Reviews By Title (A-Z)

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2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino 
The 39 Clues (Books 1, 2, 3) by Rick Riordan

A
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
All Her Father's Guns by James Warner
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
All The Names by Jose Saramago
Almost True Confessions: Closet Sleuth Spills All by Jane O'Connor
American Dervish by Ayad Ahktar
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie
And the Soft Wind Blows by Lance Umenhofer
A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott
The Angel of Losses by Stephanie Feldman
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje 
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Aunty Lee's Delights: A Singaporean Mystery by Ovidia Yu
Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu 

B
Baby Lit: Alice in Wonderland by Jennifer Adams (illustrated by Alison Oliver)
Baby Lit: Jane Eyre by Jennifer Adams (illustrated by Alison Oliver)
BabyLit: Don Quixote: A Spanish Language Primer by Jennifer Adams (illustrated by Alison Oliver)
BabyLit: The Secret Garden: A Flowers Primer by Jennifer Adams (illustrated by Alison Oliver)
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Baker's Blues by Judith Ryan Hendricks
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
The Beauty Experiment: How I skipped lipstick, ditched fashion and faced the world without concealer and learned to love the read me by Phoebe Baker Hyde
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Belle Cora by Phillip Marguilies
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Black Boogiemen by Tallis Piaget
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blindness by Jose Saramago(reviewed with Seeing)
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (quick thoughts)
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (quick thoughts)
The Borrowers by Mary Norton 
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
The Bride Wore Size 12 by Meg Cabot
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Burning Embers by Hannah Fielding

C
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Captain Disaster by Del Shannon
Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner
Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed
The Car Thief by Theodore Weesner 
Casebook: A Novel by Mona Simpson
Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
The Christmas Carol Murders by Christopher Lord
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R.R. Martin
Cinder (Lunar Chronicles 1) by Marissa Meyer 
The Clock of Life by Nancy Klann-Moren
Close to the Heel by Norah McClintock  
Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz
The Constant Gardener by John Le Carré
A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Countdown City (The Last Policeman II) by Ben H. Winters 
Cross Country 101 by Dan Martinez
The Curiosity of School by Zander Sherman 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time by Mark Haddon


D
The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman
Daring: My Passages by Gail Sheehy
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
That Day In September (A personal remembrance of 9/11) by Artie Van Why
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
The Deception of Livvy Higgs by Donna Morrissey
Dedication by Nicola Krauss and Emma McLaughlin 
The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein by Antoinette May
The Dewey Decimal System of Love by Josephine Carr
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 
Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell
Doctor Who: Dark Horizons by Jenny T. Colgan
The Double by Jose Saramago
Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese
Dragonology - The Complete Book of Dragons (Ology World Series) by Ernest Drake
The Dunning Man: Stories by Kevin Fortuna 



The Earthquake Machine by Mary Pauline Lowry
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth  Gilbert
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Echoes by Danielle Steele
The Economics of Ego Surplus: A Novel of Economic Terrorism by Paul McDonnold
Edgar and The Tree House of Usher by Jennifer Adams
The Edwin Drood Murders by Christopher Lord
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto 
Elegy For Eddie by Jaqueline Winspear
Ermita by F. Sionil Jose
Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer


F
Family Trust by Amanda Brown
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson
Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
Find Momo: A Photography Book by Andrew Knapp
Find Momo Coast to Coast by Andrew Knapp
Fish Tank: A Fable for Our Times by Scott Bischke
Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.
Flings: Stories by Justin Taylor 
Flipping A Novel by Mary A. Ellenton
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Frankie Dupont and the Mystery of Enderby Manor by Julie Anne Grasso
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner:  [Friday 56 quote]
Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman:
French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
From My Heart to Yours by Michelle Zarrin
A Frightful Recipe (The Chatswood Spooks No. 1) by Notti Thistledore
The Full Ridiculous by Mark Lamprell
Full Wattage! by Liz Fletcher Brown


G
Gagamba: The Spider Man by F. Sionil Jose
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice & Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
The Ghosts of Nagasaki by Daniel Clausen
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson 
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech
Godiva by Nicole Galland
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Gold by Chris Cleave
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie

 
H
The Halliday's Maladies (The Chatswood Spooks No. 3) by Notti Thistledore
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz
The Heart Does Not Grow Back by Fred Venturini
The Help by Stockett, Kathryn 
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie 
Hollywood Buckaroo by Tracy DeBrincat
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, No. 2) by Ransom Riggs
Home is a Roof Over a Pig by Aminta Arrington
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
The House at Anzac Parade by Victor Kline
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix 
How to Eat by Nigella Lawson 
However Long the Night by Aimee Molloy
Hungry by Darlene Barnes

I
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Interworld by Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves:
In Leah's Wake by Terri Guiliano Long
Impatient with Desire by Gabrielle Burton
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
It's Nothing Personal by Sherry Gorman
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 
I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow by Jonathan Goldstein
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamotte 
The Isolation Door by Anish Majumdar
I Am Venus by Barbara Mujica
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
I Am the Messenger by Zusak, Markus (quick thoughts) 
I Am Bill Gates's Dog by Jeffrey Zygmont 

J
Jane Austen Cover to Cover by Margaret C. Sullivan
Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen by Naomi Moriyama  Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clark
Julia Child: A Life by Laura Shapiro
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Juliet's Nurse by Lois Leveen 


K
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth 
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult  
Keeping Score by Marc Brackett
Kevin's Point of View by Del Shannon  
Killer Image (An Allison Campbell Mystery) by Wendy Tyson

L
Laurel's Kitchen by Robertson, Laurel
The Last Camellia by Jio, Sarah
The Last Policeman by Winters, Ben H.
Last Train to Omaha by Whitely-Gillen, Ann
Leaf Storm by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Le Divorce by Johnson, Diane
Lemonade Revealed by Will Chluho
The Lieutenant's Whistle by Fred Stemme
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo


The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Little Book of Heartbreak by Laslocky, Meghan 
Lone Wolf by Picoult, Jodi
The Long Stitch Goodnight: An Embroidery Mystery by Lee, Amanda
Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman 
Loteria by Zambrano, Mario Alberto
A Lovely, Indecent Departure by Gilbert, Steven Lee
Lucia, Lucia by Trigiani, Adriana
Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman

M
Madame Picasso by Anne Girard
A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller 
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain by Adrianne Harun
Man V. Nature: Stories by Diane Cook 
The Mapmaker's War by Ronlyn Domingue
The Marriage Mistake by Jennifer Probst
The Mask Carver's Son by Alyson Richman
Matilda by Roald Dahl
May Day Eve and Other Stories by Nick Joaquin 
Mariposa Gang and Other Short Stories by Catherine Torres
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Mirror Crack'd by Agatha Christie
The Mirrored World by Debra Dean
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 
This Mobius Strip of Ifs  by Mathias Freese
Monsterology - The Complete Book of Fabulous Beasts (Ology World Series) by Ernest Drake
Morning Light by Holland Kane
Mountainfit by Meera Lee Sethi
Mrs. Noodlekugel by Daniel Pinkwater
Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
My Mother's Kitchen by Meera Ekkanath Klein
My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer


Nick and Tesla's High Voltage Danger Lab: A Mystery with Electromagnets, Burglar Alarms, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself by  “Science Bob” Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith
Night by Elie Wiesel 
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
No More Magic by Avi
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Nose by James Conaway
N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

O
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

P
A Place Called Here by Cecilia Ahern
The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap by Paulette Mahurin
Prime Cut by Dianne Mott Davidson
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Panem Companion by V. Arrow
Perla by Carolina De Robertis
Persephone's Torch: A Novel in Three Acts by freder
Plot Fiction like the Masters by Terry Bazes
Powers by John B. Olson
PS, I Love You by Ahern, Cecilia:
Pocket Forest by Karalius, Kimberly: 
Prodigal Summer by Kingsolver, Barbara:
The Prisoner of Heaven by Ruiz Zafon, Carlos
The Pearl by Steinbeck, John: 
The Pilot's Wife by Shreve, Anita:
The Perfume Collector by Tessaro, Kathleen: 
Pieta by Zink, William: 

Q
Queen of Babble (Book 1, Queen of Babble series) by Meg Cabot 
Queen of Babble in the Big City (Book 2, Queen of Babble series) by Meg Cabot 
Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Book 3, Queen of Babble series) by Meg Cabot

R
Rats by Robert Sullivan
Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets it Right by Dal LaMagna
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe [Friday 56 quote]
The Reader by Bernard Schlink  
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella 
Return to Cardamom by Julie Anne Grasso
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Rule of Four by Ian  Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Ruth by Marlene Lewis
Ru by Kim Thúy

S
Salted by Aaron Galvin
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Say Not What If  by Andrew Friedman
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Sea Lovers: Selected Stories  by Valerie Martin
The Secret Sense of Wildflower by Susan Gabriel
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Seeing by Jose Saramago (reviewed with Blindness)
Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope
The Shadow of the Sun by A.S. Byatt
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 
Shattered Illusions by Leigh Hershkovitch
Sheets and Ladders (The Chatswood Spooks No. 2) by Notti Thistledore
Shopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella
Shopgirl: A Novella by Steve Martin
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewyca 
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Sight Reading by Daphne Kalotay
Silk Armor by Claire Sydenham
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 
Skellig by David Almond
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Softies Only a Mother Could Love by Jess Redman 
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony di Terlizzi
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth
Sticky, Icky Booger Bugs by Sherry Frith
Strange Pilgrims b Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sula's Voyage by Catherine Torres

The Summer Solstice and Other Stories by Nick Joaquin
Swans are Fat Too by Michelle Granas  
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

T  
Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand by Justin Richards et al 
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Tears and Laughter by Khalil Gibran [Friday 56 quote]
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon 
The Tenko Club by Elizabeth NobleThis is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila
The Thing About Great White Sharks and Other Stories by Rebecca Adams Wright
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Three Blind Mice by Agatha Christie
Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten) - quick thoughts
Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro [Friday 56 quote]
The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity by Nick Bantock
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois

U
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
Uno Kudo Vol. 2 - Naked by Various Authors
Use All the Crayons! by Chris Rodell

V
The Venetian's Wife by Nick Bantock
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coehlo
Very Recent History by Choire Sicha 
Villa America by Liza Klaussmann
A Vision of Angels by Timothy Jay Smith 

W - X - Y 
The Warmest December by Bernice McFadden
The Weeping Empress by Sadie Forsythe
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve 
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

A Whisper in the Jungle by Robert Mwangi 
Whistling Women by Kelly Romo 
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
A Work in Progress by Brad Cotton 

Z
Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law by Michelle Granas
Zero K by Don DeLillo




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