Fiction Book Reviews: 9/21/2009 09/21/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Anne Tyler, Al Roker, J.A. Jance, Steve Berry, Ha Jin and Elizabeth Noble. Plus, Ann Herendeen gives Pride and Prejudice a bi-sexual reboot, Matt Beaumont sends up a British ad agency in his e-epistolary, Brian Hart debuts with a stellar novel set in starkest Idaho and Jeff Shaara concludes his WWII trilogy.
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Fiction Reviews: 9/14/2009 09/14/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Stephen King, J.D. Robb, Orhan Pamuk, Clive Cussler, Marian Keyes and Penelope Lively. Plus, Aleksandar Hemon edits the first Best European Fiction anthology from Dalkey Archive, DeVa Gantt wraps the Colette trilogy after 30 years, Michael S.A. Graziano goes to hell and more.
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Fiction Reviews: 9/7/2009 09/07/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Madison Smartt Bell, Danielle Steel, Robert Stone and Allan Guthrie. Plus, Bridie Clark remixes "My Fair Lady," Peter Ackroyd retells "The Canterbury Tales," Rumpole returns for a holiday outing, and Jill Mansell maintains her one-woman British chick lit invasion.
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Fiction Reviews: 8/31/2009 08/31/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Andrew Vachss, Jess Walter, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Alex Kava. Plus, Maureen Howard finishes her Seasons quartet, Charles Cumming plays spy-games in China and E. Lynn Harris leaves the last piece of his literary legacy.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 8/24/2009 08/24/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from John Irving, Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Kellerman, Nevada Barr and Nora Roberts. Plus, Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew revisits Dracula, Reyna Grande finds salvation in folk dancing, Julian Stockwin's got another Kydd sea adventure and Rachel Sherman's first novel is star-worthy.
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Fiction Reviews: 8/17/2009 08/17/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Robert B. Parker, Paul Auster, Alice Munro, John Burdett and Newt Gingrich. Also, K'wan fires off another Hood Rat novel, Sheramy Bundrick revisits Van Gogh, Alexander McCall Smith shows no signs of slowing down and Mark Billingham's Det. Insp. Thorne is big into another macabre case.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 8/10/2009 08/10/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Philip Roth, Iris Johansen, John Sandford, Douglas Coupland, Anita Shreve and Penny Vincenzi. Plus, posthumous short fiction from William Styron, a Fables novel, an uncensored translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece and a stellar Swedish crime debut for ANders Roslund and Börge Hellström.More
Fiction Reviews: 8/3/2009 08/03/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Jonathan Lethem, Anne Rice, Lou Manfredo, actor Richard Belzer and Jane Gardam. Also, Peter Ackroyd revisits Frankenstein, the always sublime Lydia Millet pairs off animals and celebrities, and Padgett Powell asks a lot of questions.
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Fiction Reviews: 7/27/2009 07/27/2009
Reviewed this week, new books from Audrey Niffenegger, Kazuo Ishiguro, Clive Cussler, John Twelve Hawks, Austin Clarke and Mary Monroe. Plus, Irene Sabatini debuts with an unconventional love story set in Zimbabwe, more Estonian avant gard fiction from Mati Unt, and Anne Finger imagines alternate lives for some legendary outcasts.
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Fiction Reviews: 7/20/2009 07/20/2009
Covered this week: Joyce Carol Oates, Lisa Black, James Swain, Rebecca Stott, Alaa Al Aswany, Chelsea Cain, Sharon Potts, Elizabeth Chadwick, Masha Hamilton, Robert Hicks, Sarah Schulman, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Terraence Holt, and Margaret Atwood reviewed by Marcel Theroux. Plus: poetry from Charles Bukowski, Bin Ramke, John Koethe, Brenda Hillman and more.
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Fiction Reviews: 7/13/2009 07/13/2009
New titles from Will Self, Dan Fante, Lorrie Moore, Stuart Woods, Marilyn French, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Robert Olen Butler, Deon Meyer, Sara Paretsky, Kent Meyers, David Ellis, Sharon Lathan, Elizabeth Nunez, Gyles Brandreth, Jonathan Strahan, Greg Egan, Margaret Carroll & more. Plus: comics from Hendrik Dorgathen, Tim Hamilton and Ray Bradbury, Michael Kupperman and others.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 7/6/2009 07/06/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Thomas Pynchon, E.L. Doctorow, William Trevor, Richard Powers, Alice Randall, Joseph Kanon, Richard North Patterson and Anita Diamant. Plus, Nick Cave chronicles the adventures of a bad seed, the return of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's swashbuckling Diego Alariste, and Mattox Roesch sends an L.A. gangbanger to Alaska. More
Fiction Book Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
This week, reviews of new novels from James Ellroy, Jeff Lindsay, Philippa Gregory, Richard Russo and Mary B. Morrison. Plus, Dick and Felix Francis deliver another horse caper, Tilly Bagshawe channels Sidney Sheldon, senator Barbara Boxer weighs in with another Beltway thriller.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 6/22/2009 06/22/2009
Reviewed this week, new books from Irvine Welsh, Dan Fesperman, Larry McMurtry, Terry Goodkind, Teri Woods and more. Plus, Joshua Gaylord debuts with a novel set in an elite Manhattan prep school, Nancy Grace tries fiction, Evie Wyld sets her startling novel Down Under and there's a lot of kicking going on in Katie Kitamura's The Longshot.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 6/15/2009 06/15/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels by Faye Kellerman, Victor LaValle, Kathy Reichs, J.A. Jance and Sophie Kinsella. Plus, a hapless couple courts trouble in upstate New York in Nancy Maruo's off-beat debut, Dixie Cash cranks out another fun chicken-fried cowgirl-power crime novel, and Luanne Rice maintains her status as a tear-jerking force of nature.
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Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 6/8/2009 06/08/2009
Reviewed this week, the new Stieg Larsson, A.S. Byatt, Stephen White, Joyce Maynard and indie sensation Muriel Barbery. Plus, country music star Sara Evan's inspirational romance, playwright Victor Lodato's smashing debut and Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez's first apperance in the States. More
Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 6/1/2009 06/01/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Lisa Tucker, Robert Ferrigno, Kris Radish, Sarah Dunant and David Rosenfelt. Plus, Jeanette Walls follows up The Glass Castle with a "true-life novel" about her grandmother, Eugenia Kim gets a star for her debut, and Jason Starr is as good as ever.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009 05/25/2009
The Anthologist Nicholson Baker . Simon and Schuster , $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7244-2 In Baker's lovely 10th novel, readers are introduced to Paul Chowder, a “study in failure,” at a very dark time in his life. He has lost the two things that he values most: his girlfriend, Roz, and his ability to write.
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Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 5/18/2009 05/18/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels by Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Tropper, David Liss, Michael Muhammad Knight, Jed Mercurio, Jaqueline Sheehan and more. Mother-son duo Iris and Roy Johansen deliver an action-packed romantic thriller, and a star for Jeremy Duns's debut.
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Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 5/11/2009 05/11/2009
Book reviews of new Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics. This week, we review the latest from Stephen L. Carter, John Lescroat, Mike Lawson, Louise Dean, Maryann McFadden and others. Get a double dose of Southern charm from Dorothea Benton Frank and Mary Kay Andrews, or a shot of Irish coming-of-age with Irish rock critic Peter Murphy's debut.
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