Book Chatter

Here, you’ll find an A-Z list of all the books I’ve reviewed since 2008 (when I started  my blog). Links take you directly to my review. If you’d like to see the books I’ve reviewed for a particular year, check out the Reviews tab.

Numeric Titles

11/22/63 by Stephen King
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

A

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Water M. Miller
A Long Way Gone by Ismael Beah
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
A Sportscaster’s Guide to Watching Football by Mark Oristano
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Accidental Lessons by David W. Berner
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

B

Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
Banker to the Poor by Muhammed Yunus
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Besty-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
BoneMan’s Daughters by Ted Dekker (audio)
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

C

C by Tom McCarthy
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Caribou Island by David Vann
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen
Coming up for Air by George Orwell
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Creepers by Joanne Dahme
Cucina Povera by Pamela Sheldon Johns
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

D

Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
Dewey by Vicki Myron
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Drood by Dan Simmons
Duma Key by Stephen King

E

Eleven Twenty-Two Sixty-Three by Stephen King
Emily Alone by Stewart O’Nan
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Everything is Going to Be Great by Rachel Shukert

F

Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
Fever Dream by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Finn by Jon Clinch
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Foreign Tongue by Vanina Marsot
Forever Lily by Beth Nonte Russell
Forgetting English by Midge Raymond

G

Goldengrove by Francine Prose
Great House by Nicole Krauss

H

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hating Olivia by Mark SaFranko
Heft by Liz Moore
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Historic Photos of the Chinese in California by Hannah Clayborn (text and captions)
Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

I

I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous
I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis
Impatient with Desire by Gabrielle Burton
In a Perfect World by Laura Kasischke
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In Stitches by Anthony Youn, M.D.
In The Woods by Tana French
Invisible by Paul Auster

J

K

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jeckyll

L

Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Let’s Get Fancy Together! by Jane O’Connor
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Local Bounty by Devra Gartenstein
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe by Jennie Shortridge

M

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Miss Hildreth Wore Brown by Olivia deBelle Byrd
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (link is to read-along post/s)
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Model Home by Eric Puchner
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier

N

Naked in Eden by Robin Easton
Netherland by Joseph O’Neil
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

O

Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
One Q Eighty Four by Haruki Murakami
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd

P

Paper Purses by Klutz
Pearl of China by Anchee Min
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Pit Stops by Michelle Sathe
Prayers For Bobby by Leroy Aarons
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Proof: A Play by David Auburn

Q

Queen Vernita’s Visitors by Dawn Menge

R

Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Room by Emma Donoghue
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Run by Ann Patchett

S

Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
Saving Sammy by Beth Maloney
Secrets of a Christmas Box by Steven Hornby
Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Stay Awake by Dan Chaon
Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader
Strangers by Anita Brookner
Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
Sunnyside Blues by Mary Carter
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

T

Tea For Ruby by Sarah Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
Tethered by Amy MacKinnon
The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Art of Meaningful Living by Christopher F. Brown
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Bungalow by Sarah Jio
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
The Cleft Doris Lessing
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy M. Buchanan
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton
The Game On Diet by Krista Vernoff and Az Ferguson
The Gin & Chowder Club by Nan Rossiter
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
The Laws of Harmony by Judith R. Hendricks
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
The Misadventures of Oliver Booth by David Desmond
The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
Then Again (audio) by Diane Keaton
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
The Odds by Stewart O’Nan
The Other Life by Ellen Meister
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Perfect 10 Diet by Dr. Michael Aziz
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
The Princess and the Pea by Lauren Child
The Prudent Mariner by Leslie Walker Williams
The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
The Raising by Laura Kasischke
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell (aka Joshua Gaylord)
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
The Return by Victoria Hislop
The Safety of Secrets by Delaune Michel
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Snowman by Joe Nesbø
The Soloist by Steve Lopez
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Stand by Stephen King (not quite a review, more of a mention)
The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende
The Swan Thieves  (audio) by Elizabeth Kostova
The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance & Survival by John Vaillant
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
The Wikkeling by Steven Arntson
The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Things I Want My Daughters To Know by Elizabeth Noble
Thirteen Reasons Why (audio) by Jay Asher
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Trackers by Patrick Carman
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

U

Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Under the Dome by Stephen King

V

Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani

W

We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
We the Animals by Justin Torres
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
When She Flew by Jennie Shortridge
Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
Wish You Were Here by Stewart O’Nan
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

X

Y

You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried by Susannah Gora

Z

Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth