Novels Now

2007 reviews by title

• 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen (Raidergirl3)
• The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta (Jill)
• An Accidental American by Alex Carr (Literary Feline)
• Admit One: A Journey Into Film by Emmett James (Literary Feline)
• Admit One: A Journey into Film by Emmett James (Nicola)
• After Dark by Murakami (2007 for English translation) (3M)
• After Dark by Murakami (Caribousmom)
  
• The Alchemist’s Dream by John Wilson (Nicola)
• All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (Literary Feline)
  
• All in Together Girls by Kate Sutherland (Raidergirl3)
• The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (Literary Feline)
• Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (Literary Feline)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (Laura)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (Teddy Rose)
• The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland (Jill)
• The Art Thief by Noah Charney (Literary Feline)
• Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson (Laura)
• The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King (Nicola)
• Betrayed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast (Stephanie)
  
• Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter (Nicola)
• The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (Amy)
• The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (Jill)
• Blood Poison by D.H. Dublin (Literary Feline)
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam (Raidergirl3)
• The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen (Amy)
• The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen (Nicola)
• Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs (Nicola)
• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin (Nicola)
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (Caribousmom)
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (Jill)
• The Bright Side Of Disaster by Katherine Center (Caribousmom)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home by Joss Whedon and Georges Jeanty (Literary Feline)
• Claimed by Shadow by Karen Chance (Stephanie)
  
• Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan (Raidergirl3)
• Clouds Over Mountains by Matt Joseph (Amy)
• The Collection by Gioia Diliberto (Literary Feline)
• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (Raidergirl3)
• Consequences by Penelope Lively (Lesley)
• Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry by Stephen Klaidman (Caribousmom)
• Cries and Whiskers by Clea Simon (Literary Feline)
• Criminal Vol. 1: Coward by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip (Literary Feline)
• Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel (Nicola)
• The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz (Lesley)
• Day of the Dead by Karen E. Olson (Literary Feline)
• The Dead Girls’ Dance by Rachel Caine (Stephanie)
  
• The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (Caribousmom)
• The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (Jill)
• Down River by John Hart (Caribousmom)
• Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese (Literary Feline)
• Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese (Nicola)
• Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg (Amy)
• Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg (Lesley)
• Dreaming in Libro by Louise Bernikow (Literary Feline)
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Laura)
• The Echelon Vendetta by David Stone (Literary Feline)
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Amy)
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Literary Feline)
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Nicola)
• Everything by Design by Alan Lapidus (Caribousmom)
• Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock (Nicola)
• Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong (Literary Feline)
• The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen (Lesley)
• Fangland by John Marks (Literary Feline)
• February Flowers by Fan Wu (Literary Feline)
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (Jill)
• A Few Good Murders by Cady Kalian (Literary Feline)
• Field of Fire James O. Born (Literary Feline)
• Finn: A Novel by Jon Clinch (Jill)
• The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak (Caribousmom)
• Flowers for Emily by T L Vance (Amy)
• Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward (Literary Feline)
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (Jill)
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
  
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (Lesley)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (3M)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (Caribousmom)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (Laura)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (Raidergirl3)
• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Caribousmom)
• The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (3M)
• The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (Amy)
• The Good Guy by Dean Koontz (Lesley)
  
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (3M)
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (Nicola)
• The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland (Raidergirl3)
• The Halifax Connection by Marie Jakober (Raidergirl3)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Amy)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Laura)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Literary Feline)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Nicola)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Raidergirl3)
• Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Jill)
• Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Lesley)
• Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup (Lesley)
• The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan (Literary Feline)
• Holidays are Hell by Harrison, Sands, Liu, Pettersson (Amy)
• The Horseman’s Graves by Jacqueline Baker (Nicola)
• The Horseman’s Graves by Jacqueline Baker (Teddy Rose)
• House of Meetings by Martin Amis (Raidergirl3)
• How to Tell If Your Boyfriend is the Antichrist by Patricia Carlin (Caribousmom)
• Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein (Laura)
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Laura)
• Inheritance by Natalie Danford (Lesley)
• The Interloper by Antoine Wilson (Raidergirl3)
• Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves (Nicola)
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (3M)
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Lesley)
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Nicola)
• Jackfish, The Vanishing Village by Sarah Felix Burns (Caribousmom)
• Kindness Goes Unpunished by Craig Johnson (Literary Feline)
• The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jenoff (Amy)
• Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan (Lesley)
• Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich (Literary Feline)
• Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida (Caribousmom)
• The Line Painter by Claire Cameron (Nicola)
• The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly (Laura)
• The Long Walk Home by Will North (Lesley)
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Laura)
• The Longest Journey by Diana Patterson and Rita Turner (Teddy Rose)
• Lost & Found by Jacqueline Sheehan (Caribousmom)
• Lottery by Patricia Wood (Lesley)
• Mad Dash by Patricia Gaffney (Lesley)
• Marked by PC Cast and Kristin Cast (Stephanie)
• Matrimony by Joshua Henkin (Jill)
  
• Merciless by Richard Montanari (Literary Feline)
• Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help by Douglas Anthony Cooper (Nicola)
• Miss Invisible by Laura Jensen Walker (Amy)
• Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (Literary Feline)
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Raidergirl3)
• Nefertiti by Michelle Moran (Caribousmom)
• Nefertiti by Michelle Moran (Literary Feline)
• New England White by Stephen L. Carter (Literary Feline)
• The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Nicola)
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Caribousmom)
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Jill)
• The Only Road North by Erik Mirandette (3M)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (3M)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Caribousmom)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Raidergirl3)
• One Beastly Beast by Garth Nix (Nicola)
• Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk (Raidergirl3)
• The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross (Amy)
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (3M)
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Caribousmom)
• Patriot Acts by Greg Rucka (Literary Feline)
• Peony in Love by Lisa See (Caribousmom)
• Pig Island by Mo Hayder (Nicola)
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (Literary Feline)
• Red Sea by E.A. Benedek (Literary Feline)
  
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Amy)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Caribousmom)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Jill)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Laura)
• The Reluctant Journey of David Connors by Don Locke (Amy)
  
• The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason (Amy)
• The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason (Literary Feline)
• The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason (Nicola)
• The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason (Raidergirl3)
• The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty (Lesley)
• Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig (Jill)
• Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig (Teddy Rose)
• Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason (Amy)
• Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason (Lesley)
• Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason (Nicola)
• Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason (Raidergirl3)
• The Ruby Kingdom by Patricia Bow (Nicola)
• Rules for Saying Goodbye by Katherine Taylor (Caribousmom)
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Caribousmom)
• Saye by Jeremy H. Walker (Nicola)
• The Scent of Shadows by Vicki Petterson (Amy)
• The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer (Amy)
• The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer (Literary Feline)
• Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella (Raidergirl3)
• So Long, Jackie Robinson by Nancy Russell (Raidergirl3)
• Sorry by Gail Jones (Jill)
• Spare Change by Robert Parker (Lesley)
• Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse (Literary Feline)
  
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas (Lesley)
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Caribousmom)
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Laura)
• Theft of the Master by Edwin Alexander (Caribousmom)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Amy)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Caribousmom)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Jill)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Laura)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Lesley)
• Till Morning is Nigh by Leisha Kelly (Amy)
• Tipperary by Frank Delaney (Jill)
• Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace (Literary Feline)
• Tomorrow by Graham Swift (Raidergirl3)
• The Top 10: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books by J. Peder Zane (3M)
• The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey (Amy)
• Trouble by Jesse Kellerman (Literary Feline)
• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (Stephanie)
  
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (3M)
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (Raidergirl3)
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Amy)
• The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright (3M)
• The Woods by Harlan Coben (Lesley)
• The Worst Thing I’ve Done by by Ursula Hegi (Literary Feline)
• The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond (Caribousmom)
• Yellowknife by Steve Zipp (Raidergirl3)
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (Jill)
• The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman (Caribousmom)