Reviews by Title

F = Fiction
GN = Graphic novel
NF = Nonfiction

– # –

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (F)

– A –

Aberrations by Penelope Przekop (F)
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life by Kathleen Norris (NF)
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (F)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (GN)
Assembling My Father: A Daughter’s Detective Story by Anna Cypra Oliver (Brogan’s review) (NF)
A Wood Engraver’s Alphabet by Gerard Brender à Brandis (NF)

– B –

Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger (F)
Between Friends: A Year in Letters by Oonagh Berry and Helen Levine (guest review) (NF)

– C –

A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve (F)
Chiggers by Hope Larson (GN)
Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind: Thoughts on Teacherhood by Phillip Done (guest review) (NF)
Conscience Point by Erica Abeel (F)
The Corpse Will Keep by Pat Capponi (F)
Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton (F)

– D –

The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other Stories by Pagan Kennedy (NF)

– E –

Escape by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer (NF)

– F –

Farthing by Jo Walton (F)


– G –

Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want by Frances Moore Lappé (NF)
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris (F)
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow (NF)
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott (F) (further thoughts)
The Grift by Debra Ginsberg (F)

– H –

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (NF)
Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum (NF)
The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent (F)

– I –

i am neurotic (and so are you) by Liana Kong (NF)
The Impostors Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell (NF)
In the Woods by Tana French (F)
The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney (NF)

– J –

Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci (GN)

– K –

Katherine’s Wish by Linda Lappin (F)

– L –

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (F)
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel (F)
The Late Bloomer’s Revolution by Amy Cohen (NF)
A Likeness in Stone by Julia Wallis Martin (F)
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker (F)
The Local News by Miriam Gershow (F)
Love and Other Natural Disasters by Holly Shumas (F)
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (F)

– M –

My Little Red Book edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (NF) (revised review)

– N –

The Nettle Spinner by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (F)
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond (F)

– O –

The Only True Genius in the Family
by Jennie Nash (F)

– P, Q –

Pathologies: A Life in Essays by Susan Olding (NF)
The Perseids and Other Stories by Robert Charles Wilson (F)
Piece by Piece: Stories about Fitting into Canada edited by Teresa Toten (NF)
The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci (GN)

– R –

The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden (F)

– S –

Simon’s Cat by Simon Tofield (GN)
Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka (F)
Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson (F)
So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz (F)
Someone Not Really Her Mother by Harriet Scott Chessman (F)
Storming Heaven’s Gate: An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women edited by Patricia Vecchione and Amber Coverdale Sumrall (F & NF)


– T –

Testimony by Anita Shreve (F)
Too Many Questions by Lesley Grant-Adamson (F)

– U, V –

Until It’s Over by Nicci French (F)

– W –

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis (guest review) (NF)
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton (F)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (F)
Wit’s End by Karen Joy Fowler (F)

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