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

Tuesday August 31, 2004
Christian Science Monitor
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Review by Ron Charles

    Sunday August 29, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Review by Tom Bissell

    Chronicle:
  • The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin
  • Osprey Island by Thisbe Nissen
  • Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
    Review by Emily Barton

  • Amagansett by Mark Mills Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • Edenborn by Nick Sagan Review by Andrew Leonard

  • Collected Poems by Donald Justice Review by David Orr

  • The Silver Screen by Maureen Howard Review by Richard Eder

    Washington Post Book World
  • Snow by Orhan Pamuk Review by Ruth Franklin

  • Cruisers by Craig Nova Review by Peter Straub

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Collected Poems by Donald Justice Review by John Freeman

  • Someone Not Really Her Mother by Harriet Scott Chessman Review by Chelsea Rathburn

  • Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrape Review by Sandip Roy

    Friday, August 27, 2004
    New York Times
  • The Secret Goldfish by David Means Review by Richard Eder

    Tuesday August 24, 2004
    New York Times
  • The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Christian Science Monitor
  • Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres Review by Ron Charles

    Sunday August 22, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Laments by George Hagen Review by Jonathan Wilson

    Chronicle:
  • Junebug by Maureen McCoy
  • Colors Insulting to Nature by Cintra Wilson
  • Good Girl Wants It Bad by Scott Bradfield
  • Skels by Maggie Dubris
    Review by Choire Sicha

    Washington Post Book World
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin Review by Lizzie Skurnick

  • Good Girl Wants It Bad by Scott Bradfield Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill Review by Michaelk Anft

  • The Magellan House by John Rolfe Gardiner Review by Gary Krist

  • Iron Council by China Mieville Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek Review by Diane Schaper

  • Snow by Orhan Pamuk Review by Maureen Freely

  • Saints At the River by Ron Rash Review by Sara Peyton

  • Unkempt by Courtney Eldridge Review by Julie Foster

  • No Man's Land by Eduardo Antonio Parra Review by Elizabeth Gold

  • Had A Good Time by Robert Olen Butler Review by John Freeman

  • The Dog Fighter by Marc Bojanowski Review by Oscar Villalon

    Chicago Tribune
  • Columbarium by Susan Stewart Review by Maureen N. McLane

  • Had A Good Time by Robert Olen Butler Review by Michael Upchurch

  • The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt
  • Visits From the Drowned Girl by Steven Sherrill
  • Misdemeanor Man by Dylan Schaffer
    Review by Stephen J. Lyons

    Sunday August 15, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Snow by Orhan Pamuk Review by Margaret Atwood

  • A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo Review by Margot Livesey

  • Dark Voyage by Alan Furst Review by Charles Taylor

  • Had A Good Time by Robert Olen Butler Review by Christopher Benfey

    Washington Post Book World
  • Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde Review by Elizabeth Hand

  • Prince Edward by Dennis McFarland Review by Madison Smartt Bell

    Tuesday August 10, 2004
    New York Times
  • Snow by Orhan Pamuk Review by Richard Eder

    Sunday August 8, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Monumental Propanganda by Vladimir Voinovich Review by Ken Kalfus

  • The Impartial Recorder by Ian Sansom Review by Tom Shone

  • D.B. by Elwood Reid Review by Keith Dixon

  • Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker Review by Leon Wieseltier

  • The Persistence of Memory by Tony Eprile Review by Theo Tait

    Books in Brief:
  • The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman by Alice Mattison Review by Anna Godbersen

  • Human Amusements by Wayne Johnston Review by Michael Agger

  • Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

  • Roads of the Heart by Christopher Tilghman Review by Katherine Wolff

  • Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore Review by Kate Levin

  • I, Fatty by Jerry Stahl Review by Campbell Robertson

    Washington Post Book World
  • Hidden by Paul Jaskunas Review by Carrie Brown

  • The Wasp Eater by William Lychack Review by Maud Newton

  • Had A Good Time by Robert Olen Butler Review by Thomas Mallon

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Silver Screen by Maureen Howard Review by June Sawyers

  • Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe Review by Jon Mooallem

  • Farewell, My Only One by Antoine Audouard Review by Heller McAlpin

  • Inheritance by Lan Samantha Review by Anhoni Patel

  • Wake Up and Smell the Beer by Jon Longhi Review by Jim Nawrocki

  • Brazil Red by Jean-Christophe Rufin Review by Alan Cheuse

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Ghost Writer by John Harwood Review by Nathaniel Bellows

    Wednesday August 5, 2004
    New York Times
  • Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday August 3, 2004
    New York Times
  • Monumental Propanganda by Vladimir Voinovich Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Christian Science Monitor
  • An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray Review by Ron Charles

    Sunday August 1, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Wake Up, Sir by Jonathan Ames Review by Henry Alford

  • Eating Crow by Jay Rayner Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte Review by Michael Dibdin

  • How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland Review by Curtis Sittenfeld

    Washington Post Book World
  • My Nine Lives by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Review by Sudip Bose

  • To Err is Divine by Agota Bozai Review by Philip Landon

  • Wives & Lovers by Richard Bausch Review by Rodney Welch

  • Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Book of Proper Names by Amelie Nothomb Review by Christine Thomas

  • A Tale of the Dispossessed by Laura Restrepo Review by Trey Popp

  • Rear View: Stories by Pete Duval Review by David Abrams

  • Beijing Doll by Chun Sue Review by Dodie Bellamy

  • God Clobbers Us All by Poe Ballantine Review by Jim Namrocki

  • Broken As Things Are by Martha Witt Review by Michael Sayeau

  • Dark Voyage by Alan Furst Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Birth of a Nation by Aaron McGruder Review by Amy Benfer

    Chicago Tribune
  • Osprey Island by Thisbe Nissen Review by Beth Kephart

    Boston Globe
  • Rear View by Pete Duval Review by DeWitt Henry

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