Reviews by Author (A-Z) / guiltless reading

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A

Adams, Jennifer (illus. by Alison Oliver): Baby Lit: Jane Eyre
Adams, Jennifer (illus. by Alison Oliver): Baby Lit: Alice in Wonderland
Adams, Jennifer (illus. by Alison Oliver): BabyLit: Don Quixote: A Spanish Language Primer

Adams, Jennifer (illus. by Alison Oliver): BabyLit: The Secret Garden: A Flowers Primer
Adams, Jennifer (illus. by Ron Stucki): Edgar and The Tree House of Usher
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun

Adiga, Aravind: The White Tiger

Ahern, Cecilia: A Place Called Here
Ahern, Cecilia: PS, I Love You

Ahktar, Ayad: American Dervish
Akpan, Uwem: Say You're One of Them
Alcott, Kate: A Touch of Stardust

Almond, David: Skellig

Alvarez, Julia: In the Time of the Butterflies
Andrews, V.C.: Flowers in the Attic

Anonymous: Go Ask Alice [Friday 56 quote]

Arrington, Aminta: Home is a Roof Over a Pig
Arrow, V.: The Panem Companion

Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake

Avi: No More Magic

B

Baker Hyde, Phoebe: The Beauty Experiment: How I skipped lipstick, ditched fashion and faced the world without concealer and learned to love the read me
Bantock, Nick: The Venetian's Wife [Friday 56 quote]
Bantock, Nick: The Morning Star [video book tour]
Bantock, Nick: The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
Barbery, Muriel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barker, Susan: The Incarnations
Barnes, Darlene: Hungry
Bazes, Terry: Plot Fiction like the Masters
Bertino, Marie-Helene: 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Bischke, Scott: Fish Tank: A Fable for Our Times
Black, Holly (with Tony di Terlizzi): The Spiderwick Chronicles
Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bourdain, Anthony: A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
Bray, Libba: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Brackett, Marc: Keeping Score
Brogsol, Vera: Anya's Ghost
Brown, Amanda: Family Trust
Brown, Liz Fletcher: Full Wattage!
Britt, Donna: Brothers (& Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving
Burton, Gabrielle: Impatient with Desire
Burton, Tim: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Byatt, A.S.: The Shadow of the Sun

C

Cabot, Meg: Queen of Babble (Book 1, Queen of Babble series)
Cabot, Meg: Queen of Babble in the Big City (Book 2, Queen of Babble series)
Cabot, Meg: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Book 3, Queen of Babble series)
Cabot, Meg: The Bride Wore Size 12
Calcaterra, Regina: Etched in Sand
Caldwell, Ian: The Rule of Four (with Dustin Thomason)
Carr, Josephine: The Dewey Decimal System of Love
Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Chabon, Michael: Telegraph Avenue
Chluho, Will: Lemonade Revealed
Christie, Agatha: And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)
Christie, Agatha: Curtain [Friday 56 quote]
Christie, Agatha: Hallowe'en Party
Christie, Agatha: A Holiday for Murder
Christie, Agatha: The Mirror Crack'd
Christie, Agatha: Three Blind Mice
Christie, Alix: Gutenberg's Apprentice
Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel
Clausen, Daniel: The Ghosts of Nagasaki
Cleave, Chris: Gold
Clegg, Bill: Did You Ever Have a Family
Coehlo, Paulo: Veronika Decides to Die
Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace
Collier, James Lincoln: My Brother Sam is Dead
Colgan, Jenny T.: Doctor Who: Dark Horizons
Conaway, James: Nose
Conklin, Tara: The House Girl
Cotton, Brad: A Work in Progress
Cook, Diane: Man V. Nature
Creech, Sharon: The Great Unexpected
Currie, Ron Jr: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

D

Dahl, Roald: Matilda

Dahl, Roald: Tales of the Unexpected
Davidson, Dianne Mott: Prime Cut
Dean, Debra: The Mirrored World
Dean, Louise: Becoming Strangers
DeBrincat, Tracy: Hollywood Buckaroo
DeLillo, Don: Zero K
De Robertis, Carolina: Perla
De Rosnay, Tatiana: Sarah's Key
Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss
Dicks, Matthew: Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Domingue, Ronlyn: The Mapmaker's War (The Keeper of Tales Trilogy, Book 1)
Domingue, Ronlyn: The Chronicle of Secret Riven (The Keeper of Tales Trilogy, Book 2)
Donoghue, Emma: Room
Drake, Ernest: Dragonology - The Complete Book of Dragons (Ology World Series)
Drake, Ernest: Monsterology - The Complete Book of Fabulous Beasts (Ology World Series)
Du Bois, William Pene: The Twenty-One Balloons

E - F

Ellenton, Mary A. Flipping A Novel
Erdrich, Louise: The Round House
Feldman, Stephanie: The Angel of Losses

Fforde, Jasper: Thursday Next series (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten) - quick thoughts
Fielding, Hannah: Burning Embers

Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jones's Diary

Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Finn, A.J.: The Woman in the Window

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Flanigan, Marie: One Big Beautiful Thing
Flynn, Gillian: Dark Places
Flynn, Gillian: Gone Girl
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated
Forsythe, Sadie: The Weeping Empress
Forster, E.M.: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Fortuna, Kevin: The Dunning Man: Stories

Friedman, Andrew: Say Not What If [Friday 56 quote]

freder: Persephone's Torch: A Novel in Three Acts
Freese, Mathias B.: Down to a Sunless Sea

Freese, Mathias B.: This Mobius Strip of Ifs
Frith, Sherry: Sticky, Icky Booger Bugs

G

Gaarder, Jostein: The Orange Girl

Gabriel, Susan: The Secret Sense of Wildflower

Gaiman, Neil: Coraline

Gaiman, Neil: The Dangerous Alphabet

Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book
Gaiman, Neil: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Gaiman, Neil & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens

Gaiman, Neil & Michael Reaves: Interworld

Gaiman, Neil: Stardust
Galland, Nicole: Godiva
Galvin, Aaron: Salted

Gibran, Khalil: Tears and Laughter [Friday 56 quote]

Gilbert, Elizabeth: Eat Pray Love
Gilbert, Jennifer: I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

Gilbert, Steven Lee: A Lovely, Indecent Departure
Girard, Anne: Madame Picasso

Gladwell, Malcolm: Outliers

Goldberg, Myla: Bee Season

Goldstein, Jonathan: I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow

Gordimer, Nadine: The House Gun

Gordimer, Nadine: My Son's Story

Gregory, Philippa: The Other Queen
Gorman, Sherry: It's Nothing Personal
Granas, Michelle; Swans are Fat Too
Granas, Michelle: Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law
Grasso, Julie Anne: Return to Cardamom
Grasso, Julie Anne: Frankie Dupont and the Mystery of Enderby Manor
Green, John: An Abundance of Katherines
Green, John: The Fault in Our Stars

Gregory, Philippa: The Boleyn Inheritance (quick thoughts)

Guiliano, Mireille: French Women Don't Get Fat

Guiliano Long, Terri: In Leah's Wake

H - I

Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time

Harun, Adrianne: A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain
Hendricks, Judith Ryan: Baker's Blues
Hendrix, Grady: Horrorstör
Hershkovitch, Leigh: Shattered Illusions

Hoff, Benjamin: The Tao of Pooh
Hoffman, Beth: Looking for Me

Hornby, Nick: High Fidelity

Ishiguro, Kazuo: A Pale View of Hills

J

Jackson, Joshilyn: Someone Else's Love Story
Jio, Sarah: The Last Camellia
Joaquin, Nick: Cave and Shadows
Joaquin, Nick: May Day Eve and Other Stories
Joaquin, Nick: The Summer Solstice and Other Stories

Johnson, Diane: Le Divorce
Jose, F. Sionil: Ermita: A Filipino Novel
Jose, F. Sionil: Gagamba: The Spider Man

K

Kalotay, Daphne: Sight Reading
Kane, Holland: Morning Light
Kahakauwila, Kristiana: This is Paradise
Karalius, Kimberly: Pocket Forest

Kaufmann, Emma: Confessions of a Cake Addict
Keltner, Kim Wong: Tiger Babies Strike Back
King, Laurie R.: The Bones of Paris

Kingsolver, Barbara: Prodigal Summer

Kinsella, Sophie: Remember Me?

Kinsella, Sophie: Shopaholic and Sister
Klann-Moren, Nancy: The Clock of Life

Klaussmann, Liza: Tigers in Red Weather
Klaussmann, Liza: Villa America
Klein, Meera Ekkanath: My Mother's Kitchen
Kline, Victor: The House at Anzac Parade
Kogawa, Joy: Obasan
Kondo, Marie: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Knapp, Andrew: Find Momo: A Photography Book (Book 1)
Knapp, Andrew: Find Momo Coast to Coast (Book 2)
Kraus, Nicola (with Emma McLaughlin): Dedication

Kuhn, William: Mrs. Queen Takes the Train
Kundera, Milan: TheFestival of Insignificance

L

LaMagna, Dal: Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets it Right
Lamott, Anne: Imperfect Birds
Lamprell, Mark: The Full Ridiculous

Larsson, Steig: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Larsson, Steig: The Girl Who Played With Fire

Larsson, Steig: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

Laslocky, Meghan: The Little Book of Heartbreak

Lawson, Nigella: How to Eat

Le Carré, John: The Constant Gardener

Lee, Amanda: The Long Stitch Goodnight: An Embroidery Mystery
Lee Sethi, Meera: Mountainfit
Lehane, Dennis: Shutter Island
Lethem, Jonathan: Lucky Alan and Other Stories
Leveen, Lois: Juliet's Nurse

Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics [Friday 56 quote]

Lewis, Marlene: Ruth [Friday 56 quote]

Lewyca, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Lindstrom, Martin: Buyology: Truth and Lies About What We Buy
Lissner, Caren: Carrie Pilby

Lowenstein, Roger: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Lowry, Mary Pauline: The Earthquake Machine

Lord, Christopher: The Christmas Carol Murders
Lord, Christopher: The Edwin Drood Murders

M

Mack, Karen and Jennifer Kaufman: Freud's Mistress
Mahfouz, Naguib: The Harafish
Mahurin, Paulette: The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap
Majumdar, Anish: The Isolation Door
Margulies, Phillip: Belle Cora

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Leaf Storm

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Memories of My Melancholy Whores | Initial Reaction (really short!)
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Of Love and Other Demons

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Strange Pilgrims
Martin, George R.R.: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
Martin, George R.R.: A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)

Martin, Steve: Shopgirl: A Novella
Martin, Valerie: Sea Lovers: Selected Stories

Martinez, Dan: Cross Country 101
Matloff, Greg, C Bangs and Les Johnson: Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth
Matson, Morgan: The Unexpected Everything
May, Antoinette: The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein

McClintock, Norah: Close to the Heel

McDonnold, Paul: The Economics of Ego Surplus: A Novel of Economic Terrorism
McEwan, Ian: Amsterdam

McFadden, Bernice: The Warmest December
Meyer, Marissa: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles 1)

Meyer, Stephanie: The Twilight Saga (Books 1, 2, 3: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse)

Miller, Ashley Edward and Zack Stentz: Colin Fischer
Molloy, Aimee: However Long the Night
Moran, Caitlin: How to Build a Girl

Morgenstern, Erin: The Night Circus

Moriarty, Jaclyn: Feeling Sorry for Celia

Moriyama, Naomi: Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen

Morrissey, Donna: The Deception of Livvy Higgs
Moyes, Jojo: One Plus One
Mujica, Barbara: I Am Venus

Munro, Alice: Too Much Happiness [Friday 56 quote]