Bought:

• The Lover’s Knot (A Someday Quilts Mystery), by Clare O’Donohue
  
• Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge
  
• Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg
  
• Smells Like Dead Elephants, by Matt Taibbi
  
• The Historical Novel, by Georg Lukacs
  
• The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks
  

• The Oxford Book of Short Stories, edited by V.S. Pritchett
  
• The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks
  

Bought:

• Her Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik
  
• Mainspring, by Jay Lake
  
• Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
  

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larssen
  
• Her Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik
  
• The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, edited by Richard Ford
  
• The Conversations at Curlow Creek, by David Malouf
  

Bought:

• Iodine, by Haven Kimmel*
  
• Indignation, by Philip Roth*
  
• Home, by Marilynne Robinson*
  
• Ballistics, by Billy Collins (poetry)*
  
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson*
  
• Generation Kill; Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War, by Evan Wright
  
• One Bullet Away; The Making of a Marine Officer, by Nathaniel Fick
  

• The Man Without Qualities, Vol 1, by Robert Musil (mostly read in August but not finished until Sept…)
  
• Dead Boys, by Richard Lange
  
• Sway, by Zachary Lazar
  
• Iodine, by Haven Kimmel
  

Bought:

• The Likeness, by Tana French
  
• I Was Told There’d Be Cake, by Sloane Crosley
  
• Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer
  
• Darkest Fear, by Harlan Coben
  

• The Likeness, by Tana French
  
• Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer
  
• Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, ed. by Jason T. Eberl
  
• Unmentionables, by Beth Ann Fennelly (poetry)
  
• Break In, by Dick Francis (re-read, many times over)
  
• Bolt, by Dick Francis (re-read, many times over)
  
• The Hob’s Bargain, by Patricia Briggs
  

Bought:

• Peeps, by Scott Westerberg
  
• Uglies, by Scott Westerberg
  
• Finding Battlestar Galactica, by Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, and HIllary Robson
  
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, ed. by James B. South
  
• Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ed. by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks
  
• Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, ed. by Jason T. Eberl
  
• Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
  

• Trespass, by Valerie Martin
  
• Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart
  
• Finding Battlestar Galactica, ed. by Lynette Porter, David Lavery, and Hillary Robson
  
• Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld
  

I spent a significant part of the month reading two other books (The New Grant Book of the American Short Story, ed. by Richard Ford; and Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, ed by Jason Eberl), but since I haven’t finished them, they’ll have to wait for August’s list…

Bought:

• Raven’s Strike, by Patricia Briggs
  
• Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion, by David Bassom
  
• Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season 2, by David Bassom
  
• Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season 3, by David Bassom
  
• Breath, by Tim Winton
  
• Nothing to Lose, by Lee Child
  

• Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion, by David Bassom
  
• Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season 2, by David Bassom
  
• War with the Newts, by Karel Capek
  
• Raven’s Shadow, by Patricia Briggs
  
• The Farther Shore, by Matthew Eck
  
• Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season 3, by David Bassom
  
• Raven’s Strike, by Patricia Briggs
  
• Life Class, by Pat Barker
  
• Lush Life, by Richard Price
  
• Dark Roots, by Cate Kennedy (stories)
  
• Nothing to Lose, by Lee Child
  

Bought:

• Just One Look, by Harlan Coben
  
• Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child
  
• A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both, by Ben Greenman (stories)
  
• Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child (whoops)
  
• Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, by August Kleinzahler (poetry)
  
• Unmentionables, by Beth Ann Fennelly (poetry)
  
• Dragon Blood, by Patricia Briggs
  
• Raven’s Shadow, by Patricia Briggs
  
• One False Move, by Harlan Coben
  
• The Final Detail, by Harlan Coben
  

• Just One Look, by Harlan Coben
  
• Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child
  
• Slam, by Nick Hornby
  
• The Devil of Nanking, by Mo Hayder
  
• Dragon Bones, by Patricia Briggs
  
• Dragon Blood, by Patricia Briggs
  
• One False Move, by Harlan Coben
  
• The Final Detail, by Harlan Coben
  
• The Collected Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Bought:

• A Plea for Eros, by Siri Hustvedt
  
• Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos
  
• The Philosopher’s Apprentice by James Morrow
  
• Seven Notebooks, by Campbell McGrath (poetry)
  
• Fade Away, by Harlan Coben
  
• Back Spin, by Harlan Coben
  
• The Last Kashmiri Rose, by Barbara Cleverly
  
• The Devil of Nanking, by Mo Hayder
  

• The Watchman, a Joe Pike novel, by Robert Crais
  
• Drop Shot, by Harlan Coben
  
• Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos
  
• The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff
  
• Fade Away, by Harlan Coben
  
• The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch
  
• Back Spin, by Harlan Coben
  

Bought:

• The Death of Sweet Mister, by Daniel Woodrell (used)
  
• The Great World, by David Malouf (used)
  
• The Conversations at Curlow Creek, by David Malouf (used)
  
• Confessions of a Recovering Slut, by Hollis Gillespie
  
• Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois
  
• The Fatal Gift, by Alec Waugh (used)
  
• A Spy in the Family, by Alec Waugh (used)
  
• The Ballad and the Source, by Rosamond Lehmann (used)
  
• The Music at Long Verney, by Silvia Townsend Warner (stories) (used)
  
• The Naming of the Dead, by Ian Rankin (in Japan, no access to my bookshelves!)
  
• The Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie (in Japan, no access to my bookshelves!)
  

• The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist, by Richard P. Feynman
  
• The Complete Stories, by David Malouf
  
• The Hunt Ball, by Rita Mae Brown
  
• The Hounds and the Fury, by Rita Mae Brown
  
• Ms. Pettigrew Lives for the Day, by Winifred Watson
  
• The Naming of the Dead, by Ian Rankin
  
• Let`s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, by Carl Wilson
  
• The Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie
  
• The Tourmaline, by Paul Park

Bought:

• The Watchman (A Joe Pike Novel), by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole gets his own spinoff!)
  
• The Odyssey and The Iliad, Homer (buying the Robert Fagles translations, my other ones are Lattimore)
  
• The Faithful Spy, by Alex Berenson
  
• The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff
  
• The Priory, by Dorothy Whipple
  
• Saplings, by Noel Streatfeild
  
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson
  
• The Tourmaline, by Paul Park
  
• The White Tyger, by Paul Park
  
• A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray
  
• Dark Roots, by Cate Kennedy (stories)

• Iron Kissed, by Patricia Briggs
  
• A Princess of Roumania, by Paul Park
  
• The Faithful Spy, by Alex Berenson
  
• The Good Soldier Svejk, by Jaroslav Hasek