Book Reviews – Chronological

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2024

  1. In a Grove – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  2. Finding Phoebe – Gavin Extence
  3. The City of Stardust – Georgia Summers
  4. Powerless – Lauren Roberts
  5. Selling Manhattan – Carol Ann Duffy
  6. The Tainted Cup – Robert Jackson Bennett
  7. The Meiji Guillotine Murders – Futaro Yamada
  8. Cabbage – C.S. Fritz
  9. The Noh Mask Murder – Akimitsu Takagi
  10. Someone You Can Build a Nest In – John Wiswell
  11. Spindleheart: Trail of Shadow and Spool – T.I. Avens
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2023

  1. All the Best Liars – Amelia Kahaney
  2. A Magic Steeped in Poison – Judy I Lin
  3. The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep – Allan Wolf
  4. A Darker Shade of Magic – V.E. Schwab
  5. The Penguin Book of Haiku – Adam L Kern
  6. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride – Roshani Chokshi
  7. Diary of a Void – Emi Yagi
  8. City of Nightmares – Rebecca Schaeffer
  9. Prosper’s Demon – K.J. Parker
  10. These Infinite Threads – Tahereh Mafi
  11. The Caller – Chris Carter
  12. Bliss Montage – Ling Ma
  13. Shanghai Immortal – A.Y. Chao
  14. Let’s Play Murder – Kesia Lupo
  15. What Moves the Dead – T Kingfisher
  16. Where the Light Goes – Sara Barnard
  17. Rebel Fire – Ann Sei Lin
  18. The Book Eaters – Sunyi Dean
  19. Find Him Where You Left Him Dead – Kristen Simmons [DNF Review, Goodreads]
  20. The Tattoo Murder – Akimitsu Takagi
  21. Such Pretty Flowers – K.L. Cerra
  22. Ab(solutely) Normal – edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rocky Callen
  23. An Unexpected Ally – Sophia Kouidou-Giles
  24. The Mill House Murders – Yukito Ayatsuji
  25. The Scarlet Alchemist – Kylie Lee Baker
  26. Merging The Drift – Tom Bray
  27. All That’s Left to Say – Emery Lord
  28. Heartless – Marissa Meyer
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2022

  1. Into the Underwood: Maiden – J.L. Robertson
  2. A Silent Voice [Vol 1 – 7] – Yoshitoki Ooima
  3. The Gifts That Bind Us – Caroline O’Donoghue
  4. Kanazawa – David Joiner
  5. All These Bodies – Kendare Blake
  6. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea – Axie Oh
  7. She Who Became the Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan
  8. The Door – Margaret Atwood
  9. The Artist Vanishes – Terry Westby-Nunn
  10. Little Bird – Tiffany Meuret
  11. The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
  12. Vespertine – Margaret Rogerson
  13. The Honjin Murders – Seishi Yokomizo
  14. When Our Worlds Collided – Danielle Jawando
  15. Rebel Skies – Ann Sei Lin
  16. This Woven Kingdom – Tahereh Mafi
  17. Bestiary – K-Ming Chang
  18. Queen of Tiles – Hanna Alkaf
  19. The Inugami Curse – Seishi Yokomizo
  20. Belladonna – Adalyn Grace
  21. Bad Things Happen Here – Rebecca Barrow
  22. Lemon – Kwon Yeo-Sun
  23. Violet Made of Thorns – Gina Chen
  24. The Village of Eight Graves – Seishi Yokomizo
  25. The Drowned Woods – Emily Lloyd-Jones
  26. Friends Like These – Meg Rosoff
  27. The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence – Daria Schmitt [Mini review]
  28. Finding Jupiter – Kelis Rowe
  29. Forging Silver into Stars – Brigid Kemmerer
  30. Not Good for Maidens – Tori Bovalino
  31. Heaven – Mieko Kawakami
  32. The End of the Moment We Had – Toshiki Okada
  33. Circe – Madeline Miller
  34. Galatea – Madeline Miller
  35. Death on Gokumon Island – Seishi Yokomizo
  36. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  37. Dead Lucky – Andreina Cordani [Goodreads]
  38. Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
  39. The Ones We Burn – Rebecca Mix
  40. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki – Baek Sehee
  41. Lord of the Fly Fest – Goldy Moldavsky
  42. The Thorn Puller – Hiromi Ito
  43. The Decagon House Murders – Yukito Ayatsuji
  44. Forever, Interrupted – Taylor Jenkins Reid
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2021

  1. The Dark Tide – Alicia Jasinska
  2. Dogchild – Kevin Brooks [DNF Review]
  3. Record of a Night Too Brief – Hiromi Kawakami
  4. House of Hollow – Krystal Sutherland
  5. Human Acts – Han Kang
  6. The Promised Neverland [Vol 1 – 20] – Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu
  7. We Were Wolves – Jason Cockcroft
  8. Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
  9. Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas
  10. The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass – Adan Jerreat-Poole
  11. Tokyo Ueno Station – Yū Miri
  12. The Forevers – Chris Whitaker
  13. The Good Daughter – Karin Slaughter
  14. The Butterfly Garden – Dot Hutchison
  15. A Vow So Bold and Deadly – Brigid Kemmerer
  16. The Theft of Sunlight – Intisar Khanani
  17. Ariel: The Restored Edition – Sylvia Plath
  18. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
  19. The Cruelty – Scott Bergstrom [DNF Review]
  20. Hide and Secrets – Sophie McKenzie
  21. Tokyo Ever After – Emiko Jean
  22. Orange [Vol 1 – 6] – Ichigo Takano
  23. Burn – Patrick Ness
  24. True Loaf – Austen Johnson [Mini Review]
  25. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson
  26. Devil on Her Shoulder [Vol 1] – Cédric Mayen and Sandra Cardona [Mini Review]
  27. The Woman in the Purple Skirt – Natsuko Imamura
  28. Horrid – Katrina Leno
  29. You Must Not Miss – Katrina Leno
  30. The Harpy – Megan Hunter
  31. The Project – Courtney Summers
  32. Idol Gossip – Alexandra Leigh Young
  33. Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Mizuki Tsujimura
  34. Almond – Won-pyung Sohn
  35. Kuroshitsuji [Volumes 1 to 30] – Yana Toboso
  36. Squad – Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle
  37. Coffin Honey – Todd Davis
  38. Defy the Night – Brigid Kemmerer
  39. The Liars Beneath – Heather Van Fleet
  40. MONKEY [Vol 2] – Ted Goossen and Motoyuki Shibata
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2020

  1. Tweet Cute – Emma Lord
  2. The Telling – Alexandra Sirowy
  3. My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite [Mini Review]
  4. Thorn – Intisar Khanani
  5. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea – Maggie Tokuda-Hall
  6. A Wish in the Dark – Christina Soontornvat
  7. The Scapegracers – Hannah Abigail Clarke
  8. Last Girls – Demetra Brodsky
  9. A Curse So Dark and Lonely – Brigid Kemmerer
  10. The Glass Magician – Caroline Stevermer
  11. Wave, Listen to Me! [Vol 1] – Hiroaki Samura [Goodreads]
  12. The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms – Nagabe [Goodreads]
  13. Cat’s Cafe – Matt Tarpley [Mini Review]
  14. Something is Killing the Children – James Tynion IV [Mini Review]
  15. Little Creeping Things – Chelsea Ichaso
  16. Yes No Maybe So – Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
  17. A Heart So Fierce and Broken – Brigid Kemmerer
  18. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  19. The Great Godden – Meg Rosoff
  20. Every Little Piece of My Heart – Non Pratt
  21. K-Pop Confidential – Stephan Lee
  22. Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
  23. Haikyu!! [Vol 1 – 45] – Haruichi Furudate
  24. Thorn of the Night Blossoms – JC Kang
  25. We Are Bound by Stars – Kesia Lupo
  26. Poisoned – Jennifer Donnelly
  27. All Our Hidden Gifts – Caroline O’Donoghue
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2019

  1. The Twisted Tree – Rachel Burge
  2. Coin Locker Babies – Ryū Murakami
  3. Wolverine: The Long Night – Marvel and Stitcher
  4. The Secret Runners of New York – Matthew Reilly
  5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
  6. Sadie – Courtney Summers
  7. House of Holes – Nicholson Baker
  8. Lace Up – Shae Ross [DNF, Mini Review]
  9. The Weight of Our Sky – Hanna Alkaf
  10. The Burning – Laura Bates
  11. Malamander – Thomas Taylor
  12. The Chalk Man – C.J. Tudor [DNF, Mini Review]
  13. 花樣年華 HYYH The Notes 1 – BigHit Entertainment
  14. Sawkill Girls – Claire Legrand
  15. Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
  16. Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
  17. Stepsister – Jennifer Donnelly
  18. Alice – Christina Henry [DNF, Mini Review]
  19. The Way I Used to Be – Amber Smith
  20. Rumblestar – Abi Elphinstone
  21. The Atheist Wore Goat Silk – Anna Journey
  22. All The Things We Never Said – Yasmin Rahman
  23. Spin the Dawn – Elizabeth Lim
  24. “I Will Not Be Erased”: Our stories about growing up as people of colour – gal-dem
  25. I See You – Clare Mackintosh
  26. Sea Witch – Sarah Henning
  27. Scars Like Wings – Erin Stewart
  28. You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
  29. Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell
  30. The Drowning Girls – Paula Treick DeBoard
  31. All the Missing Girls – Megan Miranda
  32. Jane, the Fox, and Me – Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault
  33. Into the Crooked Place – Alexandra Christ
  34. Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies – Moss Roberts [Mini Review]
  35. The M Word – Brian Conaghan
  36. Wilder Girls – Rory Power
  37. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns – Julie C. Dao
  38. Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata [Mini Review]
  39. Kasane – Daruma Matsuura [Mini Review]
  40. Descendant of the Crane – Joan He
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2018

  1. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism – Steven Connor [Goodreads]
  2. Sleeping Beauties – Stephen King and Owen King
  3. The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism – Stuart Sim [Goodreads]
  4. Wise Children – Angela Carter [Goodreads]
  5. The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
  6. The Grownup – Gillian Flynn [Goodreads]
  7. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa [Goodreads]
  8. The White Book – Han Kang
  9. As You Like It – William Shakespeare [Goodreads, Arden Shakespeare Edition]
  10. Ms Ice Sandwich – Mieko Kawakami
  11. Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendare Blake
  12. Volpone, or the Fox – Ben Jonson [Goodreads]
  13. The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson – Richard L. Harp, Stanley Stewart [Goodreads]
  14. Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist – Sean McEvoy [Goodreads]
  15. Shakespeare After All – Marjorie Garber [Goodreads]
  16. Parade – Shuichi Yoshida
  17. Bad Girls with Perfect Faces – Lynn Weingarten
  18. Bad Romance – Heather Demetrios
  19. Cinderella, Necromancer – F.M. Boughan
  20. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – Ursula K. Le Guin [Goodreads]
  21. Into the Darkest Corner – Elizabeth Haynes
  22. Mister Tender’s Girl – Carter Wilson
  23. The Text – Claire Douglas
  24. Witch Song – Amber Argyle
  25. The Girl in 6E – A.R. Torre
  26. Almost Transparent Blue – Ryū Murakami
  27. Confessions – Kanae Minato
  28. A Throne for Sisters – Morgan Rice [DNF, Goodreads]
  29. Snotgirl #1 – 11 – Bryan Lee O’Malley and Leslie Hung
  30. Goth – Otsuichi
  31. Bee and Puppycat [Vol. 1] – Natasha Allegri et al [Goodreads]
  32. I Watched You Disappear: Poems – Anya Krugovoy Silver
  33. Good-Bye, Chunky Rice – Craig Thompson [Goodreads]
  34. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
  35. Girls Made of Snow and Glass – Melissa Bashardoust
  36. An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology – Choi Won-Oh [Goodreads]
  37. Bride of the Water God [Vol. 1-9] – Yun Mi-Kyung [Goodreads]
  38. Harry Potter: Magical Film Projections: Patronus Charm [Goodreads]
  39. Harry Potter: Magical Film Projections: Quidditch [Goodreads]
  40. J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Magical Film Projections: Creatures [Goodreads]
  41. Vampirella (2017) #0 – Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton [Goodreads]
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2017

  1. Rumor Has It – Elisabeth Grace [DNFed, Mini Review]
  2. Even the Dogs – Jon McGregor [DNFed, Mini Review]
  3. The Executioner – Chris Carter
  4. the princess saves herself in this one – Amanda Lovelace
  5. But I Love Him – Amanda Grace
  6. Vulgar Remedies – Anna Journey
  7. We Are Okay – Nina LaCour [Sneak Peek Version]
  8. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic – R.K.Narayan
  9. Tao Te Ching : A New English Version – Lao Tzu [Goodreads]
  10. Ruthless – Carolyn Lee Adams
  11. Fall For Anything – Courtney Summers
  12. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
  13. The Pillowman – Martin McDonagh
  14. Death and the Maiden – Ariel Dorfman [Goodreads]
  15. This Lime Tree Bower – Conor McPherson [Goodreads]
  16. Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons – Wajdi Mouawad [Goodreads]
  17. Lizard – Haresh Sharma [Goodreads]
  18. Fundamentally Happy – Haresh Sharma [Goodreads]
  19. I Am Death – Chris Carter
  20. Between the Notes – Sharon Huss Roat
  21. The Laramie Project – Moisés Kaufman [Goodreads]
  22. Samsa in Love – Haruki Murakami
  23. Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately – Alicia Cook
  24. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man – Leo Tolstoy
  25. Every Last Word – Tamara Ireland Stone
  26. Diary of an Oxygen Thief – Anonymous
  27. Violent Ends – Shaun David Hutchinson and Other Authors
  28. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
  29. Chameleon in a Candy Store – Anonymous
  30. Antisocial – Jillian Blake
  31. Even in Paradise – Chelsey Philpot
  32. Yellow – Megan Jacobson
  33. Penance – Kanae Minato
  34. Unfathomable Chance – K.T. Munson
  35. Dirty Aristocrat – Georgia Le Carre [Goodreads]
  36. One of Us is Lying – Karen M. McManus
  37. Stranger Weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami
  38. Desire – Haruki Marukami
  39. This is How It Happened – Paula Stokes
  40. The Couple Next Door – Shari Lapena
  41. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess [Goodreads]
  42. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  43. Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction – Kenneth O. Morgan [Goodreads]
  44. A Rose for Emily – William Faulkner [Goodreads]
  45. There’s Someone Inside Your House – Stephanie Perkins
  46. Mythologies – Roland Barthes [Goodreads]
  47. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – Fredric Jameson [Goodreads]
  48. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
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2016

  1. Everything Speaks in its Own Way – Kate Tempest
  2. The Lost Boy – Greg Ruth
  3. Nightmares & Fairy Tales: Dancing with the Ghosts of Whales – Serena Valentino, Camilla d’Errico
  4. The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
  5. Zoe Letting Go – Nora Price
  6. Blackbirds – Chuck Wendig
  7. Night Owls // The Anatomical Shape of a Heart – Jenn Bennett
  8. Life After Joe – Harper Fox
  9. Humbug – Joanna Chambers
  10. The Girl from Ipanema 1963/1982 – Haruki Murakami [Goodreads]
  11. The Danish Girl – David Ebershoff
  12. The Crucifix Killer – Chris Carter
  13. salt. – Nayyirah Waheed
  14. The Glittering Court – Richelle Mead
  15. Fault Line – Christa Desir
  16. Air Awakens – Elise Kova
  17. Drop – Katie Everson
  18. Nightschool: The Weirn Books [#1] – Svetlana Chmakova
  19. Wink Poppy Midnight – April Genevieve Tucholke
  20. Cat vs Human Fairy Tails – Yasmine Surovec
  21. Never Never – Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
  22. Vicarious – Paula Stokes
  23. Lies, Mistakes and Misunderstandings – Katharine Johnson
  24. Far From You – Lisa Schroeder
  25. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne
  26. The Universe of Us – Lang Leav
  27. Labyrinth Lost – Zoraida Córdova
  28. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
  29. Beautiful Broken Things – Sara Barnard
  30. They Call Us Loud – William Beale
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2015

  1. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
  2. Cracked Up to Be – Courtney Summers [Goodreads]
  3. My Heart and Other Black Holes – Jasmine Warga [Goodreads]
  4. The Crane Wife – Patrick Ness [Goodreads]
  5. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami [Goodreads]
  6. Now That I’ve Found You – Ciara Geraghty [Goodreads]
  7. A Thousand Pieces of You – Claudia Gray [Goodreads]
  8. One by One – Chris Carter [Goodreads]
  9. XO – Jefferey Deaver [Goodreads]
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2014

  1. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
  2. Love Letters to the Dead – Ava Dellaira
  3. Thirteen Weddings – Paige Toon
  4. The Lucy Variations – Sara Zarr
  5. The Donor – Helen Fitzgerald
  6. The Murmurings – Carly Anne West
  7. Eyes Like Stars – Lisa Mantchev
  8. Rosebush – Michele Jeffe
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* ‘[Goodreads]’ indicates that the review has only been posted on Goodreads