I hadn’t maintained a list of reviews since like 2018 (probably earlier) so between December 2023 and January 2024, I rebuilt this page and now continue to maintain it. Dates listed next to titles indicate when I published the post (not when the book was published). Titles are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. CTLR + F if you’re looking for a specific author or book!
Table of Contents
- Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
- Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction
- Adult Fiction
- Tolkien
- Non-fiction – Lifestyle / Self-help
- Non-fiction – Arctic / Northern
- Non-fiction – Other Topics
- Archived reviews from 2010 to 2013
Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
- Ahn, Angela – Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm (Sept 2022)
- Alkaf, Hanna – The Girl and the Ghost (Dec 2020)
- Alexander, William
- A Festival of Ghosts (Oct 2018)
- A Properly Unhaunted Place (Apr 2018)
- Almond, David – Half a Creature from the Sea (June 2015)
- Alston, B.B. – Amari and the Night Brothers (Jan 2023)
- Alvarez, Lorena – Nightlights (Mar 2018)
- Andrews, Ryan – This Was Our Pact (Apr 2020)
- Auxier, Jonathan
- The Night Gardener (May 2015)
- Sweep (Oct 2019)
- Baptiste, Tracey – The Jumbies (June 2020)
- Barnhill, Kelly – The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Dec 2016)
- Beatty, Robert – Serafina and the Black Cloak (July 2015)
- Black, Holly – Doll Bones (July 2014)
- Blackwood, Sage – Miss Ellicott’s School for the Magically Minded (June 2018)
- Brown, Waka T. – The Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura (Dec 2023)
- Burgis, Stephanie – The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart (Nov 2017)
- Cajoleas, Jimmy – The Rambling (Mar 2019)
- Chewins, Hayley – The Sisters of Straygarden Place (Oct 2020)
- Coates, J. Anderson – The Green Children of Woolpit (Nov 2022)
- Connolly, MarcyKate – Shadow Weaver (Oct 2020)
- Cotter, Charis
- The Painting (Sept 2017)
- The Swallow (Sept 2014)
- George, Jessica Day
- Tuesdays at the Castle (May 2015)
- Wednesdays in the Tower (Jan 2018)
- DiCamillo, Kate
- The Beatryce Prophecy (Nov 2022)
- The Magician’s Elephant (Jan 2016)
- Durst, Sarah Beth – The Stone Girl’s Story (Oct 2019)
- Eagar, Lindsay – Race to the Bottom of the Sea (Nov 2017)
- Emerson, Kevin – Last Day on Mars (June 2018)
- Epstein, Adam Jay – Escape to the Above (Mar 2019)
- Fawcett, Heather – The Language of Ghosts (Dec 2020)
- Fodi, Lee Edward – Spell Sweeper (Jan 2023)
- Funaro, Gregory
- Alistair Grimm’s Odditorium (Nov 2015)
- Watch Hollow (Jan 2019)
- Funke, Cornelia – The Color of Revenge (Inkworld #4) (Nov 2024)
- Gale, Eric Kahn – The Wizard’s Dog (Jan 2017)
- Gidwitz, Adam – The Inquisitor’s Tale (May 2018)
- Giles, Lamar – The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer (Mar 2019)
- Gorman, Zac – Thisby Thestoop and the Black Mountain (Mar 2019)
- Goudge, Elizabeth – The Little White Horse (Apr 2017)
- Hardinge, Frances
- A Face Like Glass (June 2018)
- Deeplight (Oct 2020)
- Harmon, Daka – Hide and Seeker (Oct 2020)
- Haskell, Merrie – The Castle Behind Thorns (Jan 2018)
- Heidicker, Christian McKay – Scary Stories for Young Foxes (Nov 2019)
- Hernandez, Carlos – Sal & Gabi Break the Universe (Apr 2020)
- Higuera, Donna Barba – The Last Cuentista (Dec 2022)
- Kelly, Erin Entrada – Lalani of the Distant Sea (Apr 2020 – Family Reads)
- Kidd, Ronald – Dreambender (Feb 2016)
- Krampien, Celia – The Bellwoods Game (Jan 2024)
- Lang, Heidi and Bartowski, Kati – Whispering Pines (Sept 2022)
- Lin, Grace – When the Sea Turned to Silver (Feb 2017)
- Lloyd, Natalie – A Snicker of Magic (Oct 2014)
- Lowry, Lois – The Giver (Nov 2019)
- Lucas, Chad – Let the Monster Out (Oct 2022)
- Mandanna, Sangu – Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom (Jan 2023)
- Mbalia, Kwame – Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Apr 2020)
- Meriano, Anna – A Dash of Trouble and A Sprinkle of Spirits (July 2019)
- Miller, Jessica
- Elizabeth and Zenobia (Oct 2017)
- The Republic of Birds (Mar 2020)
- Mills, Allison – The Ghost Collector (Jan 2020)
- Moulton, Deke – Don’t Want to Be Your Monster (Dec 2023)
- Ness, Patrick – A Monster Calls (Dec 2016 – Family Reads)
- O’Donnell, Tom – Homerooms & Hall Passes (Apr 2020)
- Oh, Ellen
- The Dragon Egg Princess (Dec 2020)
- The Island of Monsters (Oct 2018)
- Spirit Hunters (June 2018)
- Oppel, Kenneth
- Bloom and Hatch (Dec 2020)
- The Boundless (Apr 2015)
- Ghostlight (Oct 2022)
- Inkling (Oct 2018)
- The Nest (Oct 2015)
- Ortega, Claribel – Ghost Squad (June 2020)
- O’Shea, Pat – The Hounds of the Morrigan (Dec 2017)
- Pearce, Philippa – Tom’s Midnight Garden (Nov 2019)
- Robertson, David. A – The Barren Grounds (Sept 2020)
- Rushby, Allison – The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery (July 2018)
- Slivensky, Katie – The Countdown Conspiracy (June 2018)
- Soontornvat, Christina – A Wish in the Dark (Mar 2020)
- Strong, Karen – Just South of Home (May 2019)
- Taylor, Thomas – Malamander (Jan 2020)
- Towell, Katy – Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow (Nov 2015)
- Tureaud, Maria – The Last Hope in Hopetown (Dec 2023)
- Townsend, Jessica – Nevermoor, Wundersmith, and Hollowpox (Jan 2021)
- Ursu, Anne
- The Lost Girl (Nov 2020 – Family Reads)
- The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy (Dec 2023)
- Valente, Catherynne M.
- The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland – For a Little While (Fairyland #0.5) (Apr 2014)
- The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland #4) (Sept 2015)
- The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (Fairyland #5) (July 2016)
- CTRL + F or scroll down to the archived reviews for reviews of other Fairyland books
- Van Eekhout, Greg – Cog (Apr 2020)
- Werlin, Nancy – Healer & Witch (Nov 2022)
- West, Jacqueline – Long Lost (Mar 2024)
Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
- Anderson, John David – Ms. Bixby’s Last Day (Feb 2017)
- Baron, Chris – The Gray (Sept 2023)
- Barnhart, Cathleen – That’s What Friends Do (Sept 2020)
- Becker, Erin – Crushing It (Oct 2024)
- Brubaker Bradley, Kimberly
- Fighting Words (Aug 2020)
- The War that Saved My Life (May 2015)
- Burkinshaw, Kathleen – The Last Cherry Blossom (Jan 2017)
- Cavanagh, Nancy J. – Just Like Me (Mar 2017)
- Choldenko, Gennifer – Al Capone Throws Me a Curve Ball (June 2018)
- Cervantes, Angela – Allie, First at Last (Mar 2017)
- Coates, J. Anderson – A Season Most Unfair (Sept 2023)
- Cylin, Busby – The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs (Mar 2017)
- Dairman, Tara – All Four Stars (Aug 2018)
- Day, Christine – I Can Make This Promise (Jan 2020)
- Dee, Barbara
- Maybe He Just Likes You (July 2020)
- Star-Crossed (June 2017)
- Fitzgerald, María José – Turtles of the Midnight Moon (Sept 2023)
- Firestone, Carrie – Dress Coded (July 2020)
- Fussner, Kate – The Song of Us (Sept 2023)
- Gennari, Jennifer – My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer (July 2019)
- Gerber, Alyson – Taking Up Space (Jan 2023)
- Gino, Alex – Alice Austen LIved Here (Jan 2024)
- Griffin, Paul – When Friendship Followed Me Home (Feb 2017)
- Guerroro, Tanya – All You Knead is Love (Jan 2021)
- Hashimi, Nadia – One Half from the East (May 2020)
- Kelly, Erin Entrada – Black Bird and The Land of Forgotten Girls (Oct 2018)
- Khan, Hena
- Amina’s Voice (May 2017)
- More to the Story (Dec 2019)
- Korman, Gordon – Slacker (Feb 2017)
- Legrand, Claire – Some Kind of Happiness (Mar 2017)
- Loftin, Nikki – Wish Girl (Aug 2018)
- Lukoff, Kyle
- Different Kinds of Fruit (Nov 2022)
- Too Bright to See (May 2021)
- Marks, Janae – From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Oct 2020)
- McDonald, Brianna – Pepper’s Rules for Secret Sleuthing (Jan 2022)
- McManis, Charlene Willing and Sorrell, Traci – Indian No More (May 2020)
- McGuire, Seanan – Over the Woodward Wall (Sept 2020)
- Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables (Jan 2015)
- Morrison, Laurie – Keeping Pace (Apr 2024)
- Nelson, Colleen – The Undercover Book List (Jan 2022)
- O’Connor, Barbara – Wish (Mar 2017)
- Prendergast, Gabrielle – Pandas on the Eastside (Feb 2017)
- Reynolds, Jason – Patina (Aug 2017)
- Rhodes, Jewell Parker – Towers Falling (Mar 2017)
- Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola and Vernick, Audrey – Two Naomis (Feb 2017)
- Riley, Ronnie – Jude Saves the World (Jan 2024)
- Saeed, Aisha – Amal Unbound (May 2020)
- Salazar, Aida – The Moon Within (Feb 2019)
- Swartz, Elly – Hidden Truths (Mar 2024)
- Smith, Andrew – The Size of the Truth (Mar 2019)
- Stamper, Phil – Small Town Pride (Sept 2023)
- Thompson, Lin
- The Best Liars in Riverview (Nov 2022)
- The House that Whispers (Sept 2023)
- Warga, Jasmine – Other Words for Home (Dec 2019)
- Weeks, Sarah and Varadajaran, Gita – Save Me a Seat (Dec 2016 – Family Reads)
- Woods, Brenda – The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond (July 2017)
- Van Otterloo, Ash – The Beautiful Somewhere Else (Jan 2024)
- Yang, Kelly – Front Desk (Sept 2018)
Young Adult Fiction
- Acevedo, Elizabeth – With the Fire on High (May 2020)
- Carson, Rae – The Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy (Jan 2015)
- Córdova, Zoraida – Labyrinth Lost (Apr 2018)
- Blake, Kendare – Three Dark Crowns series (May 2020)
- Brennan, Sarah Rees – In Other Lands (Sept 2018 – Family Reads)
- Chupeco, Rin – The Girl from the Well (Dec 2014)
- Coulthurst, Audrey – Of Fire and Stars (May 2018)
- Emezi, Akwaeke – Pet (July 2020)av 2019)
- Forman, Gayle – If I Stay (Apr 2015)
- Hellison, Cat – Beastkeeper (June 2015)
- Heran, Chritine Lynn – The Devouring Gray (May 2019)
- Howard, Kat – Roses and Rot (Dec 2016)
- Ifueko, Jordan – Raybearer and Redemptor (Nov 2022)
- Khan, Sabina – The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali (May 2020)
- Kulper, Kendall
- Drift & Dagger (Dec 2017)
- Salt & Storm (May 2015)
- Lam, Laura – Pantomime (Feb 2018)
- Laura, Ruby – Bone Gap (May 2015)
- LeGrand, Claire – Furyborn (May 2018)
- Little Badger, Darcie – Elatsoe (Aug 2020)
- Lockhart, E. – We Were Liars (July 2014)
- McKinley, Robin
- The Hero and the Crown (Nov 2019)
- The Outlaws of Sherwood (July 2020)
- McLemore, Anna-Marie
- The Weight of Feathers (Jan 2019)
- Wild Beauty (Dec 2017)
- Moriarty, Jaclyn – Cracks in the Kingdom (May 2014)
- Nelson, Jandy – I’ll Give You the Sun (Jan 2015)
- Older, Daniel José – Shadowshaper (Mar 2017)
- Onyebuchi, Tochi – Beasts Made of Night (May 2018)
- Oppel, Kenneth – Every Hidden Thing (Nov 2016 – Family Reads)
- Oseman, Alice – Radio Silence (May 2017)
- Pan, Emily X.R. – The Astonishing Color of Ever After (Oct 2020)
- Podos, Rebecca – The Wise and the Wicked (May 2019)
- Roe, Robin – A List of Cages (July 2018 – Family Reads)
- Robertson, David A. and Chomichuk, G.M.B. – Will I See? (Apr 2017)
- Romanoff, Zann – A Song to Take the World Apart (Sept 2016)
- Schwab, Victoria – This Savage Song (Sept 2016)
- Shusterman, Neal
- Challenge Deep (Apr 2015)
- Unstrung (Unwind #1.5) (Apr 2014)
- Undivided (Unwind #4) (Oct 2014)
- Unbound (Unwind #4.5) (Sept 2016)
- Skrutsie, Emily – The Abyss Surrounds Us (Aug 2017)
- Walton, Leslye
- The Price Guide to the Occult (Mar 2018)
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (July 2014)
Adult Fiction
- Arikawa, Hiro
- The Goodbye Cat (Dec 2023)
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Aug 2019)
- Atkinson, Kate – Life After Life (Nov 2014)
- Backhaus, Jeff – Hikokomori and the Rental Sister (May 2014)
- Bardugo, Leigh – The Familiar (Oct 2024 – Family Reads)
- Barnhill, Kelly – When Women Were Dragons (June 2024 – Family Reads)
- Beaird, Rowan – The Divorcées (Sept 2024 – Family Reads)
- Bell, Alexandra – The Winter Garden (Mar 2024 – Family Reads)
- Bell, Matt – In the House on the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods (July 2016)
- Bennett, Alan – The Uncommon Reader (Mar 2017)
- Brown, Eli – Cinnamon and Gunpowder (May 2019)
- Buckley, Christopher – No Way to Treat a First Lady (May 2014)
- Chambers, Becky – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Dec 2021 – Family Reads)
- Choyce, Lesley – The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil (June 2024 – Family Reads)
- Cline, Ernest – Ready Player One (Mar 2018 – Family Reads)
- Crewe, Lesley – Nosy Parker (July 2023 – Family Reads)
- Collins, Bridget – The Binding (May 2020)
- Danielewski, Mark Z. – House of Leaves (Dec 2015 – Family Reads)
- Denfeld, Rene
- The Enchanted (Oct 2014)
- The Child Finder (Dec 2017)
- Dewitt, Patrick – The Sisters Brothers (May 2015 – Family Reads)
- Donoghue, Emma – Room (Dec 2014)
- Eckbäck, Cecilia – Wolf Winter (Jan 2015)
- Elliott, Alicia – And Then She Fell (Sept 2023)
- Favro, Terri – Sputnik’s Children (Apr 2014)
- Flynn, Gillian – Dark Places (July 2015)
- Gaiman, Neil – The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Apr 2015 – Family Reads)
- Gaynor, Hazel – The Cottingley Secret (Dec 2017 – Family Reads)
- Giffin, Emily – The One & Only (May 2014)
- Kent, Hannah
- Burial Rites (Dec 2014)
- The Good People (Nov 2017)
- King, Claire – The Night Rainbow (July 2018)
- King, Thomas – Indians on Vacation (Nov 2024 – Family Reads)
- Krueger, Lesley – Mad Richard (Apr 2017)
- Kuang, R.F – Babel (Dec 2023)
- Kukafka, Danya – Notes on an Execution (Jan 2024 – Family Reads)
- Hall, Sarah – The Wolf Border (Feb 2016)
- Hill, Susan – The Man in the Picture (May 2014)
- Holdstock, Robert – Mythago Wood (June 2018 – Family Reads)
- Hosseini, Khaled – And the Mountains Echoed (Sept 2015 – Family Reads)
- Lim, Rosalie M. – Daughter of Calamity (Nov 2024)
- Hunt, Laird – Neverhome (Mar 2017)
- Jackson, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House (Oct 2014)
- Johns, Jessica – Bad Cree (Jan 2024 – Family Reads)
- King, Thomas – Green Grass, Running Water (Mar 2015)
- Kuzniar, M.A. – Midnight in Everwood (Dec 2024 – Family Reads)
- Lambert, Charles – The Children’s Home (July 2018)
- Lee, Jen Sookfong – The Conjoined (Sept 2016)
- Lin, Rosalie M. – Daughter of Calamity (Nov 2024)
- Loory, Ben – Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Jan 2016)
- McKay, Ami – The Witches of New York (Dec 2016)
- McGuire, Ian – The North Water (Jan 2016)
- McGuire, Seanan (series listed in publication order)
- Wayward Children
- Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones (#1 and #2), Dec 2017)
- In an Absent Dream (#4, Dec 2018)
- Come Tumbling Down (#5, Oct 2020)
- Lost in the Moment and Found (#8, Feb 2023 – Family Reads)
- Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (#9, Mar 2024)
- Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (#10, Dec 2024)
- Alchemical Journeys
- Middlegame (May 2019)
- Seasonal Fears (Apr 2022)
- Tidal Creatures (May 2024)
- Wayward Children
- McKillip, Patricia – Dreams of Distant Shores (Aug 2016)
- Mitchell, Maggie – Pretty Is (June 2015)
- Morten, Kate – The Forgotten Garden (Apr 2018 – Family Reads)
- Murata, Sayaka – Convenience Store Woman (Nov 2018)
- Nathan, Alix – The Warlow Experiment (Jan 2022)
- Norman, Peter – Emberton (Sept 2014)
- Novik, Naomi – Uprooted (Jan 2016)
- Uprooted reread review (May 2018)
- Ogden, Jenny – A Drop in the Ocean (May 2016)
- Oliva, Alexandra – The Last One (Jan 2018 – Family Reads)
- O’Loughlin, Ed – Minds of Winter (Mar 2017)
- Oyeyemi, Helen
- Peaces (Mar 2019)
- What is Not Yours is Not Yours (June 2016)
- Ozeki, Ruth – A Tale for the Time Being (June 2014)
- Ratner, Vaddey – Music of the Ghosts (Apr 2014)
- Reid-Benta, Zalika – Frying Plantain (Nov 2021 – Family Reads)
- Robertson, David A. – The Evolution of Alice (Jan 2016)
- Robinson, Eden
- Monkey Beach (Mar 2015)
- Son of a Trickster (Feb 2017)
- Rosen, Lev A.C. – Lavender House (July 2023)
- Schwab, V.E
- A Darker Shade of Magic (Feb 2015)
- A Conjuring of Light (June 2017)
- Setterfield, Diane – Once Upon a River (Dec 2023 – Family Reads)
- Shcweblin, Samantha – Fever Dream (Jan 2022)
- Sloan, Robin – Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore (Oct 2014)
- Stewart, Andrew – The Bone Shard Daughter (May 2021)
- Strube, Cornelia – On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light (Mar 2016)
- Sukegawa, Durian – Sweet Bean Paste (Feb 2024)
- Tartt, Donna – The Secret History (Jan 2015)
- Vandermeer, Jeff
- Annihilation (June 2015 – Family Reads)
- Acceptance (Oct 2015)
- Borne (June 2017 – Family Reads)
- Valente, Catherynne – Comfort Me With Apples (Feb 2022)
- Valentine, Genevieve – The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (June 2014)
- Vaughn, Carrie – Bannerless (July 2017)
- Vermette, Katherena – The Break (Dec 2018)
- Vo, Nghi
- The Chosen and the Beautiful (Feb 2022)
- The City in Glass (Dec 2024)
- Siren Queen (Dec 2022)
- The Empress of Salt & Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle #1 and #2) (Feb 2024)
- Wagamese, Richard
- Medicine Walk (2016 – Family Reads)
- Starlight (Sept 2019 – Family Reads)
- Walker, Adrian J – The End of the World Running Club (July 2018 – Family Reads)
- Wayne, Grady – Emancipation Day (May 2015)
- Williams, Eley – The Liar’s Dictionary (Jan 2021)
- Woods, Kell – After the Forest (Jan 2024)
- Wyld, Evie – All the Birds, Singing (July 2014)
- Yapa, Sunil – Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (Aug 2017 – Family Reads)
- Zevin, Gabrielle – The Storied Life of AJ Fikry (Mar 2015)
Tolkien
- Adams, Roberts – The Riddles of The Hobbit (May 2015)
- Anderson, Douglas A. – The Annotated Hobbit (Feb 2012)
- Brown, Devin – Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professfor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century (Dec 2014)
- Carpenter, Humprey
- * J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Dec 2012)
- The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Jan 2013)
- Cook, Simon – J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lost English Mythology (Nov 2014)
- Croft, Janet Brennan – War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (Feb 2018)
- Fimi, Dimitra and Higgins, Andrews – A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (May 2017)
- Garth, John – Tolkien at Exeter College (Feb 2018)
- Hammond, Wayne G and Scull, Christina – The Art of the Hobbit (June 2012)
- Hazell, Dina – The Plants of Middle-Earth: Botany and Sub-Creation (May 2017)
- Honegger, Thomas (ed.) – Tolkien in Translation (Mar 2017, guest post at Pages Unbound)
- Hunt, Peter (ed.) – J.R.R. Tolkien (May 2020)
- Kilby, Clyde S. – Tolkien & The Silmarillion (Dec 2018)
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Dec 2015)
- The Silmarillion (Aug 2018)
- The Fellowship of the Ring (Feb 2012)
- * The Two Towers (Mar 2012)
- The Return of the King (May 2012)
- Olsen, Corey – Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (Apr 2014)
- Shippey, T.A. – J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by T.A. Shippey (Nov 2011)
- Vaccaro, Christopher and Kisor, Yvette – Tolkien and Alterity (Feb 2024)
Non-fiction
Lifestyle / Self-improvement
- Bogel, Anne – I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life (Dec 2020)
- Clark, Liesl, and Rockefeller, Rebecca – The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and LIving Generously (Apr 2020)
- Hague, Tim – Perseverance: The Seven Skills You Need to Survive, Thrive, and Accomplish More Than You Ever Imagined (Dec 2018 – Family Reads)
- Lee, Ingrid Fettell – Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness (June 2023)
- Newport, Cal – Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Jan 2020)
- Pychyl, Timothy A. – Solving the Procrastination Puzzle (July 2016)
Arctic / Northern
- Bartlett, Robert A. – The Karluk’s Last Voyage (Jan 2016)
- Connolly, Billy – Journey to the Edge of the World (Apr 2020)
- Conefrey, Mick and Jordan, Tim – Icemen: A History of the Arctic and Its Explorers (May 2017)
- Cross, L.D. – The Luck of the Karluk (May 2017)
- Esrock, Robin – The Great Northern Canada Bucket List (Jan 2022)
- McGoogan, Ken – Dead Reckoning: The Untold STory of the Northwest Pasage (Apr 2020)
- Niven, Jennifer
- Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Aug 2018 – Family Reads)
- The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (Oct 2016)
- Watson, Paul – Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Jan 2022)
Other Topics
- Ariely, Dan – Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions (Dec 2015)
- Barber, Dan – The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Feb 2015)
- Bulgutch, Mark – That’s Why I’m a Journalist: Top Canadian Reporters Tell Their Most Unforgettable Stories (Dec 2015)
- Cahalan, Susannah – Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (Feb 2015)
- Chacaby, Ma-Nee – A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder (Apr 2018)
- Clarkson, Adrienne – Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship (Nov 2015 – Family Reads)
- Dedman, Bill – Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune (Mar 2015)
- Demick, Barbara – If I Stay: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Apr 2015)
- Doughty, Caitlin
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory (Aug 2016)
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (Dec 2019 – Family Reads)
- Eberhardt, Jennifer L. – Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do (Apr 2021 – Family Reads)
- Ferguson, Will – Road Trip Rwanda (Dec 2015)
- Finkel, David – Thank-you for Your Service (Feb 2015)
- Franklin, Jonathan – 438 Days (June 2016)
- Gawande, Atul – Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End (Aug 2016)
- Greenwald, Glenn – No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (Nov 2014)
- Gordon, Ariel – Fungal: Foraging in the Forest (June 2024)
- Hagen, Steve – Buddhism Plain and Simple (July 2014)
- Hardell, Ash – The ABCs of LGBTQ+ (Mar 2018)
- Harden, Blaine – Escape from Camp 14 (Oct 2014)
- Hébert, Phillip – Good Medicine: The Art of Ethical Care in Canada (Aug 2016)
- Higashida, Naoki – The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism (Apr 2014)
- Hill, Lawrence – Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (Jan 2017 – Family Reads)
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell – Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Aug 2017)
- Hwang, Tim – Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (Oct 2020)
- Joseph, Bob – 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act (July 2018)
- Khalaf, Farida – The Girl Who Beat ISIS (Mar 2017)
- Leiris, Antoine – You Will Not Have My Hate (Feb 2017)
- Lupick, Travis – Fighting for Space: How A Group Of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle With Addiction (July 2019 – Family Reads)
- Martin, Danielle – Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians (Jan 2017)
- McDermott, Nancie – Quick and Easy Thai (May 2015)
- Meck, Su and de Vise, Daniel – I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia (July 2014)
- Merasty, Joseh August and Carpenter, David – The Education of Augie Merasty (June 2016)
- Nadler, John – Valour Road (Nov 2019 – Family Reads)
- Nelson, Colleen and MacIsaac, Kathie – If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It (Nov 2022)
- Ogawa, Joy – Gently to Nagasaki (Mar 2024)
- Pennac, Daniel – The Rights of the Reader (Dec 2015)
- Philbrick, Nathaniel – In the Heart of the Sea (Nov 2015)
- Pollan, Michael – Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Apr 2015)
- Randolph, Marc – That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea (Sept 2020 – Famiy Reads)
- Sands, PHilippe – Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty, and the Compromise of Law (July 2014)
- Sibley, Robert – The Way of the 88 Temples (Dec 2015)
- Simonds, Merilyn – Gutenberg’s Fingberprint: Papers, Pixels, and the Lasting Impression of Books (Apr 2017)
- Tennant, Susan – The 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue (Nov 2015)
- Turner, Chris – The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Willful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada (May 2014)
- Venkatesh, Sudhir – Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy (July 2014)
- Vowel, Chelsea – Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nation, Inuit, and Métis Issues in Canada (Dec 2017)
- Williams, J.E. – Light of the Andess: In Search of Shamanic Wisdom in Peru (June 2014)
- Xygalatas, Dimitris – Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living (Oct 2023)
- Yousafzai, Malala – I Am Malala (Nov 2014)
Archived Reviews from Sept 2010 to Apr 2013
Here are all the reviews I wrote before I decided to become a book blogger, split simply into fiction and non-fiction. The * indicates mini reviews.
Fiction
- Asimov, Isaac – I, Robot
- Atwood, Margaret – * Oryx and Crake
- Bacigalupi, Paolo – Shipbreaker
- Beagle, Peter S. – The Last Unicorn
- Bradbury, Ray – Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Camus, Albert – *The Stranger
- Capote, Truman – Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- Carter, Angela – * The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
- Clegg, Douglas – * Isis
- Colfer, Eoin – Artemis Fowl series (The Atlantis Complex | The Last Guardian)
- Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games trilogy (Part One | Two)
- Connolly, John – The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- Coville, Bruce – * The Last Hunt
- Farmer, Philip Jose – To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
- Funke, Cornelia – Reckless
- Glennon, Paul – The Dodecahedron by Paul Glennon
- Green, John
- Gruen, Sarah – Water for Elephants
- Heller, Joseph – * Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest – * The Sun Also Rises
- Hesse, Herman – * Siddhartha
- Hill, Susan – The Woman in Black
- Ishiguro, Kazuo – The Remains of the Day
- Ivey, Eowyn – The Snow Child
- Kafka, Franz
- Kundera, Milan – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Le Guin, Ursula – A Wizard of Earthsea
- Leroux, Gaston – The Phantom of the Opera
- Lisle, Janet Taylor – * Afternoon of the Elves
- Makkai, Rebecca – * The Borrower
- McCarthy, Cormac – * The Road
- Mieville, China
- Moore, Graham – The Sherlockian
- Morgenstern, Erin – The Night Circus
- Moriarty, Jaclyn – The Ghosts of Ashbury High
- Mosley, Walter – The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
- Murakami, Haruki
- Orwell, George
- Oyeyemi, Helen – Mr. Fox
- Paolini, Christopher – Inheritance
- Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
- Quick, Matthew – * Silver Linings Playbook
- Richards, Justin – Apollo 23
- Riggs, Ransom – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Rosenthal, Kat – Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone
- Saramago, Jose
- Shusterman, Neal
- * Everfound
- Unwholly (Unwind #2)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
- Snicket, Lemony – Who Could That be at This Hour?
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – * Treasure Island
- Stevermer, Caroline – When the King Comes Home
- Stewart, Trenton Lee – The Mysterious Benedict Society: * The Mysterious Benedict Society | *… and the Perilous Journey | …and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Tanigawa, Nagaru
- Valente, Catherynne M.
- Vonnegut, Kurt – * Slaughterhous Five
- Wells, H.G. – * The Invisible Man
- Yoshimoto, Banana – *Kitchen
Non-fiction
- Bastedo, Jaime – Falling for Snow
- Batchelor, Stephen – * Confessions of an Atheist Buddhist
- Boo, Katherine – Beyond the Beautiful Forevers
- Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs and Steel
- Felisbret, Eric – * Graffitti New York
- Ferguson, Will
- Foltz, Richard C. – * Worldviews, Religion, and the Envrionment
- Greenhill, Pauline and Matrix, Sidney Eve – * Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity
- Griffiths, Jay – Wild
- Gopnik, Adam – * Winter
- Hanh, Thich Nhat – * Zen Keys
- Hanson, Bruce K. – The Peter Pan Chronicles
- Hemingway, Ernest – A Moveable Feast
- Karr, Mary * The Liar’s Club
- Kaysen, Susanna – * Girl, Interrupted
- Kingsolver, Barbara and family – Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
- Kongtrul, Dzigar – * It’s Up to You
- Kuegler, Sabine – * Child of the Jungle
- Kurke, Lance – * The Wisdom of Alexander the Great
- Leonard, Annie – * The Story of Stuff
- Maezumi, Taizan and Glassman, Bernie – * On Zen Practice
- Pariser, Eli – The Filter Bubble
- Phillips, Larry W. – * Hemingway on Writing
- Pollan, Michael
- Reichl, Ruth – Garlic and Sapphires
- Schott, Ben – Schott’s Quintessential Miscellany
- Schlosser, Eric – Fast Food Nation
- Steinberg, Avi – * Running the Books
- Strayed, Cheryl – * Wild
- Tzu, Sun – * The Art of War
- van der Leun, Justine – Marcus of Umbria
- Wasson, Sam – * Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
- Yusa, Michiko – * Japanese Religious Traditions