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

Sunday October 30, 2005
New York Times Book Review
  • Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie Review by Alice Traux

  • Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald Review by Katherine Weber

    Chronicle:
  • Wolf Point by Edward Falco
  • Diary of a Married Call Girl by Tracy Quan
  • The Monsters of Gramercy Park by Danny Leigh
  • Sniper by Pavel Hak
  • Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger
    Review by Douglas Wolk

  • Fallen by David Maine Review by Bruce Bawer

    Washington Post Book World
  • Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow Review by Stephen Amidon

  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan Review by Sara Peyton

  • Matches by Alan Kaufman Review by Elizabeth Kiem

  • Mission to America by Walter Kirn Review by Timothy Peters

  • The Third Brother by Nick McDonell Review by Matt King

    Chicago Tribune
  • Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow Review by Philip Caputo

  • Veronica by Mary Gaitskill Review by Carol Anshaw

    Boston Globe
  • Making It Up by Penelope LIvely Review by Gail Caldwell

  • Evening Ferry by Katherine Towler Review by Elsbeth Ferry

    Thursday October 27, 2005
    New York Times
  • Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday October 23, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Veronica by Mary Gaitskill Review by Meghan O'Rourke

  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Review by Laura Miller

  • A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li Review by Fatema Ahmed

  • Nothing Serious by Levy Review by Judith Warner

  • The Inheritance by Annabel Dilke Review by Sarah Ferguson

  • Popco by Scarlett Thomas Review by Dee Mondschein

    Washington Post Book World
  • Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Marianne Wiggins

  • The Scorpion's Gate by Richard A. Clarke Review by Gary Hart

  • The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • An Invisible Country by Stephan Wackwitz Review by Robert Welch

  • Blood Fugues by Eduardo Vega Yunque Review by Noa Bar

  • Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Amy Johnson

  • The Jungle Law by Victoria Vinton Review by Carolyn Juris

  • The Bear Bryant Funeral Train by Brad Vice Review by Brenn Jones

  • Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie Review by Heller McAlpin

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Review by Jack Fuller

    Boston Globe
  • In the Fold by Rachel Cusk Review by Gail Caldwell

  • Maybe a Miracle by Brain Strause
  • The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
  • The Turning by Tim Winton Review by Caroline Leavitt

    Sunday October 16, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Mission To America by Walter Kirn Review by Paul Gray

  • In the Fold by Rachel Cusk Review by Ada Calhoun

  • The Other Shulman by Alan Zwiebel Review by Neil Genzlinger

  • Waterloo by Karen Olsson Review by Mark Costello

  • Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan Review by Andrew Solomon

  • In Case We're Separated: Connected stories by Alice Mattison Review by Sue Halpern

  • Seven Lies by James Lasdun Review by Ken Kalfus

    Washington Post Book World
  • Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan Review by Craig Nova

  • The Great Stink by Clare Clark Review by ROn Charles

  • Hunger's Brides by Paul Anderson Review by Jaime Manrique

    San Francisco Chronicle
    Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
    Review by Allan M. Jalon

  • Nothing Serious by Justine Levy Review by Christine Thomas

  • The Conference of the Birds by Jeffrey Lewis Review by Matt King

  • Dermaphobia by Craig Clevenger Review by June Sawyers

    Boston Globe
  • Star Dust by Frank Bidart Review by Peter Campion

  • The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell
  • A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
  • Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips Review by Anna Mundow

    Sunday October 9, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • The Pagoda in the Garden by Wendy Lesser Review by Lucy Ellmann

    Chronicle:
  • A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
  • The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
  • The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
  • Third Girl From the Left by Kim Ponders
    Review by Chelsea Cain

  • Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire Review by Sophie Harrison

  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Review by Charles Taylor

    Sunday October 2, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Diviners by Rick Moody Review by Stephen Metcalf

  • Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
  • Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips Review by Brooke Allen

  • Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee Review by Ward Just

  • The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton Review by Joann C. Gutin

  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders Review by Eric Weinberger

    Washington Post Book World
  • Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg Review by Geraldine Brooks

  • Fallen by David Maine Review by Ron Charles

  • Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips Review by Elizabeth McCracken

  • The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant Review by Donna Rifkind

  • Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire Review by Katherine A. Powers

  • Thud by Terry Pratchett Review by Donald E. Westlake

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg Review by Debra Spark

  • Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley Review by Carlo Wolff

  • Vita by Melania G. Mazzucco Review by Joe Woodward

    Chicago Tribune
  • A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj Review by Madison Smartt Bell

  • Watercolor Women Opaque Men by Ana Castillo Review by Sandra Scofield

  • Novels and Stories, 1959-1962
  • Novels 1967-1972 by Philip Roth
    Review by David L. Ulin

    Boston Globe
  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders Review by Owen King

  • Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee Review by Gail Caldwell


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