Armchair Interviews

Book Reviews: Fiction

• A Cabinet of Wonders by Renee Dodd
• A Call To Colors by John J. Gobbell
• A Country Affair: A Barleybridge Novel by Rebecca Shaw
• A Day of Small Beginnings by Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum
• A Howl for Mayflower by Dan Gilmore
• A Line Between Friends by Michele VanOrt Cozzens
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
• Addled by JoeAnn Hart
• Afternoons with Emily by Rose MacMurray
• Ain't No Sunshine by Candice Dow
• All The Numbers by Judy Merrill Larsen
• All This Belongs to Me by Ad Hudler
• All Will Be Revealed by Robert Anthony Siegel
• Allah Is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma; translated by Frank Wynne
• Always Time to Die by Elizabeth Lowell
• And Baby Makes Two by Judy Sheehan
• Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah
• Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
• Another Life by Ann Roth
• At Some Disputed Barricade by Anne Perry
• B-Mother by Maureen O'Brien
• Back on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
• Before by Joseph Hurka
• Before I Go by Riley Weston
• Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
• Blameless by Thom Lemmons
• Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin
• Blue Springs by Peter Rennebohm
• Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
• Bottom Line by Kimberly Stuart
• Bound for Inca Snows by K.L. Smith
• Breadfruit: A Novel by Celestine Vaite
• Breakable You by Brian Morton
• Broken Paradise by Cecilia Samartin
• Broken Trail by Alan Geoffrion
• Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• Camille Claudel, a Novel by Alma H. Bond
• Caribbean Calling by J D Gordon
• Catalina by Markus Orths; translated by Helen Atkins
• Chance Murphy and the Battle of Morganville by Josh P. McClary
• Changes in Attitude by Kathleen Shaputis
• Chasing Eden by S.L. Linnea
• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
• Clay's Quilt by Silas House
• Company by Max Barry
• Consolation: A Novel by Michael Redhill
• Country Lovers by Rebecca Shaw
• Country Wives by Rebecca Shaw
• Cover the Butter by Carrie Kabak
• Crescent Veil by Judith Sanders; with Dr. Frank J. Malinoski
• Cross by James Patterson
• Daisies Never Die by Judy Lawn
• Dancing in the Void by Robert Edward Levin
• Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach
• Deadwood by Pete Dexter
• Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
• Demon: A Memoir by Tosca Lee
• Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub
• Double Daggers by James R. Clifford
• Envious Shadows by R. P. Burnham
• Every Visible Thing by Lisa Carey
• Exile by Richard North Patterson
• Family Baggage by Monica McInerney
• Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen
• Far Above Rubies by Cynthia Polansky
• Flight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas
• Footsteps: A Novel by Umm Zakiyyah
• For Jennie by Donna L. Gestri
• Fort Pillow by Harry Turtledove
• Fortunate Son: A Novel by Walter Mosley
• Frangipani by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
• Friends and Mothers by Louise Limerick
• Full Circle by Joyce L. Rapier
• Gardenias by Faith Sullivan
• Gentlemen by Klas Ostergren; Translated by: Tiina Nunnally
• Gibraltar by Cami Tapley
• God Don't Play by Mary Monroe
• Good Things by Mia King
• Goodbye Lemon by Adam Davies
• Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
• Haunting at Gray Wolf Lodge by Victoria Wayne
• Helen of Troy by Margaret George
• Hidden Grace by Garland Roper
• Hollywood and Sunset by Luke Salisbury
• I'm Not Julia Roberts by Laura Ruby
• If There Be Pain by Gloria Mallette
• In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
• In the Land of Second Chances by George Shaffner
• In the Province of Saints by Thomas O'Malley
• Innocent Traitor: a novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
• Instant Love by Jami Attenberg
• Island Inferno by Chuck Holton
• Jennifer Government by Max Berry
• Joplin's Ghost by Tananaruve Due
• Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
• Knitting (A Novel) by Anne Bartlett
• Learning to Breathe by Karen White
• Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
• Let them Eat Cake by Tom Angus
• Like Sheep Gone Astray by Leslie J. Sherrod
• Lost in NashVegas by Rachel Hauck
• Love Creeps by Amanda Filipacchi
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
• Love and War in California by Oakley Hall
• Ludie's Life by Cynthia Ryland
• Madame Mirabou's School of Love by Barbara Samuel
• Maddalena: Book One of The Golden Tripolis Trilogy by Eva Jana Siroka
• Madonnas of Leningrad (The) by Debra Dean
• Malinche by Laura Esquivel; Translated by Ernestro Mestre-Reed
• Mary Modern by Camille DeAngelis
• Match Made in Heaven by Bob Mitchell
• McKettrick's Luck by Linda Lael Miller
• McKettrick's Pride by Linda Lael Miller
• Meeting Her Match by Debra Clopton
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Mercy Room (The) by Gilles Rozier (translated from the French by Anthea Bell)
• Miss Julia Stands Her Ground by Ann B. Ross
• Miss Understanding by Stephanie Lessing
• Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates
• Mission to America by Walter Kirn
• Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle by Kirby Wright
• My Invisible Husband by Sheila M. Goss
• My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan
• Nefertiti by Nick Drake
• No Dominion by Charlie Huston
• No One's Ever Sick in Springfield by Chaz Thompson
• Nomad's Land by Susan Kathleen
• Norma Ever After by Nancy Baxter
• Of Ice And Steel by D. Clayton Meadows
• Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
• On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
• On This Day by Melody Carlson
• On a Darkling Plain by R.P. Burnham
• On the Path of Alchemical Fusion by Konstantin Serebrov
• On the Way to Red Square by Julieta Almeida Rodrigues
• One Mississippi by Mark Childress
• Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund; translated by Jessica Cohen
• Paint it Black by Janet Fitch
• Penultimate Chance Saloon (The) by Simon Bret
• People of the Nightland by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
• Perfect for You by Sylvia Lett
• Places the Dead Call Home by Paul L. Hall
• Queen of the Underworld by Gail Godwin
• Raising Hope by Katie Willard
• Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander
• Red Baker by Robert Ward
• Red River by Lalita Tademy
• Red Sky Lament by Edward Wright
• Right as Rain by Bev Marshall
• Rococo by Adriana Trigiani
• Samsara Moon by S. H. Post
• Saraceno by Djelloul Marbrook
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• Searching for Steely Dan by Rick Goeld
• Seducing Harry: An Epicurean Affair by Judith Marks-White
• Self Storage by Gayle Brandeis
• Sense of Paper by Taylor Holden
• Sequence by Lori Andrews
• Sex Wars: A Novel of the Turbulent Post-Civil War Period by Marge Piercy
• She Ain't the One by Carl Weber and Mary B. Morrison
• Silenced Cry by Marta Stephens
• Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Snow Moon Rising by Lori L. Lake
• Soapsuds by Finola Hughes and Digby Diehl
• Spanish Lullaby by Linda Dominique Grosvenor
• Speak Right On by Mary E. Neighbour
• Spinning Dixie by Eric Dezenhall
• Stand Clear Doors Closing by Shane Conroy
• Still Life with Husband by Lauren Fox
• Stillbird by Sandra Shwayder Sanchez
• Straight Up by Lisa Samson
• Stranded by Lorena McCourtney
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith
• Sunny Side Up by Ginger Rodgers
• Swap by Sam Moffie
• Sweet Home Carolina by T. Lynn Ocean
• Sweetwater by Roxana Robinson
• Swimming Lessons by Mary Alice Monroe
• Tell Me Everything by Sarah Salway
• The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
• The Alchemist's Daughter by Katherine McMahon
• The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, annotated and edited by David M. Shapard
• The Aura of Love by Kathy J. Marsh
• The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long
• The Bard of Bethlehem by David James Trapp
• The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake
• The Big Shuffle by Laura Pedersen
• The Bird Woman by Kerry Hardie
• The Blue Taxi by N.S. Koenings
• The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
• The Bronte Project by Jennfer Vandever
• The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
• The Cajun Cowboy by Sandra Hill
• The Castro Gene by Todd Buchholz
• The Cherry Pit by Donald Harington
• The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
• The Crimson Portrait by Jody Sheilds
• The Da Vinci Barcode by Judith P. Shoaf
• The Diviners by Rick Moody
• The Echo by Minette Walters
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas, 2006
• The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
• The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
• The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman
• The Girls by Lori Lansens
• The Good Life by Jay McInerney
• The Gravedigger by Peter Grandbois
• The Ha-Ha by Dave King
• The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• The Honeymoon is Over by Keith Lee Johnson
• The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
• The House of Pendragon Book by Debra A. Kemp
• The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
• The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
• The Lavender Hour by Anne D. LeClaire
• The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• The Lions Game (CD) by Nelson DeMille
• The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews
• The Love Season by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Maeve Chronicles: Magdalen Rising by Elizabeth Cunningham
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Mission Song by John le Carre
• The Mystical Labyrinth in Russia by Konstantin Serebrov
• The Mystical Underground of Moscow by Konstantin Serebrov
• The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
• The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
• The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
• The Oak Leaves by Maureen Lang
• The Other Side of Air by Jeanne Braselton
• The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey
• The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
• The People's Act of Love by James Meek
• The Perimeter: The Taking of the High Seas Explorer by Jeff Foster
• The Pitcher Shower by Donald Harington
• The Priest and the Nazi by John LeConte
• The Protege by Stephen Frey
• The Rhythm of the Road by Albyn Leah Hall
• The Right Brother: Seasons In A Small Town by Patricia McLinn
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Rolexxx Club by Meta Smith
• The Scent of Blood by Raymond Miller
• The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
• The Secret Sisters by Joni Rodgers
• The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
• The Secret of Us by Roxanne Henke
• The Secret of the Lonely Grave by Albert A. Bell, Jr.
• The Sisters Mortland by Sally Beauman
• The Spirit of Sweetgrass by Nicole Seitz
• The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
• The Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto
• The Templar Legacy by Ballantine
• The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
• The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
• The Town That Came A-Courtin' by Ronda Rich
• The Wayward Muse by Elizabeth Hickey
• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
• The Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
• The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
• The Wisdom of Yawdy Rum by Micheal Lane
• The Year the Music Changed by Diane Thomas
• Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
• Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Kinkenborg
• To Keep a Husband: An Ex-Wives Novel by Lindsay Graves
• To Love Mercy by Frank S. Joseph
• Tomorrow They Will Kiss by Eduardo Santiago
• Trash Talk by Robert Gussin
• True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
• Uncertain Pilgrims by Lenore Carroll
• Uncharted by Angela Hunt
• Ursula's Maiden Army by Philip Griffin
• Valentine: A Love Story by Chet Raymo
• Village Diary by Miss Read
• Village School by Miss Read
• Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi
• Waiting for White Horses by Nathan Jorgenson
• We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
• We Shall Not Sleep by Anne Perry
• Wedgewood Grey by John Aubrey Anderson
• What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
• When Charlotte Comes Home by Maureen Millea Smith
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• Whiteman by Tony D'Souza
• Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
• Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge
• Ya Yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells
• Zoology by Ben Dolnick

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