Review Index - Authors - A to M
Nick Abdazis
Laika
Jessica Abel
La Perdida
Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Mini-Review)
Richard Adams
Watership Down
Tales from Watership Down
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus
Half of a Yellow Sun
Joan Aiken
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Black Hearts in Battersea
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Lloyd Alexander
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
Rosie Alison
The Very Thought of You (Lady Business)
Isabel Allende
City of Beasts
My Invented Country
David Almond
Skellig
Kit's Wilderness
David Almond & Dave McKean
The Savage
Julia Alvarez
In the Time of Butterflies
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
M.T. Anderson
Feed
Natalie Angier
The Canon
Woman
Anonymous
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Appollo and Lewis Trondheim
Bourbon Island 1730
Karen Armstrong:
A Short History of Myth
Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April
The Solitary Summer
Asbjornsen & Moe
Norwegian Folktales
Kate Atkinson
Case Histories
One Good Turn
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
The Handmaid's Tale
The Blind Assassin
"Homelanding"
Alias Grace
In Other Worlds
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Persuasion
Mariama Bá
So Long a Letter
Paolo Bacigalupi
Ship Breaker
James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room
Kat Banyard
The Equality Illusion
Rosalind C. Barnett
The Truth About Boys and Girls
Andrea Barrett
The Voyage of the Narwhal
T.A. Barron
The Lost Years of Merlin
Christopher Barzak
One for Sorrow
The Love We Share Without Knowing
"Born on the Edge of an Adjective"
Birds and Birthdays
Before and Afterlives
Lucy M. Boston
The Children of Green Knowe
John Bayley
Elegy for Iris
Peter S. Beagle
Tamsin
A Fine and Private Place
A Dance for Emilia
Elizabeth Bear
"Orm the Beautiful"
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
Are You My Mother?
Aaron Becker
Journey
Clare Bell
Ratha's Creature
Clan Ground
John Bellairs
The House with the Clock In its Walls
The Figure in the Shadows
The Letter, the Witch and the Ring
Alan Bennet
The Uncommon Reader
E.C. Bentley
Trent's Last Case
Louis de Berniéres
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Kate Bernheimer
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (editor)
Brothers & Beasts (editor)
The Girl In the Castle Inside the Museum (with Nicoletta Ceccoli)
Paul Bibeau
Sundays With Vlad
Franny Billingsley
The Folk-Keeper
Chime
Well Wished
Anne Bishop
The Black Jewels Trilogy
Dreams Made Flesh
Alan Bishop (editor)
Letters from a Lost Generation
Holly Black
"Going Ironside"
Geektastic (editor)
Francesca Lia Block
Psyche in a Dress
Dangerous Angels
I Was a Teenage Fairy
Nancy Bond
A String in the Harp
Jorge Luis Borges
Fictions
Mark Bostridge (editor)
Letters from a Lost Generation
Tim Bowler
River Boy
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
The Halloween Tree
From the Dust Returned
"August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains"
"All Summer in one Day"
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret
Aurora Floyd
Henry Dunbar
Alan Bradley
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Beth Brant
"A Long Story"
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Marie Brennan
A Natural History of Dragons
Midnight Never Come
Theresa Breslin
Remembrance
Raymond Briggs
Ethel & Ernest
Poppy Z. Brite
"The Devil of Delerey Street"
Kevin Brockmeier
"The Green Children"
Vera Brogdsol
Anya's Ghost
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Geraldine Brooks
Year of Wonders
March
Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Aurora Leigh (guest post)
Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island
Shakespeare
Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth
Frances Hogdson Burnett
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
The Making of a Marchioness
Charles Burns
Black Hole
Octavia Butler
"Speech Sounds"
Kindred
Fledgling
Lewis Buzbee
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
A.S. Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden
"The July Ghost"
The Children's Book
Ragnarok
Barbara Caine
Victorian Feminists
Patrick Califia
Sex Changes
Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Nonexistant Knight
Deborah Cameron
The Myth of Mars and Venus
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
John Carey
What Good Are The Arts?
Jonathan Carroll
Voice of Our Shadow
Angela Carter
"Ashputtle"
"Peter and the Wolf"
Nights at the Circus
The Magic Toyshop
Luís da Câmara Cascudo
Lendas Brasileiras
Cecil Castellucci
Geektastic (editor)
Orson Scott Card
Enchantment
Magic Street
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Mike Carey
Re-Gifters
Mike Carey and Peter Goss
The Unwritten Vol 1
Michael Chabon
Summerland
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Maps and Legends
Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land
Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Anton Chekhov
Selected Short Stories
John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
C.J. Cherryh
Rusalka
Chernevog
G.K. Chesterton
Father Brown Stories
Tracy Chevalier
Falling Angels
Svetlana Chmakova
Dramacon
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
Agatha Christie
The Murder at the Vicarage
Susanna Clarke
The Ladies of Grace Adieu
William M. Clarke
The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins
Mark Cocker
Crow Country
Adolfo Coelho
Contos Populares Portugueses
Rachel Cohn
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (with David Levithan)
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (with David Levithan)
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares (with David Levithan)
Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
No Name
Poor Miss Finch
Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Padraic Colum
The King of Ireland's Son
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
John Connoly
The Book of Lost Things
Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Alberto da Costa e Silva
Lendas do Índio Brasileiro
Douglas Coupland
Hey Nostradamus!
Girlfriend in a Coma
F. Brett Cox and Andy Duncan
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (editors)
Sharon Creech
Ruby Holler
Walk Two Moons
Edmund Crispin
Love Lies Bleeding
Gillian Cross
Wolf
John Crowley
Little, Big
"Snow"
Howard Cruse
Stuck Rubber Baby
Mitch Cullin
Tideland
Michael Cunningham
The Hours
Jeremiah Curtin
Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars
Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Dark Alchemy (editors)
Roald Dahl
Going Solo
The Witches
Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Dame Darcy
Gasoline
Ellen Datlow (editor)
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold
The Green Man
Peter David
Tigerheart
Charles de Lint
Waifs and Strays
The Onion Girl
Pamela Dean
Tam Lin
Anthony Del Col (with Conor McCreery and Andy Belanger)
Kill Shakespeare
E.M. Delafield
The Diary of a Provincial Lady
Consequences
Thank Heaven Fasting
Frank Delaney
Ireland
Samuel R. Delany
"High Weir"
Abby Denson
Dolltopia
Joyce Dennys
Henrietta's War
Anita Desai
The Zigzag Way
Sarah Dessen
Just Listen
Barry Deutsch
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
Anita Diamant
The Red Tent
Michael Diamond
Victorian Sensation
Junot Díaz
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Desperaux
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Michael Dirda
Book by Book
Classics for Pleasure
Jenny Diski
What I Don't Know About Animals
Cory Doctorow
Little Brother
For the Win
Homeland
Jennifer Donnelly
A Gathering Light
Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Carole Nelson Douglas
Good Night, Mr Holmes
Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
"The Child"
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Paula Spencer
Siobhan Dowd
Bog Child (mini-review)
Sharon M. Draper
Copper Sun
Carol Ann Duffy
The Princess' Blankets (with Catherine Hyde)
Chris Duffy(editor)
Nursery Rhyme Comics
Helen Dunmore
Counting the Stars
Carola Dunn
Death at Wentwater Court
Mark Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea
Lord Dunsany
The Kind of Elfland's Daughter
Jane Eagland
Wildthorn
Shirin Ebadi
Iran Awakening
Barbara Ehrenreich
Dancing in the Streets
Will Eisner
A Contract with God
George Eliot
Middlemarch
Anna Elliott
Twilight of Avalon
Harlan Ellison
"Strange Wine"
"All the Sounds of Fear"
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot
Uncle Silas
Vanessa Faquharson
Sleeping Naked is Green
Penelope Farmer
Charlotte Sometimes
Raymond E. Feist
Faerie Tale
Ellen Feldman
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank
Ruby Ferguson
Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary
Rachel Ferguson
The Brontës Went to Woolworths
Alas, Poor Lady
Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair
Cordelia Fine
Delusions of Gender
Victoria Finlay
Buried Treasure
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Bookshop
E.M. Forster
Howards End
A Room With A View
Richard Fortey
Dry Store Room No. 1
Dian Fossey
Gorillas in the Mist
Ariana Franklin
Mistress of the Art of Death
Antonia Fraser
"Who's Been Sitting in my Car?"
Cornelia Funke
When Santa Fell to Earth
Inkheart
Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Coraline
The Sandman: Dream Hunters
Neverwhere
Odd and the Frost Giants
The Sandman: Endless Nights
Spawn: Angela
The Graveyard Book
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman & Gris Grimly
The Dangerous Alphabet
Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Mirrormask
Signal to Noise
Black Orchid
Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer
Who Killed Amanda Palmer
Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
Interworld
Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
Blueberry Girl
Nancy Garden
Annie on My Mind
Alan Garner
The Owl Service
Elizabeth Gaskell
Tales of Mystery & the Macabre
North & South
Cranford
Margaret George
The Autobiography of Henry VIII With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers(guest post)
Nicole Georges
Calling Dr Laura
W.W. Gibbings
Oriental Myths and Legends
Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm
Nightingale Wood
Westwood
Christmas Cold Comfort Farm
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Man-Made World
Herland
George Gissing
The Odd Women
Brooke Gladstone
The Influencing Machine
Morris Gleitzman
Two Weeks with the Queen
Kate De Goldi
The 10PM Question
William Goldman
The Princess Bride
Ben Goldacre
Bad Science
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Adam Gopnik
Winter
Theodora Goss
"Pip and the Fairies"
The Thorn and the Blossom
Edward Gorey
The Lost Lions
Emily Gravett
Wolves
Sara Gran
Come Closer
John Green
Looking for Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
Let it Snow (with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle)
Paper Towns
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan)
The Fault in Our Stars
Lavinia Greenslaw
The Importance of Music to Girls
Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl
David Grossman
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
Rumer Godden
The Story of Holy and Ivy
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
A Woman of Independent Means
Shannon Hale
The Goose Girl
Enna Burning
River Secrets
Elizabeth Hand
Mortal Love
llyria
Helene Hanff
84 Charing Cross Road
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Frances Hardinge
Fly By Night
Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan
Scottish Fairy Belief
Gilbert Hernandez
Heartbreak Soup
Human Diastrophism
Oscar Hijuelos
Dark Dude
Joe Hill
Heart-Shaped Box
Susan Hill
The Woman in Black
Henry Hitchings
The Secret Life of Words
Alice Hoffman
The Ice Queen
Green Angel
Practical Magic
E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Sandman
Tom Holland
The Vampyre
Homer
The Odyssey
Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
The Monsters
bell hooks
Ain't I a Woman
Nalo Hopkinson
The Salt Roads
Nick Hornby
About a Boy
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
31 Songs
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Slam
Emily Horner
A Love Story Starring my Dead Best Friend
Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mules and Men
Eva Ibbotson
Journey to the River Sea
The Dragonfly Pool
One Dog and His Boy
The Secret Countess
The Morning Gift
A Song for Summer
The Secret of Platform 13
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
Ghosts
Masuji Ibuse
Black Rain
Inbali Iserles
The Tygrine Cat
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
Never Let Me Go
Eowyn Ivey
The Snow Child
Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Edward James
A Short History of Fantasy
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
M.R. James
Collected Ghost Stories
Tove Jansson
Tales from Moominvalley
The Summer Book
Moomintroll Midwinter
Angela Johnson
a cool moonlight
The First Part Last
Kij Johnson
Fudoki
"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park Adter the Change"
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss"
The Fox Woman
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
Maureen Johnson
Let it Snow (with John Green and Lauren Myracle)
The Bermudez Triangle
Marilyn Johnson
This Book is Overdue!
Jennifer Johnston
The Illusionist
Edward P. Jones
The Known World
Shane Jones
Light Boxes
Terry Jones
Starship Titanic
Andre Jordan
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Miriam Katin
We Are On Our Own
Tommy Kavoc
Wonderland
Molly Keane
Devoted Ladies (mini-review)
Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura
I Kill Giants
Michael Keller
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation
Megan Kelso
Scheherazade: Comics about Love, Treachery, Mothers and Monsters (editor)
Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark
William Kennedy
Ironweed
Beth Kephart
Nothing But Ghosts
Laurie R. King
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Stephen King
"Lisey and the Madman"
Salem's Lot
Rudyard Kipling
Puck of Pook's Hill
The Jungle Books
Derek Kirk Kim
The Eternal Smile
John Knowles
A Separate Peace
Joy Kogawa
Obasan
Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian
Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
Ellen Kushner
Thomas the Rhymer
Mercedes Lackey
The Black Swan
Unnatural Issue
Selma Lagerlöf
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson
Jumpha Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
"Hell-Heaven"
R.A. Lafferty
"Nine Hundred Grandmothers"
Margo Lanagan
Tender Morsels
Black Juice
The Brides of Rollrock Island
Katherine Langrish
West of the Moon
Hope Larson
Salamander Dream
Chiggers
Marghanita Laski
The Victorian Chaise-Longue
John Lawson
Witch Ember
Sorrow
Halldor Laxness
The Fish Can Sing
Stephen Leacock
Nonsense Novels
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ursula Le Guin
Gifts
Voices
Powers
The Left Hand of Darkness
Lavinia
Cheek by Jowl
The Language of the Night
Jeff Lemire
The Complete Essex County
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
On Mrs Whatsit
Rose Lerner
In For a Penny
Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Julius Lester
To Be a Slave
Day of Tears
Primo Levi
If This is a Man
David Levithan
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn)
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (with Rachel Cohn)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green)
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares (With Rachel Cohn)
Gail Carson Levine
Ella Enchanted
The Fairy's Mistake
The Princess Test
Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics
C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair
Jill Liddington
Rebel Girls
Kelly Link
Magic for Beginners
Leo Lionni
Frederick
Penelope Lively
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Malinda Lo
Ash
E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
The Ruby Oliver series
Erlend Loe
Naïve. Super
Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider
Jeremy Love
Bayou Vol 1
Lois Lowry
Number the Stars
The Giver
Gossamer
Gathering Blue
Messenger
Jason Lutes
Jar of Fools
George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin
Sue Macy
Wheels of Change
Brenda Maddox
Rosalind Franklin - The Dark Lady of DNA
Michelle Magorian
Goodnight Mister Tom
Gregory Maguire
Wicked
Margaret Mahy
The Haunting
The Changeover
Cathy Malaskian
Percy Gloom
Alberto Manguel
The Library at Night
Jeremy Marcer
Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs
John Marco
Starfinder
David L. Marcus
What it Takes to Pull me Through
Juliet Marillier
Daughter of the Forest
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
John Masefield
The Box of Delights
Wendy Mass
A Mango-Shaped Space
Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
Jamaica Inn
The Birds and Other Stories
Myself When Young
Alexander McCall Smith
Dream Angus
The Girl Who Married a Lion
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Mary McCarthy
The Group
Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics
Ian McEwan
Atonement
Hilary McKay
Saffy's Angel
Indigo's Star
Permanent Rose (mini-review)
Caddy's World
Robin McKinley
Beauty
Deerskin
Clemence McLaren
Inside the Walls of Troy
Catriona McPherson
After the Armistice Ball
Linda Medley
Castle Waiting Vol I
Anne K. Mellor
Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
Farah Mendlesohn
A Short History of Fantasy
China Miéville
King Rat
"Reports of Certain Events in London"
Un Lun Dun
Kraken
John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women (with Harriet Taylor)
Martin Millar
Thraxas (as Martin Scott)
Lonely Werewolf Girl
Curse of the Wolf Girl
Laura Miller
The Magician's Book
Lucasta Miller
The Brontë Myth
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
A.A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
The Red House Mystery
Christopher Milne
The Enchanted Places
Hope Mirless
Lud-in-the-Mist
Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson
Carnivorous Nights
David Mitchell
Black Swan Green
Alistair Moffat
Arthur & The Lost Kingdom
Alan Moore
Watchmen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlement, Vol 1
From Hell
V for Vendetta
Perry Moore
Hero
L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
The Blue Castle
Jude Morgan
Passion
The Taste of Sorrow
Kaoru Mori
Emma Vol 1-7
Michael Morpurgo
Private Peaceful (mini-review)
Jan Morris
Conundrum
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Jazz (Mini-Review)
Love
Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden
Alice Munro
"The View from Castle Rock"
"The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
Louise Murphy
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
Underground
Lauren Myracle
Let it Snow (with John Green and Maureen Johnson)