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
Brooks Blevins’ Ghost of the Ozarks
Ann Brashares’s The Here and Now
Deborah Cadbury’s Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
Larry Campbell’s Rollin’ Down The River
David Carlson’s The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry
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
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
S.C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon
Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train
Paulette Jiles’s News of the World
Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne
Leo Marks’s Between Silk and Cyanide
Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove
Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers
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
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
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:
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)
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 posts:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Mycroft Holmes
Takaji Abo’s Marshallese-English Dictionary
Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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
Daniel Alarcon’s City of Clowns
John Aldridge’s A Speck in the Sea
M.J. Arlidge’s Helen Grace series
E.A. Allen’s Montclaire 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
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife
Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk
Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine trilogy
Pepper Basham’s Penned in Time series
Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone
Michael Benanav’s Himalaya Bound
Byron W. Bender’s Spoken Marshallese
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
Rick Bragg’s All Over But The Shoutin’
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
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
Fiona Carnarvon’s Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
Diane Chamberlain’s The Silent Sister
Raymond Chandler’s Stories and Early Novels
Raymond Chandler’s Later Novels and Other Writings
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
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
Mary Connealy’s Trouble in Texas series
Diney Costeloe’s The Lost Soldier
Dawn Crandall’s The Everstone Chronicles series
Janet Dailey’s This Calder Range
Sandra Dallas’s Westering Women
Kimberly and James Dean’s Pete the Cat series
Sonali Dev’s Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers
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
Luke Dittrich’s Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Jessica Dotta’s Price of Privilege series
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
David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife
Allan W. Eckert’s The Frontiersmen: A Narrative
Gavin Edwards’s Kindness and Wonder
Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
Susan Ericksen’s audiobooks (narrator)
Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things
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
Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Karin Fossum’s Inspector Konrad Sejer series
Heather Vogel Frederick’s Absolutely Truly
Carlos Fuentes’s The Old Gringo
Alexandra Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight
Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series
Robert Galbraith’s The Cuckoo’s Calling
John Galworthy’s Forsyte Saga trilogy
Bill Geist’s Lake of the Ozarks
William Geroux’s The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and Their War Against Hitler’s U-Boats (2016)
Carolyn Ives Gilman’s Dark Orbit
Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone
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
Richard Hack’s Duchess of Death
Sue Halpern’s Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
Gabrielle Hamilton’s Bones, Blood, and Butter
Ardeana Hamlin’s Pink Chimneys
Chris Harrison’s The Perfect Letter
Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches
Laura Hartema’s Bering Sea Strong
Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train
Alix Hawley’s All True Not a Lie In It
Maria Dahvana Headley’s Magonia
Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small
Peter Høeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Ruth Hogan’s Keeper of Lost Things
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
Anna Lee Huber’s Lady Darby series
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
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
N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
Liz Johnson’s The Red Door Inn
William Johnstone’s Lone Star Christmas
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 The Poisonwood Bible
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
Laura Kumin’s The Hamilton Cookbook
Earle Labor’s Jack London: An American Life
Camilla Läckberg’s Patrick Hedström/Erica Falck series
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
Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy
Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird
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
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!
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
Steve Martin’s An Object of Beauty
Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau’s Agatha
Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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
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
Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes
Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds
Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway
Kirsty McKay’s The Assassin Game
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
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller’s An Enemy of the People
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
Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies
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
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
William Norwich’s My Mrs. Brown
Joyce Carol Oates’s The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Horror
Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti trilogy
Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly
Kenneth Oppel’s The Dark Endeavor
Susan Orlean’s The Library Book
Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
Sydney Padua’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Tom Papa’s Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas
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 Kingdom of the Blind
Tracie Peterson’s A Promise to Believe In
Martin Philip’s Breaking Bread
Jared M. Phillips’s Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks
Marie Phillips’ Gods Behaving Badly
Nicholas Pileggi’s Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas
Susan Plunkett’s Whispers Through the Trees
Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses
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
David Roberts’s Alone on the Ice
Kat Robinson’s Arkansas Pie: A Delicious Slice of the Natural State
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
Peter Schilling Jr.’s Mark Twain’s Mississippi River
Jon Scieszka’s The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs By A. Wolf
Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones
Lisa See’s The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See’s The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
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
Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres
Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before The War
Carlton Smith’s Cold-Blooded: A True Story of Love, Lies, Greed, and Murder
Jennifer E. Smith’s Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
Katy Simpson Smith’s The Story of Land and Sea
Mary Nida Smith’s Heroes Beneath the Waves
Dava Sobel’s The Glass Universe
Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak 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
Laini Taylor’s Strange the Dreamer
Alexandra Teague’s The Principles Behind Flotation
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
Jodi Thomas’s Beneath the Texas Sky
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
Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers
Harry Turtledove’s The House of Daniel
Stuart Turton’s The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad
Pen Vogler’s Dinner with Dickens
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle
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
Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy
Andrew Wilson’s Mad Girl’s Love Song
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
Alexandra Zapruder’s Twenty-Six Seconds
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
Villains and Monsters voting bracket
Exploring Villains and Monsters in Literature
What We Do For Love voting bracket
Exploring What We Do For Love in Literature
Exploring Other Worlds in Literature
Great Berryville Read Final Bracket
Exploring our Great Berryville Read Finalists
And the Great Berryville Read winner is . . .
