REVIEWS

This is the list of my book reviews, in alphabetic order by title.

The title links go to the reviews.

For a list of reviews by author, go to this post.

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Abbeville by Jack Fuller
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (National Book Award)
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Pulitzer Prize)
After Dinner Speaking by Fawcett Boom
The Age of Reagan, Vol. II  by Steven F. Hayward
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Pulitzer Prize)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (National Book Award; NBCC Award)
America, America by Ethan Canin
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
An American Map by Anne-Marie Oomen

The Anglophile's Notebook by Sunday Taylor
American Rust by Philip Meyer
American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen
Angler Management: The Day I Died While Fly Fishing and Other Essays by Jack Ohman
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
The Anti-Death League by Kinglsey Amis 
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Another Way the River Has by Robin Cody
Ambassadors, The by Henry James
The Amish Cook at Home by Lovina Eicher

Arzak + Arzak by Juan Mari Arzak and Elena Arzak
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

Astoria by Peter Start
Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger

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Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan  
Banker by Dick Francis 
Basil's Dream by Christine Hale
Beast in View by Margaret Millar
Bech: A Book by John Updike
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer
The Beggar by Naguib Mahfouz
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (Costa BOTY)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Orange Prize; PEN/Faulkner Award)
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Pulitzer Prize)

Billy (the Kid) by Peter Meech
The Black Book by Ian Rankin
The Black Tower by P. D. James

Blue Desert by Celia Jeffries
Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story by Karen Connelly
Black Boy (American Hunger) by Richard Wright
Blackbird, Farewell by Robert Greer
Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes by Howard Lenhoff
Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Vaclav Klaus
Blue River by Ethan Canin
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (Booker Prize)
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (James Tait Black)
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Pulitzer Prize)
The Brothers K by David James Duncan

Burn Down this World by Tina Egnoski

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Cape Mediterranean: The Way We Love to Eat by Ilse van der Merwe

Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed
Cathedral by Nelson DeMille
Celibate by Maria Giura
The Centaur by John Updike (National Book Award)
A Century of November by W. D. Wetherell
Changing Places by David Lodge
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook (Edgar Award)
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (Edgar Award)
City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary by David Oates
Classic Spanish Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Spanish Kitchen by Elisabeth Luard
Clown Girl by Monica Drake

Cold by Stella Cameron  
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (National Book Award)
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Corked by Kathryn Borel

Create Beautiful Food at Home by Adrian Martin

Creole Son: An Adoptive Mother Untangles Nature & Nurture by E. Kay Trimberger
Crescent City by Belva Plain
Crusader's Cross by James Lee Burke
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Days When Birds Come Back by Deborah Reed

The Dead Bell by Reid Winslow

Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
Death by the Glass by Nadia Gordon
Delights and Prejudices: A Memoir with Recipes by James Beard

The Difficult Sister by Judy Nedry 
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Dress You Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Drood by Dan Simmons

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Echoes by Maeve Binchy
Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke
Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Pulitzer Prize)
English Major, The by Jim Harrison
Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier
Every Bitter Thing by Leighton Gage
Every Day Drinking by Kingsley Amis
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin  
Evolutionaries: Transformational Leadership: The Missing Link in Your Organizational Chart by Carmen E Voillequé.
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

Exploring Wine Regions: Bordeaux and Argentina by Michael C. Higgins
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller

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The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Booker Prize)
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (notes, not a review)
The Fire by Katherine Neville
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (National Book Award; Pulitzer Prize)
The Flâneur  by Edmund White
The Floating Opera by John Barth
Food Lover's Guide to Portland by Liz Crain 
The Food of France by Waverley Root   
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson-Debeljak
Foreigners by Caryl Phillips
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Letham
Fortune's Deadly Descent by Audry Braun
42 States of Grace: A Woman's Journey by Maureen Hovenkotter 
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Franklin and Lucy by Joseph Persico
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin

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G by John Berger (Booker Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize)

The Garden in Every Sense and Season: A Year of Insights and Inspiration from My Garden by Tovah Martin
The Gate House by Nelson DeMille
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Geography of Secrets by Frederick Reuss
George Passant by C. P. Snow 
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (NBCC Award ; Pulitzer Prize)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Glittering Images by Susan Howatch
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (National Book Award)
Good for the Jews by Debra Spark
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World by Brian Doyle

Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us by Lawrence Weinstein
A Grave Talent by Laurie King
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Green Years by Karen Wolff
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  by Mary Ann Shaffe
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

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The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (National Book Award)
Hallam's War by Elisabeth Payne Rosen
The Hapless Valet by Lenhardt Stevens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Havoc in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett

The Heirs by Susan Rieger

Hidden Falls by Kevin Myers
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
High Stakes by Dick Francis 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Homer and Langley  by E. L. Doctorow
Home Truths by David Lodge

Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto
The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler
How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge
How's Your Glass? by Kingsley Amis
How to Find Morels by Milan Pelouch
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong

The Human Stain by Philip Roth (PEN/Faulkner Award)

Humanity's Grace by Dede Montgomery
Humbolt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Pulitzer Prize)

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The Ice Chorus by Sarah Stonich
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (Orange Prize)
The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor  
Incidents in the Rue Laguier by Anita Brookner
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld
Indian Summer by John Knowles
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
Inside the Red Mansion by Oliver August
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer Prize)
The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego
The Italian Lover by Robert Hellinga

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The James Joyce Murder by Amanda Cross  
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves
Joker One by Donovan Campbell

The Journal of My Broken Life by Carolee J. Horning
Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Just Enough Liebling by A. J. Liebling
Justice Denied by Marci A. Hamilton

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The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire by C.M. Mayo
Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin
Leaving Brooklyn by Lynn Sharon Schwartz
The Letter from Death by Lillian Moats
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann(National Book Award)

The Lemon Cookbook: 50 Sweet & Savory Recipes to Brighten Every Meal by Ellen Jackson
Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (Booker Prize)

Life Expectancy by Kirsten Rian

Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford; The Biography by Laura Thompson

The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown

A Little Dinner Before the Play by Agnes Jekyll
Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley

Listening at Lookout Creek: Nature in Spiritual Practice by Gretel Van Wieren

Lists of Note: An Eclectic Collection Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
Living the 7 Habits by Stephen Covey
Locations by Jan Morris
Look Great, Feel Great by Joyce Meyer
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (National Book Award)
The Losing Role by Steve Anderson   
Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman

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The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Pulitzer Prize)

Make Russia Great Again by Christopher Buckley
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Sparks (James Tait Black)
The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (National Book Award)
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester

The Man Who Wasn't There by Judy Nedry
Maps and Shadows by Krysia Jopek
March by Geraldine Brooks (Pulitzer Prize)
The Marmot Drive by John Hersey
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser (Pulitzer Prize)
Massacred for Gold by Gregory Nokes
May We Borrow Your Husband? by Graham Greene

McCallandia by Bill Hall
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt by Rulke Langer
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (National Book Award)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Booker Prize)
Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (National Book Award)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Money by Martin Amis
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates by Michael Bond
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

Murder at the Castle by M. B. Shaw
Murder in Belleville by Cara Black
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
My Life in France Julia Child
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl

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The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Native America Discovered and Conquered by Robert Miller
Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928 – 1960, William Boyd 
The New Confessions by William Boyd
New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith

Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 by Anthony Burgess 
No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami

Not My Secret to Keep: A Memoir of Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse by Digene Farrar

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Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History by Mark Bailey 

Off Island by Lara Tupper

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer Prize)
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Orange Prize)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
On Drink by Kingsley Amis
One City's Wilderness by Marcy Cottrell Houle     
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis

One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us by Erica Heller
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Only Woman in the Room: The Norma Paulus Story by Pat McCord Amacher

Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Booker Prize)

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The Palace Council by Stephen Carter

Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed
Parachutes & Kisses by Erica Jong
Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer

Parentshift: Ten Universal Truths that Will Change the Way You Raise Your Kids by Ty and Linda Hatfield and Wendy Thomas Russell
Paul Newman: A Life by Shaun Levy
Peaceful Places, New York City by Evelyn Kanter
Personal History by Katharine Graham
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson

A Place in the World by Amy Maroney
A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart 
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Portland Food Cart Stories by Steven Shomler

Portland Noir, edited by Kevin Sampsell

Portrait of a Woman in White by Susan Winkler

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Prefect's Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse

The Preserve by Steve Anderson
The Prestige by Christopher Priest

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The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
Real Cooking, by George! by George Jacobs

The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin by Sian Lye
Real Women, Real Wisdom: A Journey into the Feminine Soul, edited by Maureen Hovenkotter
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurie
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies  
Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith
The Reluctant Detective by Marth Ockley  
Resistance Fighter by Jorgen Kieler
Restless by William Boyd
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman

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Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (Booker Prize)
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

Sam's Theory by Sarah Mendivel
Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories by Scott Nadelson
Scavenger Reef by Laurence Shames
Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard
The Sea by John Banville (Booker Prize)
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (Booker Prize)
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Costa BOTY)
Second Wind by Dick Francis
Secret Portland by Ann Carroll Burgess
The Sense of an Ending by Julien Barnes
7 Wheelchairs by Gary Presley
The Shack by William P. Young

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn 

The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts  
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
The Silver Palate Cookbook by Sheila Lukins and Julie Russo
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Size of the World by Joan Silber

Skios by Michael Frayn
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

A Small Earnest Question by J. F. Riordan 
A Small Fortune by Audrey Braun
Small Island by Andrea Levy (Costa BOTY; Orange Prize)

Snobs by Julian Fellows 
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (National Book Award)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (National Book Award)

SPIN: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story by Peter Zheutlin
The Spirit of the Place by Samuel Shem
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
The Stettheimer Dollhouse by Shiela Clark (Ed.)
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (NBCC Award; Pulitzer Prize)

Storm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast by Lori Tobias
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James Farrell
Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways by Debra Prinzing
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Pulitzer Prize)
Swan Peak by James Lee Burke

The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan

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The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penneyb (Costa BOTY)
Theirs Was the Kingdom by R.F. Delderfield
Therapy, David Lodge
Therese Raquin by Elim Zola
Thomas Paine by Craig Nelson
365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life by John Kralik

Things Invisible to See by Nancy Willard  

Things We Set on Fire by Deborah Reed 
Three Loves by A. J. Cronin
A Time of Hope by C. P. Snow
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Tinkers by Paul Harding (Pulitzer Prize)
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan by Mervin Peake
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care by Sally Pipes 
Towers of Gold by Frances Dinkelspiel
On the Town in New York by Michael and Ariane Batterberry
The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley

Trove by Sandra A. Miller
The Truth About Obamacare by Sally Pipes
The Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriette Beecher Stowe
Underworld by Don DeLillo
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

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Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan
Venusberg by Anthony Powell
Vie de France by James Haller

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The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain published by Words Without Borders Anthologies
Wall Street by Steve Fraser
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Water the Bamboo, by Greg Bell
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare: A Journey Through the Remotest Place by Michael J. Yochim
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
What a Piece of Work I Am by Eric Kraft
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

Windhall by Ava Barry 
Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchey
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Ryhs
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Booker Prize; NBCC Award)
Word Up! by Marcia Riefer Johnston
The World of Herb Caen: San Francisco 1938 – 1997 by Barnaby Conrad
World Without End by Ken Follett
Worth Dying For by Lee Child 
Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto

Wrong Highway by Wendy Gordon

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A Year in the World by Frances Mayes
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

NOTES

Finally updated on January 12, 2022.

If you would like your reviews of any of these books listed on my review post, please leave a comment on the review post itself, with a link, and I will add it.