- Neuromancer : W. Gibson : cyberpunk
- The Book Thief : M. Zusak : a girl's childhood in WWII Germany
- The Sharing Knife: Legacy : L. M. Bujold : in-laws and soul-sucking malices
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being : M. Kundera : philosophy packaged as literary romance
- Tithe : H. Black : teenage girl actually pixie; befriends bl-reading nerd
- Valiant : H. Black : girl runs away; squats in subway tunnels; works for troll
- A Companion to Wolves : S. Monette : man-wolf telepathy; delivers on cover
- What the Dead Know : L. Lippman : disappearance of two sisters; mystery
- Agent Zigzag : B. MacIntyre : career criminal turned WWII double agent
- Bringing Down the House : B. Mezrich : MIT kids turned into blackjack card-counters
- The Big House : G. H. Colt : social anthropology hidden in nostalgic memoir
- All She Was Worth : M. Miyabe : Tokyo loan sharks; mystery
- Cotillion : G. Heyer : best "dandified fop" of a hero ever
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle : H. Murakami : inscrutable
- Whose Body : D. Sayers : 1st Lord Peter Wimsey mystery
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : R. Feynman : makes me want to be a physicist
- The Monsters of Templeton : L. Groff : digging up family secrets
- The Foundling : G. Heyer : hapless hero grows spine, gets girl
- The Innocent Mage : K. Miller : common man becomes hero (in sequel)
- Three Men in a Boat : J. K. Jerome : see title; life observations; flights of fancy
- Complications : A. Gawande : meditation on surgery & medicine
- The Woods : H. Coben : uncovering truth of sister's murder; mystery
- To Say Nothing of the Dog : C. Willis : time travel; best enjoyed after Three Men in a Boat
- The Book of Air and Shadows : M. Gruber : male Mary Sue serial cheater plays detective
- Frederica : G. Heyer : spinster tries matchmaking sister with troublemaking brothers in tow
- My Life & Hard Times : J.T. Grover : autobio; funny childhood anecdotes
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles : A. Christie : mystery, first Poirot story
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency : A.M. Smith : observations on life in Botswana through cases
- Deja Dead : K. Reichs : forensic anthropology; Bones; mystery
- Beholder's Eye : J. Czerneda : shapeshifter aliens
- Oryx and Crake : M. Atwood : love & friendship in a dystopia
- The Left Hand of Darkness : U.K. LeGuin : first contact; androgyny; anthropology
- Tears of the Giraffe : A.M. Smith : more cases in Botswana
- Old Man's War : J. Scalzi : rejuvenated soldiers in space
- Survival : J. Czerneda : interesting concept, but fell a little short
- Changing Vision : J. Czerneda : shapeshifter aliens pt 2
- At Bertram's Hotel : A. Christie : robbery; Miss Marple mystery
- The Moving Finger : A. Christie : anonymous gossip letters; Miss Marple mystery
- The Automatic Detective : A.L. Martinez : robot detective noir, plus aliens
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