Welcome to a short list of what I’ve read and reviewed. You’ll find links to reviews listed alphabetically by the author’s last name. Canadian authors are bigger and bolder (Visually or literally. Interpret how you want to). Don’t see the book you’re looking for? Drop me a note and we’ll see if I haven’t already read it. Chances are good, I have.
Richard Adams
Watership Down
Richard Bachman
Blaze
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
David Bergen
Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow (*see also report on bullying featuring this book here)
John Cheever
“The Swimmer”
J.M. Coetzee
The Life and Times of Michael K.
Tish Cohen (author guest post)
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Stephen Crane
“The Open Boat”
Michael Cunningham
The Hours
Roald Dahl
“Dip in the Pool” from Collected Stories
“The Bookseller” from Collected Stories
“Pig” from Collected Stories
Robertson Davies
Fifth Business
Kim Edwards
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
Nature
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Anne Fortier
Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
Neil Gaimen
American Gods
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Camilla Gibb
Sweetness in the Belly
The Beauty of Humanity Movement
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Linda Gray Sexton
Searching for Mercy Street
Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants
Knut Hamsun
Dreamers
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Lawrence Hill
Richard Hine
Russell Wiley is Out to Lunch
Carl Honore
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
John Irving
The 158-Pound Marriage
The Hotel New Hampshire
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
Henry James
“Daisy Miller; a Case Study”
The Portrait of a Lady
Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Who Moved My Cheese?
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Daniels Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
"Murder your darlings," so says Stephen King, quoting F.S. Fitzgerald on selective editing.
Stephen King
The Legend of Blockade Billy
“Morality”
“1408″
Duma Key
The Eyes of the Dragon
“The Man in the Black Suit”
On Writing (non-fiction)
J. Richard Knapp (author guest post)
Truth’s Lair: Perils of a Dead Man’s Diary
Joy Kogawa
Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas
Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Ladies’ Lending Library
Wally Lamb
The Hour I First Believed
Anne LaMott
Bird by Bird
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jonathan Lethem
“The Vision”
Billie Letts
Where the Heart Is
Jack London
“To Build a Fire”
Richard Matheson
What Dreams May Come
Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
The Road
All the Pretty Horses
Ami McKay
The Birth House
Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Alice Munro
Away From Her
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Chuck Palahniuk
Rant
Gary Paulsen
Hatchet
Tom Perrotta
Little Children
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Felix Salten
Bambi
Sapphire
Precious/Push
Jose Saramago
Blindness
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
"You are going to die," says Hugh's sketal gift. Photo: Oszalal/Wiki
David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day
“The Understudy” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Keeping Up” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“This Old House” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“It’s Catching“ from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Road Trips” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“In the Waiting Room” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“The Monster Mash” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“That’s Amore” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“What I Learned” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Town and Country” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“All the Beauty You Will Ever Need” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Memento Mori” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“The Man in the Hut” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Crybaby” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“April in Paris” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Of Mice and Men” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Anita Shreve
The Pilot’s Wife
Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres
Zadie Smith
On Beauty
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
Walden
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tarjei Vesaas
The Boat in the Evening
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Mother Night
The Sirens of Titan
Slaughterhouse Five
Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
Elie Wiesel
Night
David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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