Book Review Index

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.

Atkinson, Kate.

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum. (England)
• Life After Life. (England)

Atwood, Margaret.

• Cat’s Eye. (Canada)
• Life Before Man. (Canada)

Backman, Fredrik. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. (Sweden)

Bailey, Becky. Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline.

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.

• Fun Home.
• More Dykes to Watch Out For.

Blackstone, Stella. Bear on a Bike.

Blume, Judy. Then Again, Maybe I Won’t.

Bond, Felicia [illustrator]. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…

Borg, Marcus.

• The God We Never Knew.
• The Last Week.

Brown, Todd D. Entries from a Hot Pink Notebook.

Bryson, Bill.

• At Home.
• 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.

Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth. Cheaper By the Dozen.

Carwardine, Mark. Last Chance to See. (many exotic parts of Earth)

Cash, Robert Carroll. Modern Type of Apartment Hotels Thruout United States.

Charnas, Suzy McKee. The Bronze King.

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. (Pittsburgh)

Chew, Ruth. General recommendation of this author.

Childcraft.

• Guide for Parents.
• Poems and Rhymes.

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)

Cleary, Beverly.

• general recommendation of this author.
• Ramona the Pest.
• Ramona and Her Mother.

Clough, Brenda W. How Like a God. (Kazakhstan, partially)

Clymer, Eleanor. The Trolley Car Family.

Cole, Henry. On Meadowview Street.

Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were.

Corman, Avery. Kramer vs. Kramer.

Crossan, Dominic. The Last Week.

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)

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.

• Melendy series overall.
• Spiderweb for Two.

Entwisle, Doris. The Long Shadow.

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)

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.

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.

Gurney, Eric [illustrator]. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars.

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.

Heinlein, Robert.

• Red Planet. (Mars)
• Stranger in a Strange Land.

Hind, Rebecca. Sacred Places.

Hite, Shere. The Hite Report on Male Sexuality.

Holt, John. How Children Learn.

Hurwitz, Johanna. Once I Was a Plum Tree.

Ibbotson, Eva. The Secret of Platform 13. (England and magical Island)

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.

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.)

K.A., Alex. Hell with the Lid Off. (Pittsburgh)

Keats, Ezra Jack. Goggles!

Keillor, Garrison. The Book of Guys.

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.

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?

Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.

Leffler, Maggie. The Goodbye Cousins. (Pittsburgh)

LeGuin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven.

L’Engle, Madeleine. 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 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)

Lord, Bette Bao. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. (China, partially)

Mankell, Henning. Shadows in the Twilight. (Sweden)

Mass, Wendy.

• Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life.
• A Mango-Shaped Space.

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.

Milne, A.A.

• When We Were Very Young. (England)
• Winnie-the-Pooh series. (Hundred Acre Wood)

Mirvis, Tova. The Ladies’ Auxiliary.

Moriarty, Liane.

• Big Little Lies. (Australia)
• What Alice Forgot. (Australia)

Morris, Desmond. The Human Zoo.

Morton, Kate.

• The Distant Hours. (England)
• The Secret Keeper. (England)

My Book House: In the Nursery.

Ng, Mei. Eating Chinese Food Naked.

Nielsen, Laura F. Mrs. Muddle’s Holidays.

Niven, Larry. The Integral Trees. (trees in space)

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.

Pane, Salvatore. Last Call in the City of Bridges. (Pittsburgh)

Pearson, David. The Natural House Book.

Perkins, Al. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.

Potok, Chaim. The Chosen.

Pratchett, Terry. The Color of Magic. (Discworld)

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)
• The Monster in the Box. (England)
• Shake Hands Forever. (England)
• A Sleeping Life. (England)
• The Speaker of Mandarin. (China and England)
• Tigerlily’s Orchids. (England)
• To Fear a Painted Devil. (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.

Schnur, Steven. Summer: An Alphabet Acrostic.

Schoemperlein, Diane. Our Lady of the Lost and Found.

Sears, Bill & Martha. The Baby Book.

Seuss, Dr.

• I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew.
• Scrambled Eggs Super!

Shulman, Polly. The Grimm Legacy.

Silverstein, Murray. A Pattern Language.

Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Sobol, Donald J. Encyclopedia Brown.

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.

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.

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit.

Tudor, Tasha [illustrator]. Mother Goose.

Tyler, Anne.

• Back When We Were Grownups.
• Digging to America.
• Saint Maybe.

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.

Weiner, Jennifer. Good in Bed.

Weir, Andy. The Martian. (Mars)

Wells, Rebecca. Little Altars Everywhere.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House series.

Willems, Mo.

• Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct.
• The Pigeon Needs a Bath!

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)

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.

Yep, Laurence. The Earth Dragon Awakes.

Yezerski, Thomas F. [illustrator] Mrs. Muddle’s Holidays.

Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen. (Japan)