Index to Reviews

By title

Abbeville by Jack Fuller

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

“Alpha and Omega” from On the Prowl by Patricia Briggs

America, America by Ethan Canin

American Cream by Catherine Tudish

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

The Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins

Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman

The Best American Travel Writing 2006 edited by Tim Cahill

The Best American Travel Writing 2009 edited by Simon Winchester

The Best Travel Writing 2008 edited by James O’Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O’Reilly

The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny by Nicholas Carr

Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith

Blankets by Craig Thompson

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Blood Cross by Faith Hunter

Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs

Boo by Rene Gutteridge

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild

Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

The Cat Dancers by P. T. Deutermann

Cathy’s Book: If Found Call (650) 266-8233 by Jordan Weisman

Chanel: Collections and Creations by Daniele Bott

China Trade by S. J. Rozan

A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle

The City & The City by China Mieville

City of Trees by Melanie Choukas-Bradley

Claudine at School by Colette

A Climate for Change by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church

Counter Culture by Candacy A. Taylor

A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotsen

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega #1) by Patricia Briggs

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne

The Dashwood Sisters Tell All by Beth Pattillo

A Day in a Medieval City by Chiara Frugoni

Dead Run by P. J. Tracy

Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones

Defiance by Nechama Tec

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks by Susan Casey

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Diplomatic Incidents by Cherry Denman

Ditched by Dr. Right: And Other Distress Signals From the Edge of Polite Society by Elizabeth Warner

The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A. S. Byatt

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

The Eagle Catcher by Margaret Coel

East by Edith Pattou

Eifelheim by Michael Flynn

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Enna Burning by Shannon Hale

Evia by Sara Wheeler

Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Book One by Bill Willingham

Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frederica by Georgette Heyer

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

Game Change by John Heilemann with Mark Halperin

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Generation Kill by Evan Wright

The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto

Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker by Tim Gallagher

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine

Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

The Hard Way by Lee Child

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Heart of Christianity by Marcus J. Borg

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

A History of the Middle East: Second Edition by Peter Mansfield

A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea by Joel Achenbach

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Howards End by E.M. Forster

How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth – Edited by John E. Wade III

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale by Donna Jo Napoli

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O’Hanlon

It’s Not All Flowers and Sausages by Mrs. Mimi

Jack and Rochelle by Jack and Rochelle Sutin

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

Little Face by Sophie Hannah

Live Bait by P. J. Tracy

The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness by Dr. Michael Stein

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice

Love The One You’re With by Emily Giffin

Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt

The Malfine Trilogy (Let There Be Blood, The Egyptian Coffin, and The Fool’s Gold) by Jane Jakeman

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (book/movie comparison)

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy

Mouse Guard Fall 1152 by David Petersen

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The New York Regional Mormons Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker

The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine

Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan

On Agate Hill by Lee Smith

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick

One Day by David Nicholls

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Passage by Justin Cronin

Patience of Ice by Renate Wood

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Poltergeist by Kat Richardson

Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

River Marked by Patricia Briggs

River Secrets by Shannon Hale

Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco

Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

Snow Blind by P. J. Tracy

Specials by Scott Westerfield

Spider Mountain by P. T. Deutermann

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris

Stasiland by Anna Funder

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

Swampwalker’s Journal: A Wetlands Year by David M. Carroll

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin

Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Touchstone by Laurie R. King

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman

The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose

Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten

The Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins

Veil of Lies (Crispin Guest #1) by Jeri Westerson

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch

What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell

The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up by Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

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