Reviews (Alphabetical):
**- Favorites
*- Almost Favorites
A:
Abe, Kobo, The Woman in the Dunes (2008)
Abbott, Megan, The End of Everything (2012)*
Abbott, Megan, The Fever (2014)
Allende, Isabel, Ripper (2014)
Anderson, Laurie Halse, Speak (2011)
Antrim, Taylor, The Headmaster Ritual (2008)
Asher, Jay, Thirteen Reasons Why (Audiobook) (2011)
Attenberg, Jami, The Middlesteins (2012)
B:
Backderf, Deft, My Friend Dahmer (2013)
Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending (2012)
Bechdel, Alison, Are You My Mother? (2012)
Bechdel, Alison, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2011)**
Benincasa, Sara, Agorafabulous (2014)
Bering, Jesse, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (Audiobook)(2014)
Bertsche, Rachel, MWF Seeks BFF (2012)
Bertsche, Rachel, Jennifer, Gwyneth, and Me (2014)
C:
Carson, Anne, The Autobiography of Red (2011)**
Casey, Susan, The Wave (2011)
Chabon, Michael, Manhood for Amateurs (2012) *
Chabon, Michael, Telegraph Avenue (2012)**
Chabon, Michael, Wonder Boys (2013)
Chwast, Seymour, Dante's Divine Comedy (2011)
Crosely, Sloane, I Was Told There'd Be Cake (2011)
D:
Danticat, Edwidge (editor), Best American Essays 2011 (2012)
Davidson, Jenny, The Magic Circle (2013)
E:
Egan, Jennifer, A Visit From The Goon Squad (2011) *
Ellis, Bret Easton, Imperial Bedrooms (2011)
Ellison, Katherine, Buzz (2011)
Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Marriage Plot (2012)**
F:
Fey, Tina, Bossypants (2011)*
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (Audio-reread) (2012)**
Flynn, Gillian, Gone Girl (2012)*
Foer, Jonathan Safran, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012)**
Forman, Gayle, If I Stay (Audiobook) (2011)
Forman, Gayle, Where She Went (2011)
Forney, Ellen: Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me (2013)
G:
Gaiman, Neil, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2014)
Gladding, Rebecca, M.D., You Are Not Your Brain (2011)
Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink (2012)
Gladwell, Malcolm, Outliers (2012)
Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point (2012)
Green, Jane, Bookends (2008)
Green, John, An Abundance of Katherines (Audiobook)(2011)
Green, John, The Fault in Our Stars (2012)**
Green, John, Looking for Alaska (2011)
Green, John and David Levithan, Will Grayson Will Grayson (2011)**
Grogan, John, Marley and Me (2008)
H:
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2011)
Haigh, Jennifer, Faith (2012)*
Hale, Benjamin, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (2011)**
Hamilton, Gabrielle, Blood, Bones and Butter (2012)
Harbach, Chad (editior), MFA vs. NYC (2014)
I:
J:
Jay-Z, Decoded (2011)
Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master's Son (2012)*
Jones, Shane, Daniel Fights a Hurricane (2012)
Joyce, Rachel, Perfect (2014)
K:
Kalman, Maira And the Pursuit of Happiness (2011)**
Kamm, Kurt, Code Blood (2011)
Keegan, Marina, The Opposite of Loneliness (2014)
King, A.S., Ask the Passengers (2013)
Kirkman, Jen, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself (2014)
Kirn, Walter, Up in the Air (2012)
Knisley, Lucy, French Milk (2011)
Knisley, Lucy, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (2013)
Krakauer, Jon, Into the Wild (2008)*
L:
Lange, Erin Jade, Butter (2012)
Levithan, David, The Lover's Dictionary (2011)
Levithan, David and John Green, Will Grayson Will Grayson (2011)**
Lin, Tao, Shoplifting from American Apparel (2011)
Loeb, Paul Rogat, Soul of a Citizen (2012)
Loory, Ben, Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day (2011)
M:
Makkai, Rebecca, The Borrower (2011) *
Mandery, Evan, Q (2011) *
Marion, Issac, Warm Bodies (2013)
Marr, Melissa, Graveminder (2012)
McCafferty, Megan, Bumped (2011)
McCarthy, Cormac, All the Pretty Horses (2012)
McEntire, Myra, Hourglass (2011)
McGrakin, Brian, Broetry (2011)
McLelland, Audrey and Colleen Padilla, The Digital Mom Handbook (2011)
Meyer, Stephanie, Twilight (2009)
Miller, Jennifer, The Year of the Gadfly (2012)
Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas (2012)
Moran, Caitlin, Moranthology (2012)
Morgan, Sophie, Diary of a Submissive (2012)
Morgenstern, Erin, The Night Circus (2011)
Morrison, Toni, A Mercy (2012)
Moss, Michael, Salt, Sugar, Fat (Audiobook) (2014)
Mountford, Peter, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism (2011) *
Murakami, Haruki, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2012)
Murphy, Yannick, This is the Water (2014)
N:
Nair, Kamala, The Girl in the Garden (2011)
Naslund, Seta Jeter, Adam and Eve (2011)
Nunez, Sigrid, Salvation City (2011)
O:
Oates, Joyce Carol, Black Water (2012)
Oates, Joyce Carol, A Widow's Tale: A Memoir (2011) **
Olear, Greg, Fathermucker (2011)
O'Nan, Stewart, Last Night at the Lobster (2011)
O'Nan, Stewart, The Odds: A Love Story (2012) *
Orenstein, Peggy, Cinderella Ate My Daughter (2012)
Orenstein, Peggy, Waiting for Daisy (2013)
P:
Palacio, R.J., Wonder (2012)*
Palahniuk, Chuck, Survivor (2011)
Patchett, Ann, State of Wonder (2012)*
Paull, Laline, The Bees (2014)
Pearce, Jackson Sisters Red (Audiobook) (2011)
Q:
R:
S:
Sacks, Oliver, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (2008)
Sagan, Francoise, Bonjour Tristesse (2011)
Satrapi, Marjane, Embroideries (2012)
Saul, Jamie, The First Warm Evening of the Year (2013)
Scheer, Kodi, Incendiary Girls (2014)
Schwalbe, Will, The End of Your Life Book Club (2012)
Schwartz, Jeffrey, M.D, and Rebecca Gladding, M.D., You Are Not Your Brain (2011)
Scott, Elizabeth, Living Dead Girl (2011)
Sepetys, Ruta, Between Shades of Gray (2011)
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (2011)**
Shoneyin, Lola The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (2011)
Shriver, Lionel, The New Republic (2013- DNF)
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony (2010)
Silver, Elizabeth, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (2013)
Simon, Rachel, The Story of Beautiful Girl (2011) *
Small, David, Stitches: A Memoir (2011)
Smith, Alexis, Glaciers (2014)
Smith, Ali, The Accidental (2012)
Smith, Daniel, Monkey Mind (2012)
Stead, Rebecca, When You Reach Me (2011)
St. John Mandel, Emily, The Lola Quartet (2012)
Straub, Emma, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures (2012)*
Straub, Emma, Other People We Married (2011)*
Sullivan, J. Courtney, Maine (2011)*
T:
Tartt, Donna, The Secret History (2012) **
Thompson, Craig, Blankets (2011) *
Toews, Miriam, Irma Voth (2011)
U:
V:
Vaughan, Brian and Fiona Staples, Saga Vol. One (2014)
Vivian, Siobhan, The List (2012)
W:
Waldman, Ayelet, Bad Mother (2012)*
Walker, Karen Thomson, The Age of Miracles (2012)
Wallace, David Foster, McCain's Promise (2008)
Walter Jess, Beautiful Ruins (2012)*
Ward, Jesmyn, Salvage the Bones (2011) *
Watson, S.J. Before I Go To Sleep (2012)
Wayne, Teddy, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (2013)
Weir, Andy, The Martian (2014)*
Whitehead, Colson, The Noble Hustle (2014)
Williams, Carol Lynch, The Chosen One (2011)
Winder, Elizabeth, Pain, Parties and Work (2013)
Winters, Ben, Bedbugs (2011)
Winston, Hilary, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me (2011)
Woodrell, Daniel, Winter's Bone (2011)
X:
Y:
Yanagihara, Haya, The People in the Trees (2014)**
Yoshimoto, Banana, The Lake (2011)
Z:
Zourkova, Krassi, Wildalone (2015)
*- Almost Favorites
A:
Abe, Kobo, The Woman in the Dunes (2008)
Abbott, Megan, The End of Everything (2012)*
Abbott, Megan, The Fever (2014)
Allende, Isabel, Ripper (2014)
Anderson, Laurie Halse, Speak (2011)
Antrim, Taylor, The Headmaster Ritual (2008)
Asher, Jay, Thirteen Reasons Why (Audiobook) (2011)
Attenberg, Jami, The Middlesteins (2012)
B:
Backderf, Deft, My Friend Dahmer (2013)
Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending (2012)
Bechdel, Alison, Are You My Mother? (2012)
Bechdel, Alison, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2011)**
Benincasa, Sara, Agorafabulous (2014)
Bering, Jesse, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (Audiobook)(2014)
Bertsche, Rachel, MWF Seeks BFF (2012)
Bertsche, Rachel, Jennifer, Gwyneth, and Me (2014)
Bradley, Ryan, Prize Winners (2011)
Brosgol, Vera, Anya's Ghost (2012)*
Brosh, Allie, Hyperbole and a Half (2014) *
Brown, Eleanor, The Weird Sisters (2012)
Brosh, Allie, Hyperbole and a Half (2014) *
Brown, Eleanor, The Weird Sisters (2012)
C:
Carson, Anne, The Autobiography of Red (2011)**
Casey, Susan, The Wave (2011)
Chabon, Michael, Manhood for Amateurs (2012) *
Chabon, Michael, Telegraph Avenue (2012)**
Chabon, Michael, Wonder Boys (2013)
Chwast, Seymour, Dante's Divine Comedy (2011)
Crosely, Sloane, I Was Told There'd Be Cake (2011)
D:
Danticat, Edwidge (editor), Best American Essays 2011 (2012)
Davidson, Jenny, The Magic Circle (2013)
Diaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2010)
Dent, Grace, How to Leave Twitter (2012)
Deutsch, Barry, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword (2012)
DuMaurier, Daphne, Rebecca (2011)Dent, Grace, How to Leave Twitter (2012)
Deutsch, Barry, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword (2012)
E:
Egan, Jennifer, A Visit From The Goon Squad (2011) *
Ellis, Bret Easton, Imperial Bedrooms (2011)
Ellison, Katherine, Buzz (2011)
Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Marriage Plot (2012)**
F:
Fey, Tina, Bossypants (2011)*
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (Audio-reread) (2012)**
Flynn, Gillian, Gone Girl (2012)*
Foer, Jonathan Safran, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012)**
Forman, Gayle, If I Stay (Audiobook) (2011)
Forman, Gayle, Where She Went (2011)
Forney, Ellen: Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me (2013)
G:
Gaiman, Neil, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2014)
Gladding, Rebecca, M.D., You Are Not Your Brain (2011)
Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink (2012)
Gladwell, Malcolm, Outliers (2012)
Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point (2012)
Green, Jane, Bookends (2008)
Green, John, An Abundance of Katherines (Audiobook)(2011)
Green, John, The Fault in Our Stars (2012)**
Green, John, Looking for Alaska (2011)
Green, John and David Levithan, Will Grayson Will Grayson (2011)**
Grogan, John, Marley and Me (2008)
H:
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2011)
Haigh, Jennifer, Faith (2012)*
Hale, Benjamin, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (2011)**
Hamilton, Gabrielle, Blood, Bones and Butter (2012)
Harbach, Chad (editior), MFA vs. NYC (2014)
Harrison, Jim, The English Major (2010)
Heathcock, Alan, Volt (2011)
Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast (2012)
Heti, Sheila, How Should a Person Be? (2014)
Hillenbrand, Laura, Unbroken (2012)
Himmer, Steve, The Bee-Loud Glade (2012) *
Heathcock, Alan, Volt (2011)
Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast (2012)
Heti, Sheila, How Should a Person Be? (2014)
Hillenbrand, Laura, Unbroken (2012)
Himmer, Steve, The Bee-Loud Glade (2012) *
I:
J:
Jay-Z, Decoded (2011)
Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master's Son (2012)*
Jones, Shane, Daniel Fights a Hurricane (2012)
Joyce, Rachel, Perfect (2014)
K:
Kalman, Maira And the Pursuit of Happiness (2011)**
Kamm, Kurt, Code Blood (2011)
Keegan, Marina, The Opposite of Loneliness (2014)
King, A.S., Ask the Passengers (2013)
Kirkman, Jen, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself (2014)
Kirn, Walter, Up in the Air (2012)
Knisley, Lucy, French Milk (2011)
Knisley, Lucy, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (2013)
Krakauer, Jon, Into the Wild (2008)*
L:
Lange, Erin Jade, Butter (2012)
Larsson, Steig, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
Lasdun, James, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (2013)
Lawson, Jenny, Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012)
LeDuff, Charlie, Detroit: An American Autopsy (2013)
Leegant, Joan, Wherever You Go (2011)Lasdun, James, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (2013)
Lawson, Jenny, Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012)
LeDuff, Charlie, Detroit: An American Autopsy (2013)
Levithan, David, The Lover's Dictionary (2011)
Levithan, David and John Green, Will Grayson Will Grayson (2011)**
Lin, Tao, Shoplifting from American Apparel (2011)
Loeb, Paul Rogat, Soul of a Citizen (2012)
Loory, Ben, Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day (2011)
M:
Makkai, Rebecca, The Borrower (2011) *
Mandery, Evan, Q (2011) *
Marion, Issac, Warm Bodies (2013)
Marr, Melissa, Graveminder (2012)
McCafferty, Megan, Bumped (2011)
McCarthy, Cormac, All the Pretty Horses (2012)
McEntire, Myra, Hourglass (2011)
McGrakin, Brian, Broetry (2011)
McLelland, Audrey and Colleen Padilla, The Digital Mom Handbook (2011)
Meyer, Stephanie, Twilight (2009)
Miller, Jennifer, The Year of the Gadfly (2012)
Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas (2012)
Moran, Caitlin, Moranthology (2012)
Morgan, Sophie, Diary of a Submissive (2012)
Morgenstern, Erin, The Night Circus (2011)
Morrison, Toni, A Mercy (2012)
Moss, Michael, Salt, Sugar, Fat (Audiobook) (2014)
Mountford, Peter, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism (2011) *
Murakami, Haruki, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2012)
Murphy, Yannick, This is the Water (2014)
N:
Nair, Kamala, The Girl in the Garden (2011)
Naslund, Seta Jeter, Adam and Eve (2011)
Nunez, Sigrid, Salvation City (2011)
O:
Oates, Joyce Carol, Black Water (2012)
Oates, Joyce Carol, A Widow's Tale: A Memoir (2011) **
Olear, Greg, Fathermucker (2011)
O'Nan, Stewart, Last Night at the Lobster (2011)
O'Nan, Stewart, The Odds: A Love Story (2012) *
Orenstein, Peggy, Cinderella Ate My Daughter (2012)
Orenstein, Peggy, Waiting for Daisy (2013)
P:
Palacio, R.J., Wonder (2012)*
Palahniuk, Chuck, Survivor (2011)
Patchett, Ann, State of Wonder (2012)*
Paull, Laline, The Bees (2014)
Pearce, Jackson Sisters Red (Audiobook) (2011)
Q:
R:
Revis, Beth, Across The Universe (2010)
Rich, Simon, The Last Girlfriend on Earth (2013)
Riggs, Ransom, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)
Roach, Mary, Gulp (2014)
Roach, Mary, Spook (2012)
Robbins, Alexandra, Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities (2008)
Rodriguez, Richard, The Hunger of Memory (2010)
Roth, Veronica, Divergent (2013)
Rowell, Rainbow, Attachments (2013) **
Rowell, Rainbow, eleanor & park (2013)*
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2013)
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2013)
Russell, Karen, Swamplandia! (2011) Rich, Simon, The Last Girlfriend on Earth (2013)
Riggs, Ransom, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)
Roach, Mary, Gulp (2014)
Roach, Mary, Spook (2012)
Robbins, Alexandra, Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities (2008)
Rodriguez, Richard, The Hunger of Memory (2010)
Roth, Veronica, Divergent (2013)
Rowell, Rainbow, Attachments (2013) **
Rowell, Rainbow, eleanor & park (2013)*
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2013)
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2013)
S:
Sacks, Oliver, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (2008)
Sagan, Francoise, Bonjour Tristesse (2011)
Satrapi, Marjane, Embroideries (2012)
Saul, Jamie, The First Warm Evening of the Year (2013)
Scheer, Kodi, Incendiary Girls (2014)
Schwalbe, Will, The End of Your Life Book Club (2012)
Schwartz, Jeffrey, M.D, and Rebecca Gladding, M.D., You Are Not Your Brain (2011)
Scott, Elizabeth, Living Dead Girl (2011)
Sepetys, Ruta, Between Shades of Gray (2011)
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (2011)**
Shoneyin, Lola The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (2011)
Shriver, Lionel, The New Republic (2013- DNF)
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony (2010)
Silver, Elizabeth, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (2013)
Simon, Rachel, The Story of Beautiful Girl (2011) *
Small, David, Stitches: A Memoir (2011)
Smith, Alexis, Glaciers (2014)
Smith, Ali, The Accidental (2012)
Smith, Daniel, Monkey Mind (2012)
Stead, Rebecca, When You Reach Me (2011)
St. John Mandel, Emily, The Lola Quartet (2012)
Straub, Emma, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures (2012)*
Straub, Emma, Other People We Married (2011)*
Sullivan, J. Courtney, Maine (2011)*
T:
Tartt, Donna, The Secret History (2012) **
Thompson, Craig, Blankets (2011) *
Toews, Miriam, Irma Voth (2011)
Tropper, Jonathan, This is Where I Leave You (2010) **
Tuck, Lily, I Married You for Happiness (2012)
Tuck, Lily, I Married You for Happiness (2012)
U:
V:
Vaughan, Brian and Fiona Staples, Saga Vol. One (2014)
Vivian, Siobhan, The List (2012)
W:
Waldman, Ayelet, Bad Mother (2012)*
Walker, Karen Thomson, The Age of Miracles (2012)
Wallace, David Foster, McCain's Promise (2008)
Walter Jess, Beautiful Ruins (2012)*
Ward, Jesmyn, Salvage the Bones (2011) *
Watson, S.J. Before I Go To Sleep (2012)
Wayne, Teddy, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (2013)
Weir, Andy, The Martian (2014)*
Whitehead, Colson, The Noble Hustle (2014)
Williams, Carol Lynch, The Chosen One (2011)
Winder, Elizabeth, Pain, Parties and Work (2013)
Winters, Ben, Bedbugs (2011)
Winston, Hilary, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me (2011)
Woodrell, Daniel, Winter's Bone (2011)
X:
Y:
Yanagihara, Haya, The People in the Trees (2014)**
Yoshimoto, Banana, The Lake (2011)
Z:
Zourkova, Krassi, Wildalone (2015)