Dear Readers,
It was just recently that I took to book reviewing although I have been an avid reader for a couple of years already. My literary journey took me to different places and made me feel a plethora of emotions. Over the years, I have read a volume of books from varying genres, from mystery to postmodernist, from classics to young adults, and from fantasy to magical realism. To keep track of the books I have written a review of, I have dedicated this page to all book reviews that I have written.
For easier reference, I have organized all the book reviews I have written by the writer.
Happy reading!
~ The Pine-Scented Chronicles
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Acevedo, Elizabeth
Family Lore
Aciman, Andre
Call Me By Your Name
Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adébáyọ̀, Ayọ̀bámi
A Spell of Good Things
Stay With Me
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
Adiga, Aravind
The White Tiger
Al Aswany, Alaa
The Automobile Club of Egypt
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women
Alire Sáenz, Benjamin
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World
Allende, Isabel
The House of the Spirits
A Long Petal of the Sea
Of Love and Shadows
Violeta
The Wind Knows My Name
Arikawa, Hiro
The Goodbye Cat
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Asher, Jay
Thirteen Reasons Why
Asim, Jabari
Yonder
Atwood, Margaret
The Blind Assassin
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Testaments
Austen, Jane
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Auster, Paul
Moon Palace
The New York Trilogy
B
Backman, Fredrik
Anxious People
A Man Called Ove
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
Bala, Sharon
The Boat People
Banville, John
The Sea
Batacan, F.H.
Smaller and Smaller Circles
Bobis, Merlinda
Fish-Hair Woman
Bolaño, Roberto
2666
The Savage Detectives
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Brontë, Emily
Wuthering Heights
Brown, Dan
Origin
Buck, Pearl S.
The Good Earth
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Master and Margarita
Burns, Anna
Milkman
Byatt, A.S.
The Children’s Book
Possession: A Romance
C
Calvino, Italo
The Baron in the Trees
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Cañas, Isabel
The Hacienda
Carty-Williams, Candice
People Person
Cather, Willa
Death Comes for the Archbishop
O Pioneers!
Cha, Frances
If I Had Your Face
Chabon, Michael
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chbosky, Stephen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Christie, Agatha
Death on the Nile
Funerals are Fatal
Hallowe’en Party
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Murder on the Orient Express
Clarke, Susanna
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Piranesi
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Collins, Wilkie
The Moonstone
Collodi, Carlo
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Condé, Maryse
Crossing the Mangrove
The Gospel According to the New World
Segu
Conroy, Pat
South of Broad
Cummins, Jeanine
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
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Daré, Abi
The Girl With the Louding Voice
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
A Christmas Carol
The Old Curiosity Shop
Doctorow, E.L.
The Book of Daniel
Doerr, Anthony
All the Light We Cannot See
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Donoghue, Emma
Room
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
Drndić, Daša
Trieste
du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca
E
Eco, Umberto
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
The Name of the Rose
Edugyan, Esi
Washington Black
Eggers, Dave
The Monk of Mokha
Egan, Jennifer
The Candy House
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Ellmann, Lucy
Ducks, Newburyport
Emecheta, Buchi
The Bride Price
Joys of Motherhood
Emezi, Akwaeke
The Death of Vivek Oji
Freshwater
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Endō, Shūsaku
The Samurai
Silence
Enríquez, Mariana
Our Share of Night
Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Marriage Plot
Middlesex
The Virgin Suicides
Evaristo, Bernardine
Girl, Woman, Other
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Fielding, Henry
Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Beautiful and Damned
Tender is the Night
Follett, Ken
The Pillars of the Earth
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
Franzen, Jonathan
Crossroads
Freedom
G
Gaarder, Jostein
Sophie’s World: A History of Philosophy
García Márquez, Gabriel
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Memory of My Melancholy Whores
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gaiman, Neil
Neverwhere
Ghosh, Amitav
The Glass Palace
Gospodinov, Georgi
Time Shelter
Grass, Günter
The Tin Drum
Green, John
Turtles All The Way Down
Gruen, Sarah
Water for Elephants
Gurnah, Albulrazak
Afterlives
Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars
Gyasi, Yaa
Homegoing
H
Hamamura, John
Color of the Sea
Handke, Peter
Slow Homecoming
Handler, Daniel
Why We Broke Up
Hashimi, Nadia
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Hawkins, Paula
The Girl on the Train
Hegi, Ursula
Stones from the River
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun Also Rises
Henríquez, Cristina
The Great Divide
Hesse, Herman
Demian
Heti, Sheila
Pure Colour
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hwang, Bo-Reum
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
I
Irving, John
The Cider House Rules
The Last Chairlift
The World According To Garp
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Klara and the Sun
A Pale View of the Hills
The Unconsoled
J
Jeffer, Honorée Fanonne
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Joaquin, Nick
The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic
Jonasson, Jonas
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jones, Tayari
An American Marriage
Joukhadar, Zeyn
The Map of Salt and Stars
Joyce, James
Dubliners
Ulysses
K
Kadare, Ismail
The Accident
The General of the Dead Army
Kang, Han
Greek Lessons
Human Acts
The Vegetarian
The White Book
Kawabata, Yasunari
The Lake
Thousand Cranes
Kawakami, Hiromi
The Nakano Thrift Shop
Kawakami, Mieko
All the Lovers in the Night
Breasts and Eggs
Heaven
Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara
Demon Copperhead
The Poisonwood Bible
Kipling, Rudyard
Kim
Kochai, Jamil Jan
99 Nights in Logar
Krauss, Nicole
The History of Love
Kubo, Tsugiko
My Neighbor Totoro by Tsugiko Kubo
Kundera, Milan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Immortality
Kwan, Kevin
Crazy Rich Asians
L
Leav, Lang
Sad Girls
Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave
Wandering Star
Lee, Harper
Go Set a Watchman
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Min Jin
Pachinko
Lynch, Paul
Prophet Song
M
Makkai, Rebecca
I Have Some Questions For You
Mann, Thomas
The Magic Mountain
Markley, Stephen
The Deluge
Masad, Ilana
All My Mother’s Lovers
Mbue, Imbolo
Behold the Dreamers
How Beautiful We Were
McCann, Colum
Apeirogon
McCourt, Frank
Angela’s Ashes
McCullers, Carson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McEwan, Ian
Enduring Love
On Chesil Beach
Saturday
Melville, Herman
Moby Dick
Miller, Madeline
Circe
The Song of Achilles
Min, Anchee
Empress Orchid
Mishima, Yukio
After the Banquet
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
The Sound of Waves
Mitchell, David
The Bone Clocks
Cloud Atlas
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Utopia Avenue
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With the Wind
Morris, Heather
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye
Paradise
Murakami, Haruki
1Q84
After Dark
Dance Dance Dance
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hear the Wind Sing
Killing Commendatore
Pinball, 1973
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Sputnik Sweetheart
A Wild Sheep Chase
Murdoch, Iris
The Sea, The Sea
Under the Net
Murray, Paul
The Bee Sting
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Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita
Naipaul, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad
A Bend in the River
Napolitano, Ann
Hello Beautiful
Natera, Cleyvis
Neruda on the Park
Ness, Patrick
The Ask and the Answer
The Knife of Never Letting Go
A Monster Calls
Monsters of Men
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Dust Child
The Mountains Sing
Nguyễn Thanh Việt
The Committed
The Sympathizer
Niven, Jennifer
Holding Up The Universe
O
Obioma, Chigozie
An Orchestra of Minorities
Ōe, Kenzaburō
A Personal Matter
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
A Quiet Life
The Silent Cry
Okri, Ben
The Famished Road
Ondaatje, Michael
The English Patient
Warlight
Oyeyemi, Helen
Gingerbread
P
Pamuk, Orhan
The Red-Haired Woman
Silent House
Patchett, Ann
Bel Canto
The Dutch House
Tom Lake
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The Dumas Club
The Seville Communion
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
Proust, Marcel
Swann’s Way
Within a Budding Grove
Pullman, Philip
The Amber Spyglass
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
Puzo, Mario
The Godfather
Q
R
Ramos, Joanne
The Farm
Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Ribay, Randy
Patron Saints of Nothing
Rooney, Sally
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Normal People
Rowling, J.K.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II
Rushdie, Salman
Fury
The Golden House
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Midnight’s Children
Quichotte
The Satanic Verses
Shalimar the Clown
Shame
Victory City
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos
The Shadow of the Wind
Russell, Kate Elizabeth
My Dark Vanessa
S
Safran Foer, Jonathan
Here I Am
Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye
Saramago, José
The Double
Satrapi, Marjane
The Complete Persepolis
See, Lisa
The Island of Sea Women
Shafak, Elif
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
The Bastard of Istanbul
The Island of Missing Trees
Shin, Kyung-Sook
Please Look After Mom
Shute, Nevil
A Town Like Alice
Silvera, Adam
They Both Die at the End
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie
On Beauty
Sōseki, Natsume
Botchan
I Am A Cat
Kokoro
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stringfellow, Tara M.
Memphis
Stuart, Douglas
Shuggie Bain
Young Mungo
Sudbanthad, Pitchaya
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Süskind, Patrick
Perfume, The Story of a Murderer
Szabó, Magda
The Door
T
Tan Twan Eng
The Garden of Evening Mists
The House of Doors
Tanizaki, Jun’ichirō
The Makioka Sisters
Quicksand
Some Prefer Nettles
Tartt, Donna
The Little Friend
The Secret History
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair
Thomas, Angie
The Hate U Give
Tokarczuk, Olga
The Books of Jacob
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Flights
Tolstoy, Leo
War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan
Fathers and Sons
U
Urrea, Luis Alberto
The House of Broken Angels
V
Vardiashvili, Leo
Hard by a Great Forest
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
The Feast of the Goat
The War of the End of the World
Verne, Jules
Around the World in Eighty Days
Vizzini, Ned
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Vuong, Ocean
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
W
Wallace, David Foster
Infinite Jest
Welsh, Irvine
Trainspotting
Whitehead, Colson
Crook Manifesto
Harlem Shuffle
The Nickel Boys
The Underground Railroad
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando: An Autobiography
X
Y
Yanagihara, Hanya
A Little Life
To Paradise
Yoon, Nicola
The Sun is Also a Star
Z
Zambra, Alejandro
Multiple Choice
Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief
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