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  • Books of Hype
    • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
    • The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
    • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    • Divergent by Veronica Roth
    • Insurgent by Veronica Roth
    • Allegiant by Veronica Roth
    • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
    • Still Alice by Lisa Genova
    • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Books Reviewed (Alphabetically by Author)
  • Books Reviewed (Alphabetically by Genre)
  • Books Reviewed (Alphabetically by Title)
  • Books reviewed (By date)
    • Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
    • Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
    • Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
    • Ford County by John Grisham
    • The Confession by John Grisham
    • Imaginary Men by Anjali Banerjee
    • Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
    • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
    • Story Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers edited by Shyam Selvadurai
    • When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt
    • A Widow’s Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
    • The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
    • Three Stages of Amazement by Carol Edgarian
    • Julie & Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen by Julie Powell
    • Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
    • I’ll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark
    • Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
    • My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke
    • The Wedding Writer by Susan Schneider
    • Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
    • Cracks in the Sidewalk by Bette Lee Crosby
    • Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick
    • Duty Free by Moni Mohsin
    • The Breath of Allah by Steven W. Ritcheson
    • Breaking the Code by Karen Fisher-Alaniz
    • Water’s Edge by Barry Silverstein
    • Spare Change by Bette Lee Crosby
    • Cross the Line by Rie McGaha
    • Defending A King: His Life and Legacy by Dr. Karen Moriarty
    • Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look by Laura Johnston Kohl
    • You Never Know by Lilian Duval
    • The Ninth Orphan by James and Lance Morcan
    • Surviving My Family by Kat Kirst
    • Laminar Flow by Timothy H. Cook
    • Sammy Knows It All by Dave Constance
    • The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
    • The Spaghetti Set: Family Served Italian Style by Rose Marie Boyd
    • The Last McKenzie by Kirk Ross (pre-publication review)
    • Hike Up Devil’s Mountain by Penny Estelle
    • Sunlit Hearts by Meenu Mehrotra
    • Coaptation by Timothy H. Cook
    • E-learning 101 by Dr. Liz Hardy
    • The Orphan Factory by James and Lance Morcan
    • The Hunger Pains: A Parody by The Harvard Lampoon
    • The Obsidian Mask by Caroline Ludovici
    • The Reluctant Matchmaker by Shobhan Bantwal
    • Ashes Ashes, The Twins Fall Down by Pauline L. Hawkins
    • Cupid’s Christmas by Bette Lee Crosby
    • Remember Me by Brian L. MacLearn
    • “At What Price?” by P.A. Estelle
    • Organize Your Life and More by Christina Scalise
    • The Racketeer by John Grisham
    • Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
    • A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
    • May This Be the Best Year of Your Life: A Memoir by Sandra Bornstein
      • Author Q&A: Sandra Bornstein on May This Be the Best Year of Your Life
    • The Writer by Emily Sun Li
    • Enchanting Lily By Anjali Banerjee
    • The Unexpected Son by Shobhan Bantwal
    • The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
    • Turbulence and Restoration by Timothy H. Cook
    • Wish by Beth Bracken and Kay Fraser; illustrated by Odessa Sawyer
    • Sisters of the Sari by Brenda L. Baker
    • The One You Love by Paul Pilkington
    • Greek Mythology’s Adventures of Perseus by Blake Hoena
    • Campfire Crisis by Blake Hoena
    • The One You Fear by Paul Pilkington
    • Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
    • Between Night and Mourning by Kat Kirst
    • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
    • “Missing Rib” by Alex Clermont
    • Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    • I’m Not Her by Janet Gurtler
    • Ride of a Lifetime: Book Two of The Wickware Sagas by Penny Estelle
    • Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
    • The Watchman by Matt Langford
    • Between You and Me by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
    • Stories in Uniform: A Look at the Heroics, Sacrifices, and Triumphs of Our Soldiers (compilation)
    • The Returned by Jason Mott
    • Karmack by J.C. Whyte
    • All You Could Ask For by Mike Greenberg
    • Palace of Spies by Sarah Zettel
    • Sycamore Row by John Grisham
    • Game by Anders de la Motte
    • The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
    • The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien
    • Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
    • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    • A Stopover In Venice by Kathryn Walker
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
    • Push Not the River by James Conroyd Martin
    • Chocolat by Joanne Harris
    • Spain or Shine by Michelle Jellen
    • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
    • The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall
    • The Cost of Living Forever by Kat Kirst
    • Flash to the Past; Bumped Back in Time; Riches to Rags by Penny Estelle
    • The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
    • Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things by Cynthia Voigt
    • Buzz by Anders de la Motte
      • Q & A with Anders de la Motte, author of the “Game Trilogy”
    • Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
    • Bubble by Anders de la Motte
    • Doing Harm by Kelly Parsons
    • The Book of Answers by C.Y. Gopinath
    • Tesla’s Attic by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman
    • We Are the Goldens by Dana Reinhardt
    • Then and Always by Dani Atkins
    • The Art of Arranging Flowers by Lynne Branard
    • The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine
    • Your Perfect Life by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
    • The Body in the Woods by April Henry
    • Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
    • After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    • The Spoon from Minkowitz by Judith Fein
    • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
    • The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron
    • The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
    • The Young World by Chris Weitz
    • The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
    • Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland
    • The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
    • Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts
    • The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh M. O’Brien
    • The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill
    • Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet
    • My Mother’s Secret by J.L. Witterick
    • Gabriel Finley and the Raven’s Riddle by George Hagen
    • Beyond the Last Star: A Novella by R.G. Howard
    • I Am the Lion by Andrew Toy
    • The Murder of Adam and Eve by William Dietrich
    • Words and Their Meanings by Kate Bassett
    • Hello from the Gillespies by Monica McInerney
    • The She Stands Alone by Nadine Keels
    • The Life Intended by Kristen Harmel
    • Alistair Grim’s Odditorium by Gregory Funaro
    • When by Victoria Laurie
    • The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
    • Since You’ve Been Gone by Mary Jennifer Payne
    • The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
    • Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton
    • The Wonders by Paddy O’Reilly
    • At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
    • Do the KIND Thing by Daniel Lubetzky
    • Some Kind of Magic by Adrian Fogelin
    • Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
    • House of Echoes by Brendan Duffy
    • The Happy Hour Choir by Sally Kilpatrick
    • Material Girls by Elaine Dimopoulos
    • The Sound of Glass by Karen White
    • The Secrets of Carriage H by Andrew Rosenheim
    • Things You Won’t Say by Sarah Pekkanen
    • Manhattan Mayhem edited by Mary Higgins Clark
    • A Sparrow in Terezin by Kristy Cambron
    • The Lake Season by Hannah McKinnon
    • Those Girls by Lauren Saft
    • Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
    • The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
    • Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World (anthology) edited by Christopher Merrill, et. al
    • The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows
    • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
    • Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar
    • The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango
    • View from the Sixth Floor by Elizabeth Horton-Newton
    • Awake by Natasha Preston
    • A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
    • Secrets of the River by Caroline Ludovici
    • Sweet Misfortune by Kevin Alan Milne
    • The Bells by Richard Harvell
    • The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim
    • The Revelation Gate by Brian Thompson
    • The Silent and the Lost by A. Zubair
    • The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
    • Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
    • Poached by Stuart Gibbs
    • Northwood by Brian Falkner
    • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
    • The Twelfth Child by Bette Lee Crosby
    • Breaking News by Shirani Rajapakse
    • Thugbook by C.J. West
    • Billy Cooper’s Awesome Nightmare by Penny Estelle
    • The Trust by Norb Vonnegut
    • Wake by Anna Hope
    • The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson
    • The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith
    • The Halingsford Murders by Lili Evans
    • The Here and Now by Ann Brasheres
    • The One You Trust by Paul Pilkington
    • Mister Max: The Book of Kings by Cynthia Voigt
    • IA: Initiate by John Darryl Winston
    • Keegan’s Point by HD Smith
    • Retirement Can Be Murder by Susan Santangelo
    • Sweet Madness by Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie
    • Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
    • The Lake House by Kate Morton
    • Welcome to Monstrovia by Mark Newhouse
    • Hostage by Kristina Ohlsson
    • The Five Times I Met Myself by James L. Rubart
    • Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
    • Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
    • The Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert
    • The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
    • This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
    • What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross
    • The Girl With No Past by Kathryn Croft
    • The Forgotten Room by Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig
    • Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
    • Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf
    • The Widow by Fiona Barton
    • Breaking Wild by Diane Les Becquets
    • Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon
    • The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
    • Once Upon A Dream by Liz Braswell
    • Melvin Invents Music by Claire and Monte Montgomery
    • Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
    • Relativity by Antonia Hayes
    • Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
    • Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
    • Forgive Me by Daniel Palmer
    • A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi
    • Strange History: An Anthology by various authors
    • First Comes Love by Emily Griffin
    • All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
    • My Girl by Jack Jordan
    • The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone
    • Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
    • Claiming Noah by Amanda Ortlepp
    • The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
    • The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
    • Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon
    • The Cabin by Natasha Preston
    • The Changelings by Christina Soontornvat
    • God of the Internet by Lynn Lipinksi
    • The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti
    • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
    • The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies
    • Isabella for Real by Margie Palatini
    • And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
    • IQ by Joe Ide
    • A New Dawn by Sudha Balagopal
    • The French Impressionist by Rebecca Bischoff
    • Don’t Tell Anyone by Eleanor Gray
    • The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch
    • Two Days Gone by Randall Silvis
    • Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia
    • The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
    • The Girl Before by JP Delaney
    • Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
    • Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
    • The Best Mistake Mystery by Sylvia McNicoll
    • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
    • The Hollywood Daughter by Kate Alcott
    • A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
    • It Happens All the Time by Amy Hatvany
    • Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
    • Beartown by Fredrik Backman
    • Bad Luck by Pseudonymous Bosch
    • The Star Thief by Lindsey Becker
    • Gone Without a Trace by Mary Torjussen
    • The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
    • Someone Else’s Summer by Rachel Bateman
    • The Party by Robyn Harding
    • Born Under A Million Shadows by Andrea Busfield
    • The Child by Fiona Barton
    • The Devil’s Dance by Kristen Lamb
    • Textrovert by Lindsey Summers
    • Just A Normal Tuesday by Kim Turrisi
    • Love and Other Alien Experiences by Kerry Winfrey
    • The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
    • The Island by Victoria Hislop
    • The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond
    • The Trophy Child by Paula Daly
    • Holding by Graham Norton
    • Seeking Sarah by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
    • The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse
    • Pieces of Happiness by Anne Ostby
    • Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
    • Something Like Happy by Eva Woods
    • All Things New by Lauren Miller
    • For Your Own Protection by Paul Pilkington
    • The Windfall by Diksha Basu
    • The Eye of the North by Sinead O’Hart
    • Millard Salter’s Last Day by Jacob M. Appel
    • Where the Stars Rise edited by Lucas K. Law and Derwin Mak
    • Hidden Traps by Judy L. Mohr
    • Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda
    • The Border by Steve Schafer
    • Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
    • A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson
    • Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
    • As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti
    • The Book of Pearl by Timothee de Fombelle
    • This Is Not A Love Letter by Kim Purcell
    • Killer Choice by Tom Hunt
    • The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
    • Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
    • The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
    • Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
    • After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
    • The Coincidence Makers by Yoav Blum
    • The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
    • Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
    • Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead
    • Captain Superlative by J.S. Puller
    • The Glitch by Elisabeth Cohen
    • Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris
    • Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
    • The Lido by Libby Page
    • The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr
    • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
    • Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi
    • Vox by Christina Dalcher
    • Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia
    • Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding
    • The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
    • The Boy From Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis
    • #FashionVictim by Amina Akhtar
    • A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
    • Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
    • The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee
    • Lies by T.M. Logan
    • A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
    • The Girl I Used to Be by Mary Torjussen
    • The Reckoning by John Grisham
    • Lies You Never Told Me by Jennifer Donaldson
    • House of Gold by Natasha Solomons
    • Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
    • Warning Light by David Ricciardi
    • An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
    • The Suspect by Fiona Barton
    • The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
    • One Fatal Mistake by Tom Hunt
    • The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib
    • The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
    • Immoral Code by Lillian Clark
    • The Stone Girl’s Story by Sara Beth Durst
    • Convergence by Ginny L. Yttrup
    • One for Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn
    • Burning Fields by Alli Sinclair
    • Fallen Princeborn: Stolen by Jean Lee
    • The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
    • How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
    • My Last Lament by James William Brown
    • The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
    • The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
    • Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
    • The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
    • Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
    • Man of the Year by Caroline Louise Walker
    • Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
    • The Griffins of Castle Cary by Heather Shumaker
    • Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim
    • The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
    • Escape Room by Megan Goldin
    • Layover by David Bell
    • A Murder on Jane Street by Cathy Cash Spellman
    • Whisper Me This by Kelly Anne King
    • Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
    • The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
    • Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
    • In Conversation with the Stars by Anupama Chopra
    • The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller
    • Bridges to Us by Jeanne Felfe
    • Long Gone by Paul Pilkington
    • Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
    • The Sisters of Summit Avenue by Lynn Cullen
    • What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
    • Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart
    • I Will Make You Pay by Teresa Driscoll
    • Here We Are by Aarti Namdev Shahani
    • Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
    • The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
    • Horrible Writing: Ten Horror Stories You Probably Shouldn’t Read by Daniel Charles Wild
    • Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
    • Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark
    • The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
    • Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
    • Nameless Queen by Rebecca McLaughlin
    • Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
    • The Tenant by Katrine Engberg
    • The Look-Alike by Erica Spindler
    • Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald
    • The Bootlace Magician by Cassie Beasley
    • The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher
    • You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
    • Follow Me by Kathleen Barber
    • One Little Lie by Colleen Coble
    • And They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton
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