Review Archive

Listed Alphabetically by Genre. Links go to my review.

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A Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfeild (finished March 2011)
A Walk with Jane Austen by Lori Smith (finished December 2011)
Away from the Vicarage by Noel Streatfeild (finished April 2011)
Beyond the Vicarage by Noel Streatfeild (finished April 2011)
Bossypants by Tina Fey (finished November 2014)
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (finished February 2011)
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (finished July 2011)
It's What I Do: A Photographers Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario (finished July 2015)
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (finished September 2012)
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen (finished February 2012) 
Olga: A Daughter's Tale by Marie- Therese Browne (finished September 2011)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (finished June 2011)
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (finished June 2014)
Using the Plot: Tales of an Allotment Chef by Paul Merrett (finished June 2014)
We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee (finished July 2012)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (finished February 2013)
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (finished February 2014)

Classics
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (finished December 2011)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (finished January 2012)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (finished August 2011)
Emma by Jane Austen (finished May 2011 for The Classics Circuit) 
Lady Susan/The Watsons by Jane Austen (finished December 2011)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (finished November 2015)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (finished March 2013)
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild (finished November 2011)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (finished March 2011 for The Classics Circuit)
The Annotated Peter Pan: The Centenary Edition by J.M Barrie & Maria Tatar (finished October 2011)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (finished June 2012) 
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (finished January 2012)
They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple (finished February 2016)

Children's 
Anastasia, At Your Service by Lois Lowry (finished March 2011)
Apple Bough by Noel Streatfeild (finished March 2011)
Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (finished February 2011)
Five Go Off in a Caravan by Enid Blyton (finished March 2011)
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (finished March 2016)
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (finished January 2016)
Mr Nobody by Natalie Gordon (finished September 2014)
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (finished April 2014)
Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome (finished April 2014)
The Growing Summer by Noel Streatfeild (finished February 2011) 
The Magician's Nephew by C.S Lewis (finished February 2012) 
The Secret Seven Collection by Enid Blyton (re-read March 2016)
When the Siren Wailed by Noel Streatfeild (finished March 2011)
White Boots by Noel Streatfeild (finished February 2011)

Contemporary Fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (finished June 2011)
An Autumn Crush by Milly Johnson (finished October 2011)
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay (finished July 2015)
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (finished December 2013)
Coming Up for Air by Patti Callahan Henry (ARC from St Martin's Press - finished June 2011)
Escape by Barbara Delinsky (finished March 2012) 
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor (finished May 2011)
Fishbowl by Matthew Glass (finished September 2015)
Flight by Isabel Ashdown (finished April 2015)
French Lessons by Ellen Sussman (finished July 2012)
Goodnight, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson (finished March 2011)
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (finished August 2012)
If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie (finished October 2015)
Laura's Handmade Life by Amanda Addison (finished May 2013)
Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan (finished June 2014)
Maine by Courtney Sullivan (finished July 2012)
Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw (finished February 2011)
Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (finished January 2011)
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane (finished June 2014)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (finished January 2012)
Of No Consequence by Sonia Rumzi (finished May 2011)
One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner (finished July 2012)
Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure by Joanne Harris (finished November 2012)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (finished November 2011)
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (finished June 2014)
The Art of Forgetting by Camille Noe Pagan (finished May 2011 - ARC from Dutton
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai (finished September 2012)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (finished November 2011)
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman (finished July 2012)
The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide (finished February 2011)
The Love Verb by Jane Green (finished January 2011)
The Patchwork Marriage by Jane Green (finished July 2012)
The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek (Review Copy from Plume - finished June 2011)
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer (finished February 2013)
The Wild by Esther Freud (finished March 2011)
The Woman He Loved Before by Dorothy Koomson (finished April 2011)

Crime Fiction
You Are Next by Katia Lief (finished February 2011)
Dead Clever by Scarlett Thomas (re-read March 2016)

Essay Collections
At Large and At Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist by Anne Fadiman (finished March 2014)
Moranthology by Caitlin Moran (finished November 2012)

Fantasy/ Mythology
666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce (finished April 2012)
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (finished June 2012)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (re-read March 2016)
Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll (finished August 2011)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (finished May 2011)
Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith (finished January 2011)
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon (finished May 2011)
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffeneger (finished January 2011) 
Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon (finished April 2011)
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (finished June 2012)
Snuff by Terry Pratchett (finished November 2011)
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness (finished August 2014)
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen (RAK - finished April 2011)
The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (finished August 2012)
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman (finished September 2011)
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien (finished November 2011 - re-read)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (finished June 2013)
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen (finished January 2012)
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen (finished March 2011)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (finished April 2015)

Feminism
I Call Myself a Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty (finished February 2016)
We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (finished November 2014)

Graphic Novels
1602 by Neil Gaiman (finished August 2012)
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (ARC from Jonathan Cape finished May 2012)
Bake Sale by Sara Varon (finished July 2011)
Blankets by Craig Thompson (finished March 2015)
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi (finished March 2013)
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham (finished September 2011)
Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham (finished November 2011)
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham (finished October 2011)
Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham (finished May 2012)
Fables: Rose Red by Bill Willingham (finished February 2015)
Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham (finished February 2012)
Fables: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham (finished April 2013)
Fables: The Good Prince by Bill Willingham (finished April 2013)
Fables: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham (finished February 2014)
Fables: Wolves by Bill Willingham (finished January 2013)
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (finished January 2012) 
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (finished June 2011)
Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley (finished February 2011)
Maus by Art Spiegelman (finished February 2013)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (finished January 2011)
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett (finished March 2011)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1 by Alan Moore (finished March 2015)
V For Vendetta by Alan Moore (finished January 2011)

Historical Fiction
Affinity by Sarah Waters (finished April 2011)
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory (finished September 2011)
The Other Shakespeare by Lea Rachel (finished January 2015)
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory (finished January 2011)
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark (finished August 2011 - Transworld Book Group Challenge)
The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan (finished July 2012)
These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer (finished August 2011)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (finished February 2011)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (finished November 2013)

Non-Fiction
Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer (finished November 2014)
The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell (finished December 2014)
This New Noise: the Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC by Charlotte Higgins (finished November 2015)
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (finished November 2014)
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year in Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman (re-read March 2016)

Parenting
Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne (finished July 2014)

Short Stories
Drown by Junot Diaz (finished January 2014)
Jane Austen Made Me Do It by Laurel Ann Natress (finished December 2011)
Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales edited by Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt (finished October 2013)
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke (finished February 2011)
The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling 
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (finished September 2013)

YA
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (re-read July 2016)
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson (re-read July 2016)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (finished February 2011)
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan (finished January 2013)
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (finished July 2014)
Freaky Friday by Mary Rogers (finished January 2011)
Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (finished January 2014)
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (re-read July 2016)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (finished February 2011)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (finished December 2012)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (finished February 2011) 
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton (finished September 2014)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (finished June 2014)
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (finished June 2011)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan (finished December 2013)


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