Reviews A-Z (Author)

A

A Girl Made of Dust- Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

For One More Day- Mitch Alborn

The Time Keeper- Mitch Alborn

The Cure for Death by Lightening- Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Life After Life- Kate Atkinson

Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

B

The Elegance of the Hedgehog- Muriel Barberry

Double Vision- Pat Barker

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (see S)

A Long, Long Way- Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture- Sebastian Barry

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty- Sebastian Barry

Against My Will- Benjamin Berkley

The Partisan’s Daughter- Louis de Bernieres

The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts (1)-Louis dr Bernieres

The Pearl Savage (1)- Tamara Rose Blodgett

Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë

Kerb Crawling- Glenn Bryant

Reservation Road (1)- John Burnham Schwartz

C

Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll

The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky (film review)

Dragon’s Pupils: The Sword Guest- Martin Chu Shui

The Rotter’s Club- Johnathan Coe

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim- Jonathon Coe

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares- David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

West End Girls- Jenny Colgan

The Hunger Games (1)- Suzanne Collins (film review)

Catching Fire (2)- Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay (3)- Suzanne Collins

Flesh and Grass- Libby Cone

War on the Margins- Libby Cone

D

The Woodcutter- Kate Danley

Room- Emma Donoghue

The Siege- Helen Dunmore

Last Train From Liguria- Christine Dwyer Hickey

E

The 19th Wife- David Ebershoff

Half Blood Blues- Esi Edugyan

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter- Kim Edwards

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers

Mockingbird- Kathryn Erskien

Malinche- Laura Esquivel

Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides

F

The Crimson Petal and the White- Michel Faber

The Fatal Englishman- Sebastian Faulkes

A Week in December- Sebastian Faulkes

A Possible Life- Sebastian Faulks

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination-Helen Fielding

Therapy- Sebastian Fitzek

The Great Gatsby- F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Jane Austen Book Club- Karen Joy Fowler

The Big Over Easy (1)- Jasper Fforde

The Fourth Bear (2)- Jasper Fforde

Lost in a Good Book (2)- Jasper Fforde

The Well of Lost Plots (3)- Jasper Fforde

Something Rotten (4)- Jasper Fforde

First Among Sequels (5)- Jasper Fforde

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (6)- Jasper Fforde

The Woman Who Died a Lot (7)- Jasper Fforde

Shades of Grey- Jasper Fforde

The Truth About Us- Dalene Flannigan

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet- Jamie Ford

If I Stay- Gayle Forman

The Etymologicon- Mark Forsyth

The Horologicon- Mark Forsyth

Beneath the Shadows- Sara Foster

Skios- Michael Frayn

A Million Little Pieces- James Frey

Moab is my Washpot- Stephen Fry

The Fry Chronicles- Stephen Fry

The Liar- Stephen Fry

G

The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman

Still Alice- Lisa Genova

Emotional Geology- Linda Gillard

House of Silence- Linda Gillard

A Lifetime Burning- Linda Gillard

Star Gazing- Linda Gillard

Untying the Knot- Linda Gillard

City of Women- David Gillham

Dave Gorman Vs The Rest of The World- Dave Gorman

Bears, Recycling and Confusing Time Paradoxes- Greg X Graves

The Confessions of Max Tivoli- Andrew Sean Greer

Grimm’s Fairytales- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

The Weight of Slence- Heather Gudenkauf

One Breath Away- Heather Gudenkauf

Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen (film review)

H

Dead Until Dark (1)- Charlaine Harris

Living Dead in Dallas (2)- Charlaine Harris

Club Dead (3)- Charlaine Harris

Dead to the World (4)- Charlaine Harris

Dead as a Doornail (5)- Charlaine Harris

Definitely Dead (6)- Charlaine Harris

All Together Dead (7)- Charlaine Harris

From Dead to Worse (8)- Charlaine Harris

Dead and Gone (9)- Charlaine Harris

Dead in the Family (10)- Charlaine Harris

Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (3)- Joanne Harris

The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (Film review: Easy A)

How Winning the Lottery Changed my Life- Sandra Hayes

27 (Twenty-Seven): Six Friends, One Year- R.J. Heald

The Mine (1)- John A. Heldt

The Show (3)- John A. Heldt

The Whipping Club- Deborah Henry

Blue Diary- Alice Hoffman

The Third Angel- Alice Hoffman

The Unit- Ninni Holmqvist

About a Boy- Nick Hornby

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree- Nick Hornby

High Fidelity- Nick Hornby (film review)

A Long Way Down- Nick Hornby

The Hunchback of NotreDame- Victor Hugo

I

The Snow Child- Eowyn Ivey

J

K

The Report- Jessica Francis Kane

Ec-o-nom-ics: A Simple Twist on Normalcy- Kersten L. Kelly

Pigeon English- Stephen Kelman

I Fought the Law- Dan Kieran

The Chocolate Run- Dorothy Koomson

Surviving the Angel of Death- Eva Moses Kor

The Swan Thieves- Elizabeth Kostova

Life on the Refrigerator Door- Alice Kuipers

A Matter of Death and Life- Andrey Kurkov

The President’s Last Love- Andrey Kurkov

L

The Summer of the Dancing Bear- Bianca Lakoseljac

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1)- Stieg Larson

The Girl Who Played with Fire (2)- Stieg Larson

The Specimen- Martha Lea

Crazy- Benjamin Lebert

The Piano Teacher- Janice Y.K. Lee

The Child Who- Simon Lelic

The Lover’s Dictionary- David Levithan

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares- David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

This is Your Brain on Music- Daniel Levitin

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (1)- Jeff Lindsay

I’d Know You Anywhere/Don’t Look Back- Laura Lippman

Garden of Stones- Sophie Littleford

I am Number Four (1)- Pittacus Lore (film review)

M

The Economics of Ego Surplus- Paul MacDonnold

Wicked- Gregory Maguire

The Complication of Sisters- Katherine Mariaca-Sullivan

The Last 100 Days- Patrick McGuinness

Barefoot Girls- Tara McTiernan

The Full Cupboard of Life- Alexander McCall Smith

Beauty (a Re-telling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast)- Robin McKinely

New Moon (2)- Stephanie Meyer

Eclipse (3)- Stephanie Meyer

Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell

5 Reasons to Leave a Lover- Carolyn Moncel

How to be a Woman- Caitlin Moran

What Alice Forgot- Liane Moriarty

The Distant Hours- Kate Morton

The House at Riverton- Kate Morton

The Secret Keeper- Kate Morton

Night Waking- Sarah Moss

1Q84 (Book 1)- Haruki Murakami

A Wild Sheep Chase- Haruki Murakami

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore- Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood- Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart- Haruki Murakami

N

The Book of Unholy Mischief- Elle Newmark

One Day- David Nicholls

Things I want my Daughters to Know- Elizabeth Noble

All She Ever Wanted- Rosalind Noonan

O

What was Lost- Catherine O’Flynn

The News Where You Are- Catherine O’Flynn

Monsoon Season- Katie O’Rouke

P

House Rules- Jodi Picoult

Handle with Care- Jodi Picoult

Harvesting the Heart- Jodi Picoult

Lone Wolf- Jodi Picoult

Picture Perfect- Jodi Picoult

Sing You Home- Jodi Picoult

Songs of the Humpback Whale- Jodi Picoult

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

Irv’s Odyssey: Lost in a Looking Glass (1)- Irving H Podolsky

Irv’s Odyssey: To the Light and Beyond (2)- Irving H. Podolsky

Irv’s Odyssey: Seeking the Way Home (3)- Irving H. Podolsky

Life in Pieces- Stephen Profeta

Grimm Tales: For the Young and Old- Philip Pullman

Q

The QI Book of the Dead

The QI Book of General Ignorance

1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Diary of a Married Call Girl (2)- Tracy Quan

Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl (3)- Tracy Quan

R

Ignorance- Michèle Roberts

Deep Powder- Dirk Robertson

The Testament of  Jessie Lamb- Jane Rogers

My Dead Friend Sarah- Peter Rosch

The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Robin S. Rosenberg

Sarah’s Key- Tatiana de Rosnay

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1)- J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2)- J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3)- J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4)- J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (5)- J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (6)- J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7)- JK Rowling (film review 1, 2)

Tales of Beedle the Bard- J.K. Rowling

Midnight’s Children- Salman Rushdie

S

Magyk (1)- Angie Sage

Flyte (2)- Angie Sage

Physik (3)- Angie Sage

Queste (4)- Angie Sage

Syren (5)- Angie Sage

Darke (6)- Angie Sage

The Path to the Lake- Susan Sallis

Everything is Illuminated- Johnathan Safran Foer

Random Acts of Heroic Love- Danny Scheinmann

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Beauty- Raphael Shelbourne

American Wife- Curtis Sittenfeld

Alison Wonderland- Helen Smith

Sick- Jen Smith

Brooklyn Bites: Truffle Fries and a Little Taste of Chocolate (1)- Scott Stabille 

Brooklyn Bites: Meatball Sandwich and Cream Crumb (2)- Scott Stabile

Brooklyn Bites: A Pickle and Carrot Cake (3)- Scott Stabile

The Help- Kathryn Stockett (film review)

The Earth Hums in B Flat- Mari Strachan

T

The In-Between Woman- Rabindranath Tagore

The Baby Game- James A. Thomas and Vidya Samson

Bright Young Things- Scarlett Thomas

Going Out- Scarlett Thomas

Our Tragic Universe- Scarlett Thomas

Pop Co.- Scarlett Thomas

The Potter’s House- Rosie Thomas

Sunrise- Rosie Thomas

Pegasus Falling (1)- William E. Thomas

Ninepins- Rosy Thornton

A Fraction of the Whole- Steve Toltz

Genus- Jonathan Trigell

Rachel Ray- Anthony Trollope

U

V

Lucy in the Sky- John Vorhaus

W

The Hare with the Amber Eyes- Edmund de Waal

Big Fish- Daniel Wallace

Charlotte Street- Danny Wallace

Friends Like These- Danny Wallace

Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism- Natasha Walter

Head Trip- Jeff Warren

The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde

When God was a Rabbit- Sarah Winman

Lost and Found- Tom Winter

December- Elizabeth H. Winthrop

Proust and the Squid- Mary Ann Wolf

X

Y

Z

The Lucifer Effect- Phillip Zimbardo