Book Reviews

Reviews by Author

A
Abagnale, Frank – Catch Me If You Can
Abbot, Elizabeth – The History of Celibacy
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Americanah
Als, Hilton – White Girls
Altschuler, Glenn C. – All Shook Up
Anderson, Scott – Lawrence in Arabia
Anderson, Susan – Mrs. Tuesday’s Departure
Arfin, Lesley – Dear Diary
Ansari, Aziz – Modern Romance
Atwood, Margaret – Alias Grace 
Atwood, Margaret – Maddaddam Trilogy 

B
Baker, Jo – Longbourn
Bolick, Kate – Spinster
Bordo, Susan – The Creation of Anne Boleyn
Bourdain, Anthony – A Cook’s Tour
Bourdain, Anthony – Kitchen Confidential 
Boyd, Pattie – Wonderful Tonight
Brooks, Max – World War Z
Brown, Daniel James – The Boys in the Boat
Bryan, Helen – War Brides

C
Catmull, Ed – Creativity Inc
Chang, Jung – Wild Swans 
Chevalier, Tracy – The Last Runaway
Clinton, Hillary – Hard Choices
Collins, Paul – Duel With the Devil
Conklin, Tara – The House Girl

D
Dawkins, Richard – The God Delusion 
Dedman, Bill and Paul Clark Newell – Empty Mansions
Des Barres – I’m With the Band
Díaz, Junot – The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
DiSclafani, Anton – The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
Dublanica, Steve – Waiter Rant
Duenas, Maria – The Time in Between 
Dunham, Lena – Not That Kind of Girl
Dunant, Sarah – Blood and Beauty

E
Egan, Jennifer- A Visit From the Goon Squad
Eugenides, Jeffrey – Middlesex

F
Fergus, Jim – One Thousand White Women 
Flynn, Gillian – Gone Girl
Follett, Ken – Edge of Eternity
Follett, Ken – Fall of Giants 
Follett, Ken – Winter of the World
Fontes, Rick – The Time of the Preacher

G
Gay, Roxane – Bad Feminist
Gibney, Michael – Sous Chef 
Gilman, Susan – The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
Goodyear, Dana – Anything That Moves
Grady, Wayne – Emancipation Day
Gray, Charlotte – The Massey Murder
Grossman, Lev – The Magicians
Grossman, Lev – The Magician King
Grossman, Lev – The Magician’s Land
Guteri, Matthew – Seeing Race 

H
Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Hall, Sarah – Daughters of the North
Handler, Chelsea – Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea
Hill, Frances – The Delusion of Satan 
Hill, Lawrence – Blood
Hoffman, Alice – The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Hoffman, Carl – Savage Harvest 
Hochschild, Adam – To End All Wars
Holmes, Lauren – Barbara The Slut
Hornby, Nick – Funny Girl
Huang, Eddie – Fresh off the Boat
Hyde, Anne – Empires, Nations and Families

K
Kaling, Mindy – Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Kavanagh, Julie – The Girl Who Loved Camellias
Kearsley, Susanna – The Firebird
Kerman, Piper – Orange is the New Black
Kincaid, Jamaica – Lucy
King, Florence – Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
King, Thomas – The Inconvenient Indian
Klausner, Julie – I Don’t Care About Your Band
Koppel, Lily – The Astronaut Wives Club
Krakauer, John – Under The Banner of Heaven

L
Lafferty, Linda – The Bloodletter’s Daughter
Lawson, Jenny – Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Lee, Harper – Go Set A Watchman
Locke, Louisa – Maids of Misfortune

M
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes
Macmillan, Margaret – Paris 1919
Macmillan, Margaret – The War That Ended Peace
Marcus, Sarah – Girls to the Front 
Martin, Steve – Born Standing Up
Mazzeo, Tilar J. – The Hotel on Place Vendome
Meyer, Marissa – Cinder
Meyer, Marissa – Cress
Meyer, Marissa – Scarlett
Moorehead, Caroline – A Train in Winter
Moorehead, Caroline – Village of Secrets
Moran, Caitlin – How to Be a Woman
Moran, Mollie – Minding the Manor
Morgenstern, Erin – The Night Circus

N
Nafisi, Azar – Reading Lolita in Tehran 

P
Patillo-Beals, Melba – Warriors Don’t Cry
Poehler, Amy – Yes Please
Pollan, Michael – Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Pollan, Michael – The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Powell, Margaret – Below Stairs
Przybyszewski, Linda – The Lost Art of Dress

R
Roach, Marilynne – Six Women of Salem
Robbins, Tom – Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Roth, Veronica – The Divergent Trilogy
Rothfuss, Patrick – The Name of The Wind
Rothfuss, Patrick – Wise Man’s Fear
Rowley, Hazel – Franklin and Eleanor
Russell, Mary Doria – The Sparrow
Russo, Richard – Empire Falls
Rutherfurd, Edward – Paris

S
Sax, David – The Tastemakers
Schlosser, Eric – Fast Food Nation
Sedaris, David – Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
See, Lisa – China Dolls
Sijie, Dai – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Simonsen, Helen – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Smith, Patti – Just Kids
Solnit, Rebecca – Men Explain Things to Me

T
Tan, Amy – The Valley of Amazement 
Tartt, Donna – The Goldfinch
Thompson, Hunter S. – The Rum Diary
Thompson, Neal – A Curious Man
Tomkins, Kayla Wazana – Racial Indigestion
Tuchman, Barbara – The Guns of August 

V
Von Bremzen, Anya – Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

W
Waters, Sarah – The Paying Guests
West, Elliot – The Last Indian War
West, J.B – Upstairs at the White House
Williams-Forson, Psyche – Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs
Worth, Jennifer – Call the Midwife 
Wright, Lawrence – Going Clear 
Wurtzel, Elizabeth – Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women 

Z
Zafón, Carlos Ruiz – The Angel’s Game
Zafón, Carlos Ruiz – The Prisoner of Heaven
Zinn, Howard – A People’s History of the United States