January 1, 2008 • Uncategorized •

Book Talk Index: Book Reviews listed by Title

This list will be updated each time I post a new book review, and is permanently linked in the tabs above the blog header. (If the title isn’t linked to the review, it will be soon; the review just hasn’t posted yet.) My reviews are also posted on LibraryThing. If you’ve reviewed any of these books and would like me to add a link to your post at the bottom of mine, please e-mail me at 3.rsblog AT gmail DOT com.

Book Reviews by Title (“A” and “The” included in alpha order) *nf=nonfiction


31 Bond Street (Ellen Horan)

72 Hour Hold (Bebe Moore Campbell)

A

A Changed Man (Francine Prose)
A Family Daughter (Maile Meloy)
A Jolly Good Fellow (Stephen Masse)
A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity (Katherine Gilles Seidel)
A Fierce Radiance (Lauren Belfer)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
A Wedding in December (Anita Shreve)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette (Sena Jeter Naslund)
Accidental Happiness (Jean Reynolds Page)
Admission (Jean Hanff Korelitz)
Admit One: My Life in Film (Emmett James) *nf
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Janelle Brown)
Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings (Colleen Curran, ed.)*nf

American Rust (Phillip Meyer)
Any Place I Hang My Hat (Susan Isaacs)
Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found (Marie Brenner) *nf
Ask Again Later (Jill A. Davis)
Autobiography of a Face (Lucy Grealy) *nf

B

Baby Proof (Emily Giffin)
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace (Ayelet Waldman) *nf
Best Friends (Martha Moody)
Best Friends Forever (Jennifer Weiner)
Betsy and the Great World/Betsy’s Wedding (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Betsy was a Junior/Betsy and Joe (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Between Here and April  (Deborah Copaken Kogan)
Bird in Hand (Christina Baker Kline)
Buffalo Gal (Laura Pedersen) *nf
But Enough About Me: How a Small-Town Girl Went From Shag Carpet to the Red Carpet (Jancee Dunn) *nf

C

Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
Certain Girls (Jennifer Weiner)
Change of Heart (Jodi Picoult)
Children of God (Mary Doria Russell)

D
Dangerous Neighbors (Beth Kephart)

Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl (Susan Campbell) *nf
Don’t You Forget About Me (Jancee Dunn)

E

Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) *nf
Eleanor Rushing (Patty Friedmann)
Escape (Carolyn Jessop) *nf
Every Last One (Anna Quindlen)

F

Family History (Dani Shapiro)
Firefly Lane (Kristin Hannah)
Fly Away Home (Jennifer Weiner)
Fool (Christopher Moore)
Forever… (Judy Blume)

G

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Ruth Reichl) *nf
Gatsby’s Girl  (Caroline Preston)
Get Lucky (Katherine Center)
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (Melanie Rehak) *nf
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — and the Journey of a Generation (Sheila Weller) *nf
Gods Behaving Badly (Marie Phillips)
gods in Alabama (Joshilyn Jackson)
Goldengrove (Francine Prose)
Good Grief (Lollly Winston)

H

Happiness Sold Separately (Lolly Winston)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
Heaven to Betsy/Betsy in Spite of Herself (Maud Hart Lovelace)
His Lovely Wife (Elizabeth Dewberry)
History Lesson for Girls (Aurelie Sheehan)
Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block (Judith Matloff) *nf
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Azadeh Moaveni) *nf
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless (Susan Jane Gilman) *nf

I

In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey Into the Heart of the Evangelical Church (Gina Welch)*nf

Interred With Their Bones (Jennifer Lee Carrell)
Intuition (Allegra Goodman)

J

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Julie Powell) *nf
Janeology (Karen Harrington)

K

Keeping Kids Out of the Middle: Child-Centered Parenting in the Midst of Conflict, Separation, and Divorce (Benjamin Garber, Ph.D) *nf

L

Labor Day (Joyce Maynard)

Letter to My Daughter (George Bishop)
Liars and Saints (Maile Meloy)
Lift (Rebecca K. O’Connor) *nf
Lit: A Memoir (Mary Karr) *nf
Lost and Found (Carolyn Parkhurst)
Lost in the Forest (Sue Miller)
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (Ayelet Waldman)
Love is a Mix Tape (Rob Sheffield) *nf
Love the One You’re With (Emily Giffin)

M

Marley & Me (John Grogan) *nf
Matrimony (Joshua Henkin)
Michael Tolliver Lives (Armistead Maupin)
Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family (Amy Tiemann, Ph.D.) *nf
Mrs. Kimble (Jennifer Haigh)
My Husband’s Sweethearts (Bridget Asher)

N

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult)
No One You Know (Michelle Richmond)
Nothing But Ghosts (Beth Kephart)

O

One Good Turn (Kate Atkinson)
Only Child (Deborah Siegel and Daphne Uviller) *nf

P

Perfect Life (Jessica Shattuck)
Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld)

Q

R
Red Hook Road (Ayelet Waldman)

Rip it Up and Start Again (Simon Reynolds) *nf
Rise and Shine (Anna Quindlen)

S

ShapeShifter: The Demo Tapes – Year 1 (Susan Helene Gottfried)
ShapeShifter: The Demo Tapes, Year 2 (Susan Helene Gottfried)
Shelf Discovery (Lizzie Skurnick) *nf
So Many Books, So Little Time (Sara Nelson) *nf
Somebody Else’s Daughter (Elizabeth Brundage) *nf
Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Still Alice (Lisa Genova)

T

The 19th Wife (David Ebershoff)
The Alchemist (Paolo Coelho)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
The Big Over Easy (Jasper Fforde)
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
The Danish Girl (David Ebershoff)
The Day the Falls Stood Still (Cathy Marie Buchanan)
The Emperor’s Children (Claire Messud)
The Florist’s Daughter (Patrcia Hampl) *nf
The Fourth Bear (Jasper Fforde)
The Good Life (Jay McInernery)
The Great Man (Kate Christensen)
The Heart is Not a Size (Beth Kephart)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Irresistible Henry House (Lisa Grunwald)
The Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Joy Fowler)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Last Bridge (Teri Coyne)
The Laws of Harmony (Judith Ryan Hendricks)
The Local News (Miriam Gershow)
The Lonely Polygamist (Brady Udall)
The Longest Trip Home (John Grogan) *nf
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott (Kelly O’Connor McNees)
The Man of My Dreams (Curtis Sittenfeld)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
The Mighty Queens of Freeville (Amy Dickinson) *nf
The Opposite of Fate (Amy Tan) *nf
The Pages in Between (Erin Einhorn) *nf
The Planets (Dava Sobel) *nf
The Position (Meg Wolitzer)
The Possibility of Everything (Hope Edelman) *nf
The Post-Birthday World (Lionel Shriver)
The Ruins of California (Martha Sherrill)
The Senator’s Wife (Sue Miller)
The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)
The Summer We Read Gatsby (Danielle Ganek)
The Tenth Circle (Jodi Picoult)
The Ten-Year Nap (Meg Wolitzer)
The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
The Unit (Ninni Holmqvist)
The Weight of Silence
The Wife (Meg Wolitzer)
The Wives of Henry Oades (Johanna Moran)
The Year of Fog (Michelle Richmond)
Then We Came to the End (Joshua Ferris)
This is Not the Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness (Laura Munson) *nf
This One is Mine (Maria Semple)
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels (Jasper Fforde)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
True Colors (Kristin Hannah)

U
Undercover (Beth Kephart)

V

Veil of Roses (Laura Fitzgerald)

W

Waiting (Ha Jin)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child – and All the Best Times to Read Them (Pam Allyn) *nf
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of America’s Women from 1960 to the Present (Gail Collins) *nf
When She Flew (Jennie Shortridge)
Who By Fire (Diana Spechler)
Why is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask (Jancee Dunn) *nf
Wife of the Gods (Kwei Quartey)

X

Y

Z

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4 comments

  1. I followed your link from April’s post and see that we have much in common so far as books go, anyway. There are some absolutely flawless ones on your list, and I plan on going through and picking some of yours for my own reading pleasure!

  3. What a great resource. I’ll definitely be coming back here to poke around some more. Thanks for linking to it in my post about book club suggestions.