Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
August 2003

Sunday August 31, 2003
New York Times Book Review
  • Diary by Chuck Palahniuk Review by Taylor Antrim

  • Postcards From Berlin by Margaret Leroy Review by Margot Livesey

  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • Truth by Jacqueline Sheehan Review by John Vernon

  • Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas Review by Alan Riding

    Books in Brief:
  • Yoga Hotel by Maura Moynihan Review by Mary Park

  • Stella Descending by Linn Ullmann Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

  • A Hole in the Night by Christopher Marquis Review by Bruce Barcott

  • A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong Review by Katherine Wolf

  • Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes Review by Sam Lipsyte

    Washington Post Book World
  • Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin Review by Elizabeth Ward

  • Until That Good Day by Marjorie Kemper Review by Kevin Allman

  • Once Removed by Mako Yoshikawa Review by Linda Barrett Osborne

  • Secret Father by James Carroll Review by Zofia Smardz

  • Diary by Chuck Palahniuk Review by Marc Nesbitt

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger Review by Elisa Ludwig

  • Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson Review by David Kipen

  • Writing the Book of Ester by Louise Domaratius Review by Elaine Margolin

  • Orchard by Larry Watson Review by Alison Hood

  • The Book of Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis Review by Jonathan Kiefer

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Orchard by Larry Watson Review by Frank Wilson

    Newsday
  • And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida Review by Michelle Boldberg

    Sunday August 24, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida Review by Stephanie Zacharek

  • Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson Review by Gary Krist

  • Crackpots by Sara Pritchard Review by Craig Seligman

  • Calpurnia by Anne Scott Review by M.G. Lord

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida Review by Ruth Franklin

  • Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein Review by matt Schudel

  • Farewell My Queen by Chantal Thoams Review by Zofia Smardz

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes Review by Matt King

  • What Was She Thinking by Zoe Heller Review by Ken Foster

  • Breaking Her Fall by Stephen Goodwin Review by Christine THomas

    Sunday August 17, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • What Was She Thinking by Zoe Heller Review by Lisa Zeidnet

  • Love in Idleness by Amanda Craig Review by Laura Miller

  • Love Me by Garrison Keillor Review by Carl Hiaasen

    Books in Brief:
  • Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet Review by Alan Michael Parker

  • The Outside of August by Joanna Hershon Review by Jenifer Berman

  • Approximately Heaven by James Wharton Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

  • Out by Natsuo Kirino Review by Katherine Wolff

  • Flight by Victoria Glendinning Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman Review by Jennifer Reese

    Washington Post Book World
  • Love Me by Garrison Keillor Review by Howard Frank Mosher

  • The King is Dead by Jim Lewis Review by Kevin Allman

  • The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman Review by Chris Bohjalian

  • A Girl Could Stand Up by Leslie Marshall Review by Trevor Butterworth

  • The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke Review by Opal Moore

  • Orchard by Larry Watson Review by reeve Lindbergh

  • The Tattoed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates Review by John Gregory Brown

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman Review by David Hellman

  • Just the Way You Want Me by Nora Eisenberg Review by Susan Parker

  • Well by Matthew McIntosh Review by David Wiegand

  • Tonguecat by Peter Verhelst Review by Jules Siegel

  • Out by Natsuo Kirino Review by Eve Kushner

  • In Times of Siege by Githa Hariharan Review by Tobin O'Donnell

  • My Name is Light by Elsa Osorio Review by Jess Bravin

  • Vancouver by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths Review by Simon Read

  • Katography by Kamila Shamsie Review by Alan Cheuse

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy Review by Bich Minh Nguyen

  • Personality by Andrew O'Hagan Review by Dan Cryer

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Love Me by Garrison Keillor Review by Kevin Cowherd

    Newsday
  • The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman Review by Bethany Schneider

  • Tiger in a Trance by Max Ludington Review by Emily White

  • Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes Review by Karen Karbo

    Thursday August 14, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday August 12, 2003
    New York Times
  • Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday August 10, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Bliss by Ronit Matalon Review by Richard Eder

  • Built in a Day by Steven RInehart Review by Jonathan Miles

  • Lay Back the Darkness: Poems by Edward Hirsch Review by Peter Davison

  • Tales of Grabowski by John Auerbach
  • The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
    Review by Neil Gordon

  • Secret Father by James Carroll Review by Alan Riding

  • Personality by Andrew O'Hagan Review by Ruth Franklin

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Review by Nani Power

  • Daylight by Elizabeth Knox Review by Douglas E. Winter

  • A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg Review by Frances Taliaferro

  • Reunion by Alan Lightman
  • Breaking Her Fall by Stephen Goodwin
  • Tunneling by Beth Bosworth
  • Land That Moves, Land Stands Still by Kent Nelson
  • Miracle Girl by Keith Scribner
    Review by Sanford Pinsker

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy Review by Irene Wanner

  • Please by Peter Darbyshire Review by Malena Watrous

  • Moon's Crossing by Barbara Croft Review by Olivia Boler

  • Little Indiscretions by Carmen Posadas Review by Victoria Zackheim

  • A Dictionary of Macqiao by Han Shaogong Review by Poger Gathman

    Chicago Tribune
  • Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still by Kent Nelson Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Street of the Seven Angels by John Howard Griffin Review by Walton Muyumba

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Platform by Michel Houellebecq Review by Arthur Hirsch

  • Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins Review by Sandy ALexander

  • 1929 by Frederick Thurner Review by Donald Newlove

  • Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan Review by John R. Alden

  • King Bongo by Thomas Sanchez Review by Chauncey Mabe

  • The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman Review by Susan Hall-Balduf

    Newsday
  • The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters Review by Tom Beer

    Thursday August 7, 2003
    Newsday
  • Personality by Andrew O'Hagan Review by Dan Cryer

    Tuesday August 5, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Photograph by Penelope Lively Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday August 3, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Review by Edward Hower

  • The Pursuit of Alice Swift by Elinor Lipman Review by Karen Karbo

  • The Other Side of Silence by Andre Brink Review by Ruth Franklin

  • The King is Dead by Jinm Lewis Review by A.O. Scott

  • Open Shutters: Poems by Mary Jo Salter Review by Stephen Metcalf

  • Morningside Heights by Cheryl Mendelson Review by Emily Barton

    Books in Brief:
  • Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein Review by Diane Cole

  • Tietam Brown by Mick Foley Review by Dan Kaufman

  • God Save My Queen by Daniel Nester Review by Ken Tucker

  • Lucca by Jens Christian Grondahl Review by Craig Seligman

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Review by Matthew Flamm

  • Action by Robert Cort Review by Dana Kennedy

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce Review by Zofia Smardz

  • Platform by Michell Houellebecq Review by Gavin McNett

  • Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland Review by Meghan O'Rourke

  • In Times of Siege by Githa Hariharan
  • Stella Descending by Linn Ullman
  • The Outside of August by Joanna Hershon
  • The Cowboy With the Tiffany Gun by Aaron Latham
  • War Against the Animals by Paul Russell
    Review by Caroline Leavitt

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Reunion by Alan Lightman Review by David Kipen

  • Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet Review by Max Winter

  • Showing Out by Timothy Reed Review by Jim Piechota

  • Personality by Andrew O'Hagan Review by Steve Friedman

  • The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier Review by Kera Bolonik

    Chicago Tribune
  • Say When by Elizabeth Berg Review by Lynna Williams

  • Long For This World by Michael Byers Review by Dan Cryer

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis Review by New Warwick

    Newsday
  • Midsummer by Marcelle Clements Review by Daphne Uviller

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