A list of my 2013 book reviews by author. Click the letter to jump to the corresponding section.

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• H
• K
• L
• M
• N
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• V
• W

A

• Andrews, Mary Kay–Summer Rental (read by Isabel Keating)–4 Stars

B

• Bacigalupi, Paolo– The Windup Girl (read by Jonathan Davis)–2 Stars
• Baker, Tiffany–The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (read by Carrington MacDuffie)–2.5 Stars
• Bauermeister, Erica–The School of Essential Ingredients–4 Stars
• Beah, Ishmael–A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier–4 Stars
• Birdsall, Jeanne–The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (read by Susan Dennaker)–4 Stars
• Black, Holly–Tithe–3 Stars
• Boylan, Clare–Emma Brown–3 Stars
• Bradley, Alan–The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag (read by Jayne Entwistle)–3.5 Stars
• Bray, Libba–A Great and Terrible Beauty–3.5 Stars
• Brom–The Child Thief–4 Stars
• Brosgol, Vera–Anya’s Ghost–3 Stars

C

• Carriger, Gail–Heartless–4 Stars
• Collins, Wilkie–The Woman in White–3 Stars
• Connelly, Michael–The Brass Verdict–3.5 Stars
• Crusie, Jennifer and Bob Mayer–Don’t Look Down–2.5 Stars

D

• Dallas, Sandra–Prayers for Sale–3 Stars
• Davis, Kenneth C.–Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned–3 Stars
• de Lint, Charles–Trader–4 Stars
• de Rosnay, Tatiana–Sarah’s Key–4 Stars
• Díaz, Junot–This is How You Lose Her–5 Stars
• Doyle, Arthur Conan–A Study in Scarlet–2 Stars
• Duncan, Pamela–The Big Beautiful–4 Stars
• Duncan, Pamela–Moon Women–4 Stars

E

• Eugenides, Jeffrey–Middlesex–4 Stars

F

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott–The Great Gatsby–3 Stars
• Flagg, Fannie–Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!–3 Stars
• Fuller, Gary–The Trivia Lover’s Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found–4 Stars

H

• Hale, Shannon–Princess Academy–4 Stars
• Hannah, Darci–The Exile of Sara Stevenson–3 Stars
• Hayden, Torey–One Child–5 Stars
• Hearn, Lian–Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama–3 Stars
• Hearn, Lian–Across the Nightingale Floor: The Sword of the Warrior–3 Stars
• Hemingway, Ernest–The Sun Also Rises–2 Stars
• Hill, Joe–NOS4A2 –4.5 Stars
• Hill, Susan–The Small Hand–3 Stars
• Hillenbrand, Laura–Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption–4 Stars
• Hoffman, Beth–Saving CeeCee Honeycutt–3 stars
• Holman, Sheri–The Dress Lodger–3 Stars
• Hudspeth, E. B.–The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black–4 Stars

K

• King, Stephen–Doctor Sleep–4 Stars
• Kline, Christina Baker–Orphan Train–4 Stars

L

• Lackey, Mercedes–The Sleeping Beauty–4 Stars
• Littlewood, Kathryn–Bliss–4 Stars
• Littlewood, Kathryn–A Dash of Magic–4 Stars
• Lukas, Michael David–The Oracle of Stamboul (read by Mozhan Marno)–3 Stars

M

• Martin, George R. R. and Gardner Dozois (editors)–Songs of Love & Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love–4 Stars
• Mayhew, Anna Jean–The Dry Grass of August–4 Stars
• McConnochie, Mardi–Coldwater–4 Stars
• McMurtry, Larry–Lonesome Dove–4.5 Stars
• McNamara, Ali–From Notting Hill With Love…Actually–3 Stars
• Meyer, L. A.–Curse of the Blue Tattoo (read by Katherine Kellgren)–4 Stars
• Meyer, L. A.–Under the Jolly Roger (read by Katherine Kellgren)–4 Stars
• Meyer, Marissa–Cinder (read by Rebecca Soler)–4 Stars
• Meyer, Marissa–Scarlet (read by Rebecca Soler)–4 Stars
• Meyer, Stephenie–The Host–2 Stars
• Moxley, Mitch–Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China–4 Stars

N

• Naslund, Sena Jeter–The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman–2.5 Stars

P

• Parker, K. J.–The Company–2 Stars
• Parker, T. Jefferson–The Fallen (read by David Colacci)–3 Stars
• Pasternak, Boris–Doctor Zhivago (translated by Max Hayward, et al.)–2 Stars
• Patchett, Ann–State of Wonder–4 Stars
• Peters, Elizabeth–The Curse of the Pharaohs–3.5 Stars
• Porter, Donald Clayton–White Indian–3 Stars
• Preston, Richard–The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring–4 Stars

Q

• Quinn, Spencer–Dog On It–4 Stars

R

• Rasovsky, Yuri–Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! (read by a full cast)–1 Star
• Rennison, Louise–Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging–4 Stars
• Riggs, Ransom–Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children–4 Stars
• Robb, J. D.–Naked in Death–4 Stars
• Rutherfurd, Edward–The Princes of Ireland–3 Stars

S

• Sage, Angie–Magyk–4 Stars
• Savage, Dan–The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family–4 Stars
• Schlink, Bernhard–The Reader–2 Stars
• Sepetys, Ruta–Between Shades of Gray–4.5 Stars
• Sethi, Meera Lee–Mountainfit–4 Stars
• Setterfield, Diane–The Thirteenth Tale–5 Stars
• Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows–The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society–5 Stars
• Sijie, Dai–Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (translated by Ina Rilke, read by B. D. Wong)–4 Stars
• Smith, Alexander McCall–Tears of the Giraffe (read by Lisette Lecat)–3 Stars
• Smith, Dodie–I Capture the Castle–4 Stars
• Smith, Lee–Oral History–4 Stars
• Solomons, Natasha–The Novel in the Viola–3.5 Stars
• Steinbeck, John–The Grapes of Wrath–4.5 Stars
• Steinbeck, John–Travels with Charley in Search of America–4 Stars

V

• van Praag, Menna–The House at the End of Hope Street–4 Stars
• Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess–5 Stars

W

• Walls, Jeannette–The Glass Castle–4 Stars
• West, Michael Lee–Mermaids in the Basement–3 Stars
• Willig, Lauren–The Orchid Affair–4 Stars

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