Review Archive

NOTE:  This list includes both full-length and mini reviews. 

A

Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak

B

Barraclough, Lindsey - Long Lankin
Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan
Bender, Sue - Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish
Bennett, Alan - The History Boys
Black, Holly - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Bloch, Robert - Psycho
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth - Lady Audley's Secret
Brooker, Charlie - Screen Burn
Brooks, Max - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Burroughs, William S. and Kerouac, Jack - And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

C

Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
Carr, Nicholas - The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
Chbosky, Stephen - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Christie, Agatha - And Then There Were None
Clements, Abby - Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop
Clowes, Daniel - Ghost World

D

Daniels, Dr Benjamin - Confessions of a GP: Life, Death and Earwax
Defoe, Gideon - The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick
Defoe, Gideon - The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon
deWitt, Patrick - The Sisters Brothers
Divry, Sophie - The Library of Unrequited Love
Dormandy, Thomas - Opium: Reality's Dark Dream
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Double
Douglas, Scott - Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo

E

Easton, T.S. - Boys Don't Knit (Boys Don't Knit 1)
Edwards-Jones, Imogen and Anonymous - Beach Babylon
Edwards-Jones, Imogen and Anonymous - Wedding Babylon
Ehrlich, Gretel - A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning
Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho
Ephron, Nora - I Remember Nothing, and Other Reflections 

F

Fadiman, Anne - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Fey, Tina - Bossypants
Filer, Nathan - The Shock of the Fall
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Fleming, Ian - Casino Royale
Forsyth, Mark - The Unknown Unknown
Foster, Russell and Kreitzman, Leon - Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms that Living Things Need to Thrive and Survive
Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club

G
Gerritsen, Tess - Bloodstream
Gerritsen, Tess - Life Support
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Goldman, William - The Princess Bride
Graves, Tracey Garvis - On the Island

H

Haggard, H. Rider - King Solomon's Mines
Hale, Shannon - Austenland (Austenland 1)
Harris, Thomas - Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter 1)
Hayles, Marsha - Breathing Room
Heller, Zoë - Notes on a Scandal
Herbert, James - The Rats (The Rats 1)
Herbert, James - Lair (The Rats 2)
Herbert, James - Domain (The Rats 3)
Hinton, S.E. - The Outsiders
Hocking, Amanda - Lullaby (Watersong 2)
Hornby, Nick - A Long Way Down

I

Ince, Robin - Robin Ince's Bad Book Club
Isherwood, Christopher - A Single Man

J

Jackson, Shirley - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
James, Allyson - Dragon Heat (Dragon Series 1)

K

King, Stephen - Carrie
King, Stephen - Lisey's Story
King, Stephen - Pet Sematary
King, Stephen - The Shining
Knisley, Lucy - An Age of License: A Travelogue
Knisley, Lucy - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

L

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Levin, Ira - The Stepford Wives
Levithan, David and Cohn, Rachel - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist 
Lindsay, Jeff - Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter 1)
Lysiak, Matthew - Newtown: An American Tragedy

M

Mankell, Henning - Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander 1)
Marion, Isaac - The New Hunger (Warm Bodies 0.5)
Matheson, Richard - I Am Legend
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
Mercer, Jeremy - Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co.
Moggach, Lottie - Kiss Me First
Moore, Alan and Lloyd, David - V for Vendetta
Moore, Christopher - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Moran, Caitlin - How to Build a Girl
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Mosley, Dr Michael - The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet
Mottershead, June - Our Zoo: The Real Story of My Life at Chester Zoo 
Mullin, Mike - Ashfall (Ashfall 1)

N

Nelson, Sara - So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

O

O'Brien, Stacey - Wesley: The Story of a Remarkable Owl

P

Palahniuk, Chuck - Damned (Damned 1)
Palahniuk, Chuck - Doomed (Damned 2)
Palahniuk, Chuck - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Palahniuk, Chuck - Snuff
Patterson, James and Ledwidge, Michael - Zoo
Perkins, Stephanie - Anna and the French Kiss
Pitcher, Annabel - Ketchup Clouds
Powell, Julie - Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

Q

Quindlen, Anna - How Reading Changed My Life

R

Raabe, Tom - Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
Rankin, Ian - Knots and Crosses (Rebus 1)
Rhodes, Dan - Gold
Riggs, Ransom - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Peculiar Children 1)
Riordan, Rick - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson 1)
Rowell, Rainbow - Attachments
Rowell, Rainbow - Fangirl
Ryan, Carrie - The Forest of Hands and Teeth (TFoHaT 1)
Ryan, Carrie - The Dead-Tossed Waves (TFoHaT 2)

S

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Slater, Nigel - Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
Smale, Holly - Geek Girl (Geek Girl 1)
Smith, Patti - Woolgathering
Smolker, Rachel - To Touch a Wild Dolphin
Stack, Steve - 21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)
Steinbeck, John - The Pearl
Strasser, Todd - Give a Boy a Gun
Süskind, Patrick - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Suzuma, Tabitha - Forbidden
Suzuma, Tabitha - A Note of Madness (Flynn Laukonen 1)

T
Temple, Rob - Very British Problems Abroad
Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tóibín, Colm - Brooklyn
Tsiolkas, Christos - Loaded

U

V

Verne, Jules - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Vizzini, Ned - It's Kind of a Funny Story

W

Waters, Sarah - Tipping the Velvet
Weston, Gabriel - Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story
Wilder, Laura Ingalls - Little House in the Big Woods (Little House 1)
Wyndham, John - The Chrysalids
Wyndham, John - The Day of the Triffids

Y

Yancey, Rick - The 5th Wave

Z


ON SCREEN

Films
Austenland - Keri Russell, JJ Feild
The Double - Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska
Ghost World - Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi
Harold and Maude - Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon
The History Boys - Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson
The Jane Austen Book Club - Maria Bello, Hugh Dancy
Kill Your Darlings - Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan
Manhunter - William Petersen, Tom Noonan
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Michael Cera, Kat Dennings
Only Lovers Left Alive - Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton
Psycho - Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
Speak - Kristen Stewart, Steve Zahn
To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
V for Vendetta - Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman
World War Z - Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos

Television

House, Season 2 - Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps
Lost in Austen - Jemima Rooper, Elliot Cowan
Our Zoo - Lee Ingleby, Liz White

Comedy

Seann Walsh - Seann to be Wild (2012)