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

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• U
• W

A

• Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama by Lian Hearn–3 Stars
• Across the Nightingale Floor: The Sword of the Warrior by Lian Hearn–3 Stars
• Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison–4 Stars
• Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol–3 Stars
• Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China by Mitch Moxley–4 Stars

B

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke, read by B. D. Wong–4 Stars
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys–4.5 Stars
• The Big Beautiful by Pamela Duncan–4 Stars
• Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood–4 Stars
• The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly–3.5 Stars

C

• The Child Thief by Brom–4 Stars
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler–4 Stars
• Coldwater by Mardi McConnochie–4 Stars
• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage–4 Stars
• The Company by K. J. Parker–2 Stars
• Curse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren–4 Stars
• The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters–3.5 Stars

D

• A Dash of Magic by Kathryn Littlewood–4 Stars
• Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! by Yuri Rasovsky, read by a full cast–1 Star
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King–4 Stars
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Max Hayward, et al.–2 Stars
• Dog On It by Spencer Quinn–4 Stars
• Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis–3 Stars
• Don’t Look Down by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer–2.5 Stars
• Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess–5 Stars
• The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman–3 Stars
• The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew–4 Stars

E

• Emma Brown by Clare Boylan–3 Stars
• The Exile of Sara Stevenson by Darci Hannah–3 Stars

F

• The Fallen by T. Jefferson Parker, read by David Colacci–3 Stars
• The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman by Sena Jeter Naslund–2.5 Stars
• From Notting Hill With Love…Actually by Ali McNamara–3 Stars

G

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls–4 Stars
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck–4.5 Stars
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald–3 Stars
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray–3.5 Stars
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows–5 Stars

H

• Heartless by Gail Carriger–4 Stars
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer–2 Stars
• The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag–4 Stars

I

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith–4 Stars

L

• The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker, read by Carrington MacDuffie–2.5 Stars
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry–4.5 Stars
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah–4 Stars

M

• Magyk by Angie Sage–4 Stars
• Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West–3 Stars
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides–4 Stars
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs–4 Stars
• Moon Women by Pamela Duncan–4 Stars
• Mountainfit by Meera Lee Sethi–4 Stars

N

• Naked in Death by J. D. Robb–4 Stars
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill–4.5 Stars
• The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons–3.5 Stars

O

• One Child by Torey Hayden–5 Stars
• The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas, read by Mozhan Marno–3 Stars
• Oral History by Lee Smith–4 Stars
• The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig–4 Stars
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline–4 Stars

P

• The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall, read by Susan Dennaker–4 Stars
• Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas–3 Stars
• The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd–3 Stars
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale–4 Stars

R

• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink–2 Stars
• The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E. B. Hudspeth–4 Stars

S

• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay–4 Stars
• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman–3 stars
• Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler–4 Stars
• The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister–4 Stars
• The Sleeping Beauty by Mercedes Lackey–4 Stars
• The Small Hand by Susan Hill–3 Stars
• Songs of Love & Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois–4 Stars
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett–4 Stars
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle–2 Stars
• Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews, read by Isabel Keating–4 Stars
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway–2 Stars

T

• Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith, read by Lisette Lecat–3 Stars
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield–5 Stars
• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz–5 Stars
• Tithe by Holly Black–3 Stars
• Trader by Charles de Lint–4 Stars
• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck–4 Stars
• The Trivia Lover’s Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found by Gary Fuller–4 Stars

U

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand–4 Stars
• Under the Jolly Roger by L. A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren–4 Stars

W

• The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley, read by Jayne Entwistle–3.5 Stars
• Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg–3 Stars
• White Indian by Donald Clayton Porter–3 Stars
• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston–4 Stars
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi–2 Stars
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins–3 Stars

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