Book Reviews:
Jussi Adler-Olsen’s The Keeper of Lost Causes
Rennie Airth’s River of Darkness
Jennifer Barnes’s The Naturals
Brooks Blevins’ Ghost of the Ozarks
Ann Brashares’s The Here and Now
Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom
Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train
Paulette Jiles’s News of the World
Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne
Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls
Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen (2015)
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
Erica Swyler’s The Book of Speculation
Jack Thorne’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Gabrielle Zevin’s The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Film/Television Reviews:
Books and Authors Mentioned in Survey/Reflection/Books in Bloom Posts:
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
Daniel Alarcon’s City of Clowns
E.A. Allen’s Montclaire series
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
Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone
John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights
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’
Harry Brandt’s/Richard Price’s The Whites
Libby Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Pierce Brown’s Red Rising trilogy
Goldie Browning’s Night Journey
Fiona Carnarvon’s Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
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
Robert Cochran’s Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas
Janet Dailey’s This Calder Range
Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers
Anita Diamant’s Day After Night
Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo
David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife
Allan W. Eckert’s The Frontiersmen: A Narrative
Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
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
Alexandra Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight
Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series
John Galworthy’s Forsyte Saga trilogy
William Geroux’s The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and Their War Against Hitler’s U-Boats (2016)
Carolyn Ives Gilman’s Dark Orbit
Christopher Golden’s Dead Ringers
Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr Lemoncello’s Library
Peter Graham’s Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
David Grann’s The Lost City of Z
John Green’s The Fault in our Stars
Elly Griffiths’ The Zig Zag Girl
Gabrielle Hamilton’s Bones, Blood, and Butter
Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches
Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train
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
Deborah and James Howe’s Bunnicula
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
Kazuo Ishiguro‘s Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day
Liz Johnson’s The Red Door Inn
Bel Kaufman’s Up the Down Staircase
Piper Kerman’s Orange is the New Black
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell series
Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
Robert Kirkman’s The Governor series
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
Camilla Läckberg’s Patrick Hedström/Erica Falck series
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
Jeff Lemire’s Descender Book 1
Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child
Anna Loan-Wilsey’s A Lack of Temperance
Marie Lu’s Young Elites trilogy
Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope series
Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series
Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy
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)
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
Chris McNab’s How to Survive Anything, Anywhere
Michelle Modesto’s Revenge and the Wild
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (2016)
Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus
Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun
Donna Jo Napoli’s Dark Shimmer
Radine Trees Nehring’s Something to Die For Series
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
Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly
Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
Sydney Padua’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Tracie Peterson’s A Promise to Believe In
Marie Phillips’ Gods Behaving Badly
Vance Randolph’s Ozark Magic and Folklore
Deanna Raybourn’s A Curious Beginning
Laura Resau’s and Maria Virginia Farinango’s The Queen of Water
Lindsay Ribar’s Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
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
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
Jon Scieszka’s The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs By A. Wolf
Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones
Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale
Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season
Jacqueline Sheehan’s The Center of the World
Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before The War
Katy Simpson Smith’s The Story of Land and Sea
Mary Nida Smith’s Heroes Beneath the Waves
M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
Amy Stewart’s Girl Waits With Gun
Alexander Stillwell’s The Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques
Kate Summerscale’s The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Ruta Sepetys’s Salt to the Sea
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
Jodi Thomas’s Beneath the Texas Sky
Mark Tompkins’s The Last Days of Magic
Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers
Harry Turtledove’s The House of Daniel
Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Bill Waterston’s Calvin and Hobbes
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
Markus Zusak’s I Am The Messenger
