This is a list of all the books I’ve reviewed! They are alphabetized by author and illustrator. Each title links to the post where I reviewed that book. Books set in Pittsburgh and books set outside the United States are noted.
Adams, Douglas.
- Last Chance to See. (many exotic parts of Earth)
- The Salmon of Doubt. (England, mostly)
Aldridge, John W. In the Country of the Young.
Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language.
Alexander, Karl. The Long Shadow.
Alexander, Lloyd. Time Cat.
Alexander, Pat. My Own Book of Bible Stories.
Alpern, Andrew. New York’s Fabulous Luxury Apartments.
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. (Dominican Republic, partially)
Andrews, Jesse. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. (Pittsburgh)
Anthony, Piers. Cluster. (many worlds)
Appelbaum, Stanley. The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record.
Askew, Rilla. Kind of Kin.
Atkinson, Kate.
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum. (England)
- Case Histories. (England)
- Life After Life. (England)
- Started Early, Took My Dog. (England)
Atwood, Margaret.
- Cat’s Eye. (Canada)
- Life Before Man. (Canada)
Auster, Paul. Travels in the Scriptorium.
Backman, Fredrik.
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. (Sweden)
- Britt-Marie Was Here. (Sweden)
Bailey, Becky. Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline.
Baum, L. Frank.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. (Oz)
- The Marvelous Land of Oz. (Oz)
Baker, Nicholson. The Fermata.
Barnett, Mac. Extra Yarn.
Barrett, Judi & Ron. Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House.
Barry, Lynda. One Hundred Demons.
Beavan, Colin. No Impact Man.
Bechdel, Alison.
Bell, Cece. Rabbit & Robot and Ribbit.
Birnbaum, Alfred [translator]. A Wild Sheep Chase. (Japan)
Blackstone, Stella. Bear on a Bike.
Blatty, William Peter. Crazy.
Bloom, Amy. Lucky Us.
Blume, Judy.
Bogel, Anne. Reading People.
Bond, Felicia [illustrator]. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…
Borg, Marcus.
Boyle, T.C.
Brooks, Kim. Small Animals.
Brown, Jennifer S. Modern Girls.
Brown, Peter. The Wild Robot. (island with no human inhabitants)
Brown, Todd D. Entries from a Hot Pink Notebook.
Bryson, Bill.
- At Home. (England, partially)
- A Walk in the Woods.
- I’m a Stranger Here Myself.
- In a Sunburned Country. (Australia)
- Notes from a Big Country.
- Notes from a Small Island. (England, Wales, Scotland)
Bull, Emma. War for the Oaks.
Byatt, A.S. The Shadow of the Sun. (England)
Campbell, Bebe Moore. What You Owe Me.
Campbell, Julie. The Secret of the Mansion and The Red Trailer Mystery.
Cannon, Joanna. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep. (England)
Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth. Cheaper By the Dozen.
Carwardine, Mark. Last Chance to See. (many exotic parts of Earth)
Case, Chris [illustrator]. Jacob’s New Dress.
Cash, Robert Carroll. Modern Type of Apartment Hotels Thruout United States.
Chapman, Gary. The 5 Love Languages.
Charnas, Suzy McKee. The Bronze King.
Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. (Pittsburgh)
Chew, Ruth. General recommendation of this author.
Childcraft.
Christie, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. (England)
Christopher, John. The Tripod Trilogy: The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, The Pool of Fire. (England in dystopian future)
Ciesemier, Kali [illustrator]. I Am Princess X.
Cleary, Beverly.
- general recommendation of this author.
- Henry and the Clubhouse.
- Ramona the Pest.
- Ramona and Her Father.
- Ramona and Her Mother.
- Ramona Forever.
Clough, Brenda W. How Like a God. (Kazakhstan, partially)
Clymer, Eleanor. The Trolley Car Family.
Cohen, Tamar. War of the Wives. (England)
Cole, Henry. On Meadowview Street.
Conford, Ellen. The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations.
Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were.
Corman, Avery. Kramer vs. Kramer.
Crawley, Paige (photographer). The Pittsburgh that Stays Within You. (Pittsburgh)
Crossan, Dominic. The Last Week.
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. (England, partly)
Dawson, Shane. It Gets Worse.
de Angeli, Marguerite. Bright April.
del Rey, Lester. The Runaway Robot. (Ganymede, Mars, and outer space)
DiCamillo, Kate. The Tale of Despereaux.
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.
- The Mistress of Spices. (India, partially)
- Oleander Girl. (India, partially)
Doescher, Ian. The Empire Striketh Back. (a galaxy far, far away)
Duane, Diane. So You Want to Be a Wizard. (parallel universe, partially)
dyer, kc. Finding Fraser. (Scotland)
Edwards, Kim. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. (Pittsburgh, partially)
Ellis, Samantha. How to Be a Heroine or, What I’ve Learned by Reading Too Much. (England, etc.)
Enright, Elizabeth.
Entwisle, Doris. The Long Shadow.
Estes, Eleanor. Rufus M.
Evans, Leslie [illustrator]. Summer: An Alphabet Acrostic.
Evans, Rachel Held. A Year of Biblical Womanhood.
Faber, Adele.
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.
- Liberated Parents, Liberated Children.
Feig, Paul. Kick Me.
Flower, Hilary. Adventures in Gentle Discipline.
French, Tana.
- The Likeness. (Ireland)
- The Trespasser. (Ireland)
Fujita, Hiroko.
- Folktales from the Japanese Countryside. (Japan)
- The Price of Three Stories. (Japan)
Gabaldon, Diana.
- Outlander series overall. (Scotland, France, West Indies, colonial America)
- An Echo in the Bone and Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. (Scotland, colonial America)
Gage, Wilson. Miss Osborne-the-Mop.
Gilbreth, Frank B., Jr. Cheaper By the Dozen.
Girl Scouts USA. Worlds to Explore.
Goldman, William. The Princess Bride.
Gordon, Thomas. Parent Effectiveness Training.
Gottfredson, Floyd. Mickey Mouse: Trapped on Treasure Island.
Grabenstein, Chris. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library.
Graedon, Alena. The Word Exchange.
Grant, Cynthia D. Kumquat May, I’ll Always Love You.
Green, John. Paper Towns.
Greer, Andrew Sean. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
Grey, Eve. Elsa’s Secret.
Gurney, Eric [illustrator]. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.
Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars.
Hadley, Tessa. The Past. (England)
Hanson, Michele. What the Grown-Ups Were Doing. (England)
Harris, McHenry, & Baker Co. 101 Classic Homes of the Twenties.
Hart, Hazel. The Survivalist’s Daughter.
Harter, Debbie [illustrator]. Bear on a Bike.
Haruf, Kent. Our Souls at Night.
Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train. (England)
Hazo, Samuel. The Pittsburgh that Stays Within You. (Pittsburgh)
Headlee, Celeste. We Need to Talk.
Healey, Emma. Elizabeth Is Missing. (England)
Heinlein, Robert.
- Red Planet. (Mars)
- Stranger in a Strange Land.
Hind, Rebecca. Sacred Places. (many sites around the world)
Hite, Shere. The Hite Report on Male Sexuality.
Hoffman, Sarah & Ian. Jacob’s New Dress.
Holt, John. How Children Learn.
Hurwitz, Johanna. Once I Was a Plum Tree.
Ibbotson, Eva. The Secret of Platform 13. (England and magical Island)
Irving, Debby. Waking Up White.
Ishikawa, Sara. A Pattern Language.
Jacques, Brian. Redwall. (non-human society)
Jagendorf, Zvi. Wolfy & the Strudelbakers. (England, with a little Austria and Israel)
Jandl, H. Ward. Houses by Mail.
Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Jetha, Cacilda. Sex at Dawn.
Jiles, Paulette. News of the World.
Johnson, Crockett. A Picture for Harold’s Room.
Jonas, Ann. The Quilt.
Jonasson, Jonas. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. (Sweden, Siberia, Indonesia, etc.)
Jonke, Gert. Awakening to the Great Sleep War. (Austria, maybe)
Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth. (The Lands Beyond)
K.A., Alex. Hell with the Lid Off. (Pittsburgh)
Katz, Rebecca. The Healthy Mind Cookbook.
Keane, Mary Beth. Ask Again, Yes.
Keats, Ezra Jack. Goggles!
Keillor, Garrison. The Book of Guys.
Kelly, Erin. The Poison Tree. (England)
Kitses, Jennifer. Small Hours.
Klassen, Jon [illustrator]. Extra Yarn.
Kline, Christina Baker. Orphan Train.
Kogan, Deborah Kopaken. Between Here and April.
Kohl, Herbert. 36 Children.
Konigsberg, E.L. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Kramer, Richard. These Things Happen.
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere.
Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window. (Japan)
Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy. Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles.
Kuskin, Karla. So, What’s It Like to Be a Cat?
Lacy, Sarah. A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug: The Working Woman’s Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy. (mostly Silicon Valley but with some Iceland and China)
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City.
Latham, Jennifer. Dreamland Burning.
Lawson, Jenny. Furiously Happy.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee, Min Jin.
- Free Food for Millionaires.
- Pachinko. (Korea and Japan)
Leffler, Maggie. The Goodbye Cousins. (Pittsburgh)
LeGuin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven.
L’Engle, Madeleine.
- A Circle of Quiet.
- A Wrinkle in Time. (assorted planets)
Lerner, Harriet G. The Dance of Anger.
Levin, Ira. A Kiss Before Dying.
Lewin, Betsy [illustrator]. So, What’s It Like to Be a Cat?
Lewis, C.S.
- Mere Christianity.
- The Horse and His Boy. (Calormen and Narnia)
- Perelandra. (England and Venus)
- The Silver Chair. (England and Narnia)
Liedloff, Jean. The Continuum Concept. (Venezuela)
Lin, Grace. The Ugly Vegetables.
Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad series. (non-human society)
Looney, Andrew. Amsterdam Coffeeshops. (Netherlands)
Lord, Bette Bao. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. (China, partially)
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. (fictional society)
Mankell, Henning.
- An Event in Autumn. (Sweden)
- Shadows in the Twilight. (Sweden)
Mass, Wendy.
Mathieu, Jennifer. The Truth About Alice.
Mazlish, Elaine.
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.
- Liberated Parents, Liberated Children.
McCafferty, Jane. First You Try Everything. (Pittsburgh)
Metalious, Grace. Peyton Place.
Miller, Donald. Blue Like Jazz.
Miller, Olive Beaupré (editor).
Milne, A.A.
- When We Were Very Young. (England)
- Winnie-the-Pooh series. (Hundred Acre Wood)
Mirvis, Tova.
Moriarty, Liane.
- Big Little Lies. (Australia)
- The Husband’s Secret. (Australia)
- The Hypnotist’s Love Story. (Australia)
- Nine Perfect Strangers. (Australia)
- What Alice Forgot. (Australia)
Morris, Desmond. The Human Zoo.
Morton, Kate.
- The Distant Hours. (England)
- The Forgotten Garden. (England and Australia)
- The Lake House. (England)
- The Secret Keeper. (England)
Moyes, Patricia. Murder a la Mode. (England)
Mukherjee, Bharati. Miss New India. (India)
Murakami, Haruki. A Wild Sheep Chase. (Japan)
Netzer, Lydia. How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.
Ng, Celeste.
Ng, Mei. Eating Chinese Food Naked.
Nielsen, Laura F. Mrs. Muddle’s Holidays.
Niven, Larry.
- The Integral Trees. (trees in space)
- Oath of Fealty.
Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime.
Novak, Brenda. The Secret Sister.
Numeroff, Laura Joffe. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…
O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Olson, Linda. The Long Shadow.
O’Nan, Stewart. A World Away.
Orenstein, Peggy. Girls & Sex.
Palmer, Amanda. The Art of Asking.
Pane, Salvatore. Last Call in the City of Bridges. (Pittsburgh)
Patel, Shona. Teatime for the Firefly. (India)
Pearson, David. The Natural House Book.
Penny, Louise. A Trick of the Light. (Quebec)
Perkins, Al. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.
Perrotta, Tom. Little Children.
Phelps, Libby. Girl on a Wire.
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen.
Pournelle, Jerry. Oath of Fealty.
Pratchett, Terry. The Color of Magic. (Discworld)
Priest, Cherie. I Am Princess X.
Puchner, Eric. Model Home.
Quinn, Spencer. Woof.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game: my review and my 10-year-old son’s.
Rasmussen, Steen Eiler. Experiencing Architecture.
Rendell, Ruth.
- From Doon with Death. (England)
- The Girl Next Door. (England)
- Harm Done. (England)
- Master of the Moor. (England)
- The Monster in the Box. (England)
- No More Dying Then. (England)
- One Across, Two Down. (England)
- Shake Hands Forever. (England)
- Sins of the Fathers. (England)
- A Sleeping Life. (England)
- The Speaker of Mandarin. (China and England)
- Tigerlily’s Orchids. (England)
- To Fear a Painted Devil. (England)
- The Vault. (England)
- The Veiled One. (England)
Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief.
Roach, Mary. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
Robbins, Louise S. The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown.
Rosenstiehl, Agnes. Silly Lilly in “What Will I Be Today?”
Rushmore, Helen. Ghost Cat.
Russo, Marisabina. A Very Big Bunny.
Ryan, Christopher. Sex at Dawn.
Schnur, Steven. Summer: An Alphabet Acrostic.
Schoemperlein, Diane. Our Lady of the Lost and Found.
Sears, Bill & Martha. The Baby Book.
Selden, George. The Cricket in Times Square.
Seuss, Dr.
Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures.
Shulman, Polly. The Grimm Legacy.
Silverstein, Murray. A Pattern Language.
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Snook, Jean M. [translator] Awakening to the Great Sleep War. (Austria, maybe)
Sobol, Donald J. Encyclopedia Brown.
Speck, Jeff. Walkable City.
Spinrad, Norman. A World Between. (Pacifica)
Stafford, Jean. Elephi, the Cat with the High I.Q.
Stallings, Fran. The Price of Three Stories. (Japan)
Stanley, John. Lulu Goes Shopping.
Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me.
Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash and The Diamond Age.
Stevenson, Katherine Cole. Houses by Mail.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. (England and the seas)
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help.
Stradal, J. Ryan. Kitchens of the Great Midwest.
Sukegawa, Durian. Sweet Bean Paste. (Japan)
Taffel, Ron. Childhood Unbound: Authoritative Parenting for the 21st Century.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. (China, partially)
Tarshis, Lauren. I Survived: The Attacks of September 11th, 2001.
Tey, Josephine.
- The Franchise Affair. (England)
- The Man in the Queue. (England and Scotland)
Thevenin, Tine. The Family Bed.
Thompson, Laurie [translator]. An Event in Autumn. (Sweden)
Time-Life Books. This Fabulous Century, 1920-1930.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit.
Tudor, Tasha [illustrator]. Mother Goose.
Tyler, Anne.
Vincent, Leah. Cut Me Loose. (Pittsburgh, Israel, England)
Vine, Barbara.
- The Child’s Child. (England)
- A Dark-Adapted Eye. (England)
- A Fatal Inversion. (England)
- The Minotaur. (England)
Waber, Bernard. Ira Sleeps Over.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Ware, Ruth. The Woman in Cabin 10. (England and Norway)
Waxman, Abbi. Other People’s Houses.
Weiner, Jennifer.
Weir, Andy. The Martian. (Mars)
Wells, Rebecca. Little Altars Everywhere.
Westover, Tara. Educated.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls.
- general recommendation of Little House series.
- how to learn from the racism in these books.
- using these books to inspire culturally sensitive discussion.
- By the Shores of Silver Lake and its relevance to the coronavirus pandemic.
Willems, Mo.
Williams, Garth [illustrator].
Williams, Katie. Tell the Machine Goodnight.
Williams, Ursula Moray. The Moonball. (England)
Winn, Chris. Legal Daisy Spacing: The Build-a-Planet Manual of Official World Improvements.
Winn, Marie. The Plug-In Drug.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. (England)
Wiseman, Rosalind. Masterminds and Wingmen.
Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard Love.
Wolf, Anthony E. Get Out of My Life! But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?
Wolitzer, Meg. The Ten-Year Nap.
Yap, Felicia. Yesterday. (England)
Yep, Laurence. The Earth Dragon Awakes.
Yezerski, Thomas F. [illustrator] Mrs. Muddle’s Holidays.
Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen. (Japan)
