Book Reviews - Alpha by Author

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A

Minaret - Leila Aboulela

Graceland - Chris Abani

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Caroline Alexander
Garden Spells - Sarah Allen

The Locust and the Bird - Hanan al-Shaykh

A Cafecito Story - Julia Alvarez

In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez

Unimagined - Imran Ahmad

(His Lecture)

Cemeteries of New Orleans - A Journey through the Cities of the Dead- Jan Arriago and Laura McElroy

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood

Foundation - Issac Asimov
The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster

B
Silk - Alessandro Baricco

Stanlingrad - The Fateful Siege - 1941 - 1942 -Anthony Beevor
Portrait of an Unknown Woman - Vanora Bennett

A Year of Pleasure - Elizabeth Berg

Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake

Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Self-Storage - Gayle Brandeis
Moscow 1941 - A City and Its People at War - Rodric Braithwaite

Under the Management of Mr. Charles Dickens - His Production of The Frozen Deep, edited by Robert Louis Brannan

Images of America - New Orleans Cemeteries - Eric Brock

Leaving Home - Anita Brokner
Visitors - Anita Brookner

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Hardly Working - Betsy Burke

The St. Bernard Fire Department in Hurricane Katrina - Michelle Mahl Buuck
Still Life - A. S. Byatt

C

Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon

The Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe - Thomas Cahill
Floor Sample - Julia Cameron
Theft - a love story - Peter Carey
Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and other streets of New Orleans - John Chase
Brothers - Da Chen

Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
The Hunt for the Red October - Tom Clancy
The Book That Changed My Life - R. Coady and J. Johannessen (editors)
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coehlo
Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Frozen Deep - Wilkie Collins

Pope Joan - Donna Wolfolk Cross

Como un Paraguayo Ebrio y Celoso de su Hermana - Washington Cucurto

D

Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives - Rosemary Daniell
The Conjurer's Bird - Martin Davies
That Summer in Paris - Abha Dawesar
Glacial Period - Nicolas de Crecy
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

Keeper of the Antiquities - Yury Dombrovskii or Dombrovsky
Buddha Da - Anne Donovan

Today is Monday - Jonette Downing

The Heart of the Happy Hollow - Paul Dunbar
In the Company of the Courtesan - Susan Dunant

E
The Blue Rose - Anthony Eglin
The Gathering - Ann Enright
(2nd Review)

Escher on Escher - Exploring the Infinite
Leonardo's Swan - Karen Essex
Middlesex - Jeffrey Euginedes

F

A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Works of

Joseph Cornell - Jonathna Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Down to a Sunless Sea - Mathias Freese

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller


G

Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria

Julia Gelardi

America's First Poet - Charlotte Gordon
The Last Queen - C.W. Gortner

A Perfect Red - Amy B. Greenfield

H

Sunstroke and Other Stories - Tessa Hadley

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
An Interrupted Life: The Letters and Diary of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 - Etty Hillesum
The Third Angel - Alice Hoffman

A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

How to Be Good - Nick Hornby

In Hazard - Richard Hughes
The Bone People - Keri Hulme
The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford

Novel without a Name - Duong Thu Huong

I
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Geisha, A Life - Mineko Iwasaki

J

The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs

The Children of Men - P. D. James

Waiting - Ha Jin

K

Amerika: The Missing Person - Franz Kafka
Literacy and Longing in L.A. - Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack

The Attack - Yasmia Khadra

The Last Templar - Raymond Khoury

Read, Remember, Recommend - Rachelle Rogers Knight

The Red Leather Diary - Lily Koppel
One More Year - Sana Krasikov
The Buddha and the Terrorist - Satish Kumar
World Made by Hand - James Kunstler
Kabbalah-A Love Story - Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Plot Guide for Kabbalah-A Love Story

L
The Victorian Chaise- Lounge - Marghanita Laski
Ben in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child - Doris Lessing

The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing

The Scarlet Plague - Jack London
Gilgamesh - Joan London


M

The Lost Planet - Angus Macviar
Falling Leaves - Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adelaide Yen Mah
Trepass - Valerie Martin

The Glass Room - Simon Mawer

Creed for the Third Millennium - Colleen McCullough
The Trou-Gaun Chiel - John McDonald
Tuim Tin Tassie - John McDonald

On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan

Tournament of Shadow: The Great Game and Race for the Empire in Central Asia - Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac

The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton - Hugh Robert Mill
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller, Jr.
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
All Quiet of the Orient Express - Magnus Mills

(Book Club Discussion)

Three to See the King - Magnus Mills
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

Gone with the Wind - Martha Mitchell

(Historical Notes 1 and Notes 2 )
2nd Review of Cloud Atlas
Plot Guide for Cloud Atlas
The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones
In Other Rooms. Other Worlds - Daniyal Mueenuddin

After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

N
Two Pound Tram - William Newton

UMBRA 2002 - NOOCA students


O
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor (2nd Review)
My Dream of You - Nuala O'Faolain
Who's Looking Out for You? - Bill O'Reilly
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

The Icarus Girl - Helen Oyeyemi

The Opposite House - Helen Oyeyemi

P

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

The Eaves of Heaven - A Life in Three Wars - Andrew Pham

Inverted World - Christopher Priest
Photographs for the Tsar - Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Q

R

The Long Walk - A True Story of a Trek to Freedom - Slavomir Rawicz
Consolation - Michael Redhill
The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robison

Reincarnation List for The Years of Rice and Salt

1 Dead in Attic - Chris Rose

New York - Edward Rutherfurd

A Dream in Polar Fog - Yuri Rytkheu

S
Lying Awake - Mark Salzman

The Soloist - Mark Salzman
Peony in Love - Lisa See

Conference Call for Peony in Love - Lisa See
The History of the Brave Czech Nation - Lucy Seifert
I Conquer Britain - Dyan Sheldon

Sophie Pitt-Turnball Discovers America - Dyan Sheldon

The Pilgrims - Mary Shelley

Body Surfing - Anita Shreve

Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
A Life of One's Own - A Guide to Better Living Through the Work
and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf - Ilana Simons

The Greenlanders - Jane Smiley
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) - Lemony Snicket
Good Women - Jane Stevenson
Flower Confidential - Amy Stewart

T

The Shooting Gallery - Yuko Tsushima

U
Grace - Linn Ullmann
A Map of Glass - Jane Urquhart

V
The Book of Fathers - Miklos Vamos

W
Haiku - Everyman's Literary Pocket Poets - Peter Washington (Editor)
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty

An Alphabetical Life - Wendy Werris
Bloody Foreigners - Robert Winder

Breath - Tim Winton

Cloudstreet - Tim Winton

The Ten-Year Nap - Meg Wolitzer
Old School - Tobias Wolff
The Waves - Virginia Woolf

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld

X

Y

Z

The Book Thief - Markus Zasak