Upon request, I present for posterity
(please hold your applause until the end)
A Mostly Abecedarian List of Books that Are Neither Sci-Fi/Fantasy Nor in Series:
Some Modern Classics, Historical Fiction, and Books about Books
A – Emma by Jane Austen
B – The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
C – My Antonia by Willa Cather
D – The Tale of Despereaux by Kate diCamillo
E – Wit by Margaret Edson
F – Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
G – Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
H – Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
I – The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
J – The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
K – The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
L – Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
M – Atonement by Ian McEwan
N – Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
O – The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
P – Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Q – Quicksand by Nella Larsen
R – Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
S – I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
T – Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
U – Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
V – The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
W – The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Y – Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Z – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mostly About Books 