Book reviews

Check out a list of the books we’ve reviewed on Book Buzz:

May 2013

“East of West” by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta

“The Watermelon Seed” by Greg Pizzoli

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte

“Fanny and Romeo” by Yves Pelletier and Pascal Girard

“Jake’s Law” by William Coleman

“Dragon Haven” by Robin Hobb

“Confederate General William ‘Extra Billy’ Smith” by Scott Mingus Sr.

“Echoing Still: More Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.” by Jim McClure and Scott Mingus Sr.

“Jupiter’s Legacy” by Mark Millar

April 2013

“Dragon Keeper” by Robin Hobb

“The Husband List” by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly

“The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett

“Son of Merlin” by Robert Place Napton

“Long Gone Daddies” by David Wesley Williams

“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by J.K. Rowling

“Five Ghosts” by Frank J. Barbiere

“Southcentral Pennsylvania Legends and Lore” by David Puglia

“Reached” by Ally Condie

“The Natural” by Bernard Malamud

“Polarity” by Max Bemis

“Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver

“So You Want to Be A Pilot!” by Ricardo Aguilar

“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer

“No More Vodka in My Orange Juice” by Justin Daniels

“Optic Nerve” by Adrian Tomine

“Beasts & Men” by Curtis Smith

March 2013

“Crossed” by Ally Condie

“Jurassic Park” by Michael Crichton

“Great Pacific” by Joe Harris

“Crossing the Borders of Time” by Leslie Maitland (Read another review here)

“Matched” by Ally Condie (Read another review here)

“The Storyteller” by Jodi Picoult

“The Godfather” by Mario Puzo

“One Thousand White Women” by Jim Fergus

“B Dogg Goes to School” by Michael Simpson

“Y: The Last Man” by Brian Vaughan

“Random Harvest” by James Hilton

“Requiem” by Lauren Oliver

“Prince Caspian” by C.S. Lewis

“Savage Wolverine” by Frank Cho

“These Things Hidden” by Heather Gudenkauf

“I Just Want to Pee Alone” by various authors

“Red Rain” by R.L. Stine

“Blood Therapy” by Lynda Hilburn

“In the Absence of God” by Richard Cleary

“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Eric Shanower

“Historic Architecture of Pennsylvania” by Scott D. Butcher

“The Vampire Shrink” by Lynda Hilburn

February 2013

“Alpha: Big Time” by Joshua Hale Fialkov

“Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“City of Lost Souls” by Cassandra Clare

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“Katana” by Ann Nocenti

“Truthfully Yours” by R.G. Myers

“City of Fallen Angels” by Cassandra Clare

“Right ho, Jeeves” by P.G. Wodehouse

“A Clash of Kings” by George R.R. Martin

“Young Romance” by various writers

“From the Heart: Civil War Love Letters” by Jessica James

“City of Glass” by Cassandra Clare

“Anchor Me” by Megan Erickson

“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J.K. Rowling

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” by Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz

“The Blind Side” by Michael Lewis

January 2013

“Threshold Presents” by Keith Giffen

“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” by Mark Haddon

“City of Ashes” by Cassandra Clare

“Mew is for Murder: A Theda Krakow Mystery” by Clea Simon

“A Deeper Sense of Loyalty” by C. James Gilbert

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

“Joe Schreiber’s Chasing the Dead” by Matthew Scott and Tim Westland

“Dark Places” by Gillian Flynn

“City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare

“Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake” by Anna Quindlen

“The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis

“Nonplayer” by Nate Simpson

“A Christmas Blizzard” by Garrison Keillor

“So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” by Douglas Adams

“Rurally Screwed: My Life Off the Grid With the Cowboy I Love” by Jessie Knadler

“Daddy’s Girl” by J.M. Kelley

“The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown

“Line of Defense” by Ricardo Sanchez

“Just Kids” by Patti Smith

“Of Roots and Wings” by Julie Swope

“BlackAcre” by Duffy Boudreau

December 2012

“The Departure” by Jessica Buck

“Life, the Universe and Everything” by Douglas Adams

“Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo

“Looking for Miss Crabtree” by Kevin Buck

“I Love Trouble” by Kel Symons

“A Biltmore Christmas” by various authors

“Inventing the Christmas Tree” by Bernd Brunner

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” by Ayana Mathis

“The Hollows” by Chris Ryall and Sam Kieth

“When We Argued All Night” by Alice Mattison

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

“Nowhere Man” by Nate Bellegarde

“No Easy Day” by Mark Owen (Read another review here)

“Fiona Thorn and the Carapacem Spell” by Jen Barton

“The Twelve” by Justin Cronin

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling

“Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody Cookbook” by F.L. Fowler

“Shadow Play” by Chad Sell

“Things I Want My Daughters to Know” by Alexandra Stoddard

November 2012

“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel

“AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy” by Jeffrey Brown

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy (Read another review here)

“The Maze Runner” by James Dashner

“Ghosts” by assorted artists

“Hidden Secrets of Jacob’s House” by Ann Small Niess

“Bedlam” by Nick Spencer

“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” by Douglas Adams

“The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken” by Tarquin Hall

“Puck Bunny” by Joelle McClure

“Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver

“Force of Habit” by Alice Loweecey

“Rose & Thorn” by Tom Taylor

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“Love on the Edge of Tomorrow” by Gerry Trust

October 2012 

“Bravest Warriors” by Pendleton Ward

“Garbology” by Edward Humes

“Son” by Lois Lowry

“Billy’s Bedtime Adventures” by Amanda Redwine and Kael Clugston

“Back to Blood” by Tom Wolfe

“Daredevil: End of Days” by Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack

“The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling

“Messenger” by Lois Lowry

“Fashion Beast” by Alan Moore

“The Great Indoors” by Sabine Durrant

“Gathering Blue” by Lois Lowry

“Fun and Games on Campus” by Robert Iosue

“When In Doubt, Add Butter” by Beth Harbison

“Arrow No. 1” by Omar Francia

“The Exotic Marigold Hotel” by Deborah Moggach

“Eliot” by Michael A. Wood Jr.

“Justice League No. 0” by Geoff Johns

“Incendiary” by Chris Cleave

September 2012

“The Giver” by Lois Lowry

“Assassins Wit”hin” by Roger Lynch

“Aquaman” by Geoff Johns

“Pennsylvania in Public Memory” by Carolyn Kitch

“A Rose in the Desert” by Bill Petite

“First Lord’s Fury” by Jim Butcher

“The Time Keeper” by Mitch Albom

“Blackburn Burrow” by Ron Marz

“Londoners” by Craig Taylor

“Thomas Merton and Therese Lentfoeher” by Robert Nugent

“Princeps’ Fury” by Jim Butcher

“The Playful Family” by Shawn Ledington Fink

“First Law of Mad Science” by  Mike Isenberg and Oliver Mertz

“The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce

“The Kind Diet” by Alicia Silverstone

“A Sniff in the Park” by DJ Campbell

“God Gave Me a Mulligan” by Robert A. Smith

“Captain’s Fury” by Jim Butcher

August 2012

“Broken Harbor” by Tana French

“Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” by Maria Semple

“Harvest” by A.J. Lieberman

“Cursor’s Fury” by Jim Butcher

“Paterno” by Joe Posnanski

“Courtney Crumrin” by Ted Naifeh

“The Queen of New Beginnings” by Erica James

“Academ’s Fury” by Jim Butcher

“Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!” by Fannie Flagg

“When It Happens to You” by Molly Ringwald

“A Conspiracy of Friends” by Alexander McCall Smith

“Punk Rock Jesus” by Sean Murphy

“Don’t Put Me In, Coach” by Mark Titus

“Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson

“Furies of Calderon” by Jim Butcher

“Redshirts” by John Scalzi

“Kill Shakespeare” by  Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col

“Overbite” by Meg Cabot

“Dream Team” by Jack McCallum

“Black List” by Brad Thor

“Alabaster: Wolves” by Caitlin R. Kiernan

July 2012

“Insatiable” by Meg Cabot

“Calico Joe” by John Grisham

“The Waking: Dreams End” by Raven Gregory

“Uprising” by Margaret Peterson Hendrix

“The Chaperone” by Laura Moriarty

“Pandemonium” by Lauren Oliver

“Back in the Habit” by Alice Loweecey

“Moneyball” by Michael Lewis

“The Manhattan Projects” Jonathan Hickman

“The Orchid House” by Lucinda Riley

“Delirium” by Lauren Oliver

“Crossing the Borders of Time” by Leslie Maitland

“Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk

“American Splendor” by Harvey Pekar

“I Still Dream About You” by Fannie Flagg

“Fifty Shades Freed” by E.L. James

“Animal Man” by Jeff Lemire

“Promises, promises” by Erica James

“Fifty Shades Darker” by E.L. James

June 2012

“Love in A Nutshell” by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly

“Rain Dragon” by Jon Raymond

“Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” by Seth Grahame-Smith

“Higher Earth” by Sam Humphries

“American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld (Read another review here)

“A Dance With Dragons” by George R.R. Martin

“Fatherland” by Robert Harris

“American Grown” by Michelle Obama

“Calling Invisible Women” by Jeanne Ray

“The Dark Horse Book of Monsters” by Various authors

“A Feast for Crows” by George R.R. Martin

“Save for Fireflies” by Nathaniel Missildine

“Maine” by J. Courtney Sullivan

“Gone” by Gillian Flynn

“Earth 2” by James Robinson

“A Storm of Swords” by George R.R. Martin

“Invisible Woman” by Laura Rudacille

May 2012

“Father’s Day” by Buzz Bissinger

“The Guild: Fawkes” by Felicia Day

“A Clash of Kings” by George R.R. Martin

“Europe on 5 Wrong Turns A Day” by Doug Mack

“Home” by Toni Morrison

“The World We Found” by Thrity Umrigar

“Batman Incorporated” by Grant Morrison

“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

“One Life” by Christiaan Barnard and Curtis Bill Pepper

“Fanboys vs. Zombies” by Sam Humphries

“For One More Day” by Mitch Albom

“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving

“Destined” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“Bring Up the Bodies” by Hilary Mantel

“The Exile” by Diana Gabaldon

“This Is Where I Leave You” by Jonathan Tropper

“Awakened” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“The Things We Cherished” by Pam Jenoff

“Once Upon A River” by Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Resident Alien” by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse

April 2012

“Burned” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“The Secret Service” by Mark Millar and David Gibbons

“Tempted” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“Secret” by Jonathan Hickman

“This Life is in Your Hands” by Melissa Coleman

“Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” by Robyn Scott

“Hunted” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

“Peter Panzerfaust” by Kurtis Wiebe

“The Paris Wife” by Paula McLain

“Untamed” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“Imagine: How Creativity Works” by Jonah Lehrer

“Half the Sky” by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

“A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard

“Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” by Cheryl Strayed

“The New Deadwardians” by Dan Abnett

“The 9-inch Diet” by Alex Bogusky

“Alice Waters and Chez Panisse” by Thomas McNamee

March 2012

“Chosen” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“Saga” by Brian K. Vaughan

“Following Atticus” by Tom Ryan

“50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James

“Betrayed” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“A Skating Life” by Dorothy Hamill

“Fairest” by Bill Willingham, Phil Jimenez and Andy Lanning

“The Landmark Arrian’s “The Campaigns of Alexander”

“A Clash of Kings” by George R.R. Martin

“The Leftovers” by Tom Perrotta (Read another review here)

“Marked” by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford

“If You Were Here” by Jen Lancaster

“Road Rage” by Chris Ryall

“Fire and Rain” by David Browne

“Inheritance” by Christopher Paolini

“Same Kind of Different As Me” by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

“The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde” by Cole Haddon

“When She Woke” by Hillary Jordan

“Half Broke Horses” by Jeannette Walls

“Brisingr” by Christopher Paolini

“The Table Comes First” by Adam Gopnik

“Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)” by Mindy Kaling

February 2012

“Baltimore: The Plague Ships” by Mike Mignola

“Eldest” by Christopher Paolini

“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Army of Darkness” by Elliot R. Serrano

“Never Kiss A Goat on the Lips” by Vic Sussman

“World and Town” by Gish Jen

“Eragon” by Christopher Paolini

“Motel Art Improvement Service” by Jason Little

“Seriously … I’m Kidding” by Ellen DeGeneres

“Finger Lickin’ Fifteen” by Janet Evanovich

“The Inner Circle” by Brad Meltzer

“Moloka’i” by Alan Brenner

“Locke and Key: Guide to the Known Keys” by Joe Hill

“11/22/63” by Stephen King

“Then Again” by Diane Keaton

“Inkheart” by Cornelia Funke

“Batman: Gates of Gotham” by Scott Snyder and Kyle Higgins

January 2012

“52 Loaves” by William Alexander

“It’s Kind of A Funny Story” by Ned Vizzini

“The Book of Lies” by Brad Meltzer

“Make the Bread, Buy the Butter” by Jennifer Reese

“Snow Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson

“The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai

“Farewell, My Subaru” by Doug Fine

“The Last Days of Dogtown” by Anita Diamanat

“Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand” by Mike Mignola

“Folks, This Ain’t Normal” by Joel Salatin

“The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove” by Christopher Moore

“Captain America” by Ed Brubaker

“The Duke Is Mine” by Eloisa James

“Heaven Is For Real” by Todd Burpo

“An Everlasting Meal” by Tamar Adler

December 2011

“The Death of Optimus Prime” by James Roberts and John Barber

“The Kitchen Daughter” by Jael McHenry

“The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted” by Bridget Asher

“Fables” by Bill Willingham

“Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit” by Barry Estabrook

“Bloodsucking Fiends” by Christopher Moore

“The Profession” by Steven Pressfield

“Valen Outcast” by Michael Alan Nelson

“Diablo” by Aaron Williams

“The Poop Phantom” by Darla Smith

“A Visit From the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan

November 2011

“Wolverine and the X-Men” by Jason Aaron

“Morning Glories” by Nick Spencer

“Batman: Noel” by Lee Bermejo

“Don’t Be Cruel” by Mike Argento

“The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader: Challenging Complacency” by Kenneth Wolensky with Gov. George M. Leader

“The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs” by Christina Hopkinson

October 2011

“Tumbling After” by Susan Parker

“The Deal From Hell” by James O’Shea

“The Honk and Holler Opening Soon” by Billie Letts

“A Spot of Bother” by Mark Haddon

“People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks

“Where Dreams Die Hard” by Carlton Stowers

“The Other” by David Guterson

“Working Stiff” by Rachel Caine

“When A Crocodile Eats the Sun” By Peter Godwin

September 2011

“Origami Architecture: Papercraft Models of the World’s Most Famous Buildings”

“Other People’s Love Letters” edited by Bill Shapiro

“Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things” by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee

“Caleb’s Crossing” by Geraldine Brooks

“Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon” by Kathleen C. Winters

“A Widow’s Walk: A Memoir of 9/11” by Marian Fontana

“Food Rules” by Michael Pollan

“Pledged” by Alexandra Robbins

August 2011

“Noah’s Compass” by Anne Tyler

“Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement” by Rodney Rothman

“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chabon

“Walk Out Walk On” by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze

“Iron House” by John Hart

“The $64 Tomato” by William Alexander (Read another review here)

“Four Kitchens” by Lauren Shockley

“Making Supper Safe: One Man’s Quest to Learn the Truth About Food Safety” by Ben Hewitt

“Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants” by Richard Mabey

“Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story” by Leonie Swann

“Shadowfever” by Karen Marie Moning

July 2011

“The Covenant” by James Michener

“At Home in the Heart of Appalachia” by John O’Brien

“The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” by John Boyne

“Divinity of Doubt: The God Question” by Vincent Bugliosi

“The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook” by Jason Heller

“The Snowman” by Jo Nesbo

“Doc” by Mary Doria Russell

“A Dance With Dragons” by George R.R. Martin

“The Curfew” by Jesse Ball

“In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan

“The Lost Continent” by Bill Bryson

“The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels” by Ree Drummond

June 2011

“State of Wonder” by Anne Patchett

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

“The Year of Living Biblically” by A.J. Jacobs

“Fire Season” by Philip Connors

“Beautiful People” by Wendy Holden

May 2011

“Going in Circles” by Pamela Ribon

“The Great Typo Hunt” by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson

“Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef” by Gabrielle Hamilton

“When I Was Puerto Rican” by Esmeralda Santiago

April 2011

“Night Train to Lisbon” by Pascal Mercier

March 2011

“Plain Wisdom” by Cindy Woods and Miriam Flaud

“The Darkness Did Not” by William L. Biersach

“Between the Covers: The Book Babes’ Guide to a Woman’s Reading Pleasures” by Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz

“The Imperfectionists” by Tom Rachman (Read another review here)

“When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present” by Gail Collins

“Duma Key” by Stephen King

“Full Dark, No Stars” by Stephen King

February 2011

“Bitter Melon” by Cara Chow

“The Murder Room” by Michael Capuzzo

“My Life in France” by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme

“Life” by Keith Richards

“When You Are Engulfed in Flames” by David Sedaris

January 2011

“Growing Up Laughing” by Marlo Thomas

“Under the Dome” by Stephen King

“Angelina” by Andrew Morton

“Wolfbane and Mistletoe” by Charlane Harris and others

“Play Dead” by Harlan Coben

December 2010

“True Confections” by Katharine Weber

“Red Ranger Came Calling” by Berkeley Breathed

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini

“97 Orchard” by Jane Zeigelman

“One Good Dog” by Susan Wilson

“The Children’s Day” by Michiel Heyns

November 2010

“Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay

“Room” by Emma Donoghue

“Clockwork” by Cassandra Clare

“Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris

October 2010

“Life Is A Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful and Live Intentionally” by Patti Digh

“Going Bovine” by Libba Bray

“Agaat” by Marlene Van Niekirk

“How to Survive Anything, Anywhere” by Chris McNab

“Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk” by David Sedaris

“Minding Frankie” by Maeve Binchy

September 2010

“The Power” by Rhonda Byrne

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak (Read another review here)

“The Sister Wife” by Diane Noble

August 2010

“Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World” by Scott Seegert

“Mockingjay” by Suzanne Collins (Warning: Spoilers)

“Cleo: The Cat Who Mended A Family” by Helen Brown

“Across the Years” by Tracie Peterson

“Not In My Neighborhood” by Antero Pietila

“The Shroud Codex” by Jerome R. Corsi

“The Invisible Order: Rise of the Darklings” by Paul Crilley

“How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly” by Connie May Fowler

“Autumn’s Promise” by Shelley Shepard Gray

July 2010

“The Little Stranger” by Sarah Waters

“The Ghost Orchid” by Carol Goodman

“The Newlywed’s Instruction Manual” by Caroline Tiger

“Her Abundant Joy” by Lyn Cote

“Goodbye, Columbus” by Philip Roth

“The Tale of Halcyon Crane” by Wendy Webb

“Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards” by Josh Wilker

June 2010

“The Little Giant of Aberdeen County” by Tiffany Baker

“Strings Attached” by Nick Nolan

“Insatiable” by Meg Cabot

“Any Body’s Guess!” by Michael J. Rosen, Ben Kassoy and M. Sweeney Lawless

“Spring’s Renewal” by Shelley Shepard Gray

“The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella” by Stephenie Meyer

“The Good Mayor” by Andrew Nicoll

“Gourmet Rhapsody” by Muriel Barbery

May 2010

“The Leisure Seeker” by Michael Zadoorian

April 2010

“Fortuna” by Michael Stevens

“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

“Love In the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Dawn of the Dreadfuls” by Steve Hockensmith

March 2010

“Veronica” by Mary Gaitskill

February 2010

“Hatbox Baby” by Carrie Brown

“Winter’s Awakening” by Shelley Shepard Gray

January 2010

“The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival” by Ken Wheaton

December 2009

“Secrets to Happiness” by Sarah Dunn

“The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico” by Sarah McCoy

November 2009

“That Old Cape Magic” by Richard Russo

“Time Out Of Joint” by Philip K. Dick

“The Louisiana Tigers” by Scott Mingus

September 2009

“Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson” by Ian Halperin

August 2009

“The Shack” by William P. Young (Read another review here)

“Still Alice” by Lisa Genova (Read another review here)

“The Lace Makers of Glenmara” by Heather Barbieri

“The Lace Reader” by Brunonia Barry

“The Orchid Thief” by Susan Orlean

“Jokes My Father Never Taught Me” by Rain Pryor

“Life With My Sister Madonna” by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh

“Hooked For Life: Adventures of a Crochet Zealot” by Mary Beth Temple

“92 Pacific Boulevard” by Debbie Macomber

“Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival” by Norman Ollestad

July 2009

“The Snakehead” by Patrick Keefe

“The Third Angel” by Alice Hoffmann

“The Afghan Campaign” by Steven Pressfield

June 2009

“Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny With A Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits” by Celia Rivenbark

“44 Scotland Street” by Alexander McCall Smith

May 2009

“The Prince of Frogtown” by Rich Bragg

“The Middle Place” by Kelly Corrigan

“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

April 2009

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling

“Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on The Beatles, Their Legacy and Why They Still Matter” edited by June Skinner Sawyers

“Special Education” by Dana Buchman

“The Friday Night Knitting Club” by Kate Jacobs

“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver

“A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry

“People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks

“The Day the World Came to Town” by Jim Defede

“The Art of Racing In the Rain” by Garth Stein

March 2009

“To Dance With the White Dog” by Terry Kay

“Speaking for Myself: My Life From Liverpool to Downing Street” by Cherie Blair

“The Ultimate Gift” by Jim Stovall

February 2009

“The Five People You Meet In Heaven” by Mitch Albom

“Wishful Drinking” by Carrie Fisher

“The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield

“Netherland” by Joseph O’Neill

“The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink

“John Lennon: The Life” by Philip Norman

“Generation Kill” by Evan Wright

January 2009

“The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family” by Laura Schenone

December 2008

“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins

“23 Minutes in Hell” by Bill Wiese

“Harry, A History” by Melissa Agnelli

“Tales of Beedle the Bard” by J.K. Rowling

November 2008

“The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman

“Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson

“Bunnicula” by James Howe

“The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story” by Diane Ackerman

October 2008

“Pieces of My Heart” by Robert J. Wagner

“The Water’s Lovely” by Ruth Rendell

“What the Dead Know” by Laura Lippman

“Odd Hours” by Dean Koontz (Read another review here)

“The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” by Kim Edwards

September 2008

“Firehouse” by David Halberstam

“Good Thief” by Hannah Tinti

“The Twilight Saga” by Stephenie Meyer (Read another review here or here)

“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

“Betrayed” by Brendan DuBois

“The Grace That Keeps This World” by Tom Bailey

August 2008

“York’s Historical Architecture” by Scott Butcher

“The Trojan War: A New History” by Barry Strauss

July 2008

“My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor

“War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq” by Richard Engel

“One Red Paperclip” by Kyle MacDonald

“Oil!” by Upton Sinclair

“Bridging Troubled Waters” by Voni Grimes

June 2008

“Dream Agnus” by Alexander McCall Smith

“Here’s the Thing” by Laura Rudacille

“The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town” by John Grisham

May 2008

“The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece” by Jonathan Harr

April 2008

“The Passion of Artemisia” by Susan Vreeland

“Never Suck A Dead Man’s Hand” by Dana Kollmann

“Secrets of the Baby Whisperer” by Tracy Hogg

“Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert

“Gossip Girl” series by Cecily von Ziegesar

“The Clique” series by Lisi Harrison