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My book reviews

Reviewed books on this blog from July 2009 to present. Sorted by author. Reviews are hyperlinked. Last update was May 2016. It is NOT up-to-date.
A
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Ahdieh, Renee. The Wrath and the Dawn.
Aidan, Pamela.
---An Assembly Such as This.
---These Three Remain.
Albertalli, Becky. Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda.
Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover.
Alexie, Sherman.
---Flight.
---War Dances.
Almond. David. The Tightrope Walkers.
Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. The Impossible Knife of Memory.
Anderson, M.T.
 ----Burger Wuss.
       ----Symphony for the City of the Dead: Shostakovich and the Siege on Leningrad.
Andrews, Jesse. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
Angel, Ann. Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing.
Arnold. David. Mosquitoland.
Aslan, Reza. Zealot.
Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood.
Austen, Jane.
        ---Emma.
----Mansfield Park.
----Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane and Seth Graham-Smith, Tony Lee, illustrated by Cliff Richards. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: a Graphic Novel.
Avasthi, Swati. Split.
Aylmer, Janet. Darcy’s Story.
B
Bachorz, Pam. Candor.
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker.
Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Barnes, Johns. Tales of the Madman Underground.
Barry, Lynda. One! Hundred! Demons!
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. They Called Themselves the K.K.K.
Bedford, Martyn. Never Ending.
Benwell, Sarah. The Last Leaves Falling.
Berry, Julie. The Passion of Dolssa.
Bertozzi, Nick. Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey.
Billingsley, Franny. Chime.
Black, Holly. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.
Blundell, Judy. What I Saw and How I Lied.
Bolden, Tonya. Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Freedom.
Bond, Jenny and Chris Sheedy. Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?
Bondoux, Anne-Laure. A Time of Miracles.
Bow, Erin. The Scorpion Rules.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
Bradley, Alan. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
Bray, Libba.
---Beauty Queens.
---The Diviners.
---Going Bovine.
---Rebel Angels.
Brenna, Beverly. The White Bicycle.
Brockenbrough, Martha. The Game of Love and Death.
Brooks, Kevin. The Bunker Diary.
Brown, Daniel James. The Boys in the Boat.
Brown, Theresa. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, and Four Patient’s Lives.
C
Calame, Don. Swim the Fly.
Cameron, Peter. Someday this Pain Will Be Useful to You.
Cameron, W. Bruce. A Dog’s Purpose.
Carpenter, Kim and Krickett. The Vow.
Carr, J.L. A Month in the Country.
Carriger, Gail. Etiquette and Espionage.
Carroll, Emily. Through the Woods.
Carter, Jimmy. Christmas in Plains.
Cashore, Kristin.
 ---Fire.
---Graceling.
Castellucci, Cecil and Nate Powell. The Year of the Beasts.
Chambers, Aidan. Dying to Know You.
Christopher, Lucy. Stolen.
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones.
Clark, Roy Peter. The Art of X-Ray Reading.
Cliff, Tony. Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling.
Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One.
Coelho, Paulo, adapted by Derek Ruiz, illustrated by Daniel Samphere. The Alchemist: a graphic novel.
Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan.
---Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.
---Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
Collins, Billy.
---Ballistics.
---Sailing Around the Room.
Collins, Suzanne.
---Catching Fire.
---Hunger Games.
---Mockingjay.
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White.
Connolly, John. The Book of Lost Things.
Coyle, Katie. Vivian Apple at the End of the World.
Crockett, S.D. After the Snow.
Crowder, Melanie. Audacity.
Crutcher, Chris.
---Athletic Shorts.
---Deadline.
---Ironman
---Period 8.
---Sledding Hill.
---Stotan!
D
Darnielle, John. Wolf in White Van.
Dashner, James.
---The Death Cure.
---The Maze Runner.
---The Scorch Trials.
Denby, David. Lit Up.
Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea.
Dessen, Sarah. Along for the Ride.
Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother.
Doctorow, Cory and Jen Wang. In Real Life.
Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See.
Donnelly, Jennifer. Revolution.
Donoghue, Emily. Room.
Downham, Jenny.
---Before I Die.
---Unbecoming
Doyle, Roddy. A Greyhound of a Girl.
Duyvis, Corrine. Otherbound.
E
Edwards, Janet. Earth Girl.
Egan, Timothy. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun.
Ellison, Kate. The Butterfly Clues.
Eliot, T.S. Four Quartets.
Emond, Stephen. Happyface.
Engle, Margarita. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings.
Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story.
Ephron, Hallie. Bibliophile’s Devotional.
F
Fama, Elizabeth. Monstrous Beauty.
Farish, Terry. The Good Braider.
Farmer, Nancy. The Lord of Opium.
Fergus, Jim. One Thousand White Women.
Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Fleischman, Paul. Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind Environmental Headlines.
Fleming, Candace. The Family Romanov.
Flinn, Alex. Cloaked.
Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl.
Foley, Jessie Ann. The Carnival at Bray.
Forman, Gayle. Where She Went.
Frank, E.R. Dime.
G
Gaiman, Neil.
 ---Mirrormask.
 ---The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
---The Sleeper and the Spindle
Garcia, Kami and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Garcia McCall, Guadalupe. Under the Mesquite.
Gardner, Sally.
---Maggot Moon.
---The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution.
Gardner, Scot. The Dead I Know.
George, Madeleine. The Difference Between You and Me.
George, Nina. The Little Paris Bookshop.
Giles, Gail. Girls Like Us.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Grange, Amanda.
---Mr. Darcy’s Diary.
---Mr. Knightley’s Diary.
Greene, Bette. The Summer of My German Soldier.
Green, John.
---The Fault in Our Stars (audio).
---The Fault in our Stars (print)
---Looking for Alaska.
Green, John and David Levithan. Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
Green, John, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle. Let It Snow.
Griffin, Adele. The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone.
H
Haddon, Mark.
---Boom!
 ---The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Hale, Shannon. Enna Burning.
Hamilton, Sheila. All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness.
Handler, Daniel. Why We Broke Up.
Hannah, Krtistin. The Nightingale
Hardinge, Frances.
       ---Cuckoo Song.
      ---The Lie Tree
Hartland, Jennie. Steve Jobs: Insanely Great.,
Hartman, Rachel. Seraphina.
Hartnett, Sonya. Golden Boys.
Hartzler, Aaron. Rapture Practice.
Hattemer, Kate. The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy.
Hautman, Pete. Rash.
Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train.
Heiligman, Deborah. Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.
Hepperman, Christine. Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty.
Herback, Geoff. Stupid Fast.
Hicks, Faith. Friends with Boys.
Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken.
Hinwood, Christine. The Returning.
Hoose, Phillip. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler.
Hornby, Nick, ed. Speaking with the Angels.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
Housden, Roger.
---Ten Poems to Change Your Life.
---Ten Poems to Open You Heart.
---Ten Poems to Set You Free.
Howe, Katherine. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.
Hubbard, Jenny.
---And We Stay.
---Paper Covers Rock.
Hutchinson, Shawn David. We Are the Ants.
I
Intrator, Sam and Megan Scribner. Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never let Me Go.
J
Jamieson, Victoria. Roller Girl.
Jarrows, Gail. Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat.
Jenkins, A.M. Repossessed.
Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men and a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
John, Anthony. The Five Flavors of Dumb.
Johnson, Alaya Dawn. The Summer Prince.
Johnson, Marilyn. This Book is Overdue!
Johnston, E.K.
---Exit, Pursued by a Bear.
 ---The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim.
Juby, Susan. 
---Nice Recovery.
---The Truth Commission.
K
Kagawa, Julie. The Iron King.
Kehoe, Stasia Ward. The Sound of Letting Go.
Kephart, Beth. Going Over.
Kessler, David. Your Food is Fooling You.
Khan, Lin Shi and Tony Perez. Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts
Kidd, Chip. Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design.
Kiely, Brendan. The Gospel of Winter.
Kindl, Patrice. Keeping the Castle.
King, A.S.
 ---Ask the Passengers.
---Everyone Sees the Ants
---I Crawl Through It
---Please Ignore Vera Dietz.
Kingsolver, Barbara.
---Another America/Otra America
---Flight Behavior.
Kinn, Gail and Jim Piazza. Four Stars: the 101 Best Movies of All Time.
Kinnell, Galway. Strong is Your Hand: Poems.
Konigsberg, Bill. The Porcupine of Truth.
Kraus, Daniel. Rotters.
Kuehn, Stephanie.
---Charm and Strange.
---Complicit.
Kuklin, Susan.
---Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out.
---No Choirboy.
L
LaBan, Elizabeth. The Tragedy Paper.
LaFevers, Robin. Grave Mercy.
Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out and Back Again.
Lake, Nick. In Darkness.
Lanagan, Margo.
---Tender Morsels.
 ---Yellowcake.
Landay, William. Defending Jacob.
Larbalestier, Justine.
---Liar.
---Razorhurst.
Leavitt, Martine. My Book of Life by Angel.
Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman.
Levithan, David.
---Every Day.
---The Lover’s Dictionary.
Lewis, C.S.
---A Horse and His Boy.
---The Last Battle.
---The Magician’s Nephew.
---The Silver Chair.
Lewis, John and Nate Powell. March, Book Two.
Lindner, April. Jane.
Lockhart, E. We Were Liars.
Ludwig, Ken. How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare.
M
MacColl, Michaela. Always Emily.
Mackell, Dandi Daley. The Silence of Murder.
Maguire, Gregory. Egg and Spoon.
Marchetta, Melina. Finnikin of the Rock.
Marcus, Kimberly. Exposed.
Matson, Morgan. Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour.
Matti, Truus. Mister Orange.
McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin.
McCann, Lisa.
 ---Cryer’s Cross.
 ---Dead to You.
McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men.
McClafferty, Carla Killough. Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment.
McCormick, Patricia. We All Fall Down.
McGovern, Cammie. Say What You Will.
McLain, Paula. The Paris Wife.
McNeal, Tom. Far Far Away.
Medina, John. Brain Rules.
Medina, Meg.
---Burn Baby Burn.
---Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass.
Meyer, Marissa.
---Cinder
---Cress
---Scarlet
Mingle, Pamela. Kissing Shakespeare.
Mitchard, Jacqueline. What We Saw At Night.
Moggach, Deborah. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Morgenstern, Erin. The Night Circus.
Mori, Kaoru. Bride’s Story, 1.
Moriarty, Jaclyn. A Corner of White.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Mullen, John. What Matters in Jane Austen?
Munro, Alice. Vintage Munro.
Murphy, Jim. Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting.
Myers, Walter Dean. Darius and Twig.
N
Nelson, Jandy.
---I’ll Give You the Sun.
---The Sky is Everywhere.
Nelson, Marilyn. How I Discovered Poetry.
Neri, G. Yummy: the Last Days of Southside Shorty.
Ness, Patrick.
---The Ask and the Answer.
---The Knife of Never Letting Go
---A Monster Calls.
---Monsters of Men.
---Rest of Us Just Live Here, The.
Neufeld, Patrick. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.
Nevin, Jennifer. All the Bright Places.
Newman, Leslea. October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
Nix, Garth.
---Abhorsen
 ---Clariel.
---Lirael
---Sabriel.
Noel, Allyson. Evermore.
O
O’Brien, Stacey. Wesley the Owl.
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
Older, Daniel Jose. Shadowshaper
Oliver, Mary.
---Dog Songs.
---Felicity.
Oppel, Kenneth.
---Airborn.
---Half Brother.
Ostlere, Cathy. Karma.
Ottavianni, Jim and Maris Wicks. Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goddall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas.
P
Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance.
Parzybok, Benjamin. Couch.
Paver, Michelle. Wolf Brother.
Peet, Mal. Tamar.
Perez, Ashley. Out of Darkness.
Perkins, Stephanie. Anna and the French Kiss.
Perry, Michael. Truck: a Love Story.
Pierce, Tamora. The First Test.
Pierson, D.C. The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar.
Podos, Rebecca. The Mystery of Hollow Places.
Portman, Frank. Andromeda Klein.
Pratchett, Terry.
---Dodger.
---A Hat Full of Sky.
---A Shepherd’s Crown.
Priest, Cherie. I Am Princess X.
Proulx, Annie. Close Range.
Q
Quick, Matthew.
---Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock.
---Silver Linings Playbook.
---Sorta Like a Rock Star.
Quindlen, Anna. Imagined London.
Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit.
Quinn, Jason. Gandhi: My Life is My Message.
Quintero, Isabel. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces.
R
Rabb, Margo. Kissing in America.
Rawlings, Majorie Kinna. The Yearling.
Resau, Laura. The Queen of Water.
Rilke, Rainer Maria.
---The Book of Hours.
---Letters to a Young Poet.
Rosenfield, Kat. Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone.
Rosoff, Meg. Picture Me Gone.
Roth, Phillip. The Plot Against America.
Roth, Veronica. Divergent.
Rowell, Rainbow.
---Eleanor and Park.
---Fangirl.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People.
Ruby, Laura. Bone Gap.
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos.
 ---Marina.
---The Prince of Mist.
---The Shadow of the Wind.
Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
S
Sachar, Louis. The Card Turner.
Saenz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. The Little Prince.
Sandler, Martin. Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During WWII
Savit, Gavriel. Anna and the Swallow Man.
Schlitz, Laura Amy. The Hired Girl.
Sedgwick, Marcus.
---The Ghosts of Heaven.
---Midwinterblood.
---Revolver.
---She is Not Invisible.
Sepetys, Ruta.
---Between Shades of Gray.  
---Out of the Easy.
---Salt to the Sea
Shabazz, Ilyasah and Kekla Magoon. X: a novel.
Sharenow, Robert. The Berlin Boxing Club.
Sheff, Nic. Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines.
Sheinkin, Steve.
---Bomb.
---Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
---The Notorious Benedict Arnold.
 ---Port Chicago 50.
Shepherd, Jean. A Christmas Story.
Shepherd, Megan. The Madman’s Daughter.
Shusterman, Neal. Challenger Deep.
Simsion, Graeme. The Rosie Project.
Silvey, Carig. Jasper Jones.
Slater, Maya. The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy.
Sloan, Robin. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Small, David. Stiches.
Smith, Alexander Gordon. Lockdown-Escape from Furnace.
Smith, Andrew.
---100 Sideways Miles.
 ---The Alex Crow.
---Grasshopper Jungle.
---Winger.
Smith, Jennifer. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
Standage, Tom. The History of the World in Six Glasses.
Standiford, Natalie. How to Say Goodbye in Robot.
Stead. Rebecca. When You Reach Me.
Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Stevenson, Noelle. Nimona.
Stewart, Amy. Girl Waits with Gun.
Stiefvater, Maggie.
---The Dream Thieves
---Raven Boys.
---Scorpio Races.
---Shiver.
---The Raven King
Stone, Tanya Lee. The Good, the Bad, the Barbie.
Stork, Francisco.
---The Last Summer of the Death Warriors.
---Marcelo in the Real World.
---The Memory of Light.
Sullivan, Tara.
---The Bitter Side of Sweet.
 ---Golden Boy.
Suma, Nova Ren.
 ---Imaginary Girls.
 ---The Walls Around Us.
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Tamaki, Jillian. Supermutant Magic Academy.
Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. This One Summer.
Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stroke of Insight.
Taylor, Laini
---Daughter of Smoke and Bones
---Days of Blood and Starlight
---Dreams of Gods and Monsters.
Teller, Janne. Nothing.
Thomas, Joyce Carol. Linda Brown You are Not Alone: Brown vs The Board of Education Decision.
Tregay, Sarah. Love and Leftovers.
Tolkien, J.R.R. Letter from Father Christmas.
Tomlinson, Heather. Toads and Diamonds.
Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces.
Toten, Teresa. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13-B
Turner, Ann. Learning to Swim: a Memoir.
Turner, Pamela. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune.
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Valente, Catherynne M. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Vance, Jack. Moth Moon.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. The Running Dream.
Van Wagenen, Maya. Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek.
Venkatraman, Padma. A Time to Dance.
Volponi, Paul. The Final Four.
Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation.
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Wallach, Tommy. We All Looked Up.
Walls, Jeannette. Half Broke Horses.
Walter, Jess. Beautiful Ruins.
Walton, Leslye. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender.
Ward, Rachel. Numbers (Num8ers)
Waters, Sara, ed. Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House.
Wecker, Helene. The Golem and the Jinni.
Wein, Elizabeth.
---Black Dove, White Raven.
---Code Name Verity.
---Rose Under Fire.
Weir, Andy. The Martian.
Whaley, John Corey.
---Highly Illogical Behavior.
---Noggin.
---Where Things Come Back.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence.
White, Robb. Deathwatch.
Winters, Cat. A Steep and Thorny Way.
Wolitzer, Meg. Belzhar.
Woodson, Jacqueline.
---Beneath a Meth Moon.
 ---Brown Girl Dreaming.
Woolston, Blythe.
---The Freak Observer.
---The MARTians
Wright, Bil. Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy.
Wynne-Jones, Tim.
 ---Blink and Caution.
---The Emperor of Any Place
XY
Yang, Gene Luen.
 ---Boxers/Saints.
---Level Up.
Yancey, Rick.
 ---The 5th Wave.
---The Monstrumologist.
Yoon, Nicola. Everything, Everything.
Yumi, Kiira. Library Wars, #1.
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Zarr, Sara. The Lucy Variations.
Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King.


Updated: 5/30/2016
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