Book Reviews (sorted alphabetically by author's last name)

A - B

Abeel, Erica: Conscience Point (3/5)

Adiga, Aravind: Between the Assassinations (3.5/5), The White Tiger (4/5)

Adrian, Chris: A Better Angel (4/5)

Ahmed, Qanta: In the Land of Invisible Women (3.5/5)

Al-Shaykh, Hanan: The Locust and the Bird (2.5/5)

Anam, Tahmima: A Golden Age (4/5)

Assis, Machado de: Dom Casmurro (4/5)

Auster, Paul: Man in the Dark (3.5/5)

Barbery, Muriel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (3.5/5), Gourmet Rhapsody (2.5/5)

Barker, Nicola: Darkmans (3/5)

Barnes, Kim: A Country Called Home (4.5/5)

Barry, Sebastian: The Secret Scripture (4/5)

Barth, John: The Development (3.5/5)

Benatar, Stephen: Wish Her Safe at Home (4/5)

Berger, John: From A to X (3/5)

Blevins, Christine: Midwife of the Blue Ridge (2.5/5)

Bolaño, Roberto: Monsieur Pain (3.5/5), The Savage Detectives (2/5)

Bowden, Charles: Some of the Dead are Still Breathing (3/5)

Brennert, Alan: Honolulu (3/5)

Brooks, Geraldine: People of the Book (3.5/5)

Bunn, David: Gold of Kings (3/5)

C - D

Canin, Ethan: America America (4/5)

Carey, Peter: His Illegal Self (3/5), Parrot and Olivier in America (4.5/5), Theft (4.5/5)

Cates, David Allan: Freeman Walker (3.5/5)

Chabon, Michael: Gentlemen of the Road (2/5)

Chaon, Dan: Await Your Reply (4/5)

Chessex, Jacques: The Vampire of Ropraz (3.5/5)

Child, Julia: My Life in France (4/5)

Claridge, Laura: Emily Post (3.5/5)

Cleave, Chris: Little Bee (5/5)

Coetzee, J.M.: Diary of a Bad Year (4.5/5)

Coles, Robert: Handing One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection (4/5)

Cone, Libby: War on the Margins (3/5)

Coyne, Teri: The Last Bridge (3.5/5)

Currie, Jr., Ron: Everything Matters! (4/5)

Cunningham, Michael: By Nightfall (4/5)

Davidson, Andrew: The Gargoyle (3.5/5)

Dawson, Greg: Hiding in the Spotlight (4/5)

De Botton, Alain: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (4/5)

Dee, Jonathan: The Privileges (3.5/5)

Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (4/5)

Dideon, Joan: Play it as it Lays (4/5)

DiFonzo, Nicholas: The Watercooler Effect (2/5)

Doctorow, E.L.: Homer & Langley (4/5)

Donoghue, Emma: Room (4/5)

E - F

Ebershoff, David: The 19th Wife (3.5/5)

Egan, Jennifer: A Visit from the Goon Squad (3/5)

Enright, Anne: The Gathering (2/5)

Erdrich, Louise: Shadow Tag (3.5/5)

Etzioni-Halevy, Eva: The Triumph of Deborah (3/5)

Eugenides, Jeffrey: My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead (4.5/5)

Fallon, Siobhan: You Know When the Men Are Gone (4/5)

Ferris, Joshua: Then We Came to the End (3/5)

Filkins, Dexter: The Forever War (4/5)

Fiorato, Marina: The Glassblower of Murano (2.5/5)

Florian, Filip: Little Fingers (4/5)

Flynn, Thomas: Bikeman (2.5/5)

Fonseca, Rubem: The Taker and Other Stories (4.5/5)

Freese, Mathias: Down to a Sunless Sea (3.5/5)

Frey, James: Bright Shiny Morning (2/5)

Fuller, Alexandra: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (3.5/5)

Fuqua, Jonathon Scott: In the Wake of the Boatman (3.5/5)

G - H

Galgut, Damon: In a Strange Room (4/5)

Gavelis, Ricardas: Vilnius Poker (4/5)

Gilbert, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love (2.5/5)

Giordano, Paolo: The Solitude of Prime Numbers (4.5/5)

Grant, Linda: The Clothes on Their Backs (2.5/5)

Gray, Amelia: AM/PM (4/5)

Greenberg, Michael: Beg, Borrow, Steal (4/5)

Greer, Andrew Sean: The Story of a Marriage (4.5/5)

Grenville, Kate: The Lieutenant (4/5)

Grossman, David: Writing in the Dark (5/5)

Guène, Faïza: Some Dream for Fools (2/5)

Guo, Xiaolu: Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (3/5)

Hadley, Tessa: The Master Bedroom (4.5/5)

Hall, Brian: Fall of Frost (4/5)

Hanif, Mohammed: A Case of Exploding Mangoes (4.5/5)

Hazelgrove, William Elliot: Rocket Man (3/5)

Heekin, Deirdre: Libation, a Bitter Alchemy (3.5/5)

Helms, Beth: Dervishes (4.5/5)

Hemon, Aleksandar: The Lazarus Project (4/5)

Henkin, Joshua: Matrimony (4.5/5)

Hesse, Hermann: Steppenwolf (4/5)

Hickman, Katie: The Aviary Gate (3/5)

Holmqvist, Ninni: The Unit (3.5/5)

Hornby, Simonetta Agnello: The Marchesa (2/5)

Horan, Nancy: Loving Frank (4/5)

Howe, Katherine: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (3/5)

I - J

Ilf, Ilya (and Evgeny Petrov): The Golden Calf (4/5)

Jacobson, Howard: The Finkler Question (3.5/5)

Jen, Gish: World and Town (4.5/5)

Johnson, B.S.: The Unfortunates (5/5)

Jungk, Peter Stephan: Crossing the Hudson (3.5/5)

K - L

Kalish, Mildred Armstrong: Little Heathens (1/5)

Keane, Mary Beth: The Walking People (4/5)

Kent, Kathleen: The Heretic's Daughter (4/5)

Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (4.5/5)

Kolpan, Gerald: Etta (2.5/5)

Krasikov, Sana: One More Year (4.5/5)

Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund: Memories of the Future (4/5)

Kushner, Rachel: Telex from Cuba (3.5/5)

Laforet, Carmen: Nada (3/5)

Lahiri, Jhumpa: Unaccustomed Earth (4.5/5)

Largo, Michael: Genius and Heroin (3.5/5)

Larsen, Reif: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (4/5)

Larsson, Stieg: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (3.5/5)

Lauryssens, Stan: Dali & I (3/5)

Lee, Nam: The Boat (3.5/5)

Leigh, Julia: Disquiet (4/5)

Le Tellier, Herve: Enough About Love (4.5/5)

Lin, Francie: The Foreigner (4/5)

Luca, Ghérasim: The Passive Vampire (4/5)

M - N

Malzieu, Mathias: The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (3/5)

Martin, Valerie: The Confessions of Edward Day (4/5)

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: The Face on Your Plate (2/5)

Maugham, W. Somerset: The Painted Veil (4/5)

McCann, Colum: Let the Great World Spin (4/5)

McCarthy, Tom: C (4.5/5)

McEwan, Ian: Solar (4/5)

Menendez, Ana: The Last War (4/5)

Mewshaw, Michael: Lying with the Dead (3/5)

Millhauser, Steven: Dangerous Laughter (2.5/5)

Millhone, Mark: The Patron Sait of Used Cars and Second Chances (3.5/5)

Mitchell, David: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (4.5/5)

Mitchell, R.B.: Castaway Kid (1/5)

Monzo, Quim: Gasoline (4/5)

Morrison, Toni: A Mercy (3.5/5)

Murphy, Peter: John the Revelator (3.5/5)

Murray, Paul: Skippy Dies (4/5)

Nerval, Gérard de: The Salt Smugglers (3.5/5)

Newmark, Elle: The Book of Unholy Mischief (2.5/5)

O - P

Ogawa, Yoko: The Housekeeper and the Professor (4/5)

O'Nan, Stewart: Last Night at the Lobster (4/5), Songs for the Missing (4.5/5), The Good Wife (3.5/5)

O'Neill, Joseph: Netherland (4/5)

Oz, Amos: Rhyming Life & Death (3/5)

Ozick, Cynthia: Foreign Bodies (4/5)

Peacock, Caro: A Dangerous Affair (3/5)

Perrotta, Tom: The Abstinence Teacher (1.5/5)

Persico, Joseph: Franklin and Lucy (4.5/5)

Petrov, Evgeny (and Ilya Ilf): The Golden Calf (4/5)

Petterson, Per: Out Stealing Horses (5/5)

Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard: Rupert (4.5/5)

Porter, Andrew: The Theory of Light & Matter (4/5)

Price, Richard: Lush Life (3/5)

Prieto, José Manuel: Rex (4/5)

Pynchon, Thomas: Inherent Vice (4.5/5)

Q - R

Rachman, Tom: The Imperfectionists (4/5)

Rahimi, Atiq: The Patience Stone (4/5)

Rayner, Jay: The Man Who Ate the World (3/5)

Riggs, Jack: The Fireman's Wife (3.5/5)

Robinson, Marilynne: Home (4/5)

Rodoreda, Mercè: Death in Spring (5/5)

Roncagliolo, Santiago: Red April (3.5/5)

Rosales, Guillermo: The Halfway House (4/5)

Roth, Philip: Indignation (4/5)

Rutledge, David: Where We Know: New Orleans as Home (4/5)

S - T

Sandweiss, Martha: Passing Strange (4/5)

Sansal, Boualem: The German Mujahid (4/5)

Saramago, Jose: The Elephant’s Journey (4/5)

Schwartz, John Burnham: The Commoner (1.5/5)

Shaffer, Mary Ann (and Annie Barrows): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2.5/5)

Shaw, Deirdre: Love or Something Like It (3.5/5)

Shors, John: Dragon House (3/5)

Singer, Peter (and Jim Mason): The Way We Eat (4/5)

Sittenfeld, Curtis: American Wife (3.5/5)

Slatton, Traci: The Immortal (2.5/5)

Snyder, Laura: The Philosophical Breakfast Club (4/5)

Spiegelman, Art: Be a Nose (3/5)

St. John, Warren: Outcasts United (3/5)

Stone, Robert: Fun with Problems (4/5)

Summerscale, Kate: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (3.5/5)

Sutherland, John: Curiosities of Literature (2/5)

Swift, Vivian: When Wanderers Cease to Roam (4/5)

Taylor, Andrew: Bleeding Heart Square (3/5)

Tinti, Hannah: The Good Thief (3/5)

Toews, Miriam: The Flying Troutmans (3.5/5)

Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn (4/5)

Toobin, Jeffrey: The Nine (3.5/5)

Torkells, Erik: A Stingray Bit My Nipple! (4/5)

Tremain, Rose: Trespass (4/5)

Trevor, William: Love and Summer (5/5)

Tropper, Jonathan: This is Where I Leave You (3/5)

Trout, Nick: Tell Me Where it Hurts (2/5)

Troyanov, Iliya: The Collector of Worlds (4.5/5)

Tsepeneag, Dumitru: Pigeon Post (4/5)

U - V

Ugresic, Dubravka: Nobody's Home (4/5)

Unferth, Deb Olin: Vacation (4/5)

Viswanathan, Padma: The Toss of a Lemon (4/5)

W - X

Wall, Carolyn: Sweeping Up Glass (3.5/5)

Waters, Sarah: The Little Stranger (4.5/5)

Werris, Wendy: An Alphabetical Life (3/5)

Winer, Andrew: The Marriage Artist (4/5)

Wroblewski, David: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (4.5/5)

Wyld, Evie: After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (3.5/5)

Y - Z

Yglesias, Rafael: A Happy Marriage (4/5)

York, Alissa: Effigy (4.5/5)