Review Archive
I’m a hungry and omnivorous reader—fiction (mostly ‘literary’), history, biography, religion and irreligion, poetry, science—so you’ll find new reviews here regularly. I generally review only books that I think worthy of mention. Browse by author’s last name. Links are to reviews at this site or at The Discarded Image.
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Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Avery, Ellis  The Last Nude
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Bakker, Gerbrand  Ten White Geese
Barbery, Muriel  The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Benedict The Rule of Saint Benedict
Berlinski, Mischa Fieldwork
Berry, Wendell  Three Short Novels
Blackwell, Elise  An Unfinished Score
Bloom, Amy  Away
Bonzo, J. Matthew and Michael R. Stevens  Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader’s Guide
Bradley, Jane  You Believers
Brooks, Geraldine  Caleb’s Crossing
Brown, Eli  Cinnamon and Gunpowder
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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
Chamberlain, Ava  The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards
Chang, Jung  Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Charyn, Jerome  The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Chevalier, Tracy The Virgin Blue
Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist
Collins, Billy  Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
Collins, Billy  Aimless Love
Crimmins, Cathy Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury
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Danticat, Edwidge  Claire of the Sea Light
Dean, Debra  The Madonnas of Leningrad
Dean, Debra  The Mirrored World
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
Doctorow, E.L. Â Andrew’s Brain
Doria Russell, Mary  The Sparrow
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Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Eire, Carlos Waiting for Snow in Havana
Erdrich, Louise  The Round House
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Frazer, Margaret The Novice’s Tale
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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gardner, Phillip   Available Light
Geha, Joseph  Lebanese Blonde
Geye, Peter  Safe from the Sea
Geye, Peter  The Lighthouse Road
Gilbert, Elizabeth Eat, Pray, Love
Gordon, Mary   Pearl
Graham, Katharine Personal History
Grushin, Olga The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Grushin, Olga  The Line
Guo, Xiaolu  Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Life
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Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hanagarne, Josh  The World’s Strongest Librarian
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
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Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go
Ivey, Eowyn  The Snow Child
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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
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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
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L’Engle, Madeleine A Circle of Quiet
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies
Lahiri, Jhumpa  The Lowland
Lane, Harriet  Alys, Always
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
Lepore, Jill   Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Lewis, C.S. Till We Have Faces
Link, Mardi Jo  Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Linnea, Sharon  Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People
Lord, Cynthia Rules
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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
McBride, James  The Good Lord Bird
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)Â The Story of Christian Spirituality
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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
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Olsson, Linda Astrid & Veronika
Otsuka, Julie When the Emperor Was Divine
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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
Pye, Virginia  River of Dust
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Rakoff, David  Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
Rilke, Rainer Maria Letters to a Young Poet
Ronson, Jon  Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Russell, Mary Doria  The Sparrow
Russell, Mary Doria  Doc
Ryan, Terry  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
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Salzman, Mark Lying Awake
Schaffert, Timothy  The Coffins of Little Hope
Seu, Andree Normal Kingdom Business
Seu, Andree Won’t Let You Go Unless You Bless Me
Shaw, Luci The Crime of Living Cautiously
Shomer, Enid  The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
Smith, Lori A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey into Adventure, Love, and Faith
Standage, Tom  A History of the World in Six Glasses
Strout, Elizabeth Abide with Me
Sutherland, John  A Little History of Literature
Sweeney, Jon M. Born Again and Again: Surprising Gifts of a Fundamentalist Childhood
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Tippett, Krista Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters and How to Talk About It
Towles, Amor  Rules of Civility
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Undset, Sigrid Kristin Lavransdatter
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Vanderpool, Clare  Moon Over Manifest
Volf, Miroslav The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World
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Ward, Jesmyn  Salvage the Bones
Wiesel, Elie   Night
Willett, Jincy  Amy Falls Down
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
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