2014
04.27.2014; The Invention of Wings; Sue Monk Kidd; **** 04.13.2014; The Silent Wife; A.S.A. Harrison; ** 03.31.2014; Where’d You Go, Bernadette; Maria Semple; ****1/2 03.30.2014; We are Water; Wall Lamb; ***1/2 03.15.2014; The Interestings; Meg Wolitzer; **** 02.27.2014; The Goldfinch; Donna Tartt; ****1/2 02.15.2014; Me Before You; Jojo Moyes; ***1/2 02.09.2014; This is Where I Leave You; Jonathan Tropper; **** 02.06.2014; How Full is Your Bucket; Tom Rath and Donald Clifton; *** 02.05.2013; The Fault in Our Stars; John Green; **** 01.26.2014; The Good Lord Bird; James McBride; **** 01.10.2014; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; Karen Joy Fowler; **** 01.03.2014; The Coldest Girl in Coldtown; Holly Black; ***2013
12.30.2013; Playing Dead; Julia Heaberling, ***1/2 12.17.2013; Who Will Run the Frog Hospital; Lorrie Moore; ***1/2 12.15.2013; The Cuckoo’s Calling; Robert Galbraith; ****1/2 12.05.2013; A Gate at the Stairs; Lorrie Moore; ****1/2 12.01.201; The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet; Jamie Ford; *** 11.10.2013; Raven Stole the Moon; Garth Stein; ***1/2 10.31.2013; The Uncoupling; Meg Wolitzer; **** 10.13.2013; The Silver Star; Jeannette Walls; *** 10.11.2013; Half Broke Horses; Jeannette Walls; **** 10.08.2013; Cutting for Stone; Abraham Verghese; ****1/2 09.29.2013; Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand; Helen Simonson; **** 09.20.2013; The Lifeboat; Charlotte Rogan; **** 09.08.2013; The Sojourn; Andrew Krivak; ***1/2 09.01.2013; Ellen Foster; Kaye Gibbons; ***1/2 08.25.2013; American Rust, Philipp Meyer; **** 08.15.2013; Jewelweed; David Rhodes; ***1/2 08.09.2013; The Dinner; Herman Koch; ***1/2 08.07.2013; The Red House; Mark Haddon; **1/2 07.23.2013; The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope; Rhonda Rile; *** 07.07.2013; Little Altars Everywhere; Rebecca Wells; *** 06.30.2013; Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls; David Sedaris; ***1/2 06.21.2013; Gold; Chris Cleave; ****1/2 06.17.2013; The Financial Lifes of the Poets; Jess Walter; ***1/2 06.10.2013; Burgess Boys; Elizabeth Strout; **** 05.27.2013; Benediction; Kent Haruf; ****1/2 05.24.2013; We Live in Water; Jess Walter; **** 05.18.2013; Let the Great World Spring; Colum McCann; ****1/2 05.08.2013;The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society; Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows;****1/2 05.06.2013; Amy and Isabelle; Elizabeth Strout; **** 04.20.2013; Those Who Save Us; Jenna Blum; ***1/2 04.07.2013; Olive Kitteridge; Elizabeth Strout; ****1/2 03.28.2013; The Language of Flowers; Vanessa Diffenbaugh; ****1/2 03.24.2013; World War Z; Max Brooks; **** 03.15.2013; Nothing to Confess; Donald Hrick; ***1/2 03.12.2013; Arcadia; Lauren Groff; ****1/2 03.10.2013; Canada; Richard Ford; *** 02.21.2013; Twelve Tribes of Hattie; Ayana Mathis; **** 02.17.2013; Defending Jacob; William Landay; **** 02.01.2013; Truth Like the Sun; Jim Lynch; **** 01.27.2013; Imperfect Birds; Anne Lamott; *** 01.16.2013; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Ben Fountain; ****1/2 01.13.2013; Wild; Cheryl Strayed; ***1/2 01.06.2013; Flight Behavior; Barbara Kingsolver; ****1/22012
12.30.2012 The Ninth Wife; Amy Stolls; *** 12.13.2012; The Age of Miracles; Karen Thompson Walker; **** 12.08.2012; Wonder; R.J. Palacio; ***1/2 11.27.2012; The End of Your Life Book Club; Will Schwalbe; ****1/2 11.21.2012; The Round House; Louise Erdrich; ****1/2 11.13.2012; Sutton; R.E. Moehringer; ***1/2 11.04.2012; The Orchardist; Amanda Copling; **** 10.27.2012; The Marriage Plot; Jeffrey Eugenides, *** 10.01.2012; Beautiful Ruins; Jess Walter, ***** 09.24.2012; Penelope; Rebecca Harrington, *** 09.18.2012; The Dog Stars; Peter Heller, ****1/2 09.12.2012; The Cement Garden; Ian McEwan, *** 09.10.2012; The Berlin Boxing Club; Robert Sharenow, **** 09.06.2012; Gone Girl; Gillian Flynn, **** 09.01.2012; The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry; Rachel Joyce, **** 08.26.2012; The Weird Sisters; Eleanor Brown, **** 08.17.2012; Home; Toni Morrison, ***1/2 08.16.2012; Tell the Wolves I’m Home; Carol Rifka Brunt, ****1/2 08.14.2012; The History of a Pleasure Seeker; Richard Mason, ** 08.12.2012; The Cat’s Table; Michael Ondaatje, **** 08.09.2012; The Tiger’s Wife; Tea Obreht, **** 07.29.2012; Light a Penny Candle; Maeve Binchy, * 07.15.2012; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith, **** 07.05.2012; The Beginners’ Goodbye, Anne Tyler, ***1/2 07.01.2012; The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt, **** 06.24.2012; Consequences, Penelope Lively, ** 06.16.2012; The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson, **** 06.03.2012; Salvage the Bones; Jesmyn Ward, ****1/2 06.02.2012; Doc, Maria Doria Russell, **** 05.16.2012; In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson, **1/2 04.8.2012; Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett, ****1/2 04.13.2012; The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman, ***1/2 03.18.2012; Swamplandia!, Karen Russell, **** 03.09.2012; The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, *** 02.27.2012; Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks, **** 02.22.2012; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, ****1/2 02.19.2012; The Night Circus, Erin Morgensten, ***1/2 02.07.2012; A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan**** 01.31.2012; One Day, David Nicholls, ***1/2 01.21.2012; The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz **** 01.13.2012, The Poison Tree, Erin Kelly ***1/2 01.03.2012, Ed King, David Guterson ****2011
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins; *** 1/2 The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, **** Razing Jake, Charlie Carilo, ****1/2 How Evan Broke his Head and Other Secrets, Garth Stein, **** Mocking Jay, Suzanne Collins, *** Room, Emma Donoghue, ****1/2 Three James, (Author???), **** Letter from Point Clear, Dennis McFarlan, **** Fugitive Pieces, Anne, Michaels, *** The Paris Wife, Paula McLain, ***1/2 The Other, David Guterson, ***1/2 The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Walter Mosley, ****1/2 Sister Mine, Tawni O’Dell, *** Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt, **** The Metropolis Case, Matthew Gallaway, **** Keeping Time, Stacey McGlynn, *** Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich, ***1/2 Fall of Giants, Ken Follett, *** Faith, Jennifer Haigh, **** The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, ***** The Confession, John Grisham, ***1/2 The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff, **** Calebs Crossing, Geraldine Brooks, **** State of Wonder, Ann Patchett, ****1/2 Gone with a Handsome Man, Michael Lee West, **1/2 Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand, ***1/2 The Vices, Lawrence Douglas, ***1/2 The Astral, Kate Christensen, *** Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam, **1/2 The Gap Year, Sarah Bird, **1/2 The Thing We Didn’t Say, Sarah Bird, *** The Way Things Look to Me, Roopa Farooki, ***1/2 The Witch of Hebron, James Howard Kunstler, ****1/2 The Things We Cherished, Pam Jenoft, *** Father Mucker, Greg Olear, ***1/2 World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler, ***1/2 The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman, ****1/2 One Second After, William Forstchen, **1/2
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