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

Sunday May 28, 2006
Washington Post Book World
  • The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullins Review by Laila Lalami

  • What I Did Wrong by John Weir Review by Dennis Drabelle

  • Malanche by Laura Esquivel Review by Jennifer Howard

  • The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner by Andrea Smith Review by Ron Charles

  • Which Brings Me To You by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott Review by Craig Stoltz

  • Which Brings Me To You by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott Review by Claudia Deane

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Blue Nude by Elizabeth Rosner Review by Charles Matthews

  • District and Circle by Seamus Heaney Review by Jenna Krajeski

  • The Unfinished Novel and Other stories by Valerie Martin Review by Saul Austerlitz

  • Slipstream by Leslie Larson Review by Rachel F. Elson

    Chicago Tribune
  • Now You See it: Stories from Cokesville, Pa. by Bathsheba Monk Review by Carlo Rotella

  • Blow the House Down by Robert Baer
  • The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
    Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley Review by Chris Bohjalian

    Sunday May 21, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • Fireworks by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Review by Heidi Julavits

  • Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre Review by Sophie Harrison

  • The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio Review by Meghan O'Rourke

  • The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • The Attack by Yasmina Khadra Review by Lorraine Adams

  • Genealogy by Maud Casey Review by Meghan Daum

  • Digging to America by Anne Tyler Review by Leisl Schillinger

  • Who Moved My Blackberry by Lucy Kellaway Review by Ana Marie Cox

  • The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld Review by Claire Dederer

  • Theft by Peter Carey Review by Paul Gray

  • JPOD by Douglas Coupland Review by Dave Itzkoff

  • The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories by Valerie Martin Review by Susann Cokal

  • Icebergs by Rebecca Johns Review by Mark Kamine

  • Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston Review by Evan Hughes

    Washington Post Book World
  • Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach Review by Suki Casanave

  • White Guys by Anthony Giardina Review by Stephen Amidon

  • Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston Review by Ron Charles

  • White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway Review by Judy Fong Bates

  • The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld Review by Stephen McCauley

  • There Will Never Be Another You by Carolyn See Review by Chris Bohjalian

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Adverbs by Daniel Handlet Review by Jesse Berrett

  • The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld Review by Michelle Orange

  • A Season of Fire & Ice by Lloyd Zimpel Review by Carey Harrison

  • Malinche by Laura Ezquivel
  • Night of Sorrows by Frances Sherwood
    Review by Gregg Barrios

    Friday May 19, 2006
    New York Times
  • Digging to America by Anne Tyler Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday May 18, 2006
    New York Times
  • The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday May 14, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders Review by Adam Begley

    Chronicle:
  • The Suitors by Ben Ehrenreich
  • The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
  • Visigoth: Stories by Gary Amdahl
  • The Mercy Room by Gilles Rozier
  • The Memory Artists by Jeffrey Moore
    Review by Michael J. Agovino

  • Living on Air by Anna Shapiro Review by Laiama L. Glover

  • God's Silence: Poems by Franz Wright Review by Langdon Hammer

    Washington Post Book World
  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Review by Rith Kluger

  • Everyman by Philip Roth Review by Norman Rush

  • The Edge of Pleasure by Philippa Stockley Review by Lelia Ruckenstein

  • Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Norton Review by Ron Charles

  • Shahnameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsi Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Digging to America by Anne Tyler Review by Elizabeth Gold

  • Gatsby's Girl by Caroline PReston Review by Dana Kletter

  • Theft by Peter Carey Review by Christine Thomas

  • Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart Review by Brenn Jones

  • Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler Review by Jami Attenberg

  • The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel Review by Lisa Teasley

    Chicago Tribune
  • Everyman by Philip Roth Review by William Pritchard

  • The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio Review by Art Winslow

  • Saving the World by Julia Alvarez Review by Brigitte Frase

  • Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • Digging to America by Anne Tyler Review by Gail Caldwell

  • Theft by Peter Carey Review by Richard Eder

    Sunday May 7, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • Everyman by Philip Roth Review by Nadine Gordimer

  • This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes Review by Walter Kirn

  • The Sand Cafe by Neil MacFarquhar Review by Christopher Dickey

  • Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez
  • The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
    Review by Thomas Beller

  • The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson Review by Jacob Heilbrunn

  • Timothy by Verlyn Klinkenborg Review by David Gessner

  • Swithering by Robin Robertson
  • To a Fault by Nick Laird
    Review by Stephen Burt

    Washington Post Book World
  • Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart Review by Josip Novakovich

  • L'AMerica by Martha McPhee Review by Caroline Leavitt

  • Theft by Peter Carey Review by Ron Charles

  • The Messiah of Morris Avenue by Tony Hendra Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

  • Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian Review by Michael Dirda

  • The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence Review by Bruce Murkoff

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Color of the Sea by John Hamamura Review by Summer Block

  • City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate Review by Carolyn Juris

  • Ticknor by Sheila Heti Review by Britt Peterson

    Chicago Tribune
  • Brookland by Emily Barton Review by ARt Winslow

  • The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Bog Why by Michael Winter
  • Icebergs by Rebecca Johns
  • Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
    Review by Donna Seaman

  • This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M Homes Review by Claire Dederer

    Boston Globe
  • Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar Review by Gail Caldwell

  • Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart Review by Saul Austerlitz


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