Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
June 2005

Sunday June 26, 2005
New York Times Book Review
  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick Review by Allison Pearson

    Fiction Chronicle:
  • Other Electricities: Stories by Ander Monson
  • Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
  • Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz
  • High Plains Tango by Robert James Waller
  • Wasted Beauty by Eric Bogosian
  • The Education of Arnold Hitler by Marc Estrin
    Review by Mark Schone

  • The Washingtonienne by Jessica Cutler Review by Alexandra Jacobs

    Washington Post Book World
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Review by Judy Fong Bates

  • A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Review by Paul Murray

  • The Interview Room by Roderick Anscombe Review by Jabari Asim

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • House of Thieves by Kaui Hart Hemmings Review by Christine Thomas

  • Lizzie's War by Tim Farrington Review by Amy Johnson

  • No Direction Home by Marisa Silver Review by Dan Zigmond

  • Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson Review by Francesca Wodtke

  • Tenney's Landing by Catherine Tudish Review by Victoria Kelly

    Chicago Tribune
  • A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Review by Claire Dederer

  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Review by Donna Seaman

  • The Sugar Mile by Glyn Maxwell
  • The Shout: Selected Poems by Simon Armitage
    Review by Robert Travers

    Boston Globe
  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie Review by Richard Eder

  • The Writing on the Wall by Lynne sharon Schwartz
  • Tenney's Landing: Stories by Catherine Tudish
  • Her Body Knows by David Grossman
    Review by Barbara Fisher

    Sunday June 19, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Long Road Home by G.B. Trudeau Review by Kurt Andersen

  • Lord Byron's Novel by John Crowley Review by Christopher Benfy

  • Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo Review by Lucian K. Truscott

  • The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe Review by Jenny Turner

    Washington Post Book World
  • Lord Byron's Novel by John Crowley Review by Ron Charles

  • Follies by Ann Beattie Review by Donna Rifkind

  • I Got Somebody in Staunton by William Henry Lewis Review by Darryl Lorenzo

  • Blinding Light by Paul Theroux Review by Peter D. Kramer

  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie Review by Elinor Lipman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyemi Review by Malena Watrous

  • First Love by Adrienne Sharp Review by Rachel Howard

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh Review by Art Winslow

  • The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank Review by Francesca Delbanco

    Boston Globe
  • The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank Review by Gail Caldwell

  • Zorro by Isabel Allende Review by Ilan Stavan
  • Islands by Dan Sleigh
  • Morenga by Uwe Timm
  • Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Review by Anna Mundow

    Thursday June 16, 2005
    New York Times
  • The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday June 14, 2005
    New York Times
  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday June 12, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco Review by Thomas Mallon

  • Last Night by James Salter Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Review by Chris Heath

  • The Almond by Nedjima
  • Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
    Review by Sophie Harrison

  • In the Shadow of the Law by Kermit Roosevelt Review by Alan M. Dershowitz

    Chronicle:
  • The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder
  • Bleedout by Joan Brady
  • More Than They Could Chew by Rob Roberge
    Review by Douglas Wolk

    Washington Post Book World
  • The lake, the River & the Other Lake by Steve Amick Review by Carrie Brown

  • Canaan's Tongue by John Wray Review by Ron Charles

  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kostov Review by Michael Dirda

  • Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood
  • Light of Day by Jamie M. Saul
  • The Missing Person by Alix Ohlin
  • Natives and Exotics by Jane Alison
  • He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo
    Review by Andrew Ervin

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Review by June Sawyers

  • The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank Review by Heller McAlpin

  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Review by David Wiegand

  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie Review by Sarah Coleman

  • The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe Review by Timothy Peters

    Chicago Tribune
  • Winslow in Love by Kevin Canty Review by Laura Demanski

  • All This Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Scher Review by Hagar Scher

  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Review by Jessica Treadway

    Boston Globe
  • Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon Review by Elinor Lipman

  • A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Review by Gail Caldwell

  • The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby Review by Antony Shugaar

    Thursday June 9, 2005
    New York Times
  • One Shot by Lee Child Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday June 8, 2005
    Boston Globe
  • Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala Review by Joanne Skerrett

    Monday June 6, 2005
    New York Times
  • The Wonder Spot by Melissa Banks Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday June 5, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank Review by Curtis Sittenfeld

  • Childhood at Oriol by Michael Burn
  • Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon
  • The Lake, the River & the Other Lake by Steve Amick
    Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • The Coast of Akron by Adrienne Miller Review by Elissa Schappell

  • Blinding Light by Paul Theroux Review by Hari Kunzru

    Fiction Chronicle:
  • Natural Novel by Georgi Gospodinov
  • Diary of Andres Fava by Julio Cortazar
  • Queen Cocaine by Nuria Amat
  • Europeana by Patrik Ourednik
  • Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
    Review by Anderson Tepper

  • Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett Review by Charles Taylor

  • Mothers and Sons by Paul Hond Review by Lenora Todaro

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe Review by Ron Charles

  • The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank Review by Jenny McPhee

  • The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • The Magic Keys by Albert Murray Review by James A. Miller

  • The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea Review by Joanne Omang

  • Borges and the Eternal Orangutans by Luis Fernando Verissimo Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Blinding Light by Paul Theroux Review by Stephen J. Lyons

  • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco Review by Tamara Straus

  • The Bright Forever by Lee Martin Review by Debra Spark

  • Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood Review by Amy Johnson

  • Pretty Birds by Scott Simon Review by Russell Working

    Boston Globe
  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Review by Gail Caldwell


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