Reviews by Author
A
Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Adams, Douglas – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adiga, Aravind – The White Tiger
Albom, Mitch – The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Alexie, Sherman – Flight
Alexie, Sherman – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Allende, Isabel – Daughter of Fortune
Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak
Arendt, Hannah – Eichmann in Jerusalem
Atwood, Margaret – The Penelopiad
B
Bach, Richard - Hypnotizing Maria
Bach, Richard - Jonathon Livingston Seagull
Banks, Adam J. – Race, Rhetoric, and Technology
Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson – Peter and the Starcatchers
Berk, Josh – The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
Blackwell, Elise – An Unfinished Score
Bowles, Paul – The Sheltering Sky
Bray, Libba – Going Bovine
Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Max – World War Z
Brown, Dan - The DaVinci Code
Brown, Dan - Angels and Demons
Buckely, Carla – The Things That Keep Us Here
Busch, Colleen Morton – Fire Monks
Butler, Octavia – Kindred
C
Carpentier, Alejo – Kingdom of This World
Charleson, Susannah – Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog
Cleave, Chris – Little Bee
Coelho, Paulo – The Alchemist
Coetzee, J.M. – Disgrace
Collins, Suzanne - Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne - Catching Fire
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fennimore – The Last of the Mohicans
Corrie, Rachel (edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner) – My Name is Rachel Corrie
Covey, Stephen – Seven Habits for Highly Effective People
Cullen, Dave – Columbine
D
Dahl, Roald – The BFG
de Zengotita, Thomas – Mediated
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
Dilloway, Margaret – How to Be an American Housewife
Doud, Patrick – The Hunt for the Eye of Ogin
E
Egan, Jennifer – Look at Me
Eggers, David - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho
Eugenides, Jeffrey – Middlesex
Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides
F
Fey, Tina – Bossypants
Forman, Gayle – If I Stay
Forman, Gayle – Where She Went
Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces
Frey – James - My Friend Leonard
Fugard, Athol – Tsotsi
G
Gaiman, Neil – Stardust
Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book
Gaiman, Neil and P. Craig Russell – Coraline
Garcia, Kami and Margaret Stohl – Beautiful Creatures
Garlett, Kyle – Heart of Iron: My Journey from Transplant Patient to Ironman Triathlete
Gavron, Assaf – Almost Dead
Gibson, William – Neuromancer
Gibson, William – Count Zero
Gilbert, Elizabeth – Eat, Pray, Love
Gipi – Notes for a War Story
Godin, Seth – Poke the Box
Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
Grandin, Temple and Catherine Johnson – Animals in Translation
Griffenhagen, Beth and Cynthia Vehslage Meyers – Haiku for the Single Girl
Grogan, John – Marley & Me: Life and Love with the Worlds Worst Dog
Green, John - Looking for Alaska
H
Haddon, Mark – the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Hamm, Jesse and Derek Kirk Kim – Good as Lily
Hannah, Kristin – Firefly Lane
Hannigan, Katherine - Ida B
Harris, Charlaine - Dead Until Dark
Harris, Charlaine - Living Dead in Dallas
Harris, Charlaine - Club Dead
Harris, Charlaine - Dead to the World
Harris, Charlaine - Dead as a Doornail
Harris, Charlaine - Definitely Dead
Harris, Charlaine - All Together Dead
Harris, Charlaine - From Dead to Worse
Harris, Charlaine - Dead and Gone
Hill, Joe – Horns
Hill, Lawrence – Someone Knows My Name
Hornby, Nick - High Fidelity
Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner
Hosseini, Khaled – A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
I
Ingold, Jeanette – Paper Daughter
J
Jablonski, Carla and Leland Purvis – Resistance
Jacobs, A.J. – The Know-It-All
James, Carrie - Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media
Johnson, Angela – The First Part Last
Johnson, Catherine and Temple Grandin – Animals in Translation
Johnson, Steven – The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Johnson-Eilola, Johndan and Stuart Selber – Solving Problems in Technical Communication
Jordan, Hillary – Mudbound
Jordan, Robert – The Eye of the World
Jordan, Robert – The Great Hunt
K
Kagawa, Julie – The Iron King
Kaufman, Moises – The Laramie Project: A Play
Keyes, Daniel – Flowers for Algernon
Kibuishi, Kazu – Copper
Kidd, Sue Monk – The Secret Life of Bees
Killen, Chris – The Bird Room
Kim, Derek Kirk and Gene Luen Yang - The Eternal Smile
Kim, Derek Kirk and Gene Luen Yang – Prime Baby
Kim, Derek Kirk and Jesse Hamm – Good as Lily
Kingman, Peg – Original Sins
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver, Barbara – Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Kittle, Katrina – The Blessings of the Animals
L
Lamb, Wally - I Know This Much Is True
Lamb, Wally – She’s Come Undone
Larkin, Emma – Everything is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma
Larsson, Stieg – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Larsson, Stieg – The Girl Who Played with Fire
Larsson, Stieg – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
Levi, Primo – Survival in Auschwitz: If This is a Man
Lewis, C.S. - The Magician’s Nephew
Lewis, C.S. - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
M
Maguire, Gregory – Wicked
Mandel, Emily St. John – The Singer’s Gun
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
McCormack, Chris – I’m Here to Win
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes
McDougall, Christopher – Born to Run
McEwan, Ian – On Chesil Beach
McKinley, Robin – Sunshine
McMillan, Tracy – I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyways
Meyer, Stephenie – Twilight
Meyer, Stephenie - New Moon
Meyer, Stephenie – Eclipse
Meyer, Stephenie – Breaking Dawn
Meyers, Cynthia Vehslage and Beth Griffenhagen – Haiku for the Single Girl
Meyers, Randy Susan – The Murderer’s Daughters
Michener, James - Hawaii
Mieville, China – The City and the City
Milan, Courtney – Proof by Seduction
Mills-Macias, Kathi – No Greater Love
Mistry, Rohinton – A Fine Balance
Moore, Wes – The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Morrison, Toni - The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni - Sula
Morrison, Toni - Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni – Tar Baby
Morrison, Toni – Beloved
Morrison, Toni – Jazz
Morrison, Toni – A Mercy
Mukherjee, Siddhartha – The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Murakami, Haruki – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Murakami, Haruki – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami, Haruki – Kafka On the Shore
Murakami, Ryu - In the Miso Soup
Myers, Walter Dean – Monster
N
Na, An – A Step from Heaven
Nelson, Jandy – The Sky Is Everywhere
Nesbo, Jo – The Redbreast
Niedzviecki, Hal – The Peep Diaries
Niffenegger, Audrey – The Time Travellers Wife
Novogratz, Jacqueline – The Blue Sweater
O
Okorafor, Nnedi – Who Fears Death
Oliver, Lauren – Before I Fall
Orwell, George – 1984
P
Palahniuk, Chuck - Lullaby
Palahniuk, Chuck - Invisible Monsters
Palahniuk, Chuck - Choke
Paolini, Christopher - Eragon
Paolini, Christopher - Eldest
Patchett, Ann – State of Wonder
Paush, Randy – The Last Lecture
Pearson, Mary E. – The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Pearson, Ridley and Dave Barry – Peter and the Starcatchers
Perkins, Mitali - Bamboo People
Peters, Julie Anne – Luna
Phillips, Marie – Gods Behaving Badly
Picoult, Jodi – My Sister’s Keeper
Pullman, Phillip - The Golden Compass
Pullman, Phillip - The Subtle Knife
Pullman, Phillip - The Amber Spyglass
Purvis, Leland and Carla Jablonski – Resistance
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Q
R
Reed, Ishmael – Mumbo Jumbo
Rhys, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea
Roach, Mary – Stiff
Roberts, Gregory David – Shantaram
Rosoff, Meg – How I Live Now
Rowlands, Penelope (editor) – Paris Was Ours
Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
Russell, P. Craig and Neil Gaiman – Coraline
S
Saint-Exupèry, Antione de - The Little Prince
Satrapi, Marjane – Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Satrapi, Marjane – Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Sebold, Alice - Lucky
Sedaris, David – When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Sedia, Ekaterina – The Alchemy of Stone
Selber, Stuart – Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
Selber, Stuart and Johndan Johnson-Eilola – Solving Problems in Technical Communication
Semple, Maria – This One Is Mine
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
Silvey, Craig – Jasper Jones
Small, David – Stitches
Smith, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Spahr, Juliana – this connection of everyone with lungs: poems
Sparks, Nicholas – Nights in Rodanthe
Spiegelman, Art - Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Spiegelman, Art – Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Story Began
Stohl, Margaret and Kami Garcia – Beautiful Creatures
Stoker, Bram – Dracula
Stoppard, Tom - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
T
TenNapel, Doug – Ghostopolis
Tillman, Murray – Meet Me on the Paisley Roof
U
Urrea, Luis Alberto - Into the Beautiful North
V
W
Waters, Sarah – Fingersmith
Wayne, Teddy – Kapitoil
Weiner, Eric – The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Wiesel, Elie - Night
Williamson, Debbie – Stand
Willis, Connie – To Say Nothing of the Dog
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
X
Y
Yang, Gene Luen – American Born Chinese
Yang, Gene Luen and Derek Kirk Kim - The Eternal Smile
Yang, Gene Luen and Derek Kirk Kim – Prime Baby
Yoshimoto, Banana – The Lake
Young, Pamela Samuels – Buying Time
Young-Stone, Michele - The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
Z
Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief






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Sincerely,
Maria Sutton
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