The Bibliophile’s List

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 in alphabetical order.

Happy reading!

~ The Pine-Scented Chronicles

Numbers

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
• 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai

A

• The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
• After Dark by Haruki Murakami
• After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
• All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 
• The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Apeirogon by Colum McCann
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
• The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez

B

• Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Boat People by Sharon Bala
• The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• Botchan by Natsume Sōseki

C

• Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

D

• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Demian by Herman Hesse
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
• The Door by Magda Szabo
• The Double by Jose Saramago
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

E

• Emma by Jane Austen
• Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

F

• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
• The Farm by Joanne Ramos
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• Fish-Hair Woman by Merlinda Bobis
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

G

• The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
• Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

H

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II by J.K. Rowling
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Human Acts by Han Kang
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

I

• If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• Immortality by Milan Kundera
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

J

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

K

• Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

L

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

M

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• My Neighbor Totoro by Tsugiko Kubo
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

N

• The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• Normal People by Sally Rooney

O

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
• Origin by Dan Brown

P

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
• Perfume, The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt

Q

• Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

R

• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk

S

• Sad Girls by Lang Leav
• The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Sea by John Banville
• The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
• Silence by Shusako Endo
• The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
• Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke
• Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
• Sophie’s World: A History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
• Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• The Subtle Knife by Patrick Ness
• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

T

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• Trieste by Dasa Drndic
• Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

U

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

V

• Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang

W

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
• The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic by Nick Joaquin
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

X

Y

Z