Reviews by Author

Adams, Poppy
~ The Sister

Adlington, L.J.
~ The Diary of Pelly D

Aguirre, Ann
~ Enclave

Ahern, Cecilia
~ Thanks for the Memories

Alda, Alan
~ Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Allen, Sarah Addison
~ Garden Spells

Almond, David
~ Skellig

Ambrose, Stephen E.
~ To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

Anderson, Laurie Halse
~ Chains
~ Forge
~ Twisted

Anderson, M.T.
~ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: Kingdom on the waves

Antalek, Robin
~ The Summer We Fell Apart

Asher, Bridget
~ My Husband’s Sweethearts

Asher, Jay
~ Thirteen Reasons Why

Asher, Jay & Mackler, Carolyn
~ The Future of Us

Atwood, Margaret
~ The Handmaid’s Tale

Austen, Jane
~ The Watsons

Austin, Lynn
~ Though Waters Roar

Bachorz, Pam
~ Candor

Barbieri, Heather
~ The Lace Makers of Glenmara

Barry, Brunonia
~ The Lace Reader
~ The Map of True Places

Bauermeister, Erica
~ Joy for Beginners

Beckett, Bernard
~ Genesis

Beddor, Frank
~ Hatter M: The Looking Glass Wars, Volume 1
~ The Looking Glass Wars

Benjamin, Melanie
~ Alice I Have Been
~ The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

Berg, Elizabeth
~ The Year of Pleasures

Berlisnki, Mischa
~ Fieldwork

Berry, Wendell
~ Andy Catlett: Early Travels
~ The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
~ Collected Poems: 1957-1982
~ Hannah Coulter
~ Nathan Coulter
~ A Place on Earth

Binchy, Maeve
~ Heart and Soul
~ Minding Frankie
~ Whitethorn Woods

Birdsall, Jeanne
~ The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

Bishop, George
~ Letter to My Daughter

Black, Benjamin
~ Christine Falls

Black, Holly
~ The Poison Eaters: And Other Stories
~ Red Glove
~ White Cat

Blake, Sarah
~ The Postmistress

Blakemore, Erin
~ The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons From Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls

Boling, Dave
~ Guernica

Boyce, Frank Cottrell
~ Cosmic

Boynton, Sandra
~ Blue Moo

Brashares, Ann
~ Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
~ Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
~ The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
~ Sisterhood Everlasting
~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Bray, Libba
~ Going Bovine

Brockenbrough, Martha
~ Things That Make Us [Sic]

Brodie, Laura
~ Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter’s Uncommon Year
~ The Widow’s Season

Brown, Eleanor
~ The Weird Sisters

Buechner, Frederick
~ The Eyes of the Heart
~ Godric

Burgess, Glenda
~ The Geography of Love: A Memoir

Burney, Claudia Mair
~ Wounded

Burton, Gabrielle
~ Impatient with Desire

Butcher, Jim
~ Storm Front

Carrell, Jennifer Lee
~ Interred With Their Bones

Carriger, Gail
~ Blameless
~ Changeless
~ Soulless

Carter, Aimee
~ The Goddess Test

Carver, Raymond
~ Where Water Comes Together With Other Water: Poems

Cashore, Kristin
~ Fire
~ Graceling

Cather, Willa
~ Death Comes for the Archbishop

Center, Katherine
~ Everyone is Beautiful
~ Get Lucky

Chabon, Michael
~ Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Chase, Karen A.
~ Bonjour 40: A Paris Travel Log

Chopin, Kate
~ The Awakening & Selected Short Fiction

Clare, Cassandra
~ City of Ashes
~ City of Bones
~ City of Glass
~ Clockwork Angel

Clay, Mortimus
~ The Purloined Boy

Clements, Andrew
~ We the Children: Keepers of the School, Book 1

Cline, Ernest
~ Ready Player One

Colfer, Eoin
~ The Supernaturalist

Collins, Billy
~ Nine Horses
~ Questions About Angels: Poems

Collins, Suzanne
~ Catching Fire
~ The Hunger Games

Condie, Ally
~ Matched

Conrad, Joseph
~ Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction

Coyne, Teri
~ The Last Bridge

Cramer, W. Dale
~ Summer of Light

Crane, Stephen
~ The Red Badge of Courage

Crewe, Megan
~ The Way We Fall

Cronin, Justin
~ The Passage

Crutcher, Chris
~ King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
~ Whale Talk

Cullen, Lynn
~ The Creation of Eve

Cupala, Holly
~ Don’t Breathe a Word
~ Tell Me a Secret

Dashner, James
~ The Death Cure
~ The Maze Runner
~ The Scorch Trials

Dave, Laura
~ The First Husband

David, Peter
~ Tigerheart

Davis-Gardner, Angela
~ Plum Wine

Dawson, Lucy
~ What My Best Friend Did

Dekker, Ted & Lee, Tosca
~ Forbidden

de Rosnay, Tatiana
~ Sarah’s Key

Delaney, Frank
~ The Last Storyteller
~ The Matchmaker of Kenmare
~ Tipperary
~ Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show

Delinsky, Barbara
~ Not My Daughter
~ While My Sister Sleeps

de los Santos, Marisa
~ Belong to Me
~ Love Walked In

Denham, Holly
~ Holly’s Inbox
~ Holly’s Inbox: Scandal in the City

DeStefano, Lauren
~ Wither

Diamand, Emily
~ Flood Child

Dickson, Athol
~ River Rising
~ Winter Haven

Dilloway, Margaret
~ How to Be an American Housewife

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
~ One Amazing Thing

Donnelly, Jennifer
~ Revolution

Dowd, Siobhan
~ Bog Child

du Maurier, Daphne
~ The Doll: The Lost Short Stories

Dunant, Sarah
~ Sacred Hearts

Eisdorfer, Erica
~ The Wet Nurse’s Tale

Elwork, Paul
~ The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead

Enger, Leif
~ So Brave, Young, and Handsome

Erdrich, Louise
~ The Plague of Doves

Essex, Karen
~ Dracula in Love
~ Leonardo’s Swans
~ Stealing Athena

Eugenides, Jeffrey
~ Middlesex

Evanovich, Janet
~ Eleven on Top
~ Explosive Eighteen
~ Finger Lickin’ Fifteen
~ Lean Mean Thirteen
~ Smokin’ Seventeen
~ Ten Big Ones
~ Three to Get Deadly
~ Twelve Sharp

Fadiman, Anne
~ At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
~ Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Feldman, Ellen
~ Next to Love
~ Scottsboro

Ferguson, Craig
~ American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Fey, Tina
~ Bossypants

Fforde, Jasper
~ The Eyre Affair

Fitzpatrick, Becca
~ Hush, Hush

Flinn, Alex
~ Beastly

Fisher, Catherine
~ Incarceron

Ford, Jamie
~ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Forman, Gayle
~ If I Stay
~ Where She Went

Francis, Patry
~ The Liar’s Diary

Frank, Thaisa
~ Heidegger’s Glasses

Franklin, Tom
~ Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

French, Dawn
~ Dear Fatty

French, Tana
~ Faithful Place
~ The Likeness

Funke, Cornelia
~ Inkspell

Gabaldon, Diana
~ A Breath of Snow and Ashes
~ Drums of Autumn
~ An Echo in the Bone
~ The Fiery Cross

Gaiman, Neil
~ Anansi Boys

Galloway, Steven
~ The Cellist of Sarajevo

Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret
~ Beautiful Chaos
~ Beautiful Creatures
~ Beautiful Darkness

Gaskell, Elizabeth
~ Wives and Daughters

Giff, Patricia Reilly
~ Eleven

Gilbar, Steven
~ Bibliotopia

Ginsberg, Debra
~ The Grift
~ The Neighbors Are Watching

Gladstone, William
~ The Twelve

Goetsch, Leslie
~ Back Creek

Gonzales, Laurence
~ Lucy

Grafton, Sue
~ U is for Undertow

Graham, Gail
~ Sea Changes

Grann, David
~ The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
~ The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Grant, Michael
~ Gone
~ Hunger
~ Plague

Green, John
~ An Abundance of Katherines
~ Looking for Alaska
~ Paper Towns

Greene, Graham
~ The Quiet American

Greer, Andrew Sean
~ The Story of a Marriage

Grossman, Lev
~ The Magicians

Gruen, Sara
~ Water for Elephants

Haarsma, P.J.
~ Betrayal on Orbis 2
~ Virus on Orbis 1

Hale, Shannon
~ The Actor and the Housewife
~ Austenland

Hamill, Pete
~ North River

Hamilton, Kersten
~ Tyger Tyger

Hanff, Helene
~ 84, Charing Cross Road

Hardy, Thomas
~ Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Harkness, Deborah
~ A Discovery of Witches

Harrington, Karen
~ Janeology

Harrington, Laura
~ Alice Bliss

Harris, Charlaine
~ Dead Until Dark

Harris, Jane
~ The Observations

Harris, Paul
~ The Secret Keeper

Hendricks, Judith R.
~ The Laws of Harmony

Hlllenbrand, Laura
~ Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Hinton, Lynne
~ Friendship Cake

Hodgkinson, Amanda
~ 22 Britannia Road

Hoffman, Beth
~ Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Holden, Taylor
~ The Sense of Paper

Hornby, Nick
~ Juliet, Naked
~ The Polysyllabic Spree
~ Shakespeare Wrote for Money
~ Slam

Humphreys, Helen
~ Coventry

Hunt, Angela
~ Doesn’t She Look Natural

Huxley, Aldous
~ Brave New World

Ishiguro, Kazuo
~ Never Let Me Go

Jackson, Joshilyn
~ The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

Jacobs, A.J.
~ The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
~ The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

James, P.D.
~ Children of Men

Jeffress, Robert
~ When Forgiveness Doesn’t Make Sense

Jenoff, Pam
~ Almost Home
~ A Hidden Affair
~ The Things We Cherished

Jio, Sarah
~ The Bungalow
~ The Violets of March

Kadohata, Cynthia
~ Kira-Kira
~ Weedflower

Kallos, Stephanie
~ Broken for You

Kamensky, Jane & Kepore, Jill
~ Blindspot

Kate, Lauren
~ Fallen
~ Torment

Keady, Water
~ The Dowry: A Novel of Ireland

Kearsley, Susanna
~ The Winter Sea

Kent, Kathleen
~ The Heretic’s Daughter

Kephart, Beth
~ The Heart is Not a Size
~ Undercover
~ You Are My Only

King, Laurie R.
~ The Game
~ God of the Hive
~ Justice Hall
~ The Language of Bees
~ Locked Rooms
~ A Monstrous Regiment of Women

Kingsbury, Karen
~ Divine

Kinsella, Sophie
~ Twenties Girl

Klause, Annette Curtis
~ Blood and Chocolate

Knisley, Lucy
~ French Milk

Korelitz, Jean Hanff
~ Admission

Kwok, Jean
~ Girl in Translation

Lahiri, Jhumpa
~ Unaccustomed Earth

L’Amour, Louis
~ Down the Long Hills
~ Education of a Wandering Man

Larson, Erik
~ In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin

Lauren, Jillian
~ Pretty

Lee, Janice Y.K.
~ The Piano Teacher

L’Engle, Madeleine
~ The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L’Engle

Leroy, Margaret
~ The Soldier’s Wife

Levine, James A.
~ The Blue Notebook

Lippman, Laura
~ I’d Know You Anywhere

Logsted, Greg
~ Alibi Junior High

Lore, Pittacus
~ I Am Number Four

Lowry, Lois
~ The Giver

Ludlum, Robert
~ The Bourne Identity

Maberry, Jonathan
~ Dust and Decay
~ Rot and Ruin

Maitland, Karen
~ Company of Liars

Marr, Melissa
~ Wicked Lovely

Marsden, John
~ Burning for Revenge
~ Darkness Be My Friend
~ The Dead of Night
~ A Killing Frost
~ The Night is for Hunting
~ The Other Side of Dawn
~ Tomorrow, When the War Began
~ While I Live

Martel, Yann
~ Life of Pi

Martin, Charles
~ Wrapped in Rain

McCafferty, Megan
~ Bumped

McCarthy, Cormac
~ The Road

McDonnell, Adrienne
~ The Doctor and the Diva

McNees, Kelly O’Connor
~ The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

McNish, Cliff
~ Savannah Grey

Meyer, Stephenie
~ The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Michalski, Liz
~ Evenfall

Miller, Jr., Walter M.
~ A Canticle for Leibowitz

Mitchard, Jacquelyn
~ The Deep End of the Ocean
~ No Time to Wave Goodbye
~ Second Nature
~ Twelve Times Blessed

Mitchell, David
~ Black Swan Green

Moore, Graham
~ A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

Moran, Johanna
~ The Wives of Henry Oades

Morton, Kate
~ The House at Riverton

Mullen, Thomas
~ The Last Town on Earth

Murnighan, Jack
~ Beowulf on the Beach

Mustian, Mark T.
~ The Gendarme

Ness, Patrick
~ The Knife of Never Letting Go

Newmark, Elle
~ The Book of Unholy Mischief

Newton, Heather
~ Under the Mercy Trees

Nicholls, David
~ One Day
~ Starter for Ten

Niffenegger, Audrey
~ The Time Traveler’s Wife

O’Brian, Patrick
~ Master and Commander

O’Brien, Robert C.
~ Z for Zachariah

O’Brien, Tim
~ The Things They Carried

Okorafor, Nnedi
~ Who Fears Death

Oliver, Mary
~ Evidence: Poems

Oliveira, Robin
~ My Name is Mary Sutter

Pak, Sang
~ Wait Until Twilight

Palma, Felix J.
~ The Map of Time

Paolini, Christopher
~ Eldest

Parkhurst, Carolyn
~ The Nobodies Album

Patterson, James and Ledwidge, Michael
~ The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Patterson, James and Rust, Ned
~ Daniel X: Watch the Skies

Pattison, Eliot
~ Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America

Pearson, Mary E.
~ The Adoration of Jenna Fox
~ The Fox Inheritance

Pelecanos, George
~ The Way Home

Perrotta, Tom
~ The Leftovers

Perry, Anne
~ No Graves As Yet
~ Shoulder the Sky

Petersen, David
~ Mouse Guard: Fall 1152

Peterson, A.S.
~ The Fiddler’s Gun

Peterson, Andrew
~ North! Or Be Eaten
~ On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

Pfeffer, Susan Beth
~ The Dead and the Gone
~ Life As We Knew It
~ This World We Live In

Picoult, Jodi
~ Perfect Match
~ Songs of the Humpback Whale

Pierson, DC
~ The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To

Pike, Aprilynne
~ Wings

Price, Jill
~ The Woman Who Can’t Forget

Prose, Francine
~ Reading Like a Writer

Quindlen, Anna
~ Every Last One

Racculia, Kate
~ This Must Be the Place

Rasmussen, Rebecca
~ The Bird Sisters

Rees, Celia
~ Pirates

Revis, Beth
~ Across the Universe

Rice, Thomas J.
~ Far From the Land: An Irish Memoir

Richmond, Michelle
~ A Year of Fog

Riordan, Rick
~ The Lightning Thief
~ Sea of Monsters

Robyn, Fiona
~ Thaw

Rosenberg, Liz
~ Home Repair

Rosoff, Meg
~ How I Live Now

Ryan, Carrie
~ The Dark and Hollow Places
~ The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Ryan, Terry
~ The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio

Sachar, Louis
~ Holes

Salak, Kira
~ The White Mary

Samson, Lisa
~ Embrace Me
~ Quaker Summer
~ Straight Up

Sandell, Laurie
~ The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir

Savage, Sam
~ Firmin

Scheeres, Julia
~ A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres

Schneider, Helga
~ Let Me Go

Schoenberger, Susan
~ A Watershed Year

Sheehan, Jacqueline
~ Now and Then

Shors, John
~ Beside a Burning Sea
~ Cross Currents
~ Dragon House
~ The Wishing Trees

Shortridge, Jennie
~ When She Flew

Shreve, Anita
~ The Pilot’s Wife

Shriver, Lionel
~ So Much For That
~ We Need to Talk About Kevin

Simonson, Helen
~ Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

Smith, Zadie
~ Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
~ On Beauty

Snyder, Maria V.
~ Inside Out
~ Outside In

Soli, Tatjana
~ The Lotus Eaters

Solomon, Lon
~ Brokenness: How God Redeems Pain and Suffering

Soye, Paul
~ The Boy in the Gap

Speare, Elizabeth
~ The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Stead, Rebecca
~ When You Reach Me

Stephens, John
~ The Emerald Atlas

Stevens, Taylor
~ The Informationist

Stiefvater, Maggie
~ Forever
~ Shiver

Stinson, Jim
~ Tassy Morgan’s Bluff

Stockett, Kathryn
~ The Help

Stringer, Helen
~ Spellbinder

Taylor, Andrew
~ The Anatomy of Ghosts

Taylor, Patrick
~ An Irish Country Christmas
~ An Irish Country Courtship
~ An Irish Country Doctor
~ An Irish Country Girl
~ An Irish Country Village

Thackeray, William Makepeace
~ Vanity Fair

Thompson, Craig
~ Blankets

Thornton, Rosy
~ Crossed Wires
~ Tapestry of Love

Todd, Charles
~ A Duty to the Dead

Tolstoy, Leo
~ Anna Karenina

Torres, Alissa
~ American Widow

Trigiani, Adriana
~ Brava, Valentine
~ Lucia, Lucia
~ Very Valentine

Trofimuk, Thomas
~ Waiting for Columbus

Trussoni, Danielle
~ Angelology

Unger, Lisa
~ Fragile

Vreeland, Susan
~ Life Studies: Stories
~ The Passion of Artemisia

Waldman, Ayelet
~ Red Hook Road

Walls, Jeanette
~ The Glass Castle

Walter, Jess
~ The Financial Lives of the Poets

Warner, Aron
~ Pariah, Vol. 1

Watrous, Malena
~ If You Follow Me

Webber, Heather
~ Truly, Madly

Weiner, Jennifer
~ Best Friends Forever

Westerfeld, Scott
~ Leviathan
~ Peeps
~ Pretties
~ Specials
~ The Last Days

Wharton, Edith
~ The Age of Innocence
~ Ethan Frome
~ The House of Mirth

White, Karen
~ The Beach Trees
~ Falling Home
~ On Folly Beach

Williams, Carol Lynch
~ The Chosen One

Willingham, Bill
~ Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile

Willis, Connie
~ Bellwether
~ To Say Nothing of the Dog

Winston, Lolly
~ Good Grief

Yancey, Philip
~ What Good is God? In Search of a Faith That Matters

Yolen, Jane
~ Take Joy: A Writer’s Guide to Loving the Craft
~ Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie, & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Yovanoff, Brenna
~ The Replacement

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
~ The Angel’s Game

Zuckoff, Mitchell
~ Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

Zusak, Markus
~ I Am the Messenger

Collections and Reference Books:

~ Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 edited by Dave Eggers
~ The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy
~ Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life – Selected and Introduced by Robert Hass