The Accidental by Ali Smith ¤
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz ¤
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow ¤
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ¤
The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry • review
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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ¤
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Book Title: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Author: Stieg Larsson
Genre: Mystery, Fiction
My Grade: A
# of Pages: 630
Week Read: Week #4 (1/22 - 1/29/11)

Summary: Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing expose on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
My Grade: A-
# of Pages: 590
Week Read: Week #4 (1/22 - 1/29/11)

Summary: Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel ( Read more... )

Book Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Author: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Genre: Romance, Spoof
My Grade: D
# of Pages: 317
Week Read: Week #2 (1/15 - 1/22/11)

Summary: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an ( Read more... )

Book Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: Fiction, Romance
My Grade: A+
# of Pages: 339
Week Read: Week #3 (1/15 - 1/22/11)

Summary: Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Last Dickens
Author: Matthew Pearl
Genre: Historical Fiction
My Grade: B
# of Pages: 383
Week Read: Week #2 (1/8 - 1/15/11)

Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens's ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Mercy Seller
Author: Brenda Rickman Vantreage
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: B+
# of Pages: 422
Week Read: Week #1 (1/1 - 1/8/11)

Summary: In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, Englishwoman Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Illuminator
Author: Brenda Rickman Vantreage
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: C+
# of Pages: 404
Week Read: Week #51 & #52 (12/17 - 12/31/10)

Summary: It is England, in the late fourteenth century, a time when the old feudal order is starting to crack, but the whim of a lord or the pleasure of a bishop still has the power to seal ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Mist
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Fiction, Horror
My Grade: D+
# of Pages: 230
Week Read: Week #50 (12/10 - 12/17/10)

Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King suspends a small town in a haze of terror - as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction...

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Book Title: The Historian
Author: Elizabeth Kostova
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
My Grade: B+
# of Pages: 642
Week Read: Week #47 & #48 (11/19 - 12/3/10)

Summary: "To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history ( Read more... )