Index of all books I have reviewed on this LJ, in alphabetical order by authors' last names. I usually cross-post my reviews to
| — A — |
| Abe, Kobo | The Woman in the Dunes |
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Asimov, Isaac | The End of Eternity |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Northanger Abbey |
| Mansfield Park |
| — B — |
| Bacigalupi, Paolo | Ship Breaker |
| The Windup Girl |
| Banks, Iain M. | Consider Phlebas |
| Banville, John | The Sea |
| The Untouchable |
| Barbery, Muriel | The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
| Barnes, Djuna | Nightwood |
| Barnes, John | Losers in Space |
| Beukes, Lauren | Zoo City |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Labyrinths |
| Bova, Ben | Mars |
| Brackmann, Lisa | Rock Paper Tiger |
| Bradbury, Ray | The Illustrated Man |
| The Martian Chronicles |
| Bradley, James | Flyboys: A True Story of Courage |
| Bray, Libba | Beauty Queens |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Burt, Andrew | Privacy Most Public |
| Butler, Octavia E. | Parable of the Sower |
| Parable of the Talents |
| Fledgling |
| Buzzati, Dino | The Tartar Steppe |
| — C — |
| Campbell, Joseph | The Hero with a Thousand Faces |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | Rendezvous with Rama |
| Clarke, Susanna | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
| Clines, Peter | Ex-Heroes |
| Ex-Patriots |
| Coetzee, J.M. | In the Heart of the Country |
| Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games |
| Mockingjay |
| Corson, Trevor | The Story of Sushi |
| Cronin, Justin | The Passage |
| — D — |
| Danielewski, Mark Z. | House of Leaves |
| Day, Thomas A. | A Grey Moon Over China |
| de Vries, Jetse | Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF |
| Deas, Stephen | The Adamantine Palace |
| Demick, Barbara | Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea |
| Dempsey, Michael | Necropolis |
| Deshpande, Shashi | Small Remedies |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol |
| A Tale of Two Cities |
| Bleak House |
| David Copperfield |
| Great Expectations |
| Doctorow, Cory | Little Brother |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Dyachenko, Sergey and Marina | The Scar |
| — E — |
| Egan, Greg | Zendegi |
| Elgin, Suzette Haden | The Ozark Trilogy (Twelve Fair Kingdoms, The Grand Jubilee, And Then There'll Be Fireworks) |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch |
| — F — |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Ferraris, Zoe | City of Veils |
| Fine, Cordelia | Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences |
| Fishman, Charles | The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Fleming, Ian | Casino Royale |
| From Russia with Love |
| Dr. No |
| Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories |
| Foer, Joshua | Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything |
| Foster, Thomas C. | How to Read Literature Like a Professor |
| Franklin, Tom | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
| — G — |
| Gaiman, Neil | American Gods |
| Anansi Boys |
| The Dream Hunters |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth | North and South |
| Gaskell, Jane | Strange Evil |
| Gibson, William | Pattern Recognition |
| Neuromancer |
| Gogol, Nikolai | Dead Souls |
| Grant, Mira | Feed |
| Deadline |
| Green, John | Paper Towns |
| Greenberg, Paul | Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food |
| Gregory, Daryl | Raising Stony Mayhall |
| Grisham, John | The Appeal |
| Grossman, Austin | Soon I Will Be Invincible |
| Grossman, Lev | The Magicians |
| The Magician King |
| — H — |
| Hamilton, Peter | Pandora's Star |
| Judas Unchained |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese Falcon |
| Harington, Donald | Lightning Bug |
| Harkaway, Nick | The Gone-Away World |
| Hasler, Susan | Intelligence: A Novel of the CIA |
| Heinlein, Robert | Have Space Suit, Will Travel |
| Starman Jones |
| I Will Fear No Evil |
| Hesse, Hermann | Steppenwolf |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Nature Girl |
| Hill, Susan | The Woman in Black |
| Hillerman, Tony | The Sinister Pig |
| Skeleton Man |
| The Shape Shifter |
| Hines, Jim | The Stepsister Scheme |
| The Mermaid's Madness |
| Hotta, Yumi | Hikaru no Go |
| Hugo, Victor | Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) |
| Hurley, Kameron | God's War |
| — I — |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Never Let Me Go |
| — J — |
| Jackson, Shirley | We Have Always Lived in the Castle |
| Jacobs, John Hornor | Southern Gods |
| Jemisin, N.K. | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms |
| The Broken Kingdoms |
| Johnson, Les and McDevitt, Jack | Going Interstellar |
| — K — |
| Kane, Stacia | Unholy Ghosts |
| Kaufmann, Nicholas | Chasing the Dragon |
| Kawabata, Yasunari | The Master of Go |
| King, Stephen | Blaze |
| The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
| Lisey's Story |
| Cell |
| The Shining |
| Duma Key |
| Krakauer, Jon | Into the Wild |
| — L — |
| Lackey, Mercedes and Libbey, Steve | The Secret World Chronicle |
| Lamb, Harold | Hannibal: One Man Against Rome |
| Lansing, Alfred | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage |
| Le Carré, John | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| The Mission Song |
| A Most Wanted Man |
| Lem, Stanislaw | Solaris |
| Leonard, Elmore | The Hot Kid |
| Lessing, Doris | The Good Terrorist |
| Lewis, Michael | The Big Short |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Elmer Gantry |
| Lippert, G. Norman | James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing |
| Locke, M. J. | Up Against It |
| Lynch, Scott | The Lies of Locke Lamora |
| — M — |
| MacNeal, Susan Elia | Mr. Churchill's Secretary |
| Mamatas, Nick | Starve Better |
| Marchetta, Melina | On the Jellicoe Road |
| Matheson, Richard | I Am Legend |
| Shadow on the Sun |
| Mauldin, John, and Tepper, Jonathan | Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything |
| McCammon, Robert | Swan Song |
| McCarthy, Cormac | Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West |
| No Country for Old Men |
| The Road |
| Mitchell, David | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind |
| Moon, Elizabeth | Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book One) |
| The Speed of Dark |
| Moore, Perry | Hero |
| Morgan, Richard K. | Altered Carbon |
| Mullen, Thomas | The Last Town on Earth |
| The Revisionists |
| Murakami, Haruki | Kafka on the Shore |
| Norwegian Wood |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
| — N — |
| Nantus, Sheryl | Blaze of Glory |
| Heroes Without, Monsters Within |
| Neville, Stuart | The Ghosts of Belfast |
| Niven, Larry, and Pournelle, Jerry | Fallen Angels (with Michael Flynn) |
| The Mote in God's Eye |
| Lucifer's Hammer |
| — O — |
| O'Brian, Patrick | Master and Commander |
| Okrent, Arika | In the Land of Invented Languages |
| Orlean, Susan | The Orchid Thief |
| Orczy, Baroness Emmuska | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| — P — |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Diary |
| Damned |
| Panshin, Alexei | Rite of Passage |
| Pfeffer, Susan Beth | Life As We Knew It |
| Picoult, Jodi | The Tenth Circle |
| Portis, Charles | True Grit |
| Powell, Anthony | A Dance to the Music of Time: Part I and Part II |
| Pratchett, Terry | Going Postal |
| Preston, L.M. | The Pack |
| Puzo, Mario | The Godfather |
| Pynchon, Thomas | The Crying of Lot 49 |
| — R — |
| Rajaniemi, Hannu | The Quantum Thief |
| Reding, Nick | Methland |
| Reynolds, Alastair | House of Suns |
| Revelation Space |
| Roach, Mary | Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void |
| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
| Roth, Philip | The Human Stain |
| Rothfuss, Patrick | The Name of the Wind |
| The Wise Man's Fear |
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight's Children |
| Russo, Richard Paul | Ship of Fools |
| Ryan, Carrie | The Forest of Hands and Teeth |
| — S — |
| Sa, Shan | The Girl Who Played Go |
| Salmonson, Jessica Amanda | The Tomoe Gozen trilogy (Tomoe Gozen, The Golden Naginata, and Thousand Shrine Warrior) |
| A Silver Thread of Madness |
| Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman |
| Sanderson, Brandon | Elantris |
| The Mistborn trilogy (Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages) |
| The Alloy of Law |
| The Way of Kings |
| Scalzi, John | The Android's Dream |
| The God Engines |
| Agent to the Stars |
| Selvon, Sam | The Lonely Londoners |
| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | Frankenstein |
| Shepherd, Mike | Kris Longknife: Mutineer |
| Simak, Clifford D. | Way Station |
| Simmons, Dan | Hyperion |
| The Fall of Hyperion |
| Endymion |
| The Rise of Endymion |
| Sinclair, Upton | Oil! |
| The Jungle |
| Smiley, Jane | Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel |
| Good Faith |
| Smith, Alexander McCall | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |
| Smith, Guy N. | Night of the Crabs |
| Smith, Sherwood and Towbridge, David | The Phoenix in Flight |
| Smith, Tom Rob | Child 44 |
| Steakley, John | Armor |
| Steele, Allen | Coyote |
| Stephenson, Neal | Reamde |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Stout, Martha | The Sociopath Next Door |
| Stross, Charles | Accelerando |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| — T — |
| Takami, Koushun | Battle Royale |
| Taylor, Laini | Daughter of Smoke and Bone |
| Theroux, Marcel | Far North |
| Tinti, Hannah | The Good Thief |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The Kreutzer Sonata |
| Toole, John Kennedy | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Tregillis, Ian | Bitter Seeds |
| The Coldest War |
| Trevanian | Shibumi |
| Trollope, Anthony | Can You Forgive Her? |
| The Way We Live Now |
| Trussoni, Danielle | Angelology |
| Tuchman, Barbara | The Zimmermann Telegram |
| Tyson, Timothy | Blood Done Sign My Name |
| — U — |
| Ulinich, Anya | Petropolis |
| — V — |
| Valente, Catherynne | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making |
| The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There |
| The Habitation of the Blessed |
| Silently and Very Fast |
| Vance, Jack | The Dying Earth |
| Vaughn, Carrie | After the Golden Age |
| Kitty and the Midnight Hour |
| Straying from the Path |
| Verissimo, Luis Fernando | Borges and the Eternal Orangutans |
| Verne, Jules | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| Master of the World |
| Vinge, Vernor | A Fire Upon the Deep |
| A Deepness in the Sky |
| The Children of the Sky |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| — W — |
| Wallace, David Foster | The Broom of the System |
| Walsh, Michael | Hostile Intent |
| Watts, Peter | Blindsight |
| Weber, David | Out of the Dark |
| Weeks, Brent | The Way of Shadows |
| Wells, Dan | I Am Not A Serial Killer |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| Whedon, Joss | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales and Buffy Season Eight |
| White, Skyler | and Falling, Fly |
| Wilson, Cintra | A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease |
| Wilson, Robert Charles | The Chronoliths |
| Wolfe, Gene | The Shadow of the Torturer |
| Woodrell, Daniel | Winter's Bone |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Wrangham, Richard | Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human |
| — Y — |
| Yegulalp, Serdar | Summerworld |
| Youmans, Marly | The Curse of the Raven Mocker and Ingledove |
| Young, Moira | Blood Red Road |
| — Z — |
| Zelazny, Roger | This Immortal |
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Comments
Long term fan of your writing, first reading your HHD on mugglenet fanfiction and then the quality of that convinced me to get over my initial scepticism about your AQ series. Which I am delighted I did, I finished the first two books within a week and began reading The Deathly Regiment just as it was being uploaded.
The constant checking of your website for AQ updates got me reading your reviews as well.
While we have varied reading tastes a few have looked interesting enough for me to read (Such as "The Magicians" which I intend to buy when I get time...), a few classics I got an overview of and even when I am not interested in the subject, I still find you a good enough reviewer to read anyway, even though I am not a massive reader. Just really to say thank you.
I also wonder if you had any plans to review George R. R. Martins series, A Song of Ice and Fire? I know I sound a bit fanboyish here but I found it revolutionary and I wonder if I just have book-goggles on while reading it or if someone wider read would find it as compelling as the amount of twists and turns in it, in a good way, ruined TV series' like Homeland, as I was able to predict many of the twists due to the forward thinking paranoia that GRRM instilled.
I would also wonder if you planned to review books like C.S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, or Tolkien? You have alluded to reading Lewis previously and I would love to hear your opinion on both.
Finally, if you are looking for an under-rated series, Glenn Cooks "The Black Company" series is worth a look. Each book being relatively short and the first relatively predictable in instances, his unique telling of the story, drawing on his own experience, really is fantastic. It starts of as a slog to read but, and you don't notice it, you slowly find yourself falling in love with the books.
Thanks again :) Looking forward to reading your SF novel when it comes out :)
Thanks for your kind words.
I have not read ASoIaF yet - I do intend to get to it eventually, but it's hard to work up enthusiasm to dive into a massive epic fantasy series that isn't even finished yet. I may wait until the last book is published... sometime this century.
I read The Chronicles of Narnia when I was much younger. I don't have any immediate plans to reread it (I don't think I'd like C.S. Lewis much now that I'm older and more atheistic), but I may do so someday.
Tolkien is another one on my TBR list. Yeah, I have never actually read LotR all the way through - heresy, I know.
I've heard of Glenn Cook, but not read anything by him. May try him out one of these days, if I find one of his books while I'm in the mood.