2015 Book Reviews by Rating

A list of my 2015 book reviews by rating. Click the rating to jump to the corresponding section.

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• 4.5⭐
• 4⭐
• 3.5⭐
• 3⭐
• 2.5⭐
• 2⭐

• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier

• All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
• Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer, read by Angela Brazil and Stephen R. Thorne
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok, read by Grayce Wey
• In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
• The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore, read by Adenrele Ojo and Pamela D’Pella

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, translated by Rod Bradbury, read by Steven Crossley
• Cress by Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler
• Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
• Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
• gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson, read by Catherine Taber
• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
• Habibi by Craig Thompson
• He is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson edited by Christopher Conlon
• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
• How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer
• I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell
• The League of Seven by Alan Gratz
• Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig, read by Kate Reading
• The Penderwicks in Spring by Jeanne Birdsall, read by Susan Denaker
• Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World by David Maraniss
• Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
• When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi
• The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak

• Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
• Fairest by Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler
• First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene

• Armada by Ernest Cline, read by Wil Wheaton
• The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Kevin Wiliarty, read by Cassandra Campbell
• Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
• Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
• Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman by Alice Steinbach
• Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
• Good Omens (Radio Adaptation) by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
• The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, translated by Simon Pare
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, read by a full cast
• The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye, read by Campbell Scott
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose

• Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore
• Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca? by Alan Parks

• The Story of Land and Sea by Katy Simpson Smith–2 Stars

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