Reviews by Title

A

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
The Absolutist, by John Boyne
Absolution, by Patrick Flanery 

The Accompanist, by Nina Berberova

The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey, by Steve Sheinkin

After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance, by Anne Sibley O'Brien
Agent Zigzag, by Ben Macintyre 

Alchemy Arts, by Kate MacKay

Alice I Have Been, by Melanie Benjamin

All Other Nights, by Dara Horn

All Over Coffee, by Paul Madonna

All-of-A-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Almost Dead, by Assaf Gavron
Amberville, by Tim Davys   

American Eve, by Paula Uruburu

American Shaolin, by Matthew Polly

American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld

Amy Unbounded: Belondweb Blossoming, by Rachel Hartman

Annie's Ghosts, by Steve Luxenberg

Any Human Heart, by William Boyd
Arcadia, by Lauren Groff 

Artist's Proof, by Lander Marks
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, by Jan-Philipp Sendker 

Asta in the Wings, by Jan Elizabeth Watson

At A Crossroads: Between a Rock and My Parents' Place, by Kate T. Williamson
At the End of a Dull Day, by Massimo Carlotto 

Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon

Aya of Yop City, by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie

Aya, by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie

B

Backseat Saints, by Joshilyn Jackson

Bad Marie, by Marcy Dermansky
The Baker's Daughter, by Sarah McCoy
Bandit Love, by Massimo Carlotto

Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel

Beautiful Maria of My Soul, by Oscar Hijuelos
Before Night Falls, by Reinaldo Arenas
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, by Danielle Evans 

The Believers, by Zoe Heller
The Bells, by Richard Harvell 
Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville 

Best American Comics 2008, edited by Lynda Barry
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain 

Bitter is the New Black, by Jen Lancaster

The Black Tower, by Louis Bayard

Blame, by Michelle Huneven
The Bone People, by Keri Hulme 

Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan 
The Book of Jonas, by Stephen Dau 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Bossypants, by Tina Fey 

Bowl of Cherries, by Millard Kaufman

Breakfast with Buddha, by Roland Merullo

Breaking Up, by Aimee Friedman

The Bride Who Argued with God, by Hava Ben Zvi

Bright Lights, Big Ass, by Jen Lancaster

Broad Appeal, edited by David Roman

Broken Glass Park, by Alina Bronsky 
Broken Harbor, by Tana French 

Bulls Island, by Dorothea Benton Frank

Burma Chronicles, by Guy DeLisle

By Fire, By Water, by Mitchell James Kaplan

C

Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge

The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje

The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway
Che Guevara: A Manga Biography, by Kiyoshi Sonno 

Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith

The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt

The City and The City, by China Mieville

City of Thieves, by David Benioff
Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons

The Colony, by Jillian Weise
The Colour of Milk, by Nell Leyshon
Comedy in a Minor Key, by Hans Klies 
The Companion, by Lorcan Roche

Confessions of a Blabbermouth, by Mike and Louise Carey

A Contract with God, by Will Eisner
Cooking with Fernet Branca, by James Hamilton-Paterson 
Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres 

Crafting Jewish, by Rivky Koenig

Cry Yourself to Sleep, by Jeremy Tinder

Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese

D

The Dacha Husband, by Ivan Shcheglov
The Days of Abandonment, by Elena Ferrante
Days of Fear, by Daniele Mastrogiacomo

Dearest Anne, by Judith Katzir
Death and the Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov 

Death in the Truffle Wood by Pierre Magnan
The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy

Death's Dark Abyss, by Massimo Carlotto

The Debba, by Avner Mandelman

The Demon From Dakar, by Kjell Eriksson

Diary of the Black Widow, by Bret Herholz
The Dinner, by Herman Koch 

Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands, by Christopher Klein

Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
Divorce Islamic Style, by Amara Lakhous 

Doghead, by Morten Ramsland

The Door, by Magda Szabó
The Dork of Cork, by Chet Raymo

Dough, by Mort Zachter

Dreamers of the Day, by Mary Doria Russell
Drinking at the Movies, by Julia Wertz
Drowned, by Therese Bohman
The Dry Grass of August, by Anna Jean Mayhew
The Dubious Redemption of Jack V., by Jacques Strauss
The Duel, by Heinrich von Kleist. 

E

Earth & Ashes, by Atiq Rahimi

Eddie Signwriter, by Adam Schwartzman
The Elected Member, by Bernice Rubens 

The Electric Michelangelo, by Sarah Hall

The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Elza's Kitchen, by Marc Fitten
Embassytown, by China Mieville 

Emiko Superstar, by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston
Enough About Love, by Hervé le Tellier. 

Escape from "Special", by Miss Lasko-Gross
Everything Happens Today, by Jesse Browner 

Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan
The Eyes of Venice, by Alessandro Barbero 

F

The Fart Party, by Julia Wertz

The Fart Party, volume 2, by Julia Wertz
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am, by Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Fatale, by Jean-Patrick Manchette 

Fatelessness, by Imre Kertesz
The Fates Will Find Their Way, by Hannah Pittard 

Festering Romance, by Renee Lott

The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson
5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth, by the Oatmeal 
The Flight of Gemma Hardy, by  Margot Livesey

Forbidden Bread, by Erica Johnson Debeljak

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale, by Belle Yang 
The Forgiven, by Lawrence Osborne
Freedom in Exile: the Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, by Tetsu Saiwai
French Leave, by Anna Gavalda 

French Milk, by Lucy Knisley
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, by Alex Gilvarry 

From the Land of the Moon, by Milena Agus

The Frozen Rabbi, by Steve Stern
The Fugitive, by Massimo Carlotto. 

The Funeral Party, by Ludmila Ulitskaya

G

Gandhi, A Manga Biography, by Kazuki Ebine
Garage Band, by Gipi
Gardens of Water, by Alan Drew

The Genizah at the House of Shepher, by Tamar Yellin
Gestures by H.S. Bhabra
Get Me Out of Here, by Henry Sutton
Ghost Light, by Joseph O'Connor 
The Ghosts of Belfast, by Stuart Neville
The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress, by Beryl Bainbridge

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, by Mohja Kahf

The Girl With Glass Feet, by Ali Shaw

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Glaciers, by Alexis M. Smith 

The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

Godmother, by Carolyn Turgeon

Going Away Shoes, by Jill McCorkle
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
The Goodbye Kiss, by Massimo Carlotto 

Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes, by Mollie Panter-Downes
Good Offices, by Evelio Rosero 

Gypsy Tears, by Cora Schwartz

H

The Hakawati, by Rabih Alameddine

The Halfway House, by Guillermo Rosales
Happy Birthday, Turk! by Jakob Arjouni 
Happy Ending, by Francesca Duranti.
The Hare with Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal 
Have You Seen Marie? by Sandra Cisneros 

The Heartbreak Diet, by Thorina Rose
He Died with his Eyes Open, by Derek Raymond 

Heir to the Glimmering World, by Cynthia Ozick
Heliopolis, by James Scudamore 

The Heretic's Daughter, by Kathleen Kent

Hereville, by Barry Deutsch
History of a Pleasure-Seeker, by Richard Mason 

Holding My Breath, by Sidura Ludwig
Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner 
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, by Alina Bronsky

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
How I Became a Nun, by Cesar Aira
How Not to Read, by Dan Wilbur
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, by Sarah Glidden

How to Paint a Dead Man, by Sarah Hall
The Humanity Project, by Jean Thompson
Hygiene and the Assassin, by Amélie Nothomb. 

I

I Hadn't Understood, by Diego de Silva

I Saw You..., edited by Julia Wertz
The Illusion of Return, by Samir El-Youssef 
In A Strange Room, by Damon Galgut
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote 
The Islanders, by Christopher Priest
Inverted World, by Christopher Priest

The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer

Isaac's Torah, by Angel Wagenstein
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling 

It Disappears, by Nate Powell
Ivan and Misha, by Michael Alenyikov 

J

Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist, by Nancy Goldstein
Jacob's Folly, by Rebecca Miller
The Jasmine Isle, by Ioanna Karystiani 
The Jerusalem File, by Joel Stone.
jobnik! by Miriam Libiki

Johnny Boo, by James Kochalka

K

Kaspar, by Diane Obomsawin
Keeper and Kid, by Edward Hardy

Kimmie66, by Aaron Alexovich

Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East, by Joann Sfar

Korgi, by Christian Slade

Kosher by Design Lightens Up, by Susie Fishbein

L

The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry

The Ladies from St. Petersburg, by Nina Berberova
Lanceheim, by Tim Davys
The Last Brother, by Nathacha Appanah 

The Last Chicken in America, by Ellen Litman
Last Friends, by Jane Gardam 

Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O'Nan

Lavinia, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Leaving the Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner
Let's Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell 
Life and Times of Michael K., by J.M. Coetzee
Life Form, by Amelie Nothomb 
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel 

Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
Limassol, by Yishai Sarid 

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, by Tiffany Baker

A Little Love Story, by Roland Merullo
The Little Russian, by Susan Sherman 

The Local News, by Miriam Gershow

Lone Racer, by Nicolas Mahler
The Long Song, by Andrea Levy
The Lost City of Z, by David Grann
The Lost Daughter, by Elena Ferrante

Lost in Austen, by Emma Campbell Watson

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
Love and War in the Apennines, by Eric Newby
Lovers, by Daniel Arsand 

Luka and the Fire of Life, by Salman Rushdie

M

The Madonnas of Echo Park, by Brando Skyhorse
The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
Magnificence, by Lydia Millet

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson
The Man in the Wooden Hat, by Jane Gardam 

Marie Antoinette: The Journey, by Antonia Fraser

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People, by Farahad Zama

The Master and Margarita: The Graphic Novel, by Mikhail Bulgakov

Mathilda Savitch, by Victor Lodato

Matrimony, by Joshua Henkin

Maybe Later, by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian
Me and You, by Niccolo Ammaniti 

Medea and Her Children, by Ludmila Ulitskaya

Megillat Esther, by J.T. Waldman

Memory, by Philippe Grimbert

Mercury, by Hope Larson
A Mess of Everything, by Miss Lasko-Gross 

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka and adapted by Peter Kuper

milk teeth, by Julie Morstad
Minotaur, by Benjamin Tammuz 

Misadventure, by Millard Kaufman

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson
Moffie, by Andre Carl van der Merwe. 

The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Binnings Ewen
The Moonflower Vine, by Jetta Carleton
Moon Tiger, by Penelope Lively 

Moscow 2042, by Vladimir Voinovich

A Mountain of Crumbs, by Elena Gorokhova

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English, by Natasha Solomons

Mr. SPIC Goes to Washington, by Ilan Stavans and Roberto Weil

Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
Murder in the Marais, by Cara Black
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
My Fair Lazy, by Jen Lancaster 

My Father's Paradise, by Ariel Sabar
My Friend Sancho, by Amit Varma
My Traitor's Heart, by Rian Malan

N

Nairobi Heat, by Mukoma Wa Ngugi 
Never Mind, by Edward St. Aubyn
The Night Counter, by Alia Yunis
Nightmare Alley, by William Lindsay Gresham
Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, by Carmela Ciuraru
The North of God, by Steve Stern 

Notes on Democracy, by H.L. Mencken
The Nun, by Simonetta Agnello Hornby.

O

Of Men and Their Mothers, by Mameve Medwed

Official Book Club Selection, by Kathy Griffin

Offshore, by Penelope Fitzgerald 
Oil on Water, by Helon Habila

Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout

On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan

One More Year, by Sana Krasikov

Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey

Our Lady of the Lost and Found, by Diane Schoemperlen

Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet, by Tina Grimberg
The Outside Boy, by Jeanine Cummins 

Owly: A Time to be Brave, by Andy Runton

P

The Pages in Between, by Erin Einhorn

Paris, by Andi Watson and Simon Gane
Parisian Chic: A Style Guide, by Ines de la Fressange and Sophie Gachet

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender

The Passage, by Justin Cronin

The Patience Stone, by Atiq Rahimi

Peep Show, by Joshua Braff

People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

Petropolis, by Anya Ulinich

The Photographer, by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier LeFevre
Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi 

Pirkei Avot with a Twist of Humor, by Joe Bobker
Poisonville, by Massimo Carlotto and Marco Videtta 

The Polski Affair, by Leon H. Gildin

Pravda, by Edward Docx
The Prestige, by Christopher Priest 

The Professor's Daughter, by Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Guibert

Pure, by Andrew Miller

The Puzzle King, by Betsy Carter

Q

Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta 
Quiet, by Susan Cain
Quiet Chaos, by Sandro Veronesi

The Quitter, by Harvey Pekar

R

The Rabbi's Cat 2, by Joann Sfar

The Russian Dreambook of Color & Flight, by Gina Ochsner

Rabbi Harvey Rides Again, by Steve Sheinkin

Rabbi Harvey vs. The Wisdom Kid, by Steve Sheinkin

Rachel Calof's Story, by Rachel Calof
The Rage, by Gene Kerrigan 

Rashi's Daughters: Book One: Joheved, by Maggie Anton

The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier 

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov

The Red Leather Diary, by Lily Koppel

Resistance: Book 1 by Carla Jablonski
Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy 

Rex Libris: I, Librarian, by James Turner

The Rights of the Reader, by Daniel Pennac
River of Smoke, by Amitav Ghosh 

Robot Dreams, by Sara Varon
Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater, by Anne Marie Blackman and Brian Clark Howard.
Role Models, by John Waters.

Rooftops of Tehran, by Mahbod Seraji

Ropeburn, by Jeremy Smith
The Round House, by Louise Erdrich 

Running the Books, by Avi Steinberg

Ruts and Gullies: Nine Days in St. Petersburg, by Philippe Girard

S

Sacred Hearts, by Sarah Dunant

Sarah's Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay

School for Love, by Olivia Manning
The Sea, by John Banville 

Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih
Season of Water and Ice, by Donald Lystra 

Second Language, by Ronna Wineberg
Second Person Singular, by Sayed Kashua
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 

The Secret History of Moscow, by Ekaterina Sedia
The Secret in Their Eyes, by Eduardo Sacheri 

Secret Son, by Laila Lalami
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
70% Acrylic 30% Wool, by Viola di Grado

The Shackled Warrior by Caroline Glick

The Shadows of Berlin, by Dovid Bergelson

Shalom India Housing Society, by Esther David
The Shape of Water, by Andrea Camilleri 

Shopgirl, by Steve Martin

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

Siberia, by Nikolai Maslov
Silver Sparrow, by Tayari Jones 

Sima's Undergarments for Women, by Ilana Stanger-Ross

Since My Last Confession, by Scott Pomfret
The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt 

Slumberland, by Paul Beatty

So Long at the Fair, by Christina Schwarz

Solar, by Ian McEwan

Someone to Run With, by David Grossman
Song of Time, by Ian R. MacLeod 

Songs for the Missing, by Stewart O'Nan

Spaniel Rage, by Vanessa Davis

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Spiced, by Dalia Jurgensen

SquareCat Comics, by Jennifer Omand

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, by David Sedaris
Stay Awake, by Dan Chaon
Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance, by Sholem Aleichem 

Stitches, by David Small
The Stone Gods, by Jeanette Winterson
Stoner, by John Williams 

The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block

The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P.D. Ouspensky

Strange Ways, by Rohkl Faygenberg
Sunny Side Down, by Levni Yilmaz

Swim to Me, by Betsy Carter

The Swimming Pool, by Holly LeCraw
The Swimming-Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst 

T

The Talk-Funny Girl, by Roland Merullo
The Testament of Jessie Lamb, by Jane Rogers

Tiare in Bloom, by Celestine Vaite

There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

This is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper 

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, by Atiq Rahimi
The Three Weissmanns of Westport, by Cathleen Schine

The Tiger, by John Vaillant
Tinkers, by Paul Harding 

Token, by Alisa Kwitney and Joëlle Jones
To Be With Her, by Syed Afzal Haider.
To The End of the Land, by David Grossman 

Towards Another Summer, by Janet Frame

The Translator, by Leila Aboulela

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
Travels in Siberia, by Ian Frazier 

Travels in the Scriptorium, by Paul Auster
Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine 

The Tricking of Freya, by Christina Sunley
Tropic Moon, by Georges Simenon
Troubles, by J.G. Farrell
The Truth About Marie, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint 
The Twelve, by Justin Cronin
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis
Tyrant Memory, by Horacio Castellanos Moya

U

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
Unholy Kinship, by Naomi Nowak
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
The Upright Piano Player, by David Abbott 

V

Valeria's Last Stand, by Marc Fitten

Valley of Strength, by Shulamit Lapid

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, by Helen Grant
Varamo, by Cesar Aira 

Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show, by Frank Delaney
The Vices, by Lawrence Douglas

W

The War at Ellsmere, by Faith Erin Hicks
The Watch, by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala 

We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Wedding of Zein, by Tayeb Salih

The White Mary, by Kira Salak

The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga

What Happened to Anna K., by Irina Reyn

What It Is, by Lynda Barry
What You See in the Dark, by Manuel Muñoz 

When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris

Wherever You Go, by Joan Leegant

Who By Fire, by Diana Spechler

Wild Strawberries, by Angela Thirkell

Will You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed? by Liz Prince

Wish Her Safe at Home, by Stephen Benatar 
Witches on the Road Tonight, by Sheri Holman

Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
The Woman with the Bouquet, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 

The Wrong Blood, by Manuel de Lope

X

Y

The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers
Yellow Blue Tibia, by Adam Roberts

Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, by Maxim D. Shrayer
You Are One of Them, by Elliott Holt
You Deserve Nothing, by Alexander Maksik

You or Someone Like You, by Chandler Burr

Z