Book Reviews

The following reviews are listed alphabetically by author. For the most recent reviews in reverse chronological order click here.

Guy Adams

• Notes from the Upside Down

Mortimer Adler

• How to Read a Book

Louisa May Alcott

• Little Women

Poul Anderson

• Three Hearts and Three Lions

Isaac Asimov

• The Caves of Steel

Jane Austen

• Emma

Avi

• The Man Who Was Poe

David Bellos

• The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

Robert Hugh Benson

• Lord of the World

Ray Bradbury

• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

Terry Brooks

• The Sword of Shannara

Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Secret Garden

Ty Burr

• The Best Old Movies for Families

Jim Butcher

• Storm Front

Orson Scott Card

• Ender’s Game

Willa Cather

• O Pioneers!

Miguel de Cervantes

• Don Quixote

G. K. Chesterton

• The Ballad of the White Horse

Lee Child

• Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
• Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2)
• Tripwire (Jack Reacher #3)

Agatha Christie

• The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)
• 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple #8)
• The Man in the Brown Suit

Kevin A. Codd

• To the Field of Stars

Michael Connelly

• The Lincoln Lawyer

Daniel Defoe

• A Journal of the Plague Year

Charles Dickens

• Hunted Down

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Crime and Punishment

Daphne du Maurier

• Rebecca

Alexandre Dumas

• Twenty Years After

David Eddings

• The Elenium
  • The Diamond Throne
  • The Ruby Knight
  • The Sapphire Rose

E.R. Eddison

• The Worm Ouroboros

George Eliot

• Romola

Shusaku Endo

• The Samurai

Jacques Futrelle

• The Thinking Machine

Randall Garrett

• Lord Darcy

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• The Yellow Wallpaper

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

• The Sorrows of Young Werther

Nikolai Gogol

• Dead Souls

H. Rider Haggard

• She: A History of Adventure

Alex Haley

• The Autobiography of Malcom X as Told to Alex Haley

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

• Made to Stick

Alfred Hitchcock, editor

• Alfred Hitchcock’s A Hard Day at the Scaffold
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories for Late at Night

William Hope Hodgson

• The House on the Borderland

Robert E. Howard

• Conan: The Definitive Collection

L. Ron Hubbard

• Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000

Barry Hughart

• The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
  • Bridge of Birds
  • The Story of the Stone
  • Eight Skilled Gentlemen

Eowyn Ivey

• To the Bright Edge of the World

M.R. James

• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Terry C. Johnston

• Cries from the Earth

William W. Johnstone

• The Drifter (The Last Gunfighter Book 1)

Franz Kafka

• The Trial

Jan Karon

• These High, Green Hills

David Kidder

• The Intellectual Devotional

Gaston Leroux

• The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Richard Llewellyn

• How Green Was My Valley

Alessandro Manzoni

• The Betrothed

Norma Fox Mazer

• After the Rain

Larry McMurtry

• Lonesome Dove

Arthur Miller

• The Crucible

A.A. Milne

• The Red House Mystery

John Mortimer

• Rumpole and the Golden Thread

Michael D. O’Brien

• Father Elijah

George Orwell

• Nineteen Eighty-four

Wayne D. Overholser

• The Violent Land

James A. Owen

• Here, There Be Dragons

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

• Captain Alatriste

Henry Petroski

• The Book on the Book Shelf

Tim Powers

• Declare

Christopher Priest

• The Prestige

Fr. Brad Reynolds, S.J.

• The Story Knife

Candace Robb

• The Apothecary Rose

Steve Robinson

• The Last Queen of England

Sax Rohmer

• The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu

Richard Rohr

• The Divine Dance
• A Spring Within Us: A Book of Daily Meditations

Fred Saberhagen

• Empire of the East

Michael Scanlon

• What Does God Want?

Anna Sewell

• Black Beauty

Michael Shaara

• The Killer Angels

Mark Shriver

• Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis

Henryk Sienkiewicz

• With Fire and Sword

Edward Sri

• Pope Francis and the Joy of the Gospel

Christopher Stasheff

• St. Vidicon to the Rescue

Bryan Stevenson

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Jim Stovall

• The Ultimate Gift

Michael J. Sullivan

• The Crown Conspiracy

Matt Swaim

• Prayer in the Digital Age

Sigrid Undset

• Kristin Lavransdatter

Thornton Wilder

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Gene Wolfe

• The Knight