Adult

The following is a list of adult books that we have reviewed to date, alphabetized by book title.  Click on the corresponding month and year in the Archives tab to see the full review, as well as book rating.

  • A Cup of Tea – Amy Ephron (June 2018)
  • A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding (Historical Fiction) – Jackie Copleton (July 2020)
  • A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Biography) – Ishmael Beah (July 2018)
  • A Raisin in the Sun (Play) – Lorraine Hansberry (March 2022)
  • A Reliable Wife (Historical Fiction) – Robert Goolrick (May 2020)
  • A Virtuous Woman – Kaye Gibbons (September 2018)
  • Ain’t No River – Sharon Ewell Foster (January 2022)
  • Anne of Green Gables, My Daughter & Me (Memoir) – Lorilee Craker (January 2019)
  • Astrid & Veronika – Linda Olsson (March 2019)
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie (January 2019)
  • Bed & Breakfast – Lois Battle (January 2021)
  • Best. State. Ever. A Florida Man Defends His Homeland (Non-Fiction) – Dave Barry (March 2020)
  • Big Fish – Daniel Wallace (April 2019)
  • Breathing Water – T. Greenwood (August 2018)
  • Chosen By a Horse (Memoir) – Susan Richards (March 2019)
  • Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz (January 2021)
  • Ghost on Black Mountain – Ann Hite (October 2018)
  • Heading Out to Wonderful – Robert Goolrick (April 2019)
  • Heft – Liz Moore (March 2020)
  • Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson (April 2022)
  • I Let You Go – Clare Mackintosh (April 2018)
  • Icy Sparks – Gwyn Hyman Rubio (May 2018)
  • In a Dark, Dark Wood – Ruth Ware (April 2020)
  • In the Woods – Tana French (July 2020)
  • Interred with Their Bones – Jennifer Lee Carrell (April 2021)
  • Jewel – Bret Lott (January 2020)
  • Joy in the Morning – Betty Smith (June 2018)
  • Letter to My Daughter – George Bishop (June 2022)
  • Life with Bingo – Jim Black & Jim Lewis (May 2021)
  • Little Bee – Chris Cleave (May 2018)
  • Little Face – Sophie Hannah (May 2019)
  • Lunch at the Piccadilly – Clyde Edgerton (February 2019)
  • Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson (June 2018)
  • Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend – Matthew Dicks (February 2019)
  • Miracle on the 17th Green – James Patterson (March 2018)
  • Mr. Dickens and His Carol – Samantha Silva (December 2018)
  • Mr. Ives’ Christmas – Oscar Hijuelos (December 2018)
  • Mr. Timothy – Louis Bayard (October 2019)
  • My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout (April 2018)
  • Once Upon a Time, There Was You – Elizabeth Berg (February 2022)
  • Paris Is Always a Good Idea – Nicolas Barreau (February 2020)
  • Quite A Year For Plums – Bailey White (September 2018)
  • Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two: A Gypsy family’s hard and happy times on the road in the 1950s (Biography) – Maggie Smith-Bendell (March 2022)
  • River Season – Jim Black (November 2019)
  • Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor (Autobiography) – Rosina Harrison (November 2020)
  • Saints at the River – Ron Rash (December 2019)
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See (August 2018)
  • Stars Over Sunset Boulevard (Historical Fiction) – Susan Meissner (March 2021)
  • Start Without Me – Joshua Max Feldman (November 2022)
  • Swim to Me – Betsy Carter (August 2018)
  • Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Biography) – Ruth Reichl (September 2022)
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein (June 2019)
  • The Autobiography of Santa Claus (Historical Fiction) – Jeff Guinn (November 2022)
  • The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears – Dinaw Mengestu (February 2019)
  • The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness (Biography) – Joel ben Izzy (September 2018)
  • The Buddha in the Attic (Historical Fiction) – Julie Otsuka (June 2020)
  • The Cradle – Patrick Somerville (November 2018)
  • The Distinguished Guest – Sue Miller (March 2019)
  • The Dogs of Babel – Carolyn Parkhurst (April 2019)
  • The Dressmaker (Historical Fiction)- Kate Alcott (July 2018)
  • The Dry Grass of August – Anna Jean Mayhew (August 2019)
  • The First Phone Call from Heaven (Inspirational) – Mitch Albom (February 2023)
  • The Ghost of Grey Gardens: Lois Wright’s Life Story (Biography) – Lois Wright & Tania Hagan (March 2022)
  • The Ghost of the Mary Celeste (Historical Fiction) – Valerie Martin (September 2020)
  • The Giant’s House – Elizabeth McCracken (November 2018)
  • The Girl in the Garden – Melanie Wallace (December 2023)
  • The Girl in the Red Coat – Kate Hamer (January 2020)
  • The Girl She Used to Be – David Cristofano (December 2020)
  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky – Heidi W. Durrow (March 2019)
  • The Glass Castle (Memoir) – Jeannette Walls (January 2021)
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Historical Fiction) – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (April 2020)
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa (February 2021)
  • The Inn at Lake Devine – Elinor Lipman (September 2018)
  • The Invisible Wall (Biography) – Harry Bernstein (June 2018)
  • The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar (Historical Fiction)- Robert Alexander (January 2019)
  • The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom (March 2018)
  • The Last Runaway (Historical Fiction) – Tracy Chevalier (February 2023)
  • The Little Giant of Aberdeen County – Tiffany Baker (August 2019)
  • The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George (August 2018)
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie (March 2023)
  • The Lost German Slave Girl (Biography) – John Bailey (September 2019)
  • The Lost Mother – Mary McGarry Morris (May 2019)
  • The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint – Brady Udall (November 2018)
  • The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (July 2020)
  • The Pleasure of My Company – Steve Martin (April 2018)
  • The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (March 2018)
  • The Reader – Bernhard Schlink (November 2018)
  • The Sea – John Banville (February 2020)
  • The Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry (June 2019)
  • The Solace of Leaving Early – Haven Kimmel (May 2018)
  • The Snow Globe (Historical Fiction) – Judith Kinghorn (February 2022)
  • The Stormchasers – Jenna Blum (May 2018)
  • The Story of Arthur Truluv – Elizabeth Berg (July 2018)
  • The Story of Land and Sea – Katy Simpson Smith (August 2018)
  • The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last Hermit (Biography) – Michael Finkel (October 2020)
  • The Time Keeper (Inspirational) – Mitch Albom (March 2023)
  • The Walk (Inspirational) – Richard Paul Evans (July 2020)
  • The Wednesday Letters – Jason F. Wright (April 2018)
  • The Wishing Trees – John Shors (July 2019)
  • The Woman in Black – Susan Hill (October 2018)
  • The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls – Anton Disclafani (July 2018)
  • The Zookeeper’s Wife (Non-Fiction) – Diane Ackerman (August 2020)
  • This Boy’s Life: A Memoir – Tobias Wolff (January 2022)
  • Tracks – Jim Black (May 2020)
  • Tuesdays with Morrie (Memoir) – Mitch Albom (June 2020)
  • Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories (Autobiography) – Daniel Pinkwater (January 2024)
  • Vinegar Hill – A. Manette Ansay (April 2020)
  • We Are All Welcome Here – Elizabeth Berg (March 2018)
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard – Susan Crandall (June 2018)
  • Yesterday’s Sun – Amanda Brooke (October 2022)