Authors

This page contains the complete list of authors whose books are reviewed on this site, with their books.

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A

• Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart
• Ackerman, Diane, The Zookeeper’s Wife
• Adams, Charles Warren, The Notting Hill Mystery
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Americanah
• Agassi, André, Open: An Autobiography
• Aggeler, Geoffrey, Horses of the Night
• Akunin, Boris, Special Assignments
• Albert, Edoardo, Edwin High King of Britain
• Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women
• Alexis, André, Pastoral
• Allee, Sheila, My Father’s Eyes
• Allingham, Margery, The Tiger in the Smoke, Traitor’s Purse, The White Cottage Mystery
• Alvarez, Julia, In the Time of the Butterflies
• Alvtegen, Karin, Betrayal
• Amend, Allison, Enchanted Islands
• Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim
• Amis, Martin, Night Train
• Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Arnold, Michael, Highwayman: Winter Swarm
• Atkinson, Kate, A God in Ruins, Life After Life, Started Early, Took My Dog
• Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace, Hag-Seed, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Heart Goes Last, Maddaddam, Oryx and Crake, Stone Mattress, The Year of the Flood
• Austen, Jane, Persuasion

B

• Backhaus, Bhira, Under the Lemon Trees
• Bagnold, Enid, The Happy Foreigner, The Squire
• Bailey, Catherine, The Secret Rooms
• Baker, Jo, Longbourn, The Mermaid’s Child
• Baker, Tiffany, Mercy Snow
• Bannalec, Jean-Luc, Death in Brittany
• Banville, John, The Sea
• Barnard, Robert, The Killings on Jubilee Terrace
• Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending
• Barrett, Shirley, Rush Oh!
• Barry, Brunonia, The Fifth Petal, The Lace Reader, The Map of True Places
• Baszile, Natalie, Queen Sugar
• Bates, H. E., The Woman Who Had Imagination
• Batuman, Elif, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
• Bauer, Belinda, The Beautiful Dead, Blacklands, Darkside, Finders Keepers, Rubbernecker, The Shut Eye
• Bayard, Louis, Mr. Timothy, The Pale Blue Eye, The School of Night
• Beaton, Clare, Secret Seahorse
• Beaton, M. C., Death of a Maid
• Beauregard, Mark, The Whale: A Love Story
• Bell, Gertrude, Tales from the Queen of the Desert
• Bengtsson, Frans G., The Long Ships
• Berry, Hannah, Adamtine, Britten and Brülightly
• Beukes, Lauren, Broken Monsters, The Shining Girls, Slipping
• Bhutto, Fatima, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
• Bilyeau, Nancy, The Chalice
• Black, Cara, Murder in Pigalle
• Black, Holly, Doll Bones
• Blackmore, R. D., Christowell, A Dartmoor Tale, Cripps the Carrier
• Blackstone, Stella, Secret Seahorse
• Blake, Sarah, The Postmistress
• Bloom, Amy, Lucky Us
• Bohjalian, Chris, The Night Strangers
• Boyd, William, Sweet Caress
• Boyden, Joseph, The Orenda
• Boyne, John, The House of Special Purpose, This House Is Haunted
• Bradbury, Ray, The Martian Chronicles
• Bradley, Alan, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, A Red Herring Without Mustard, Speaking From Among the Bones, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d
• Bragg, Melvyn, The Adventure of English
• Brashares, Ann, The Here and Now
• Brennert, Alan, Moloka’i
• Brightwell, Gerri, The Dark Lantern
• Bronowski, Jacob, The Ascent of Man
• Brooks, Geraldine, Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book
• Brotton, Jeremy, A History of the World in 12 Maps
• Brown, Dee, Folktales of the Native American
• Brown, Eleanor, The Weird Sisters
• Brunt, Carol Rifka, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
• Bryson, Bill, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The Road to Little Dribbling, A Walk in the Woods
• Bude, John, The Cornish Coast Murder, Death on the Riviera, The Lake District Murder
• Bugliosi, Vincent with Bruce Henderson, And the Sea Will Tell
• Bulawayo, NoViolet, We Need New Names
• Burdett, John, Bangkok 8, Bangkok Haunts, Vulture Peak
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Dolly: A Love Story, The Making of a Marchioness, The Secret Garden, That Lass o’Lowrie’s
• Busch, Frederick, The Night Inspector
• Butler, Octavia E., Parable of the Sower
• Butler, Robert Olen, Perfume River
• Byatt, A. S., A Whistling Woman
• Byrne, Paula, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

C

• Cadell, Elizabeth, Money to Burn
• Cain, Susan, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
• Callow, Simon, Charles Dickens
• Campbell, Bonnie Jo, Once Upon a River
• Cannon, Joanna, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
• Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber
• Catton, Eleanor, The Luminaries
• Carey, Peter, Jack Maggs, Parrot and Olivier in America
• Carrell, Jennifer Lee, Haunt Me Still, Interred with Their Bones
• Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quijote
• Chabon, Michael, Gentlemen of the Road, Moonglow, Telegraph Avenue
• Chaon, Dan, Await Your Reply
• Chapman, Emma, How to Be a Good Wife
• Chapman, Maile, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto
• Chevalier, Tracy, Burning Bright, Remarkable Creatures
• Child, Lee, 61 Hours, Without Fail
• Cholmondeley, Mary, Diana Tempest, Red Pottage
• Chopin, Kate, The Awakening
• Christie, Agatha, 4:50 from Paddington, Appointment with Death, At Bertram’s Hotel, A Caribbean Mystery, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, The Tuesday Club Murders
• Clark, Clare, The Nature of Monsters
• Clark, Janice, The Rathbones
• Cleave, Chris, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Little Bee
• Cline, Emma, The Girls
• Coelho, Paulo, The Alchemist
• Collins, Suzanne, The Hunger Games
• Collins, Wilkie, Basil, Hide and Seek
• Comyns, Barbara, Sisters by a River, The Vet’s Daughter, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
• Conley, Robert J., Strange Company
• Connelly, Michael, The Drop
• Cooper, Artemis, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
• Cooper, Susan, Over Sea, Under Stone
• Coplin, Amanda, The Orchardist
• Crompton, Richmal, Family Roundabout
• Cousins, Lucy, Hooray for Fish!
• Cox, Michael and R.A. Gilbert, The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
• Crace, Jim, Harvest
• Crawford, Arlo, A Farm Dies Once a Year
• Crofts, Freeman Wills, Antidote to Venom, The Hog’s Back Mystery
• Crummey, Michael, Galore, River Thieves, Sweetland
• Cunningham, Michael, The Hours, The Snow Queen
• Cusk, Rachel, Outline

D

• Davidson, Hilary, The Damage Done
• Davis, Lindsey, Alexandria, Master & God
• Dedman, Bill, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of an American Fortune
• Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
• Delacourt, Grégoire, My Wish List
• Delafield, E. M., The Diary of a Provincial Lady
• De Waal, Edmund, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
• DeWitt, Patrick, The Sisters Brothers
• Diamant, Anita, The Boston Girl
• Díaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Dibdin, Michael, And Then You Die, Back to Bologna, Dead Lagoon, The Dying of the Light, A Long Finish, Medusa, The Tryst, Vendetta
• Dickens, Charles, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities
• Dickens, Monica, Mariana
• Dickinson, David, Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
• Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking
• Doctorow, E. L., Andrew’s Brain
• Doerr, Anthony, All the Light We Cannot See
• Donoghue, Emma, Room
• Drabble, Margaret, The Red Queen
• Druon, Maurice, The Iron King, The King Without a Kingdom, The Lily and the Lion, The Poisoned Crown, The Royal Succession, The She-Wolf, The Strangled Queen
• Dudgeon, Piers, Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
• Duffy, Carol Ann, The Bees, The World’s Wife
• Duhigg, Charles, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Dumas, Alexandre, Acté, The Black Tulip, La Reine Margot
• Du Maurier, Daphne, Castle Dor, Rebecca
• Dunant, Sarah, Blood & Beauty, In the Name of the Family, Sacred Hearts
• Dunmore, Helen, Exposure, The Greatcoat, The Lie
• Dunn, Mark, Ella Minnow Pea, Under the Harrow
• Dunnett, Alastair, The Scottish Highlands
• Dunnett, Dorothy, Checkmate, The Disorderly Knights, The Game of Kings, King Hereafter, Queen’s Play, Pawn in Frankincense, The Ringed Castle, The Scottish Highlands

E

• Eastland, Sam, Eye of the Red Tsar
• Ebershoff, David, The 19th Wife, The Danish Girl
• Ebert, Roger, Life Itself
• Eco, Umberto, The Prague Cemetery
• Edugyan, Esi, Half-Blood Blues
• Edwards, Kim, The Memory-Keeper’s Daughter
• Edwards, Martin (ed.), Murder at the Manor, Silent Nights
• Edwardson, Åke, Death Angels, Never End, The Shadow Woman, Sun and Shadow
• Egan, Jennifer, The Keep, Look at Me, A Visit from the Goon Squad
• Eggars, David, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Ekbäck, Cecilia, In the Month of the Midnight Sun, Wolf Winter
• Eliot, George, Middlemarch
• Eliot, T. S., Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
• Ellis, Helen, American Housewife: Stories
• Ennis, Michael, The Malice of Fortune
• Enright, Anne, The Gathering
• Ephron, Delia, Siracusa
• Erdrich, Louise, The Round House, Shadow Tag
• Erickson, Carolly, The Last Wife of Henry VIII
• Eriksson, Kjell, The Cruel Stars of the Night, The Demon of Dakar, The Princess of Burundi
• Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides
• Evison, Jonathan, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, West of Here
• Eyre, Hermione, Viper Wine

F

• Falcones, Ildefonso, Cathedral of the Sea
• Falkner, J. Meade, Moonfleet
• Farjeon, J. Jefferson, Mystery in White, Thirteen Guests, The Z Murders
• Farrell, J. G., The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles
• Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying, The Hamlet, The Mansion, The Town
• Faye, Lyndsay, Dust and Shadow, The Fatal Flame, The Gods of Gotham, Jane Steele, Seven for a Secret
• Felix, C., The Notting Hill Mystery
• Fennelly, Beth Ann and Tom Franklin, The Tilted World
• Fergus, Jim, One Thousand White Women
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh, Between the Woods and the Water, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, A Time of Gifts
• Ferrante, Elena, My Brilliant Friend
• Ferris, Joshua, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
• Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy
• Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, The Home-Maker
• Fitch, Janet, White Oleander
• Flammenberg, Ludwig, The Necromancer
• Flanagan, Richard, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
• Flanders, Judith, The Invention of Murder
• Fletcher, Susan, Corrag, Let Me Tell You about a Man I Knew
• Flynn, Gillian, Dark Places, Gone Girl, Sharp Objects
• Foer, Jonathan Safran, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Follett, Ken, Code to Zero
• Foote, Shelby, Shiloh
• Ford, Ford Madox, A Man Could Stand Up, No More Parades, Some Do Not
• Forster, Margaret, Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of a Renowned Storyteller
• Forsyth, Mark, The Etymologicon
• Fossum, Karin, The Indian Bride, The Water’s Edge
• Foulds, Adam, The Quickening Maze
• Fowler, Christopher, Full Dark House
• Fowler, Karen Joy, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Wit’s End
• Fowler, Therese Anne, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (Literary Wives Discussion)
• Fox, Lauren, Days of Awe
• Franklin, Ariana, City of Shadows, Grave Goods, A Murderous Procession, The Serpent’s Tale
• Franklin, Tom and Beth Ann Fennelly, The Tilted World
• Fraser, Flora, Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
• Fraser, George MacDonald, The Candlemass Road, Captain in Calico, Flashman
• Frazier, Charles, Nightwoods
• Frazier, Ian, Travels in Siberia
• Freeman, Judith, Red Water
• French, Nicci, Blue Monday, Thursday’s Children, Tuesday’s Gone, Waiting for Wednesday
• French, Tana, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place, The Trespasser
• Frost, Robert, The Selected Poems of Robert Frost
• Fuller, Iola, The Loon Feather
• Furst, Alan, Midnight in Europe
• Fuso, Antonio (ill.), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire

G

• Gaiman, Neil, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Neverwhere
• Galbraith, Kate, The Great Texas Wind Rush
• Galbraith, Robert, The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm
• Gale, Patrick, A Place Called Winter
• Gardner, John, Moriarty
• Garfield, Leon, Smith, The Story of a Pickpocket
• Gaskell, Elizabeth, Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
• Gault, Cinda, This Godforsaken Place
• Genova, Lisa, Still Alice
• George, Elizabeth, A Banquet of Consequences, Believing the Lie, A Great Deliverance, Just One Evil Act
• George, Sara, The Journal of Mrs. Pepys
• Gerritsen, Tess, The Bone Garden
• Ghosh, Amitav, The Circle of Reason, Flood of Fire, The Glass Palace, River of Smoke, Sea of Poppies
• Gibbons, Stella, Nightingale Wood
• Gideon, Melanie, Wife 22
• Gifford, Elisabeth, The Sea House
• Gilbert, David, & Sons
• Gilbert, Elizabeth, The Signature of All Things
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, Herland
• Glaspell, Susan, Fidelity
• Gleick, James, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
• Goddard, Robert, Found Wanting
• Goddard, Sandra Jane, A Country Marriage
• Goodman, Carol, Arcadia Falls
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
• Goolrick, Robert, The Fall of Princes
• Gordimer, Nadine, The House Gun
• Gorokhova, Elena, A Mountain of Crumbs
• Gortner, C. W., The Tudor Secret
• Graham, Winston, The Angry Tide, Bella Poldark, The Black Moon, Demelza, The Four Swans, Jeremy Poldark, The Loving Cup, The Miller’s Dance, Ross Poldark, The Stranger from the Sea, The Twisted Sword, Warleggan
• Grann, David, The Lost City of Z
• Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That, The Greek Myths
• Grecian, Alex, The Yard
• Green, John, The Fault in Our Stars
• Greenburg, Mike, My Father’s Wives
• Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in the Dark, Raisins and Almonds
• Greig, Andrew, Fair Helen
• Grenan, Conor, Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
• Groff, Lauren, Arcadia, Fates and Furies
• Gruen, Sara, At the Water’s Edge
• Guinness, Jonathan and Catherine Guinness, The House of Mitford

H

• Haddon, Mark, The Red House
• Hall, James Norman and Charles Nordhoff, Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn’s Island
• Hamilton, Steve, The Second Life of Nick Mason
• Hand, Elizabeth, Mortal Love, Wylding Hall
• Hanff, Helene, 84, Charing Cross Road
• Hannah, Kristin, Winter Garden
• Hannah, Sophie, The Cradle in the Grave, The Dead Lie Down, Kind of Cruel, Little Face, The Orphan Choir, The Truth-Teller’s Lie, Woman with a Secret, The Wrong Mother
• Hansi, My Alsace
• Harbach, Chad, The Art of Fielding
• Harding, Paul, Enon, Tinkers
• Hardy, Thomas, Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
• Harkness, Deborah, The Book of Life, A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night
• Harris, Joanne, Chocolat, The Girl with No Shadow, Peaches for Father Francis, Sleep, Pale Sister
• Harris, Robert, Conspirata, Dictator, Imperium, An Officer and a Spy
• Harrison, A. S. A., The Silent Wife
• Harrison, Mette Ivie, The Bishop’s Wife
• Harrower, Elizabeth, The Watch Tower
• Haruf, Kent, Benediction, Our Souls at Night
• Harwood, John, The Seance
• Hawkins, Paula, The Girl on the Train
• Hay, Mavis Doriel, The Santa Klaus Murder
• Hayes, Antonia, Relativity
• Hayes, Suzanne and Loretta Nyhan, Empire Girls
• Haynes, Elizabeth, Into the Darkest Corner
• Haynes, Melinda, Mother of Pearl
• Head, Bessie, When Rain Clouds Gather
• Healey, Emma, Elizabeth Is Missing
• Heaney, Christopher, Cradle of Gold
• Heaney, Seamus, Beowulf
• Heinlein, Robert A., Stranger in a Strange Land
• Hemings, Kaui Hart, The Descendants, The Possibilities
• Heyer, Georgette, Behold, Here’s Poison, Black Sheep, The Convenient Marriage, Cotillion, Death in the Stocks, Friday’s Child, Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle
• Highsmith, Patricia, Ripley Under Ground, The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Hillenbrand, Lauren, Unbroken
• Hillerman, Anne, Spider Woman’s Daughter
• Hitchens, Christopher, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
• Hodge, Jane Aiken, Strangers in Company
• Hodgkinson, Amanda, 22 Britannia Road
• Hodgson, Antonia, The Devil in the Marshalsea
• Hodgson, W. H., The Casebook of Carnaki the Ghost Finder
• Hoffman, Alice, Practical Magic
• Hollandsworth, Skip, The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
• Holtby, Winifred, Anderby Wold, The Crowded Street, The Land of Green Ginger, Poor Caroline, South Riding
• Holton, Woody, Abigail Adams
• Hopkirk, Peter, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
• Horan, Nancy, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
• Hosseini, Khaled, And the Mountains Echoed, A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Howe, Katherine, The House of Velvet and Glass, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
• Hughes, Dorothy B., In a Lonely Place
• Hugo, Victor, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Hulme, Keri, The Bone People
• Hulse, S. M., Black River
• Hunt, Laird, Neverhome
• Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Hustvedt, Siri, The Blazing World, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
• Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World

I

• Iggulden, Conn, Stormbird
• Indriðason, Arnaldur, Jar City
• Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Buried Giant, The Remains of the Day
• Izner, Claude, Murder on the Eiffel Tower

J

• Jackson, Mick, Yuki Chan in Brontë Country
• Jackson, Shirley, Hangsaman, Let Me Tell You
• James, P. D., Death Comes to Pemberley
• Jardine, Lisa, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
• Jelloun, Tahar Ben, The Happy Marriage
• Jensen, Carsten, We, The Drowned
• Jewell, Lisa, The House We Grew Up In
• Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master’s Son
• Johnson, Craig, Another Man’s Moccasins, Any Other Name, As the Crow Flies, The Cold Dish, The Dark Horse, Death Without Company, Dry Bones, Hell Is Empty, Junkyard Dogs, Kindness Goes Unpunished, An Obvious Fact, A Serpent’s Tooth, Spirit of Steamboat
• Jones, Edward P., All Aunt Hagar’s Children, The Known World
• Jones, Sadie, Fallout, The Uninvited Guests
• Jones, Terry, Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery
• Joyce, Rachel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Joyce, William, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, The Leaf Men, The Mischievians, Santa Calls
• Joyce, William and Laura Geringer, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
• Jungstedt, Unspoken

K

• Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Kalogridis, Jeanne, The Inquisitor’s Wife
• Kapuściński, Ryszard, Shah of Shahs
• Kasischke, Laura, Mind of Winter
• Katz, Michael R. (ed.), The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
• Kawabata, Yasunari, Snow Country
• Kay, Guy Gavriel, The Darkest Road, The Summer Tree, Tigana, The Wandering Fire
• Kay, I. J., Mountains of the Moon
• Keane, Molly, Good Behaviour
• Kearsley, Susanna, The Winter Sea
• Kelly, Elizabeth, The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, The Miracle on Monhegan Island
• Kelly, Erin, Broadchurch, The Dark Rose, The Poison Tree
• Kelly, Mary Pat, Galway Bay
• Keneally, Thomas, The Daughters of Mars
• Kennedy, Margaret, Troy Chimneys
• Kent, Hannah, Burial Rites
• Kerr, Philip, March Violets
• Kidd, Sue Monk, The Invention of Wings
• King, Laurie R., The Bones of Paris, Lockdown
• King, Lily, Euphoria
• King, Ross, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
• Kingsnorth, Paul, The Wake
• Kingsolver, Barbara, The Lacuna
• Kinsella, W. P., Butterfly Winter
• Kipling, Rudyard, Kim
• Klinkenborg, Verlyn, The Rural Life
• Koppel, Lily, The Astronaut Wives Club
• Kostova, Elizabeth, The Shadow Land
• Krauss, Nicole, Great House, The History of Love
• Kung, Han, The Vegetarian
• Kurlansky, Mark, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Salt: A World History

L

• Läckberg, Camilla, The Ice Princess, The Lost Boy, The Preacher
• Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Lowland, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth
• Lamb, Wally, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True
• Lamont, Frances, An Adventure
• Landvik, Lorna, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge
• LaPlante, Alice, A Circle of Wives
• Larson, Erik, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, In the Garden of Beasts
• Larsson, Stieg, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Lawhon, Ariel, Flight of Dreams, The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
• Laxness, Halldór, The Fish Can Sing, Iceland’s Bell, Independent People, World Light
• Le Carré, John, A Delicate Truth, A Perfect Spy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Ledgard, J. M., Submergence
• Lewis, Matthew, The Monk
• Lieven, Dominic, Russia Against Napoleon
• Lennon, J. Robert, Castle
• Leon, Donna, The Jewels of Paradise
• Leonard, Elmore, Raylan
• Lewis, Michael, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• Lippman, Laura, Life Sentences
• Lofts, Norah, Here Was a Man
• London, Jack, The Call of the Wild
• Lovell, Mary S., Straight On Till Morning
• Lovesy, Peter, The Last Detective
• Lovett, Charlie, The Bookman’s Tale
• Luiselli, Valeria, The Story of My Teeth

M

• MacCarthy, Fiona, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
• MacColl, Gail and Carol McD. Wallace, To Marry an English Lord
• Macdonald, Helen, H Is for Hawk
• MacKinnon, Amy, Tethered
• MacLane, Mary, I Await the Devil’s Coming
• Maitland, Karen, The Owl Killers
• Malamud, Bernard, The Fixer
• Mancall, Peter C., Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson
• Mandela, Nelson, Conversations with Myself
• Mankell, Henning, The Dogs of Riga, The Man from Beijing
• Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
• Mantel, Hilary, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Beyond Black, Bring Up the Bodies, Giving Up the Ghost, Wolf Hall
• Marco, Leonardo, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire
• Martin, George R. R., A Clash of Kings, A Dance with Dragons, A Feast for Crows, Game of Thrones, A Storm of Swords
• Mawer, Simon, The Glass Room
• Martin, Valerie, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
• McBride, James, The Good Lord Bird, Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
• McCaffrey, Anne, The Dragonriders of Pern
• McCarthy, Susan Carol, A Place We Knew Well
• McClain, Paula, Circling the Sun
• McCracken, Elizabeth, Thunderstruck and Other Stories
• McCrumb, Sharyn, The Ballad of Tom Dooley
• McCullers, Carson, Collected Stories
• McCullough, David, The Johnstown Flood
• McDermid, Val, A Darker Domain, Fever of the Bone, Northanger Abbey, Trick of the Dark, The Vanishing Point
• McEwan, Ian, Amsterdam, The Child in Time, Sweet Tooth
• McHugh, Laura, Arrowood
• McKinty, Adrian, The Sun Is God
• McMahon, Jennifer, Burntown, The Night Sister, The Winter People
• McPhee, John, Annals of the Former World: Assembling California, Basin and Range, Crossing the Craton, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains
• McPherson, Catriona, As She Left It, The Child Garden, Come to Harm, Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses, Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone, The Day She Died, Quiet Neighbors
• Mead, Rebecca, My Life in Middlemarch
• Melville, Herman, Moby Dick or, The Whale
• Merrell, Susan Scarf, Shirley
• Meyer, Philipp, The Son
• Milford, Nancy, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Milisic-Stanley, Annika, The Disobedient Wife
• Millar, Louise, Accidents Happen
• Millard, Candice, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent, The Selected Poetry
• Miller, Madeline, The Song of Achilles
• Mills, Mark, The Information Officer
• Mina, Denise, The End of the Wasp Season, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gods and Beasts, The Red Road, Still Midnight
• Mitchell, David, Black Swan Green, The Bone Clocks, Cloud Atlas, Ghostwritten, Number9Dream, Slade House, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
• Mitford, Jessica, Hons and Rebels
• Mitford, Nancy, Love in a Cold Climate, Pigeon Pie, The Pursuit of Love, The Sun King
• Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Anne of Green Gables
• Morgan, Jude, Charlotte and Emily, Indiscretion, Passion, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare
• Morgenstern, Erin, The Night Circus
• Moriarty, Liane, Big Little Lies, Truly Madly Guilty, What Alice Forgot
• Morison, Elizabeth, An Adventure
• Morrison, Toni, Beloved
• Morton, Kate, The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, The Lake House, The Secret Keeper
• Munro, Alice, The Beggar Maid, Family Furnishings, The View from Castle Rock
• Mukherjee, Neel, The Lives of Others
• Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84
• Mutti, Andrea (ill.), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

N

• Nadal, Barbara, Dance with Death, Deadly Web
• Napolitano, Ann, A Good Hard Look
• Naslund, Sena Jeter, Ahab’s Wife or, The Star-Gazer, The Fountain of St. James Court or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman
• Némirovsky, Iréne, Suite Française
• Nesbit, E., The Lark, The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers
• Nesbit, TaraShea, The Wives of Los Alamos
• Nesbø, Jo, The Redbreast
• Ness, Patrick, The Crane Wife
• Nesser, Håkan, Borkmann’s Point, Mind’s Eye, The Return
• Newell, Jr., Paul Clark, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of an American Fortune
• Newton, Michael (ed.), Victorian Fairy Tales
• Ng, Celeste, Everything I Never Told You
• Nicholson, William, Amherst
• Niffenegger, Audrey, Ghostly
• Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall, Men Against the Sea, Mutiny on the Bounty, Pitcairn’s Island
• North, Anna, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
• Nyhan, Loretta and Suzanne Hayes, Empire Girls

O

• Obreht, Tea, The Tiger’s Wife
• O’Brien, Geoffrey, The Fall of the House of Walworth
• O’Brien, Kate, That Lady
• O’Brien, Tim, In the Lake of the Woods
• O’Connor, Flannery, Wise Blood
• O’Connor, Joseph, Ghost Light
• O’Connor, Nuala, Miss Emily
• O’Donnell, Lisa, The Death of Bees
• O’Hara, Maryanne, Cascade
• Oliphant, Margaret, Miss Marjoribanks, Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunnyside, The Perpetual Curate, Phoebe Junior, The Rector and The Doctor’s Family, Salem Chapel
• Ondaatje, Michael, The Cat’s Table
• Owen, Lauren, The Quick
• Oyeyemi, Helen, Boy, Snow, Bird
• Ozeki, Ruth, A Tale for the Time Being

P

• Packer, Ann, The Children’s Crusade
• Palliser, Charles, Rustication
• Panter-Downes, Mollie, One Fine Day
• Parker, Robert B., Appaloosa
• Parsons, Eliza, The Castle of Wolfenbach
• Parssinen, Keija, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
• Patchett, Ann, Commonwealth, State of Wonder
• Paterson, David (photo), The Scottish Highlands
• Pearce, Michael, A Dead Man in Athens
• Pears, Iain, Stone’s Fall
• Penny, Louise, The Beautiful Mystery, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, The Cruelest Month, A Fatal Grace, A Great Reckoning, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Rule Against Murder, Still Life, A Trick of the Light
• Percy, Walker, The Moviegoer
• Persson, Leif GW, Another Time, Another Life, Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End, Free Falling, As If in a Dream
• Petterson, Per, I Curse the River of Time
• Philbrick, Nathaniel, Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890, Mayflower, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
• Pollan, Michael, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
• Pollock, Donald Ray, The Devil All the Time
• Porter, Jane, The Scottish Chiefs
• Portis, Charles, True Griti
• Powell, Laura, The Unforgotten
• Powell, Margaret, Below Stairs
• Powers, Richard, Orfeo
• Powning, Beth, The Sea Captain’s Wife
• Pötzsch, Oliver, The Beggar King
• Pratchett, Terry, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
• Price, Asher, The Great Texas Wind Rush
• Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife

Q

• Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Castle Dor

R

• Radcliffe, Ann, The Mysteries of Udolpho
• Ray, Kalyan, No Country
• Raybourn, Deanna, The Dark Enquiry, The Dark Road to Darjeeling, Twelfth Night
• Read, Miss, Fresh from the Country
• Reichs, Kathy, 206 Bones, Spider Bones
• Reiss, Tom, The Black Count
• Rendell, Ruth, The Water’s Lovely
• Ridgway, Bee, The River of No Return
• Riggs, Ransom, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• Rivers, Susan, The Second Mrs. Hockaday
• Roach, Mary, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
• Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead, Home, Housekeeping, Lila
• Robinson, Peter, Before the Poison, Playing with Fire
• Rock, Judith, The Eloquence of Blood, A Plague of Lies, The Rhetoric of Death
• Rölvaag, O.E., Giants in the Earth
• Rossetti, Christina, The Goblin Market and Selected Poems
• Roy, Anuradha, An Atlas of Impossible Longing
• Runcie, James, Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
• Russell, Karen, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!
• Russell, Mary Doria, Doc
• Russo, Richard, Bridge of Sighs, Empire Falls, Everybody’s Fool, Straight Man, That Old Cape Magic
• Ryan, Donal, The Spinning Heart

S

• Sabatini, Rafael, The Lovers of Yvonne
• Sacheri, Eduardo, The Secret in Their Eyes
• Salak, Kira, The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu
• St. James, Simone, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, An Inquiry into Love and Death, Lost Among the Living, The Other Side of Midnight, Silence for the Dead
• Sampson, Faye, Death on Lindisfarne
• Sansom, C. J., Dark Fire, Dissolution, Revelation, Sovereign
• Sarton, May, The Magnificent Spinster
• Sayers, Dorothy L., Busman’s Honeymoon, The Five Red Herrings, Unnatural Death, Whose Body?
• Schenkar, Joan, The Talented Miss Highsmith
• Schiff, Stacy, Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Salem, 1692, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
• Scott, James, The Kept
• Scott, Walter, The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, Waverly
• See, Lisa, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Selznick, Brian, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Semple, Maria, Today Will Be Different, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
• Serraillier, Ian, The Silver Sword
• Setterfield, Diane, Bellman & Black
• Seward, Desmond, Richard III: England’s Black Legend, The Wars of the Roses
• Shafak, Elif, The Bastard of Istanbul
• Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry VI Part I, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello
• Shamsie, Kamila, A God in Every Stone
• Shapiro, Dani, Black & White
• Shepherd, Lynn, A Fatal Likeness, Murder at Mansfield Park, The Solitary House
• Showalter, Elaine, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
• Shulevitz, Uri, Snow
• Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Quo Vadis, With Fire and Sword
• Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, The Summer Before the War
• Singleton, Elyse, This Side of the Sky
• Sjöwall, Maj and Per Wahlöö, The Man on the Balcony, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Roseanna
• Skea, Margaret, Turn of the Tide
• Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Smiley, Jane, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, Early Warning, Golden Age, Some Luck, A Thousand Acres
• Smith, Ali, How to Be Both
• Smith, Betty, Joy in the Morning
• Smith, Jeff, RASL: The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla
• Smith, Zadie, NW
• Soffer, Jessica, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
• Somerset, Anne, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
• Soueif, Ahdaf, The Map of Love
• Speller, Elizabeth, The Return of Captain John Emmett, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
• Spiegelman, Art, Maus I
• Spurling, John, The Ten Thousand Things
• Stachniak, Eva, Empress of the Night, The Winter Palace
• Stevenson, D. E., The Baker’s Daughter, Vittoria Cottage
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island
• Stewart, Amy, Girl Waits with Gun, Lady Cop Makes Trouble
• Stewart, Mary, Nine Coaches Waiting, This Rough Magic, Touch Not the Cat, Wildfire at Midnight
• Stoker, Bram, Dracula
• Stoop, Naoko, Red Knit Cap Girl
• Strachey, Julia, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
• Strayed, Cheryl, Wild
• Streatfeild, Noel, Ballet Shoes
• Strout, Elizabeth, Amy and Isabelle, Anything Is Possible, The Burgess Boys, My Name Is Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge
• Summerscale, Kate, The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
• Sunley, Christina, The Tricking of Freya
• Sutcliff, Rosemary, Blood & Sand
• Sutcliff, Rosemary, The Lantern Bearers
• Sweeney, Emma Claire, Owl Song at Dawn
• Szado, Ania, Studio Saint-Ex

T

• Tallis, F. R., The Sleep Room
• Tan, Amy, The Kitchen God’s Wife
• Tartt, Donna, The Goldfinch, The Little Friend
• Taylor, Elizabeth, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, A View of the Harbour
• Tey, Josephine, Brat Farrar, The Singing Sands
• Theorin, Johan, The Asylum, The Darkest Room, Echoes from the Dead, The Quarry
• Thirkell, Angela, Enter Sir Robert, Happy Returns, Miss Bunting, Pomfret Towers, Wild Strawberries
• Thomas, Keith, Religion and the Decline of Magic
• Thomas, Matthew, We Are Not Ourselves
• Thompson, Jim, The Killer Inside Me
• Thorpe, Adam, Ulverton
• Tillman, Nancy, Tumford the Terrible
• Tilton, Alice, The Iron Clew
• Tóibín, Colm, The Empty Family, House of Names, Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush, The Master, Nora Webster, The Testament of Mary
• Tolstoy, Leo (Lev Nikolaevich), The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
• Tolstoy, Lev Lvovich, The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
• Tolstoy, Sofiya Andreevna, The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
• Tomalin, Claire, Charles Dickens: A Life, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, Jane Austen: A Life
• Torday, Paul, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
• Towles, Amor, The Rules of Civility
• Tracy, P. J., Shoot to Thrill
• Tranter, Nigel, The Captive Crown, A Folly of Princes, Lords of Misrule
• Trapido, Barbara, Brother of the More Famous Jack, Juggling, Sex and Stravinsky, The Travelling Hornplayer
• Tremain, Rose, Merivel: A Man of His Time
• Trigiani, Adriana, The Shoemaker’s Wife
• Trollope, Anthony, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Warden
• Trollope, Joanna, The Best of Friends, The Other Family, Sense & Sensibility
• Tudge, Colin, The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
• Tursten, Helene, The Torso
• Twain, Mark, Life on the Mississippi
• Tyler, Anne, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl
• Tyson, Neil deGrasse, Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries

U

• Urquhart, Jane, The Night Stages

V

• Valtat, Jean-Christophe, Aurorarama
• Vantrease, Brenda Rickman, The Illuminator
• Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone
• Vine, Barbara, The Child’s Child
• Von Bremzen, Anya, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
• Vowell, Sarah, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
• Vreeland, Susan, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Lisette’s List
• Vyleta, Dan, The Quiet Twin

W

• Wade, Christine, Seven Locks
• Wahlöö, Per and Maj Sjöwall, The Man on the Balcony, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Roseanna
• Walbert, Kate, The Sunken Cathedral
• Waldrep, Mary Carolyn, By a Woman’s Hand: Illustrators of the Golden Age
• Walker, Tom, Signed Confessions
• Walter, Jess, Beautiful Ruins
• Walters, Minette, The Cellar
• Warner, Sylvia Townsend, The True Heart
• Waters, Sarah, Affinity, The Paying Guests
• Watson, S. J., Before I Go to Sleep
• Watson, Sally, The Hornet’s Nest, Jade, Lark, Linnet, Mistress Malapert, Witch of the Glens
• Watson, Winifred, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
• Webb, Wendy, The Vanishing
• Weir, Alison, The Marriage Game, Mary Boleyn
• Weisgarber, Ann, The Promise
• Welty, Eudora, The Optimist’s Daughter
• Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence
• Whipple, Dorothy, Greenbanks, Someone at a Distance, They Knew Mr. Knight
• White, E. B., Charlotte’s Web
• White, Jenny, The Abyssinian Proof, The Winter Thief
• White, Karen, The Forgotten Room
• White, Kate, Hush
• Wiesel, Elie, Night
• Wilcox, Victoria, Inheritance
• Wilder, Thornton, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
• Williams, Beatriz, The Forgotten Room
• Williams, John, Stoner
• Williams, Niall, Four Letters of Love, History of the Rain
• Willig, Lauren, The Forgotten Room, The Other Daughter
• Wineapple, Brenda, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Winspear, Jacqueline, Birds of a Feather
• Winterson, Jeanette, The Daylight Gate
• Witliff, Bill, The Devil’s Backbone
• Wolitzer, Meg, The Interestings, The Wife
• Wood, Audrey and Don, The Full Moon at the Napping House
• Woodrell, Daniel, The Death of Sweet Mister, Winter’s Bone
• Woolf, Jenny, The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
• Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway
• Wyld, Evie, All the Birds, Singing
• Wynne, Anthony, Murder of a Lady

Y

• Yan, Mo, Red Sorghum

Z

• Zan, Koethi, The Never List
• Zevin, Gabrielle, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
• Zullo, Germano and Albertine, Little Bird
• Zusak, Markus, The Book Thief