Book Reviews:
Jussi Adler-Olsen’s The Keeper of Lost Causes
Rennie Airth’s River of Darkness
Jennifer Barnes’s The Naturals
Allison Hoover Bartlett’s The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Melanie Benjamin’s The Children’s Blizzard
Brooks Blevins’ Ghost of the Ozarks
Ann Brashares’s The Here and Now
Bill Briwa’s The Everyday Gourmet: Essential Secrets of Spices in Cooking
Deborah Cadbury’s Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
Amber Camp’s Canter with a Killer
Larry Campbell’s Rollin’ Down The River
David Carlson’s The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry
John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Katherine Center’s What You Wish For
Casey Cep’s Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and The Last Trial of Harper Lee
Agatha Christie’s A Holiday for Murder
Evan S. Connell’s Son of the Morning Star
Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom
Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Jasper Fforde’s The Last Dragonslayer
Hadley Freeman’s House of Glass
David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Jeff Guinn’s The Road to Jonestown
Jeff Guinn’s The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip
Jeff Guinn’s Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
Jeff Guinn’s War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
S.C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon
Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train
Paulette Jiles’s News of the World
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing
Crystal King’s Feast of Sorrow
Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne
Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking (2006)
Ben Macintyre’s A Spy Among Friends
Leo Marks’s Between Silk and Cyanide
Molly May’s Witnesses for the Lamb
Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove
Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers
Keilan Morrissey’s Beach House
Jojo Moyes’s The Giver of Stars
Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls
Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen
Maria Parr’s Adventures with Waffles
Julie Powell’s Julie and Julia
Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels
Holly Goldberg Sloan’s Counting By 7s
Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Drew Smith’s Organize Your Genealogy
Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Stephanie Storey’s Oil and Marble
Erica Swyler’s The Book of Speculation
Jack Thorne’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow
Lisa Wingate’s Before We Were Yours
Gabrielle Zevin’s The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin’s Young Jane Young
Film/Television Reviews:
All Creatures Great and Small (TV, 2020)
And Then There Were None (TV, 2016)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture (2019)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
The Old Man and the Gun (2018)
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Diane Taylor Denarski’s Ozark Story-Poems
Navdeep Singh Dhillon’s Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions
Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist
Suzette Haden Elgin’s The Ozark Trilogy
Virginia Euebanks’s Automating Inequality
Fayrene Farmer’s The Home Place: Meditations on an Ozark Life
Karina Yan Glaser’s A Duet for Home
Veera Hiranandani’s The Night Diary
Dr. Philip Howerton’s The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology
Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Blackwater Falls
Billie Letts’s Where The Heart Is
Roger Lea MacBride’s Little Farm in the Ozarks and Little Town in the Ozarks
Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry series
Lisa Miller’s Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. K. Ali’s The Proudest Blue
Elliot Pattison’s Inspector Shan series
Ellis Peters’s Brother Cadfael series
Jory Sherman’s The Sadness of Autumn
Danielle Steel’s A Gift of Hope
Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle
Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone
Maker Corner
Ros Badger’s Creative Makers: Simple Knitting: 30 Quick-to-Knit Projects for Stylish Accessories
Zoe Bateman & Dr Alison Buxton’s Maker Studio: Fun Science & Tech Projects for Young Designers!
Debbie Bliss’s The Knitter’s Book of Knowledge: A Complete Guide to Essential Knitting Techniques
Deborah Burger’s First Time Crochet: The Absolute Beginner’s Guide
Crochet to Calm: Stitch and De-Stress with 18 Simple Crochet Patterns
Rosemary Drysdale’s Miniature Crocheting and Knitting for Dollhouses
Sam Elliott and Sidney Bryan’s How to Use, Adapt, and Design Knitting Patterns
500 Crochet Stitches: The Ultimate Crochet Stitch Bible
Alec Foege’s The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great
Chris Hackett’s The Big Book of Maker Skills: Tools & Techniques for Building Great Tech Projects
Carri Hammett’s First Time Knitting: The Absolute Beginner’s Guide
Vickie Howell’s New Knits on the Block: A Guide to Knitting What Kids Really Want
Mary Meinking’s Start Your Crafting Business
Carol Meldrum’s 30 Min-Knits: What Can You Knit in Half an Hour or Less?
Kate Shoup and Kate Gatski’s Starting an Etsy Business
Vanessa-Ann’s Victorian Lace Crochet: 38 Exquisite Designs for the Home
Vintage Crochet for Your Home: Best-Loved Patterns for Afghans, Rugs, and More 1920-1959
Fanny Zedenius’s Macramé: The Craft of Creative Knotting for Your Home
Cookbook Corner
Lidia Bastianich’s Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes: A Cookbook
Donia Bijan’s Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen
Rick Bragg’s The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table
Lorna Brash’s Professor Cook’s Mind-Blowing Baking
Ricki Carroll’s Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Homemade Cheeses
Esteban Castillo’s Chicano Eats: Recipes from my Mexican-American Kitchen
Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking I
Julia Child’s My Life in France
Cook’s Library: Pasta and Italian
Linda Collister’s Book of Baking: Delicious Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Breads
Paula Deen and Melissa Clark’s Paula Deen Cuts The Fat: 250 Favorites Recipes All Lightened Up
Velda de la Garza’s Healthy Easy Mexican: Over 140 Authentic Low-Calorie, Big-Flavor Recipes
Brooke Dojny and Melanie Barnard’s A Flash in the Pan: Fast, Fabulous Recipes in a Single Skillet
Robin Donovan’s The Baking Cookbook for Teens: 75 Delicious Recipes for Sweet & Savory Treats
Robin Donovan and Juliana Gallin’s The Lazy Gourmet: Magnificent Meals Made Easy
Madhu Gadia’s New Indian Home Cooking
Daniel Gercke’s Cook It! The Dr. Seuss Cookbook for Kid Chefs: 50+ Yummy Recipes
The Great British Baking Show, seasons 1-5
Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes From My Home to Yours
Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours
Ann Hood’s Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
Pati Jinich’s Pati’s Mexican Table: The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking
Thomas Keller and Sebastian Rouxel’s Bouchon Bakery
Laura Kié and Haruna Kishi’s Japanese Cuisine: An Illustrated Guide
Diane Kuan’s The Chinese Takeout Cookbook
Alex Kuskowski’s Cool Baking series
Kylie Kwong’s Simple Chinese Cooking
Rose Levy Beranbaum’s The Cake Bible
Claire Llewellyn’s Cooking with Fruits and Vegetables
Guillaume Long’s To Drink and To Eat: Tastes & Techniques from a French Kitchen
J. Kenji López-Alt’s The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
Maangchi’s Maangchi’s Real Korean Cooking: Authentic Dishes for the Home Cook
John J. Mettler Jr.’s Basic Butchering of Livestock and Game
Julee Morrison’s The How-To Cookbook for Teens: 100 Easy Recipes to Learn the Basics
Bill Neal’s Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie
Sandra K. Nissenberg’s Everything Kids’ Cookbook: 90+ Easy Recipes You’ll Love to Make–and Eat!
The Official DC Super Hero Cookbook
Ruth Owen’s Get Baking for Christmas!
Linda Garland Page and Eliot Wigginton’s The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery
Phyllis Pellman Good’s Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1,400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes!
Jacques Pepin’s Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites From My Life in Food
Mary Allen Perry’s Recipe Revival: Southern Classics Reinvented for Modern Cooks
Charles Phan with Jessica Battilana’s Vietnamese Home Cooking
The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book
Louise Pickford’s 200 Barbecue Recipes
Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad’s I am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook
Gretchen Price’s Modern Vegan Baking: The Ultimate Resource for Sweet and Savory Baked Goods
Pam Price’s Cool Holiday Treats: Easy Recipes for Kids to Bake
Leela Punyaratabandhu’s Simple Thai Food: Classic Recipes from the Thai Home Kitchen
Rachael Ray’s Rachael Ray’s Big Orange Book
Irma S. Rombauer’s Joy of Cooking
Allen Rucker and Michele Scicolone’s The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco
Roberto Santibañez’s Rosa’s New Mexican Table: Friendly Recipes for Festive Meals
Renee Schettler’s Real Simple Meals Made Easy
Denise Smart’s Mommy and Me Start Cooking
Ivy Stark’s Dos Caminos Tacos: Recipes for Everyone’s Favorite Mexican Street Food
Jillian Stewart’s The Complete Chinese Cookbook
Martha Stewart’s Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook
Terry Tan’s China: A Cookbook: 300 Recipes from Beijing and Canton to Shanghai and Sichuan
Nina Teicholz’s The Big Fat Surprise : Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
Jet Tila’s 101 Asian Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die
Trisha Yearwood’s Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes From My Family to Yours
Lisa Wagner’s Cool Cooking series
Lisa Wagner’s Cool Foods for Fun Fiestas: Easy Recipes for Kids to Cook
Lisa Wagner’s Cool French Cooking: Fun and Tasty Recipes for Kids
Lisa Wagner’s Cool Italian Cooking: Fun and Tasty Recipes for Kids
Lisa Wagner’s Cool Mexican Cooking: Fun and Tasty Recipes for Kids
Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook Bonus Edition
Jane Yolen’s Fairy Tale Cookbooks series
Penelope’s Poetry Parlor:
Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Khalil Gibran and Mary Haskell
Emily Dickinson’s The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken
Phillip Howerton’s The History of Tree Roots
Sarah Kay’s No Matter The Wreckage
Barbara Kingsolver’s How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
James Whitcomb Riley’s The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Audiobooks Mentioned in Book Buzz and What A Wonderful World Posts
Christina Baker Kline’s The Exiles
Ed Caesar’s The Moth and the Mountain
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Jen Comfort’s The Astronaut and the Star
Alex Davies’s Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
Sarah Beth Durst’s The Bone Maker
Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House
Reyna Grande’s A Ballad of Love and Glory
Beth Harbison’s The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship
Amy Harmon’s Where The Lost Wander
Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off The Boat
Paulette Jiles’s News of the World
Dean Koontz’s The Big Dark Sky
Mary Kubica’s Just The Nicest Couple
Kate Manning’s Gilded Mountain
Willie Nelson’s Letters to America
Sally Page’s The Keeper of Stories
Simon Read’s The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler’s Warships
Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
Mary Roach’s Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law
Jennifer Robson’s Our Darkest Night
Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan’s The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
Jeneva Rose’s One of Us is Dead
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
Irving Shulman’s West Side Story: A Novelization of the Broadway Musical
Walter Trevis’s The Queen’s Gambit
David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts
Julie Wassmer’s Whitstable Pearl series
Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s Four Treasures of the Sky
Books and Authors Mentioned in Survey/Reflection/Book Buzz/Old Favorites/Books in Bloom Posts/From Page to Screen/Oddly Specific Genres/Your Library Card/What a Wonderful World posts:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Mycroft Holmes
Takaji Abo’s Marshallese-English Dictionary
Anita Abriel’s A Girl During The War
Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Corban Addison’s Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q series
Gerald Aflågue’s My First Marshallese 200 Picture Word Book: With English Translations
Gerald Aflågue’s Teach Me To Count in Marshallese
Renée Ahdieh’s Flame in the Mist series
Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind
Daniel Alarcon’s City of Clowns
John Aldridge’s A Speck in the Sea
Sara Alexander’s Under a Sardinian Sky
E.A. Allen’s Montclaire series
Katherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy
M.J. Arlidge’s Helen Grace series
Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky
Richard Andersen’s Arthur Miller
Kathi Appelt’s The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan
Arnaldur Indriðason’s Erlunder Sveinsson series
Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why
Lindsay Jayne Ashford’s The House at Mermaid’s Cove
Finola Austin’s Brontë’s Mistress
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife
Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk
Catherine Banner’s The House at the Edge of Night
Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine trilogy
Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls
Pepper Basham’s Authentically, Izzy
Pepper Basham’s Penned in Time series
Kalynn Bayron’s The Poison Heart
Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone
Michael Benanav’s Himalaya Bound
Byron W. Bender’s Spoken Marshallese
Marie Benedict’s and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian
S.J. Bennett’s The Windsor Knot
Lori Benton’s The Pathfinders duology
John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Laurien Berenson’s A Pedigree to Die For
Amelinda Bérubé Here There Are Monsters
Ambrose Bierce’s The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce
Joanne Bischof’s The Lady and the Lionheart
Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights
Georgie Blalock’s The Other Windsor Girl
Brooks Blevins’s Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image
Talya Tate Boerner’s The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee
John Boessenecker’s Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
John Boyne’s The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
Rick Bragg’s All Over But The Shoutin’
Ray Bradbury’s Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, The Serial Killer
Benet Brandreth’s The Spy in Venice
H.W. Brands’ The General vs the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
Harry Brandt’s/Richard Price’s The Whites
Lilian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Libby Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Daniel James Brown’s Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Kardea Brown’s The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with Over 100 Recipes
Pierce Brown’s Red Rising trilogy
Rita Mae Brown’s Rest in Pieces
Goldie Browning’s Night Journey
Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century
Frank Calabrese Jr.’s Operation Family Secrets
Rita Cameron’s The House Party
Fiona Carnarvon’s Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
Diane Chamberlain’s The Silent Sister
Becky Chambers’s A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Veronica Chambers’s The Go-Between
Raymond Chandler’s Stories and Early Novels
Raymond Chandler’s Later Novels and Other Writings
Emma Chastain’s Confessions of a High School Disaster
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None
Laura P. Claridge’s The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Chanel Cleeton’s The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two
Amy Clipston’s A Place at Our Table
Robert Cochran’s Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas
Genevieve Cogman’s The Invisible Library
Olive Collins’s The O’Neill Trilogy
Mary Connealy’s Trouble in Texas series
Zoraida Córdova’s The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Diney Costeloe’s The Lost Soldier
Dawn Crandall’s The Everstone Chronicles series
Janet Dailey’s This Calder Range
Sandra Dallas’s Westering Women
Daughters of the Mayflower series
Kimberly and James Dean’s Pete the Cat series
Sonali Dev’s Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers
Roman Dial’s The Adventurer’s Son
Anita Diamant’s Day After Night
Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
Kate DiCamillo’s Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Tom W. Dillard’s Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans
Megan DiMaria’s Searching for Spice
Luke Dittrich’s Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Amy Mason Doan’s Lady Sunshine
Edward Dolnick’s The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Jessica Dotta’s Price of Privilege series
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War
Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo
Sarah Beth Durst’s The Queen of Blood
Chris Earley’s Feed the Birds: Attract and Identify 196 Common North American Birds
David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife
Allan W. Eckert’s The Frontiersmen: A Narrative
Mazey Eddings’s Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake
Gavin Edwards’s Kindness and Wonder
Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
Jane Elzey’s Cardboard Cottage mysteries
Katrine Engberg’s Kørner and Werner series
Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
Susan Ericksen’s audiobooks (narrator)
Donna Everhart’s The Saints of Swallow Hill
Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things
Chris Fabry’s A Piece of the Moon
W. Michael Farmer’s The Iliad of Geronimo: A Song of Blood and Fire
Sanderia Faye’s Mourner’s Bench
Jim Fergus’s The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s and Ari Kelman’s Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series
Joy Fielding’s She’s Not There
Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking
Amanda Flower’s Farm to Trouble
Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford’s The Many Daughters of Afong May
Karin Fossum’s Inspector Konrad Sejer series
Ruth Franklin’s Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Heather Vogel Frederick’s Absolutely Truly
Philip Freeman’s Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy
Carlos Fuentes’s The Old Gringo
Alexandra Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight
Alan Furst’s Night Soldiers series
Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series
Sarah Gailey’s Magic for Liars
Robert Galbraith’s The Cuckoo’s Calling
Camryn Garrett’s Off the Record
Bill Geist’s Lake of the Ozarks
William Geroux’s The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and Their War Against Hitler’s U-Boats (2016)
Masha Gessen’s The Future is History
Lauren Ho’s Last Tang Standing
Stuart Gibbs’s Belly Up: Murder at FunJungle
Carolyn Ives Gilman’s Dark Orbit
Mario Giordano’s Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
Diana Giovinazzo’s The Woman in Red
Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone
Bill Glose’s All The Ruined Men
Cathy Gohlke’s A Hundred Crickets Singing
Christopher Golden’s Dead Ringers
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Leadership in Turbulent Times
Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws
Eric Gorges’s A Craftsman’s Legacy
Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr Lemoncello’s Library
Sue Grafton’s E is for Evidence
Peter Graham’s Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
David Grann’s The Lost City of Z
Elise Gravel’s The Worst Book Ever
Jocelyn Green’s The Mark of the King
John Green’s The Fault in our Stars
Elly Griffiths’ The Zig Zag Girl
Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2019
Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Richard Hack’s Duchess of Death
Dianne Hales’s Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
Sue Halpern’s Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
Gabrielle Hamilton’s Bones, Blood, and Butter
Ardeana Hamlin’s Pink Chimneys
Joshua Hammer’s The Falcon Thief
Kristin Harmel’s The Book of Lost Names
Joanne Harris’s The Blue Salt Road
Kai Harris’s What The Fireflies Knew
Chris Harrison’s The Perfect Letter
Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches
Laura Hartema’s Bering Sea Strong
Virginia Hartman’s The Marsh Queen
Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins’s A Slow Fire Burning
Alix Hawley’s All True Not a Lie In It
Maria Dahvana Headley’s Magonia
Virginia Heath’s Never Fall For Your Fiancée
Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small
Annette Hess’s The German House
Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee series
Peter Høeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Ruth Hogan’s Keeper of Lost Things
Oscar Hokeah‘s Calling for A Blanket Dance
Paul Holes’s Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases
Nathalia Holt’s Rise of the Rocket Girls
Tetsuya Honda’s The Silent Dead
Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs
Jonathan L. Howard’s Carter & Lovecraft
Deborah and James Howe’s Bunnicula
Phillip Howerton’s The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology
Charlotte Hubbard’s Morning Star
Anna Lee Huber’s Lady Darby series
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
Laura Imai Messina’s The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
Celie Imrie’s Orphans of the Storm
Kazuo Ishiguro‘s Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day
Eowyn Ivey’s To the Bright Edge of the World
Joe Jackson’s Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Uzma Jalaluddin’s Hana Khan Carries On
Rhoda Janzen’s Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Dinah Jefferies’ Daughters of War
N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
Paulette Jiles’s Simon the Fiddler
Abby Jimenez’s The Friend Zone
Abby Jimenez’s Part of Your World
Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Summer Prince
Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon
Liz Johnson’s The Red Door Inn
William Johnstone’s Lone Star Christmas
Dan Jolley’s Mega-Dogs of New Kansas
Ragnar Jónasson’s The Darkness
Darynda Jones’s A Bad Day for Sunshine
Howard Andrew Jones’s For the Killing of Kings
Bel Kaufman’s Up the Down Staircase
Michael W. Kauffman’s American Brutus
Daniel A. Kelin II’s Marshall Islands Legends and Stories
Julia Kelly’s The Light Over London
Piper Kerman’s Orange is the New Black
Jason Kersten’s Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell series
Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
Sophie Kinsella’s The Undomestic Goddess
Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King
Robert Kirkman’s The Governor series
Christina Baker Kline’s A Piece of the World
Nicole Korner-Stace’s Archivist Wasp
Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian
Dan Krotz’s Coffee with John Heartbreak: A Mostly True Story of Berryville, Arkansas
R.F. Kuang’s Poppy Wars series
Laura Kumin’s The Hamilton Cookbook
Earle Labor’s Jack London: An American Life
Camilla Läckberg’s The Golden Cage
Camilla Läckberg’s Patrick Hedström/Erica Falck series
Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin’s Reboots: Undead Can Dance
Sarah E. Ladd’s The Headmistress of Rosemere
Linda Lael Miller’s The Man from Stone Creek
Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again
William Landay’s Defending Jacob
Jill Marie Landis’s The Accidental Lawman
Alfred Lansing’s Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
Shari Lapena’s The Couple Next Door (2016)
Justine Larbalestier’s Razorhurst
A.K. Larkwood’s The Unspoken Name
Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy
Ariel Lawhon’s I Was Anastasia
Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner’s When We Had Wings
Jenny Lawson’s Broken (In The Best Way Possible)
Lauren Layne’s To Sir, with Love
Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird
Mackenzi Lee’s Loki: Where Mischief Lies
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley’s Arthur Conan Doyle: His Life in Letters
Jeff Lemire’s Descender Book 1
Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child
Elizabeth Letts’s Finding Dorothy
Roselle Lim’s Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop
Clayton Lindemuth’s Baer Creighton series
Anna Loan-Wilsey’s A Lack of Temperance
Jack London’s Call of the Wild
Jack London’s The Collected Jack London
Jack London’s Jack London Reports
Mary Losure’s The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World
Marie Lu’s Young Elites trilogy
Andrew Lycett’s The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
Margaret Read MacDonald’s Surf War!
John N MacLean’s Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope series
Debbie Macomber’s A Mrs. Miracle Christmas
Debbie Macomber’s Twelve Days of Christmas
Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series
Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy
Judith Martin’s Minding Miss Manners: In an Era of Fake Etiquette
Steve Martin’s An Object of Beauty
Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau’s Agatha
Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil
Ann M. Martin’s A Dog’s Life: Autobiography of a Stray
Charles Martin’s The Mountain Between Us
George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series
Madeline Martin’s The Librarian Spy
Peter Mathiessen’s The Snow Leopard
Morgan Matson’s The Unexpected Everything (2016)
Yusei Matsui’s Assassination Classroom series
Lindsay Mattick’s Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
Leo Mazow’s Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound
Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series
Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes
Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds
Katie McGarry’s Say You’ll Remember Me
Stephenia H. McGee’s The Secrets of Emberwild
Ben McGrath’s Riverman: An American Odyssey
Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway
Kirsty McKay’s The Assassin Game
Jenn McKinlay’s Paris is Always a Good Idea
Heather McLoud’s The Biome Sacrifices
Rachel McMillan’s Herringford and Watts Mysteries series
Larry McMurtry’s The Colonel and Little Missie
Larry McMurtry’s Literary Life
Chris McNab’s How to Survive Anything, Anywhere
Jonathan Meiburg’s A Most Remarkable Creature
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller’s An Enemy of the People
Linda Lael Miller’s Don’t Look Now
Megan Miranda’s The Last to Vanish
Ron Miscavige’s Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
Michelle Modesto’s Revenge and the Wild
Charlotte Montagu’s H.P. Lovecraft: The Mysterious Man Behind the Darkness
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Sy Montgomery’s How to be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
Roseanne Montillo’s The Lady and Her Monsters
Margarita Montimore’s Oona Out of Order
Meg Mitchell Moore’s Vacationland
Richard C. Morais’s The Hundred-Foot Journey
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic
Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies
Laura Morelli’s The Stolen Lady : A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa
Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus
Jonita Mullins’ Missions of Indian Territory trilogy
Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun
Sara Flannery Murphy’s The Possessions
Nancy Naigle’s The Wedding Ranch
Donna Jo Napoli’s Dark Shimmer
Shoba Narayan’s Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure
Radine Trees Nehring’s Something to Die For Series
Rex Nelson’s Southern Fried: Going Whole Hog in a State of Wonder
Willie Nelson’s A Tale Out of Luck
Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere
Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife
Michelle Nijhuis’s Beloved Beasts
William Norwich’s My Mrs. Brown
Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education
Joyce Carol Oates’s The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Horror
D’Arcy O’Connor’s The Secret Treasure of Oak Island
Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti trilogy
Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly
Kenneth Oppel’s The Dark Endeavor
Hannah Orenstein’s Love at First Like
Hannah Orenstein’s Meant to Be Mine
Susan Orlean’s The Library Book
Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club
Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
Rex Owens’s The Life and Times of Rowan Daly
Sydney Padua’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Tom Papa’s Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas
Suzanne Park’s The Perfect Escape
Todd Parnell’s Skunk Creek series
Keith M. Parsons and Robert A. Zaballa’s Bombing the Marshall Islands
Janet B. Pascal’s Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Baker Street
James Patterson’s Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache series
Louise Penny’s Kingdom of the Blind
Perilous Frontier: A Quartet of Crime in the Old West
Todd Robert Petersen’s Picnic in the Ruins
Tracie Peterson’s A Promise to Believe In
Martin Philip’s Breaking Bread
Jared M. Phillips’s Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks
Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth
Marie Phillips’s Gods Behaving Badly
Nicholas Pileggi’s Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas
Craig Pittman’s Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther
Susan Plunkett’s Whispers Through the Trees
Clare Pooley’s Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting
Brandon Presser’s The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses
Kirstin Valdez Quade’s The Five Wounds
Vance Randolph’s Ozark Magic and Folklore
Deanna Raybourn’s A Curious Beginning
Barbara Bisantz Raymond’s The Baby Thief
Lydia Reeder’s Dust Bowl Girls
Laura Resau’s and Maria Virginia Farinango’s The Queen of Water
Lindsay Ribar’s Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Lucinda Riley’s The Seven Sisters
Vanessa Riley’s Sister, Mother, Warrior
J.W. Ripley’s Thirsty Traveler: Road Recipes
David Roberts’s Alone on the Ice
Kat Robinson’s Arkansas Pie: A Delicious Slice of the Natural State
Rebecca Ross’s A River Enchanted
Jennifer Ryan’s The Kitchen Front
Richard Roper’s How Not To Die Alone
Veronica Roth’s Divergent series
J. K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s Cemetery of Forgotten Books series
Riley Sager’s The Last Time I Lied
Janeen Sarlin’s Princess Tea: Parties and Treats for Little Girls
Constance Sayers’s The Ladies of the Secret Circus
Constance Sayers’s A Witch in Time
Peter Schilling Jr.’s Mark Twain’s Mississippi River
Cathleen Schine’s They May Not Mean To, But They Do
Jon Scieszka’s The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs By A. Wolf
Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones
Lisa See’s On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year-Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
Lisa See’s The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See’s The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Sofia Segovia’s The Murmur of Bees
Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Ruta Sepetys’s Salt to the Sea
Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season
Jacqueline Sheehan’s The Center of the World
Gena Showalter’s The Evil Queen
Anne Rivers Siddon’s The Girls of August
Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before The War
Jane Smiley’s Perestroika in Paris
Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres
Carlton Smith’s Cold-Blooded: A True Story of Love, Lies, Greed, and Murder
Jennifer E. Smith’s Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
Karen Rose Smith’s Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes
Katy Simpson Smith’s The Story of Land and Sea
Mary Nida Smith’s Heroes Beneath the Waves
Dava Sobel’s The Glass Universe
Rachel Lynn Solomon’s Weather Girl
The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories: Pioneering Women of the West
Betsy St. Amant’s Tacos for Two
Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak series
Michael Stanley’s Detective Kubu series
M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans
Rebecca Stefoff’s Jack London: An American Original (2002)
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
Amy Stewart’s Girl Waits With Gun
Maggie Stiefvater’s All the Crooked Saints
Alexander Stillwell’s The Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques
Kate Summerscale’s The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Erika Swyler’s Light from Other Stars
S.D. Sykes’s Somershill Manor Mystery series
Sam Taggart’s Country Doctors of Arkansas
Laini Taylor’s Strange the Dreamer
Alexandra Teague’s The Principles Behind Flotation
Bryant Terry’s Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
Paul Theroux’s Under the Wave at Waimea
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
Jodi Thomas’s Beneath the Texas Sky
Elizabeth Thompson’s Lost in Paris
Jack A. Tobin’s Stories from the Marshall Islands: Bwebwenato Jān Aelōn̄ Kein
Janet Todd’s Death and the Maidens
Mark Tompkins’s The Last Days of Magic
Camilla Townsend’s Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers
The Turmeric Cookbook: 50 Delicious Recipes for the Healing Superfood
Bryn Turnbull’s The Last Grand Duchess
Harry Turtledove’s The House of Daniel
Stuart Turton’s The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad
Lisa Unger’s Confessions on the 7:45
Pen Vogler’s Dinner with Dickens
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle
Soon Y. Warren’s Vibrant Flowers in Watercolor
Kawai Washburn’s Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Bill Waterston’s Calvin and Hobbes
Patsy Watkins’s It’s All Done Gone
Abbi Waxman’s The Garden of Small Beginnings
Elaine Weiss’s The Woman’s Hour
David Welky’s A Wretched and Precarious Situation
Martha Wells’s The Murderbots Diaries series
C.M. Wendelboe’s When The Gold Dust Died in Deadwood
Marianne Wiggins’s Properties of Thirst
Charmaine Wilkerson’s Black Cake
Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy
Andrew Wilson’s Mad Girl’s Love Song
Kerry Winfrey’s Very Sincerely Yours
Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series
Jennifer Worth’s Call The Midwife series
David Wroblewski ‘s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road
Nicola Yoon’s Instructions for Dancing
Alexandra Zapruder’s Twenty-Six Seconds
C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills is Gold
Markus Zusak’s I Am The Messenger
Movies/Television Shows Mentioned in Survey/Reflection/Book Buzz/Old Favorites/Books in Bloom Posts/From Page to Screen:
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories
A Christmas Carol (various adaptations)
Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom (2017)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV)
Great Berryville Read 2018 posts
The Great American Read is Back!
Exploring “Who am I” in Literature
Exploring Heroes in Literature
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Exploring What We Do For Love in Literature
Exploring Other Worlds in Literature
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