There is not much rhyme or reason to whether I review a book or not. Some of my favorite books go without a review, like both the Kate Atkinson books I read in 2010.
If you have reviewed any of the book I reviewed, and you would like your review listed on mine, please leave a comment on my review post for that book with a link to your review and I will add it.
2010 BOOKS
The New Confessions by William Boyd (reviewed here; 4/5)
36 Yalta Boulevard by Olen Steingard (3.5/5)
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis (reviewed here; 4/5)
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby (reviewed here; 4/5)
A Very Private Plot by William F. Buckley, Jr. (3/5)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (3.5/5)
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White (reviewed here; 4/5)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (4/5)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (4/5)
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (reviewed here; 4/5)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (3.5/5)
Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke (reviewed here; 3/5)
Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire by Mireille Guiliano (3/5)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (2.5/5)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (4.5/5)
My Life in France by Julia Child (reviewed here) (4.5/5)
Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow (reviewed here) (2.5/5)
New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith (3/5)
Portland Noir, edited by Kevin Sampsell (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (3/5)
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster (reviewed here; 4/5)
An American Map by Anne-Marie Oomen (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Titus Groan by Mervin Peake (reviewed here; 4/5)
Trading Up by Candace Bushnell (3/5)
Three Loves by A. J. Cronin (reviewed here; 3/5)
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips (reviewed here; 4/5)
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (reviewed here; 4/5)
City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary by David Oates (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (reviewed here; 5/5)
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Second Wind by Dick Francis (reviewed here; 3/5)
Leaving Brooklyn by Lynn Sharon Schwartz (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Marmot Drive by John Hersey (reviewed here; 3/5)
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (reviewed here; 4/5)
A Year in the World by Frances Mayes (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
A Small Fortune by Audrey Braun (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain, published by Words Without Borders Anthologies (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
L'Affaire by Diane Johnson (3/5)
Whose Body? by Dorthy L. Sayers (3.5/5)
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney (5/5)
The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (2.5/5)
Corked by Kathryn Borel (reviewed here; 3/5)
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 (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (3.5/5)
Indian Summer by John Knowles (reviewed here; 3/5)
Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oats (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
On Drink by Kingsley Amis (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Every Day Drinking by Kingsley Amis (reviewed here; 3/5)
How's Your Glass? by Kingsley Amis (reviewed here; 2.5/5)
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (reviewed here; 4/5)
Clown Girl by Monica Drake (reviewed here; 3/5)
Under Orders by Dick Francis (3/5)
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (reviewed here; 4/5)
Angler Management: The Day I Died While Fly Fishing and Other Essays by Jack Ohman (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Cover Her Face by P. D. James (3.5/5)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (5/5)
Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (reviewed here; 3/5)
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon by Joseph Mitchell (reviewed here; 4.5/5)*
Old Mr. Flood by Joseph Mitchell (reviewed here; 4/5)*
The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell (reviewed here; 4.5/5)*
Joe Gould’s Secret by Joseph Mitchell (reviewed here; 4/5)*
A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher (3/5)
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge (reviewed here; 4/5)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Down River by John Hart (3.5/5)
Invitation to Provence by Elizabeth Adler (3/5)
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (reviewed here; 2/5)
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (3/5)
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (reviewed here; 4/5)
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt by Rulke Langer (reviewed here; 4/5)
Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories by Scott Nadelson (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Every Bitter Thing by Leighton Gage (reviewed here; 3/5)
Venusberg by Anthony Powell (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby (3.5/5)
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (4/5)
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Letham (reviewed here; 3/5)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (reviewed here; 4/5)
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham (reviewed here; 4/5)
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child (3.5/5)
Peaceful Places, New York City by Evelyn Kanter (reviewed here) (3.5/5)
Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story by Karen Connelly (reviewed here; 3/5)
The Truth About Obamacare by Sally pipes (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike (3.5/5)
Food Lover's Guide to Portland by Liz Crain (reviewed here; 4/5)
Echoes by Maeve Binchy (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Proof by Dick Francis (3.5/5)
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (4.5/5)
The Case Has Altered by Martha Grimes (3/5)
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike (3.5/5)
Enquiry by Dick Francis (3/5)
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming (3.5/5)
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber (reviewed here; 4/5)
Olive Kitteridge is Elizabeth Strout (reviewed here; 3/5)
Another Way the River Has by Robin Cody (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
A Geography of Secrets by Frederick Reuss (reviewed here; 3/5)
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (4/5)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (4/5)
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake (reviewed here; 2/5)
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (reviewed here; 4.5/5)
The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken (reviewed here; 4/5)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (3/5)
The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos (notes here; 2.5/5)
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (3.5/5)
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser (3.5/5)
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (3.5/5)
The Palace Council by Stephen Carter (3.5/5)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (reviewed here; 4/5)
NOTES
* Published in their entirety in a collection called Up in the Old Hotel, which also included five additional essays and two more short stories.
