Book Reviews - Fiction

Alderman, Naomi

• The Power
  

Atwood, Margaret

• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Testaments
  

Austen, Jane

• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice
• Mansfield Park
• Emma
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion
• Lady Susan 

    See also, Helena Kelley's Jane Austen, The Secret Radical

Backman, Fredrik

• A Man Called Ove
  

Balzac, Honoré de

• Père Goriot

Brontë, Anne

• Agnes Grey
  

Brontë, Charlotte

• Jane Eyre
• Villette
  

Calvino, Italo

• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 
• Invisible Cities
  

Carroll, Lewis

• Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
  

Chambers, Becky

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Chandrasekera, Vajra

• The Saint of Bright Doors
  

Dickens, Charles

• David Copperfield

Dickinson, Seth

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant
  

El-Mohtar, Amal

• This is How You Lose the Time War

Eskov, Kirill

• The Last Ringbearer
  

Ferrante, Elena

• My Brilliant Friend, and the rest of the Neopolitan Novels.
  

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• The Great Gatsby
  

Flannery Murphy, Sara

• Girl One
  

Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel

• One Hundred Years of Solitude
  

Gladstone, Max

• This is How You Lose the Time War
  

Good, Michelle

• Five Little Indians
  

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• The Scarlet Letter
  

Haynes, Natalie

• Stone Blind
  

Headley, Maria Dahvana

• Beowulf, a new translation 

Hemingway, Ernest

• For Whom the Bell Tolls 

Homer

• The Odyssey (Translation by Emily Wilson)
  

Ibsen, Henrik

• A Doll's House
  

Jackson, Shirley

• We Have Always Lived In The Castle 
  

Jemisin, N.K.

• The Broken Earth Trilogy
  

Le Guin, Ursula

• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Catwings
• The Dispossessed 
• The Lathe of Heaven
• The Tombs of Atuan
  

Liu, Cixin

• The Three-Body Problem
• The Dark Forest
• Death's End
  

Manzoni, Alessandro

• The Betrothed
  

Martine, Arkady

• A Memory of Empire
• A Desolation Called Peace
  

Mieville, China

• The City and the City

Miller, Madeline

• The Song of Achilles (also discusses Circe)
  

Oyeyemi, Helen

• Peaces
  

Paek, Nam-nyong

• Friend

Pamuk, Orpan

• The White Castle
  

Portis, Charles

• True Grit
  

Plett, Casey

• A Safe Girl To Love

Rand, Ayn

• The Fountainhead
  

Robinson, Kim Stanley

• Red Mars
• Ministry for the Future 
  

Sainte-Exupery, Antoine de

• The Little Prince (El Principito)
  

Serpell, Namwali

• The Old Drift  

Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
  

Sholokhov, Mikhail

•  And Quiet Flows The Don

Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris

• Roadside Picnic
  

Tolstoy, Leo

• Anna Karenina
• War and Peace
  

Twain, Mark

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  

Wilson, Emily

• Homer's The Odyssey
  

VanderMeer, Jeff

• Dead Astronauts 

Vo, Nghi

• Siren Queen 
• Into the Riverlands 

Zevin, Gabrielle

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow