Book Reviews by Author

Alcott, Kathleen. Infinite Home.
Ambler, Eric. A Coffin for Dimetrios.
Appelfeld, Aharon. Suddenly, Love.
Andre, Alexis. Fifteen Dogs.
Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why.
Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace.
Auster, Paul. Oracle Night.
Awad, Mona. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.

Bair, Deirdre. Parisian Lives.
Baker, Nicholson. Vox.
Baldwin, Gary. Yiddish for Pirates.
Banville, John.  The Infinities.
Barker, Pat. The Regeneration Trilogy.
Barnes, Julian. Nothing to Be Frightened Of.
Barry, Sebastian. Days Without End.
Barry, Kevin. City of Bohane.

Barzun, Jacques. The Use and Abuse of Art.

Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence.

Batuman, Elif. The Idiot.

Batuman, Elif. The Possessed
Beattie, Ann. Park City.
Benaron, Naomi. Running the Rift.

Berlin, Lucia. A Manual for Cleaning Women.

Bernstein, Sarah. Study for Obedience.
Birnie, Lisa. In Mania’s Memory.
Bordas, Camille. How to Behave in a Crowd.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions.
Bosker, Bianca. Cork Dorks.
Bostrom, Nick. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.
Bourdain, Anthony. Medium Raw.
Boyle, TC. The Terranauts.

Boyle TC. The Tortilla Curtain
Boyle TC. World’s End.
Boyle, TC and Pitlor, Heidi. The Best American Short Stories 2015.
Brinkley, Jamel. A Lucky Man.

Bukowski, Charles. Women.
Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names.
Burn, Stephen. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide.
Butler, Katy. Knocking on Heaven’s Door.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero’s Journey.
Carrere, Emmanuel. The Adversary.
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood.
Casey, Alan. Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada. 

Cassidy, John. How Markets Fail.
Catton, Eleanor. The Luminaries.
Chabon, Michael. Moonglow.
Chabon, Micheal. Telegraph Avenue.
Chatlien, Ruth. Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale.
Churchill, Winston. The Gathering Storm.
Coles, Megan. Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.
Colfer, Eoin. Plugged.
Conroy, Pat. South of Broad.
Cran, Brad. Ink on Paper.
Crighton, Micheal. State of Fear.

Cunningham, Michael. Day.
Cunningham, Michael. A Home at the End of the World.
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours.
Damasio, Antonio. The Feeling of What Happens. 
Davis, Lydia. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.
de Botton, Alain. Religion for Atheists.
de Botton, Alain. The Course of Love.

de Botton, Alain. The School of Life.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
de Waal, Edmund. The Hare with Amber Eyes.
DeWitt, Patrick. French Exit.
DeWitt, Patrick. The Sisters Brothers.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See.
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.
Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues.
Eggers, Dave. The Circle.
Egan, Jennifer. A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach.

Egan, Jennifer. The Candy House

El Akkad, Omar. What Strange Paradise.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch.
Elliott, Julia. The Wilds.
Ellsberg, Daniel. The Doomsday Machine.

Escoffery, Jonathan. If I Survive You.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Marriage Plot.
Evans, Harold. Do I Make Myself Clear?
Everett, Percival. So Much Blue.
Farina, Richard. Been Down so Long it Looks Like Up to Me.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury.
Ferrante, Elena. My Brilliant Friend.
Ferrante, Elena. The Story of a New Name.
Ferrante, Elena. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
Ferrante, Elena.The Story of the Lost Child.
Ferrante, Elena. Troubling Love. 
Ferris, Joshua. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour.
Flanagan, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Ford, Richard. Independence Day.    

Forster E M. A Room With a View.

Fowler, Karen Joy. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
Frankfurt, Harry. On Bullshit. 
Franzen, Jonathan. Farther Away.
Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom.
Franzen, Jonathan. Strong Motion.
Friedman, David. Wrong.
Frum, David. Trumpocracy.
Frye, Nortrop. The Educated Imagination.
Ferguson, Will. 419.
Gaitskill, Mary, Veronica.
Gaitskill, Mary, Somebody With a Small Hammer.
Garner, Helen. Everywhere I Look.
Gartner, Zsuzsi. Better Living Through Plastic Explosives.
Gaston, Bill. Just Let Me Look at You.
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.

Geary, Karl. Juno Loves Legs.
Ghosh, Amritav. Flood of Fire.
Giardini, Anne. Advice for Italian Boys.
Gigerenzer, Gerd. Gut Feelings.
Gladwell, Malcolm. David and Goliath.
(von) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls.
Goldacre, Ben. Bad Science.
Gopnik, Adam. A Thousand Small Sanities.
Gordon, Emily Fox. Book of Days: Personal Essays.
Graham, Benjamin. The Intelligent Investor.
Green, Henry. Loving.
Greer, Andrew Sean. Less.
Hadler, Nortin. Rethinking Aging. 
Halperin, Justin. Sh*t My Dad Says.
Hamilton, Jane Eaton. Weekend.
Harari, Youval Noah. Sapiens.

Harden, K Paige. The Genetic Lottery.

Harding, Paul. This Other Eden.
Harrison, Jim. The Farmer’s Daughter.
Harrison, Jim. The Raw and the Cooked.
Harrison, Pamela. POEMS: Okie Chronicles (2005), Out of Silence (2009), What to Make of It (2012).
Hawley, Alix. All True Noy a Lie In It.
Hay, Elizabeth. All Things Consoled.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.
Hempel, Amy. The Collected Stories.

Heti, Sheila. Motherhood.

Higgins, Jamie. Bully Market.

Hoffman, David. The Dead Hand.
Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
Hollinghurst, Alan. The Line of Beauty.
Howard, Alan. In the Land of Eternal Spring.
Ignatius, David. Blood Money.

Ives, Lucy. Cosmogony.
Ives, Lucy. Impossible Views of the World.
Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery and Other Stories.
Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

James, Henry. The Golden Bowl.
James, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings
Jamison, Leslie. The Empathy Exams.
Jhabvala, Ruth. At the End of the Century.
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son.
Jonasson, Jonas. The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. 

Jones, James. From Here to Eternity.

Kafka, Franz. The Castle.
Kalanithi, Paul. When Breath Becomes Air.
Kane, Jessica Francis. Rules for Visiting.
Kidder, Tracy and Todd, Richard. Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction.
Kiehlmann, Daniel. Tyll.
Kimball, Roger. The Fortunes of Permanence.

Klein, Michael. Dissident Doctor.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove. A Man in Love.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove. A Death in the Family.
Korda, Michael. Alone.
Korda, Michael. With Wings Like Eagles
Krasikov, Sanya. The Patriots.

Krystal, Arthur. Except When I Write.
Kurlansky, Mark. Edible Stories.
Kushner, Rachel. The Flame Throwers.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Lowland.
Lalami, Laila. The Moor’s Account.
Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster’s Wager.
Lanchester, John. IOU.
Lanchester, John. The Debt to Pleasure.
Lane, Nick. The Vital Question:Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life.
Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget.

Lawrence, DH. The Bad Side of Books
Lawrence, DH. Studies in Classic American Literature.
La Carre, John. A Most Wanted Man.
Lee, Andrea. Lost Hearts in Italy.
Le Guin, Ursula.  The Left Hand of Darkness.
Lerner, Ben. 10:04.
Lerner, Ben. Leaving the Atocha Station.
Lerner, Ben. The Topeka School.
Lewis, Thomas; Amini, Fari; and Lannon, Richard. A General Theory of Love.
L’Heureux, John. A Woman Run Mad.
Lincoln, Christine. Sap Rising.
Link, Kelly. Get in Trouble.
Lively, Penelope. The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.
Lopate, Philip ed. The Art of the Personal Essay.

Maclear, Kyo. Unearthing,
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 
MacNeice, Louis. Snow.
Mahajan, Karan. The Association of Small Bombs.
Mai Jia. Decoded.
Malcolm, Janet. The Journalist and the Murderer.
Mantel, Hillary. Wolf Hall.

Maroo, Chetna. Western Lane.

Mason, Daniel. A Registry of my Passage upon the Earth.
Mate, Gabor. In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts.
Mawer, Simon. The Glass Room.
Max, D T. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace.

McBride, James. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian.

McCarthy, Cormac. The Orchard Keeper.
McCormack, Mike. Solar Bones.
McCullough, Dennis. My Mother, Your Mother.

McFarlane, Fiona. The Sun Walks Down.
McInerney, Jay. Bright Lights Big City.
McLeod, Alexander. Light Lifting.

Malleson, Tom. Fired Up about Capitalism.

Mearsheimer, John. The Great Delusion.
Meek, James.  The Heart Broke In.
Melnik, Kseniya. Snow in May.
Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club.
Meyer, Philipp. The Son.
Micheals, Sean. Us Conductors.

Miller, Chris. Chip War.
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.
Millard, Candice. Hero of the Empire.
Mitchell, Joseph. At the Bottom of the Harbor.
Mitchell, Shandi. Under This Unbroken Sky.
Moshfegh, Otessa. Eileen.
Mosley, Walter. Charcoal Joe,
Munro, Alice. Dear Life.
Munro, Alice. Too Much Happiness.
Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84.
Murakami, Haruki. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
Murakami, Haruki. Dance Dance Dance.
Murakami, Haruki. Men Without Women.
Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood.

Murray, Paul. The Bee Sting.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin.
Nabokov, Vladimir. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
Nadas, Peter. A Book of Memories.
Newman, Sandra. The Heavens.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympethizer.

Noble, Denis. Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity.
Nunez, Sigrid. The Last of Her Kind.
O’Connell, Mark. To Be a Machine.
O’Connor, Lawrence. Playing With Fire.
O’Flynn, Catherine. What Was Lost.
O’Hagan, Andrew. The Illuminations.
O’Loughlin, Ed. Minds of Winter.
O’Mahony, Seamus. The Way We Die Now.
Ondaatje, Michael. The Cat’s Table.
Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight.
Oreskes, Naomi et al. Why Trust Science?
Orringer, Julie. The Flight Portfolio.
Orringer, Julie. How to Breathe Underwater.
Orringer, Julie. The Invisible Bridge.
Oz, Amos. Judas.
Oz, Amos. A Tale Of Love and Darkness.
Ozeki, Ruth. A Tale for the Time Being.
Paris, B.A. Behind Closed Doors.
Penny, Louise. A Trick of the Light.
Peterson, Jordan. 12 Rules for Life.

Peterson, Jordan. Beyond Order.
Philips, Wendy. Fishtailing.
Phillips, Gin. Fierce Kingdom.
Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment Now.
Pinker, Steven. The Sense of Style.
Powers, Richard. The Overstory.
Prum, Richard. The Evolution of Beauty
Redhill, Michael. Bellevue Square.
Reichl, Ruth. Save Me the Plums.
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.
Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead.
Rooney, Sally. Conversations With Friends.
Rooney, Sally. Normal People.
Roth, Philip. The Ghost Writer.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock.
Row, Jesse. Your Face in Mine.
Sante, Luc. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York.
Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference.
Saramago, Jose. Blindness.
Sauma, Luiza. Flesh Bone and Water.
Savas, Aysegul. Walking on the Ceiling.
Schiff, Stacey. Cleopatra, A Life.
Searcy, David. Shame and Wonder.
Sedaris, David. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.
Shepard, Sam. Great Dream of Heaven.
Shocochis, Bob. The Woman Who Lost Her Soul.
Shriver, Lionel. The Mandibles
Shteyngart, Gary. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook.

Silver, Marisa. Mary Coin.
Skibsrud, Wendy. The Sentimentalists.
Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres.
Smith, Zadie. Swing Time.

Spivack, Kathleen. Unspeakable Things.

Spufford, Francis. Cahokia Jazz.
Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose.
Strout, Elizabeth. Anything is Possible.
Strout, Elizabeth. The Burgess Boys.
Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner.
Sweet, Victoria. God’s Hotel.
Syjuco, Miguel. Illustrados.
Szabo, Magda. The Door.
Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch.
Theroux, Paul. Saint Jack.
Thien, Madeleine. Do Not Say We Have Nothing.
Thomas, Michael. Man Gone Down.
Thuy, Kim. Ru.

Timimi, Sami. Insane Medicine.
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace.
Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination.
Tropper, Jonathan. Everything Changes.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Zimmermann Telegram.

Tupy M and Pooley G. Superabundance.
Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. The War of the End of the World.
Verble, Margaret. Maud’s Line.
Verghese, Abraham. Cutting for Stone.
Wallace, David Foster. Both Flesh and Not.
Wallace, David Foster. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories.
Wallace, David Foster. Girl with Curious Hair.
Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest.
Wallace, David Foster. The Pale King.
Walter, Jess. Beautiful Ruins.

Walton, Jo. Or What You Will.
Warren, Dianne. Cool Water.
Weasthead, Jessica. And Also Sharks.
Whiteson D and Cham J. We Have No Idea.
Whittall, Zoe. The Best Kind of People.
Williams, Joy. The Quick and the Dead.
Wink, Callan. August.
Wink, Callan. Dog Run Moon.

Winman, Sarah. Still Life.
Winters, Michelle. I Am a Truck.
Woloshin, Stephen Schwartz, Lisa and Gilbert Welch. Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics
Woodard, Colin. American Nations.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.
Yanagihara, Hanya. A Little Life.

Zevin, Gabrielle. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.

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