Book Review Archives

By Title:

*The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak
*Best Intentions, by Emily Listfield
*Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson
The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
Blood Orange, by Drusilla Campbell
The Book of Flying, by Keith Miller
The Bright Side of Disaster, by Katherine Center
By Bread Alone, by Sarah-Kate Lynch
*By the Rivers of Brooklyn, by Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
*The Cinderella Pact, by Sarah Strohmeyer
City of Glass, by Paul Auster
Company, by Max Barry
The Constant Gardener, by John LeCarre
The Crimson Petal and the White, by Michel Faber
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
Daughter of the Saints, by Dorothy Allred Solomon
The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger
Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje
Dream When You're Feeling Blue, by Elizabeth Berg
*The Effects of Light, by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Falling Boy, by Alison McGhee
Falling Man, by Don DeLillo
Finding Chance, by Linda Benson
*The First Wives Club, by Olivia Goldsmith
Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Geographer's Library, by Jon Fasman
Gerald's Game, by Stephen King
*Girl With a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
History Lesson for Girls, by Aurelie Sheeshan
Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
*Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
*The House on Tradd Street, by Karen White
How to Be Lost, by Amanda Eyre Ward
*The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Laughing All the Way, by Pat Detmer
Leaving the Saints, by Martha Beck
*A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
The Lost Hours, by Karen White
*The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
March, by Geraldine Brooks
*Marley & Me, by Josh Grogan
The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd
The Midwife's Tale, by Gretchen Moran Laskas
The Memoir Club, by Laura Kalpakian
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
*My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
*Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Night Journal, by Elizabeth Crook
*No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
*Plain Truth, by Jodi Picoult
*The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
*The Reincarnationist, by M. J. Rose
*Running With Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs
Sarah, by Marek Halter
*The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kid
*Shadow Baby, by Alison McGhee
*The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, by Sarah Strohmeyer
Some Writers Deserve to Starve, by Elaura Niles
*Something About Her, by Jeannie Ruesch
*Starting Out Sideways,
by Mary E. Mitchell
*Tender Graces, by Kathryn Magendie
*The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

*Torch, by Cheryl Strayed
Tran-Sister Radio, by Chris Bohjalian
*Triangle: A Novel by Katherine Weber
Triptych, by Karin Slaughter
The Used World, by Haven Kimmel
*The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson, by Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
*A Visit From the Footbinder, by Emily Prager
*Waiting, by Ha Jin
Was It Beautiful? by Alison McGhee
*Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
We Are All Welcome Here, by Elizabeth Berg
What Would Jackie Do? by Shelly Branch and Sue Callaway
The Whole World Over, by Julia Glass
*Write Away, by Elizabeth George
Writer's Guide to Character Traits, by Linda N. Edelstein
*The Year of Fog, by Michelle Richmond

By Author:

Auster, Paul (City of Glass)
Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (Holy Blood, Holy Grail)
Barry, Max (Company)
Beck, Martha (Leaving the Saints)
Benson, Linda (Finding Chance)
Berg, Elizabeth (We Are All Welcome Here, Dream When You're Feeling Blue)
Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda (*The Effects of Light)
Bohjalian, Chris (Tran-Sister Radio)
Branch, Shelly and Sue Callaway (What Would Jackie Do?)
Brooks, Geraldine (March)
Burroughs, Augusten (*Running With Scissors)
Callaway, Sue and Shelly Branch (What Would Jackie Do?)
Campbell, Drusilla (Blood Orange)
Center, Katherine (The Bright Side of Disaster)
Chevalier, Tracy (*Girl With a Pearl Earring)
Crook, Elizabeth (The Night Journal)
Dean, Debra (*The Madonnas of Leningrad)
DeLillo, Don (Falling Man)
Detmer, Pat (Laughing All the Way)
Dubner, Stephen J. and Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics)
Dunant, Sarah (The Birth of Venus)
Edelstein, Linda N. (Writer's Guide to Character Traits)
Edwards, Kim (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)
Faber, Michel (The Crimson Petal and the White)
Fasman, Jon (The Geographer's Library)
Ford, Jamie (*Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet)
George, Elizaketh (*Write Away)
Glass, Julia (The Whole World Over)
Goldsmith, Olivia (*The First Wives Club)
Grogan, Josh (*Marley & Me)
Gruen, Sara (*Water for Elephants)
Haddon, Mark (*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
Halter, Marek (Sarah)
Hornby, Nick (*A Long Way Down)
Hosseini, Khaled (*The Kite Runner)
Ishiguro, Kazuo (*Never Let Me Go)
Jackson, Joshilyn (*Between, Georgia)
Jin, Ha (*Waiting)
Kalpakian, Laura (The Memoir Club)xKidd, Sue Monk (*The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair)
Kimmel, Haven (The Used World)
King, Stephen (Gerald's Game)
Laskas, Gretchen Moran (The Midwife's Tale)
LeCarre, John (
The Constant Gardener)
Leigh, Richard, Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln (Holy Blood, Holy Grail)
Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics)
Lincoln, Henry, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh (Holy Blood, Holy Grail)
Listfield, Emily (*Best Intentions)
Lynch, Sarah-Kate (By Bread Alone)
Magendie, Kathryn (*Tender Graces)
Miller, Keith (The Book of Flying)
Mitchell, Mary E. (*Starting Out Sideways)
Morgan-Cole, Trudy J (*The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson, *By the Rivers of Brooklyn)
McGhee, Alison (*Shadow Baby, Was It Beautiful?, Falling Boy)
Niffenegger, Audrey (*The Time Traveler's Wife)
Niles, Elaura (
Some Writers Deserve to Starve)
Ondaatje, Michael (Divisadero)
Picoult, Jodi (*My Sister's Keeper, *Plain Truth)
Prager, Emily (*A Visit From the Footbinder)
Priest, Christopher (*The Prestige)
Richmond, Michelle (*The Year of Fog, *No One You Know)
Rose, M. J. (*The Reincarnationist)
Rueche, Jeannie (*Something About Her)
Shafak, Elif (*The Bastard of Istanbul)
Sheeshan, Aurelie ( History Lesson for Girls)
Slaughter, Karin (Triptych)
Smith, Alexander McCall (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
Solomon, Dorothy Allred (
Daughter of the Saints)
Strayed, Cheryl (*Torch)
Strohmeyer, Sarah (*The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, *The Cinderella Pact)
Ward, Amanda Eyre (How to Be Lost)
Weber, Katherine (*Triangle: A Novel)
Weisberger, Lauren (The Devil Wears Prada)
White, Karen (The Lost Hours, *The House on Tradd Street)

*Recommended book