Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
August 2008

Sunday August 31, 2008
New York Times Book Review
  • American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld Review by Joyce Carol Oates

  • The Road Home by Rose Tremain Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton Review by John Leland

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  • August by Gerard Woodward
  • What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn
  • Apples by Richard Milward
  • Commonwealth by Joey Goebel
  • Demons in the Spring: Stories by Joe Meno
    Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • Invasions: Poems by Adam Kirsch Review by Langdon Hammer

  • The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff Review by Louisa Thomas

  • All Souls by Christine Schutt Review by Maud Casey

    Washington Post Book World
  • Man in the Dark by Paul Auster Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti Review by Ron Charles

  • Out Backward by Ross Raisin Review by Thomas Meaney

    Thursday August 28, 2008
    New York Times
  • The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday August 26, 2008
    New York Times
  • Man in the Dark by Paul Auster Review by Richard Eder

    Sunday August 24, 2008
    New York Times Book Review
  • Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi Review by Erica Wagner

  • The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson Review by Charles Taylor

  • Awesome by Jack Pendarvis Review by Allison Glock

  • A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Tolz Review by John Freeman

    Washington Post Book World
  • Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • American Savior by Roland Merullo Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Road Home by Rose Tremain Review by Heller McAlpin

  • The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard by Erin McGraw Review by Paula Priamos

    Chicago Tribune
  • The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff Review by Art Winslow

  • A Common Ordinary Murder by Donald Pfarrer Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The James Boys by Richard Leibmann-Smith Review by chauncey Mabel

    Boston Globe
  • Man in the Dark by Paul Auster Review by John Gregory Brown

    Tuesday August 19, 2008
    New York Times
  • The Grift by Debra Gnsburg Review by Liesl Schillinger

    Sunday August 17, 2008
    New York Times Book Review
  • A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson Review by Sophie Gee

  • Ancient Highway by Bret Lott Review by Lisa Fugard

  • This Must Be the Place by Anne Winger Review by Liesl Schillinger

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Little Book by Selden Edwards Review by Ron Charles

  • The Sister by Poppy Adams Review by Dennis Drabelle

  • When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale Review by Donna Rifkind

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • What Happened to Anna K by Irina Reyn Review by Elizabeth Gold

  • Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo Review by Chanan Tigay

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Little Book by Selden Edwards Review by Art Winslow

  • The Seamstress by Frances dePontes Peebles Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • The Other by David Guterson Review by William Martin

    Sunday August 10, 2008
    New York Times Book Review
  • My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Sarah Churchwell

  • Intercourse by Robert Olen Butler Review by Tom De Haven

  • 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border by Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera Review by Stephen Burt

  • Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing Review by Caryn James

    Washington Post Book world
  • Daphne by Justine Picardie Review by Nicholas Delbanco

  • The Conversion by Joseph Olshan Review by Richard McCann

  • The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Man in the Dark by Paul Auster Review by Stephen Elliott

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Chaffer Review by Margot Kaminski

  • A Better Anger by Chris Adrian Review by Neel Mukherjee

  • One More year: Stories by Sana Krasikov Review by Joan Frank

    Boston Globe
  • Requiem, Mass. by John Dufresne Review by Bret Lott

    Tuesday August 5, 2008
    New York Times
  • Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday August 4, 2008
    New York Times
  • The 19th Wife by David Ebersoff Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday August 3, 2008
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski Review by Mike Peed

  • Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton Review by Joshua Hammer

  • Steer Toward Rock by Fae Myenne Ng Review by Ligaya Mishan

  • So Long At the Fair by Christina Schwarz Review by Danielle Trussoni

  • Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst Review by Mark Costello

  • Mercury Under My Tongue by Sylvain Trudel Review by Tayt Harlin

    Washington Post Book World
  • Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing Review by Valerie Sayers

  • The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson Review by Ron Charles

  • Enlightenment by Maureen Freely Review by Jason Goodwin

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Review by Wendy Smith

  • How Far is the Ocean From Here by Amy Shearn
  • Somebody's Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage
  • The Book of Dahlia by Elisa Albert
  • Iodine by Haven Kimmel
    Review by Jane Ciabattari

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Real World by Narsuo Kirino Review by Andrew Leland

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