I may have read a couple of other books that didn’t make it onto this list, but I guarantee that if it’s on this page, I actually finished reading it.
Fiction:
Chicago, by Alaa al Aswany
The Wasted Vigil, by Nadeem Aslam
To Serve Them All My Days, by R. F. Delderfield
The Peppered Moth, by Margaret Drabble
The Garrick Year, by Margaret Drabble
The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
Giant, by Edna Ferber
Sweet Ruin, by Cathi Hanauer
Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
Life After Genius, by M. Ann Jacoby
Blindspot, by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane
The Small Rain, by Madeleine L’Engle
A Severed Wasp, by Madeleine L’Engle
Magic Time, by Doug Marlette
The Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer (all 4 books)
The Perfect Man, by Naeem Murr
The Last Convertible, by Anton Myrer
Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley
The Map of Love, by Ahdaf Soueif
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Gertrude and Claudius, by John Updike
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
Rabbit Redux, by John Updike
Rabbit is Rich, by John Updike
Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike
Non-Fiction:
The Dirt on Clean, by Katherine Ashenburg
The Mourner’s Dance, by Katherine Ashenburg
The Vertigo Years, by Philipp Blom
American Bloomsbury, by Susan Cheever
World on Fire, by Amy Chua
French Theory, by Francois Cusset (in English translation)
The Logic of Failure, by Dietrich Dorner (in English translation)
The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan
The Urban Villagers, by Herbert Gans
Unstrange Minds, by Roy Richard Grinker
The Rhetoric of Reaction, by Albert O. Hirschman
The Tenth Muse, by Judith Jones
Tough Liberal, by Richard Kahlenberg
Lost in the Meritocracy, by Walter Kirn
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, by Alison Light
Bowled Over, by Michael Oriard
Diaries, 1969-1979, by Michael Palin
Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
A Failure of Capitalism, by Richard Posner
To Afghanistan and Back, by Ted Rall
Sparrows Point, by Mark Reutter
The Unlikely Disciple, by Kevin Roose
Hospital, by Julie Salamon
The Commission, by Philip Shenon
Crisis in Bethlehem, by John Strohmeyer
Ivy Days, by Susan Allen Toth
Whatever it Takes, by Paul Tough
Renegade: The Making of a President, by Richard Woolffe