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

Sunday May 30, 2010
New York Times Book Review
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Review by David Kamp

  • The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer Review by Andrew Ervin

  • Ether by Evgenia Citkowitz Review by Ligaya Mishan

  • Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich Review by Tom De Haven

    Washington Post
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
  • American Music by Jane Mendelsohn Review by Ron Charles

  • Day For Night by Frederick Reiken Review by Julie Orringer

  • House of Secrets by Richard Hawke Review by Patrick Anderson

  • Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden Review by Carolyn See

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern Review by Yael Goldstein Love

  • What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy Review by Carmela Ciuraru

    Chicago Tribune
  • American Taliban by Pearl Abraham Review by Art Winslow

  • Stations West by Allison Amend Review by Kynna Williams

    LA Times
  • Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Thursday May 26, 2010
    New York Times
  • Strip by Thomas Perry Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday May 25, 2010
  • Private Life by Jane Smiley Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday May 23, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis Review by Graydon Carter

  • What Becomes: Stories by A.L. Kennedy Review by Robin Romm

  • The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer Review by Joshua Hammer

  • Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • Molly Fox's Birthday by Dierdre Madden Review by Jeannie Vanasco

  • Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman Review by Katharine Noel

    Washington Post
  • The November Criminals by Sam Munson Review by Michael Lindgren

  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Review by Patrick Anderson

  • 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan Review by Clare Clark

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Review by Michael Berry

  • Pearl of China by Anchee Min Review by Fan Wu

  • A Hospital Odyssey by Gwyneth Lewis Review by Cynthia L. Haven

  • Another Life Altogether by Elaine Beale Review by Shana Mahaffey

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Spot by David Meas Review by Alan Cheuse

    LA Times
  • Tell-All by Chick Palahniuk Review by Jonathan Shapiro

  • The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer Review by Tim Rutten

  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Review by Richard Schickel

    Friday May 21, 2010
    New York Times
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday May 20, 2010
    New York Times
  • The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday May 16, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • Innocent by Scott Turow Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • Private Life by Jane Smiley Review by Sven Birkerts

  • Jesus Boy by Preston L. Allen Review by Julia Scheeres

  • The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle Review by Tom LeClair

  • The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer Review by Jeff VanderMeer

  • Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott Review by Mary Jo Murphy

  • The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall Review by Eric Weinberger

    Chronicle:
  • The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
  • The Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernandez
  • Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
  • Not Art by Peter Esterhazy
  • Things Seen by Annie Ernaux
    Review by Alison McCulloch

    Washington Post
  • The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle Review by Ron Charles

  • The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall Review by Wnedy Smith

  • Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore Review by Susan Shreve

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis Review by Jacob Molyneux

  • Dimanche and Other Stories by Irene Nemirovsky Review by Gregory Leon Miller

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor Review by Art Winslow

  • Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich Review by Celia McGee

    LA Times
  • Day For Night by Frederick Reiken Review by S. Kirk Walsh

  • The Museum of Eterna's Novel by Msaacedonio Fernandez Review by Jim Ruland

  • The Sandbox by David Zimmerman Review by Jacob Silverman

  • Almost Dad by Assaf Gavron Review by David L. Ulin

    Tuesday May 11, 2010
    New York Times
  • The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday May 9, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Long Song by Andrea Levy Review by Fernanca Eberstadt

  • Dimanche and Other Stories by Irene Nemirovsky Review by Francine Prose

  • American Subversive by David Goodwillie Review by Malena Watrous

  • Losing Charlotte by Heather Clay Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff

  • The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mallon Review by Daniel Wallace

    Washington Post
  • Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham Review by Michael Dirda

  • The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis Review by Ron Charles

  • The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell Review by Heller McAlpin

  • Private Life by Jane Smiley Review by Marie Arana

  • The Good Son by Michael Gruber Review by Patrick Anderson

  • The Long Song by Andrea LEvy Review by Tayair Jones

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer Review by Debra Spark

  • If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories by Robin Black Review by Maredith Maran

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Pursuit of Other Interests by Jim Kokoris Review by Lynna Williams

  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson Review by Alan Cheuse

  • I Hotel by Karen Tei Review by Alan Cheuse

    LA Times
  • Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende Review by Bernadettte Murphy

  • The Dead Republics by Roddy Doyle Review by Tim Rutten

  • The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

  • Every Last One by Anna Quindlen Review by Erika Schickel

    Thursday May 6, 2010
    New York Times
  • The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday May 2, 2010
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Review by Christopher Buckley

  • A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei Review by Amy Finnerty

  • Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel Review by Robert Hanks

  • Eddie Signwriter by Adam Schwartzman Review by Rob Nixon

  • The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna Review by Sarah Fay

  • Island Beneath the Sky by Isabel Allende Review by Gaiutra Bahadur

  • Happy Now by Katherine Schonk Review by Jincy Willett

    Washington Post
  • Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco Review by Michael Dirda

  • The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman Review by Ron Charles

  • Haunt Me Still by Jennifer Lee Carrell Review by Patrick Anderson

  • Innocent by Scott Turow Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Review by Louis Bayard

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Private Life by Janer Smiley Review by Nina Schuyler

  • The Last Song by Anfrea Levy Review by Heller McAlpin

    LA Times
  • Anthill by E.O. Wilson Review by Etelka Lehoczky

  • The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman Review by Tim Rutten

    Chicago Tribune
  • Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott Review by Art Winslow

  • A Taste of Honey: Stories by Jabari Asim Review by Lynna Williams

    Boston Globe
  • The Line by Olga Grushin Review by Amanda Katz


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