Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
November 2009

Sunday November 29, 2009
New York Times Book Review
  • Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Review by Leah Hager Cohen

  • The Art Student's War by Brad Leithauser Review by Dean Bakopoulos

  • The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam Review by Louisa Thomas

  • Family Album by Penelope Lively Review by Dominique Browning

  • Ford Country by John Grisham Review by Ron Powers

    Washington Post
  • Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett Review by David Kirby

  • The Cloud Pavillion by Laura Joh Rowland Review by Maureen Corrigan

  • Crossers by Philip Caputo Review by Jim Lynch

    Sunday November 22, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • Collected Stories by Raymond Carver Review by Stephen King

  • Typhoon by Charles Cumming Review by James Fallows

  • There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Review by Leisl Schillinger

  • Devil's Dream by Madison Smartt Bell Review by Brenda Wineapple

  • Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers Review by Don Waters

  • Liver by Will Self Review by Geoff Nicholson

    Chronicle:
  • Moonlight in Odessa by Janet Skeslein Charles
  • A Separate Country by Robert Hicks
  • Day After Night by Anita Diament
  • A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts by N.M. Kelly
  • The Coral Thief by Rebecca Scott
    Review by Rebecca Stott

    Washington Post
  • The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov Review by Michaell Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Too Much Happened by Alice Munro Review by Malena Watrous

    Sunday November 15, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov Review by David Gates

  • The Humbling by Philip Roth Review by Kathryn Harrison

  • The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd Review by Harold Bloom

  • Invisible by Paul Auster Review by Clancy Martin

  • Cockroach by Rawi Hage Review by Mary Gaitskill

  • The Rags of Time by Maureen Howard Review by Jess Row

    Washington Post
  • The Family Album by Penelope Lively Review by Ron Charles

  • Rizzo's War by Lou Mangredo Review by Patrick Anderson

  • Under the Dome by Stephen King Review by Graham Joyce

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King Review by Michael Berry

  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Review by Joan Frank

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Review by Carolyn Alessio

    LA Times
  • The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle Review by Bernadette Murphy

    Thursday November 12, 2009
    New York Times
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday November 10, 2009
    New York Times
  • The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday November 8, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King Review by James Parker

  • Dearest Creature by Amy Geistler Review by David Kirby

  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Review by Liesl Schillinger
  • Last Night In Twisted River by John Irving Review by Joanna Scott

    Chronicle:
  • Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch
  • The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
  • Home Boy by H.M. Naqvi
  • The Cry of the Sloth by sam Savage
    Review by Joseph Salvatore

    Washington Post
  • The Glass Room by Simon Mawer Review by Ron Charles

  • Pilgrims by Garrison Keillor Review by Steve Amick

  • Pariah by Dave Zeltserman Review by Maureen Corrigan

  • Angel Time by Anne Rice Review by Lloyd Rose

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving Review by Michael Berry

  • Invisible by Paul Auster Review by Laurel Maury

  • Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut Review by Don Waters

    LA Times
  • Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh Review by Tim Rutten

    Boston Globe
  • Spooner by Pete Dexter Review by Alec Solomita

  • The Devil's Company by David Liss Review by Virginia A. Smith

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Review by Carolyn Alessio

    Monday November 2, 2009
  • Ford County by John Grisham Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday November 1, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Hidden by Tobias Hill Review by Maria Russo

  • Look At the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut Review by Dave Eggers

  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Review by Christopher Benfey

  • The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Review by Maureen Howard

  • The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd Review by Terrence Rafferty

    Washington Post
  • The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • The Humbling by Philip Roth Review by Martin Rubin

    LA Times
  • The Humbling by Philip Roth Review by Richard Rayner

    Boston Globe
  • The Humbling by Philip Roth Review by Richard Eder

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