Book Review Archive

Below is a list of all the book reviews I have written for this site, alphabetized by title. Titles beginning with “the,” “a,” and “an” are alphabetized according to the next word.

A

• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
• All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey
• All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• The Answers by Catherine Lacey
• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
• Ayiti by Roxane Gay

B

• Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
• The Body Myth by Rheea Mukherjee
• The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang

C

• City of Ash and Red by Hye-Young Pyun
• The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
• The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun

D

• Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
• Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
• Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds

E

• Educated by Tara Westover
• Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• Eventide by Therese Bohman

F

• The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo
• Ferocity by Nicola Lagioia

G

• Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
• Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
• The Gospel of Trees by Apricot Irving
• Gun Love by Jennifer Clement

H

• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder by Carolyn Murnick
• House of Names by Colm Tóibín

I

• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
• Incendiary Girls by Kodi Scheer
• Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt

K

• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• Knock Wood by Jennifer Militello

L

• The Last to See Me by M Dressler
• literally show me a healthy person by Darcie Wilder
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
• A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe

M

• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
• The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel M. Lavery
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

O

• Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen

P

• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
• Pretend We Are Lovely by Noley Reid
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

Q

• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson

R

• The Red by Tiffany Reisz
• Rutting Season by Mandeliene Smith

S

• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
• Starless by Jacqueline Carey
• Straying by Molly McCloskey
• Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

T

• Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn
• The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung
• There Your Heart Lies by Mary Gordon
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
• Too Afraid To Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood by Ali Cobby Eckermann

U

• Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May-Lee Chai

V

• The Vegetarian by Han Kang

W

• Warcross by Marie Lu
• Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
• White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
• White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
• The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso

Y

• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson