Book reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name.
Ayobami Adebayo – Stay With Me
Tomi Adeyemi – Children of Blood and Bone
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
Sherman Alexie – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie – You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
Svetlana Alexievich – The Unwomanly Face of War
Andre Alexis – Fifteen Dogs
Jokha Alharthi – Bitter Orange Tree
Isabel Allende – The Japanese Lover
Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
Hala Alyan – Salt Houses
Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Gina Apostol – Bibliolepsy
Katherine Arden – The Bear and the Nightingale
Kate Atkinson – Life After Life
Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson – Transcription
Kate Atkinson – Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Margaret Atwood – The Heart Goes Last
Paul Auster – Travels in the Scriptorium
Mona Awad – Bunny
Kate Baer – What Kind of Woman
Kate Baer – I hope this finds you well
Kate Baer – And Yet
Sharon Bala – The Boat People
Heidi Barnes – The Bellman
Heidi Barnes – The Bellman’s Secret
Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
Damian Barr – You Will Be Safe Here
Gurjinder Basran – Everything was Good-Bye
Paul Beatty – The Sellout
Nancy Beach & Samantha Beach Kiley – Next Sunday
Peter Behrens – Carry Me
Billy-Ray Belcourt – A History of My Brief Body
Catherine Belknap & Natalie Telfer – Cat and Nat’s Mom Truths
David Benioff – City of Thieves
Chloe Benjamin – The Immortalists
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett – The Mothers
Lucia Berlin – A Manual for Cleaning Women
Sindya Bhanoo – Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
Chelsea Bieker – Heartbroke
A.K. Blakemore – The Manningtree Witches
Amy Bloom – Away
Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Life Together
Karina Sainz Borgo – It Would be Night in Caracas
Tim Bowling – The Bone Sharps
Randy Boyagoda – Original Prin
Joseph Boyden – Three Day Road
Joseph Boyden – Wenjack
John Boyne – The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Renee Branum – Defenestrate
Taffy Brodesser-Akner – Fleishman is in Trouble
Geraldine Brooks – The Secret Chord
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte – Villette
Carol Rifka Brunt – Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Ali Bryan – The Figgs
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – Harmless Like You
Pearl Buck – The Good Earth
Amy Jo Burns – Shiner
Susan Cain – Quiet
Morley Callaghan – Such is My Beloved
Patti Callahan – Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Maria Campbell – Halfbreed
Edgar Cantero – Meddling Kids
Lan Cao & Harlan Margaret Van Cao – Family in Six Tones
Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card – Speaker for the Dead
Peter Carey – Jack Maggs
J.L. Carr – A Month in the Country
Roch Carrier – La Guerre, Yes Sir!
Eleanor Catton – The Luminaries
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon – Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon – The Final Solution
Francis Chan – Crazy Love
Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
Clay McLeod Chapman – Ghost Eaters
Gary Chapman – The Five Love Languages
David Chariandy – Brother
Bethany Chase – One Night at the Lake
Eve Chase – The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
G.K. Chesterton – The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton – Autobiography
Denise Chong – Egg on Mao
Kevin Chong – Beauty Plus Pity
Yangsze Choo – The Night Tiger
Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None
Michael Christie – If I Fall, If I Die
Ye Chun – Hao
Kerry Clare – Waiting for a Star to Fall
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Paul Cleave – Trust No One
Lee Conell – The Party Upstairs
Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One
Ivan Coyote – Rebent Sinner
Charmaine Cragg – Miss Burma
Kirsten Cram – Starling
Eva Crocker – Barrelling Forward
Katie Crouch – Abroad
Michael Crummey – Galore
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney – The Nest
Leesa Dean – Waiting for the Cyclone
Rene Denfeld – The Enchanted
Kate DiCamillo – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens – Nicholas Nickleby
Francesco Dimitri – Never the Wind
Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See
Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
Emma Donoghue – Astray
Emma Donoghue – The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue – Haven
Sara Downing – I Let You Fall
Mark & Grace Driscoll – Real Marriage
Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca
Esi Edugyan – Washington Black
Esi Edugyan – Out of the Sun
Gene Edwards – A Tale of Three Kings
Helen Edwards & Jenny Lee Smith – My Secret Sister
Jennifer Egan – The Keep
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Dave Eggers – The Lifters
Dave Eggers – The Parade
Francesca Ekwuyasi – Butter Honey Pig Bread
Omar El Akkad – American War
Omar El Akkad – What Strange Paradise
Alicia Elliott – A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Salma El-Wardany – These Impossible Things
Marina Endicott – Good to a Fault
Shusaku Endo – Silence
Shusaku Endo – Samurai
Louise Erdrich – The Sentence
Juliet Escoria – Juliet the Maniac
Jeffrey Eugenides – The Marriage Plot
Diana Evans – Ordinary People
Rachel Held Evans – A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Joanna Faber & Julie King – How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen
J. Meade Falkner – Moonfleet
Hans Fallada – Every Man Dies Alone
Fang Fang – Wuhan Diary
Genki Ferguson – Satellite Love
Joshua Ferris – To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris – The Dinner Party
Henry Fielding – Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Jonathan Safran Foer – Here I Am
E.M. Forster – A Room with a View
Carlos Fuentes – The Orange Tree
Claire Fuller – Swimming Lessons
Claire Fuller – Our Endless Numbered Days
Neil Gaiman – Chivalry
Rivka Galchen – Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Joanne Gallant – A Womb in the Shape of a Heart
Steven Galloway – The Confabulist
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – News of a Kidnapping
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bonnie Garmus – Lessons in Chemistry
Natalie Eve Garrett – The Lonely Stories
Bill Gaston – The World
Bill Gaston – Juliet Was A Surprise
Bill Gaston – A Mariner’s Guide to Self-Sabotage
Yan Ge – Strange Beasts of China
Rachel Giese – Boys: What It Means To Become a Man
Alan Gibney – I Carried You Home
Michelle Good – Five Little Indians
John Gould – Seven Good Reasons Not to be Good
Shilpi Somaya Gowda – The Secret Daughter
Chris Grabenstein – Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
Marlowe Granados – Happy Hour
John Green – The Fault in our Stars
John Green – Looking for Alaska
John Green – Paper Towns
Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene – The Quiet American
Graham Greene – The Human Factor
Graham Greene – The End of the Affair
Daryl Gregory – Spoonbenders
Lauren Groff – Fates and Furies
Guy Gunaratne – In Our Mad and Furious City
Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi – Transcendent Kingdom
Mark Haddon – The Porpoise
Matt Haig – The Humans
Mohsin Hamid – Exit West
Helene Hanff – 84, Charing Cross Road
Kristin Hannah – The Nightingale
Emma Hansen – Still
Nino Haratischvili – The Eighth Life (for Brilka)
Zakiya Dalila Harris – The Other Black Girl
Tiffany Clarke Harrison – Blue Hour
Sara N. Harvey – Death Benefits
Noah Hawley – Before the Fall
Elizabeth Hay – Alone in the Classroom
Elizabeth Hay – His Whole Life
Mark Helprin – Winter’s Tale
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway – The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway – The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
Rebecca Hendry – Grace River
Emily Henry – Beach Read
Sheila Heti – Motherhood
Naoki Higashida – Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8
Gail Honeyman – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Emma Hooper – Our Homesick Songs
Emma Hooper – We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky
Nick Hornby – A Long Way Down
Gabe Hudson – Gork, the Teenage Dragon
Ann Hui – Chop Suey Nation
Megan Hunter – The End We Start From
John Inazu & Timothy Keller – Uncommon Ground
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun
Eowyn Ivey – The Snow Child
Heidi L.M. Jacobs – Molly of the Mall
Chantal James – None but the Righteous
Henry James – Portrait of a Lady
Karen Jennings – An Island
Paulette Jiles – News of the World
Adam Johnson – Fortune Smiles
Crockett Johnson – Harold and the Purple Crayon
Daisy Johnson – Sisters
Julia Claiborne Johnson – Be Frank With Me
Wayne Johnston – The Navigator of New York
Rachel Joyce – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Paul Kalanithi – When Breath Becomes Air
Han Kang – The Vegetarian
Katłıà – Land-Water-Sky
Katłįà – This House is not a Home
Rebecca Kauffman – Chorus
Patrick Radden Keefe – Say Nothing
Timothy Keller – The Prodigal God
Timothy & Kathy Keller – The Meaning of Marriage
Timothy Keller – Every Good Endeavor
Timothy Keller & John Inazu – Uncommon Ground
Timothy Keller – Hope in Times of Fear
Timothy Keller – Forgive
Randall Kenan – If I Had Two Wings
Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
Hannah Kent – The Good People
Khaled Khalifa – Death is Hard Work
Jonas Hassen Khemiri – The Family Clause
Jess Kidd – Himself
Bernardine Kielty – A Treasury of Short Stories
Samantha Beach Kiley & Nancy Beach – Next Sunday
Kristin Kimball – The Dirty Life
A.S. King – Reality Boy
Thomas King – Indians on Vacation
Thomas King – Sufferance
Michael C. Klein – Dissident Doctor
T.J. Klune – The House in the Cerulean Sea
Chelene Knight – Dear Current Occupant
Eric Knight – Lassie Come Home
John Knowles – A Separate Peace
Kristin Kobes du Mez – Jesus and John Wayne
Herman Koch – The Dinner
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer – All the Broken Things
Kevin Kwan – Crazy Rich Asians
R. O. Kwon – The Incendiaries
Sarah Lahey – Nostalgia is Heartless
Caitriona Lally – Eggshells
Lori Lansens – This Little Light
Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe – Red Paint
Kara LaReau – The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters #1: The Jolly Regina
Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls
Jenny Lawson – Furiously Happy
Mary Lawson – Crow Lake
Jen Sookfong Lee – The Conjoined
Jing-Jing Lee – How We Disappeared
Madeleine L’Engle – The Moment of Tenderness
Natasha Lester – The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre
C.S. Lewis – Letters to Malcolm
C.S. Lewis – A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis – Reflections on the Psalms
C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
Ashley Little – Confessions of a Teenage Leper
Marceline Loridan-Ivens – But You Did Not Come Back
Richard Louv – Last Child in the Woods
Brenda Lozano – Witches
Annabel Lyon – The Golden Mean
Ling Ma – Severance
Linden MacIntyre – The Bishop’s Man
Alexander MacLeod – Animal Person
Alistair MacLeod – No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod – Remembrance
Andrea MacPherson – When She Was Electric
Rebecca Makkai – Music for Wartime
Anthony Marra – A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Yann Martel – Beatrice & Virgil
Yann Martel – The High Mountains of Portugal
Eternity Martis – They Said This Would Be Fun
Daniel Mason – A Registry Of My Passage Upon the Earth
Gabor Mate & Gordon Neufeld – Hold On To Your Kids
Dan Mayland – The Doctor of Aleppo
Eimear McBride – The Lesser Bohemians
Will McCallum – How to Give up Plastic
Colum McCann – Transatlantic
Colum McCann – Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann – This Side of Brightness
Mary McCarthy – The Company She Keeps
Jay McInerney – Bright Lights, Big City
Ami McKay – The Birth House
James Meek – The People’s Act of Love
Semezdin Mehmedinovic – My Heart
Joseph Auguste Merasty – The Education of Augie Merasty
Thomas Merton – Seven Storey Mountain
Anne Michaels – The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels – The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
Anne Michaels – The Further Adventures of Miss Petitfour
Liz Michalski – Darling Girl
Arthur Miller – The Crucible
Madeline Miller – The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller – Circe
Lydia Millet – A Children’s Bible
Czeslaw Milosz – A Book of Luminous Things
Fatima Farheen Mirza – A Place for Us
David Mitchell – Black Swan Green
David Mitchell – Utopia Avenue
Shandi Mitchell – The Waiting Hours
Premee Mohamed – The Annual Migration of Clouds
Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Blue Castle
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Ottessa Moshfegh – Eileen
Farley Mowat – The Curse of the Viking Grave
Téa Mutonji – Shut Up You’re Pretty
Jane Nelsen – Positive Discipline
Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Mate – Hold On To Your Kids
Celeste Ng – Our Missing Hearts
Bao Ninh – The Sorrow of War
Susin Nielsen – We Are All Made of Molecules
Chigozie Obioma – An Orchestra of Minorities
Edna O’Brien – The Little Red Chairs
Tim O’Brien – Going After Cacciato
Jessica O’Dwyer – Mother Mother
Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet & Judith
Maggie O’Farrell – The Marriage Portrait
Carol Off – All We Leave Behind
Alix Ohlin – We Want What We Want
Audur Ava Olafsdottir – Butterflies in November
Michael Ondaatje – In the Skin of a Lion
Heather O’Neill – Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O’Neill – Daydreams of Angels
Heather O’Neill – The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Heather O’Neill – When We Lost Our Heads
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia – The Son of the House
Julie Orringer – How to Breathe Underwater
Lauren Owen – The Quick
Helen Oyeyemi – What is not Yours is not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi – The Icarus Girl
R.J. Palacio – Wonder
Grace Paley – The Collected Stories
Elizabeth Pantley – The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Ann Patchett – This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett – Bel Canto
Ann Patchett – Commonwealth
Julie Paul – The Pull of the Moon
Pamela Paul & Maria Russo – How to Raise a Reader
Brian Payton – The Wind is not a River
Stef Penney – The Tenderness of Wolves
Sara Pennypacker – Pax
Maxwell Perkins – The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
Tom Perrotta – Little Children
Andrew Peterson – At the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Kate Reed Petty – True Story
Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Max Porter – Lanny
Adam Pottle – Voice
Steven Price – By Gaslight
Karen Swallow Prior – On Reading Well
Anna Qu – Made in China
Kate Quinn – The Alice Network
Pilar Quintana – Abyss
Michael Redhill – Bellevue Square
Raziel Reid – Kens
Dana Reinhardt – Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea
Ransom Riggs – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Eden Robinson – Monkey Beach
Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson – Jack
Sally Rooney – Normal People
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Polly Rosenwaike – Look How Happy I’m Making You
J.K. Rowling – The Casual Vacancy
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Etaf Rum – A Woman is No Man
Salman Rushdie – The Golden House
Maria Russo & Pamela Paul – How to Raise a Reader
Layla F. Saad – Me and White Supremacy
Marka Sakamoto – Forgiveness
Laura Schroff – An Invisible Thread
Martina Scholtens – Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist
Emily Schultz – The Blondes
Samantha Schweblin – Little Eyes
Amber Scorah – Leaving the Witness
Paul Seesequasis – Blanket Toss Under the Midnight Sun
Sarah Selecky – Radiant Shimmering Light
Maria Semple – Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Maria Semple – Today Will Be Different
Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy
Diane Setterfield – Once Upon a River
Ali Shaw – The Trees
Eleanor Shearer – River Sing Me Home
Nilofar Shidmehr – Divided Loyalties
Ken Shigematsu – God in My Everything
Lionel Shriver – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Parini Shroff – The Bandit Queens
Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute – On the Beach
Nevil Shute – Pastoral
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project
Merilyn Simonds – Refuge
Robin Sloan – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Graeme Smith – The Dogs Are Eating Them Now
Tatjana Soli – The Lotus Eaters
Tatjana Soli – The Forgetting Tree
Gaetan Soucy – The Little Girl Who was Too Fond of Matches
Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle
Patti Smith – Just Kids
Zadie Smith – White Teeth
Zadie Smith – The Embassy of Cambodia
Amy Spurway – Crow
Kara Stanley – Ghost Warning
M.L. Stedman – The Light Between Oceans
Garth Stein – The Art of Racing in the Rain
John Steinbeck – The Pearl
John Steinbeck – The Winter of our Discontent
Susie Steiner – Missing, Presumed
Robert Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped
Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel – The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel – Sea of Tranquility
Emma Straub – Modern Lovers
Cordelia Strube – On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light
Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch
Dizz Tate – Brutes
Brandon Taylor – Real Life
Emily J. Taylor – Hotel Magnifique
Helen Taylor – Little Pilgrim’s Progress
Souvankham Thammavongsa – How to Pronounce Knife
Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give
Joan Thomas – Five Wives
Kim Thuy – Man
Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews – Fight Night
Miriam Toews – Women Talking
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob
J.R.R. Tolkien – Roverandom
Dania Tomlinson – Our Animal Hearts
Amor Towles – A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles – Rules of Civility
P.L. Travers – The Fox at the Manger
Alex Tresniowski – An Invisible Thread
Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
Stuart Turton – The Devil and the Dark Water
Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Catherynne M. Valente – The Past is Red
Richard van Camp – Moccasin Square Gardens
Harlan Margaret Van Cao & Lan Cao – Family in Six Tones
Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese – The Tennis Partner
Katherena Vermette – The Break
Vendela Vida – We Run the Tides
Tanguy Viel – Article 353
Nghi Vo – The Chosen and the Beautiful
David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
Jeannette Walls – Half Broke Horses
Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
Jonathan Weisman – No. 4 Imperial Lane
Tara Westover – Educated
Zoe Whittall – The Best Kind of People
Zoe Whittall – Holding Still for as Long as Possible
Khristin Wierman – Buck’s Pantry
Alex Williams – The Talent Thief
Lara Williams – The Odyssey
Deborah Willis – The Dark and Other Loves Stories
G. Willow Wilson – The Bird King
Kevin Wilson – Perfect Little World
Sarah Winman – Tin Man
Kathleen Winter – Lost in September
Michael Winter – Minister Without Portfolio
Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer – The Female Persuasion
Jan Wong – Beijing Confidential
Lindsay Wong – The Woo Woo
N.T. Wright – God and the Pandemic
Diana Wynne Jones – Howl’s Moving Castle
xwu’p’a’lich, Barbara Higgins – Etched in my Memory
Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life
Philip Yancey – What’s So Amazing About Grace?
Philip Yancey – Reaching for the Invisible God
Philip Yancey – The Jesus I Never Knew
Philip Yancey – Prayer
Philip Yancey – Where the Light Fell
Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
Susie Yang – White Ivy
Sunil Yapa – Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Kelly Yang – Front Desk
Kelly Yang – New From Here
Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
Kwon Yeo-sun – Lemon
Clea Young – Teardown
Danielle Younge-Ullman – He Must Like You
Charles Yu – Interior Chinatown
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
Kate Zambreno – Drifts
Gabrielle Zevin – The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Leni Zumas – Red Clocks
Markus Zusak – I Am the Messenger
And an overview of everything I’ve read in the last six years:
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