal nostalgic or sentimental value |
| (otherwise not recommended) | ||
| 0 | - | A disaster—I didn't finish it |
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR | RATING |
| April 2010 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | In Progress |
| April 2010 | A Whispered Name | William Broderick | In Progress |
| April 2010 | Jacob's Room | Virginia Woolf | 3.0 |
| March 2010 | Career in C Major And Other Fiction | James M. Cain, Roy Hoopes, Ed. | 3.0 |
| March 2010 | Fault Line | Sarah Andrews | 3.5 |
| March 2010 | Herzog | Saul Bellow | 4.0 |
| March 2010 | Birds of a Feather | Jacqueline Winspear | 3.5 |
| February 2010 | An Eye for Gold | Sarah Andrews | 3.5 |
| February 2010 | Bone Hunter | Sarah Andrews | 3.0 |
| February 2010 | The Annotated Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame Annie Gauger | 5.0 1.5 |
| February 2010 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel DeFoe | 3.5 |
| February 2010 | The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf | 4.0 |
| January 2010 | Only Flesh and Bones | Sarah Andrews | 3.0 |
| January 2010 | Ghostwalk | Rebecca Stott | 3.5 |
| January 2010 | Mother Nature | Sarah Andrews | 3.0 |
| January 2010 | Hardy Succulents | Gwen Moore Kelaidis | 4.0 |
| January 2010 | A Tour of the Flowering Plants | Priscilla Spears | 4.0 |
| January 2010 | A Fall in Denver | Sarah Andrews | 3.0 |
| December 2009 | The Best Short Stories of John Buchan
(Volume 1) | John Buchan, David Daniell, Ed. | 3.5 |
| December 2009 | Wodehouse on Crime | P.G. Wodehouse | 3.5 |
| December 2009 | The Third Girl | Agatha Christie | 2.5 |
| December2009 | Tensleep | Sarah Andrews | 3.0 |
| December 2009 | Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest | Greg Carlisle | 3.5 |
| December 2009 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 4.5 |
| December 2009 | Lust for Life | Irving Stone | 4.0 |
| December 2009 | Single & Single (audio book) | John LeCarré | 3.5 |
| November 2009 | Bill Graham Presents | Bill Graham and Robert Greenfeld | 3.0 |
| November 2009 | March | Gwendolyn Brooks | 3.0 |
| November 2009 | The Goodbye Look | Ross MacDonald | 3.5 |
| October 2009 | Inland Passage | George Harmon Coxe | 3 |
| October 2009 | C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse | Miguel Serrano | 3 |
| October 2009 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 4 |
| September 2009 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | 2.5 |
| September 2009 | Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | 4 |
| September 2009 | Maisie Dobbs | Jacqueline Winspear | 3 |
| September 2009 | The Sea Mystery | Freeman Wills Crofts | 3.5 |
| August 2009 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 4 |
| August 2009 | Sad Cypress | Agatha Christie | 3.5 |
| August 2009 | Watchmen | Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons | 3 |
| August 2009 | The Code of the Woosters | P.G. Wodehouse | 3.5 |
| July 2009 | Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla | Marc J. Seifer | 2.5 |
| July 2009 | High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 2.5 |
| June 2009 | A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 4 |
| June 2009 | King Solomon's Mines | H. Rider Haggard | 3 |
| May 2009 | Moon Palace
second reading | Paul Auster | 3.5 |
| May 2009 | A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man second reading | James Joyce | 4 |
| May 2009 | Dubliners second reading | James Joyce | 4 |
| May 2009 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 4 |
| April 2009 | Doctor Frigo | Eric Ambler | 4 |
| April 2009 | The Vanishing American | Zane Grey | 3 |
| April 2009 | Blindness | José Saramago | 4 |
| March 2009 | A Presumption of Death | Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers | 4 |
| March 2009 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 3.5 |
| March 2009 | The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama | 3.5 |
| February 2009 | Finding Moon | Tony Hillerman | 3 |
| February 2009 | The Nine Tailors
Third reading | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4 |
| February 2009 | Finnegans Wake
Second reading | James Joyce | 5 |
| February 2009 | A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake | Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson | 3.5 |
| February 2009 | Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake | Philip Kitcher | 2.5 |
| January 2009 | A Briefer History of Time | Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow | 2.5 |
| January 2009 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 3 |
| January 2009 | Privileged Information | Stephen White | 3 |