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Reviewed by Guy Brandon:
-- Koba the Dread - by Martin Amis
-- The Eagle's Shadow - by Mark Hertsgaard
-- Human Instinct - How our primeval impulses shape our modern lives - by Robert Winston
-- Hannibal - by Thomas Harris
-- Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card
-- A Clockwork Orange - by Anthony Burgess
-- 2001: A Space Odyssey - by Arthur C. Clarke
-- Color: Stories from the Paintbox - by Victoria Finlay
-- Arcadia - by Tom Stoppard
-- Angry White Pyjamas - by Robert Twigger
-- Lord of the Rings - by J. R. R. Tolkien
-- The Matrix and Philosophy - by William Irwin
Reviewed by Kit Thomas:
-- The Color of Magic/The Light Fantastic - by Terry Pratchett
-- Katherine - by Anya Seton
-- The Cat in the Hat - by Dr Seuss
-- Excession - by Iain M. Banks
Reviewed by Paul A. Paterson:
-- How To Eat Fried Worms - by Thomas Rockwell
-- King Of The Grizzlies - by Ernest Thompson Seton
-- The Chrysalids - by John Wyndham
-- The 16th Round - by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
-- Mind Power For Children - by John Kehoe & Nancy Fischer
-- All G.O.D.'S Children - by John Craig
-- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - by Ken Kesey
-- The Contender - by Robert Lipsyte
-- The Outsiders - by S. E. Hinton
-- That Was Then, This Is Now - by S. E. Hinton
-- Rumble Fish - by S. E. Hinton
-- The Grapes Of Wrath - by John Steinbeck
-- The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of A Puppet - by Carlo Collodi
-- The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players - by Pat Riley
-- A Shadow Like A Leopard - by Myron Levoy
-- The Happy Prince & Other Stories - by Oscar Wilde
-- Captains Courageous - by Rudyard Kipling
-- Kidnapped - by Robert Louis Stevenson
-- Treasure Island - by Robert Louis Stevenson
-- Lost In The Barrens - by Farley Mowat
-- Animal Farm - by George Orwell
-- The Red Balloon - by Albert Lamorisse
-- Cold Mountain - by Charles Frazier
Reviewed by A.F. Morrow:
-- Fall on Your Knees - by Ann-Marie Macdonald
-- October Sky, originally published as Rocket Boys - by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
-- I Know This Much Is True - by Wally Lamb
-- Mrs. Dalloway - by Virginia Woolf
-- My Dream of You - by Nuala O'Faolain
Reviewed by Nancy Chapple:
--Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited - by Vladimir Nabokov
--Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood - by Alexandra Fuller
--Jarhead - by Anthony Swofford
--Mao II - by Don DeLillo
--The Last Samurai - by Helen DeWitt
--A Perfect Spy - by John le Carré
--The Duke of Deception - by Geoffrey Wolff
--The Loser - by Thomas Bernhard
--A Room of One’s Own - by Virginia Woolf
--Ragtime - by E.L. Doctorow
--This Boy’s Life - by Tobias Wolff
-- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - by E. L. Konigsburg
--Into Thin Air - by Jon Krakauer
--Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
--Winter’s Tale - by Mark Helprin
--Harriet the Spy - by Louise Fitzhugh
--Dispatches - by Michael Herr
--Minor Characters - by Joyce Johnson
--Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs - by Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard
--The Complete Chronicles of Narnia - by C. S. Lewis
-- Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction - by Norman Sims and Mark Kramer
--Angela’s Ashes - by Frank McCourt
--Old Glory - by Jonathan Raban
-- Postmodern Pooh - by Frederick Crews
Reviewed by Jennifer Andrew:
-- The Talisman - by Stephen King, Peter Straub
-- Dance Upon the Air - by Nora Roberts
-- Heaven and Earth - by Nora Roberts
-- Face the Fire - by Nora Roberts
-- Hollywood Wives - by Jackie Collins
-- Mars and Venus on a Date - by John Gray, Ph. D.
-- Timeline - by Michael Crichton
-- Needful Things - by Stephen King
-- Wizard's First Rule - by Terry Goodkind
-- Dragondoom - by Dennis L. McKiernan
-- Running with the Demon - by Terry Brooks
-- A Knight of the Word - by Terry Brooks
-- Angel Fire East - by Terry Brooks
-- Hollywood Wives: The New Generation - by Jackie Collins
-- The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara - by Terry Brooks
-- The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara - Antrax - by Terry Brooks
-- Degree of Guilt - by Richard North Patterson
-- The Halls of Justice - by Lee Gruenfeld
-- Pantry Raid - Out of the Cupboard Cooking - by Dana McCauley
-- Low-Carb Meals in Minutes - by Linda Gassenheimer
Reviewed by Alan McClymont :
-- Dead Famous - by Ben Elton
-- Neither here nor there - by Bill Bryson
-- Lucky Jim - by Kingsley Amis
-- Round Ireland with a fridge - by Tony Hawks
-- The River at the Center of the World - by Simon Winchester
-- The Rape of Nanking - by Iris Chang
-- Timeline - by Michael Crichton
-- How to Be Good - by Nick Hornby
-- Notes from a Small Island - by Bill Bryson
-- Player Piano - by Kurt Vonnegut
-- Wilt - by Tom Sharpe
-- Number9dream - by David Mitchell
Reviewed by Helen Harvey:
-- Running With Scissors - by Augusten Burroughs
-- A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance - by Marlena de Blasi
-- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - by J.K. Rowling
-- The Naked Chef - by Jamie Olive
-- Good In Bed - by Jennifer Weiner
-- Getting the Love You Want: A Guide For Couples - by Harville Hendrix Ph.D
-- Guess How Much I Love You - by Sam McBratney
-- Skipping Christmas - by John Grisham
-- Savage Beauty - by Nancy Milford
-- Snow Falling On Cedars - by David Guterson
-- Charlotte Gray - by Sebastian Faulks
-- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - by Patrick Suskind
-- Milly-Molly-Mandy - by Joyce Lankester Brisley
-- Love is Where it Falls - by Simon Callow
-- The Dive from Clausen's Pier - by Ann Packer
-- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - by Dai Sijie
-- Sarah’s Window - by Janice Graham
-- Life of Pi - by Yann Martel
-- Fury - by Salman Rushdie
-- A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide - Samantha Power
-- White Teeth - by Zadie Smith
Reviewed by April Chase:
-- Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life - by Karen Rauch Carter
-- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less - by Terry Ryan
-- Seabiscuit: An American Legend - by Laura Hillenbrand
Reviewed by Frances O. Thomas :
-- Twelve Mile Limit - by Randy Wayne White
-- What Color is Your Parachute 2003 - by Richard Bolles
-- Fish! Tales - by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., John Christensen, and Harry Paul, with Phillip Strand
-- Finding Flow - by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Reviewed by Twelve :
-- The House of Death - by Paul Doherty
-- The Sigma Protocol - by Robert Ludlum
-- AKIRA, Volume 1 - by Katsuhiro Otomo
-- Valhalla Rising - by Clive Cussler
-- Warrior Class - by Dale Brown
-- The Dreamthief's Daughter - by Michael Moorcock
-- Jupiter - by Ben Bova
-- Celtika - by Robert Holdstock
-- Knots and Crosses - by Ian Rankin
-- The Dragonbone Chair - by Tad Williams
-- Corpse Candle - by Paul Doherty
-- Flood Tide - by Clive Cussler
-- Samurai! - by Saburo Sakai
-- The Sky of Peleg - by Twelve
-- Disclosure - by Michael Crichton
-- Pawn of Prophecy - by David Eddings
Reviewed by Jennifer Muzinic:
-- Hell's Angels (A Strange & Terrible Saga) - by Hunter S. Thompson
-- Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats - by Pitcairn & Pitcairn
-- White Oleander - by Janet Fitch
-- notes of a dirty old man - by Charles Bukowski
-- The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling
-- Many Lives, Many Masters - by Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
-- Jitterbug Perfume - by Tom Robbins
-- The Sun Also Rises - by Ernest Hemingway
Reviewed by Rachel C. Lee :
-- One Hundred Years of Solitude - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-- Swoon - by Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan
Reviewed by Lisa-Anne Sanderson:
-- ePublishing for Dummies - by Victoria Rosenborg
-- My Forbidden Face - by Latifa
Reviewed by Lisa McCoy:
--Like a Hole in the Head - by Jen Banbury
Reviewed by Jennifer Santiago:
-- The Lovely Bones - by Alice Sebold
-- 30 Minute Meals - by Rachael Ray
-- Raising Blaze - by Debra Ginsberg
-- Backpack - by Emily Barr
-- You Are Not a Stranger Here - by Adam Haslett
-- Bookends - by Jane Green
-- A Confederacy of Dunces - by John Kennedy Toole
-- Ash Wednesday - by Ethan Hawke
-- All Saints' Day - by Brent Benoit
-- The Stepford Wives - by Ira Levin
-- The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating - by David M. Buss
-- Literary New Orleans - by Judy Long (Editor)
-- The Sopranos Family Cookbook - by Allen Rucker; Recipes by Michele Scicolone
-- Atonement - by Ian McEwan
-- The Crimson Petal and the White - by Michel Faber
-- Midnight Bayou - by Nora Roberts
-- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - by Ann Brashares
-- The Zygote Chronicles - by Suzanne Finnamore
-- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - by J.K. Rowling
Reviewed by Sandi Kenny:
-- Gone With the Wind - by Margaret Mitchell
-- Nights in Rodanthe - by Nicholas Sparks
-- The Last Valentine - by James Michael Pratt
Reviewed by Joan Prefontaine:
-- The Secret Life of Dust - by Hannah Holmes
-- Lying Awake: - by Mark Salzman
-- The Art & Craft of Playwriting - by Jeffrey Hatcher
-- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - by Stephen King
-- Earth Prayers From Around the World - Edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon
-- The Beauty of the Beast - Selected by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by Meilo So
-- The Intimate Merton - Edited by Patrick Hart and Jonathan Montaldo
-- Plainsong - by Kent Haruf
-- The Stone Diaries - by Carol Shields
-- City of God - by E. L. Doctorow
Reviewed by Lynne Quido:
-- The Whore's Child: And Other Stories - by Richard Russo
-- The Murder Book - by Jonathan Kellerman
-- Tuesdays with Morrie - by Mitch Albom
-- Girls' Poker Night - by Jill A. Davis
-- Dead Midnight - by Marcia Muller
-- The Jesus Thief - by J. R. Lankford
-- The Prettiest Feathers - by John Philpin, Patricia Sierra
-- Wherever You Go, There You Are - by Jon Kabat-Zinn
-- Demolition Angel - by Robert Crais
-- The Eight - by Katherine Neville
-- Mystic Rivert - by Dennis Lehane
Reviewed by Catherine McNair:
-- Four to Score - by Janet Evanovich
-- Cold Tea on a Hot Day - by Curtiss Ann Matlock
-- Flesh and Blood - by Jonathan Kellerman
-- The Shelters of Stone - by Jean M. Auel
-- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
-- The Summons - by John Grisham
Reviewed by A.J. Kohn:
-- Motherless Brooklyn - by Jonathan Lethem
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - by Douglas Adams
-- Stranger Passing - by Joel Sternfeld
-- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - by Michael Chabon
-- Bloodsucking Fiends - by Christopher Moore
-- The Long Rain - by Peter Gadol
Reviewed by April Dawn Duncan:
--Threshold: A Novel of Deep Time - by Caitlin R. Kiernan
--Yarrow: An Autumn Tale - by Charles de Lint
--The Morgaine Saga - by C. J. Cherryh
--Tigana - by Guy Gavriel Kay
--Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card
--Foreigner: A Novel of First Contact - by C.J. Cherryh
--Guilty Pleasures - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--The Laughing Corpse - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--Circus of the Damned - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--The Lunatic Cafe - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--Bloody Bones - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--The Killing Dance - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--Burnt Offerings - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--Blue Moon - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--Obsidian Butterfly - by Laurell K. Hamilton
--Narcissus in Chains - by Laurell K. Hamilton
Reviewed by Liz Smith:
--The Broke Diaries - by Angela Nissel
--The Poetry & Short Stories of Dorothy Parker - Random House
--Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - by Rebecca Wells
Reviewed by Michael J. Griffin:
-- A Prayer For Owen Meany - by John Irving
-- The Secret History - by Donna Tartt
-- Tuesdays with Morrie - by Mitch Albom
-- The Lovely Bones - by Alice Sebold
-- She's Come Undone - by Wally Lamb
-- Rules of Prey - by John Sandford
-- Once More Around The Park - by Roger Angell
-- On Writing - by Stephen King
-- Dave Barry's Greatest Hits - by Dave Barry
-- The Christmas Train - by David Baldacci
-- Artemis Fowl - by Eoin Colfer
-- Prey - by Michael Crichton
-- Shrink Rap - by Robert B. Parker
-- Tricky Business - by Dave Barry
-- Hit Man - by Lawrence Block
-- Without Fail - by Lee Child
-- A Drink Before the War - by Dennis Lehane
-- The Day After Tomorrow - by Allan Folsom
-- I.Asimov - by Isaac Asimov
-- The Blue Nowhere - by Jeffery Deaver
-- Cryptonomicon - by Neal Stephenson
-- The Millionaires - by Brad Meltzer
Reviewed by Heather Ray :
-- The Blue Sword - by Robin McKinley
-- The Hero and the Crown - by Robin McKinley
-- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening - by Robert Frost, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
-- Little Women - by Louisa May Alcott
-- The Giving Tree - by Shel Silverstein
-- The Tin Forest - by Helen Ward, illustrated by Wayne Anderson
-- New Book of Herbs - by Jekka McVicar
Reviewed by Allison Saunooke:
-- Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend - by Lynda Curnyn
Reviewed by Ashley E. Underell:
-- The Secret Life of Bees - by Sue Monk Kidd
-- Cowboys Are My Weakness - by Pam Houston
-- Talk Before Sleep - by Elizabeth Berg
-- House of Sand and Fog - by Andre Dubios III
Reviewed by Beth Williams:
-- The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed - by Janice Law
-- The Artist's Way - by Julia Cameron
-- The Secret Life of Bees - by Sue Monk Kidd
-- The All New All Purpose Joy of Cooking - by Irma S. Rombauer
-- The Fibromyalgia Relief Handbook - by Chet Cunningham
-- Native Son - by Richard Wright
-- A Painted House - by John Grisham
-- Eyewitness Travel Guide London - by Michael Leapman
-- To Kill A Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
-- Man's Search For Meaning - by Viktor E. Frankl
-- This Side of Paradise - by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-- We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust - by Jacob Boas
-- The Beautiful and Damned - by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-- Anastasia: The Lost Princess - by James Blair Lovell
-- The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust - by Edith Hahn Beer
Reviewed by Linda A. Smith:
-- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - by Anne Fadiman
-- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - byJ. K. Rowling
Reviewed by Sarita Mehra:
-- The Tao of Pooh - by Benjamin Hoff
-- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll
-- Kim - by Rudyard Kipling
-- Round Ireland With A Fridge - by Tony Hawks
-- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - by Roald Dahl
Reviewed by William K. Wolfrum:
-- Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card
-- In the Heart of the Sea - by Nathaniel Philbrick
Reviewed by Susan Buckner:
-- Gone With the Wind - by Margaret Mitchell
-- Watership Down - by Richard Adams
-- The Chronicles of Narnia - by C.S. Lewis
-- The Dark is Rising Sequence - by Susan Cooper
Reviewed by Michelle Miller Detwiler:
-- And I Don't Want To Live This Life - by Deborah Spungen
-- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - by Dave Eggers
-- England's Dreaming - by Jon Savage
-- I'm With the Band - by Pamela Des Barres
-- Our Band Could Be Your Life - by Michael Azerrad
-- Maus: A Survivor's Tale - by Art Spiegelman
-- Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung - by Lester Bangs
-- Healing Digestive Disorders - by Andrew Gaeddert
-- U2 At the End of the World - by Bill Flanagan
Reviewed by G-Lock :
-- The Corrections - by Jonathan Franzen
-- Naked - by David Sedaris
-- The Epic of New York City - by Edward Robb Ellis
-- The Catcher in the Rye - by J.D. Salinger
-- The Great Gatsby - by F. Scott Fitzgerald








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