Here you will find a list linking to classic reviews submitted by club members. Book reviews are organized by author’s last name from C – D, 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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- Cabell, James Branch – Jurgen (Jean @ Howling Frog)
- Cain, James M.
- Double Indemnity (Carol)
- Mildred Pierce (FictionFan)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (FictionFan) (philbartu)
- Caine, Hall – The Manxman (Anarchivist)
- Caldwell, Taylor
- Calvino, Italo
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Fanda) (J. E. Fountain) (Jean) (Melissa) (Teresa)
- Italian Folktales (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz)
- Marcovaldo (Elizabeth) (Robin)
- Cambrensis, Giraldus – The Journey Through Wales/Description of Wales (Jean)
- Cambridge, Elizabeth – Hostages to Fortune (Ali)
- Camus, Albert
- The Plague (Jean @ Howling Frog)
- The Stranger (Jean) (Lynn) (Rob) (Ruth)
- Capek, Karel – R. U. R. (Jean)
- Capote, Truman
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Hobby Buku) (cleopatralovesbooks) (J. E. Fountain) (Jennifer) (Melinda) (Patty) (Shannon) (Geoff W)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Lyndsay)
- In Cold Blood (Fanda) (FictionFan) (J. E. Fountain) (Harriet) (MaryR)
- Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Game (Keri B.) (MaryR) (Pinar)
- Caro, Robert – Means of Ascent (N@ncy)
- Carr, Edwin Hamlin – Putnam’s Minute-a-Day English for Busy People (Laurie)
- Carroll, Lewis
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Greenish Bookshelf) (J. E. Fountain) (Laura) (lauradodom) (MaryR) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (Rob) (Sonia) (Geoff W)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (adamsbibliomania) (Celine) (Maggie) (Melissa W.)
- Through the Looking Glass (J. E. Fountain) (Hannah M.)
- Carson, Rachel – Silent Spring (Brona)
- Carter, Angela
- The Bloody Chamber (Brona) (jackiemania)
- The Magic Toyshop (Kate)
- Carver, Raymond – Cathedral (Candiss)
- Cary, Elizabeth – The Tragedy of Mariam (Amy)
- Casares, Adolfo Bioy – The Invention of Morel (JacquiWine)
- Cather, Willa
- Alexander’s Bridge (Laura)
- April Twilights and Other Poems (Hamlette)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (ckostyn) (Fanda) (J. E. Fountain) (Helen) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (Robin) (Stephen) (WordsAndPeace)
- My Mortal Enemy (whatmeread)
- My Ántonia (Becky) (Brona) (Cat) (Helen) (JacquiWine) (Jean) (Lee-Anne) (Tasheena Rose) (Stephen and Reina)
- O Pioneers! (Fanda) (Jean) (Kristina) (RelevantObscurity) (Ruth) (Stephen)
- Obscure Destinies (whatmeread)
- One of Ours (Ali) (Karen K.) (Melody)
- The Professor’s House (Alluminor) (MaryR) (Sarah)
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Ali) (Lory)
- Shadows on the Rock (Karen K.) (Lory)
- The Song of the Lark (Karen K.) (Katrina at piningforthewest) (Melissa)
- Cavendish, Margaret
- The Blazing World (lesserknowngems)
- The Blazing World and Other Writings (Amy)
- Cervantes, Miguel
- Don Quixote (Fanda) (Helen) (Joseph) (kathyscottage) (Kristina) (Melissa) (Ruth) (whatmeread)
- Chambers, Robert – The King in Yellow (geekcoupletab)
- Chandler, Raymond
- Chang, Jung – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (parastoukhiaban88)
- Charriere, Henri – Papillon (Joseph)
- Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales (SarahJL) (Smellincoffee) (Geoff W)
- Chaze, Elliott – Black Wings Has My Angel (JacquiWine)
- Chekhov, Anton
- The Black Monk and Other Stories (Jean)
- The Cherry Orchard (Fanda) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz)
- The Crooked Mirror and Other Stories (Hannah G)
- Five Plays (RoseReadsNovels)
- In the Ravine and Other Short Stories (Rob)
- The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories (Amy)
- Major Plays (31wifey) (Jean)
- A Russian Affair (Kate)
- The Seagull (Ekaterina)
- Three Sisters (Ekaterina) (Melissa)
- Chernyshevsky, Nikolai – What Is To Be Done? (Jean)
- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley – The Worst Journey in the World (Kate)
- Chesterton, G. K.
- The Man Who Was Thursday (Dale) (J. E. Fountain) (mlandersauthor)
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Carol)
- Childers, Erskine – The Riddle of the Sands (FictionFan)
- Chin, Frank – Donald Duk (Harriet)
- Chiziane, Paulina – The First Wife (Jean)
- Cholmondeley, Mary
- Diana Tempest (whatmeread)
- Red Pottage (whatmeread)
- Chopin, Kate
- The Awakening (looloolooweez)
- Desiree’s Baby and Other Selected Short Stories (Melissa)
- Christie, Agatha
- 4:50 from Paddington (FictionFan) (The Long Victorian) (whatmeread)
- The ABC Murders (Laura)
- And Then There Were None (Anne) (Brooke) (Carol) (Emma) (Laura) (Maggie) (Rob) (stacybuckeye)
- Appointment with Death (Loni) (whatmeread)
- At Bertram’s Hotel (whatmeread)
- By the Pricking of my Thumbs (Carol) (whatmeread)
- A Caribbean Mystery (whatmeread)
- Crooked House (Robin)
- Death on the Nile (Carol Evans) (Joel Getter) (whatmeread)
- The Man in the Brown Suit (Carol)
- Murder at the Vicarage (Carol) (MaryR) (whatmeread)
- A Murder Is Announced (austinfey)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Carol) (Loni) (philbartu)
- Murder on the Orient Express (Christina) (Keri B.) (Laura) (The Long Victorian) (Geoff W) (whatmeread) (Zezee)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Amy) (katarinaandcatharina)
- Peril At End House (austinfey) (mlandersauthor)
- Sleeping Murder (Kay)
- Sparkling Cyanide (Carol)
- Taken at the Flood (whatmeread)
- The Tuesday Club Murders (whatmeread)
- Chu, Louis – Eat a Bowl of Tea (Harriet)
- Chukovskaya, Lydia – Sofia Petrovna (juliana brina @the blank garden)
- Churchill, Winston – The History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Birth of Britain (alison8707)
- Chute, B.J. – Greenwillow (Hamlette)
- Clark, Walter Van Tilberg – The Ox-Bow Incident (J. E. Fountain)
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stephen) (thegeekcouple)
- Childhood’s End (FictionFan)
- Clarke, Marcus – For the Term of His Natural Life (Carol)
- Cleland, John – Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Athena)
- Cline, Ernest – Ready Player One (Anarchivist)
- Coetzee, J.M. – Foe (sempiternalloveforbooks)
- Colegate, Isabel – The Shooting Party (JacquiWine)
- Colette
- Cheri (lesserknowngems)
- La Vagabonde (Kate)
- Collier, John – The Chaser (Hobby Buku)
- Collins, Norman – London Belongs to Me (Rachel – What Rachel Did)
- Collins, Wilkie
- Armadale (eloisej) (Karen K.) (Laura) (Lory)
- The Dead Alive (Nordie)
- The Frozen Deep (Cassandra)
- The Haunted Hotel (whatmeread)
- Jezebel’s Daughter (Helen)
- Man and Wife (Sonia)
- The Moonstone (adamsbibliomania) (Anna) (Hobby Buku) (Charlotte) (CurlyGeek) (Dawn) (Kat) (Melissa) (Riv) (whatmeread)
- No Name (booksbythecup) (eloisej) (FictionFan) (Karen K.)
- Poor Miss Finch (Margaret)
- The Woman in White (Annette) (booksbythecup) (Charlotte) (Erin) (Fanda) (Jane) (katarinaandcatharina) (Laura) (Lisa) (Lorren) (MaryR) (Teresa)
- Collodi, Carlo – Pinocchio (Col Reads) (lesserknowngems) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz)
- Comyns, Barbara
- Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (cleopatralovesbooks) (JacquiWine) (whatmeread)
- Sisters by a River (whatmeread)
- The Vet’s Daughter (Laura) (whatmeread)
- Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Candiss)
- Confucius – The Sayings of Confucius (katarinaandcatharina)
- Conrad, Joseph
- Constant, Benjamin – Adolphe (Teresa)
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage (Jean) (magicandmystery) (Angus Miranda) (Ruth) (Stephen)
- Crichton, Michael – Jurassic Park (Maggie)
- Crompton, Richmal – Family Roundabout (Helen) (Jennifer) (whatmeread)
- Cronin, A.J. – The Keys of the Kingdom (Carol)
- Culotta, Nina – They’re a Weird Mob (Tien)
- Cunningham, Michael – The Hours (Laura) (whatmeread)
- Curie, Eve – Madame Curie (Carol)
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- Dahl, Roald
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Hamlette) (Rachel) (Melissa W.)
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (a barmy bookworm)
- Matilda (Laura) (melmarian)
- Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts (Laura)
- The Twits, The Minpins, and The Magic Finger (Laura)
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi – Nervous Conditions (Jeanlp)
- Dard, Frederic – The Executioner Weeps (JacquiWine)
- Davies, W. H. – The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (Sandra)
- de Angeli, Marguerite – The Door in the Wall (Robin)
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- The Second Sex (earthtocat0)
- A Very Easy Death (Robin)
- DeFoe, Daniel
- Moll Flanders (Rachelle J.) (Nicole) (Nodie)
- Robinson Crusoe (Amy) (Hobby Buku) (Celine) (Chinoiseries) (Fanda) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (whatmeread)
- Roxana (RelevantObscurity)
- de France, Anatole – The Gods Will Have Blood (Teresa)
- de Laclos, Pierre Choderlos – Dangerous Liaisons (Arenel) (Col) (Patty) (therelentlessreader)
- de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés – Selected Works (Ms. Arachne)
- de la Mare, Walter – Short Stories, Vol. I (Jean @ Howling Frog)
- de la Motte Fouqué, Friedrich – Undine and Other Stores (Jean @ Howling Frog)
- de la Roche, Mazo – Jalna (leavesandpages)
- deLavigne, Jeanne – Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans (Anarchivist)
- de Lorris, Guillaume – Le Roman de la Rose (N@ncy)
- de Montaigne, Michel – Essays (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (N@ncy)
- de Moor, Margriet – The Storm (Judith)
- de Pisan, Christine – Treasure of the City of Ladies (Jean)
- de Troyes, Chrétien
- de Vilmorin, Louise – Les Belles Amours (JacquiWine)
- Dekker, Thomas – Four Birds of Noah’s (Jean @ Howling Frog)
- Delafield, E. M.
- Consequences (whatmeread)
- Diary of a Provincial Lady (whatmeread)
- Dennis, C. J. – Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (Brona)
- Dennis, Patrick – Auntie Mame (Melissa)
- Devi, Maitreyi – It Does Not Die (Anarchivist)
- Dexter, Colin – The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (The Long Victorian)
- Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Harriet)
- Dick, Philip K.
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (thegeekcouple) (WordsandPeace)
- The Man in the High Castle (Kristina)
- Dickens, Charles
- Barnaby Rudge (eloisej) (FictionFan) (Karen K.)
- The Battle of Life (whatmeread)
- Bleak House (adventuresofcoops) (Brona) (Carol) (Fanda) (J. E. Fountain) (hillarypat) (Jane) (jeanlp) (Jennifer) (Jennygirl) (Melissa) (Patty) (Becca Wall) (whatmeread)
- A Child’s Dream of A Star (Hobby Buku)
- A Christmas Carol (adamsbibliomania) (Anastacia) (Arenel) (Becky) (Bri) (Brona) (Hobby Buku) (Carol) (Christine) (earthtocat0) (J. E. Fountain) (Hamlette) (Annette Kristynik) (Laura) (Laurie @ ReleventObscurity) (Maggie) (melmarian) (Rachel) (Ruth) (thefarmingdaughter) (Melissa W.)
- David Copperfield (adamsbibliomania) (Fanda) (Helen) (Joseph) (lindylit) (Melissa) (N@ncy) (whatmeread)
- Dombey and Son (Anarchivist) (hkatz) (whatmeread)
- Great Expectations (adamsbibliomania) (adventuresofcoops) (Anne-girl) (Becky) (Hobby Buku) (ebookclassics) (Fanda) (J.E. Fountain) (Honor) (jackiemania) (katarinaandcatharina) (melmarian) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (N@ncy) (RoseReadsNovels) (Sam) (Stephen) (Suzan) (Geoff W) (whatmeread)
- Hard Times (eloisej) (jackiemania) (Juli) (Shell) (thefarmingdaughter)
- The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain (Hobby Buku)
- Little Dorrit (Loni C.) (Charlotte) (eloisej) (Fanda) (FictionFan) (Jane @ Greenish Bookshelf) (Jean) (Josje) (kheenand) (Margaret) (Tiger.Lily)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (deedee0) (Karen K.)
- Nicholas Nickleby (austinfey) (Carol) (ckostyn) (FictionFan)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Arenel) (A barmy bookworm) (Carol) (Fanda) (J. E. Fountain) (Island Bookshelf) (Karen K.) (lindylit) (Rachel)
- Oliver Twist (Anarchivist) (Annette) (Beth@Weavings) (Becky) (Hobby Buku) (Christine) (Crafts4others) (Helen) (Kristina) (Laura) (Nerdish Mum) (Ruth) (Sandra) (smellincoffee) (whatmeread)
- Our Mutual Friend (Cat) (eloisej) (FictionFan) (jackiemania) (Karen K.) (N@ncy)
- The Pickwick Papers (JE Fountain) (JaneGS) (Karen K.) (Kristina) (Margaret) (MaryR) (Sandra)
- Sketches by Boz (Fanda)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Anne-girl) (Annette) (Hobby Buku) (Carol) (Charlotte) (Miss Dashwood) (ecn) (Ekaterina) (J. E. Fountain) (Helen) (Jane) (katarinaandcatharina) (N@ncy) (Sam) (Suey) (Teresa) (Geoff W) (Melissa W.)
- Dickens, Monica
- Mariana – (Rachel – What Rachel Did) (whatmeread)
- The Winds of Heaven (Sandra)
- Dickey, James – Deliverance (J.E. Fountain)
- Dickinson, Emily – Three Series, Complete (Loni)
- Didion, Joan
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (JacquiWine) (Nose in a book)
- The White Album (JacquiWine)
- di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi – The Leopard (Helen) (Jane)
- Dinesen, Isak
- Out of Africa (Sam)
- Seven Gothic Tales (J.E. Fountain) (Jean)
- Winter’s Tales (Jean)
- Djebar, Assia
- Donne, John – Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (Anarchivist) (Jean)
- Doolittle, Hilda – HERmione (Kate)
- Dos Passos, John – U.S.A. (trilogy) (J.E. Fountain)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- The Brothers Karamazov (Becky) (Elizabeth) (eloisej) (Fanda) (Jean) (Joseph) (MaryR) (Melissa) (Silvia)
- Crime and Punishment (BookerTalk) (J.E. Fountain) (Helen) (jackiemania) (Jane) (Jean @ Howling Frog) (Patty) (paulavince) (Ruth) (Melissa W.)
- The Idiot (J. E. Fountain) (Harriet) (Jean) (katarinaandcatharina) (whatmeread)
- Notes From the Underground (Fanda) (honor)
- Douglass, Frederick
- Downs, Mrs. George Sheldon – Gertrude Elliot’s Crucible (RelevantObscurity)
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (amanda) (Beth@Weavings) (Fanda) (melmarian) (Rob)
- The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Amy) (Beth)
- The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Hamlette)
- The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes (all volumes) (ckostyn)
- The Disintegration Machine (The Long Victorian)
- The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Carol)
- The Final Problem (Melissa)
- His Last Bow (Hamlette)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (adamsbibliomania) (Brooke) (Dale) (Fanda) (hamlettethedame) (honor) (jackiemania) (N@ncy) (Patty) (Rachel) (stacybuckeye) (Melissa W.)
- The Lost World (Anarchivist) (Jonathan) (Rob)
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Hobby Buku)
- The Poison Belt (Jonathan) (Rob)
- The Refugees (Carol)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ebookclassics) (honor) (Melissa)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 (sempiternalloveforbooks)
- The Sign of Four (Amanda) (Anne Elizabeth) (Melissa)
- Sir Nigel (Carol) (Margaret)
- A Study in Scarlet (Amanda) (bellarah) (Loni C) (J. E. Fountain) (Lisa H.) (Tyler Hope) (Kerry M) (Lorren) (SarahJL) (Francesca Thomas)
- The Tragedy of the Korosko (Carol)
- The Valley of Fear (Hobby Buku) (FictionFan) (J. E. Fountain)
- Vampire Stories (Anne Elizabeth)
- When the World Screamed (The Long Victorian)
- Dreiser, Theodore
- An American Tragedy (J.E. Fountain) (magicandmystery) (Melissa)
- The Financier (Kristina)
- Sister Carrie (Charity)
- Druon, Maurice
- The Iron King (whatmeread)
- The Lily and the Lion (whatmeread)
- The Poisoned Crown (whatmeread)
- The She-Wolf (whatmeread)
- The Strangled Queen (whatmeread)
- DuBois, W. E. B. – The Souls of Black Folk (Jean)
- Dumas, Alexandre
- The Black Tulip (Books By the Cup) (whatmeread)
- Camille (Becky)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Adrienne) (Books By the Cup) (Emma) (Keri B.) (Hobby Buku) (christinasr) (Dale) (J.E. Fountain) (Helen) (Jane) (Jean) (Melissa) (N@ncy) (twogalsandabook)
- The Lady of the Camelias (Katrina)
- Louise de la Valliere (Helen)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Fanda) (Helen) (Jean)
- Queen Margot (Teresa)
- La Reine Margot (whatmeread)
- The Tale of the Nutcracker (Hamlette)
- The Three Musketeers (Hobby Buku) (Fanda) (Helen) (Listra) (lauradodom) (Margaret) (Melissa) (melmarian) (Deb Nance @ Readerbuzz) (Rob) (smellincoffee)
- Twenty Years After (Fanda) (Listra)
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Helen)
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Don’t Look Now and Other Stories (Helen)
- Enchanted Cornwall (Sandra)
- The Flight of the Falcoln (Nordie)
- Frenchman’s Creek (Helen) (Lyndsay Wheble)
- The Glass-Blowers (Helen)
- Jamaica Inn (areaderofliterature) (Brona) (Laura) (mushypeasonearth)
- The King’s General (Nordie)
- The Loving Spirit (Sandra)
- Mary Anne (Helen)
- My Cousin Rachel (Brona) (Kate) (Melinda)
- Myself When Young (Sandra)
- Rebecca (adamsbibliomania) (Amanda) (Amy) (booksahoy) (Elizabeth) (eloisej) (Fanda) (FictionFan) (Glaukopis) (Helen) (jackiemania) (Kristina) (lauradodom) (MaryR) (MJ) (N@ncy) (Natalie) (Patty) (Reese) (RelevantObscurity) (Risa) (RoseReadsNovels) (Sarah) (Sarah) (whatmeread)
- The Scapegoat (JaneGS)
- Vanishing Cornwall (whatmeread)
- Dunsany, Lord – The Curse of the Wise Woman (Anarchivist)
- du Prat, Abbe – Venus in the Cloister (Anarchivist)
- Duras, Marguerite – Moderato Cantabile (WordsAndPeace)
- Durrell, Gerald – My Family and Other Animals (Carol) (whatmeread)
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