List of Book Reviews: Authors L-Z

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List of Book Reviews: Authors A-L

- L -

La Farge, Paul The Night Ocean
Lackey, Mercedes and Libbey, Steve The Secret World Chronicle
Lafferty, Mur Six Wakes
Lamb, Harold Hannibal: One Man Against Rome
Lamplighter, L. Jagi The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin
The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel
Rachel and the Many-Splendored Dreamland
The Awful Truth About Forgetting
The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering
Landay, William Defending Jacob
Langan, John House of Windows
Lansing, Alfred Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Larson, B.V. Steel World
Lebbon, Tim Relics
The Folded Land
The Edge
Leckie, Ann Ancillary Justice
Le Carré, John The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Mission Song
A Most Wanted Man
Single & Single
Agent Running in the Field
Call For the Dead
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Lathe of Heaven
Lee, Chang-Rae On Such a Full Sea
Lee, Min Jin Pachinko
Lee, Sharon and Miller, Steve Crystal Soldier
Lehane, Dennis Shutter Island
Lem, Stanislaw Solaris
Lemire, Jeff Sentient
Leonard, Elmore The Hot Kid
Leroux, Gaston The Phantom of the Opera
Lessing, Doris The Good Terrorist
Martha Quest
Levin, Ira A Kiss Before Dying
The Stepford Wives
Lewis, Michael The Big Short
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Lewis, Sinclair Elmer Gantry
Lindqvist, John Ajvide Let the Right One In
Lippert, G. Norman James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
Liu, Cixin The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Liu, Ken The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Locke, M. J. Up Against It
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
The Scarlet Plague
White Fang
Long, Nathan Jane Carver of Waar
Swords of Waar
Love, John Faith
Lovecraft, H.P. At the Mountains of Madness
Lukyanenko, Sergei Night Watch
Lynch, Scott The Lies of Locke Lamora
Red Seas Under Red Skies

- M -

Maberry, Jonathan Ghost Road Blues
MacNeal, Susan Elia Mr. Churchill's Secretary
Magary, Drew The Hike
Malerman, Josh Bird Box
Malfi, Ronald Bone White
Small Town Horror
Mamatas, Nick Starve Better
Move Under Ground
I Am Providence
Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction
The Second Shooter
Mamet, David The Secret Knowledge
Marchetta, Melina On the Jellicoe Road
Mariotte, Jeffrey The Slab
Markopolos, Harry No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
Márquez, Gabriel García Love in the Time of Cholera
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Martin, George R. R. The Skin Trade
Marwood, Alex The Wicked Girls
The Killer Next Door
The Darkest Secret
The Poison Garden
The Island of Lost Girls
Masalha, Nur Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Matheson, Richard I Am Legend
Shadow on the Sun
Hell House
Mauldin, John, and Tepper, Jonathan Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything
Maugham, William Somerset The Painted Veil
Maxey, James Nobody Gets the Girl
Burn Baby Burn
McCammon, Robert Swan Song
Speaks the Nightbird
The Border
McCarthy, Cormac Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West
No Country for Old Men
The Road
Suttree
All the Pretty Horses
McCullough, David John Adams
McDevitt, Jack The Engines of God
McDowell, Michael The Elementals
The Caskey Family Saga
Cold Moon Over Babylon
The Amulet
McEwan, Ian The Cement Garden
McGrath, Tim James Monroe: A Life
McIntosh, Will Defenders
Soft Apocalypse
McKay, Emily The Farm
McKenzie, C.B. Bad Country
McKinley, Robin Sunshine
McKinty, Adrian The Cold Cold Ground
I Hear the Sirens in the Street
In the Morning I'll Be Gone
Gun Street Girl
Rain Dogs
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
The Detective Up Late
Hidden River
The Island
Meacham, Jon Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Methos, Victor The Neon Lawyer
A Killer's Wife
Crimson Lake Road
An Unreliable Truth
The Hallows
Miller, Derek Norwegian by Night
American by Day
The Girl in Green
Miller, John Jackson Star Trek: Prey - Hell's Heart
Miller, Madeline Circe
The Song of Achilles
Galatea
Mitchell, Caroline The Islanders
Mitchell, David The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Cloud Atlas
The Bone Clocks
Ghostwritten
Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind
Mitzner, Adam A Conflict of Interest
Dead Certain
A Matter of Will
Never Goodbye
The Best Friend
Modesitt, L.E. Jr. The Magic of Recluce
Mofina, Rick If Angels Fall
Moon, Elizabeth Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book One)
The Speed of Dark
Moorcock, Michael The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
Moore, C.L. Black God's Kiss
Moore, Christopher A Dirty Job
Moore, Perry Hero
Moreno, Gus This Thing Between Us
Morgan, Richard K. Altered Carbon
Morrow, James K. Shambling Towards Hiroshima
Mukherjee, Siddhartha The Emperor of All Maladies
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
1Q84
Murata, Sayaka Convenience Store Woman

- N -

Nagamatsu, Sequoia How High We Go in the Dark
Nantus, Sheryl Blaze of Glory
Heroes Without, Monsters Within
Heroes Lost and Found
Nestor, James Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
Neuvel, Sylvain Sleeping Giants
Waking Gods
Only Human
Newport, Cal Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Neville, Stuart The Ghosts of Belfast
Collusion
Stolen Souls
The Final Silence
Those We Left Behind
Newman, Emma Planetfall
Newman, Kim Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
Niven, Larry, and Pournelle, Jerry Fallen Angels (with Michael Flynn)
The Mote in God's Eye
Lucifer's Hammer
North, Claire The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Novik, Naomi A Deadly Education
The Last Graduate
The Golden Enclaves
Nuttall, Christopher Ark Royal

- O -

Oates, Joyce Carol The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
O'Brian, Patrick Master and Commander
O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
O'Connor, Sinéad Rememberings
Odentz, Howard Bloody Bloody Apple
Okrent, Arika In the Land of Invented Languages
Omori, Fujino Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Orlean, Susan The Orchid Thief
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska The Scarlet Pimpernel
Oyebanji, Adam Braking Day

- P -

Palahniuk, Chuck Diary
Damned
Palmer, Ada Too Like the Lightning
Palter, DC To Kill a Unicorn
Panowich, Brian Bull Mountain
Panshin, Alexei Rite of Passage
Patterson, James Private
Pears, Iain Arcadia
Penman, Sharon Kay When Christ and His Saints Slept
Petrosyan, Mariam The Gray House
Pfeffer, Susan Beth Life As We Knew It
Philbrick, Nathaniel In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Picoult, Jodi The Tenth Circle
Pierce, Fred When the Rivers Run Dry
Piper, H. Beam The Fuzzy Papers (Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens)
Portis, Charles True Grit
Povey, Jennifer R. Transpecial
Powell, AnthonyA Dance to the Music of Time: Part I and Part II
Powers, Tim The Anubis Gates
Down and Out in Purgatory
Pratchett, Terry Going Postal
Prefer, Nathan N. Leyte: The Soldier's Battle
Preston, L.M. The Pack
Prose, Francine Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Like Them
Puzo, Mario The Godfather
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Inherent Vice
Gravity's Rainbow

- Q -

Qiufan, Chen Waste Tide

- R -

Rajaniemi, Hannu The Quantum Thief
Rawles, James Wesley Patriots
Rayback, Robert J. Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President
Reding, Nick Methland
Redling, S.G. Damocles
Reitman, Janet Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Reynolds, Alastair House of Suns
Revelation Space
Terminal World
Pushing Ice
Riddle, A.G. Departure
Ringo, John Under a Graveyard Sky
Riordan, Matt The North Line
Ripley, Ron Berkley Street
Roach, Mary Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Roanhorse, Rebecca Trail of Lightning
Storm of Locusts
Roberts, Keith Anita
Roberts, Richard Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon
Quite Contrary
Robertson, Donald J. Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
Robinson, Jeremy Infinite
Robinson, Kim Stanley Red Mars
Aurora
Ronson, Jon The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Rosenberg, Charles Write to Die
Death on a High Floor
Long Knives
Paris Ransom
Rosenfield, Kat No One Will Miss Her
Roth, Philip The Human Stain
Rothfuss, Patrick The Name of the Wind
The Wise Man's Fear
Roussel, Raymond Locus Solus
Rowling, J.K. The Casual Vacancy
Ruff, Matt Lovecraft Country
Rushdie, Salman Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Russo, Richard Paul Ship of Fools
Rutherfurd, Edward Sarum: The Novel of England
New York
Russka
Paris
Ryan, Carrie The Forest of Hands and Teeth

- S -

Sa, Shan The Girl Who Played Go
Sager, Riley Final Girls
Salkin, David Deep Black Sea
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
Samatar, Sofia Selkie Stories Are for Losers
Sanderson, Brandon Elantris
The Mistborn trilogy (Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages)
The Alloy of Law
Steelheart
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Warbreaker
Skyward
Starsight
Cytonic
Sandison, George 2084
Sanford, Jason Plague Birds
Sansom, C. J. Dissolution
Sawyer, Robert J. Factoring Humanity
WWW:Wake
Scalzi, John The Android's Dream
The God Engines
Agent to the Stars
Fuzzy Nation
Redshirts
Old Man's War
Schulberg, Budd What Makes Sammy Run?
Selvon, Sam The Lonely Londoners
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Frankenstein
Shepherd, Mike Kris Longknife: Mutineer
Sherrill, Steven The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Simak, Clifford D. Way Station
Simenon, Georges Pietr the Latvian
Simmons, Dan Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
Ilium
Olympos
Summer of Night
A Winter Haunting
Simon, David Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Sinclair, Upton Oil!
The Jungle
Sledge, E.B. With the Old Breed
Sloan, Robin Sourdough
Slonczewski, Joan The Children Star
Brain Plague
Smiley, Jane Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Good Faith
Smith, Alexander McCall The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Smith, Clark Ashton The End of the Story
Smith, Guy N. Night of the Crabs
Smith, Sherwood Kerygma in Waltz Time
Smith, Sherwood and Towbridge, David The Phoenix in Flight
Smith, Tom Rob Child 44
Smitherd, Luke Kill Someone
Spencer, Wen The Black Wolves of Boston
Eight Million Gods
Spiegelhalter, David The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
Spurrier, Simon Coda
St. John Mandel, Emily Station Eleven
Stanton, Doug In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Steakley, John Armor
Vampire$
Steele, Allen Coyote
Apollo's Outcasts
Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete "Near Space" Stories, Expanded Edition
A King of Infinite Space
Stephenson, Neal Reamde
Seveneves
Anathem
Stephenson, Neal & Nicole Galland The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Stirling, S.M. Dies the Fire
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Stone, Nick The Verdict
Stout, Martha The Sociopath Next Door
Strauss, Neil The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Strong, Lee A Soldier of Poloda
Stross, Charles Accelerando
Saturn's Children
Neptune's Brood
The Atrocity Archives
Equoid
Swann, Christopher Shadow of the Lions
Swierczynski, Duane California Bear
Swift, E.J. Osiris
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Swirsky, Rachel If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love

- T -

Takami, Koushun Battle Royale
Taylor, Laini Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Tchaikovsky, Adrian Children of Time
Children of Ruin
Children of Memory
Empire in Black and Gold
Dragonfly Falling
Blood of the Mantis
Salute the Dark
The Scarab Path
The Sea Watch
Heirs of the Blade
The Expert System's Brother
The Expert System's Champion
Made Things
Shards of Earth
Eyes of the Void
Tem, Steve Rasnic and Melanie Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing
Theroux, Marcel Far North
Thomas, Scott Kill Creek
Tinti, Hannah The Good Thief
Tobar, Héctor The Barbarian Nurseries
Toland, John The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
Toll, Ian W. The Pacific War trilogy (Pacific Crucible, The Conquering Tide, and Twilight of the Gods)
Tolstoy, Leo The Kreutzer Sonata
War and Peace
Toole, John Kennedy A Confederacy of Dunces
Torgersen, Brad The Chaplain's Legacy
The Exchange Officers
Tougias, Michael The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
Tregillis, Ian Bitter Seeds
The Coldest War
Necessary Evil
Tremblay, Paul A Head Full of Ghosts
Trevanian Shibumi
Trollope, Anthony Can You Forgive Her?
The Way We Live Now
Doctor Thorne
Trussoni, Danielle Angelology
Tuchman, Barbara The Zimmermann Telegram
Tyson, Timothy Blood Done Sign My Name

- U -

Ulinich, Anya Petropolis
Unger, Harlow Giles John Quincy Adams
Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman
John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation

- 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 Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
The Habitation of the Blessed
Silently and Very Fast
Deathless
Six-Gun Snow White
Space Opera
Valentine, Genevieve Dream Houses
Van Pelt, Shelby Remarkably Bright Creatures
Vance, Jack The Dying Earth
VanderMeer, Jeff Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Annihilation
Vaughan, Andrea and William 2nd Gen
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
Vidal, Gore Burr
Vinge, Vernor A Fire Upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
The Children of the Sky
Rainbows End
Voltaire Candide
Von Luck, Hans Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five
The Sirens of Titan
Vox Day The Wardog's Coin, A Magic Broken, and The Last Witchking

- W -

Wallace, David Foster The Broom of the System
Walsh, Michael Hostile Intent
Walton, David The Genius Plague
Walton, Jo Farthing
Watts, Peter Blindsight
Wayne, Teddy Loner
Weber, David Out of the Dark
Wecker, Helene The Golem and the Jinni
Weeks, Brent The Way of Shadows
Wein, Elizabeth Code Name Verity
Weir, Andy Artemis
The Martian
Wells, Dan I Am Not A Serial Killer
The Butcher of Khardov
Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds
Wells, Jennifer Foehner Fluency
Wells, Martha The Cloud Roads
Wendig, Chuck Blackbirds
Wexler, Django Ship of Smoke and Steel
City of Stone and Silence
Siege of Rage and Ruin
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence
Whedon, Joss Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales and Buffy Season Eight
White, Skyler and Falling, Fly
Wight, Will Unsouled
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Willett, Jincy The Writing Class
Amy Falls Down
Winner of the National Book Award
Williams, John Stoner
Willingham, Bill Fables
Willis, Deborah Girlfriend on Mars
Wilson, Cintra A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease
Wilson, G. Willow Alif the Unseen
Wilson, Robert Charles The Chronoliths
Winslow, Don Satori
Winspear, Jacqueline Maisie Dobbs
Winter, Evan The Rage of Dragons
The Fires of Vengeance
Wolfe, Gene The Shadow of the Torturer
Wooding, Chris The Ember Blade
The Shadow Casket
Woodrell, Daniel Winter's Bone
Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway
Wrangham, Richard Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Wright, John C. One Bright Star to Guide Them
Wright, Richard Native Son
Wukovits, John Tin Can Titans

- Y -

Yegulalp, Serdar Summerworld
Yemets, Dmitri Aleksandrovich Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass
Yoshida, Mitsuru Requiem for Battleship Yamato
Youmans, Marly The Curse of the Raven Mocker and Ingledove
Thaliad
Young, Moira Blood Red Road

- Z -

Zamyatin, Yevgeny We
Zelazny, Roger This Immortal