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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Reviewed Books

A
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
 All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Ask by Sam Lipsyte 
The Awakening by Kate Chopin

B
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marias
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter 
Benediction by Kent Haruf
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

C
The Calligrapher by Edward Docx
 Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron

D

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie
Disrupted by Dan Lyons
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak


E
Emma by Jane Austen
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

 
F

Family Album by Penelope Lively
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

G

Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
God's Hotel by Victoria Sweet
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
Great House by Nicole Krauss

H
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
How Not to Act Old by Pamela Redmond Satran
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

I

Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
The Innocents by Francesca Segal
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

J
John The Revelator by Peter Murphy

L

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Lonely War by Nazila Fathi
The Lovers by Vendela Vida

M

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer

N
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nemesis by Philip Roth 

O 
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry 

P
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee

R
The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo 
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster 
The Round House by Louise Erdrich 

S
Schroder by Amity Gaige
The Sea by John Banville 
Senselessness by Horatio Castellanos Moya
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert 
Sieze the Day by Saul Bellow
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Solar by Ian McEwan
Someone by Alice McDermott
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

T
 Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
The 1000 Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
Three Stages of Amazement by Carol Edgarian
Three Strong Women by Marie Ndiaye
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 
The True Deceiver by Tove Janssen

V
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan


W
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
We the Animals by Justin Torres
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Wonder by R.J Palacio

Y
The Yacoubian Building  by Alaa Al Aswany