Whatcha Readin', Books?: A Teacher/Learner's Blog: Books Reviewed by Author

Total Authors to Date: 147

Total Books to Date: 227

Alphabetical by Author's Last Name

Multiple titles grouped alphabetically under author
Review grade follows in ()

~A~

Abraham, Pearl

Romance Reader, The (A)

Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart (A+)

Adams, Douglas
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (A)

Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women (A+)

Alda, Alan
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed & Other Things I've Learned (A)

Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale (A+)

Austen, Jane
Emma (B)
Pride & Prejudice (A)
Sense & Sensibility (A)

~B~

Bakan, Joel
Corporation, The (A+)

Barker, Pat
Regeneration (A)

Barnes, Julian

Flaubert's Parrot (A+)

Beckett, Samuel

Endgame (B)

Blume, Judy
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (A)

Boyne, John
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (A+)

Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451 (A+)

Brewer, Gene
K-PAX (A+)

Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre (A)
Broox, Klyde

My Best Friend is White (A)

Brown, Dan
Angels & Demons (A)
DaVinci Code, The (A)
Deception Point (A)

Bryson, Bill
A Short History of Nearly Everything (A)

Burnett, Carol
This Time Together (B)

Burstyn, Ellen

Lessons in Becoming Myself (A)

~C~

Caine, Michael
What's It All About? (A)

Carlin, George
Last Words (A)

Carroll, Lewis
Alice in Wonderland (A+)

Cartwright, Nancy

My Life as a Ten-Year-Old Boy (A)

Chabon, Michael
Wonder Boys (A)

Chandler, Raymond

Big Sleep, The (C)

Chaplin, Charles

My Autobiography (B)

Chong, Denise

Concubine's Children, The (DNF)

Cisneros, Sandra

House on Mango Street, The (B)

Conrad, Joseph

Heart of Darkness (D)

Conrad, Mark T. & Aeon J. Skoble
Woody Allen & Philosophy (A)

Cunningham, Michael

Hours, The (A+)

~D~

Dangaremba, Tsitsi

Nervous Conditions (A)

DeGeneres, Ellen
Seriously...I'm Kidding (B)
Delaney, Shelagh

Taste of Honey, A (B)

Delany, Samuel R.

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (B)

DeMille, James

Strange Manuscript (DNF)

Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte Cristo (A+)
du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca (A)

~E~

Ebert, Roger
Life Itself

Eliot, George

Scenes of Clerical Life (A)

Eliot, Marc
Paul Simon: A Life (B)
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex (A)

~F~

Farrow, Mia
What Falls Away (B)

Ferguson, Craig
American on Purpose (B)
Fielding, Helen
Bridget Jones's Diary (A)

Fisher, Carrie

Wishful Drinking (A)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Great Gatsby, The (C)

Fonda, Jane
My Life So Far (A)

Fonda, Peter
Don't Tell Dad (C)

Forster, E.M.

Room With a View, A (A)

Foucault, Michel
A History of Sexuality (D)

Franzen, Jonathan

Corrections, The (C)
Freedom (DNF)

Frey, James

Million Little Pieces, A (DNF)

~G~

Garr, Teri
Speedbumps (DNF)

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies, The (A)

Grafton, Sue

A is For Alibi (A)

Grisham, John
Brethren, The (A)
Broker, The (B)
Chamber, The (DNF)
Client, The (A)
Firm, The (A+)
King of Torts, The (B)
Last Juror, The (B)
Partner, The (C)
Pelican Brief, The (A+)
Rainmaker, The (A)
Runaway Jury, The (A)
Street Lawyer, The (C)
Summons, The (D)
Time to Kill, A (A+)

Greene, Graham

Brighton Rock (A+)

Grogan, John

Marley & Me (A+)

Gruen, Sara
Water For Elephants (A)

~H~

Haddon, Mark

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The (A+)

Hamilton, Jane

Book of Ruth, The (A)

Map of the World, A (A)

Hammett, Dashiell

Thin Man, The (B)

Hanff, Helene
84 Charing Cross Road (A+)

Harris, Thomas
Silence of the Lambs, The (A+)

Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea (A)
Hepburn, Katharine

Me (A+)

Hornby, Nick

About a Boy (B)
High Fidelity (A)

Hosseini, Khaled
Kite Runner, The (A+)

~I~

Irving, John

Cider House Rules, The (B)
Prayer For Owen Meany, A (A)
World According to Garp, The (A+)

~J~

~K~

Kaysen, Suzanna
Girl, Interrupted (D)

Kellerman, Jonathan

When the Bough Breaks (A)

Kelley, Kitty
Oprah: A Biography (B)

Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (A+)

Kincaid, Jamaica

Annie John (A)

Autobiography of My Mother (C)

King, Stephen
11/22/63 (A)

Bag of Bones (A+)
Carrie (A+)
Cell (B)
Dead Zone, The (A)

Different Seasons (A+)

Full Dark, No Stars (A)
Green Mile, The (A+)
Gunslinger, The (Dark Tower series, #1) (C)
It (A)
Misery (A)

Mist, The (A)

Night Shift (A)

On Writing (A+)
Pet Sematary (A)

Shining, The (A+)
Stand, The (A)
Under the Dome (A)

Kingsolver, Barbara
Poisonwood Bible, The (A+)

Kogawa, Joy

Obasan (A)

~L~

Lamb, Wally

She's Come Undone (DNF)

Larsson, Stieg
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The (A)

Laurence, Margaret

Diviners, The (A+)
Stone Angel, The (A)

Lawrence, Jerome & Robert Edwin Lee

Inherit the Wind (A)

Leachman, Cloris
Cloris: My Autobiography (C)

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird (A+)

Lehane, Dennis
Mystic River (A)

Lemmon, Chris
Twist of Lemmon, A (B)

Lethem, Jonathan

Motherless Brooklyn (A+)

Letts, Billie
Where the Heart Is (B)

Lewis, C.S.
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (A)

Lipton, James
An Exaltation of Larks (A)

Lowry, Lois
The Giver (B)

~M~

Marlatt, Daphne

Ana Historic (B)

Martin, Steve
Born Standing Up (A)

McCourt, Frank
Teacher Man (A)

McCullers, Carson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (A)
McEwan, Ian
Atonement (A+)

McKee, Robert

Story (A+)

McLaughlin, Emma & Kraus, Nicola
Nanny Diaries, The (B)

McMurtry, Larry
Film Flam (C)

Miller, Arthur

Death of a Salesman (B)

Milton, John

Paradise Lost (C)

Mitchard, Jacqueline
The Deep End of the Ocean (DNF)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Anne of Green Gables (A+)

Moodie, Suzanne

Roughing It in the Bush (DNF)

Morrison, Toni

Song of Solomon (B)

Mosley, Walter

Fearless Jones (A)

Munro, Alice

Bear Came Over the Mountain, The (B)