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Book Reviews

Here you’ll find a listing of the books that I have reviewed on this blog. The list is divided by year with the most recent on top.

2009 Reviews

Goldengrove by Francine Prose
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Secrets of a Christmas Box by Steven Hornby
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy M. Buchanan
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Fear The Worst by Linwood Barclay
Historic Photos of the Chinese in California by Hannah Clayborn (text and captions)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Game On Diet by Krista Vernoff and Az Ferguson
Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
BoneMan’s Daughters by Ted Dekker (Audio)
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Sunnyside Blues by Mary Carter
Foreign Tongue by Vanina Marsot
Prayers For Bobby by Leroy Aarons
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe by Jennie Shortridge
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Prudent Mariner by Leslie Walker Williams
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Drood by Dan Simmons
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
The Laws of Harmony by Judith R. Hendricks
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende
Things I Want My Daughters To Know by Elizabeth Noble
Let’s Get Fancy Together! by Jane O’Connor
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman

2008 Reviews

Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Tea For Ruby by Sarah Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
The Soloist by Steve Lopez
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
Paper Purses by Klutz
Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris
Forever Lily by Beth Nonte Russell
Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
The Misadventures of Oliver Booth by David Desmond
Dewey by Vicki Myron
In The Woods by Tana French
Queen Vernita’s Visitors by Dawn Menge
Creepers by Joanne Dahme
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Tethered by Amy MacKinnon
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
Run by Ann Patchett
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader
The Safety of Secrets by Delaune Michel
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
A Long Way Gone by Ismael Beah
The Cleft Doris Lessing
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis

Books Read in 2008

This is a list of the books read in 2008. Click on the link to read my review.

Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Tea For Ruby by Sarah Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
The Soloist by Steve Lopez
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
Paper Purses by Klutz
Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris
Forever Lily by Beth Nonte Russell
Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
The Misadventures of Oliver Booth by David Desmond
Dewey by Vicki Myron
In The Woods by Tana French
Queen Vernita’s Visitors by Dawn Menge
Creepers by Joanne Dahme
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Tethered by Amy MacKinnon
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
Run by Ann Patchett
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader
The Safety of Secrets by Delaune Michel
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
A Long Way Gone by Ismael Beah
The Cleft Doris Lessing
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis