Book reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name.
Ayobami Adebayo – Stay With Me
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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
Isabel Allende – The Japanese Lover
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
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
Peter Behrens – Carry Me
Catherine Belknap & Natalie Telfer – Cat and Nat’s Mom Truths
Chloe Benjamin – The Immortalists
Lucia Berlin – A Manual for Cleaning Women
Tim Bowling – The Bone Sharps
Randy Boyagoda – Original Prin
Joseph Boyden – Three Day Road
Joseph Boyden – Wenjack
John Boyne – The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Geraldine Brooks – The Secret Chord
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Carol Rifka Brunt – Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – Harmless Like You
Pearl Buck – The Good Earth
Amy Jo Burns – Shiner
Susan Cain – Quiet
Morley Callaghan – Such is My Beloved
Edgar Cantero – Meddling Kids
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
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
Francis Chan – Crazy Love
Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
Gary Chapman – The Five Love Languages
David Chariandy – Brother
Bethany Chase – One Night at the Lake
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
Paul Cleave – Trust No One
Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One
Charmaine Cragg – Miss Burma
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
Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See
Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
Mark & Grace Driscoll – Real Marriage
Gene Edwards – A Tale of Three Kings
Helen Edwards & Jenny Lee Smith – My Secret Sister
Esi Edugyan – Washington Black
Omar El Akkad – American War
Alicia Elliott – A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Jennifer Egan – The Keep
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Dave Eggers – The Lifters
Dave Eggers – The Parade
Marina Endicott – Good to a Fault
Shusaku Endo – Silence
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
Joshua Ferris – To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris – The Dinner Party
Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Jonathan Safran Foer – Here I Am
E.M. Forster – A Room with a View
Claire Fuller – Swimming Lessons
Claire Fuller – Our Endless Numbered Days
Steven Galloway – The Confabulist
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – News of a Kidnapping
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bill Gaston – The World
Bill Gaston – Juliet Was A Surprise
Bill Gaston – A Mariner’s Guide to Self-Sabotage
Rachel Giese – Boys: What It Means To Become a Man
Alan Gibney – I Carried You Home
John Gould – Seven Good Reasons Not to be Good
Shilpi Somaya Gowda – The Secret Daughter
Chris Grabenstein – Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
John Green – The Fault in our Stars
John Green – Looking for Alaska
John Green – Paper Towns
Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter
Daryl Gregory – Spoonbenders
Lauren Groff – Fates and Furies
Guy Gunaratne – In Our Mad and Furious City
Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
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
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
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
Eowyn Ivey – The Snow Child
Henry James – Portrait of a Lady
Paulette Jiles – News of the World
Adam Johnson – Fortune Smiles
Crockett Johnson – Harold and the Purple Crayon
Julia Claiborne Johnson – Be Frank With Me
Wayne Johnston – The Navigator of New York
Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
Rachel Joyce – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Paul Kalanithi – When Breath Becomes Air
Han Kang – The Vegetarian
Timothy Keller – The Prodigal God
Timothy & Kathy Keller – The Meaning of Marriage
Timothy Keller – Every Good Endeavor
Timothy Keller & John Inazu – Uncommon Ground
Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
Hannah Kent – The Good People
Khaled Khalifa – Death is Hard Work
Jess Kidd – Himself
Kristin Kimball – The Dirty Life
A.S. King – Reality Boy
Michael C. Klein – Dissident Doctor
Chelene Knight – Dear Current Occupant
John Knowles – A Separate Peace
Herman Koch – The Dinner
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer – All the Broken Things
Kevin Kwan – Crazy Rich Asians
R. O. Kwon – The Incendiaries
Lori Lansens – This Little Light
Kara LaReau – The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters #1: The Jolly Regina
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
C.S. Lewis – Letters to Malcolm
C.S. Lewis – A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis – Reflections on the Psalms
Ashley Little – Confessions of a Teenage Leper
Marceline Loridan-Ivens – But You Did Not Come Back
Richard Louv – Last Child in the Woods
Annabel Lyon – The Golden Mean
Linden MacIntyre – The Bishop’s Man
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
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
Arthur Miller – The Crucible
David Mitchell – Black Swan Green
Shandi Mitchell – The Waiting Hours
Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Blue Castle
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
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
Carol Off – All We Leave Behind
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
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
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
Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Max Porter – Lanny
Adam Pottle – Voice
Steven Price – By Gaslight
Kate Quinn – The Alice Network
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
Polly Rosenwaike – Look How Happy I’m Making You
J.K. Rowling – The Casual Vacancy
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie – The Golden House
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
Sarah Selecky – Radiant Shimmering Light
Maria Semple – Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Maria Semple – Today Will Be Different
Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy
Ali Shaw – The Trees
Nilofar Shidmehr – Divided Loyalties
Lionel Shriver – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute – On the Beach
Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project
Merilyn Simonds – Refuge
Robin Sloan – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Tatjana Soli – The Lotus Eaters
Tatjana Soli – The Forgetting Tree
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
Emma Straub – Modern Lovers
Cordelia Strube – On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch
Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give
Kim Thuy – Man
Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows
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
Richard van Camp – Moccasin Square Gardens
Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese – The Tennis Partner
Katherena Vermette – The Break
Tanguy Viel – Article 353
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
Alex Williams – The Talent Thief
Deborah Willis – The Dark and Other Loves Stories
Kevin Wilson – Perfect Little World
Sarah Winman – Tin Man
Kathleen Winter – Lost in September
Michael Winter – Minister Without Portfolio
Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings
Jan Wong – Beijing Confidential
Lindsay Wong – The Woo Woo
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
Sunil Yapa – Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
Clea Young – Teardown
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
Kate Zambreno – Drifts
Gabrielle Zevin – The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Markus Zusak – I Am the Messenger
And an overview of everything I’ve read in the last six years:
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