2010 & 2011 Reviews
A list of all reviews that have been published on this blog in 2010 and 2011.
Since the list was getting rather long, I started a new one for 2012.
A
The Smoke Thief by Shana Abé
The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
Garden Spells by Sarah Allen
Going Too Far by Catherine Alliott
The Old-Girl Network by Catherine Alliott
Steal You Away by Niccolò Ammaniti
Feed by M. T. Anderson
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam (DNF)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
B
Moonface by Angela Balcita
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
The Obscure Logic of the Heart by Priya Basil
E Squared by Matt Beaumont
Say When by Elizabeth Berg
Season to Taste by Molly Birnbaum
The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Now You See Me by S. J. Bolton
Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
East Is East by T. C. Boyle
When The Killing’s Done by T. C. Boyle
A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Exclusive by Sandra Brown
Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein
Nothing by Blake Butler
Kindred by Octavia Butler
After You by Julie Buxbaum
C
Always on My Mind by Colette Caddle
Changeless by Gail Carriger
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll
Your Presence is Required at Suvanto by Maile Chapman
My Life in France by Julia Child (DNF)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
61 Hours by Lee Child
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
Altered by Aubrey Coletti
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Player One by Douglas Coupland
Dancing in the Shadows of Love by Judy Croome (DNF)
The Passage by Justin Cronin
D
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Tourquai by Tim Davys
Return to Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
Two Kinds of Wonderful by Isla Dewar
The 30-Second Commute by Stephanie Dickison
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
E
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
Meltdown by Ben Elton
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
The White Devil by Justin Evans
The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan
F
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon
The Ugly Sister by Jane Fallon
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale (DNF)
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bloody Women by Helen Fitzgerald
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
What To Do When Someone Dies by Nicci French
G
I Is An Other by James Geary
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Solace by Nicci Gerrard
Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
Life Support by Tess Gerritsen
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
No One Thinks of Greenland by John Griesemer
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Lies (Gone # 3) by Michael Grant
Neverisms by Dr. Mardy Grothe
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Vegetarian Barbecue Cookbook by Mary Gwynn
H
The Radleys by Matt Haig
31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
The Lady and the Poet by Maeve Haran (DNF)
The Secret Shopper Unwrapped by Kate Harrison
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All the Confusion by Johan Harstad
Hässelby by Johan Harstad
Doña Nicanora’s Hat Shop by Kirstan Hawkins
A Hard Death by Jonathan Hayes
Precious Blood by Jonathan Hayes
The Human Race by O. C. Heaton
Up from the Blue by Susan Henderson
First Frost by James Henry
Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen
Taboo by Casey Hill
Horns by Joe Hill
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
I
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
J
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Cosy Knave by Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen
It’s the Little Things by Erica James
The Bostonians by Henry James
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
K
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Malled by Caitlin Kelly
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
Duma Key by Stephen King
The Running Man by Stephen King
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Out by Natsuo Kirino
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
L
The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens
The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
Nigella Christmas by Nigella Lawson
Instructions for an Inexperienced Lover by Amanda Leduc
Who is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee
Inhuman by Danielle Q. Lee
Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
We Are All Made Of Glue by Marina Lewycka
Hash by Torgny Lindgren
Light by Torgny Lindgren
Beholden by Clare Littleford
M
Sweetie by Kathryn Magendie
Tender Graces by Kathryn Magendie
The Bomber by Liza Marklund
Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots by Abby McDonald
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Tomorrow Pamplona by Jan van Mersbergen
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
A Gentle Axe by R. N. Morris
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulish
Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakani
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
N
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
One Day by David Nicholls
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
Zwavelzuur (Sulphuric Acid) by Amelie Nothomb (NL/Eng)
O
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
P
Stop Me by Richard Jay Parker
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson
Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Low Town by Daniel Polansky
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The Summer of the Bear by Bella Pollen
Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers
R
Men Dancing by Cherry Radford
Bodies and Language by Vaidehi Ramanathan
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
The House of Windjammer by V. A. Richardson
Snapshot by Craig Robertson
S
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
Visits from the Drowned Girl by Steven Sherrill
Everything Is Going To Be Great by Rachel Shukert
The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland by Barbara Silkstone
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Beautiful Miscellaneous by Dominic Smith
Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith
Mr Rosenblum’s List by Natasha Solomons
Dead Politician Society by Robin Spano
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Help by Katherine Stockett
The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
T
Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
The Quarry by Johan Theorin
The End of Mr. Y. by Scarlett Thomas
Distance by Colin Thubron
Don’t Sing at the Table by Adriana Trigiani
Baby Be Mine by Paige Toon
The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday
Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
U
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
V
Caribou Island by David Vann
Sukkwan Island by David Vann
The Surrogates by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
W
A Note from an Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker
Among Others by Jo Walton
Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
The Bed I Made by Lucie Whitehouse
Caesarion by Tommy Wieringa
Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson
When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
The Crysalids by John Wyndham
Y
We All Ran Into The Sunlight by Natalie Young
