Book Reviews By Title

BOOK REVIEWS (Non-Fiction unless as marked)

1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff [FICTION]

The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale [FICTION]

Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel

After the Fire by Robin Gaby Fisher

Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forche [POETRY]

Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon [FICTION]

American Buffalo by Steven Rinella

American Lion by John Meacham

Armaggedon by Max Hastings

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes

Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program by Thomas Gallagher

Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell [FICTION]

Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti [FICTION]

The Bin Laden Family by Steve Coll

Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson

The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine [FICTION]

Boneman’s Daughters by Ted Dekker [FICTION]

The Book Thief by Martin Zusak [FICTION]

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny [FICTION]

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt

The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and The Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman

The Color of Water by James McBride

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler [FICTION]

Cotton Comes to Harlem, by Chester Himes [FICTION]

Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton [FICTION]

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese [FICTION]

The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society by Christine Coleman [FICTION]

Decoding the Universe by Charles Seife

The Deep by Helen Dunmore [FICTION]

A Dog About Town by J.F. Englert [FICTION]

A Dog Among Diplomats by J.F. Englert [FICTION]

The Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes by Marlane Kennedy [FICTION]

Doomsday by Connie Willis [FICTION]

Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil by Mark Graber

Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming

Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard [FICTION]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [FICTION]

A Fiery Peace In A Cold War by Neil Sheehan

Fixing Hell by Larry James

Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction by Eric Foner

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith [FICTION]

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Gifts of War by Mackenzie Ford [FICTION]

The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson [FICTION]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [FICTION]

The Glister by John Burnside [FICTION]

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov [FICTION]

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite by June Casagrande

The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination by Gary Ecelbarger

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World – 1788-1800 by Jay Winik

Here I Stand by Paul Robeson

Hiding in the Spotlight by Greg Dawson

The Highest Tide: A Novel by Jim Lynch [FICTION]

Homicide in Hardcover by Kate Carlisle [FICTION]

An Honest Calling by Mark E. Steiner

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer [FICTION]

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford [FICTION]

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz [FICTION]

Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda

I, Lorelei by Yeardley Smith [FICTION]

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick [FICTION]

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson [FICTION]

Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio

Jefferson’s Pillow by Roger Wilkins

Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Kindred by Octavia Butler [FICTION]

King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata [FICTION]

The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America by Thurston Clarke

The Last Child by John Hart [FICTION]

The Last Lincolns by Charles Lachman

The Last Song Dogs by Sinclair Browning [FICTION]

The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine by April Lurie [FICTION]

The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard [FICTION]

Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig Symonds

Lincoln at Peoria by Lewis E. Lehrman

The Link by Colin Tudge

Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni

The Long Fall by Walter Mosley [FICTION]

The Locked Garden by Gloria Whelan [FICTION]

A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal

The Man’s Book: The Essential Guide For the Modern Man by Thomas Fink

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama [FICTION]

The Maze Runner by James Dashner [FICTION]

Mortal Friends by Jane Stanton Hitchcock [FICTION]

Neil Armstrong is My Uncle by Nan Marino [FICTION]

Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy Adkins

A New Birth of Freedom by Charles L. Black, Jr.

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

No One You Know by Michelle Richmond [FICTION]

No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945 by Norman Davies

One Hundred Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Math by John D. Barrow

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen

Paul Robeson: A Biography by Martin Duberman

Paul Robeson (Children’s Introduction) by Eloise Greenfield

A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin

Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott

Perfection by Julie Metz [FICTION]

The Pity of It All by Amos Elon

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren

President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman by William Miller

The Prince of Fenway Park by Julia Baggott [FICTION]

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale [FICTION]

Race in the Global Era by Clarence Lusane

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power by Timothy Tyson

The Rapture by Liz Jensen [FICTION]

Reading the OED by Ammon Shea

Retribution: The Battle for Japan: 1944-1945 by Max Hastings

Reversible Errors by Scott Turow [FICTION]

Right of Thirst by Frank Huyler [FICTION]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy [FICTION]

Rough Crossings by Simon Schama

Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay [FICTION]

Savvy by Ingrid Law [FICTION]

The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly [FICTION]

The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister [FICTION]

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See [FICTION]

Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq by Christina Asquith

The Slaveholding Republic by Don Fehrenbacher

Smoke Over Birkenau by Liana Millu

Spiced by Dalia Jurgensen

Star Gazing by Linda Gillard [FICTION]

Stealing the General by Russell S. Bonds

The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood

Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad by Bebe Moore Campbell

Testimony by Anita Shreve [FICTION]

Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern [FICTION]

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann [FICTION]

Throes of Democracy by Walter A. McDougall

Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges

Time and Again by Jack Finney [FICTION]

The Turnaround by George Pelecanos [FICTION]

Turn Up the Heat by Jessica Conant-Park & Susan Conant [FICTION]

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler [FICTION]

Ultimatum by Matthew Glass [FICTION]

Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell [FICTION]

The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life by Harlow Giles Unger

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

The War Chronicles: From Flintlock to Machine Guns by Joseph Cummins

Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien

When Skateboards Will Be Free by Said Sayrafiezadeh

Whiskey Gulf by Clyde Ford [FICTION]

Whisper of Warning by Laura Griffin [FICTION]

A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott [FICTION]

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon [FICTION]