REVIEWS

This is the list of my book reviews, in alphabetic order by title.
The title links go to the reviews.

For a list of reviews by author, go to this post.

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Abbeville by Jack Fuller
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (National Book Award)
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Pulitzer Prize)
After Dinner Speaking by Fawcett Boom
The Age of Reagan, Vol. II  by Steven F. Hayward
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Pulitzer Prize)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (National Book Award; NBCC Award)
America, America by Ethan Canin
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
An American Map by Anne-Marie Oomen
Arzak + Arzak by Juan Mari Arzak and Elena Arzak
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Astoria by Peter Start
Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger

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Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan  
Banker by Dick Francis 
Basil's Dream by Christine Hale
Beast in View by Margaret Millar
Bech: A Book by John Updike
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer
The Beggar by Naguib Mahfouz
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (Costa BOTY)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Orange Prize; PEN/Faulkner Award)
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Pulitzer Prize)
Billy (the Kid) by Peter Meech
The Black Book by Ian Rankin
The Black Tower by P. D. James
Blue Desert by Celia Jeffries
Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story by Karen Connelly
Black Boy (American Hunger) by Richard Wright
Blackbird, Farewell by Robert Greer
Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes by Howard Lenhoff
Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Vaclav Klaus
Blue River by Ethan Canin
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (Booker Prize)
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (James Tait Black)
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Pulitzer Prize)
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Burn Down this World by Tina Egnoski

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Cape Mediterranean: The Way We Love to Eat by Ilse van der Merwe
Cold by Stella Cameron  
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (National Book Award)
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Corked by Kathryn Borel
The Dead Bell by Reid Winslow
Exploring Wine Regions: Bordeaux and Argentina by Michael C. Higgins
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller

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The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Booker Prize)
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (notes, not a review)
The Fire by Katherine Neville
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (National Book Award; Pulitzer Prize)
The Flâneur  by Edmund White
The Floating Opera by John Barth
Food Lover's Guide to Portland by Liz Crain 
The Food of France by Waverley Root   
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson-Debeljak
Foreigners by Caryl Phillips
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Letham
Fortune's Deadly Descent by Audry Braun
42 States of Grace: A Woman's Journey by Maureen Hovenkotter 
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Franklin and Lucy by Joseph Persico
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin

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G by John Berger (Booker Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
The Green Years by Karen Wolff
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  by Mary Ann Shaffe
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

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The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (National Book Award)
Hallam's War by Elisabeth Payne Rosen
The Hapless Valet by Lenhardt Stevens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Havoc in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
The Heirs by Susan Rieger
Hidden Falls by Kevin Myers
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
High Stakes by Dick Francis 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Homer and Langley  by E. L. Doctorow
Home Truths by David Lodge
Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto
The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler
How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge
How's Your Glass? by Kingsley Amis
How to Find Morels by Milan Pelouch
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
Humanity's Grace by Dede Montgomery
Humbolt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Pulitzer Prize)

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The Ice Chorus by Sarah Stonich
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (Orange Prize)
The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor  
Incidents in the Rue Laguier by Anita Brookner
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld
Indian Summer by John Knowles
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
Inside the Red Mansion by Oliver August
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer Prize)
The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego
The Italian Lover by Robert Hellinga

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The James Joyce Murder by Amanda Cross  
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves
Joker One by Donovan Campbell
The Journal of My Broken Life by Carolee J. Horning
Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Just Enough Liebling by A. J. Liebling
Justice Denied by Marci A. Hamilton

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The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire by C.M. Mayo
Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin
Leaving Brooklyn by Lynn Sharon Schwartz
The Letter from Death by Lillian Moats
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann(National Book Award)
Life Expectancy by Kirsten Rian
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
A Little Dinner Before the Play by Agnes Jekyll
Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
The Man Who Wasn't There by Judy Nedry
Maps and Shadows by Krysia Jopek
March by Geraldine Brooks (Pulitzer Prize)
The Marmot Drive by John Hersey
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser (Pulitzer Prize)
Massacred for Gold by Gregory Nokes
May We Borrow Your Husband? by Graham Greene
McCallandia by Bill Hall
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt by Rulke Langer
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (National Book Award)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Booker Prize)
Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (National Book Award)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Money by Martin Amis
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates by Michael Bond
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
Off Island by Lara Tupper
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer Prize)
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Orange Prize)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
On Drink by Kingsley Amis
One City's Wilderness by Marcy Cottrell Houle     
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Booker Prize)

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The Palace Council by Stephen Carter
Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed
Parachutes & Kisses by Erica Jong
Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer
A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Portland Noir, edited by Kevin Sampsell
The Preserve by Steve Anderson
The Prestige by Christopher Priest

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The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
Real Cooking, by George! by George Jacobs
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman

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Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (Booker Prize)
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Sam's Theory by Sarah Mendivel
Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories by Scott Nadelson
Scavenger Reef by Laurence Shames
Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard
The Sea by John Banville (Booker Prize)
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (Booker Prize)
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Costa BOTY)
Second Wind by Dick Francis
Secret Portland by Ann Carroll Burgess
The Sense of an Ending by Julien Barnes
7 Wheelchairs by Gary Presley
The Shack by William P. Young
The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts  
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
The Silver Palate Cookbook by Sheila Lukins and Julie Russo
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Size of the World by Joan Silber
Skios by Michael Frayn
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Things Invisible to See by Nancy Willard  
Things We Set on Fire by Deborah Reed 
Three Loves by A. J. Cronin
A Time of Hope by C. P. Snow
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Tinkers by Paul Harding (Pulitzer Prize)
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan by Mervin Peake
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care by Sally Pipes 
Towers of Gold by Frances Dinkelspiel
On the Town in New York by Michael and Ariane Batterberry
The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
Trove by Sandra A. Miller
The Truth About Obamacare by Sally Pipes
The Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriette Beecher Stowe
Underworld by Don DeLillo
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

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Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan
Venusberg by Anthony Powell
Vie de France by James Haller

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The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain published by Words Without Borders Anthologies
Wall Street by Steve Fraser
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Water the Bamboo, by Greg Bell
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Windhall by Ava Barry 
Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchey
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Ryhs
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Booker Prize; NBCC Award)
Word Up! by Marcia Riefer Johnston
The World of Herb Caen: San Francisco 1938 – 1997 by Barnaby Conrad
World Without End by Ken Follett
Worth Dying For by Lee Child 
Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto
Wrong Highway by Wendy Gordon

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A Year in the World by Frances Mayes
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris


NOTES

Finally updated on January 12, 2022.

If you would like your reviews of any of these books listed on my review post, please leave a comment on the review post itself, with a link, and I will add it.


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