Book Reviews

Reviews are sorted by author (A-Z)

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Lyrics Alley – Leila Aboulela
Between the Assassinations – Aravind Adiga
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus – Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood

B

The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
Three Sisters – Bi Feiyu
Jamrach’s Menagerie – Carol Birch

C

The Accident Man – Tom Cain
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Beijing Doll – Chun Sue
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke

D

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard – Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
The Pleasure Seekers – Tishani Doshi

E

The Informers – Bret Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

F

The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna

G

The Castle in the Pyrenees – Jostein Gaarder
Past Caring – Robert Goddard
Lord of the Flies – William Golding

H

The bridegroom: stories – Ha Jin
The Case of the Missing Servant – Tarquin Hall
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Grace Williams Says it Loud – Emma Henderson
The Unit – Ninni Holmqvist
The Seas – Samantha Hunt
Another Gulmohar Tree – Aamer Hussein

I

Nocturnes – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

J

K

The Raising – Laura Kasischke
The Master of Go – Yasunari Kawabata
The Business of Dying – Simon Kernick
11/22/63 – Stephen King
Full Dark, No Stars – Stephen King
The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen – Donna Klein
Great House – Nicole Krauss

L

Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Bourne Legacy – Eric Lustbader

M

Company of Liars – Karen Maitland
Casanova in Bolzano – Sándor Márai
Beatrice and Virgil – Yann Martel
De Hemelrat – Jan van Mersbergen [Dutch]
Morgen zijn we in Pamplona – Jan van Mersbergen
Candy – Mian Mian
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
Appetite for Reduction – Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami
Hear the Wind Sing – Haruki Murakami
Pinball, 1973 – Haruki Murakami
Audition – Ryu Murakami

N

The Girl in the Garden – Kamala Nair
Jezebel – Irène Némirovsky

O

The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
Purge – Sofi Oksanen
The Ambassador – Bragi Ólafsson
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer
Foreign Bodies – Cynthia Ozick

P

Crystal Boys – Pai Hsien-yung
My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
Repeat It Today With Tears – Anne Peile
I Curse the River of Time – Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
Snuff – Terry Pratchett

R

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie – Jean Rhys
Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew – Stuart Ross
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

S

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Fresh & Fast Vegetarian – Marie Simmons
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
Chef – Jaspreet Singh
Troll: A Love Story – Johanna Sinisalo
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
Seven Years – Peter Stamm
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

T

The Swimmer – Roma Tearne
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
Master and Man – Leo Tolstoy

U

The Ministry of Pain – Dubravka Ugrešić

V

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

W

The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

Y

The Glass Slipper and Other Stories – Shotaro Yasuoka
The Lake – Banana Yoshimoto
Cries in the Drizzle – Yu Hua

Z

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People – Farahad Zama