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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