Reviews.
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edition of this work, is under construction. It covers all authors and titles in the source lists, even
those disqualified for one reason or another from the composite list. At present not all reviews cited
below are available; it takes time to bring together data on 189 different authors and 253 separate titles!
Entries are posted as time and inclination permit; when they do, I complete a couple a day, on average.
More will be added as they are written.
Arrangement of the reviews is alphabetical by author,
with different works by the same author grouped alphabetically under that author. If you are not certain
of the author of a particular work, use your browser's "find" feature to locate the title.
This section's entries are reviews only in the sense that they provide basic information on the
authors and teasers for the books themselves, to help potential readers determine whether they want to
investigate the works or their authors further. I have attempted no general evaluations of either, and
any opinions expressed in these reviews should be considered supplementary, not determining.
This site
being intended for a general audience, I have as a rule passed over potentially controversial issues in
author's backgrounds, while discretely pointing out when particular works deal with mature or divisive
topics, when I am aware of them. In so doing it is my purpose neither take sides nor express judgment;
I merely recognize the importance of such matters to many people in determining their reading choices,
particularly where issues of age-appropriateness arise.
Names and dates in the entries are from library databases, notably Stanford University's online
SearchWorks
catalog, supplemented by internet research. Entry content is based primarily on internet research,
particularly but far from exclusively in Wikipedia,
along with my own reading and knowledge. While I have attempted to recast all findings into my
own words, I may possibly on occasion have inadvertantly repeated or echoed phrases from sources
consulted, or reproduced errors, misapprehensions, or misrepresentations in the same sources. I
apologize for any such errors, and any corrections will be appreciated.
Corrections should be submitted via email to
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<- Achebe, Chinua, 1930-2013.
<- Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
<- Adams, Richard, 1920-
<- Agee, James, 1909-1955.
<- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
<- Allende, Isabel, 1942-
<- Allison, Dorothy, 1949-
<- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
<- Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-
<- Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
<- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
<- Baum, L. Frank, 1856-1919.
<- Beerbohm, Max, 1872-1956.
<- Bellow, Saul, 1915-2005.
<- Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931.
<- Berg, Elizabeth, 1948-
<- Blume, Judy, 1938-
<- Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
<- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
<- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-
<- Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 1930-1999.
<- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
<- Brown, Rita Mae, 1944-
<- Buck, Pearl S., 1892-1973.
<- Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
<- Burns, Olive-Ann, 1924-1990.
<- Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950.
<- Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
<- Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902.
<- Byatt, A. S., 1936-
<- Cain, James M., 1892-1977.
<- Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
<- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
<- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
<- Carr, Caleb, 1955-
<- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
<- Carter, Forrest, 1925-1979.
<- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
<- Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.
<- Cheever, John, 1912-1982.
<- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.
<- Clarke, Arthur C., 1917-2008.
<- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
<- Conroy, Pat, 1945-
<- Conway, Jill K., 1934-
<- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
<- de Bernières, Louis, 1945-
<- de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, 1900-1944.
<- DeLillo, Don, 1936-
<- Dickey, James, 1923-1997.
<- Doctorow, E. L., 1931-
<- Donleavy, J. P., 1926-
<- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
<- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
<- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
<- Drury, Allen, 1918-1998.
<- Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.
<- Duras, Marguerite, 1914-1996.
<- Durrell, Lawrence, 1912-1990.
<- Ellison, Ralph, 1913-1994.
<- Farrell, James T., 1904-1979.
<- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
<- Finney, Jack, 1911-1995.
<- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940.
<- Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.
<- Forster, E. M., 1879-1970.
<- Fowles, John, 1926-2005.
<- Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
<- Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-
<- Golding, William, 1911-1993.
<- Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-
<- Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932.
<- Grass, Günter, 1927-
<- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
<- Green, Henry, 1905-1973.
<- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
<- Guest, Judith, 1936-
<- Guterson, David, 1956-
<- Haley, Alex, 1921-1992.
<- Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.
<- Heinlein, Robert A., 1907-1988.
<- Heller, Joseph, 1923-1999.
<- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
<- Herbert, Frank, 1920-1986.
<- Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976.
<- Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960.
<- Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
<- Irving, John, 1942-
<- Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
<- James, Henry, 1843-1916.
<- Jones, James, 1921-1977.
<- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
<- Keneally, Thomas, 1935-
<- Kennedy, William, 1928-
<- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
<- Kesey, Ken, 1935-2001.
<- King, Stephen, 1947-
<- Kingsolver, Barbara, 1955-
<- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
<- Knowles, John, 1926-2001.
<- Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983.
<- Kundera, Milan, 1929-
<- Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930.
<- Lee, Harper, 1926-
<- Lessing, Doris, 1919-
<- Lewis, C. S., 1898-1963.
<- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
<- London, Jack, 1876-1916.
<- Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957.
<- Mailer, Norman, 1923-2007.
<- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
<- Márquez, Gabriel García, 1927-
<- Maugham, W. Somerset, 1874-1965.
<- McBride, James, 1957-
<- McCourt, Frank, 1930-2009.
<- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
<- McCullough, Colleen, 1937-
<- McMurtry, Larry, 1936-
<- Michener, James A., 1907-1997.
<- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
<- Milne, A. A., 1882-1956.
<- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.
<- Morrison, Toni, 1931-
<- Murdoch, Iris, 1919-1999.
<- Nabokov, Vladimir, 1899-1977.
<- Naipaul, V. S., 1932-
<- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
<- O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964.
<- O'Hara, John, 1905-1970.
<- Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
<- Pasternak, Boris, 1890-1960.
<- Paton, Alan, 1903-1988.
<- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
<- Pilcher, Rosamunde, 1924-
<- Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963.
<- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
<- Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000.
<- Price, Reynolds, 1933-
<- Proulx, E. Annie, 1935-
<- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
<- Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999.
<- Rand, Ayn, 1905-1982.
<- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.
<- Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970.
<- Rhys, Jean, 1890-1979.
<- Roth, Henry, 1906-1995.
<- Roth, Philip, 1933-
<- Rushdie, Salman, 1947-
<- Salinger, J. D., 1919-2010.
<- Sendak, Maurice, 1928-
<- Shaara, Michael, 1928-1988.
<- Shields, Carol, 1935-2003.
<- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
<- Smiley, Jane, 1949-
<- Smith, Betty, 1896-1972.
<- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 1918-2008.
<- Spark, Muriel, 1918-2006.
<- Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.
<- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
<- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
<- Stone, Irving, 1903-1989.
<- Styron, William, 1925-2006.
<- Tan, Amy, 1952-
<- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.
<- Thompson, Hunter, 1937-2005.
<- Tolkien, J. R. R., 1892-1973.
<- Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.
<- Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.
<- Tyler, Anne, 1941-
<- Updike, John, 1932-2009.
<- Uris, Leon, 1924-2003.
<- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 1922-2007.
<- Walker, Alice, 1944-
<- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
<- Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.
<- Wells, H. G., 1866-1946.
<- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
<- West, Nathanael, 1903-1940.
<- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
<- White, E. B., 1899-1985.
<- White, T. H., 1906-1964.
<- Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
<- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
<- Wilson, Colin, 1931-
<- Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
<- Wolfe, Tom, 1931-
<- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
<- Wouk, Herman, 1915-
<- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
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