Book Reviews

Alphabetical by author

* = nonfiction

A

Adegoke, Yomi — “The List” (2023)

B

Benchley, Peter – “Jaws” (1974)

Benjamin, Chloe — “The Immortalists” (2018)

Blatty, William Peter – “The Exorcist” (1971)

Blatty, William Peter – “Legion” (1983)

Bloch, Robert – “Psycho” (1959)

Bloch, Robert – “Psycho II” (1982)

Bloch, Robert – “Psycho House” (1990)

Boulle, Pierre – “Planet of the Apes” (1963)

Burroughs, Edgar Rice — “A Princess of Mars” (1912)

C

Capote, Truman — “In Cold Blood” (1966)*

Carlin, George, with Tony Hendra – “Last Words” (2009)*

Cerasini, Marc – “24: Operation Hell Gate” (2005)

Chabon, Michael — “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” (2000)

Chandler, Raymond — “The Big Sleep” (1939)

Chandler, Raymond — “Farewell, My Lovely” (1940)

Chandler, Raymond — “The High Window” (1942)

Chandler, Raymond — “The Lady in the Lake” (1943)

Chandler, Raymond — “The Little Sister” (1949)

Chandler, Raymond — “The Simple Art of Murder” (1950, short stories)

Chandler, Raymond — “Trouble is My Business” (1950, 1992, short stories)

Chandler, Raymond — “The Long Goodbye” (1953)

Chandler, Raymond — “Playback” (1958)

Chandler, Raymond and Robert B. Parker — “Poodle Springs” (1988)

Child, Lincoln – Index of all reviews

Choi, Susan — “Trust Exercise” (2019)

Christie, Agatha – Index of all reviews

Clarke, Arthur C. – “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)

Clarke, Jaime (editor) – “Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes” (2007)*

Cline, Ernest – “Ready Player One” (2011)

Clowes, Daniel — “Ghost World” (1997, graphic novel)

Cohn, Rachel, and David Levithan – “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist” (2006)

Cosimano, Elle — “Finlay Donovan Is Killing It” (2021)

Crichton, Michael – Index of all reviews

D

Danielewski, Mark Z. — “House of Leaves” (2000)

Dave, Laura — “The Night We Lost Him” (2024)

Denton-Hurst, Tembe — “Homebodies” (2023)

Dick, Philip K. – Index of all reviews

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “A Study in Scarlet” (1887)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “The Sign of Four” (1890)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1892, short stories)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” (1894, short stories)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1902)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” (1905, short stories)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “The Valley of Fear” (1915)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “His Last Bow” (1917, short stories)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” (1927, short stories)

du Maurier, Daphne — “Rebecca” (1938)

du Maurier, Daphne — “Don’t Look Now” (2008, short story collection)

Duncan, Lois – “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1973)

E

F

G

Galbraith, Robert — “The Cuckoo’s Calling” (2013)

Galbraith, Robert — “The Silkworm” (2014)

Galbraith, Robert — “Career of Evil” (2015)

Galbraith, Robert — “Lethal White” (2018)

Galbraith, Robert — “Troubled Blood” (2020)

Galbraith, Robert — “The Ink Black Heart” (2022)

Galbraith, Robert — “The Running Grave” (2023)

Galbraith, Robert — “The Hallmarked Man” (2025)

Gibson, William – “The Peripheral” (2014)

Gilbert, Sian — “She Started It” (2023)

Goldin, Stephen – “The Eternity Brigade” (1980)

Grafton, Sue — “A is for Alibi” (1982)

Grafton, Sue — “B is for Burglar” (1985)

Grafton, Sue — “C is for Corpse” (1986)

Grafton, Sue — “D is for Deadbeat” (1987)

Grafton, Sue — “E is for Evidence” (1988)

Green, John — “Looking for Alaska” (2005)

Green, John — “Turtles All the Way Down” (2017)

H

Haggard, Merle — “Sing Me Back Home: My Story” (1981)

Haldeman, Joe – “The Forever War” (1974)

Hammett, Dashiell — “Red Harvest” (1929)

Hammett, Dashiell — “The Dain Curse” (1929)

Hammett, Dashiell — “The Maltese Falcon” (1930)

Hammett, Dashiell — “The Glass Key” (1931)

Hammett, Dashiell — “Woman in the Dark” (1933, novella)

Hammett, Dashiell — “The Thin Man” (1934)

Hammett, Dashiell — “Nightmare Town” (1999, short stories)

Hammett, Dashiell — “Lost Stories” (2005, short stories)

Hammett, Dashiell — “The Hunter and Other Stories” (2013, short stories)

Hammett, Dashiell — “The Big Book of the Continental Op” (2017, short stories)

Harris, Thomas – “Red Dragon” (1981)

Harris, Thomas – “The Silence of the Lambs” (1988)

Harris, Thomas – “Hannibal” (1999)

Harris, Thomas – “Hannibal Rising” (2006)

Holmberg, Charlie N. — “Keeper of Enchanted Rooms” (2022)

Honeycutt, Kirk – “John Hughes: A Life in Film” (2015)*

Hornby, Nick – “Juliet, Naked” (2009)

Hornby, Nick – “Funny Girl” (2014)

I

J

Jackson, Holly — “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” (2019)

K

Kent, Minka — “Imaginary Strangers” (2024)

King, Stephen – Index of all reviews

Kling, Marc-Uwe — “QualityLand” (2017)

Klosterman, Chuck – “Eating the Dinosaur” (2009)*

Klosterman, Chuck – “The Visible Man” (2011)

Klosterman, Chuck – “I Wear the Black Hat” (2013)*

Klosterman, Chuck – “But What If We’re Wrong?” (2016)*

Klosterman, Chuck – “The Nineties” (2022)*

Klune, TJ – “Under the Whispering Door” (2021)

L

M

MacDonald, John D. — “The Quick Red Fox” (1964)

MacDonald, John D. — “The Dreadful Lemon Sky” (1974)

MacDonald, John D. — “The Green Ripper” (1979)

MacDonald, John D. — “Free Fall in Crimson” (1981)

Mamet, David – “The Old Religion” (1997)

Mamet, David – “Chicago” (2018)

Marsh, Dave – “Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s” (1987)*

Martin, Madeline — “The Last Bookshop in London” (2021)

McDonald, Ann A. — “The Oxford Inheritance” (2016)

McGill, Gordon — “Omen IV: Armageddon 2000” (1983)

Morrell, David – “First Blood” (1972)

Morrison, Toni — “Beloved” (1987)

Murata, Sayaka — “Earthlings” (2018)

N

O

P

Paralkar, Vikram — “Night Theater” (2020)

Patterson, James (from Michael Crichton’s notes) — “Eruption” (2024)

Pessl, Marisha — “Night Film” (2013)

Preston, Douglas – Index of all reviews

Q

R

Rowling, J.K. – Index of all “Harry Potter” reviews

Rowling, J.K. — “The Casual Vacancy” (2012)

Ryan, L.T., with Laura Chase — “Echoes of Guilt” (2025)

S

Sagan, Carl – “Contact” (1985)

Salinger, J.D. — “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951)

Sayers, Dorothy L. — “Strong Poison” (1930)

Sayers, Dorothy L. — “Five Red Herrings” (1931)

Sayers, Dorothy L. — “Have His Carcase” (1932)

Sayers, Dorothy L. — “Gaudy Night” (1935)

Sayers, Dorothy L. — “Busman’s Honeymoon” (1937)

Searls, Hank – “Jaws 2” (1978)

Searls, Hank – “Jaws: The Revenge” (1987)

Shepherd, Peng — “The Cartographers” (2022)

Simmons, Dan – “The Terror” (2007)

Smith, Amber — “The Way I Used to Be” (2016)

Smith, Scott — “A Simple Plan” (1993)

Smith, Scott – “The Ruins” (2006)

Swallow, James – “24: Live Another Day – Deadline” (2014)

T

U

Urasawa, Naoki — “Monster” (1995, Perfect Edition Volume 1, graphic novel)

V

Vonnegut, Kurt — “Breakfast of Champions” (1973)

W

Weir, Andy – “The Martian” (2014)

Westlake, Donald E. — “Jimmy the Kid” (1974)

Williamson, Chet – “Psycho: Sanitarium” (2016)

Wilson, Daniel H. – “The Andromeda Evolution” (2019)

Wong, David — “John Dies at the End” (2009)

Wynette, Tammy — “Stand by Your Man: An Autobiography” (1979)*

X

Y

Z

Zevin, Gabrielle — “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” (2022)

Zusak, Markus — “The Book Thief” (2005)

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