Notes from Mt. Bookpile

Whew! What an amazing year of reading... and this quarter brought 60. Reviews in the usual place.

Biography/Memoir

• One Hundred Names for Love; Diane Ackerman
• The Artful Dodger; Nick Bantock
• The Merry Recluse; Caroline Knapp
• Catherine the Great; Robert K. Massie

Children's/Young Adult

• Mercy Lily; Lisa Albert
• Perfect Escape; Jennifer Brown
• 3:15 Season One; Patrick Carman
• The Way We Fall; Megan Crewe
• The Tsarina's Daughter; Carolly Erickson
• The Ruins of Gorlan; John Flanagan
• In Too Deep; Amanda Grace
• I'm Not Her; Janet Gurtler
• Switched; Amanda Hocking
• Tiger's Voyage; Colleen Houck
• Speak No Evil; Marilyn Kaye
• The Case of the Deadly Desperados; Caroline Lawrence
• Cinder; Marissa Meyer
• Boy21; Matthew Quick
• There Is No Dog; Meg Rosoff
• Born Wicked; Jessica Spotswood
• Double; Jenny Valentine
• Rock On; Denise Vega
• The Rivals; Daisy Whitney
• Beneath a Meth Moon; Jacqueline Woodson
• Life Eternal; Yvonne Woon
• How to Save a Life; Sara Zarr

Fiction/Literature

• The Darlings; Cristina Alger
• The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri; David Bajo
• The Sense of an Ending and Pulse; Julian Barnes
• The Doll; Daphne du Maurier
• Arcadia; Lauren Groff
• The Lola Quartet; Emily St. John Mandel
• The Saints of Swallow; Suzzy Roche
• Clearcut; Nina Shengold
• Gordon; Edith Templeton
• World's End and Other Stories; Paul Theroux
• Brooklyn; Colm Toiben
• Mooncranker's Gift; Barry Unsworth

Mystery

• Speak Ill of the Living; Mark Arsenault
• Ripley Under Ground and The Talented Mr Ripley; Patricia Highsmith
• The Betrayal of Trust; Susan Hill
• Harbor; John Ajvide Lindqvist
• The Invisible Ones; Stef Penney
• We Shall Not Sleep; Anne Perry
• The Athenian Murders; Jose Carlos Somoza

Non-Fiction
The Road to Petra; D.C. Baramki
Mysteries of the Middle Ages; Thomas Cahill
The Perils of Peace; Thomas D. Fleming
Exploring Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; Lois H. Gresh
The Story About the Story; J.C. Hallman
Sympathy for the Devil; Virginia A. McConnell
Living With Ghosts; Prince Michael of Greece
A Train in Winter; Caroline Moorehead
The Filter Bubble; Eli Pariser

Poetry

• Famous; Kathleen Flenniken

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• The Magician King; Lev Grossman
• Snuff; Terry Pratchett

Suspense

• Folly; Laurie R. King
• The Night Lawyer; Michelle Spring