Review Archive

This is a list of books I’ve completed in 2012. The links below go to lists of books finished by year, as well as an archive of all my reviews organized by author. Information on my occasionally used rating system is at the bottom.

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| Reviews by Author |

May

• Simon, David: Homicide: Life on the Street (narrative nonfiction)
• Gottschall, Jonathan: The Storytelling Animal (nonfiction)

April

• Green, John: The Fault in Our Stars (YA fiction)
• Krist, Gary: City of Scoundrels (nonfiction)
• Gawande, Atul: Complications (memoir)
• Davis-Gardner, Angela: Butterfly’s Child (fiction)
• Peters, Elizabeth: Crocodile on the Sandbank (fiction/mystery)
• Martin, George R.R.: Clash of Kings (fiction/fantasy)
• Speart, Jessica: Winged Obsession (narrative nonfiction)
• Moriarty, Laura: The Chaperone (fiction)
• Nicholls, Davis: One Day (fiction/audio book)
• Lancaster, Jen: Bitter is the New Black (memoir)
• Ozma, Alice: The Reading Promise (memoir)
• Bergstein, Rachelle: Women From the Ankle Down (nonfiction)
• Miller, Jennifer: The Year of the Gadfly (fiction)
• Fadiman, Anne: Ex Libris (essays)

March

• Huffman, Alan and Rejebian, Michael: We’re With Nobody (nonfiction)
• Danticat, Edwidge (editor): Best American Essays 2011 (essays)
• McCourt, D.E.: Notes from the Firehouse (memoir)
• Reding, Nick: Methland (narrative nonfiction)
• Arvin, Nick: The Reconstructionist (fiction)
• Shadid, Anthony: House of Stone (memoir)
• King, Gilbert: Devil in the Grove (nonfiction)
• Strayed, Cheryl: Wild (memoir)
• Kapur, Akash: India Becoming (narrative nonfiction)
• Groff, Lauren: The Monsters of Templeton (fiction)

February

• Kaling, Mindy: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (essays/memoir)
• Konietzko, Bryan: Avatar The Last Airbender: The Lost Adventures  (fiction, graphic novel)
• Kaku, Michio: Physics of the Future (nonfiction)
• Harris, Alissa: Raised Right (memoir)
• Cain, Susan: Quiet (nonfiction)
• Lancaster, Jen: My Fair Lazy (memoir)
• Livesey, Margot: The Flight of Gemma Hardy (fiction)
• Chazen, Jerome: My Life at Liz Claiborne (memoir)
• Larson, Erik: In the Garden of Beasts (narrative nonfiction)
• Zuckoff, Mitchell: Lost in Shangri-La (narrative nonfiction)
• Reichl, Ruth: Garlic and Sapphires (memoir)

January

• Flinn, Kathleen: The Kitchen Counter Cooking School (nonfiction)
• Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake (fiction)
• Preston, Caroline: The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt (fiction)
• Pankhurst, Carolyn: The Nobodies Album (fiction)
• Ridley, Glynis: The Discovery of Jeanne Baret (narrative nonfiction)
• Wallace, David Foster (editor): Best American Essays 2007 (essays)
• Kempe, Frederick: Berlin 1961 (nonfiction)
• Brooks, David: The Social Animal (nonfiction)

I have a sometimes-used ratings system, inspired by Anastasia at Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog, which is as follows:

Rating: = Loved it!
Rating: = Liked it a lot.
Rating: = I’m glad I read it, but I probably won’t reread it.
Rating: = Mostly bad, but had some merit.
Rating: = Not very good, I didn’t enjoy it much.
Rating: = Did not finish, or so bad I had nothing nice to say about it.