Book Reviews

A	Previous reviews alphabetically by author: Christina Adam Any Small Thing Can Save You \| Caroline Adderson Sitting Practice \| Chris Adrian Gob's Grief \| Cecelia Ahern PS, I Love You \| Sherman Alexie Ten Little Indians \| Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune \| Isabel Allende Zorro: A Novel \| Kristin Allio Garner \| Julia Alvarez Saving the World \| Gail Anderson-Dargatz Turtle Valley \| Nick Arvin Articles of War \| Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin \| Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake \| Paul Auster Timbuktu \| Paul Auster Travels in the Scriptorium \| Ellis Avery The Teahouse Fire \|
B	Richard Bachman Blaze \| Charlotte Bacon Lost Geography \| Kevin Baker Dreamland \| Kevin Baker Paradise Alley \| Melissa Bank The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing \| Keith Banner The Life I Lead \| Lauren Baratz-Logsted The Thin Pink Line \| Clive Barker Coldheart Canyon \| Julian Barnes Love, Etc. \| Dean Barrett Kingdom of Make-Believe \| Rebecca Barry Later, at the Bar \| Rick Bass The Hermit's Story \| Tricia Bauer Hollywood and Hardwood \| Christian Bauman The Ice Beneath You \| Charles Baxter Saul and Patsy \| Lauren Belfer City of Light \| Aimee Bender An Invisible Sign of My Own \| Elizabeth Benedict The Practice of Deceit \| David Bezmozgis Natasha and Other Stories \| Bertice Berry The Haunting of Hip Hop \| Amy Bloom Away \| Beverly Bloomberg The Last Hollywood Romance \| John Blumenthal Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour \| Dennis Bock The Ash Garden \| Eavan Boland The Lost Land \| Amanda Boyden Pretty Little Dirty \| Elizabeth Botsford Fall Girl \| William Boyd Fascination \| Gayle Brandeis The Book of Dead Birds \| Susie Bright The Best American Erotica \| Kevin Brockmeier The Brief History of the Dead \| Geraldine Brooks March \| Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code \| Larry Brown A Miracle of Catfish \| Loranne Brown The Handless Maiden \| Cullene Bryant In the Dry Woods \| William F. Buckley Jr. Elvis in the Morning \| Grant Buday A Sack of Teeth \| James Lee Burke Heartwood \| Michael Byers The Coast of Good Intentions \|
C	Liam Callanan The Cloud Atlas \| Kathleen Cambor In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden \| Philip Caputo The Voyage \| Peter Carey My Life As A Fake \| Ron Carlson Five Skies \| Christopher Castellani The Saint of Lost Things \| Benjamin Cavell Rumble, Young Man, Rumble \| Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist \| Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay \| Michael Chabon The Final Solution \| Michael Chabon McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales \| Clay McLeod Chapman Miss Corpus \| Richard Chiappone Water of an Undetermined Depth \| Kate Christensen The Great Man \| Kate Christensen The Epicure's Lament \| Norris Church Mailer Windchill Summer \| Lynn Coady Strange Heaven & Play the Monster Blind \| Lynn Coady Saints of Big Harbour \| Paula Marantz Cohen Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan \| Wayde Compton 49th Parallel Psalm \| Douglas Coupland jPod \| Douglas Coupland Miss Wyoming \| Austin Clarke The Question \| Marika Cobbold Guppies for Tea \| Susann Cokal Mirabilis \| Raphaël Confiant Mamzelle Dragonfly \| Joe Connelly Bringing Out the Dead \| Claire Cook Ready to Fall \| Catherine Cookson The Desert Crop \| Jim Crace The Devil's Larder \| Dede Crane Sympathy \| Danielle Crittenden AmandaBright@Home \| John Crowley The Translator \| Allen Cunningham Lost Son \| Michael Cunningham The Hours \|
D	Mark Z. Danielewski Only Revolutions \| Edwidge Danticat The Dew Breaker \| Peter Ho Davies The Welsh Girl \| Amanda Davis Wonder When You'll Miss Me \| Garry Disher Past the Headlands \| Tahar Djaout The Last Summer of Reason \| Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves \| Annie Dillard The Maytrees \| Anthony Doerr The Shell Collector \| Roddy Doyle A Star Called Henry \| Mark Dunn Ibid \| David Anthony Durham Gabriel's Story \|
E	Debra Magpie Earling Perma Red \| Chris Eaton The Grammar Architect \| Leif Enger Peace Like A River \| Nathan Englander For the Relief of Unbearable Urges \| Nicholas Evans The Loop \| Nomi Eve The Family Orchard \| Lucy Eyre If Minds Had Toes \|
F	Michel Faber The Crimson Petal and the White \| Michel Faber Vanilla Bright Like Eminem \| M.A.C. Farrant Girls Around the House \| M.A.C. Farrant Darwin Alone in the Universe \| Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason \| Timothy Findley Pilgrim \| Bill Flanagan A & R: A Novel \| Cynthia Flood Making a Stone of the Heart \| Jeffrey Ford The Girl in the Glass \| Susanna Fortes The Albanian Affairs \| Jonathan Franzen The Corrections \| Keath Fraser 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger \| Andrew Furman Alligators May Be Present \|
G	Lisa Gabriele Tempting Faith Di Napoli \| Joseph Gangemi Inamorata \| Alex Garland The Coma \| Bill Gaston Gargoyles \| Bill Gaston Sointula \| David Gates The Wonders of the Invisible World \| Anna Gavalda Hunting and Gathering \| Pauline Gedge The Hippopotamus Marsh \| Merrill Joan Gerber Glimmering Girls \| Merrill Joan Gerber This is a Voice from Your Past \| Amitav Ghosh The Glass Palace \| Kaye Gibbons The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster \| Charlotte Gill Ladykiller \| Susan Glickman The Violin Lover \| Joey Goebel The Anomalies \| David Guterson East of the Mountains \| Joanna Goodman You Made Me Love You \| Andrew Sean Greer The Confessions of Max Tivoli \| John Grisham The Brethren \| Austin Grossman Soon I Will Be Invincible \| David Grossman Someone to Run With \| Sara Gruen Water for Elephants \| Michael Guista Brain Work \|
H-J	Rawi Hage De Niro's Game \| Jennifer Haigh Baker Towers \| Lisa Haines Small Acts of Sex and Electricity \| Albyn Leah Hall The Rhythm of the Road \| Pete Hamill Forever \| Don Hannah Ragged Islands \| Stephen Harrigan The Gates of the Alamo \| Jim Harrison The Beast God Forgot to Invent \| Keith Harrison Furry Creek \| Melanie Lynn Hauser Supermom Saves the World \| Kent Haruf Plainsong \| Kenneth J. Harvey Inside \| Dakota Hamilton Freedom's Just Another Word \| Thomas Harris Hannibal \| Elizabeth Hay Garbo Laughs \| Steven Hayward The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke \| Shelby Hearon Ella in Bloom \| Ursula Hegi The Worst Thing I’ve Done \| Steven Heighton Afterlands \| Mark Helprin Freddy and Fredericka \| Ernest Hemingway True at First Light \| Joshua Henkin Matrimony \| Kathy Hepinstall The Absence of Nectar and The House of Gentle Men and The Prince of Lost Places \| Carl Hiaasen Sick Puppy \| Justin Hill The Drink and Dream Teahouse \| Jack Hodgins Distance \| Margaret Hollingsworth Be Quiet \| Sheri Holman The Mammoth Cheese \| Michel Houellebecq Platform \| Robert Hough The Stowaway \| Susan Howatch The High Flyer \| Jonathan Hull Losing Julia \| Aislinn Hunter What's Left Us \| Duong Thu Huong No Man's Land \| M.J. Hyland Carry Me Down \| John Irving The Fourth Hand \| John Irving Until I Find You \| Tama Janowitz Peyton Amberg \| Dan Jenkins Rude Behavior \| Kate Jennings Moral Hazard \| Sharleen Jonasson It's My Body And I'll Cry If I Want To \| Allen Morris Jones Last Year's River \| Molly Jong-Fast Normal Girl \| Journeys of the Heart \| The Journey Prize Stories \| Graham Joyce Smoking Poppy \|
K	Carrie Kabak Cover the Butter \| Daniel Kalla Rage Therapy \| Laura Kasischke Be Mine \| Holly Kennedy The Tin Box \| Roy Kesey All Over \| Nancy Kim Chinhominey's Secret \| Dave King Ha-Ha: A Novel \| Stephen King From a Buick 8 \| Stephen King Hearts in Atlantis \| W.P. Kinsella Baseball Fantastic \| W.P. Kinsella Japanese Baseball \| Theresa Kishkan Sisters of Grass \| Jim Kokoris Sister North \| Dean Koontz Fear Nothing \| Dean Koontz Odd Thomas \| Elizabeth Kostova The Historian \| Michelle de Kretser The Rose Grower \| Gary Krist Chaos Theory \| Robert Kroetsch Man from the Creeks \| Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer The Nettle Spinner \| Hari Kunzru Transmission \|
L	Nick Laird Utterly Monkey \| Vincent Lam Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures \| Shaena Lambert Radiance \| Simon Lane Fear \| Lori Lansens The Girls \| Lori Lansens Rush Home Road \| Rattawut Lapcharoensap Sightseeing \| Gretchen Moran Laskas The Midwife's Tale \| Margaret Laurence The Stone Angel \| Dennis Lehane Shutter Island \| Rae Lawrence Shadow of the Dolls \| Mary Lawson Crow Lake \| Caroline Leavitt Girls in Trouble \| Chang-rae Lee Aloft \| Jen Sookfong Lee The End of East \| Jeffrey Lent Lost Nation \| Small Island by Andrea Levy \| Samuel Ligon Safe in Heaven Dead \| Mark Lindquist Never Mind Nirvana \| Barry Lopez Resistance \| Pearl Luke Madame Zee \|
M	Judy MacDonald Jane \| Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach \| Alistair MacLeod No Great Mischief \| Elizabeth McKenzie Stop That Girl \| John McNally The Book of Ralph \| Ian McEwan Saturday \| Robert MacNeil Breaking News \| Alice McDermott Child of My Heart \| Nick McDonnell Twelve \| Larry McMurtry Boone's Lick \| Larry McMurtry Comanche Moon \| Mark McNay Fresh \| Andrea MacPherson Beyond the Blue \| Debra Magpie Earling Perma Red \| Rabindranath Maharaj The Lagahoo's Apprentice \| Layne Maheu Song of the Crow \| Andrei Makine Dreams of My Russian Summers \| Alma Marceau Lofting \| Yann Martel Life of Pi \| Steve Martin Shopgirl \| Mary Meigs The Time Being \| Brad Meltzer The Book of Fate \| Nega Mezlekia The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades \| Steven Millhauser The King In the Tree \| David Mitchell Cloud Atlas \| Ann Mohin The Farm She Was \| Mayra Montero Captain of the Sleepers \| Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen: Absolute \| Christopher G. Moore Waiting for the Lady \| Lorrie Moore Birds of America \| Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour \| Allen Morris Jones Last Year's River \| Toni Morrison Love \| Sylvia Mortoza The Inconsequential Politician \| Walter Mosley Killing Johnny Fry \| Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters \| Vella Munn Cheyenne Summer \| Haruki Murakami After Dark \| Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore \| Ryu Murakami In the Miso Soup \|
N-O	\|rène Némirovsky Fire in the Blood \| Katherine Neville The Magic Circle \| Stacey Newman Beauty of the World \| Jim Nichols Slow Monkeys \| Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife \| Edna O'Brien Wild Decembers \| Tim O'Brien July, July \| Joyce Carol Oates Blonde & Faithless \| Stewart O'Nan The Night Country \| Mark Nykanen The Bone Parade \| Michael Ondaatje Handwriting & Anil's Ghost \| Michael Ondaatje Divisadero \|
P-Q	Z.Z. Packer Drinking Coffee Elsewhere \| Ignacio Padilla Antipodes \| Kathy Page Alphabet \| Tom Paine Scar Vegas \| Tom Paine The Pearl of Kuwait \| Mike Palecek Looking for Bigfoot \| Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters \| Michael Parker Don't Make Me Stop Now \| Carolyn Parkhurst The Dogs of Babel \| Ann Patchett Run \| T.R. Pearson Polar \| Rosamunde Pilcher Winter Solstice \| Jodi Picoult Salem Falls \| Edgar Allan Poe The Raven \| Stephen Policoff Beautiful Somewhere Else \| Michael Poole Rain Before Morning \| Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing \| Reynolds Price Noble Norfleet \| Althea Prince Loving This Man \| Annie Proulx The Shipping News and That Old Ace in the Hole \| Thomas Pynchon Against the Day \| Tracy Quan Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl \| Paul Quarrington The Spirit Cabinet \| Barbara Quinn Hardhead \| Karen Quinn Wife in the Fast Lane \| Anna Quindlen Black and Blue \|
R	Kenneth Radu The Purest of Human Pleasure \| Alice Randall Pushkin and the Queen of Spades \| Anita Rau Badami The Hero's Walk \| Richard Rayner The Cloud Sketcher \| Michael Redhill Martin Sloane \| Gilbert Reid So This Is Love \| CS Richardson The End of the Alphabet \| Emma Richler Sister Crazy \| Anne Rice Merrick \| Christopher Rice A Density of Souls \| Eden Robinson Monkey Beach \| Lisa Rogak Pretzel Logic \| Linda Rogers Friday Water \| Leon Rooke The Beautiful Wife \| Russell Rowland In Open Spaces \| J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix \| M.J. Rose Flesh Tones \| M.J. Rose In Fidelity \| M.J. Rose Lip Service \| M.J. Rose Sheet Music \| Mary Doria Russell A Thread of Grace \| Josh Russell Yellow Jack \| Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury \| Richard Russo Empire Falls \|
S	Mark Salzman Lying Awake \| Jerry Sander Permission Slips \| Tim Sandlin Honey Don't \| Emily Schultz Joyland \| Ingo Schulze Simple Stories: A Novel \| Deborah Schupack The Boy on the Bus \| Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999 \| Joanna Scott Liberation \| David Searcy Last Things \| Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones \| Catherine Gildiner Seduction \| Nicholas Shakespeare Snowleg \| Meir Shalev Four Meals \| Mary Sharratt The Vanishing Point \| Mary Sharratt The Real Minerva \| Sarah Sheard The Hypnotist \| Carol Shields Dressing Up for the Carnival \| Carol Shields Unless \| Steven Sherrill The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break \| Aki Shimazaki Tsubaki \| Arnold Silver Shortchangers \| Merilyn Simonds The Holding \| D.K. Smith Nothing Disappears \| Kyle Smith Love Monkey \| Ron Smith What Men Know About Women \| Scott Smith The Ruins \| Wilbur Smith Monsoon \| Botchan by Natsume Soseki \| Martha Southgate The Fall of Rome \| Mark Spragg The Fruit of Stone \| Mark Spragg An Unfinished Life \| William Stafford The Way it Is \| Danielle Steel The Long Road Home, The Klone and I \| Neal Stephenson Quicksilver \| Anne Stone Delible \| Robert Stone Bay of Souls \| Peter Straub lost boy lost girl \| Darin Straus The Real McCoy \| Marlene Streeruwitz Seductions. \| Ellen Sussman On A Night Like This \|
T	Lalita Tademy Cane River \| John S. Tarlton The Cost of Doing Business \| Donna Tartt The Little Friend \| Boston Teran God Is a Bullet \| Audrey Thomas Tattycoram \| Joan Thomas Turn of the Story \| Jean Thompson Wide Blue Yonder \| Colm Tóibín The Master \| Wendy Tokunaga No Kidding \| J.R.R. Tolkien Roverandom \| Joanna Trollope Marrying the Mistress \| Jonathan Tropper The Book of Joe \| Rosie Thomas White \| Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness \| F.X. Toole Pound for Pound \| Claire Tristram After \| Michael Turner The Pornographer's Poem \| Denise Turney Portia \| Mark Twain and Lee Nelson Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians \| Anne Tyler Back When We Were Grownups \|
U-Z	John Updike The Early Stories: 1953-1975 \| John Updike Terrorist \| John Updike Villages \| Leon Uris A God in Ruins \| Anne Ursu Spilling Clarence and The Disapparation of James \| Errol Lincoln Uys Brazil \| Guy Vanderhaeghe The Last Crossing \| Jules Verne The Mighty Orinoco \| Gore Vidal The Smithsonian Institution \| Susan Vreeland The Forest Lover \| Bruce Wagner I'll Let You Go \| Bruce Wagner Still Holding \| Ayelet Waldman Daughter's Keeper \| Alice Walker Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart \| Daniel Wallace Ray in Reverse \| Amanda Eyre Ward Sleep Toward Heaven \| Chris Ware The Acme Novelty Library No. 16 \| Bernard Werber Empire of the Ants \| Rebecca Wells The Ya-Ya Boxed Set \| Irvine Welsh Glue \| Joy Williams The Quick and the Dead \| Christopher Wilkins The Horizontal Instrument \| Mark Winegardner That's True of Everybody \| Tobias Wolff Old School \| Tom Wolfe A Man in Full \| Raymond K. Wong The Pacific Between \| Herman Wouk A Hole In Texas \| Rachel Wyatt Mona Lisa Smiled A Little \| Gao Xingjian Buying A Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories \| Terence Young Rhymes With Useless \| Edra Ziesk A Cold Spring \| Lloyd Zimpel A Season of Fire and Ice \|