Reviews by Members (A – B)

Here you will find a list linking to classic reviews submitted by club members. Book reviews are organized by author’s last name from A – B, then book title. Please make sure you e-mail the moderators here with your latest review link so we can include your post here! You can also look for the latest posts from our clubbers on Twitter at hashtag #ccbookreviews.

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• Abbott, Edwin A. – Flatland (31 Wifey) (katarinaandcatharina)  (lesserknowngems)
• Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart (BookerTalk) (jeanlp) (Kate) (Laura) (The Long Victorian) (Olaf) (Rob) (Tasheena Rose) (whatmeread)
• Adams, Douglas
  • Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Melissa)
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (J.E. Fountain) (Irene) (Maggie)  (Melissa)
• Adams, Richard – Watership Down (christinasr) (Dale) (J. E. Fountain) (Lisa) (mlandersauthor) (Deb Nance @ readerbuzz) (RoseReadsNovels)
• Adler, Renata – Pitch Dark (JacquiWine)
• Aeschylus
  • Agamemnon (Fanda) (Josh’s Mom)
  • The Libation Bearers (Josh’s Mom)
  • The Oresteia (Asmodeus) (Erin) (Melissa)
• Aesop – Aesop’s Fables (Ekaterina) (Fanda) (Jane)
• Akhmatova, Anna – Requiem (Harriet)
• Akinara, Ueda – Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Kat)
• Akutagawa, Ryunosuke – Rashomon and Other Stories (Jean) (Teresa)
• Alain-Fournier – Le Grand Meaulnes (Lory)
• Alberti, Rafael – Marinero en Tierra (Teresa)
• Alcott, Louisa May
  • An Old-Fashioned Girl (Elyssa) (Lory) (Sandra)
  • Behind a Mask; or, a Woman’s Power (Geoff) (Lee-Anne)
  • Christmas Treasury (Laura)
  • Eight Cousins (Beth@Weavings)
  • The Inheritance (Hannah)
  • Jo’s Boys (Jane @ Greenish Bookshelf)
  • Little Men (Becky) (Joel Getter) (Jane) (jessicabookworm) (Laura)
  • Little Women (Ali) (Anne) (Athena) (BookerTalk) (Brooke) (Dale) (Ekaterina) (Elyssa) (Emily) (Fanda) (J. E. Fountain) (hamlettethedame) (HKatz) (Jane) (Jane) (Jillian22) (Laura) (Laura) (Laurie) (Lory) (Maggie) (Melissa) (melmarian) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (Quixotic Magpie)(Sam) (Sarah) (Tanya)
  • A Long Fatal Love Chase (Helen)
  • The Quiet Little Woman (Hamlette)
  • Pauline’s Passion and Punishment (Lee-Anne)
  • Rose in Bloom (Beth@Weavings)
• Aldrich, Bess Streeter – A Lantern in Her Hand (Hamlette)
• Alemán, Mateo – Guzmán de Alfarache (Silvia)
• Alighieri, Dante
  • The Divine Comedy (N@ncy)
  • Inferno (Fanda) (Stephen)
  • La Vita Nuova (ireadthatinabook)
• Allen, Grant – The Type-Writer Girl (Anarchivist)
• Allende, Isabel – The House of Spirits (Kristina) (thereadingwench)
• Almqvist, C. J. L. – The Queen’s Diadem (Jean)
• Alvarez, Julia – In the Time of the Butterflies (Harriet)
• Amis, Kingsley
  • Lucky Jim (J.E. Fountain) (Glaukopis) (Karen K.) (whatmeread)
  • Take A Girl Like You (lauraj684)
• Amis, Martin – Money (J.E. Fountain)
• Anand, Mulk Raj – Untouchable (Jean)
• Anaya, Rudolfo – Bless Me, Ultima (Jean)
• Andersen, Hans Christian – To Be or Not To (Be) (lesserknowngems)
• Anderson, Sherwood – Winesburg, Ohio (Athena) (Mary Daniels Brown)(stacybuckeye)
• Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (kheenand) (Laura) (MaddieM) (Melissa) (Geoff W) (SmellinCoffee)
• Anonymous
  • Beowulf (Amy) (Dale) (Christine) (N@ncy) (whatmeread)
  • Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Jean)
  • Epic of Gilgamesh (Rachel B) (Charity) (Smellincoffee)
  • Everyman (Becky)
  • The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Jean)
  • The Mabinogion (ckostyn)
  • Mahabharata (Fanda)
  • Myths from Mesopotamia (N@ncy)
  • The Poetic Edda (ireadthatinabook)
  • The Quest of the Holy Grail (Jean)
  • The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Anarchivist)
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo (Beth Gould)
  • The Song of the Volsungs (Jean)
  • Sweeney Todd, or The String of Pearls (Chinoiseries)
  • Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Ekaterina)
  • A Thousand and One Nights [The Arabian Nights] (smellincoffee)
• Apollonius of Rhodes – Jason and the Argonauts (Zezee)
• Apuleius, Lucius – The Golden Ass (Ekaterina)
• Arendt, Hannah – Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Beth)
• Aristophanes
  • Lysistrata (31 wifey) (Melissa)
  • Lysistrata, The Acharnians and The Clouds (Geoff W)
  • The Frogs (31 wifey) (Patty)
• Asimov, Isaac
  • Foundation (FictionFan) (looloolooweez)
  • I, Robot (Hamlette)
  • Robot Novels (series) (louloureads)
• Asser – Life of King Alfred (Anarchivist)
• Attar, Farid ud-Din – The Conference of the Birds (Jean)
• Atwood, Margaret
  • Alias Grace (Loni C.) (Harriet) (Melissa)
  • The Blind Assassin (Riv) (SarahJL)
  • The Edible Woman (Cathy) (Lee-Anne)
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (Amy) (Glaukopis) (Helen) (Jennie K.) (Kerry M) (Laura) (Lee-Anne) (Literary Feline) (Margaret) (Melinda) (Melissa) (Nish) (Reese) (Tasheena Rose) (thegeekcouple) (thewanderingbookmark) (whatmeread) (Chris Wolak)
  • The Robber Bride (Melissa)
  • Surfacing (Lyndsay)
• Aubrey, John – Brief Lives (whatmeread)
• Auden, W. H. – The Dyer’s Hand (mgerardmingo)
• Augustine of Hippo – The Confessions (Carol) (Fanda) (N@ncy) (Silvia)
• Aurelius, Marcus – Meditations (Jean)
• Austen, Jane
  • Emma (adamsbibliomania) (Ali) (Brona) (Loni C.) (Chinoiseries) (Crafts4others) (Emma) (Hannah G) (Helen) (Impossible A) (Jane) (Jane @ Greenish Bookshelf) (Jenna) (jessicabookworm) (Joseph) (Josje) (Kate) (Kerry M) (Laura) (lauradodom) (Lindsey) (Maggie) (Melissa) (Patty) (Tasheena Rose) (Sam) (Sandra) (Shell) (Sonia) (Geoff W) (Melissa W.)
  • Love & Friendship and The History of England (Athena) (Melissa)
  • Lady Susan (Aquatique) (Elizabeth) (Lisa) (Melissa) (Patty) (stackwanderer)
  • Lady Susan and The Beautiful Cassandra (lesserknowngems)
  • Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition (Annette)
  • Mansfield Park (Alluminor) (Athena) (austenfey) (Brona) (Brooke) (Hobby Buku) (Caroline) (Celine) (Ekaterina) (Eszter) (Jennifer) (Josh’s Mom) (Kristina) (lauradodom) (lindylit) (Loni) (Maggie) (MaryR) (Melissa) (RelevantObscurity) (Riv) (Geoff W) (Melissa Wiebe)
  • Northanger Abbey (Alleluialu) (Alluminor) (Annette) (Loni C.) (Dale) (Emily) (Lisa H) (Impossible A) (Jane @ Greenish Bookshelf) (Laura) (lauradodom) (Lee-Anne) (Maggie) (Melissa) (melmarian) (Nicole) (RelevantObscurity) (Rob) (Sam) (Shan) (Silvia) (Sonia) (Geoff W) (Melissa W.)
  • Persuasion (Ali) (bellarah) (Carol) (Cat) (Crafts4others) (Ekaterina) (Emily) (Chinoiseries) (Dale) (Elyssa) (Hamlette) (HKatz) (Impossible A) (jackiemania) (Jane) (Judith) (lauradodom) (Anna Lo Mastro) (Melissa) (Miss Bibliophile) (Patty) (Riv) (Robin) (Sarah) (Silvia) (Francesca Thomas) (Melissa W.) (whatmeread) (Zombie Chekhov)
  • Persuasion and Poems (Laura)
  • Pride and Prejudice (adamsbibliomania) (Debra Beilke) (Beth) (Hobby Buku) (crafts4others) (Dale) (J.E. Fountain) (Joel Getter) (Impossible A) (Jane) (Laura) (Lee-Anne) (lindylit) (magicandmystery) (Melinda) (Angus Miranda) (Rachel) (Rob) (Ruth) (Shaina) (Geoff W) (Melissa W.) (Zezee)
  • Pride and Prejudice with Songs from Regency England (Laura)
  • Sense and Sensibility (Becky) (Bree @1girl2manybooks) (Jason C.) (Charlene) (Chinoiseries) (Dale) (ecn) (Jane) (Jean) (Jennifer) (Joel) (lauradodom) (lindylit) (Maggie) (Melissa) (Rachel) (Roof Beam Reader) (Sam) (Shell) (Smellincoffee) (Melissa W.)
• Austin, Mary – The Land of Little Rain (Laurie)
• Azuela, Mariano – The Underdogs (Jean)

B –

• Babbitt, Natalie – The Search for Delicious (Lauren)
• Babitz, Eve – Eve’s Hollywood (JacquiWine)
• Bainbridge, Beryl – An Awfully Big Adventure (JacquiWine)
• Bainton, Roland – Here I Stand (Becky)
• Baker, Dorothy – Josephine at the Wedding (juliana brina@theblankgarden)
• Baldwin, James
  • The Fire Next Time (Charity)
  • Giovanni’s Room (Hannah G) (Harriet) (Lynn @ Smoke & Mirrors) (Melissa)
  • Go Tell It On The Mountain (Dale) (J.E. Fountain) (Jean) (Laila@BigReadingLife) (Lynn)
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (JacquiWine) (Laura)
• Balmer, Josephine – Classical Women Poets (ms. arachne)
• Balzac, Honoré de
  • Eugénie Grandet (Arenel) (Brona)
  • Old Goriot (HKatz)
• Bambara, Toni Cade – The Salt Eaters (Harriet)
• Bánffy, Miklós – They Were Counted (JacquiWine)
• Bannon, Ann – Beebo Brinker (Hannah G)
• Barnes, Barnabe – The Devil’s Charter (Amy)
• Barrie, J.M. – Peter Pan (Greenish Bookshelf) (Lisa) (Hannah M.) (Maggie) (Rob) (wcs53)
• Bartol, Vladimir – Alamut (Jean)
• Basho, Matsuo – The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Amy)
• Bassani, Giorgio – The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (JacquiWine)
• Baudelaire, Charles – The Flowers of Evil (Teresa)
• Bauer, Susan Wise – The History of the Ancient World (Faith)
• Baum, L. Frank – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Christina) (Christine) (Jane) (jessicabookworm) (Laura) (Lisa) (Raquel) (Sarah)
• Baum, Vicky – Grand Hotel (JacquiWine)
• Baynton, Barbara – Bush Studies (thewanderingbookmark)
• Bazán, Emilia Pardo – The House of Ulloa (JacquiWine)
• Beagle, Peter S. – The Last Unicorn (Rob)
• Beckett, Samuel
  • Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable (magicandmystery)
  • Waiting for Godot (N@ncy)
• Bede – Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Jean)
• Bede, Webb, J.F., and Farmer, D.H. – The Age of Bede (Jean @ Howling Frog)
• Bedford, Sybille
  • A Favourite of the Gods (Ali)
  • A Legacy (JacquiWine)
• Bedier, Joseph – Tristan and Iseult (C.J. @ ebookclassics)
• Behn, Aphra
  • Oroonoko (Josh’s Mom)
  • The Rover (MJ)
• Bell, Gertrude – Tales from the Queen of the Desert (whatmeread)
• Bellairs, John – The House with a Clock in Its Walls (M. R.)
• Bellamy, Edward – Looking Backward (Laurie)
• Bellow, Saul
  • The Adventures of Augie March (Joseph)
  • Herzog (Jason C.)
  • Humboldt’s Gift (philbartu)
  • Mr. Sammler’s Planet (HKatz)
• Bely, Andrei – Petersburg (magicandmystery)
• Bengtsson, Frans G. – The Long Ships (whatmeread)
• Bennett, Alan – The Uncommon Reader (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz)
• Bennett, Arnold – Clayhanger (Cat)
• Bergman, Ingmar – The Seventh Seal (Robin)
• Berry, Wendell – Hannah Coulter (Beth@Weavings) (Melissa)
• Beston, Henry – The Outermost House (Robin)
• The Bible: King James Version (Becky)
• The Bible: King James Version, The Gospel According to St. Mark (chronolibrarian)
• The Bible: KJV Reformation Study Bible (Becky)
• The Bible: New International Version 1984 (Becky)
• Bierce, Ambrose – The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (honor)
• Bishop, Claire Huchet – Twenty and Ten (Hamlette)
• Blackmore, R. D. – Lorna Doone (FictionFan) (looloolooweez) (Helen)
• Blume, Judy – Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret (Loni C.)
• Bly, Nellie – Ten Days in a Madhouse (Patty)
• Blyton, Enid
  • Five Go Off in a Caravan (Fanda)
  • Five on a Treasure Island (Lynn)
• Boccaccio, Giovanni  – The Decameron (jeanlp) (katarinaandcatherina)
• Boileau, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac – She Who Was No More (FictionFan)
• Boldrewood, Rolf – Robbery Under Arms (Carol)
• Bond, Michael
  • A Bear Called Paddington (Christine)
  • More About Paddington (Christine)
• Borges, Jorge Luis
  • The Aleph and Other Stories (Jean @ Howling Frog)
  • Ficciones (Ekaterina)
  • Labyrinths (Jean) (kainzow)
• Bosston, Lucy M. – The Children of Green Knowe (leavesandpages)
• Boswell, James
  • Boswell’s London Journal 1762 -1763 (Anarchivist)
  • The Life of Samuel Johnson (N@ncy)
• Boulle, Pierre – The Bridge on the River Kwai (eloisej)
• Bourdouxhe, Madeleine – Marie (JacquiWine)
• Bowen, Elizabeth
  • The Death of the Heart (JacquiWine) (Karen K.) (Angus Miranda)
  • The Hotel (JacquiWine)
  • The Last September (Ali)
  • To the North (Christy)
• Bowles, Paul – The Sheltering Sky (J.E. Fountain)
• Boye, Karin – Kallocain (ireadthatinabook)
• Bradbury, Ray
  • Fahrenheit 451 (bellarah) (Bri) (Jason C.) (Hamlette) (melmarian) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (stackwanderer) (Francesca Thomas)
  • The Illustrated Man (Riv)
  • The Martian Chronicles (Alleluialu) (Gypsi) (looloolooweez) (Rachel) (Stephen) (whatmeread)
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes (Riv) (MaryR)
• Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
  • Dead Love Has Chains (Anarchivist)
  • Lady Audley’s Secret (Ali) (Charlene) (Col)
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer – The Mists of Avalon (MaryR)
• Brand, Max – Montana Rides! (Hamlette)
• Brazil, Angela – Leader of the Lower School (Francesca Thomas)
• Brecht, Bertold – The Threepenny Opera (Jean)
• Brennan, Maeve – The Springs of Affection (JacquiWine)
• Brink, Carol Ryrie – Caddie Woodlawn (Hamlette)
• Bridge, Ann – Peking Picnic (Ali)
• Brinsmead, H.F. – Pastures of the Blue Crane (Brona)
• Brittain, Vera – Testament of Youth (Brona)
• Brontë, Anne
  • Agnes Grey (Athena) (juliana brina @ the [blank] garden) (Brooke) (Carol) (eloisej) (HKatz) (Jean) (Karen K.) (lesserknowngems) (Margaret) (MaryR) (Roof Beam Reader)  (Julie Tyuk) (Geoff W) (Melissa W.) (Becca Wall)
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Amy) (Athena) (Bex) (Brona) (Cam) (Caroline) (eloisej) (Fanda) (Harriet) (hkatz) (Jennifer) (lesserknowngems) (lindylit) (Natalie) (Risa) (Sam) (Sandra) (Teresa) (Geoff W)
• Brontë, Charlotte
  • Jane Eyre (Amy) (Angus) (Bree) (Dale) (earthtoCat) (Ekaterina) (Fanda) (Hamlette) (Helen) (honor) (Irene) (Jaclyn) (janepotter1000) (Joseph) (Laila@BigReadingLife) (Laura) (lauradodom) (leavesandpages) (Anna Lo Mastro) (Sonia López) (Maggie) (magicandmystery) (Margot) (Melissa) (parastoukhiaban88) (Riv) (Ruth) (SarahJL)
  • The Professor (calmgrove)
  • Shirley (Becky) (Caroline) (Helen) (N@ncy) (Natalie)
  • Villette (adamsbibliomania) (Loni C.) (Caroline) (Harriet) (hkatz) (Jillian22) (lesserknowngems) (lindylit) (Maggie) (Melissa) (Natalie) (Geoff W) (Melissa W.) (RelevantObscurity)
• Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights (adamsbibliomania) (bellarah) (Carey) (Carissa) (Charlotte) (Dale) (eloisej) (Hannah) (Helen) (honor) (jackiemania) (Jason C.) (Joseph) (leavesandpages) (Anna Lo Mastro) (Lory) (Maggie) (Margaret) (Patty) (Read It, It’s Deep) (Sam) (Teresa) (Geoff W) (Melissa W.)
• Brontë, Anne, Emily and Charlotte – The Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters (Marianne)
• Brooke, Emma Frances – A Superfluous Woman (Anarchivist)
• Brookner, Anita
  • A Start in Life (JacquiWine)
  • Providence (JacquiWine)
• Brooks, Terry – Sword of Shannara (MaryR)
• Brophy, Brigid – The King of a Rainy Country (JacquiWine)
• Brown, Christy – My Left Foot (thinkingprof)
• Brown, George Mackay – Greenvoe (Udita Banerjee)
• Brown, William Wells – Clotel, or The President’s Daughter (poingu)
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
  • Aurora Leigh (Kate)
  • He Giveth His Beloved Sleep (Loni C.)
  • Sonnets From The Portuguese (Loni C.) (Silvia)
• Bruce, Mary Grant
  • A Little Bush Girl (Carol)
  • Back to Billabong (Francesca Thomas)
• Buchan, John
  • The Half-Hearted (What Cathy Read Next)
  • The House of the Four Winds (Carol)
  • A Lost Lady of Old Years (What Cathy Read Next)
  • Mr. Standfast (What Cathy Read Next)
  • The Power-House (What Cathy Read Next)
  • Sick Heart River (Carol)
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (Carol) (Emma) (FictionFan) (Gypsi) (Jennifer) (Margaret) (Patty)
• Buck, Pearl S.
  • Death in the Castle (Robin)
  • The Good Earth (Sam) (Shaina) (Shell) (therelentlessreader) (Melissa W.)
  • Imperial Woman (Hobby Buku)
  • Pavilion of Women (Karen K.) (Silvia)
• Bulgakov, Mikhail
  • A Country Doctor’s Notebook (Helen) (Honor)
  • The Fatal Eggs (Ali)
  • The Master and Margarita (Jason C.) (Charlene) (ckostyn) (Glaukopis) (honor) (Juli) (Lyndsay) (Melissa) (philbartu)
• Bunyan, John – Pilgrim’s Progress (Becky) (Elyssa) (jessicabookworm) (Annette Kristynik) (Ruth) (SarahJL) (Stephen)
• Burgess, Alan – The Small Woman (Carol)
• Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange (geekcoupletab) (Joseph) (Pinar) (Shaina)
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson
  • A Little Princess (Athena) (crafts4others) (Josh’s Mom) (Listra)
  • Little Lord Faunterloy (Hobby Buku) (melmarian) (Nordie)
  • The Making of a Marchioness (Nordie) (whatmeread)
  • The Secret Garden (Brooke) (Celine) (Josh’s Mom) (Maggie) (Melinda) (Shannon) (stacybuckeye) (wcs53) (whatmeread)
  • The Shuttle (cleopatralovesbooks) (whatmeread)
• Burney, Fanny – Evelina (Becky)
• Burnford, Sheila – The Incredible Journey (Hobby Buku)
• Burns, Olive Ann – Cold Sassy Tree (Melissa) (Tiger.Lily)
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice
  • Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (Francesca Thomas)
  • Tarzan of the Apes (FictionFan)
• Burton, Miles – Death in the Tunnel (JacquiWine)
• Byatt, A.S.
  • Babel Tower (jackiemania)
  • Possession (Christina) (kainzow)
• Byron, George Gordon
  • Cain: A Mystery (Hannah G)
  • Hebrew Melodies (Becky)
  • Manfred (Beth)

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