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Non-Picture Books Reviews by Title

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Short Stories

• “The Day Boy and the Night Girl” by George MacDonald (short story)
• “The Student” by Anton Chekhov (short story)

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• 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask by Ilyce Glink
• 1984 by George Orwell
• 44 Scotland Street Alexander McCall-Smith
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

A

• A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal by Leonard Marcus
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
• A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
• A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift
• A Stranger at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith by Betty Smith
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler
• Adventures of Pinocchio, The by Carlo Collodi
• Aesop’s Fables (1912 translation with introduction by G.K. Chesterton)
• Age of Innocence, The by Edith Wharton
• Alchemist, The by Paulo Coehlo
• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• An Edge in the Kitchen by Chad Ward
• An Enemy at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Arabian Nights II, The, translated by Husain Haddawy
• Arabian Nights, The translated by Husain Haddawy
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Arrival, The by Shaun Tan
• Art of Simple Food, The by Alice Waters
• Aucassin et Nicolete by an anonymous author, translated by Andrew Lang

B

• Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins
• Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
• Battle of Life, The by Charles Dickens
• Beekeeper’s Apprentice, The by Laurie R. King
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Better by Atul Gawande
• Book that Changed My Life, The by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannesson
• Book Thief, The (Audiobook Review) by Markus Zusak
• Book Thief, The by Markus Zusak

C

• Carmen by Georges Bizet (opera)
• Carmen by Prosper Merimee (novella)
• Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
• Chicago School of Architecture, The by Carl W. Condit
• Chicago: Then and Now by Elizabeth McNulty
• Children of Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Chimes, The by Charles Dickens
• Christ and the New Covenant by Jeffrey R. Holland
• Christmas Poems, Everyman’s Library Edition
• Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, The by Samuel P. Huntington
• Complete Maus, The: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, The
• Complications by Atun Gawande
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Creative Family, The by Amanda Blake Soule
• Cricket on the Hearth, The by Charles Dickens
• Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

D

• Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
• Discoverers, The by Daniel Boorstin
• Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The by E. Lockhart
• Divine Songs by Isaac Watts
• Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, The by A.S. Byatt (short story collection and novella)
• Door, The by Margaret Atwood
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Dubliners by James Joyce (stories)
• Duchess of Bloomsbury, The by Helene Hanff
• Dune by Frank Herbert

E

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
• Elements of Cooking, The by Michael Ruhlman
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
• Eyre Affair, The by Jasper Fforde

F

• Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
• Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
• Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
• Forsyte Saga, The by John Galsworthy   (In Chancery and To Let)
• Forsyte Saga, The by John Galsworthy  (The Man of Property)
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
• From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras
• Fundamentals of Photography by Tom Ang

G

• Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls
• Golden Legacy by Leonard S. Marcus
• Good Earth, The by Pearl S. Buck
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
• Graveyard Book, The by Neil Gaiman
• Great Equations, The by Robert P. Crease
• Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
• Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The by Mary Ann Schaeffer and Anne Burrows
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift

H

• Handmaid’s Tale, The by Margaret Atwood
• Harlem Renaissance, The edited by Harold Bloom
• Harlem Renaissance, The: An Explosion of African-American culture by Richard Worth
• Harlem STOMP! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain, The by Charles Dickens
• Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• Hobbit, The by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Home Buying for Dummies by Eric Tyson and Ray Brown
• House of Mirth, The by Edith Wharton
• House on Mango Street, The by Sandra Cisneros
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell

I

• Iliad, The by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Invention of Hugo Cabret, The by Brian Selznick
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

J

• Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields
• Jane Austen’s Little Advice Book by Jane Austen, edited by Cathryn Michon and Pamela Norris
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
• Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom by Julia Child
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• Jungle Book(s), The by Rudyard Kipling
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

K

• King of Inventors, The by Catherine Peters
• Kissinger by Walter Isaacson

L

• La Casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Last Lecture, The by Randy Pausch
• Legend of Sleepy Hallow and Other Stories, The by Washington Irving
• Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The by L. Frank Baum
• Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
• Life of Our Lord, The by Charles Dickens
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
• Little Prince, The by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Lost Chicago by David Lowe
• Lovely Bones, The by Alice Sebold
• Lullabies and Poems for Children
• Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

M

• Macbeth by Shakespeare
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Madonnas of Leningrad, The by Debra Dean
• Magic Flute, The by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder (opera).
• Making of a Chef, The by Michael Ruhlman
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• Masterclass in Photography by Michael and Julien Busselle
• Material World by Peter Menzel
• Medea by Euripides, translated by Rex Warner
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Midwife’s Apprentice, The by Karen Cushman
• Millionaire Next Door, The (abridged audiobook) by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
• Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell
• Moonstone, The by Wilkie Collins
• Mortgage Confidential by David Reed
• Mortgages 101 by David Reed
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury by Betty MacDonald
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic by Betty MacDonald
• Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• My Life in France by Julia Child

N

• Nineteen-Eighty Four by George Orwell
• Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning by Mark Hamilton
• No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The by Alexander McCall-Smith
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Norton Introduction to Poetry

O

• Odyssey, The by Homer, trans. by Robert Fagles
• Old Man and the Sea, The by Ernest Hemingway
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• On Writing by Stephen King

P

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
• Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• Planets, The by Dava Sobel
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
• Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll
• Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare
• Poetry of John Donne
• Pooh Bedside Reader, The by A.R. Melrose
• Pooh Sketchbook, The drawings by Ernest H. Shepard for the Pooh stories
• Portuguese Irregular Verbs Alexander McCall-Smith
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Pretend Soup by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Professor and the Madman, The by Simon Winchester
• Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonas Lehrer

Q

R

• River at Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Robinson Crusoe Adaptations for Children
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch

S

• Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
• Secret Life of Wilkie Collins, The by William Clarke
• Silmarillion, The by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dogs by Kitty Burns Florey
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Speeches of Winston Churchill
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Stones at Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Stories by Anton Chekhov
• Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• Stories by Flannery O’Connor
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Favorites)
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Introductory Thoughts)
• Stories by Ivan Turgenev
• Stories by John Cheever (Audio Collection)
• Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Stories by O. Henry
• Stories by Tommaso Landolfi
• Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
• Stranger, The by Albert Camus
• Stuart Little by E.B. White
• Sunday Philosophy Club, The by Alexander McCall-Smith
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Fenyman by Robert Fenyman

T

• Tales of Beedle the Bard, The by J.K. Rowling
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie
• Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
• Too Many Cooks by Emily Franklin
• Treasure of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Trumpet of the Swan, The by E.B. White
• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
• Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
• Two Histories of England by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens

U

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Uncommon Reader, The by Alan Bennett
• Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
• Utopia by Thomas More

V

W

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
• Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers
• Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
• Wind in the Willows, The by Kenneth Grahame
• Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
• Wit by Margaret Edson
• Woman in White, The by Wilkie Collins
• Words We Live By, The: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda R. Monk

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updated 8 January 2010