Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
December 2006

Sunday December 31, 2006
New York Times Book Review
  • Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm Toibin Review by Pico Iyer

  • Kockroach by Tyler Knox Review by Matt Wieland

  • Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida Review by Madison Smartt Bell

  • Tales of the Out & the Gone by Amiri Baraka Review by Andrew O'Hehir

  • Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris Review by Terrence Rafferty

    Chronicle:
  • Alligator by Lisa Moore
  • Not Enough Indians by Harry Shearer
  • Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
  • The Blue Taxi by N.S. Koenings
  • Newsworld by Todd James Pierce
    Review by Todd Pruzan

  • The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire Review by Joshua Clover

    San Francsico Chronicle
  • Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle Review by Heller McAlpin

  • The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne Review by Michael Leone

  • The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages Review by Susan Faust

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun J. Tejpal Review by Tara Ison

    Boston Globe
  • Paula Spencer by Roddy Spencer Review by Gail Caldwell

    Sunday December 24, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • What is the What by Dave Eggers Review by Francine Prose

  • Last Seen Leaving by Kelly Braffet Review by Benjamin Anastas

  • Collected Poems by C.K. Williams Review by Dan Chiasson

    Washington Post Book World
  • Cotton Song by Tom Bailey Review by Kiim McLarin

  • A Dead Language by Peter Rushforth Review by Elizabeth Hand

  • The Hidden Assassins by Robert Wilson Review by Sarah Weinman

  • Indiscretion by Jude Morgan Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Last Seen Leaving by Kelly Braffet Review by Malena watrous

  • What is the What by Dave Eggers Review by John Freeman

  • Exceptions and Melancholies; Poems by Ralph Angel Review by Barbara Berman

  • The End as I Know It by Kevin Shay Review by Peter Hyman

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford Review by Veronique de Turenne

    Boston Globe
  • The Eighth Wonder of the World by Leslie Epstein Review by Saul Austerlitz

    Sunday December 17, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Aeneid; Translated by Robert Fagles Review by Brad Leithauser

    Washington Post Book World
  • What is the What by Dave Eggers Review by Gary Krist

  • The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass Review by matt Pavelich

  • The Book of Dave by Will Self Review by Donna Rifkind

  • Dear John by Nicholas Sparks Review by Margaux Wexberg

  • The Crimson Portrait by Jody Sheilds Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Tales of the Out & Gone by Amiri Baraka Review by Buzz Poole

  • The Crimson Portrait by Jody Sheilds Review by Stephen J. Lyons

  • The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun J. Tejpal Review by Margot Kaminski

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizaabeth Berg Review by Beth Kephart

  • Trouble by Patrick Somerville Review by Sharon Pomerantz

    Sunday December 10, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
    Poetry Chronicle:
  • Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
  • Black Box by Erin Belieu
  • A Form of Optimism by Roy Jacobstein
  • The God of This World to His Prophet by Bill Coyle
  • Lions Don't Eat Us by Constance Quarterman Bridges
  • Where X Marks the Spot by Bill Zavatsky
  • Ruin by Cynthia Cruz
  • Splendor by Steve Kronen
  • Logorrhea by Adrain C. Louis
    Review by Joel Brouwer and Eric McHenry

  • The View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro
  • Carried Away by Alice Munro
    Review by A.O. Scott

  • The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens Review by Kevin Baker

  • Unconfessed by Yvette Christianse Review by Uzodinma Iweala

  • The Lives of Rocks: Stories by Rick Bass Review by Jeff Turrentine

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Children's World by Chris Adrian Review by Elizabeth Hand

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Review by David Hellman

  • The Book of Samson by David Maine Review by Alan Cheuse

    Sunday December 3, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • Was She Pretty by Leanne Sharpton Review by Marisha Pessl

  • Nature Girl by Carl Hiassen Review by John Leland

  • Collected Poems by John Betjeman Review by Charles McGrath

  • The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dogy by Dave Barry Review by Henry Alford

  • Ask the Parrot by Richard Stark Review by James Wolcott

  • Collected Stories by Roald Dahl Review by Erica Wagner

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Blind Submission by Debra Ginsburg Review by Sarah Saffian

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