A list of my 2011 book reviews by author. Click the letter to jump to the corresponding section.

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• Y
• Z

A

• Ackerman, Diane–The Zookeeper’s Wife–3 Stars
• Andrews, Mary Kay–The Fixer Upper (read by Isabel Keating)–4 Stars
• Austen, Jane–Mansfield Park–3 Stars

B

• Barry, John M.–Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America–2.5 Stars
• Bishop, Anne–Daughter of the Blood–4.5 Stars
• Bishop, Anne–Heir to the Shadows–4 Stars
• Bishop, Anne–The Invisible Ring–3 Stars
• Bishop, Anne–Queen of the Darkness–4 Stars
• Bond, Victoria and T. R. Simon–Zora and Me–4 Stars
• Brennert, Alan–Moloka’i–4 Stars
• Briggs, Patricia–Blood Bound–4 Stars
• Brooks, Geraldine–People of the Book–4 Stars
• Brokaw, Tom–The Greatest Generation–4 Stars
• Brown, Dan–Deception Point–4 Stars
• Bryson, Bill–At Home: A Short History of Private Life–4 Stars
• Burgis, Stephanie–Kat, Incorrigible–4 Stars
• Butcher, Jim–Fool Moon–4 Stars
• Buzbee, Lewis–The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop–3 Stars

C

• Campion, Emma–The King’s Mistress–3 Stars
• Carey, Jacqueline–Kushiel’s Dart–4 Stars
• Cashore, Kristin–Graceling–5 Stars
• Clason, George S.–The Richest Man in Babylon–3 Stars
• Clayton, Emma–The Roar–4 Stars
• Cline, Ernest–Ready Player One–4 Stars
• Coben, Harlan–The Woods–3 Stars
• Collins, Suzanne–Mockingjay–4 Stars
• Connelly, Michael–The Lincoln Lawyer–4.5 Stars

D

• Dashner, James–The Maze Runner (read by Mark Deakins)–2 Stars
• David, Peter, Stephen King, et al.–The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born–3 Stars
• de Bernières, Louis–Corelli’s Mandolin–3 Stars
• de Lint, Charles–The Dreaming Place–3 Stars
• de Lint, Charles–Dreams Underfoot–5 Stars
• de Lint, Charles–Jack of Kinrowan–3.5 Stars
• Dokey, Cameron–Wild Orchid: A Retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan”–3 Stars
• Dunant, Sarah–In the Company of the Courtesan–3.5 Stars
• Duncan, Pamela–Plant Life–4 Stars

E

• Eland, Lindsay–Scones and Sensibility–4 Stars
• Elder, Janet–Huck–3 Stars
• Evanovich, Janet–Three to Get Deadly–4 Stars
• Evanovich, Janet–Two for the Dough–4 Stars

F

• Ferris, Jean–Twice Upon a Marigold–3 Stars
• Foer, Jonathan Safran–Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close–4 Stars
• Franklin, Ariana–Mistress of the Art of Death–4 Stars
• Funke, Cornelia–When Santa Fell to Earth (translated by Oliver G. Latsch, read by the author)–3 Stars

G

• Gaiman, Neil–The Graveyard Book–5 Stars
• Gaiman, Neil and Charles Vess–Instructions–5 Stars
• Gaiman, Neil–M is for Magic (read by the author)–4 Stars
• Gaiman, Neil–Odd and the Frost Giants–4 Stars
• Gaiman, Neil and Charles Vess–Stardust–5 Stars
• Gaskell, Elizabeth–North and South–4 Stars
• George, Margaret–Mary, Called Magdalene–3 Stars
• Gilbert-Lurie, Leslie and Rita Lurie–Bending Toward the Sun–4 Stars
• Grann, David–The Lost City of Z (read by Mark Deakins)–3 Stars
• Groff, Lauren–The Monsters of Templeton–3 Stars
• Gruen, Sara–Water for Elephants–4 Stars

H

• Hale, Shannon–Austenland (read by Katherine Kellgren)–3.5 Stars
• Hale, Shannon–The Goose Girl–4.5 Stars
• Hale, Shannon and Dean–Rapunzel’s Revenge (illustrated by Nathan Hale)–3 Stars
• Hanff, Helene–84, Charing Cross Road–3 stars
• Harmon, Ken–The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir–3.5 Stars
• Helprin, Mark–Winter’s Tale–3 Stars
• Hill, Joe–Heart-Shaped Box–4 Stars
• Hill, Joe–Horns–4 Stars
• Hillenbrand, Laura–Seabiscuit: An American Legend–4 Stars
• Hinds, Gareth–The Odyssey–4 Stars
• Hurston, Zora Neale–Their Eyes Were Watching God–4 Stars

J

• Jackson, Shirley–The Haunting of Hill House (read by David Warner)–2.5 Stars
• Jackson, Shirley–We Have Always Lived in the Castle–4 Stars
• Jeffers, Regina–The Phantom of Pemberley–DNF
• Jones, Diana Wynne–Howl’s Moving Castle–5 Stars
• Jones, Edward P.–The Known World–4 Stars
• Jordan, Christy–Southern Plate–4 Stars

K

• Kelly, Jacqueline–The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate–5 Stars
• King, Stephen–Cujo–3.5 Stars
• King, Stephen–Just After Sunset–4 Stars
• King, Stephen–‘Salem’s Lot–4 Stars
• Kingsolver, Barbara–The Poisonwood Bible–2 Stars
• Krakauer, Jon–Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster–4 Stars
• Krauss, Nicole–The History of Love–3 Stars

L

• Lackey, Mercedes–Fortune’s Fool–4 Stars
• Lackey, Mercedes–One Good Knight–3 Stars
• Latham, Irene–Leaving Gee’s Bend–4 Stars
• Levi, Primo–Survival in Auschwitz (translated by Stuart Woolf)–3 Stars
• Lowry, Lois–Number the Stars–4 Stars

M

• Martin, George R. R.–A Clash of Kings–5 Stars
• Martin, George R. R.–A Storm of Swords–5 Stars
• Matheson, Richard–I Am Legend–4 Stars
• Mayle, Peter–A Year in Provence–4 Stars
• Millar, Martin–The Good Fairies of New York–3 Stars
• Moore, Christopher–A Dirty Job–4 Stars
• Moore, Christopher–Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (read by Bill Irwin)–4 Stars
• Morris, Paula–Ruined–3 Stars
• Mosse, Kate–Labyrinth–2 Stars
• Mull, Brandon–Fablehaven–4 Stars
• Mull, Brandon–A World Without Heroes–4 Stars
• Mustian, Mark T.–The Gendarme–3 Stars

N

• Naslund, Sena Jeter–Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette–4 Stars
• Naslund, Sena Jeter–Adam & Eve–2 Stars
• Nix, Garth–Sabriel–3 Stars

O

• Ogawa, Yoko–The Housekeeper and the Professor (translated by Stephen Snyder)–4 Stars

P

• Paterson, Katherine–Bridge to Terabithia–3 Stars
• Penney, Stef–The Tenderness of Wolves–4 Stars
• Perkins-Valdez, Dolen–Wench (read by Robynne Young)–DNF
• Pilkey, Dav–The Adventures of Captain Underpants –4 Stars

R

• Reger, Rob, et al.–Emily the Strange: The Lost Days–3 Stars
• Riordan, Rick–The Battle of the Labyrinth–4 Stars
• Riordan, Rick–The Last Olympian–4 Stars
• Riordan, Rick–The Sea of Monsters–4 Stars
• Roach, Mary–Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers–4 Stars
• Rosoff, Meg–How I Live Now–3 Stars
• Rothfuss, Patrick–The Name of the Wind–4.5 Stars
• Rowling, J. K.–The Tales of Beedle the Bard–3 Stars

S

• Sansom, C. J.–Dissolution–4 Stars
• Satrapi, Marjane–Embroideries–4 Stars
• Satrapi, Marjane–Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (translated by Mattias Ripa)–4 Stars
• Scott, Michael–The Alchemyst (read by Denis O’Hare)–3 Stars
• Sedaris, David–Holidays on Ice–DNF
• See, Lisa–Snow Flower and the Secret Fan–3.5 Stars
• Seraji, Mahbod–The Rooftops of Tehran–4 Stars
• Shelley, Mary–Frankenstein–3 Stars
• Shusterman, Neal–Everlost (read by Nick Podehl)–2.5 Stars
• Simonson, Helen–Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (read by Peter Altschuler)–4.5 Stars
• Smith, Deborah–Alice at Heart–4 Stars
• Smith, Jeff–Bone: Out from Boneville–3 Stars
• Smith, Scott–The Ruins–2.5 Stars
• Solomons, Natasha–Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English–4 Stars
• Soueif, Ahdaf–The Map of Love–3 Stars
• Spiegelman, Art–Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History–5 Stars
• Spiegelman, Art–Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began–5 Stars
• Steinbach, Alice–Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman–4 Stars
• Steinbeck, John–East of Eden–4 Stars
• Stiefvater, Maggie–Linger–4 Stars

T

• Talmadge, Eva and Justin Taylor–The Word Made Flesh–3 Stars
• Tan, Shaun–The Arrival–4 Stars
• Thompson, Craig–Blankets–4 Stars
• Tolstoy, Leo–Anna Karenina (translated by Constance Garnett)–3 Stars
• Trigiani, Adriana–Big Cherry Holler–3 Stars
• Trigiani, Adriana–Big Stone Gap–4 Stars

V

• Vaughn, Carrie–Kitty and the Midnight Hour (read by Marguerite Gavin)–3 Stars

W

• Walker, Alice–The Color Purple–4 Stars
• White, Karen–The House on Tradd Street–3.5 Stars
• Willig, Lauren–The Mischief of the Mistletoe–4 Stars

Y

• Yancey, Rick–The Monstrumologist–4 Stars
• Yovanoff, Brenna–The Replacement–3.5 Stars

Z

• Zelazny, Roger–Nine Princes in Amber–3 Stars

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