Review Directory

A complete listing of all the books I’ve reviewed, in alphabetical order, with ratings. If you’re more interested in order by date read, then check out my Reading List pages. If you want them sorted by rating or genre, check out the categories list in the bar immediately above.

Total # of reviews: 590

Numbers/Symbols | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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• 9Tail Fox – Jon Courtenay Grimwood [rating: 3]
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes – Maureen Johnson [rating: 3.5]
• The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography – Tetsu Saiwai [rating: 2]

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A

• Across Asia on a Bicycle – Thomas Gaskell Allen & William Lewis Sachtleben [rating: Buy it]
• Act of Will – A. J. Hartley [rating: 3]
• Adam of the Road – Elizabeth Janet Gray [rating: 4.5]
• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding – Agatha Christie [rating: 3]
• Agatha Christie: An Autobiography – Agatha Christie [rating: 4.5]
• Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte [rating: Borrow it]
• Airhead – Meg Cabot [rating: 3.5]
• The Alchemyst – Michael Scott [rating: 3.5]
• All-American Girl – Meg Cabot [rating: 4]
• All the Fishes Come Home to Roost – Rachel Manija Brown [rating: 5]
• All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris [rating: 4]
• The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett [rating: Buy it]
• Ambrose Bierce & the One-Eyed Jacks – Oakley Hall [rating: 3]
• American Gods: 10th Anniversary Edition – Neil Gaiman [rating: 5]
• Anastasia, Absolutely – Lois Lowry [rating: 4.5]
• Andromeda Klein – Frank Portman [rating: 4.5]
• Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins [rating: 4.5]
• Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures – Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol [rating: 5]
• The Anybodies – N.E. Bode [rating: 4.5]
• The Apothecary – Maile Meloy [rating: 4]
• The Arctic Incident – Eoin Colfer [rating: 5]
• Around the Bloc – Stephanie Elizondo Griest [rating: 4]
• Arsene Lupin – Maurice Leblanc [rating: 4]
• The Art of Money Getting – P.T. Barnum [rating: 2]
• Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer [rating: 5]
• Ash – Malinda Lo [rating: 3.5]
• Ashes – Ilsa J. Bick [rating: 4]
• Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb [rating: 4]
• Assassinating Shakespeare – Thomas Goltz [rating: 2.5]
• The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl – Barry Lyga [rating: 3.5]
• At the Crossing Places – Kevin Crossley-Holland [rating: 4]
• The Awakening – Kelley Armstrong [rating: 4]

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B

• Barefoot Gen Vol. 1 – Keiji Nakazawa [rating: 3.5]
• Barefoot Gen Vol. 2 – Keiji Nakazawa [rating: 3.5]
• The Battle of the Labyrinth – Rick Riordan [rating: 4.5]
• The Battle of the Sun – Jeanette Winterson [rating: 3]
• Behind the Curtain – Peter Abrahams [rating: 4.5]
• Benny & Omar – Eoin Colfer [rating: 4]
• Bertie and the Tinman – Peter Lovesey [rating: 4.5]
• Beyond Heaving Bosoms – Candy Tan & Sarah Wendell [rating: 4]
• Beyond Tourism – Kenneth Cushner [rating: 3]
• Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery – James R. Benn [rating: 3.5]
• Bird – Rita Murphy [rating: 3]
• Bite Me! – Dylan Meconis [rating:4.5]
• Bitter Melon – Cara Chow [rating: Borrow it]
• The Black Cauldron – Lloyd Alexander [rating: 4.5]
• Black Jack – Leon Garfield [rating: 3.5]
• Black Powder War – Naomi Novik [rating: 3.5]
• Blink & Caution – Tim Wynne-Jones [rating: 4]
• Bliss – Lauren Myracle [rating: 4.5]
• Blood Engines – T.A. Pratt [rating: 3.5]
• Blood of Ambrose – James Enge [rating: 4.5]
• Blood Red Road – Moira Young [rating: 4]
• Bloodshot – Cherie Priest [rating: Borrow it]
• The Bloomswell Diaries – Louis L. Buitendag [rating: Borrow it]
• Bluefish – Pat Schmatz [rating: 4]
• Boca Knights – Steven M. Forman [rating: 3.5]
• Bombos VS Everything Vol. 1 – Maximo V. Lorenzo [rating: 4]
• Bone Rattler – Eliot Pattison [rating: 4]
• The Boneshaker – Kate Milford [rating: 4.5]
• Boneshaker - Cherie Priest [rating: 4]
• The Book of Three – Lloyd Alexander [rating: 3]
• The Book of Tomorrow – Cecelia Ahern [rating: Borrow it]
• The Boxcar Children’s Mysteries #1 – Gertrude Chandler Warner [rating: Borrow it]
• Boxer, Beetle – Ned Beauman [rating: 4]
• Boy – Roald Dahl [rating: 5]
• Boy Meets Girl – Meg Cabot [rating: 3.5]
• Brain Jack – Brian Falkner [rating: Borrow it]
• Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding [rating: 3.5]
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason – Helen Fielding [rating: 3]
• Bright Young Things – Anna Godbersen [rating: 4]
• The Broken Teaglass – Emily Arsenault [rating: 4]
• The Buried Pyramid – Jane Lindskold [rating: 4]

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C

• Caliban’s Hour – Tad Williams [rating: Bin it]
• Calling on Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede [rating: 4]
• Candle Man, Book One: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance – Glenn Dakin [rating: 3]
• Captain Blood – Raphael Sabatini [rating: Buy it]
• Cart and Cwidder – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 5]
• The Case of the Missing Marquess – Nancy Springer [rating: 3.5]
• Castle Waiting – Linda Medley [rating: 4.5]
• Cat Among the Pigeons – Julia Golding [rating: 4.5]
• Cat in the Mirror – Mary Stolz [rating: Borrow it]
• Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins [rating: 4.5]
• A Chalice of Wind – Cate Tiernan [rating: 3]
• Changeless – Gail Carriger [rating: 4]
• The Children of Green Knowe – L.M. Boston [rating: 4]
• The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril – Paul Malmont [rating: Buy it]
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens [rating: Buy it]
• Chutes & Adders – Barbara Block [rating: Bin it]
• The Circus Lunicus – Marilyn Singer [rating: 3.5]
• Club Dead – Charlaine Harris [rating: 3.5]
• The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau [rating: Buy it]
• The Club of Queer Trades – G.K. Chesterton [rating: 3]
• Cocaine Blues – Kerry Greenwood [rating: 4]
• Cocktails for Three – Madeleine Wickham [rating: 3.5]
• Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons [rating: 4.5]
• A College of Magics – Caroline Stevermer [rating: 4]
• The Commitments – Roddy Doyle [rating: 4]
• Conan Doyle, Detective – Peter Costello [rating: Borrow it]
• A Conspiracy of Paper – David Liss [rating: 4]
• Coot Club – Arthur Ransome [rating: 4]
• The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen [rating: 4]
• Countdown – Deborah Wiles [rating: 4]
• The Court of the Air – Stephen Hunt [rating: 4.5]
• A Crack in the Line – Michael Lawrence [rating: 5]
• Creepers – Keith Gray [rating: 4.5]
• Crewel World – Monica Ferris [rating: 3.5]
• Crocodile on the Sandbank – Elizabeth Peters [rating: 4]
• Crooked Little Vein – Warren Ellis [rating: 3.75]
• Crusader – Edward Bloor [rating: 4]
• Curse of the Bane – Joseph Delaney [rating: 4]

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D

• Daddy Long Legs – Jean Webster [rating: Buy it]
• The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers – Angie Fox [rating: 2]
• Darklost – Mick Farren [rating: 3]
• The Day of the Troll – Simon Messingham (read by David Tennant) [rating: Buy it]
• Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris [rating: 3]
• Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris [rating: 4]
• Dead Clever – Scarlett Thomas [rating: 3]
• Dead End Dating – Kimberly Raye [rating: 3.5]
• Dead End Gene Pool – Wendy Burden [rating: Buy it]
• Dead End in Norvelt – Jack Gantos [rating: 4.5]
• Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris [rating: 4.5]
• Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris [rating: 4]
• The Dealer – Robert Muchamore [rating: 3.5]
• Dealing With Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede (full cast audiobook) [rating: 4]
• Death By Darjeeling – Laura Childs [rating: 3.5]
• Death of an Obnoxious Tourist – Maria Hudgins [rating: 3]
• Decline & Fall – Evelyn Waugh [rating: 4.5/]
• Deep Secret – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 4.5]
• Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris [rating: 4]
• The Demon and the City – Liz Williams [rating: 4]
• The Demon Ororon Vol. 1 [rating: 2]
• The Demon’s Lexicon – Sarah Rees Brennan [rating: 4]
• A Desirable Residence – Madeleine Wickham [rating: 3.5]
• Devil’s Kiss – Sarwat Chadda [rating: 1.5]
• The Diamond of Drury Lane – Julia Golding [rating: 4.5]
• Died in the Wool – Ngaio Marsh [rating: 4]
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams [rating: 4.5]
• A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore [rating: 4]
• Dissolution – C.J. Sansom [rating: 4]
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells [rating: 3.5]
• Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? – Thomas Kohnstamm [rating: 2]
• Doc Sidhe – Aaron Allston [rating: 3.5]
• The Dollhouse Murders – Betty Ren Wright [rating: 2]
• The Doom Machine – Mark Teague [rating: 4]
• Down the Mysterly River – Bill Willingham [rating: 4]
• Down the Rabbit Hole – Peter Abrahams [rating: 5]
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes – Loren D. Estleman [rating: Buy it]
• Dragon and Soldier – Timothy Zahn [rating: Buy it]
• Dragon and Thief – Timothy Zahn [rating: Buy it]
• Dragonfly – Frederic S. Durbin [rating: 3.5]
• Dreadnought – Cherie Priest [rating: Buy it]
• Dream-Weaver – Louise Lawrence [rating: 2]
• A Drowned Maiden’s Hair – Laura Amy Schlitz [rating: 4.5]
• Dust – Elizabeth Bear [rating: Buy it]
• Dust – Arthur Slade [rating: 4]
• Dust and Shadow – Lyndsay Faye [rating: 4]
• Dying in Style – Elaine Vets [rating: 3]

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E

• The Eagle of the Ninth – Rosemary Sutcliff [rating: 3.5]
• Earthlight Vol. 1 – Stuart Moore & Christopher Schons [rating: 3.5]
• Earthseed – Pamela Sargent [rating: 4]
• East by Edith Pattou [rating: 4.5]
• East Coast Rising Vol. 1 – Becky Cloonan [rating: 3.5]
• Eastern Standard Tribe – Cory Doctorow [rating: 3.5]
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe [rating: Borrow it]
• The Escape From Home – Avi [rating: 5]
• Empress – Karen Miller [rating: 4.5]
• The End of the World Club – J & P Voelkel [rating: Borrow it]
• Entwined – Heather Dixon [rating: 5]
• Eon: Dragoneye Reborn – Alison Goodman [rating: 3.5]
• The Explosionist – Jenny Davidson [rating: Borrow it]
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer [rating: 5]
• Evil? – Timothy Carter [rating: 3]
• Evil Genius – Catherine Jinks [rating: 4.5]
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate – Jacqueline Kelly [rating: 5]
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp – Rick Yancey [rating: 3.5]
• The Eye of the Warlock – P.W. Catanese [rating: 2.5]
• Eyes Like Stars – Lisa Mantchev [rating: 3.5]

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F

• Faerie Wars – Herbie Brennan [rating: 4.5]
• The False Princess – Eilis O’Neal [rating: Borrow it]
• Fame Fatale – Wendy Holden [rating: 2.5]
• The Fashion in Shrouds – Margery Allingham [rating: 2]
• Feed – M.T. Anderson [rating: 5]
• Feed – Mira Grant [rating: 5]
• The Feng Shui Detective’s Casebook – Nury Vittachi [rating: 4]
• Fiction Ruined My Family – Jeanne Darst [rating: 4.5]
• Finding Family – Tonya Bolden [rating: 4]
• The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman – Meg Wolitzer [rating: 4.5]
• Fire and Hemlock – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 4]
• First Descent – Pam Withers [rating: 4]
• Five Tomorrows – Sarah A. Hoyt [rating: 3]
• Flawless – Lara Chapman [rating: 2]
• The Floating Island – Elizabeth Haydon [rating: 4.5]
• Fly By Night – Frances Hardinge [rating: 4.5]
• Flygirl – Sherri L. Smith [rating: 4]
• Flying Too High – Kerry Greenwood [rating: 4]
• Flyte – Angie Sage [rating: 4]
• For Love of Mother-Not – Alan Dean Foster [rating: 3.5]
• The Fort – Bernard Cornwell [rating: Borrow it]
• Foundation – Isaac Asimov [rating: 3.5]
• Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov [rating: 4]
• Foundation’s Edge – Isaac Asimov [rating: 3.5]
• The Fourth Side of the Triangle – Ellery Queen [rating: 3]
• Freedom & Necessity – Emma Bull and Steven Brust [rating: 4.5]
• From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris [rating: 3.5]
• The Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes – Hugh Greene (editor) [rating: 3]

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G

• Gandhi: A Manga Biography – Kazuki Ebine [rating: 1]
• The Geographer’s Library – Jon Fasman [rating: 4]
• Ghost College – Scott Nicholson & J.R. Rain [rating: 2.5]
• The Ghost Writer – John Harwood [rating: 4]
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – Catherynne M. Valente [rating: 5]
• The Girl Who Knew Tomorrow – Zoe Sherburne [rating: 3]
• The Girl Who Owned a City – O.T. Nelson [rating: 1.5]
• The Giver – Lois Lowry [rating: 3]
• Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo [rating: 4.5]
• The Godmother Tree – Ruth Wallace-Brodeur [rating: 4]
• Going Bovine – Libba Bray [rating: 4]
• Going Solo – Roald Dahl [rating: 5]
• The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman [rating: 3.5]
• Gone – Michael Grant [rating: 4.5]
• The Goose Girl – Shannon Hale [rating: Buy it]
• Gosick vol. 1 – Kazuki Sakuraba [rating: Bin it]
• Goy Crazy – Melissa Schorr [rating: 4]
• Graffiti Moon – Cath Crowley [rating: 4]
• The Great Perhaps – Joe Meno [rating: Borrow it]
• The Green Man – Michael Bedard [rating: 3]
• Grey – Jon Armstrong [rating: 4]
• A Greyhound of a Girl – Roddy Doyle [rating: 2.5]

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H

• Haint Misbehavin’ – Maureen Hardegree [rating: 4]
• Hal Spacejock – Simon Haynes [rating: 4.5]
• A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh [rating: 5]
• Hard Spell – Justin Gustainis [rating: 3]
• Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go – Dale E. Basye [rating: Borrow it]
• Heidi – Johanna Spyri [rating: Borrow it]
• Heist Society – Ally Carter [rating: 2]
• Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways – Traci Hall [rating: 3.5]
• Heroes of the Valley – Jonathan Stroud [rating: 4.5]
• Hexwood – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 4]
• His Majesty’s Dragon – Naomi Novik [rating: 4.5]
• Holy Disorders – Edmund Crispin [rating: Buy it]
• Hood – Stephen R. Lawhead [rating: 3]
• The Hottest Dishes in the Tartar Cuisine – Alina Bronsky [rating: 3]
• Hounded – Kevin Hearne [rating: 4.5]
• The Hours – Michael Cunningham [rating: 3.5]
• House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 4.75]
• The House of Power – Patrick Carman [rating: 4.5]
• The House of Windjammer – V.A. Richardson [rating: 4]
• Human.4 – Mike A. Lancaster [rating: Buy it]
• The Hunchback Assignments – Arthur Slade [rating: 3.5]
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin [rating: Buy it]
• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins [rating: 3.5]
• Hunted – Cheryl Rainfield [rating: 3]

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I

• I Am Spock – Leonard Nimoy [rating: 4]
• I Lost My Mobile At the Mall – Wendy Harmer [rating: Borrow it]
• I Want it Now! A Memoir of Life on the Set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – Julie Dawn Cole & Michael Esslinger [rating: 2]
• I-Doll Vol. 1 – Mi-ae Choi [rating: 2]
• iDrakula – Bekka Black [rating: 3]
• The Implosion of Aggie Winchester – Lara Zielin [rating: 3.5]
• Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 1: The Mysterious Howling – Maryrose Wood [rating: 3.5]
• The Ink Drinker – Eric Sanvoisin [rating: 3]
• Inside Out – Maria V. Snyder [rating: 2]
• Inside the Shadow City – Kirsten Miller [rating: 4.5]
• Interstellar Patrol – Christopher Anvil [rating: 5]
• Inventing George Washington – Edward G. Lengel [rating: Buy it]
• Irma Voth – Miriam Toews [rating: 3.5]
• It’s Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer – A. A. Milne [rating: 4.5]

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J

• Jack’s New Power – Jack Gantos [rating: 2]
• Jackaroo – Cynthia Voigt [rating: Buy it]
• Jane-Emily – Patricia Clapp [rating: 4]
• Janitors – Tyler Whitesides [rating: 3]
• Jinx – Meg Cabot [rating: 3.5]
• The Journal of Curious Letters – James Dashner [rating: 3]
• Journey to the River Sea – Eva Ibbotson [rating: Buy it]
• Juggler in the Wind – Wim Coleman & Pat Perrin [rating: Buy it]
• Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton [rating: 3]

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K

• Kat, Incorrigible – Stephanie Burgis [rating: Buy it]
• The Kid Who Was Zapped Through Time – Deborah Scott [rating: 3]
• King of the Middle March – Kevin Crossley-Holland [rating: 4.5]
• The Kingdom Keepers – Ridley Pearson [rating: 3]
• Kissing the Witch – Emma Donoghue [rating: 3.5]
• Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain [rating: 5]
• The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness [rating: 5]

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L

• The Ladies’ Paradise – Emile Zola [rating: 5]
• A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains – Isabella L. Bird [rating: 3.5]
• Lake of Skulls – Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell [rating: 3]
• Land of the Burning Sands – Rachel Neumeier [rating: 4]
• The Lantern Bearers – Rosemary Sutcliff [rating: 4]
• Last Chance Saloon – Marian Keyes [rating: 3.5]
• The Last Days – Scott Westerfeld [rating: 4]
• The Last Guru – Daniel M. Pinkwater [rating: 2]
• Law of the Broken Earth – Rachel Neumeier [rating: 4]
• Less Than Heroes – David Yurkovich [rating: 3]
• Leviathan – Scott Westerfeld [rating: 5]
• Libyrinth - Pearl North [rating: Buy it]
• Lies Beneath – Anne Greenwood Brown [rating: 2]
• Life: An Exploded Diagram – Mal Peet [rating: 4]
• Lighthousekeeping – Jeanette Winterson [rating: 4]
• The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan [rating: 5]
• Lirael – Garth Nix [rating: 4]
• The Little Giant of Aberdeen County – Tiffany Baker [rating: 4]
• The Little Lady Agency – Hester Browne [rating: 3.5]
• The Little Sleep – Paul Tremblay [rating: 2]
• Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris [rating: 4.5]
• A Living Nightmare – Darren Shan [rating: 3.25]
• Lockdown – Alexander Gordon Smith [rating: Borrow it]
• London Calling – Edward Bloor [rating: 3]
• Lonely Werewolf Girl – Martin Miller [DNF]
• Lord Darcy – Randal Garrett [rating: 5]
• Lord of the Changing Winds – Rachel Neumeier [rating: 3]
• The Lost City of Z – David Grann [rating: 4]
• The Lost Conspiracy – Frances Hardinge [rating: 5]
• Love Among the Chickens – P.G. Wodehouse [rating: Borrow it]
• The Loved One – Evelyn Waugh [rating: 2.5]
• Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls – Bennett Madison [rating: 3.5]

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M

• A Madness of Angels – Kate Griffin [rating: 3]
• Magic Kingdom For Sale– Sold! – Terry Brooks [rating: 4]
• Magic Knight Rayearth vol. 1 – CLAMP [rating: 4]
• Magic Knight Rayearth vol. 2 – CLAMP [rating: 3.5]
• Magic Knight Rayearth vol. 3 – CLAMP [rating: 3.5]
• Magic Moon – Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein [rating: 1]
• Magic or Madness – Justine Larbalestier [rating: 2]
• Magic Under Glass – Jaclyn Delamore [rating: 3.5]
• The Magicians – Lev Grossman [rating: 3]
• The Magician King – Lev Grossman [rating: 4]
• Magyk – Angie Sage [rating: 4.5]
• Making a Living Without a Job – Barbara J. Winter [rating: 4]
• The Making of a Trade School – Mary Schenck Woolman [rating: 3]
• Malice – Chris Wooding [rating: 3]
• A Map of Home – Randa Jarrar [rating: 3.5]
• March Upcountry – David Weber & John Ringo [rating: 4.5]
• The Mark of Zorro – Johnston McCulley [rating: 4]
• Masks: Evolution – Hayden Thorne [rating: 3.5]
• Masks: Rise of Heroes – Hayden Thorne [rating: 3.5]
• Me & Death – Richard Scrimger [rating: 3.5]
• The Meaning of Everything – Simon Winchester [rating: 4.5]
• Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti – Genevieve Valentine [rating 4]
• Medina Hill – Trilby Kent [rating: 2]
• Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun – Faith Adiele [rating: 5]
• Merchant of Death – D.J. Hale [rating: 3.5]
• Mercury Falls – Robert Kroese [rating: 4]
• Mexican Enough – Stephanie Elizondo Griest [rating: 4]
• Middleworld – J & P Voelkel [rating: Buy it]
• Mike and Psmith – P.G. Wodehouse [rating: Borrow it]
• Million Dollar Baby – Amy Patricia Meade [rating: 2.5]
• Mimus – Lilli Thal [rating: 4.5]
• Miranda’s Big Mistake – Jill Mansell [rating: 3]
• The Missing Ink – Karen E. Olson [rating: 3.5]
• Mister B. Gone – Clive Barker (read by Doug Bradley) [rating: 4]
• Mister Creecher – Chris Priestley [rating: 3.5]
• Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins [rating: 3.5]
• Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hynoptism – Georgia Byng [rating: 4]
• Monster – A. Lee Martin [rating: 4]
• Monster – Walter Dean Myers [rating: 4.5]
• A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness [rating: 3.5]
• The Monstrumologist – Rick Yancey [rating: 5]
• Montmorency – Eleanor Updike [rating: 2.5]
• Morgue Mama – C.R. Corwin [rating: 3]
• The Moving Finger – Agatha Christie [rating: 4]
• Mr Scarborough’s Family – Anthony Trollope [rating: Borrow it]
• Murder 101 – Maggie Barbieri [rating: 3]
• Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie [rating: 4]
• Murder on the Ballarat Train – Kerry Greenwood [rating: 4]
• Murder with Peacocks – Donna Andrews [rating: 4.5]
• My Autobiography – Charlie Chaplin [rating: 4]
• My Fair Godmother – Janette Rallison [rating: 3]
• My Lunatic Life – Sharon Sala [rating: 2]
• The Mysterious Benedict Society – Trenton Lee Stewart [rating: 4]
• The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World – E.L. Konigsburg [rating: 2.5]
• The Mystery of the Third Lucretia – Susan Runholt [3.5]

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N

• N or M? – Agatha Christie [rating: 3.5]
• The Name of This Book Is Secret – Pseudonymous Bosch [rating: 4]
• The Naming – Alison Croggon [rating: 4.5]
• The Napoleon of Crime – Ben Macintyre [rating: 4]
• Nation – Terry Pratchett [rating: 5]
• The Neddiad – Daniel Pinkwater [rating: 3]
• Nevermore – Keith R.A. DeCandido [rating: 2.5]
• New Girl – Paige Harbison [rating: 4]
• News to Me – Laurie Hertzel [rating: Buy it]
• The Nightmare Room (Don’t Forget Me, Locker 13, My Name is Evil) – R.L. Stine [rating: 2.5]
• No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July [rating: Borrow it]
• No Wind of Blame – Georgette Heyer [rating: Bin it]
• Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen [rating: Buy it]
• Not A Girl Detective – Susan Kandel [rating: 3.5]
• Nothing But the Truth – Avi [rating: 3]

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O

• Odder Than Ever – Bruce Coville [rating: 4.5]
• Off the Map – Kika Kat & Hib Chickena [rating 3.5]
• Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination – Helen Fielding [rating: 4]
• Once Bitten, Twice Shy – Jennifer Rardin [rating: 3.5]
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey [rating: 4]
• Only Human – Tom Holt [rating: 4]
• Only You Can Save Mankind – Terry Pratchett [rating: 3.5]
• Ordinary Magic – Caitlen Rubino-Bradway [rating: 3.5]
• Orlando – Virginia Woolf [rating: 5]
• Othello Vol. 1 – Satomi Ikezawa [rating: 4]
• The Other Side of the Story – Marian Keyes [rating: 4]

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P

• Pagan’s Crusade – Catherine Jinks [rating: 3]
• Paper Towns – John Green [rating: 4.5]
• Partners in Crime – Agatha Christie [rating: 3.5]
• Pastworld – Ian Beck [rating: 2]
• Peeps – Scott Westerfeld [rating: 3]
• Penumbra – Carolyn Haines [rating: 4]
• People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks [rating: Buy it]
• Perloo the Bold – Avi [rating: 4]
• Peter and the Starcatchers – Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson [rating: 4]
• Peter Duck – Arthur Ransome [rating: 4.5]
• Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes – Jonathan Auxier [rating: 3.5]
• Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone – Dene Low [rating: 3.5]
• Phoenix Rising – Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris [rating: 3.5]
• Physik – Angie Sage [rating: 3]
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde [rating: 3]
• The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea – Barbara Sjoholm [rating: 4]
• Pirate Talk or Mermalade – Terese Svoboda [rating: Buy it]
• Piratica – Tanith Lee [rating: 4.5]
• Pizzicato – Rusalka Reh [rating: 3]
• Planet Janet – Dyan Sheldon [rating: 3]
• Playing With Fire – Derek Landy (read by Rupert Degas) [rating: 4.5]
• Please Step Back – Ben Greenman [rating: 4.5]
• Poison – Chris Wooding [rating: 3.5]
• The Poison Diaries – Maryrose Wood [rating: 3.5]
• Poseur – Rachel Maude [rating: 4.75]
• Posted to Death – Dean James [rating: 4]
• The Postmortal – Drew Magary [rating: 2]
• Postmortem – Laurel Saville [rating: Buy it]
• Power of Three – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 5]
• Preacher Vol. 1-9 – Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon [rating: 4.5]
• Prince of Persia: The Graphic Novel – AB Sina [rating: 2]
• Princess of the Midnight Ball – Jessica Day George [rating: 2]
• The Princetta – Anne-Laure Bondoux [rating: 4.5]
• Princess Ben – Catherine Murdock [rating: 3.5]
• The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope [rating: 4]
• Psmith in the City – P.G. Wodehouse [rating: Buy it]
• Ptolemy’s Gate – Jonathan Stroud [rating: 3.5]

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Q

• Quant by Quant – Mary Quant [rating: 3.5]
• The Queen of Babble – Meg Cabot [rating: 3.5]
• Queste – Angie Sage [rating: 3.5]
• A Quick Bite – Lynsay Sands [rating: 2]

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R

• Ready or Not – Meg Cabot [rating: 3.5]
• Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier [rating: Buy it]
• The Reckoning – Kelley Armstrong [rating: 4]
• The Recruit – Robert Muchamore [rating: 4]
• The Red Necklace – Sally Gardner [rating: Borrow it]
• Revenge of the Witch – Joseph Delaney [rating: 4.5]
• The Riddle – Alison Croggon [rating: 4]
• Ring – Koji Suzuki [rating: 2.5]
• Ringlingville USA – Jerry Apps [rating: 2]
• The Risks of Sunbathing Topless – Kate Chynoweth (ed.) [rating: 4]
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes – Hugh Greene (editor) [rating: 3.5]
• The Romance Readers’ Book Club – Julie L. Cannon [rating: Bin it]
• The Rose & the Beast – Francesca Lia Block [rating: 3]
• Rough Guide First-Time Around the World – Doug Lansky [rating: 4.5]
• Ruby Red – Kerstin Gier [rating: 3]
• Runemarks – Joanne Harris [rating: 4]
• Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs [rating: Buy it]

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S

• Sabriel – Garth Nix [rating: 4] / reread [rating: 5]
• The Salem Witch Tryouts – Kelly McClymer [rating: 3]
• Sandman Slim – Richard Kadrey [rating: Borrow it]
• Scales of Justice – Ngaio Marsh [rating: 3.5]
• Scat – Carl Hiassen [rating: 2.5]
• School for Scumbags – Danny King [rating: 4]
• Scrapped Princess: A Tale of Destiny – Ichiro Sakaki [rating: Borrow it]
• The Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan [rating: 4.5]
• Searching for Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede (full cast audiobook) [rating: 3.5]
• Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov [rating: 3.5]
• The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie [rating: 4.5]
• The Secret Hour – Scott Westerfeld [rating: 4]
• The Secret of the Mansion – Julie Campbell [rating: 3.5]
• The Seeing Stone – Kevin Crossley-Holland [rating: 4.5]
• The Serial Killers Club – Jeff Povey [rating: 4.5]
• Shades of Simon Gray – Joyce McDonald [rating: 3]
• The Shadow Guests – Joan Aiken [rating: 3.5]
• Shadows on the Moon – Zoe Marriott [rating: 5]
• Shakespeare’s Landlord – Charlaine Harris [rating: 3]
• Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years – Michael Kurland (ed.) [rating: 3]
• The Sherwood Ring – Elizabeth Marie Pope [rating: Buy it]
• Shopaholic & Baby – Sophie Kinsella [rating: 4.5]
• Shopaholic & Sister – Sophie Kinsella [rating: 4.5]
• SilverFin – Charlie Higson [rating: 3]
• The Silver Branch – Rosemary Sutcliff [rating: 3.5]
• Silver Phoenix – Cindy Pon [rating: Buy it]
• Sirenz – Charlotte Bennardo & Natalie Zaman [rating: 2]
• Six Against the Stars – Stephen Hunt [rating: DNF]
• Size 12 is Not Fat – Meg Cabot [rating: 3]
• Skating to Antarctica – Jenny Diski [rating: Buy it]
• Skin Hunger – Kathleen Duey [rating: 3.5]
• Skyship Academy: The Pearl Wars – Nick James [rating: 2]
• The Sleepers of Erin – Jonathan Gash [rating: 4]
• Snake Agent – Liz Wiliams [rating: 4.5]
• The Snapper – Roddy Doyle [rating: 4]
• So Below: Key to the City – Matt Whyman [rating: 3]
• The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 – PJ Haarsma [rating: 3.5]
• Someone Like You – Sarah Dessen [rating: 4]
• A Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Michael Williams [rating: 3.5]
• Soulless – Gail Carriger [rating: 4]
• Sourcery – Terry Pratchett [rating: 4.5]
• A Spark of Death – Bernadette Pajer [rating: 2.5]
• Sparrow Road – Sheila O’Connor [rating: 4]
• The Spellman Files – Lisa Lutz [rating: Buy it]
• Spy High: Mission One – AJ Butcher [rating: 3.5]
• Star Trek Memories – William Shatner & Chris Kreski [rating 4]
• The Stars’ Tennis Balls – Stephen Fry [rating: 5]
• Steinbeck’s Ghost – Lewis Buzbee [rating: 5]
• The Stolen Blue – Judith van Gieson [rating: 2.5]
• Stoneheart – Charlie Fletcher [rating: 4.5]
• Stopping For A Spell – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 3.5]
• Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day – Ben Loory [rating: 3.5]
• Storm Glass – Maria V. Snyder [rating: 4.5]
• The Story of the Trapp Family Singers – Maria Augusta Trapp [rating: 3]
• The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley – Louis Tracy [rating: 3.5]
• Street Dreams – Tama Wise [rating: 2]
• Stupid Fast – Geoff Herbach [rating: 4]
• The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman [rating: 4.5]
• Suicide Excepted – Cyril Hare [rating: Buy it]
• The Summoning – Kelley Armstrong [rating: 5]
• Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow – Jessica Day George [rating: 5]
• Super in the City – Daphne Uviller [rating: 3.5]
• Sushi For Beginners – Marian Keyes [rating: 4]
• Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome [rating: 4.5]
• Swallowdale – Arthur Ransome [rating: 4.5]
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley [rating: 3.5]

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T

• The Tail of Emily Windsnap – Liz Kessler [rating: 3]
• The Taker and the Keeper – Wim Coleman & Pat Perrin [rating: 4]
• The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo [rating: 4]
• Talking to Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede (full cast audiobook) [rating: 3.5]
• Tanglewreck - Jeanette Winterson [rating: 4]
• The Tapestry Shop – Joyce Elson Moore [rating: Borrow it]
• The Teashop Girls – Laura Schaefer [rating: 4]
• Ten Miles Past Normal – Frances O’Roark Dowell [rating: 4]
• Thank You For Smoking – Christopher Buckley [rating: 3.5]
• Theater Shoes – Noel Streatfeild [rating: 5]
• Theodosia & the Serpents of Chaos – R.L. LaFever [rating: 3.5]
• There Will Be Dragons – John Ringo [rating: 4]
• The Thief – Megan Whalen Turner [rating: Borrow it]
• The Third Magic – Welwyn Wilton Katz [rating: 3.5]
• Thirteenth Child – Patricia C. Wrede [rating: Borrow it]
• This Thing Called the Future – J.L. Powers [rating: 4.5]
• Those Who Hunt the Night – Barbara Hambly [rating: 4]
• Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome [rating: 4]
• Throne of Jade – Naomi Novik [rating: 4.5]
• The Time of Feasting – Mick Farren [rating: 4]
• Time Switch – Matt Chamings [rating: 3.5]
• The Time Travelers – Linda Buckley-Archer [rating: 3.5]
• The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan [rating: 3.5]
• To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf [rating: 5]
• Toads and Diamonds – Heather Tomlinson [rating: 4.5]
• Tooth and Claw – Jo Walton [rating: 3.5]
• A Total Waste of Makeup – Kim Gruenenfelder [rating: 3]
• Travel Light – Naomi Mitchison [rating: 4]
• A Traveller in Time – Alison Uttley [rating: 3]
• The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn – John Bellairs [rating: 2.5]
• The Treasure of Green Knowe – L.M. Boston [rating: 4.5]
• Trinity Blood: Rage Against the Moons #1 – Sunao Yoshida [rating: 2.5]
• Triskellion – Will Peterson [rating: 4]
• Triskellion 2: The Burning – Will Peterson [rating: 4]
• ttyl – Lauren Myracle [rating: 3]
• Tuesdays at the Castle – Jessica Day George [rating: 5]
• Tunnels – Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams [rating: 2.5]

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U

• The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses – Ty Drago [rating: 4.5]
• The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella [rating: 3]
• Unexpected Magic – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 5]
• The Unidentified – Rae Mariz [rating: 4]
• The Uninvited – Tim Wynne-Jones [rating: 4]
• Unlikely Destinations – Tony & Maureen Wheeler [rating: 2]
• The Unwanteds – Lisa McMann [rating: 2.5]

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V

• Vagabonding – Rolf Potts [rating: 4.5]
• Vampire Beach: Bloodlust – Alex Duval [rating: 2]
• Vampire Beach: Initiation – Alex Duval [rating: 2]
• The Van – Roddy Doyle [rating: 4]
• The Vanishing Chip – Mark Delaney [rating: 2]
• Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean – Justin Somper [rating: 3.5]
• The Veiled Detective – David Stuart Davies [rating: 2]
• Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre [rating: 3.5]
• Villain School: Good Curses Evil – Stephanie S. Saunders [rating: 2]
• Vodnik – Bryce Moore [rating: 3]
• Voices – Ursula K. Le Guin [rating: 4]
• Voltaire’s Calligrapher – Pablo de Santis [rating: Bin it]

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W

• Walt Disney’s Way – New Word City [rating: Bin it]
• The Wander Year: One Couple’s Journey Around the World – Mike McIntyre [rating: 3]
• Wanderlove – Kirsten Hubbard [rating: 5]
• Wanderlust – Elisabeth Eaves [rating: 4]
• Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo – Beth Whitman [rating: 2]
• The Warded Man – Peter V. Brett [rating: 3.5]
• The Warrior Heir – Cinda Williams Chima [rating: Borrow it]
• Watermelon – Marian Keyes [rating: 4]
• The Waves – Virginia Woolf [rating: 4]
• Weetzie Bat – Francesca Lia Block [rating: 1.5]
• Well Witched – Frances Hardinge [rating: 4.5]
• Westminster Abby – Micol Ostow [rating: 1.5]
• What Would Jane Austen Do? – Laurie Brown [rating: 3.5]
• Where I’d Like to Be – Frances O’Roark Dowell [rating: 3.5]
• White is for Witching – Helen Oyeyemi [rating: 4.5]
• Who What Wear: The Allegra Biscotti Collection – Olivia Bennett [rating: 3.5]
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee [rating: 4.5]
• The Whole Story of Half a Girl – Veera Hiranandani [rating: 3]
• Whom God Would Destroy – Commander Pants [rating: 3]
• Whose Body? – Dorothy L. Sayers [rating: 3]
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green & David Levithan [rating: 4.5]
• The Winter King – Bernard Cornwell [rating: 4.5]
• Wish – Alexandra Bullen [rating: 3.5]
• Witch’s Business – Diana Wynne Jones [rating: 4]
• Withering Tights – Louise Rennison [rating: 2]
• Winter Holiday – Arthur Ransome [rating: 4.5]
• The Wizard of Dark Street – Shawn Thomas Odyssey [rating: 4]
• The Wizard, the Witch and Two Girls from Jersey – Lisa Papademetriou [rating: 3]
• Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver [rating: 3.5]
• The World Awaits – Paul Otteson [rating: 2.5]
• The World’s Cheapest Destinations – Tim Leffel [rating: 3.5]
• The Wright 3 – Blue Balliett [rating: 5]

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Y

• A Year Without Autumn – Liz Kessler [rating: 3]
• The Years – Virginia Woolf [rating: 4]
• You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know – Heather Sellers [rating: Buy it]
• You’ve Got Murder – Donna Andrews [rating: 4]

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