Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
October 2004

Sunday October 31, 2004
New York Times Book Review
  • The Prodigal by Derek Walcott Review by Mary Jo Salter

  • Villages by John Updike Review by Walter Kirn

  • Whirlwind by Joseph R. Garber Review by Charlie Rubin

    Chronicle: Horror Books
  • Fears Unnamed by Tim Lebbon
  • The Good House by Tananarive Due
  • Vamped by David sosnowski
  • The Rising by Brain Keene
  • Survivor by J.F. Gonzalez
    Review by Mark Athitakis

  • The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Review by Anthony Quinn

  • Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Review by Amy Kroin

  • 21 by Patrick O'Brian Review by Charles McGrath

  • The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd Review by Michael Pye

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Saint of Incipient Insanities by Elif Shafak Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • More Than You Know by Rosalyn Story Review by Bridgett M. Davis

  • The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin Review by Michael Knight

  • Lux by Maria Flook Review by Laura Lippman

  • The Queen of Subleties by Suzannah Dunn Review by Geraldine Brooks

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • THe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Review by David Wiegand

  • The Long Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dharnvant Review by Sandip Roy

  • The Disinherited by Han Ong Review by Dodie Bellamy

  • How We are Hungry: Stories by Dave Eggers Review by John Freeman

  • Author, Author by David Lodge Review by Timothy Peters

  • Some People, SOme Place by J. California Cooper Review by Clea Simon

  • Loosing my Espanish by H.G. Carrillo Review by Carol Sklenicka

    Sunday October 24, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies by George S. Kaufman (et al.) Review by Woody Allen

  • Unlubricated by Arthur Nersesian Review by Lizzie Skurnick

  • The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes Review by Caryn James

    Chronicle:
  • The Children's War by Monique Charlesworth
  • Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
  • Shade by Neil Jordan
  • The Wasp Eater by William Lychack
    Review by Polly Shulman

  • The Darling by Russell Banks Review by Mary Gordon

  • Any Place I hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs Review by Liesl Schillinger

    Washington Post Book World
  • Villages by John Updike Review by Fay Weldon

  • The Darling by Russell Banks Review by Will Haygood

  • The First Desire by Nancy Reisman Review by Ruth Franklin

  • How We Sleep on the Nights we Don't make Love by E. Ethelbert Miller
  • Macnolia by A. Van Jordan
    Review by Chris King

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Double by Jose Saramago Review by Christine Thomas

  • The Painting by Nina Schuyler Review by Tobin O'Donnell

  • The Bride From Odessa by Edgardo Cozarinsky Review by Adam Baer

  • Shade by Neil Jordan Review by Sara Ivry

  • About Grace by Anthony Doerr Review by Dan Zigmond

  • The Skin of the Sky by Elena Poniatowska Review by Linda Burnett

  • Crossways by Sheila Kohler Review by Carolyn Juris

  • Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Review by Simon Read

  • Budapest by Chico Buarque Review by Tess Taylor

    Tuesday October 19, 2004
    New York Times
  • Human Capital by Stephen Amidon Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Boston Globe
  • The Double by Jose Saramago Review by Scott W. Helman

    Monday October 18, 2004
    New York Times
  • The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday October 17, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Librarian by Larry Beinhart Review by Neil Genzlinger

  • Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga Review by Sam Lipsyte

  • The Dark Tower by Stephen King Review by Michael Agger

  • The Normals by David Gilbert Review by Laura Miller

    Washington Post Book World
  • About Grace by Anthony Doerr Review by Margot Livesey

  • Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Review by Nicholas Gage

  • Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare Review by Andrew Nagorski

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Cheat and Charmer by Elizabeth Frank Review by Heller McAlpin

  • A Bit on the Side by William Trevor Review by Brad Vice

  • Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian Review by Patricia Conover

  • Lux by Maria Flook Review by Noa Bar

  • American Smooth by Rita Dove
  • Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One by Yusef Komunyakaa
    Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

    Chicago Tribune
  • Villages by John Updike Review by William Pritchard

  • The Fearless Man by Donald Pfarrer Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • The Darling by Russell Banks Review by Andy Solomon

  • Villages by John Updike Review by Warner Berthoff

    Sunday October 10, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • War Trash by Ha Jin Review by Russell Banks

  • The Double by Jose Saramago Review by John Banville

  • Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley Review by Stephen Metcalf

  • Northern Lights by Nora Roberts Review by Elissa Schappell

  • The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble Review by Richard Eder

  • Author, Author by David Lodge Review by Sophie Harrison

    Chronicle: First Novels:
  • Safelight by Shannon Burke
  • Change Baby by June Spence
  • Sweet and Vicious byDavid Schickler
  • All the Girls by Ellen Slezak
  • How I paid for College by Marc Acito
    Review by Julia Livshin

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Double by Jose Saramago Review by Jonathan Carroll

  • Life Mask by Emma Donoghue Review by Julia Livshin

  • Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz Review y Cynthia L. Haven

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • War Trash by Ha Jin Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Review by Tom Barbash

  • What You've Been Missing by Janet Desaulniers Review by Steve Hermanos

  • The Normals by David Gilbert Review by Rachel Aviv

  • Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002 by Sharon Olds Review by Jon Mooallem

  • Leaving Sardinia by Hans-Ulrich Treichel Review by Elizabeth Egan

  • Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall Review by Christine Thomas

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle Review by Art Winslow

  • How To Be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward
  • Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
    Review by Jessica Treadway

  • The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji Review by Carey Harrison

  • The Secret Goldfish by David Means Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji Review by Roberta Silman

  • Modern Ranch Living by Mark Jude Poirier Review by Amanda Heller

    Friday October 8, 2004
    New York Times
  • The Finishing School by Muriel Spark Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Tuesday October 5, 2004
    Christian Science Monitor
  • The Darling by Russell Banks Review by Ron Charles

    Sunday Octber 3, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Review by Paul Berman

  • Human Capital by Stephen Amidon Review by Deborah Friedell

  • The Love Wife by Gish Jen Review by Craig Seligman

  • The Curse of the Appropriate Man by Lynn Freed Review by Claire Messud

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Review by JOnathan Yardley

  • Any Place I hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs Review by Maureen Corrigan

  • The Egyptologist by Arthur Philips REview by Barbara Mertz

  • When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories by David Benioff
  • The Secret Goldfish by David Means
    Review by Victor LaValle

  • Madeleine is Sleeping by SaahShun-lien BYnum Review by John Crowley

  • War Trash by Ha Jin Review by Charles McCarry

  • A Bit on the Side by William Trevor Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Review by Daniel Handler

  • Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes by Merrill Feitell Review by Noa Bar

  • Dark At the End of the Tunnel by Christopher Bollas Review by Kenneth Baker

    Chicago Tribune
  • THe Plot Against America by Philip Roth Review by Alan Cheuse

  • What You've Been Missing by Janet Desaulniers Review by Jessica Treadway

  • The Red Queen by Margaret Darbble Review by Y. Euny Hong


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