The Captive Reader

A reference point for books reviewed:

1. Canadians by Roy MacGregor
2. Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
3. Mariana by Monica Dickens
4. Can Any Mother Help Me? by Jenna Bailey
5. “Easy Virtue” by Noel Coward
6. The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
7. Extraordinary Canadians: Pierre Elliott Trudeau by Nino Ricci
8. The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
9. Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman
10. The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
12. Extraordinary Canadians: Lord Beaverbrook by David Adams Richards
13. One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
14. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
15. Mr. Knightley’s Diary by Amanda Grange
16. Amanda by Debra White Smith
17. Emma by Jane Austen (read by Fiona Shaw)
18. The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
19. Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
20. A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen edited by Susannah Carson
21. What is Stephen Harper Reading? by Yann Martel
22. Extraordinary Canadians: L.M. Montgomery by Jane Urquhart
23. Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido
24. The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer
25. My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva (with E.M. Swift)
26. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
27. The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede
28. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
29. American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent
30. Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
31. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
32. Snow Job by William Deverell
33. It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst
34. No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
35. The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
36. Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman
37. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson
38. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
39. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
40. Pyongyang by Guy Delisle
41. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
42. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
43. A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
44. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
45. Enlightened Feminism by Susan J. Douglas
46. Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
47. Isa & May by Margaret Forster
48. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapia
49. Green Metropolis by David Owen
50. I Remember You by Harriet Evans
51. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
52. The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
53. Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse
54. Girl From the South by Joanna Trollope
55. Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
56. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey
57. A Hopeless Romantic by Harriet Evans
58. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
59. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig (read by Justine Eyre)
60. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
61. Hungry by Crystal Renn
62. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
63. Blankets by Craig Thompson
64. The Immigrant by Manju Kapur
65. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
66. To Tempt a Saint by Kate Moore
67. Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh
68. Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord
69. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
70. Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti
71. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
72. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
73. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
74. A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
75. This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
76. What I Did For Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
77. Ain’t She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
78. Glitter Baby by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
79. Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
80. Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
81. This Heart of Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
82. It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
83. Fancy Pants by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
84. Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches Guide to Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell and Candy  Tan
85. Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance by Garrison Keillor
86. Writing Jane Austen by Elizabeth Aston
87. Dear Money by Martha McPhee
88. Mrs Tim Flies Home by D.E. Stevenson
89. A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel
90. Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
91. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
92. A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
93. The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson
94. The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant
95. The Foundling by Georgette Heyer
96. Why We Act Like Canadians by Pierre Berton
97. Great Expectations: Twenty-Four True Stories About Childbirth editted by Dede Crane and Lisa Moore
98. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
99. The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
100. The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
101. One Day by David Nicholls
102. The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
103. Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
104. The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
105. The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
106. Bliss by O.Z. Livaneli
107. Player One by Douglas Coupland
108. The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
109. Beyond the Chestnut Trees by Maria Bauer
110. For My Own Amusement by R.F. Delderfield
111. Greenery Street by Denis Mackail
112. Locavore by Sarah Elton
113. A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
114. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
115. Sexually, I’m More of a Switzerland edited by David Rose
116. Provincial Daughter by R.M. Dashwood
117. Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls by Stephanie Wellen Levine
118. Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson
119. Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
120. The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson