Monthly Review: September 2011

Number of book reviews posted:  30
Number of books read: 36
Number of pages read: 13,168

5 Star Reviews

Posts, Features & Random Musings

• BBAW 2011
• BBAW: Best Cultural Book Blog
• Fall TV 2011

List of book reviews

• Birds of Paradise – Diana Abu-Jaber
• The Keeper of Lost Causes – Jussi Adler-Olsen
• The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted – Bridget Asher
• Carved in Bone – Jefferson Bass
• Leaving the Saints – Martha Beck
• Ashes – Ilsa J. Bick
• Friday Mornings at Nine – Marilyn Brant
• Kiss Me, Kill Me – Allison Brennan
• The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle – Jim Butcher & Ardian Syaf
• Girls in White Dresses – Jennifer Close
• The Beautiful and the Damned – Siddhartha Deb
• Love Always – Harriet Evans
• Nocturne – Syrie James
• The Things We Cherished – Pam Jenoff
• The Taker – Alma Katsu
• Dominance – Will Lavender
• The Most Dangerous Thing – Laura Lippman
• Constructing Reality – John Marburger
• To Be Sung Underwater – Tom McNeal
• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
• Tainted – Brooke Morgan
• The Fox Inheritance – Mary E. Pearson
• Faery Tale – Signe Pike
• Saraswati’s Way – Monika Schroder
• You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know – Heather Sellers
• Sonia Gandhi – Rani Singh
• Lucifer’s Tears – James Thompson
• The Athena Project – Brad Thor
• Close Your Eyes – Amanda Eyre Ward
• Mistress of the Monarchy – Alison Weir

Books I’ve read this month (Books for professional review omitted)

• Last Man in Tower – Aravind Adiga
• Cold Glory – B. Kent Anderson
• Leaving the Saints – Martha Beck
• Ashes – Isla J. Bick
• Her Sister’s Shadow – Katharine Britton
• Skating Around the Law – Joelle Charbonneau
• Girls in White Dresses – Jennifer Close
• Falling Together – Marisa de los Santos
• Gandhi: A Manga Biography – Kazuki Ebine
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – Tom Franklin
• India Calling – Anand Giridharadas
• Nearer than the Sky – T. Greenwood
• The Lady of the Rivers – Philippa Gregory
• A Friend of the Family – Lauren Grodstein
• The Cradle in the Grave – Sophie Hannah
• Until There Was You – Kristan Higgins
• The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin
• Green River Killer – Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case
• When She Woke – Hillary Jordan
• Murder Most Persuasive – Tracy Kiely
• The Ice Princess – Camilla Lackberg
• Yes, My Darling Daughter – Margaret Leroy
• Darkness All Around – Doug Magee
• Catherine the Great – Robert K. Massie
• Little Black Dress – Susan McBride
• To Be Sung Underwater – Tom McNeal
• The Last Letter from Your Lover – Jojo Moyes
• The Cosmic Clues – Manjiri Prabhu
• Bad Moon – Todd Ritter
• Glow – Amy Kathleen Ryan
• You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know – Heather Sellers
• Eighteen Acres – Nicolle Wallace
• The Strangers on Montagu Street – Karen White
• The Stranger You Seek – Amanda Kyle Williams