The Floating Library: All Book Reviews By Author

This page includes links to all the book reviews I have posted to this blog.
It is in alphabetical order by the author's last name, then by order of publication.

Douglas Adams (English, 1952-2001)
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

Louisa May Alcott (American, 1832-1888)

-Behind A Mask: A Short Story Collection (1863-1874)

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (American, 1860-1936)

-The Whole Family (1908)

Anonymous
-Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays (~1350s-1510s)
-Noah's Flood
-The Second Shepherd's Play
-Everyman
-Hickscorner

Margaret Atwood (Canadian, 1939- )
-The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817)

-Persuasion (1817)

Mary Austin (American, 1868-1934)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

John Kendrick Bangs (American, 1862-1922)

-The Associated Shades Quartet (1895-1901)
-The Whole Family (1908)

-The Autobiography of Methuselah (1909)

L Frank Baum (American, 1856-1919)

-The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)

-A Kidnapped Santa Claus (1904)

Karin Boye (Swedish, 1900-1941)
-Kallocain (1940)

Ray Bradbury (American, 1920-2012)

-Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Anne Bronte (English, 1820-1849)
-Agnes Grey (1847)
-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Charlotte Bronte (English, 1816-1855)

-The Professor (written 1846; published 1857)
-Jane Eyre (1847)

-Shirley (1848)

-Villette (1853)

Emily Bronte (English, 1818-1848)
-Wuthering Heights (1847)

Alice Brown (American, 1857-1948)

-The Whole Family (1908)

Dan Brown (American, 1964- )

-Angels and Demons (2000)

-The Da Vinci Code (2003)

Frances Hodgson Burnett (British-American, 1841-1924)
-A Little Princess (1905)

Sheila Burnford (British, 1918-1984)
-The Incredible Journey (1960)

Albert Camus (French-Algerian, 1913-1960)
-The Plague (1947)

Dorothy Canfield (American, 1879-1958)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish, 1547-1616)
-Don Quixote (1615)

GK Chesterton (English, 1874-1936)

-The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)

-The Complete Father Brown Stories (1911-1936)

-The Spirit of Christmas (written before 1936)

Agatha Christie (English, 1890-1976)
-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

-Death on the Nile (1937)
-A Murder is Announced (1950) - play adaptation (1977)

Marjorie Benton Cooke (American, 1876-1920)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Mary Stewart Cutting (American, 1879-1924)

-The Whole Family (1908)

Samuel R. Delany (African-American, 1942- )
-Babel-17 (1966)

Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870)
-Dickens at Christmas (1835-1854)
-A Christmas Carol (1843)
-The Chimes (1844)
-The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
-The Battle of Life (1846)
-The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
-Mini-Reviews of the Christmas Short Stories (1835-1854)

Franklin W. Dixon (Canadian, 1902-1977)
-The Tower Treasure - Hardy Boys #1 (1927)

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (American, 1852-1930)

-The Whole Family (1908)

Niel Gaiman (English, 1960- )

-American Gods (2001)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American, 1860-1935)
-The Herland Trilogy
-Moving the Mountain (1911)
-Herland (1915)
-With Her in Ourland (1916)

Elizabeth Goudge (British, 1900-1984)
-The Little White Horse (1946)

-I Saw Three Ships (1969)

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Bengali, 1880-1932)
-Sultana's Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones (1905; 1929)

William Dean Howells (American, 1837-1920)

-The Whole Family (1908)

Fannie Hurst (American, 1885-1968)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian, 1828-1906)

-A Doll's House (1879)

Brian Jacques (English, 1939-2011)

-Redwall (1986)

Henry James (American-British, 1843-1916)
-The Bostonians (1886)
-The Whole Family (1908)

PD James (English, 1920-2014)

-The Children of Men (1992)

Jerome K. Jerome (English, 1859-1927)
-Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) - didn't finish

Elizabeth Jordan (American, 1865-1947)

-The Whole Family (1908)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Matthew Kelly (Australian, 1973- )
-Perfectly Yourself (2006)

Mercedes Lackey (American, 1950- )
-Heralds of Valdemar Series

Ursula K. Le Guin (American, 1929-2018)
-Worlds of Exile and Illusion (Hainish Cycle #1-3)
-Rocannon's World (1966)
-Planet of Exile (1966)
-City of Illusions (1967)
-The Left Hand of Darkness (1969 - Hainish Cycle #4)

HP Lovecraft (American, 1890-1937)

-The Call of Cthulhu (1928)

Samuel Merwin (American, 1874-1936)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Jason Morgan (American, ?- ) and Damien Lewis (British, 1966- )

-A Dog Called Hope (2016)

Stieg Larsson (Swedish, 1954-2004)

-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)

CS Lewis (British, 1898-1963)
-The Space Trilogy
-Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
-Perelandra (1943)
-That Hideous Strength (1945)

-On Stories (1937-1968)

Astrid Lindgren (Swedish, 1907-2002)
-The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
-Pippi Longstocking (1945)
-Pippi Goes on Board (1946)
-Pippi in the South Seas (1948)
-Mio, My Son (1956)

Jane Webb Loudon (English, 1807-1858)
-The Mummy! (1827)

George MacDonald (Scottish, 1824-1905)

-The George MacDonald Treasury

-Phantastes (1858)

-The Light Princess (1864)

-The Giant's Heart (1864)

-The Golden Key (1867)

-At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

-The Princess and the Goblin (1872)

-The Princess and Curdie (1883)

-Lilith (1895)

Mike Madrid (American, 1950s(?)- )
-The Supergirls (2009)

Christopher Marlowe (English, 1564-1593)
-Dr. Faustus (1589-1592)

James McBride (American-African-Jewish, 1957- )

-The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (2023)

Alice Duer Miller (American, 1874-1966)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Dan Millman (American, 1946- )
-The Four Purposes of Life (2011)

Hope Mirrlees (British, 1887-1978)
-Lud-in-the-Mist (1926)

Erin Morgenstern (American, 1978- )

-The Night Circus (2011)

Multiple Authors

-Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old (2002)

Ethel Watts Mumford (American, 1876-1940)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Kathleen Norris (American, 1880-1966)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Anne O'Hagan (American, 1875-1932)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

Delia Owens (American, 1949- )

-Where the Crawdads Sing (2018)

George Orwell (English, 1903-1950)
-Animal Farm (1945)

Katherine Paterson (American, 1932- )

-Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

Tamora Pierce (American, 1954- )
-Circle Universe - Series
-Tortall Universe - Series

Dave Ramsey (American, 1960- )
-Complete Guide to Money (2011)

Ayn Rand (Russian-American, 1905-1982)
-Atlas Shrugged (1957)

Ransom Riggs (American, 1979- )

-Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

Elizabeth Robins (American-British, 1862-1952)
-Votes for Women (1909)

Patrick Rothfuss (American, 1973- )

-The Name of the Wind (2007)

-The Wise Man's Fear (2011)

-Kingkiller Shorts (2013, 2014, 2014)

JD Salinger (American, 1919-2010)
-The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Leroy Scott (American, 1875-1929)

-The Sturdy Oak (1917)

William Shakespeare (English, 1564-1616)
-Four Comedies (~1590-1601)
-The Taming of the Shrew
-A Midsummer Night's Dream
-As You Like It
-Twelfth Night

George Bernard Shaw (Irish, 1856-1950)

-Arms and the Man (1894)

-Press Cuttings (1909)

Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish, 1850-1894)

-Treasure Island (1883)

Bram Stoker (Irish, 1847-1912)

-Dracula (1897)

Jennifer K. Stuller (American, 1975- )

-Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology (2010)

JRR Tolkein (English, 1892-1973)

-Letters From Father Christmas (1920-1943)

-Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham (1967 & 1949)

Amos Tutuola (Nigerian, 1920-1997)