Reviews by Title

This is a list of the books that I have read and reviewed for this blog. The titles are in alphabetical order and each title is linked to the review posted on Propensity to Discuss. Hope this is helpful! For books listed in alphabetical order by author, click here, and for alphabetical order by genre, click here.

Numbered Titles

99 Red Balloons – Libby Carpenter

A

After – Amy Efaw*
Agenda 21 – Glen Beck*

B

The Banker’s Wife – Christina Alger
The Barefoot Summer by Carolyn Brown
Beach Trip – Cathy Holton
A Beautiful Terrible Thing – Jen Waite
Before I Go To Sleep – S. J. Watson
Beginning Illumination: Learning the Ancient Art, Step by Step
 
– Claire TraversBehind Closed Doors – B. A. Paris
Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinbourough
Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
Birthmarked Trilogy – Carah M. O’Brien*
Blindsighted – Karin Slaughter
The Book of Essie – Meghan MacLean Weir
The Book of You – Claire Kendal
The Bourne Identity (Series)– Robert Ludlum*
The Breakdown – B.A. Paris
Bring Me Back – B.A. Paris

C

Caroline: Little House Revisited – Sarah Miller
The Chemist – Stephenie Meyer
The Chilbury Ladies Choir –  Jennifer Ryan
City of the Lost – Kelley Armstrong (Casey Duncan # 1)
Cleopatra’s Daughter– Michelle Moran*
Cold Justice – Katherine Howell (Ella Marconi series Book 3)
The Compound – S. A. Bodeen*
Cross Her Heart – Sarah Pinborough

D

The Darkest Hour – Katherine Howell (Ella Marconi series Book 2)
Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
Daughter – Jane Shemilt
Death Below Stairs – Jennifer Ashely
The Death of Mrs. Westaway – Ruth Ware
The Devil In the White City – Erik Larson
Discovery of Witches (Trilogy)– Deborah Harkness*
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart* (YA)
Don’t Try To Find Me – Holly Brown
Drawn From The Water – Marian A Jacobs
Driving With the Top Down – Beth Harbison

E

Escape Theory – Margaux Froley (YA)
Every Last Lie – Mary Kubica
Evil at Heart (Gretchen Lowell #3) – Chelsea Cain*
The Expats – Chris Pavone
The Ex-Wife – Jess Ryder

F

The Fallen – David Baldacci
Far From You – Lisa Schroeder*
The Female of the Species – Mindy McGinnis
Fierce Kingdom – Gin Phillips
Final Girls – Riley Sager
First Family (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #4) – David Baldacci*
The First Time She Drowned – Kerry Kletter
The Fix – David Baldacci
Flawed – Cecelia Ahern
The Forgotten Girls – Sarah Blaedel
Frantic – Katherine Howell (Ella Marconi series Book 1)

G

The Gender End (Book 7) – Bella Forrest
The Gender Fall (Book 5) – Bella Forrest
The Gender Game (Book 1) ^ – Bella Forrest
The Gender Lie (Book 3) ^ – Bella Forrest
The Gender Plan (Book 6) ^ – Bella Forrest
The Gender Secret (Book 2) ^ – Bella Forrest
The Gender War (Book 4) ^ – Bella Forrest
The Girl From Blind River – Gale Massey
The Girls in the Water – Victoria Jenkins
The Girl On The Train – Paula Hawkins
The Girl Who Dared Series – Bella Forrest
The Girl Who Lived – Christopher Greyson
The Girl With All the Gifts – M. R. Carey
Grant County Series – Karin Slaughter (Blindsighted, Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, Indelible, Faithless, Beyond Reach, Broken)
The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah
The Good Daughter – Karin Slaughter
The Good Girl – Mary Kubica
The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane – Kelly Harms
Good Me, Bad Me – Land, Ali
The Good Widow – Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
Grown Up Kind of Pretty – Joshilyn Jackson*
The Guest Room– Chris Bohjalain

H

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood*
Harmony – Carolyn Parkhurst
Hate List – Jennifer Brown*
Hello From the Gillespies – Monica McInerney
How May We Help Hate You? – Anna Drezen and Todd Dakotah Briscoe
The Hunger Games/Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins*
The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty
The Hypnotist’s Love Story – Liane Moriarty

I

I, Emma Freke – Elizabeth Atkinson* (Grades 6-10)
I Heard That Song Before – Mary Higgins Clark*
Into the Water – Paula Hawkins

J

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan*
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? – Paula Daly

K

The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom
Killman Creek – Rachel Caine (Stillhouse Lake Book 2)
The Kommandant’s Girl – Pam Jenoff*

L

Last Breath – Karin Slaughter
The Last Move – Mary Burton
Liar – K.L. Slater
Lies She Told – Cate Holahan
The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo
The Life I Left Behind – Colette McBeth
Little Girl Lost – Carol Wyer (Robyn Carter Series Book 1)
The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George
The Lincoln Lawyer – Michael Connelly*
The Lion’s Game – Nelson DeMille
Lock Every Door – Riley Sager

M

A Madness So Discreet – Mindy McGinnis
Magnolia Wednesdays by Wendy Wax
A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden*
Memory Man – David Baldacci
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore – Matthew Sullivan
Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
The Missing Ones – Patricia Gibney
Mother Can You Not? – Kate Siegel

N

Never Let You Go – Chevy Stevens
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
Nine Perfect Strangers – Liane Moriarty
No Exit – Taylor Adams
No One Ever Asked – Katie Ganshert
Notes From the Midnight Driver – Jordan Sonnenblick*
Now You See Him – Stella Cameron*

O

One of Us Is Lying – Karen McManus
The Orphan’s Tale 
– Jenoff, Pam
The Other Woman – Hank Phillippi Ryan (Jane Ryland Series Book 1)
The Other Woman – Sandie Jones
Our Little Secret – Roz Nay
Out of the Easy – Rutya Sepetys*

P

Perfect – Cecilia Ahern
The Perfect Mother – Aimee Molloy
Pieces of Her – Karin Slaughter
Plum Island – Nelson DeMille*
Pretty Baby – Mary Kubica
Pretty Girls – Karin Slaughter
Princess of the Midnight Ball (Series) – Jessica Day George*  (YA)

Q

Quicksand (Eve Duncan series #8) – Iris Johansen*

R

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly – Matt McCarthy
Reason to Breathe (Trilogy) – Rebecca Donovan*  (YA)
Reconstructing Amelia – Kimberly McCreight  (YA)
The Rejected Writers’ Book Club, written by Suzane Kelman
Revolution – Jennifer Donnelly (YA)
Right Behind You – Lisa Gardner
The Roanoke Girls – Amy Engel
Room – Emma Donoghue*
The Room on Rue Amélie – Kristin Harmel
Run For Your Life – James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

S

Sadie – Courtney Summers
Safe With Me – KL Slater
Sarah’s Key – Tatiana De Rosnay*
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
Say No More – Hank Phillippi Ryan (Jane Ryland Series Book 5)
Secrets of the Dead – Carol Wyer (Robyn Carter Series Book 2)
Silent Fear – Katherine Howell (Ella Marconi series Book 5)
Silent Lies – Kathryn Croft
The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
Slightly South of Simple – Kristy Woodson Harvey
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
Sometimes I Lie – Alice Feeney
Split Second
– Catherine Coulter (FBI Series # 15)
Stillhouse Lake – Rachel Caine (Stillhouse Lake Book 1)
Stolen – Lucy Christopher*
The Storied Life of A.J. Filkry – Gabrielle Zevin
Summer Rental – Mary Kay Andrews
Summit Lake – Charlie Donlea
Sweet Little Lies – Caz Frear

T

Tell the Truth (Ella Marconi series Book 8) – Katherine Howell
The Tragedy Paper – Elizabeth LaBan* (YA)
Thin, Rich, Pretty – Beth Harbison
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*
Truly Madly Guilty – Liane Moriarty
Truth Be Told – Hank Phillippi Ryan (Jane Ryland Series Book 3)
The Turn of the Key – Ruth Ware

U

Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers – Bathroom Reader’s Institute* (All ages)
Unwind (Trilogy) – Neal Shusterman* (YA)

V

The Vanishing Season – Joanna Schaffhausen
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
Violets are Blue (Alex Cross Series # 7) – James Patterson*
Violent Exposure – Katherine Howell (Ella Marconi series Book 4)
Voices of Dragons – Carrie Vaughn* (YA)
Vox – Christina Dalcher

W

The Walls – Hollie Overton
Web of Deceit – Katherine Howell (Ella Marconi series Book 6)
The Wednesday Letters – Jason F. Wright*
We Were Mothers – Katie Sise
What Happened to Cass McBride – Gail Giles* (YA)
What She Left Behind –  Ellen Marie Wiseman
What You See – Hank Phillippi Ryan (Jane Ryland Series Book 4)
When The Lights Go Out – Mary Kubica
When The Storm Ends – Rebecca L. Marsh
Where They Found Her – Kimberly McCreight (YA)
While We Were Watching Downton Abbey – Wendy Wax
White Bodies – Jane Robbins
The Widow – Fiona Barton
The Widower’s Wife – Cate Holahan – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Will Trent Series – Karin Slaughter (Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Snatched, Criminal, Unseen)
Without Merit – Colleen Hoover (YA & Adult)
The Wrong Girl – Hank Phillippi Ryan (Jane Ryland Series Book 2)

X

The Xibalba Murders (Lara McClintoch Archeological series #1) – Lyn Hamilton*

Y

The Year My Sister Got Lucky – Aimee Friedman*
You – Carolyn Kepnes
You Can’t Read This Book – Nick Cohen*

Z

Zero Day (John Puller Series) – David Baldacci*

Series

Ahern, Cecilia – Flawed (Book 1)
Ahern, Cecilia – Perfect (Flawed Book 2)

Baldacci, David – The Fix (Amos Decker #3)
Baldacci, David – Memory Man (Amos Decker #1)

Caine, Rachel – Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake Book 2)
Caine, Rachel – Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake Book 1) 

Forrest, Bella The Gender End (Book 7)
Forrest, Bella The Gender Fall (Book 5) ^
Forrest, Bella The Gender Game (Book 1) ^
Forrest, Bella The Gender Lie (Book 3) ^
Forrest, Bella The Gender Plan (Book 6) ^
Forrest, Bella The Gender Secret (Book 2) ^
Forrest, Bella The Gender War (Book 4) ^

Forrest, Bella – The Girl Who Dared to Descend (Book 3) ^
Forrest, Bella – The Girl Who Dared to Endure (Book 6) ^
Forrest, Bella – The Girl Who Dared to Fight (Book 7) ^
Forrest, Bella – The Girl Who Dared to Lead (Book 5) ^
Forrest, Bella – The Girl Who Dared to Rise (Book 4) ^
Forrest, Bella – The Girl Who Dared to Stand (Book 2) ^
Forrest, Bella – The Girl Who Dared to Think (Book 1) ^

Howell, Katherine – Cold Justice (Ella Marconi series Book 3)
Howell, Katherine – The Darkest Hour (Ella Marconi series Book 2)
Howell, Katherine – Frantic (Ella Marconi series Book 1)
Howell, Katherine – Silent Fear (Ella Marconi series Book 5)
Howell, Katherine – Tell the Truth (Ella Marconi series Book 8)
Howell, Katherine – Violent Exposure  (Ella Marconi series Book 4)
Howell, Katherine – Web of Deceit (Ella Marconi series Book 6)

Johansen, Iris* – Quicksand (Eve Duncan series #8) 

Patterson, James* – Violets are Blue (Alex Cross Series # 7)

Ryan, Hank Phillippi – The Other Woman (Jane Ryland Series Book 1)
Ryan, Hank Phillippi – Say No More  (Jane Ryland Series Book 5)
Ryan, Hank Phillippi – Truth Be Told (Jane Ryland Series Book 3)
Ryan, Hank Phillippi – What You See  (Jane Ryland Series Book 4)
Ryan, Hank Phillippi – The Wrong Girl (Jane Ryland Series Book 2)

Slaughter, Karin – Blindsighted (Grant County, Book 1)
Slaughter, Karin – The Will Trent Series* (Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Snatched, Criminal, Unseen)

Wyer, Carol – Little Girl Lost (Robyn Carter Series Book 1)
Wyer, Carol – Secrets of the Dead (Robyn Carter Series Book 2)

Movies and TV Shows

The BFG – Movie (All ages)
Call the Midwife – TV Series
Dunkirk – Movie
Room – Movie
Trolls – Movie (All ages)

For books listed in alphabetical order by author, click here.

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