Book Reviews

All the books reviewed on this blog. (You may find more on my GoodReads or LibraryThing accounts, but this is kind of a nifty thing to have too.)

1,001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know by Anna Mantzaris
1776 by David McCoullough
1984 by George Orwell
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Golfer's Tail by Roscoe Watkins
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Little Twist of Texas by Linda Raven Moore
A Place to Die by Dorothy James
A Secret Atlas by Michael A. Stackpole
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Void by Georges Perec
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Absolute Power by David Baldacci
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell by Vivian Cook
All Her Father's Guns by James Warner
Ambercore by Troy Williams
America: The Book by Jon Stewart
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Ana's Story by Jenna Bush
And She Was by Cindy Dyson
and then there were three... by Supriya Bhatnagar
Angelica by Arthur Phillips
Anthem by Ayn Rand
ARCs
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto
Assorted book reviews
Assorted Book Reviews
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Banana Rose by Natalie Goldberg
Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
Before the Mask by Michael and Teri Williams
Beginner's Luck by Laura Pedersen
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Bill the Galactic Hero: The Planet of the Robot Slaves by Harry Harrison
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
Black Bodies and Quantum Cats by Jennifer Ouellette
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
Blue Springs by Peter Rennebohm
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
BookCrossing Through Middle-Earth by Skyring
Borneo Tom by Tom McLaughlin
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking the Devil's Heart by H.A. Goodman
Brothel by Alexa Albert
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Brush Up Your Mythology by Michael Macrone
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam by Paul Clayton
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding
CauseWired by Tom Watson
Centauri Dawn by Michael Ely
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules edited by David Sedaris
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Cold Steel Rain by Kenneth Abel
Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson
Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Conversations with the Fat Girl by Liza Palmer
Cover the Butter by Carrie Kabak
Creative, Inc. by Meg Mateo Ilasco and Joy Deangdeelert Cho
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman
Death from the Skies! by Philip Plait
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis
Don't Know Much About Mythology by Kenneth C. Davis
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith
Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann
Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Dueling Monsters Read-a-long
Dune by Frank Herbert
e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
Eats, Shites, and Leaves by A. Parody
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
English As She Is Spoke by José Da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Eros Ascending by Mike Resnick
Evermore by Alyson Noel
Every Day by David Levithan
Everything Here is Mine by Nicole Hillander
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Exchange by Dale R. Cozort
Expiation by Greg Messel
Extras by Scott Westerfeld
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
Fermat's Last Theorem by Amir D. Aczel
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Finders Keepers by Russ Colchamiro
Fire Baptized by Kenya Wright
First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
First Person Plural by Andrew W.M. Beierle
Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.
Found by Davy Rothbart
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye! by Cynthia Heimel
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Give Me a Break by John Stossel
Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines
Godspeed by Dan Chabot
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Grover G. Graham and Me by Mary Quattlebaum
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Hal Spacejock by Simon Haynes
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Heresy by S.J. Parris
Heroes A2Z #1: Alien Ice Cream by David Anthony and Charles David
Hey Canada! by Vivian Bowers and Milan Pavlovic
Hick by Andrea Portes
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Highlander: The Captive Soul by Josepha Sherman
Holes by Louis Sachar
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Horns by Joe Hill
Hotel World by Ali Smith
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend by Gary Ghislain
How I Write by Janet Evanovich and Ina Yalof
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) by Laurie Notaro
If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
In Odd We Trust by Dean Koontz and Queenie Chan
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Indelible by Karin Slaughter
Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Jack Fell Down by Kenneth Underhill
Jaguar Sun by Martha Bourke
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Jenny Kidd by Laury A. Egan
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Jump the Shark by John Hein
Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
Kiss Me Like a Stranger by Gene Wilder
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Knightscares #1: Cauldron Cooker's Night by David Anthony and Charles David
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Leaving Fishers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Lodestone #1: The Sea of Storms by Mark Whiteway
Lodestone #2: The World of Ice and Stars by Mark Whiteway
Lodestone Book Three: The Crucible of Dawn by Mark Whiteway
Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel by Rachael Antony
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge
Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold! by Terry Brooks
Malice by Chris Wooding
Marbles by Ellen Forney
Marker by Robin Cook
Marly's Ghost by David Levithan and Brian Selznick
Marooned in Fraggle Rock by Barbara McClintock
Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Maybe Baby edited by Lori Leibovich
Me, Dead Dad, and Alcatraz by Elvin Bishop
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Merciful Flush by Lane Manion
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
Moominpappa's Memoirs by Tove Jansson
Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Myth-ion Improbable by Robert Asprin
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity by John Stossel
Naked by David Sedaris
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Nevernever by Will Shetterly
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
No Greater Sacrifice by John C. Stipa
No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty
Not a Happy Camper by Mindy Schneider
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
On Writing by Stephen King
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Original Sin by Beth McMullen
Otherworld Tales: Irish the Demon Slayer by C.T. Markee
Out of the Fallout by Veronica A. Mullen
Paint It Black by Janet Fitch
Paper Towns by John Green
Passage by Connie Willis
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Ready, Okay! by Adam Cadre
Redbeard by Mike Resnick
Releasing Gillian's Wolves by Tara Woolpy
Relic Master #1: The Dark City by Catherine Fisher
Revenge by Mark Young
Rin-Tin-Tin: The Movie Star by Ann Elwood
Ring by Koji Suzuki
Ringworld by Larry Niven
River Rat: The Storm Treasure by Joseph Fleck
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Saint Vidicon to the Rescue by Christopher Stasheff
Saving the World in your Spare Time by Laura Klotz
SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
Seahorse in the Sky by Edmund Cooper
Seize the Night by Dean Koontz
Seizure by Robin Cook
Servant of the Jackal God by Keith Taylor
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life by Douglas T. Kenrick
Shadow Fires by Dean koontz
Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card
Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Sideshow by Mike Resnick
Silverstein and Me by Marv Gold
Smart Women by Judy Blume
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz
Some Fools, A Turtle and Queen Elizabeth by A.M. Lascurain, Dariusz Golen, and Agnieszka Golen
Somebodies and Nobodies by Robert W. Fuller
Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. by Robert Asprin
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
Spook by Mary Roach
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin
Stiff by Mary Roach
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Test of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The Animal Review by Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Assassins Gallery by David L. Robbins
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
The Best of Shrdlu by Denys Parsons
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson/The New Atlantis by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Burning Time by J.G. Faherty
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Collectors by David Baldacci
The Creative Writer's Survival Guide by John McNally
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries edited by Hugh Massingberg
The Daria Diaries by Anne D. Bernstein
The Dark Lady by Mike Resnick
The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz
The Darlings by Cristina Alger
The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard
The Demon Queen and the Locksmith by Spencer Baum
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams
The Dog Park by Ann Elwood
The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson
The Echelon Vendetta by David Stone
The Eight by Katherine Neville
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Face by Dean Koontz
The Fantasy Worlds of Peter S. Beagle
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Final Storm by Wayne Thomas Batson
The Fire by Katherine Neville
The Fire Within by Chris D'Lacey
The Food of the Gods by H.G. Wells
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
The Ghosts of Nagasaki by Daniel Clausen
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 God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Husband by Dean Koontz
The Ig Nobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams
The Immortal Ones by John F. Ferrer
The Invisible Heart by Russell Roberts
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Cowgirl by Jana Richman
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
The Last Juror by John Grisham
The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Magic Circle by Katherine Neville
The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter by David Colbert
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The Manual of Aeronautics by Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Meowmorphosis by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
The Patron Saint of Eels by Gregory Day
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Rise of the Wyrm Lord by Wayne Thomas Batson
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
The Secret Life of Bees by Sun Monk Kidd
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
The Singing Stones by Phyllis A. Whitney
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Spenser Collection: Volume II: Back Story and Widow's Walk by Robert B. Parker
The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison
The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell by Harry Harrison
The Stand by Stephen King
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America by Julian Montague
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
The Taking by Dean Koontz
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
The Talisman of Elam by Jim Mastro
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer by Mike Resnick
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass
The Torah Codes by Ezra Barany
The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Wild Alien Tamer by Mike Resnick
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
The World of Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Thinner by Stephen King
Threadbared by Kimberly Wrenn and Mary Watkins
Thwonk by Joan Bauer
Tickled Pink by Rita Rudner
Ticktock by Dean Koontz
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Trackers by Deon Meyer
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 by Stephenie Meyer and Young Kim
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Uglies: Shay's Story by Scott Westerfeld, Devin Grayson, and Steven Cummings
Ugly to Start With by John Michael Cummings
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson
Walpurgis III by Mike Resnick
War of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Waterwoman by Lenore Hart
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
We Thought You Would Be Prettier by Laurie Notaro
What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feynman
What Makes Me a Muslim? by Catherine Petrini
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
White River Junctions by Dave Norman
Whom God Would Destroy by Commander Pants
Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer
Why Don't Your Eyelashes Grow? by Beth Ann Ditkoff
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
Why Rattlesnakes Rattle by Valeri R. Helterbran
Wild Animus by Rich Shapero
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Wolfpointe by Rick Buda
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Young Female, Traveling Alone by Anne-Marie M. Pop
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Zero to Lazy Eight by Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, and Joseph Maguire

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