Book Chatter

These are the books I’ve reviewed since 2008 (arranged by author). All links point to my review of the book. Enjoy!

A

Aarons, Leroy, Prayers For Bobby
Abbott, David, The Upright Piano Player
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Half of a Yellow Sun
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, Infidel
Allende, Isabel, The Sum of Our Days
Arntson, Steven, The Wikkeling
Asher, Jay, Thirteen Reasons Why (audio)
Atkinson, Kate, Case Histories
Auburn, David, Proof: A Play
Auster, Paul, Invisible
Auster, Paul, Sunset Park
Aziz, Michael, The Perfect 10 Diet

B

Barbery, Muriel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barclay, Linwood, Fear the Worst
Barry, Brunonia, The Lace Reader
Bauermeister, Erica, The School of Essential Ingredients
Beah, Ismael , A Long Way Gone
Bell, Alden (aka Joshua Gaylord), The Reapers are the Angels
Bender, Aimee, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Berner, David, Accidental Lessons
Bognanni, Peter, The House of Tomorrow
Bohjalian, Chris, The Night Strangers
Boyd, William, Ordinary Thunderstorms
Boyne, John, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Braunstein, Sarah, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Brookner, Anita, Strangers
Brown, Christopher F., The Art of Meaningful Living
Bruel, Nick, Bad Kitty
Buchanan, Cathy M., The Day the Falls Stood Still
Buckley, Carla, The Things That Keep Us Here
Burton, Gabrielle, Impatient with Desire
Byrd, Olivia deBelle, Miss Hildreth Wore Brown

C

Capote, Truman, The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Card, Orson Scott, Lost Boys
Carman, Patrick, Skeleton Creek
Carman, Patrick, Trackers
Carter, Mary, Sunnyside Blues
Chaon, Dan, Await Your Reply
Chaon, Dan, Stay Awake (short stories)
Child, Lauren, The Princess and the Pea
Child, Lincoln & Preston, Douglas, Cemetery Dance
Child, Lincoln & Preston, Douglas, Fever Dream
Clayborn, Hannah, Historic Photos of the Chinese in California
Clayton, Meg Waite, The Four Ms. Bradwells
Clinch, Jon, Finn
Clinch, Jon, Kings of the Earth
Cline, Ernest, Ready Player One
Collins, Suzanne, Catching Fire (Book #2)
Collins, Suzanne, Mockingjay (Book #3)
Collins, Suzanne, The Hunger Games (Book #1)
Cooper, Dennis, Ugly Man
Corrigan, Kelly, The Middle Place 
Cox, Michael, The Meaning of Night: A Confession
Cronin, Justin, The Passage 

D

Dahme, Joanne, Creepers
Dean, Debra, The Madonnas of Leningrad
Dekker, Ted, BoneMan’s Daughters  (audio)
Desmond, David, The Misadventures of Oliver Booth
DeStefano, Lauren, Wither
Diffenbaugh, Vanessa, The Language of Flowers
Donoghue, Emma, Room
Du Maurier, Daphne, My Cousin Rachel
Durrow, Heidi, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

E

Easton, Robin, Naked in Eden
Ebershoff, David, The Danish Girl
Edwards, Kim, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Egan, Jennifer, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Erskine, Kathryn, Mockingbird
Erskine, Kathryn, The Absolute Value of Mike
Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex
Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Marriage Plot

F

Ferguson, Sarah, Tea For Ruby
Flanagan, Richard, The Unknown Terrorist
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary
Forman, Gayle, If I Stay
Foulds, Adam, The Quickening Maze
Frazier, Charles, Nightwoods
French, Tana, In The Woods

G

Garner, Helen, The Spare Room
Gartenstein, Devra, Local Bounty (cookbook)
Geye, Peter, Safe from the Sea 
Goolrick, Robert, A Reliable Wife
Gora, Susannah, You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried
Gordon-Levitt, Joseph, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
Grann, David, The Lost City of Z
Gwin, Minrose, The Queen of Palmyra

H

Hadley, Tessa, The London Train
Harding, Paul, Tinkers
Hendricks, Judith, The Laws of Harmony
Henkin, Joshua, Matrimony
Hillenbrand, Laura, Unbroken
Hislop, Victoria, The Return
Holmqvist, Ninni, The Unit
Hornby, Steven, Secrets of a Christmas Box

I

Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John, Last Night in Twisted River
Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go

J

Jacobsen, Roy, Child Wonder
Jeckyll, Agnes, Kitchen Essays
Jio, Sarah, The Bungalow
Jio, Sarah, The Violets of March
Johns, Pamela Sheldon, Cucina Povera (cookbook)
Jones, Lloyd, Mister Pip

K

Kalogridis, Jeanne, I, Mona Lisa
Kasischke, Laura, In a Perfect World
Kasischke, Laura, The Raising
Keaton, Diane, Then Again
King, Stephen, 11/22/63
King, Stephen, Duma Key
King, Stephen, Under the Dome
King, Stephen, The Stand  (not quite a review, more of a mention)
Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Kingsolver, Barbara, Prodigal Summer
Kinney, Jeff , Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Klutz, Paper Purses
Kostova, Elizabeth, The Swan Thieves  (audio)
Krauss, Nicole, Great House

L

Larson, Erik, Thunderstruck
Larsson, Stieg, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Book #3)
Larsson, Stieg, The Girl Who Played with Fire (Book #2)
Larsson, Stieg, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Book #1)
Lessing, Doris, The Cleft
Levine, James A., The Blue Notebook
Lipman, Elinor, The Inn at Lake Devine
Lippman, Laura, I’d Know You Anywhere
Lopez, Steve, The Soloist
Lovelace, Maud Hart, Besty-Tacy
Lustbader, Virginia, Stone Creek

M

MacKinnon, Amy, Tethered
Maloney, Beth, Saving Sammy
Marsot, Vanina, Foreign Tongue
Martel, Yann, Beatrice and Virgil
Martin, Steve, Born Standing Up
Mawer, Simon, The Glass Room
Maynard, Joyce, Labor Day
McCann, Colum, Let The Great World Spin
McCarthy, Tom, C
McEwan, Ian, Atonement
McEwan, Ian, On Chesil Beach
McNees, Kelly O’Connor, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
Meister, Ellen, The Other Life
Melville, Herman, Moby Dick  (link is to read-along post/s)
Menge, Dawn, Queen Vernita’s Visitors
Meyer, Stephenie, New Moon
Meyer, Stephenie, Twilight
Meyers, Randy Susan, The Murderer’s Daughters
Michel, Delaune, The Safety of Secrets
Miller, Walter M., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Min, Anchee, Pearl of China
Mitchell, David, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Moore, Liz, Heft
Morgenstern, Erin, The Night Circus
Moriarty, Laura, The Rest of Her Life
Morrison, Toni, A Mercy
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth
Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84
Murakami, Haruki, After Dark
Murakami, Haruki, After the Quake
Murakami, Haruki, Dance, Dance, Dance
Murakami, Haruki, Kafka on the Shore
Murakami, Haruki, The Elephant Vanishes
Murakami, Haruki, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Muth, Jon J., Zen Shorts
Myron, Vicki, Dewey

N

Nadzam, Bonnie, Lamb
Nesbø, Jo, The Devil’s Star
Nesbø, Jo, The Snowman
Niffenegger, Audrey, Her Fearful Symmetry
Noble, Elizabeth, Things I Want My Daughters To Know
Norman, Matthew, Domestic Violets

O

Obama, Barack, Dreams From My Father
O’Connor, Jane, Let’s Get Fancy Together!
Oliver, Lauren, Before I Fall
O’Nan, Stewart, Emily Alone
O’Nan, Stewart, The Odds
O’Nan, Stewart, Wish You Were Here
Ondaatje, Michael, The Cat’s Table
O’Neil, Joseph, Netherland
Oristano, Mark, A Sportscaster’s Guide to Watching Football
Orwell, George, Coming up for Air

P

Palma, Felix J., The Map of Time
Patchett, Ann, Run
Pearl Matthew, The Last Dickens
Pearl, Matthew, The Technologists
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen, Wench
Perrotta, Tom, The Leftovers
Pessl, Marisha, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Pfeffer, Susan Beth, Life As We Knew It (Book #1)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth, The Dead and the Gone (Book #2)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth, This World We Live In (Book #3)
Picoult, Jodi, Nineteen Minutes
Preston, Douglas & Child, Lincoln, Cemetery Dance
Preston, Douglas & Child, Lincoln, Fever Dream
Prose, Francine, Goldengrove
Puchner, Eric, Model Home

Q

R

Rand, Ayn, Anthem
Raymond, Midge, Forgetting English
Revis, Beth, Across the Universe
Rigler, Laurie Viera, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Rigler, Laurie Viera, Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
Robbins, Michael, Alien vs. Predator
Rogan, Charlotte, The Lifeboat
Rosenblatt, Roger, Making Toast
Rossiter, Nan, The Gin & Chowder Club
Rowell, David, The Train of Small Mercies
Russell, Beth Nonte, Forever Lily
Russel, Karen, Swamplandia!
Russo, Richard, Bridge of Sighs

S

SaFranko, Mark, Hating Olivia
Salzman, Mark, True Notebooks
Sathe, Michelle, Pit Stops
Schlink, Bernhard, Homecoming
Sedaris, David, Holidays On Ice
Setiawan, Erick, Of Bees and Mist
Shaffer & Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shortridge, Jennie, Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe
Shortridge, Jennie, When She Flew
Shriver, Lionel, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Simmons, Dan, Drood
Simmons, Dan, The Terror
Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Shukert, Rachel, Everything is Going to Be Great
Softer, Dalia, The Septembers of Shiraz
Spechler, Diana, Who By Fire
Stein, Garth, Raven Stole the Moon
Stein, Garth, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Stockett, Kathryn, The Help
Stone, Michel, The Iguana Tree
Stracher, Cameron, The Water Wars
Suskind, Patrick, Perfume

T

Tademy, Lalita, Cane River
Torres, Justin, We the Animals
Trigiani, Adriana, Very Valentine
Tucker, Lisa, The Winters in Bloom

U

Umrigar, Thrity, The Space Between Us 
Umrigar, Thrity, The Weight of Heaven
Unferth, Deb Olin, Vacation
Ung, Loung, First They Killed My Father

V

Vaillant, John, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance & Survival
Van Booy, Simon, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Van den Berg, Laura, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
Vanderbes, Jennifer, Strangers at the Feast
Vann, David, Caribou Island
Vann, David, Legend of a Suicide
Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone
Vernoff, Krista & Ferguson, Az, The Game On Diet

W

Walls, Jeanette, The Glass Castle
Waters, Sarah, The Little Stranger
Watrous, Malena, If You Follow Me
Weisgarber, Ann, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome
Whipple, Dorothy, Someone at a Distance
White, Karen, The House on Tradd Street
Williams, Leslie Walker, The Prudent Mariner
Winter, Kathleen, Annabel
Wolitzer, Meg, The Uncoupling

X

Y

Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road
Youn, Anthony, In Stitches
Yu, Charles, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Yunus, Muhammed, Banker to the Poor

Z

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz, The Angel’s Game (Book #2)
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz, The Shadow of the Wind (Book #1)