Sunday, November 27, 2011

Reviews by Book Title: A

& Sons. David Gilbert
After Claude. Iris Owens
Against the Fall of Night. Arthur C. Clarke
The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Lan Samantha Chang
Along Came a Spider. James Patterson
An American Type. Henry Roth
Andrew's Brain. E.L. Doctorow
An Echo of Murder (William Monk #23). Anne Perry
The Anger Meridian. Kaylie Jones
American Wife. Curtis Sittenfeld
The Angel Court Affair (Commander Thomas Pitt #30). Anne Perry
Angels & Demons. Dan Brown
Angels & Insects. A.S. Byatt
The Anthologist. Nicholson Baker
Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust without Reason. Anne Roiphe
As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust (Flavia de Luce #7). Alan Bradley
As Good As Gone. Larry Watson
At the Mountains of Madness. H.P. Lovecraft
The Aviary Gate. Katie Hickman

Reviews by Book Title: B

Backstabbing in Beaujolais. Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen; trans. by Anne Trager
Beethoven's Tenth (Frank Ryan #1). Brian Harvey
Betsy-Tacy. Maud Hart Lovelace
The Body in the Wake (Faith Fairchild #25). Katherine Hall Page
The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery. Enrique Joven
The Brontes Went to Woolworths. Rachel Ferguson

Reviews by Book Title: C

Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1). John le Carré
Cards on the Table. Agatha Christie
Chatterton. Peter Ackroyd
The Children's Home. Charles Lambert
A Christmas Escape. Anne Perry
Civil To Strangers. Barbara Pym
Clea. Lawrence Durrell
Coffin, Scarcely Used (Flaxborough Chronicles #1). Colin Watson
The Concord Quartet. Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr.
Contact. Carl Sagan
The Convent. Panos Karnezis
The Cottingley Secret. Hazel Gaynor
Coup de Grâce. Marguerite Yourcenar
Cover Her Face. P.D. James
Crewel World. Monica Ferris
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon

Reviews by Book Title: D

Daisy Miller. Henry James
Damaged. Alex Kava
The Dark Is Rising. Susan Cooper
The Dead House. Billy O'Callaghan
Deadly Nightshade. Cynthia Riggs
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. Will Cuppy
Devil Sent the Rain (Detective Billy Able #3). Lisa Turner
Drawers and Booths. Ara 13
Dreaming Spies (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #13). Laurie R. King

Reviews by Book Title: E

An Echo of Murder (William Monk #23). Anne Perry
Educated: A Memoir. Tara Westover
The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Emma. Jane Austen
Eva Moves the Furniture. Margot Livesey

Reviews by Book Title: F

Farewell, Dorothy Parker. Ellen Meister
Far From True (Promise Falls #2). Linwood Barclay
The Fatal Touch. Conor Fitzgerald
A Fearful Madness. Julius Falconer
Fear the Worst. Linwood Barclay
Fer-de-Lance. Rex Stout 
The Fifth Petal. Brunonia Barry
The Fire. Katherine Neville
The Fires. Alan Cheuse
Five Children and It. E. Nesbit
The Flamethrowers. Rachel Kushner
The Flanders Panel. Arturo Perez-Reverte
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. Kate DiCamillo; illus. by K.G. Campbell
The Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. E.L. Konigsberg

Reviews by Book Title: G

The Gargoyle. Andrew Davidson
The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead. Paul Elwork
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (87th Precinct #11). Ed McBain
The Good Psychologist. Noam Shpancer
The Good Suicides. Antonio Hill
The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club. Gordon Whitehead 
The Grand Complication. Allen Kurzweil
Grave Goods. Ariana Franklin
The Great Victorian Collection. Brian Moore
Greenwitch. Susan Cooper
The Grey King. Susan Cooper
Griffin & Sabine (the first trilogy). Nick Bantock
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Guilt. Jonathan Kellerman

Reviews by Book Title: H

The Happy Hollisters. Jerry West
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. J.K. Rowling
Henrietta Sees It Through. Joyce Dennys
Hotel Du Lac. Anita Brookner
The House Next Door. Anne Rivers Siddons
The House with a Clock in Its Walls. John Bellairs
How to Be Human. Paula Cocozza
The Hypnotist. M.J. Rose

Reviews by Book Title: I

I Am No One. Patrick Flanery
The Inheritance. Simon Tolkien
Inkheart. Cornelia Funke
Innocent. Scott Turow
The Innocent Sleep. Karen Perry
The Island of Dr. Moreau. H.G. Wells

Reviews by Book Title: J

The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2). Elly Griffiths
Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury #5). Martha Grimes 
Juliet. Anne Fortier
Just Kids. Patti Smith

Reviews by Book Title: K

The Killings at Badger's Drift. Caroline Graham

Reviews by Book Title: L

The Lace Reader. Brunonia Barry
The Last Romantics. Tara Conklin
The Last September. Nina de Gramont
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie ("Sister" Jane Arnold #9). Rita Mae Brown
Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel. Garrison Keillor
The Litter of the Law. Rita Mae Brown
The Longshot. Katie Kitamura
Love and the Incredibly Old Man. Lee Siegel
Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lovely In Her Bones. Sharyn McCrumb
Love Story, With Murders. Harry Bingham

Reviews by Book Title: M

The Man in Lower Ten. Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Map of True Places. Brunonia Barry
The Master. Colm Toibin
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Robert C. O'Brien
Mrs. Malory and Death By Water. Hazel Holt
Miss Rumphius. Barbara Cooney
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas #1). Jo Dereske
A Month in the County. J.L. Carr
Mr. Chartwell. Rebecca Hunt
Mr. White's Confession. Robert Clark
My Brilliant Career. Miles Franklin
My Fantoms. Theophile Gautier
My Sister's Bones. Nuala Ellwood
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6). Agatha Christie

Reviews by Book Title: N

Nemesis (A Miss Marple Mystery). Agatha Christie 
Newport: A Novel. Jill Morrow
The Night Strangers. Chris Bohjalian

Reviews by Book Title: O

The Old Man and Me. Elaine Dundy
The Optimist's Daughter. Eudora Welty
The Other Side of the Fire. Alice Thomas Ellis
Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper

Reviews by Book Title: P

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels. Katherine Anne Porter
The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James 
The People in the Photo: A Novel. Hélène Gestern; trans. by Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz
Picnic at Hanging Rock. Joan Lindsay
The Players Come Again. Amanda Cross
The Port-Wine Stain. Norman Lock
Practical Magic. Alice Hoffman

Reviews by Book Title: Q

Quattrocento. James McKean
The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin #1). M.C. Beaton
The Quick. Lauren Owen
Quiet as a Nun. Antonia Fraser

Reviews by Book Title: R

Rabbit Is Rich. John Updike
The Raphael Affair. Iain Pears
Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857-1925. Susan Goodman
The Resurrection Maker. Glenn Cooper
A River in the Sky. Elizabeth Peters
The Roanoke Girls. Amy Engel

Reviews by Book Title: S

A Saintly Killing (Faith Morgan Mystery #3). Martha Ockley
The Seance. John Harwood
Seven-Day Magic. Edward Eager
The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios. Eric Rasmussen
Skios. Michael Frayn
Solaris. Stanislaw Lem
So Long at the Fair. Christina Schwarz
The Spider Bites. Medora Sale
Spiderweb. Penelope Lively
Summer Reading. Hilma Wolitzer
Superfudge. Judy Blume
The Swimming Pool. Holly LeCraw

Reviews by Book Title: T

Tail Gait (Mrs. Murphy #23). Rita Mae Brown
Tailspin. Sandra Brown
Tainted Tokay (Winemaker Detective #11). Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noel Balen
Tassy Morgan's Bluff. Jim Stinson
Tell Me How This Ends Well. David Samuel Levinson
Ten Lords A-Leaping. C.C. Benison
The Thirty-Nine Steps. John Buchan
This Too Shall Pass. Milena Busquets
Time Out of Join. Philip K. Dick
Tinkers. Paul Harding
To Dance with the White Dog. Terry Kay
The Transcriptionist. Amy Rowland
Twig. Elizabeth Orton Jones

Reviews by Book Title: U

The Unit. Ninni Holmqvist

Reviews by Book Title: V

The Valley of Fear. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Vanishment. Jonathan Aycliffe
Venom. Joan Brady
Victory Over Japan. Ellen Gilchrist
A Visit from the Goon Squad. Jennifer Egan

Reviews by Book Title: W

Walter the Lazy Mouse. Marjorie Flack
The Way Through the Woods. Colin Dexter
The Weird Sisters. Eleanor Brown
When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead
Wish You Were Here. Rita Mae Brown

Reviews by Book Title: X

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Reviews by Book Title: Y

Coming soon. I hope.

Reviews by Book Title: Z

Maybe someday.