I’m a hungry and omnivorous reader—fiction (mostly ‘literary’), history, biography, world religion, memoir, poetry—so you’ll find new reviews here weekly.  I generally review only books that I think worthy of mention, unless the author or work is well-known and my opinion runs a bit more on the critical side (the first one in the list, for example). Browse by author’s last name.

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Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

b

Benedict The Rule of Saint Benedict
Berlinski, Mischa Fieldwork
Berry, Wendell   Three Short Novels
Bloom, Amy   Away
Bonzo, J. Matthew and Michael R. Stevens   Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader’s Guide
Brown, Dan The DaVinci Code

c

Calvino, Italo If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Cathcart, Thomas and Daniel Klein Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Chevalier, Tracy The Virgin Blue
Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist
Crimmins, Cathy Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury

d

Dean, Debra   The Madonnas of Leningrad
Dean, Louise Becoming Strangers
Denzey, Nicola   The Bone Gatherers:  The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women
DiCamillo, Kate The Tale of Despereaux
Didion, Joan The Year of Magical Thinking
Dillard, Annie   The Maytrees
Doria Russell, Mary   The Sparrow

e

Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Eire, Carlos Waiting for Snow in Havana

f

Frazer, Margaret The Novice’s Tale

g

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gilbert, Elizabeth Eat, Pray, Love
Gordon, Mary    Pearl
Graham, Katharine Personal History
Grogan, John Marley & Me
Grushin, Olga The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Guo, Xiaolu   Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Life

h

Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hazzard, Shirley   The Great Fire
Hill, Ingrid Ursula, Under
Hobbs, Peter The Short Day Dying
Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner
Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns
Huffey, Rhoda The Hallelujah Side

i

Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go

j

James, P.D. Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
Jewett, Sarah Orne The Country of the Pointed Firs
Jones, Sadie The Outcast

k

Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
Kimmel, Haven   Something Rising (Light and Swift)
Kneale, Matthew   Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
Kneale, Matthew  When We Were Romans
Knowles, John A Separate Peace
Koppel, Lily The Red Leather Diary

l

L’Engle, Madeleine A Circle of Quiet
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies
Levin, Janna   A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Leimbach, Marti Daniel Isn’t Talking
Lewis, C.S. Till We Have Faces
Linnea, Sharon   Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People
Lord, Cynthia Rules

m

Mandel, Emily St. John   Last Night in Montreal
Mandel, Emily St. John   The Singer’s Gun
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Martel, Yann   Beatrice and Virgil
McCall Smith, Alexander 44 Scotland Street
McLeod-Harrison, Susan Saving Women From the Church: How Jesus Mends a Divide
Merton, Thomas   The Seven Storey Mountain
Metaxas, Eric Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
Miller, Kirsten Kiki Strike: The Empress’s Tomb
Monteiro, Luana Little Star of Bella Lua
Murdoch, Iris The Bell
Murdoch, Iris   The Good Apprentice
Mursell, Gordon (general editor)  The Story of Christian Spirituality

n

Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Nichols, Heidi L. Anne Bradstreet: A Guided Tour of the Life and Thought of a Puritan Poet

o

Olsson, Linda Astrid & Veronika
Otsuka, Julie When the Emperor Was Divine

p

Perry, Michael Truck: A Love Story
Peters, Elizabeth The Serpent on the Crown
Picoult, Jodi My Sister’s Keeper
Pollan, Michael The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Powers, Richard The Echo Maker
Prose, Francine Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them

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r

Russell, Mary Doria   The Sparrow
Ryan, Terry  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Rilke, Rainer Maria Letters to a Young Poet

s

Salzman, Mark Lying Awake
Seu, Andree Normal Kingdom Business
Seu, Andree Won’t Let You Go Unless You Bless Me
Shaw, Luci The Crime of Living Cautiously
Smith, Lori A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey into Adventure, Love, and Faith
Stafford, Wess Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most
Standage, Tom   A History of the World in Six Glasses
Strout, Elizabeth Abide with Me
Sweeney, Jon M. Born Again and Again: Surprising Gifts of a Fundamentalist Childhood

t

Tippett, Krista Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters and How to Talk About It

u

Undset, Sigrid Kristin Lavransdatter

v

Volf, Miroslav The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

w

Wiesel, Elie Night
Willis, Paul J. Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild
Winner, Lauren Mudhouse Sabbath
Winspear, Jacqueline Maisie Dobbs series 1-4 (Maisie Dobbs, Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Lies, Messenger of Truth)
Wolff, Christoph Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Wright, N.T. Simply Christian

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Zahl, Paul F.M. Five Women of the English Reformation