Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
August 2010

Sunday August 29, 2010
New York Times Book Review
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Review by Sam Tanenhaus

  • You Were Wrong by Matthew Sharpe Review by Fiona Maazel

  • Novels and Stories by Shirley Jackson Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Review by Lorraine Adams

  • Meeks by Julia Holmes Review by Jim Krusoe

  • Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst Review by Justin Cartwright

    Washington Post
  • Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Review by Jess Walter

  • Burn by Nevada Barr Review by Maureen Corrigan

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Review by Jess Walter/a>

  • Eden Hunter by Skip Horack Review by Tim Gautreaux

  • The Doctor and the Diva by Adrienne McDonnell Review by June Sawyers

  • Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwartz Review by Abigail Deutsch

    Chicago Tribune
  • Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz Review by Jennifer Haigh

    Thursday August 27, 2010
    New York Times
  • The Thousand by Kevin Guilfoile Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday August 23, 2010
    New York Times
  • Percival's Planet by Michael Byers Review by Suzanne Berne

    Sunday August 22, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Pages by Murray Bail Review by Alison McCulloch

  • You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin Review by Jean Thompson

    Chronicle:
  • The People Who Watched Her Pass By by Scott Bradfield
  • Holy Water by James P. Othmer
  • Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
  • What He's Poised To Do: Stories by Ben Greenman
    Review by Gregory Beyer

    Washington Post
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Review by Ron Charles

  • Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes Review by Valerie Sayers

  • Red Rain by Bruce Murkoff Review by Peter Behrens

  • The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant Review by Dennis Drabelle

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Death Is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca Review by Don Waters

  • The Surf Guru Stories by Doug Dorst Review by Gregory Leon Miller

    Chicago Tribune
  • Running Dark by Jamie Freveletti Review by Lynna Williams

  • The Whole Wide Beauty by Emily Woof Review by Conan Putnam

    LA Times
  • Banana Republican by Eric Rauchway Review by Richard Schickel

  • The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer Review by Paula L. Woods

  • Three Delays by Charlie Smith Review by Caroline Kellogg

  • Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Review by Susan Carpenter

  • I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Tuesday August 17, 2010
    New York Times
  • The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody Review by Troy Patterson

    Monday August 16, 2010
    New York Times
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday August 15, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Olen Steinhauer

  • Death Is Not an Option: Stories by Suzanne Rivecca Review by Sara Ivry

  • Everything by Kevin Canty Review by Vendela Vida

  • I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais Review by Ligaya Mishan

  • ELegies For the Brokenhearted by Christie Hodgen Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff

    Washington Post
  • Crossfire by Dick Francis and Felix Francis Review by Carolyn See

  • The Great Lover by Jill Dawson Review by Thomas Mallon

  • My Hollywood by Mona Simpson Review by Ron Charles

  • Things We Didn't See Coming: Stories by Steven Amsterdam Review by W. Ralph Eubanks

  • Broken by Karin Fossum Review Richard Lipez

  • I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman Review by Patrick Anderson

  • Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer Review by Frances Stead Sellers

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris Review by Malena Watrous

  • Citrus County by John Brandon Review by Lauren Groff

  • Breathing in Dust by Tim Z. Hernandez Review by Alan Cheuse

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lady Matador's Hotel by Cristina Garcia Review by Carolyn Alessio

    LA Times
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Review by David L. Ulin

  • This Must Be the Place by Kate Racculis Review by S. Kirk Walsh

  • Girl by the Road at Night by David Rabe Review by Laura Collins-Hughes

  • Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Sarah Weinman

  • Faithful Place by Tana French Review by Regina Marler

    Thursday August 12, 2010
    New York Times
  • I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson Review by Charles McGrath

    Sunday August 8, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson
  • Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
    Review by Francine Prose

  • Banana Republican by Eric Rauchway Review by Joe Queenan

  • Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Review by Michael Wood

  • As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs Review by Ann Hodgman

  • The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody Review by Clancy Martin

  • My Hollywood by Mona Simpson Review by Liesl Schillinger

    Washington Post
  • The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart Review by Eugenia Zukerman

  • Percival's Planet by Michael Byers Review by Ron Charles

  • I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson Review by Bo Thompson

  • Faithful Place by Tana French Review by Maureen Corrigan

  • A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer Review by Marueen Corrigan

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • My Hollywood by Mona Simpson Review by Gregory Leon Miller

  • Overexposed by Susan Shapiro Review by Meredith Maran

  • Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu Review by Fan Wu

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Writing Circle by Corinne Demas Review by Celia McGee

    LA Times
  • The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke Review by Dick Lichte

    Sunday August 1, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Surf Guru: Stories by Doug Dorst Review by Robin Romm

  • The Sisters From Hardscrabble Bay by Beverly Jensen Review by Richard Russo

  • Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman Review by Alexandra Jacobs

  • The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson Review by Max Byrd

  • The Quickening by Michelle Hoover Review by Sarah Fay

    Washington Post
  • Father of the Rain by Lily King Review by Ron Charles

  • The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody Review by John McNally

  • Blind Man's Alley by Justin Peacock
  • The Queen of Patpong by Tomothy Hallinan
    Review by Patrick Anderson

  • Layover in Dubai by Dan Fesperman Review by Peter Earnest

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody Review by Alan Cheuse

  • What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman Review by Alan Littell

    LA Times
  • My Hollywood by Mona Simpson Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

  • A Thousand Peaceful Cities by Jerzy Pilch Review by David L. Ulin

  • The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman Review by Diana Wagman

    Boston Globe
  • Lucy by Laurence Gonzales Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf

  • Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson Review by Linda K. Wertheimer

  • Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller Review by Caroline Leavitt

  • The Surf Guru by Doug Dorst Review by Eric Liebetrau

  • Star Island by Carl Hiaasen Review by Carlo Wolff

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