2011 Book Reviews by Rating

A list of my 2011 book reviews by rating. Click the rating to jump to the corresponding section.

• 5⭐
• 4.5⭐
• 4⭐
• 3.5⭐
• 3⭐
• 2.5⭐
• 2⭐
• DNF

• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• Instructions by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess
• Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
• Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’ Stardust
• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

• Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
• The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson, read by Peter Altschuler
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

• Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
• Alice at Heart by Deborah Smith
• The Arrival by Shaun Tan
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
• Bending Toward the Sun by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and Rita Lurie
• Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Deception Point by Dan Brown
• A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
• Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
• The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews, read by Isabel Keating
• Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore, read by Bill Irwin
• Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
• Fortune’s Fool by Mercedes Lackey
• The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop
• Horns by Joe Hill
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
• Just After Sunset by Stephen King
• Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
• Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham
• Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
• M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman, read by the author
• The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig
• Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
• The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Mattias Ripa
• Plant Life by Pamela Duncan
• Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Roar by Emma Clayton
• The Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
• ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
• Scones and Sensibility by Lindsay Eland
• The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
• Southern Plate by Christy Jordan
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
• Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
• A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
• Zora and Me by Victoria Simon and T. R. Bond

• Austenland by Shannon Hale, read by Katherine Kellgren
• Cujo by Stephen King
• The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir by Ken Harmon
• The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
• In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
• Jack of Kinrowan by Charles de Lint
• The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• The Alchemyst by Michael Scott, read by Denis O’Hare
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garnett
• Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani
• Bone: Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
• The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born by Peter David, Stephen King, et al.
• The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
• Emily the Strange: The Lost Days by Rob Reger et al.
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian
• The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
• Huck by Janet Elder
• The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop
• The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion
• Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn, read by Marguerite Gavin
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann, read by Mark Deakins
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
• Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
• The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
• Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
• One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey
• Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
• Ruined by Paula Morris
• Sabriel by Garth Nix
• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, translated by Stuart Woolf
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
• Twice Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
• When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke, translated by Oliver G. Latsch, read by the author
• Wild Orchid: A Retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan” by Cameron Dokey
• Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
• The Woods by Harlan Coben
• The Word Made Flesh by Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
• The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

• Everlost by Neal Shusterman, read by Nick Podehl
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, read by David Warner
• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
• The Ruins by Scott Smith

• Adam & Eve by Sena Jeter Naslund
• Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner, read by Mark Deakins
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• The Phantom of Pemberley by Regina Jeffers
• Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, read by Robynne Young

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