Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
April 2004

Friday April 30, 2004
New York Times
  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler Review by Richard Eder

    Thursday April 29, 2004
    New York Times
  • Adventures of the Artificial Woman by Thomas Berger Review by Janet Maslin

    Boston Globe
  • The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg Review by Karen Campbell

    Monday April 26, 2004
    New York Times
  • Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
  • The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
    Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday April 25, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Review by Richard Eder

  • Have You Heard by Anderson Ferrell Review by Jonathan Miles

  • Piano by Jean Echenoz
  • Chopin's Move by Jean Echenoz Review by Caryn James

  • A Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss Review by Michael Agger

    Washington Post Book World
  • Buddha Da by Anne Donovan Review by David Guy

  • The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat Review by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

  • The Outside World by Tova Mirvis Review by Samuel G. Freedman

  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Confusion by Neal Stephenson Review by Michael Berry

  • The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith Review by Clea Simon

  • Winter Poems ALong the Rio Grande by Jimmy Santiago Baca
  • Acts of Love by Edgar Babriel Silex
    Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

  • Useful Girl by Marcus Stevens Review by Ron Fransell

  • Good Grief by Lolly Winston Review by Tiffany Vigil

  • Victorine by Catherine Texier Review by Andrea Hoag

    Chicago Tribune
  • Confinement by Carrie Brown Review by Sandra Scofield

  • Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt Review by Alan Cheuse

  • One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto
  • The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
    Review by Janice P. Nimura

    Boston Globe
  • The Book of Ten Nights and a Night by John Barth Review by Roland Merullo

    Wednesday April 21, 2004
    New York Times
  • Good Grief by Lolly Winston Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday April 18, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Referred Pain and Other Stories by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Review by Wendy Smith

  • The Confusion by Neal Stephenson Review by Stephen Metcalf

  • Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes Review by Choire Sicha

  • Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes Review by Donna Minkowitz

  • The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips Review by David Orr

  • The View From Stalin's Head: Stories by Aaron Hamburger Review by Daniel Soar

    Books in Brief:
  • My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Review by Meredith Blum

  • I Am No One You Know: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Jhn Schwartz

  • Dancing With Einstein by Kate Wenner Review by Suzy Hansen

  • The Long Meadow: Poems by Vijay Seshadri Review by J.T. Barbarese

  • I Dream of Microwaves: Stories by Imad Rahman Review by Nathaniel Bellows

  • Rampant by Marvin Bell Review by James Parker

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Book of Ralph by John McNally Review by Michael Anft

  • Confinement by Carrie Brown Review by Lydia Millet

  • Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho Review by Paul DiFilippo

  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Caramba by Nina Marie Martinez Review by Barbara Quick

  • The Book of Ten Nights and a Night by John Barth Review by Daniel Handler

  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Review by Jennie Yabroff

  • Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite Review by June Sawyers

  • Piano by Jean Echenoz Review by Robin Somers

  • Divining Women by Kaye Gibons Review by Rachel Howard

    Boston Globe
  • An Almost Pefect Moment by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Thrifty Umrigar

  • Heaven Lies About Us by Eugene McCabe Review by John Banville

  • The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn by Janis Hallowell Review by Kevin O'Kelley

    Sunday April 11, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Blue Horse Dreaming by Melanie Wallace Review by Max Byrd

  • Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi Review by Catherine Lockerbie

  • Links by Nuruddin Farah Review by Richard Eder

  • Victorine by Catherine Texier Review by Nell Freudenberger

    Washington Post Book World
  • With by Donald Harington Review by Steven Moore

  • Love in the Asylum by Lisa Carey Review by Heather Havrilesky

  • Brother and Sister by Joanna Trollope Review by Kate Lehrer

  • Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy Review by Dennis Drabelle

  • Ship Sooner by Mary Sullivan Review by Anne Glusker

  • Bet me by Jennifer Crusie
  • Charming Grace by Deborah Smith
  • Late Bloomer by Melissa Pritchard
  • Kate Hannigan by Catherine Cookson
    Review by Pamela Regis

  • Foiglman by Aharon Megged Review by Dennis Drabelle

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Daydreaming Boy by Micheline Aharonian Marcom Review by Allison Block

  • Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon Review by Irene Wanner

  • There is Room For You by Charlotte Bacon Review by Christine Thomas

  • The Beautiful: Collected Poems by Michelle Tea Review by David Hellman

  • Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by Joan Silber Review by Christine Eng

  • I Dream of Microwaves by Imad Rahman Review by Casey Mckinney

  • Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum Review by Irina Reyn

  • The Outside World by Tova Mirvis Review by Josh Lambert

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg Review by Sandra Scofield

  • Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey
  • Granted by Mary Szybist
  • What Narcissis Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
    Review by Maureen N. McLane

  • The King of America by Samantha Gillison Review by Art Winslow

  • Famous Americans by Loren Goodman Review by Maureen N. McLane

    Boston Globe
  • Graceland by Chris Abani Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

    Sunday April 4, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Our Kind by Kate Walbert Review by Jennifer Egan

  • One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead by Clare Dudman Review by Bruce Barcott

  • An Unpardonable Crime by Andrew Taylor Review by Frederick Busch

    Books in Brief:
  • The Book of Ten Nights and a Night by John Barth Review by Michael Agger

  • The Last Juror by John Grisham Review by Wesley Yang

  • Insomnia Diary by Bob Hicok Review by David Kirby

  • The Uncollected Henry James Review by Sherie Posesorski

  • Holy Fools by Joanne Harris Review by Andrew Santella

  • Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott Review by Curtis Sittenfeld

    Washington Post Book World
  • Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Our Savage by Matt Pavelich Review by Lizzie Skurnick

  • Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite Review by Bill Sheehan

  • Heaven Lake by John Dalton Review by Larry Tritten

  • My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Review by Katherine Arie

  • The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper Review by Chris Bohjalian

  • Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons Review by Valerie Sayers

  • In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakamim
  • Our Kind by Kate Walbert
  • Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi
  • Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
  • Antonio's Wife by Jacqueline DeJohn
    Review by Elizabeth Gold

    San Francisco Chroncicle
  • Heaven Lake by John Dalton Review by Adam Baer

  • Aloft by Chang-rae Lee Review by Ken Foster

    Friday April 2, 2004
    New York Times
  • Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes Review by Janet Maslin

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