Books Reviewed - By Author

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A

Adams, Richard - Watership Down
Allen, Sarah Addison - Garden Spells
Atwood, Margaret
Auster, Paul - The Book of Illusions

B

Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan
Brooks, Geraldine - March
Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita
Burton, Betsy - The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller
Bryson, Bill

C

Cain, Chelsea - Heartsick
Cisneros, Sandra - The House on Mango Street
Clare, Cassandra
Collins, Suzanne
Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White
Cronin, Justin - The Passage

D

Dalisay, Jose Jr. - Soledad's Sister
David, Adam - The El Bimbo Variations
DeLillo, Don - White Noise
Desai, Kiran - The Inheritance of Loss
Dunant, Sarah - The Birth of Venus

E

Egan, Jennifer - A Visit from the Goon Squad
Evanovich, Janet - One for the Money

F

Fforde, Jasper

G

Gaiman, Neil
Gaiman, Neil and Al Sarrantonio (eds.) - Stories
Giffin, Emily
Grant, Mira - Feed
Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants

H

Hanff, Helene - 84 Charing Cross Road
Harris, Charlaine
Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan - Made to Stick
Hino, Matsuri
Hoeg, Peter - Smilla's Sense of Snow
Horowitz, Anthony - Stormbreaker
Howe, Deborah and James - Bunnicula
Hughes, Richard - A High Wind in Jamaica

I

Ibbotson, Eva - Island of the Aunts
Inoue, Yasushi - Tun-huang
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go

J

Javier, Carljoe - The Kobayashi Maru of Love

K

Kaufman, Bel - Up the Down Staircase
Kosztolanyi, Deszo - Skylark

L

Lee, Ricky - Para Kay B
Lethem, Jonathan - Motherless Brooklyn
Levine, Gail Carson

M

Martin, George R.R. - Fevre Dream
McCaffrey, Anne - Dragondrums
McCarthey, Cormac - No Country For Old Men
McKinley, Robin - The Hero and the Crown
Moore, Christopher
Moore, Lorrie - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

N

Ness, Patrick - Monsters of Men
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife

O

P

Pearl, Matthew - The Dante Club
Pomerance, Bernard - The Elephant Man

Q

R

Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping

S

Saunders, George and Lane Smith - The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp
Scieszka, Jon - The Time Warp Trio: Knights of the Kitchen Table
Segal, Erich - Love Story
Sering, Tara FT - Amazing Grace
Shan, Darren - Cirque du Freak # 1: A Living Nightmare
Smith, Tom Rob
Swarup, Vikas - Slumdog Millionaire

T

Tanizaki, Junichiro - Naomi
Tyler, Anne - Breathing Lessons

U

V

W

Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle
Westerfeld, Scott - Uglies
Williams, John - Stoner
Willingham, Bill - Fables vol. 1: Legends in Exile

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Y

Z

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