| November 2005 | Wednesday November 30, 2005
 New York Times
 Born to Slowhorses by Kamau Brathwaite
Review by Claudia LaRocco
 
 Sunday November 27, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 The Sea by John Banville
Review by Terrence Rafferty
 
 Poetry Chronicle:
 Startle Response by Heather Fuller
 American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander
 The Life of a Hunter by Michelle Robinson
 Wise Fish by Adrian Castro
 Midwest Eclogue by Dvid Baker
 Thirty Years War by Patricia Ferrell
 Quipu by Arthur Sze
 Lampblack & Ash by Simone Muench
 Company of Moths by Michael Palmer
 Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
 Review by Joshua Clover and Joel Brouwer
 
 The Jungle Law by Victoria Vinton
Review by Mark Kamine
 
 The Truth of the Matter by Robb Forman Dew
Review by Wendy Smith
 
 Washington Post Book World
 I'll Never Be Long Gone by Thomas Christopher Greene
Review by Ron Charles
 
 The Mad Cook of Pymatuning by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Review by Douglas E. Winter
 
 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
Review by Rodney Welch
 
 Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
Review by Kevin Allman
 
 What Do You Do All Day by Amy Scheibe
 Sleep With Me by Joanna Briscoe
 The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
 Review by Meg Wolitzer
 
 San Francisco Chronicle
 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Review by David Hellman
 
 Monologue of a Dog: New Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
Review by Cynthia Haven
 
 Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol
Review by Alan Cheuse
 
 The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
Review by Allan M. Jalon
 
 Chicago Tribune
 On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Review by Julia Keller
 
 Boston Globe
 Mission to America by Walter Kirn
Review by John Dicker
 
 Tuesday November 22, 2005
 New York Times
 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Review by Michiko Kakutani
 
 Sunday November 20, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 Natural History: Poems by Dan Chiasson
Review by Kay Ryan
 
 Absolute Watchmen by Alan Moore
Review by Dave Itzkoff
 
 Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon
Review by Dana Goodyear
 
 The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing
Review by Lesley Downer
 
 Chronicle:
 If the Sky Falls: Stories by Nocholas Montemarano
 A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj
 The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
 The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
 The Elagin Affair and Other Stories by Ivan Bunin
 Review by Gregory Cowles
 
 Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
Review by Neil Gordon
 
 Washington Post Book World
 Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
 Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala
 Review by Anderson Tepper
 
 The Jungle Law by Victoria Vinton
Review by Art Taylor
 
 The Truth of the Matter by Robb Forman Dew
Review by Rachel Basch
 
 The Pagoda in the Garden by Wendy Lesser
Review by Ron Charles
 
 Here & Elsewhere: the Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
Review by Michael Dirda
 
 Chicago Tribune
 The Sea by Joh Banville
Review by Gail Caldwell
 
 Boston Globe
 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Review by Bruce Allen
 
 Thursday November 17, 2005
 New York Times
 Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinna Iweala
Review by Janet Maslin
 
 Sunday November 13, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 A Time to Run by Barbara Boxer
Review by Ana Marie Cox
 
 Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
Review by Charles McGrath
 
 John Crow's Devil by Marlon James
Review by James Polk
 
 The Succesor by Ismail Kadare
Review by Lorraine Adams
 
 Washington Post Book World
 Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
 
 The Sea by John Banville
Review by John Crowley
 
 Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Review by David Jays
 
 Times Like These: Stories by Rachel Ingalls
Review by Francine Prose
 
 Passion by Jude Morgan
Review by Nicholas Delbanco
 
 Angelina's Children by Alice Ferney
 Nothing Serious by Justine Lvy
 The Old Child and Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck
 Review by Mylne Dressler
 
 Isle of Passion by Laura Restrepo
Review by Jennifer Vanderbes
 
 Flashman on the March by George McDonald Fraser
Review by Michael Dirda
 
 San Francisco Chronicle
 A Time To Run by Barbara Boxer
Review by Daniel Handler
 
 Phone Rings by Stephen Dixon
Review by Ron Antonucci
 
 Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls
Review by Michelle Orange
 
 The Town That Forgot to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey
Review by Jesse Berrett
 
 Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
Review by Stephen Lyons
 
 Chicago Tribune
 Christ the Lord by Anne Rice
Review by Alan Cheuse
 
 Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
Review by Kathryn Masterson
 
 Boston Globe
 Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Review by Don Lee
 
 Sunday November 6, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Review by Terrence Rafferty
 
 Fathers and Daughters by Benjamin Markovits
Review by Bliss Broyard
 
 The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
Review by Susann Cokal
 
 Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
Review by Joseph Kanon
 
 Shorts: Stories by Alberto Fuguet
Review by Lenora Todaro
 
 Washington Post Book World
 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Review by Marie Arana
 
 A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj
Review by Ron Charles
 
 The Third Brother by Nick McDonell
Review by John Burdett
 
 San Francisco Chronicle
 Sleep with Me by Joanna Briscoe
Review by Allison Block
 
 Hunger's Brides by Paul Anderson
Review by Peter S. Temes
 
 Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
Review by Michelle Orange
 
 The Identity Club: New and Selected Stories and Songs by Richard Burgin
Review by Floyd Skloot
 
 The Guest by Hwang Sok-Yong
Review by Timothy Peters
 
 Kinshu Autumn Brocade by Teru Miyamoto
Review by William Cherau
 
 Chicago Tribune
 Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie
Review by Susan Reimer
 
 Boston Globe
 Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
Review by Richard Eder
 
 Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Review by Sarah Smith
 
 The Sea by John Banville
Review by Gail Caldwell
 
 
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