Brief Reviews of Fiction and Non-fiction Books You Might or Might Not Enjoy Reading
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* * * * + Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx * * * * *-Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo * * * * * After Silence by Nancy Venable Raine * * * * + All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren * * * * * American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin * * * * * Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt * * * * * Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner * * * * * - At Home With the Marquis De Sade by Francine du Plessix Gray * * * * * Badge of Courage by Linda Davis "Being Invaded by Spare Time" (essay) * * * * *Bel Canto by Ann Patchett * * * * *-The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath * * * * *- Blessings by Anna Quindlen * * * * * Blinded by the Right by David Brock * * * * *-The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan * * * * * The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad * * * * * The Bounty Trilogy by Charles Nordhof and James Norman Hall * * * * * Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham * * * * * A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr * * * * * Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier * * * * * Complicity (or How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery) by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank * * * * *- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown * * * * *-Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean * * * * * The Deep end of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard * * * * -Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee * * * * *- Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore * * * * * Fall On Your Knees by Anne-Marie Macdonald * * * * *-Fateless by Imre Kertesz * * * * From Noon to Starry Night: A Life Of Walt Whitman by Philip Callow * * * * *Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert * * * * *-The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls * * * * * - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy * * * * * Granny D by Doris Haddock * * * * *Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad * * * * Hellman and Hammett by Joan Mellon * * * * + Holy, Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln * * * * + House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III * * * * * In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick * * * * * - If Your Dreams Are Big Enough the Facts Don't Count by Michael S. Long * * * * * The Inextinguishable Symphony by Martin Goldsmith * * * * The Information God by Aroutioun Agadjanian * * * * Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer * * * * Jack London: A Life by Alex Kershaw * * * * * John Adams by David McCullough * * * * * The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini * * * * * The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison * * * * *- The Known World by Edward P. Jones * * * * Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday * * * * * A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines * * * * * Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton * * * * * Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela * * * *+The Lovely Bones by Alice Seybold * * * * * Lush Life by David Hadju * * * * + The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett * * * * * March by Geraldine Brooks * * * * + Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris * * * * + Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden * * * * * The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty * * * * * The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards * * * * * Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides * * * * *The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux * * * * *- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder * * * * *- My Life by William J. Clinton * * * * * My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult * * * * + Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson * * * * *One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens * * * On the Road by Jack Kerouac * * * * * The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman * * * * * Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner & Emily Kimbrough * * * * +The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall * * * * * Personal History by Katharine Graham * * * * The Piano Shop on the West Bank by Thad Carhart * * * * *- Plainsong by Kent Haruf * * * * * The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver * * * * Prairie Nocturne by Ivan Doig * * * * *- A Prescription for Adventure by Allan Lewis * * * * + Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver * * * * * - The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester "Putting Keepsakes On The Market " (essay) * * * * * - The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang * * * * + Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi * * * * * Riding the Bus With My Sister by Rachel Simon * * * * *The Road by Cormac MacCarthy * * * * *-Roadside Run by Ron Cox * * * * *- A Round-Heeled Woman by Jane Juska * * * * *- Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin * * * * Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler * * * * Saturday by Ian McEwan * * * * *-Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford * * * * *- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd * * * * + The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon * * * * *- The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout * * * * Slow Boats to China by Gavin Young * * * * * State of Denial by Bob Woodward * * * * +The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer * * * * *- Terry by George McGovern * * * * * Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome * * * * * - The Tin Drum by Günter Grass * * * * * Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose * * * * * Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer * * * * *A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot * * * * *-A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson * * * * *-The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
* * * * *-We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates * * * * *White Waters and Black by Gordon Maccreagh * * * * *Wild Swans by Jung Chang * * * * *- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Hot Links |
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