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Customer Reviews Index
Master Index to Past Customer Reviews
This page is a Master Index to all past Customer Reviews that have appeared on the BookGuide website. All hotlinks below should take you directly to the specific review on the yearly page that the individual recommendation originally appeared on.
By Year Reviewed
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Reviews Organized by Year:
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2005 Reviews
Youth Materials
Youth Picture Books (jP), Easy Readers (jF), Chapter Books (jC)
Jairo Buitrago – Jimmy the Greatest (jP)
Julie Andrews Edwards – Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea (j or jC)
Dr. Seuss – Green Eggs and Ham (jF)
Jen Wojtowicz – The Boy Who Grew Flowers (jP)
Youth (j) and Young Adult (YA) Fiction
Katie Alender – Bad Girls Don’t Die (YA)
Lloyd Alexander – The Black Cauldron (j) | The Book of Three (j) | The Castle of Llyr (j) | The High King (j) | Taran Wanderer (j)
Crystal Allen – How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy (j)
David Almond – Kit’s Wilderness (j)
Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak (j)
Heidi Aravbe – Freeze Frame (YA)
Jay Asher – 13 Reasons Why (YA)
Avi – Poppy (j)
Blue Balliett – Chasing Vermeer (j)
Anna Banks – Of Triton (YA)
T.A. Barron – The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy (j)
Joan Bauer – Close to Famous (YA) | Hope Was Here (YA)
Patty Blount – Send (YA) | Send (YA)
S.A. Bodeen/Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen – The Compound (YA) | The Compound (YA) | The Raft (YA)
Jennifer Brown – The Hate List (YA)
Michael Buckley – The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives (j)
Robert Burch – Queenie Peavy (j)
Niki Burnham – Royally Crushed (YA)
Marissa Burt – Storybound (j)
Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries (YA)
Eleanor Cameron – A Room Made of Windows (j)
Janet Lee Carey – Dragonswood (YA)
Kristen Cashore – Graceling (YA)
The One – Kiera Cass (j)
Tera Lynn Childs – Sweet Venom (YA)
Cassandra Clare – City of Bones (YA) | City of Bones (YA)
Beverly Cleary – Otis Spofford (j) | Ramona the Pest (j)
Ernest Cline – Ready Player One (YA)
Suzanne Collins – Catching Fire (YA) | Catching Fire (YA) | The Hunger Games (YA) | The Hunger Games (YA) | Mockingjay (YA)
Ally Condie – Matched (YA)
Kristi Cook – Haven (YA)
Caroline B. Cooney – The Face on the Milk Carton (j)
Cressida Cowell – How to Break a Dragon’s Heart (j) | How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm (j)
Sharon Creech – Walk Two Moons | The Wanderer (j)
Jocelyn Davies – A Beautiful Dark (YA)
Joseph Delaney – The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (YA)
Kimberly Derting – The Body Finder (YA)
Tony DiTerlizzi – A Hero for Wondla (j) | The Search for Wondla (j)
Chris D’Lacey – Icefire (j)
Lola Douglas – More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet (YA)
Siobhan Dowd – Bog Child (j)
Frances O’Roark Dowell – Falling In (j)
Debra Doyle and James MacDonald – School of Wizardry (j)
Sharon Draper – Out of My Mind (j)
Sarah Beth Durst – Ice (j)
Julie Andrews Edwards – Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea (j or jC)
Amy Efaw – After (j/YA)
Simone Elkles – Chain Reaction (YA) | Rules of Attraction (YA)
Kathryn Erskine – Mockingbird (j) | Seeing Red (YA)
Jennifer Estep – Touch of Frost (YA)
Louise Fitzhugh – Harriet the Spy (j)
Blaire Fowler – Beneath the Glitter (YA)
Cornelia Funke – The Dragon Rider (book-on-CD) (j)
Jack Gantos – Dead End in Norvelt (j)
Michael Grant – Gone (YA)
Dianne Gray – Holding Up the Earth (j) | Together Apart (j)
John Green – The Fault in Our Stars (YA) | The Fault in Our Stars (YA) | The Fault in Our Stars (YA) | The Fault in Our Stars (YA) | The Fault in Our Stars (YA) | Looking for Alaska (YA) | Looking for Alaska (YA) | Paper Towns (YA)
John Grisham – Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (j)
Lisi Harrison – The Clique (YA)
Rachel Hawkins – Hex Hall (j/YA)
Rachel Hawthorne – Full Moon (YA) | Shadow of the Moon (YA)
Gwendolyn Heasley – A Long Way From You (YA)
Carl Hiaasen – Chomp (j) | Chomp (j)
S.E. Hinton -S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders (j) | The Outsiders (j)
Anthony Horowitz – Groosham Grange (YA)
C.C. Hunter – Born at Midnight (YA) | Taken at Dusk (YA) | Whispers at Moonrise (YA)
Shawn Hutchinson – fml (YA)
L.J. James – The Vampire Diaries (YA)
Diane Wynne Jones – Howl’s Moving Castle (j)
Peg Kehret – Stolen Children (YA) | Trapped (j)
Marjorie B. Kellogg – The Dragon Quartet, Vol 1: The Book of Earth (j)
Jacqueline Kelly – The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (j)
Lucas Klauss – Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse (YA)
Heidi R. Kling – Sea (YA)
E.L. Konigsburg – The View From Saturday (j)
Dean Koontz and Fred VanLente – Odd is On Our Side (YA)
Jennifer Laurens – Falling for Romeo (YA)
Ingrid Law – Savvy (j)
Lindsey Leavitt – Sean Griswold’s Head (YA)
W.S. Lee – A Spy in the House (YA)
Peter Lerangis – The Colossus Rises (j)
Grace Lin – Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (j)
Astrid Lindgren – Pippi on the Run (j)
Kathryn Littlewood – Bliss (j)
Cara Lockwood – Wuthering High (YA)
Pittacus Lore – I Am Number Four (YA)
Lois Lowry – The Giver (j)
Marie Lu – Legend (YA) | Prodigy (YA)
David Lubar – Invasion of the Road Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (j)
Jonathan Maberry – Rot and Ruin (YA)
Dandi Daley Mackell – The Silence of Murder (YA)
Ann M. Martin – Everything For a Dog (j)
Wendy Mass – The Candymakers (YA)
Anne Mazer – Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining (j)
Lish McBride – Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (YA)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall – Under the Mesquite (YA)
Kate McMurry and Marie August – Girl vs. Ghost (YA)
Kate McMullen – Have a Hot Time, Hades! (j)
Maureen Doyle McQuerry – The Peculiars (YA)
Marissa Meyer – Cinder (YA)
Stephanie Meyer – Twilight (YA) | Twilight (YA)
Ellen Miles – Domino (j)
Megan Miranda – Fracture (YA)
Gregory Mone – Fish (j)
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables (j) | Emily of New Moon (j)
Michael Morpugo – Private Peaceful (j)
Brandon Mull – Seeds of Rebellion (j) | A World Without Heroes (j)
Lauren Myracle – Peace, Love and Baby Ducks (YA) (Playaway)
Jennifer A. Nielsen – The False Prince (j)
Zibby Oneal – The Language of Goldfish (j)
R.J. Palacio – Wonder (j)
Christopher Paolini – Eragon (j) | Eragon (j) | Eragon (j)
Katherine Paterson – The Great Gilly Hopkins (j)
James Patterson – Cross Fire | The Kiss: A Witch & Wizard Novel (YA)
Ellen Potter – The Kneebone Boy (j) | Olivia Kidney (j) | Pish Posh (j) | SLOB (j)
Margi Preus – Heart of a Samurai (j)
Janette Rallison – My Fair Godmother (j)
Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows (j)
Dana Reinhardt – Harmless (YA)
Louise Rennison – Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (j)
Adam Rex – Cold Cereal (j)
Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief (j) | The Lightning Thief (j) | The Lightning Thief (j) | The Lost Hero (j) | The Lost Hero (j)
Gail Rock – The House Without a Christmas Tree (j)
James Rollins – Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow (j)
Veronica Roth – Allegiant (YA) | Divergent (YA) | Divergent (YA)
Rainbow Rowell – Fangirl (YA)
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (j) | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (j) | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (j) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (j) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (j) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (j) | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (j) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (j) | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (j) | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (j)
Ivy Ruckman – In Care of Cassie Tucker (j) | Night of the Twisters (j) | Night of the Twisters (j)
Britney Ryan – The Legend of Holly Claus (j)
Lola St. Vil – The Guardians: The Girl (YA)
Annie M.G. Schmidt – The Cat Who Came In Off the Roof (j)
Gary Schmidt – Okay for Now (j)
Rebecca Serle – When You Were Mine (YA)
Pamela F. Service – The Reluctant God (j)
Sara Shepard – The Lying Game (YA) | Pretty Little Liars (YA) | Unbelievable (YA)
Neil Shusterman – Everfound (j) | Everlost (j) | Everwild (j)
Obert Skye – Pillage (j)
Jennifer E. Smith – The Storm Makers (j)
Roland Smith – I.Q. – Independence Hall (j) | Peak (j)
Lemony Snicket – The Austere Academy (j) | The Bad Beginning (j) | The Miserable Mill (j)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder – Libby on Wednesday (j)
Jordan Sonnenblick – Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie (YA)
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell – Beyond the Deepwoods (j)
Laurie Stolarz – Deadly Little Secret (YA)
Sarah Strohmeyer – Smart Girls Get What They Want (YA)
Tui T. Sutherland – The Dragonet Prophecy (j)
Rumiko Takahashi – Ranma 1/2 (YA)
Doug TenNapel – Bad Island (YA)
Max Turner – Night Runner (YA)
Rachel Vail – Kiss Me Again (YA)
Clare Vanderpool – Moon Over Manifest (YA)
Wendelin VanDraanen – The Running Dream (YA)
Audrey Vernick – Water Balloon (j)
Amanda Von Hoffman – Behind Green Glass (YA)
Scott Westerfeld – So Yesterday (j)
Rita Willims-Garcia – Jumped (j) | Like Sisters on the Homefront (j) | No Laughter Here (j)
Brenda Woods – Saint Louis Armstrong Beach (j)
L.E. Young – Storm: The Infinity Code (j)
Brenna Yovanoff – The Replacement (YA)
Sara Zarr – Story of a Girl (j/YA)
Paul Zindel – Loch (j) | Raptor (j)
Youth Non-Fiction and Biographies (j and YA)
Anne Mazer – Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook (YA (non-fiction) Mazer)
j398.2 Sch (or jPB) – Alvin Schwartz – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
j808.02 Ben – Nancy Bentley and Donna Guthrie – Writing Mysteries, Movies, Monster Stories, and More!
j808.02 Dub – Vivian Dubrovin – Write Your Own Story
j808.02 Lev – Gail Carson Levine – Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly
j808.3 Bau – Marion Bauer – What’s Your Story?
j930.1 Wil – Charlotte Wilcox – Bog Mummies
j930.16 Dee – James Deem – Bodies From the Bog
jB M276 or YA PB Mah – Adline Yen Mah – Chinese Cinderella
Adult Materials
Fiction
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Richard Adams – Watership Down
Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
Bess Streeter Aldrich – A Lantern in Her Hand
Wayne Arthurson – Fall From Grace
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
William Brodrick – The Sixth Lamentation
John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
Caleb Carr – The Italian Secretary
Willa Cather – My Antonia
Megan Chance – The Spiritualist
Michael Connelly – Chasing the Dime
Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park | Prey
Clive Cussler – Raise the Titanic
Jeffery Deaver – The Skin Collector
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Don DeLillo – Cosmopolis
Mark Dunn – Ella Minnow Pea
Tony Earley – Jim the Boy
Kim Edwards – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Selden Edwards – The Little Book
Miriam Spitzer Franklin – Extraordinary (eBook only)
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett – Good Omens (as an audiobook)
Lisa Genova – Still Alice
William Golding – The Inheritors
Seth Grahame-Smith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana
Philippa Gregory – The Little House
John Grisham – The Appeal
Beth Gutcheon – More Than You Know
Sophie Hannah – The Truth-Teller’s Lie
Deborah Harkness – A Discovery of Witches
Charlaine Harris – Dead as a Doornail | Dead Reckoning | Dead Until Dark
Joanne Harris – Blackberry Wine
Robert Hellenga – Philosophy Made Simple
Steve Hockensmith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
Linda Howard – Kiss Me While I Sleep
E.L. James – Fifty Shades of Grey
P.D. James – The Lighthouse
Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga – The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
Lynda LaPlante – The Red Dahlia
Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Played With Fire | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Laura Lippman – The Sugar House
Melissa Marr – The Arrivals
George R.R. Martin – A Game of Thrones
Archer Mayor – Proof Positive
Kate Morton – The Distant Hours | The Secret Keeper
Jojo Moyes – Me Before You
James Patterson and Howard Roughan – The Honeymoon
Jodi Picoult – Salem Falls
Laura Joh Rowland – The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
Jed Rubenfeld – The Death Instinct
George Shaffner – In the Land of Second Chances
Gena Showalter – Darkest Passion
Daniel Silva – The Secret Servant
Michael Stanley – A Carrion Death
Kathryn Stockett – The Help
Ross Thomas – Chinaman’s Chance
Jennifer Weiner – Good in Bed
Stuart Woods – Dead in the Water | Dirt | New York Dead
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Angel’s Game
Non-Fiction and Biographies
Elizabeth Hess – Nim Chimpsky, the Chimp Who Would Be Human
Vincent Price – The Book of Joe (eBook and eAudiobook only)
362.3 Sim – Rachel Simon – Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True-Life Journey
364.168 Old – Parmy Olson – We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
394.12 Kur – Mark Kurlansky – The Food of a Younger Land
591.513 Waa – Frans de Waal – Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
599.744 N81r – Sterling North – Rascal
613.2 Pol – Michael Pollan – Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
793.732 Rom – Marc Romano – Crossworld
796.352 Rei – Rick Reilly – Who’s Your Caddy? Looping for the Greats, Near-Greats and Reprobates of Golf
796.357 Hal – David Halberstam – The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship
813.08 Har – Charlaine Harris and Tony L. Kelner (eds.) – Games Creatures Play
822.33 Sha – William Shakespeare – Hamlet
915.6 Eam – Andrew Eames – The 8:55 to Baghdad
920.02 Orl – Susan Orlean – The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
Biography Fisher – Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
Reyna Grande – The Distance Between Us (downloadable audio only)
Biography Hartwig – Michael Perry – Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway and the Road to Roughneck Grace
B R67m – Candice Millard – The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
B W1547 – Jeanette Walls – The Glass Castle
DVDs/Videos
DVD Emma – directed by Douglas McGrath – Emma
Video Dickens – Charles Dickens – Nicholas Nickleby (9-part VHS set)
909 Cla – Kenneth Clark – Civilisation: The Complete Series
Compact Discs (Music)
Compact Disc 781.62 IreA – Atlan – The Best of Atlan
Compact Disc 781.65 Gua – George Winston (performer)/Vince Guaraldi (composer) – Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi
Compact Disc 781.65 Had – Charles hadley and Pat Metheny – Beyond the Missouri Sky
Compact Disc 781.65 Jar – Keith Jarrett – Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note
Compact Disc 781.66 Pin – Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
Compact Disc 782.14 Ber – Leonard Bernstein – Leonard Bernstein’s New York
Reviews Organized by Reviewer:
Patty Blount – Send (YA)
John Green – Looking for Alaska (YA) | Paper Towns (YA)
S.A. Bodeen/Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen – The Compound (YA) | The Raft (YA)
Brenna Yovanoff – The Replacement (YA)
Suzanne Collins – Catching Fire (YA) | The Hunger Games (YA)
Michael Grant – Gone (YA)
Marie Lu – Legend (YA) | Prodigy (YA)
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (j) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (j)
Doug TenNapel – Bad Island (YA)
Lola St. Vil – The Guardians: The Girl (YA)
Ally Condie – Matched (YA)
John Green – The Fault in Our Stars (YA)
Amilia B.
Sarah Beth Durst – Ice (j)
John Green – The Fault in Our Stars (YA)
Carl Hiaasen – Chomp (j)
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (j)
Wendelin VanDraanen – The Running Dream (YA)
Wayne Arthurson – Fall From Grace
E.L. James – Fifty Shades of Grey
Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay (YA)
John Grisham – The Appeal
Louise Rennison – Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (j)
613.2 Pol – Michael Pollan – Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
Janet Lee Carey – Dragonswood (YA)
Tera Lynn Childs – Sweet Venom (YA)
Kristi Cook – Haven (YA)
Jocelyn Davies – A Beautiful Dark (YA)
Diane Wynne Jones – Howl’s Moving Castle (j)
W.S. Lee – A Spy in the House (YA)
Pittacus Lore – I Am Number Four (YA)
Jordan Sonnenblick – Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie (YA)
Elizabeth Hess – Nim Chimpsky, the Chimp Who Would Be Human
Marjorie B. Kellogg – The Dragon Quartet, Vol 1: The Book of Earth (j)
Sharon Draper – Out of My Mind (j)
R.J. Palacio – Wonder (j)
Linda Howard – Kiss Me While I Sleep
Michael Connelly – Chasing the Dime
Jeffery Deaver – The Skin Collector
Daniel Silva – The Secret Servant
Tony DiTerlizzi – The Search for Wondla (j)
Jay Asher – 13 Reasons Why (YA)
822.33 Sha – William Shakespeare – Hamlet
Christopher Paolini – Eragon (j)
James Patterson – Cross Fire
Stuart Woods – Dead in the Water | Dirt | New York Dead
Biography Fisher – Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
Michael Crichton – Prey
S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders (j)
Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries (YA)
S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders (j)
Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
Pamela F. Service – The Reluctant God (j)
jB M276 or YA PB Mah – Adline Yen Mah – Chinese Cinderella
Anna Banks – Of Triton (YA)
Kristen Cashore – Graceling (YA)
Simone Elkles – Chain Reaction (YA) | Rules of Attraction (YA)
Jennifer Estep – Touch of Frost (YA)
Rachel Hawthorne – Full Moon (YA) | Shadow of the Moon (YA)
Gwendolyn Heasley – A Long Way From You (YA)
Heidi R. Kling – Sea (YA)
Jennifer Laurens – Falling for Romeo (YA)
Cara Lockwood – Wuthering High (YA)
Lish McBride – Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (YA)
Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief (j)
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (j) | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (j)
398.2 Sch (or jPB) – Alvin Schwartz – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Played With Fire
Kate Morton – The Secret Keeper
Don DeLillo – Cosmopolis
Jennifer Weiner – Good in Bed
Stieg Larsson – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
813.08 Har – Charlaine Harris and Tony L. Kelner (eds.) – Games Creatures Play
C.C. Hunter – Born at Midnight (YA) | Taken at Dusk (YA) | Whispers at Moonrise (YA)
Laurie Stolarz – Deadly Little Secret (YA)
Allison H.-F. ( check out Alison H.F.’s Customer Snapshot newsletter entry! )
Richard Adams – Watership Down
Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
Bess Streeter Aldrich – A Lantern in Her Hand
Lloyd Alexander – The Black Cauldron (j) | The Book of Three (j) | The Castle of Llyr (j) | The High King (j) | Taran Wanderer (j)
Crystal Allen – How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy (j)
David Almond – Kit’s Wilderness (j)
Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak (j)
Heidi Aravbe – Freeze Frame (YA)
Joan Bauer – Hope Was Here (YA)
Jennifer Brown – The Hate List (YA)
Jairo Buitrago – Jimmy the Greatest (jP)
John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
Robert Burch – Queenie Peavy (j)
Eleanor Cameron – A Room Made of Windows (j)
Willa Cather – My Antonia
Beverly Cleary – Otis Spofford (j) | Ramona the Pest (j)
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Siobhan Dowd – Bog Child (j)
Frances O’Roark Dowell – Falling In (j)
Debra Doyle and James MacDonald – School of Wizardry (j)
Julie Andrews Edwards – Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea (j or jC)
Amy Efaw – After (j/YA)
Kathryn Erskine – Mockingbird (j) | Seeing Red (YA)
Louise Fitzhugh – Harriet the Spy (j)
Miriam Spitzer Franklin – Extraordinary (j) (eBook only)
Seth Grahame-Smith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Dianne Gray – Holding Up the Earth (j) | Together Apart (j)
Rachel Hawkins – Hex Hall (j/YA)
Steve Hockensmith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
Peg Kehret – Trapped (j)
Grace Lin – Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (j)
Astrid Lindgren – Pippi on the Run (j)
Anne Mazer – Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining (j)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall – Under the Mesquite (YA)
Kate McMurry and Marie August – Girl vs. Ghost (YA)
Marissa Meyer – Cinder (YA)
Ellen Miles – Domino (j)
Gregory Mone – Fish (j)
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Emily of New Moon (j)
Zibby Oneal – The Language of Goldfish (j)
Katherine Paterson – The Great Gilly Hopkins (j)
Ellen Potter – The Kneebone Boy (j) | Olivia Kidney (j) | Pish Posh (j) | SLOB (j)
Margi Preus – Heart of a Samurai (j)
Janette Rallison – My Fair Godmother (j)
Dana Reinhardt – Harmless (YA)
Gail Rock – The House Without a Christmas Tree (j)
Ivy Ruckman – In Care of Cassie Tucker (j) | Night of the Twisters (j)
Annie M.G. Schmidt – The Cat Who Came In Off the Roof (j)
Gary Schmidt – Okay for Now (j)
Neil Shusterman – Everfound (j) | Everlost (j) | Everwild (j)
Lemony Snicket – The Austere Academy (j) | The Bad Beginning (j) | The Miserable Mill (j)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder – Libby on Wednesday (j)
Clare Vanderpool – Moon Over Manifest (YA)
Audrey Vernick – Water Balloon (j)
Amanda Von Hoffman – Behind Green Glass (YA)
Rita Willims-Garcia – Jumped (j) | Like Sisters on the Homefront (j) | No Laughter Here (j)
Brenda Woods – Saint Louis Armstrong Beach (j)
Sara Zarr – Story of a Girl (j/YA)
591.513 Waa – Frans de Waal – Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
599.744 N81r – Sterling North – Rascal
j808.02 Ben – Nancy Bentley and Donna Guthrie – Writing Mysteries, Movies, Monster Stories, and More!
j808.02 Dub – Vivian Dubrovin – Write Your Own Story
j808.02 Lev – Gail Carson Levine – Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly
j808.3 Bau – Marion Bauer – What’s Your Story?
j930.1 Wil – Charlotte Wilcox – Bog Mummies
j930.16 Dee – James Deem – Bodies From the Bog
Reyna Grande – The Distance Between Us (downloadable audio only)
Anne Mazer – Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook (YA (non-fiction) Mazer)
Vincent Price – The Book of Joe (eBook and eAudiobook only)
Elanor J. (check out Elanor J.’s Customer Snapshot newsletter entry!)
Marissa Burt – Storybound (j)
Tony DiTerlizzi – A Hero for Wondla (j)
Carl Hiaasen – Chomp (j)
Kathryn Littlewood – Bliss (j)
Adam Rex – Cold Cereal (j)
Ivy Ruckman – Night of the Twisters (j)
Britney Ryan – The Legend of Holly Claus (j)
Obert Skye – Pillage (j)
Jennifer E. Smith – The Storm Makers (j)
Shawn Hutchinson – fml (YA)
Kris J. (check out Kris J.’s Customer Snapshot newsletter entry!)
Lisa Genova – Still Alice
Cornelia Funke – Dragon Rider (j) (as an audiobook)
Philippa Gregory – The Little House
Jacqueline Kelly – The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (j)
Stieg Larsson – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Laura Joh Rowland – The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
Video Dickens – Charles Dickens – Nicholas Nickleby (9-part VHS set)
Niki Burnham – Royally Crushed (YA)
Cassandra Clare – City of Bones (YA)
Lola Douglas – More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet (YA)
Stephanie Meyer – Twilight (YA)
Sara Shepard – Unbelievable (YA)
Sarah Strohmeyer – Smart Girls Get What They Want (YA)
Roland Smith – I.Q. – Independence Hall (j) | Peak (j)
Rainbow Rowell – Fangirl (YA)
Rick Riordan – The Lost Hero (j)
Lauren Myracle – Peace, Love and Baby Ducks (YA) (Playaway)
Archer Mayor – Proof Positive
Kathryn Stockett – The Help
Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief (j)
Blue Balliett – Chasing Vermeer (j)
Suzanne Collins – Catching Fire (YA)
Ingrid Law – Savvy (j)
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
John Green – The Fault in Our Stars (YA) | Looking for Alaska (YA)
L.J. James – The Vampire Diaries (YA)
Jojo Moyes – Me Before You
Rebecca Serle – When You Were Mine (YA)
Rachel Vail – Kiss Me Again (YA)
Cassandra Clare – City of Bones (YA)
Christopher Paolini – Eragon (j)
Jen Wojtowicz – The Boy Who Grew Flowers (jP)
Stephenie Meyer – Twilight (YA)
Gena Showalter – Darkest Passion
Biography Fisher – Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
DVD 909 Cla – Kenneth Clark – Civilisation: The Complete Series
Kate McMullen – Have a Hot Time, Hades! (j)
Katie Alender – Bad Girls Don’t Die (YA)
Lisi Harrison – The Clique (YA)
James Rollins – Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow (j)
Cressida Cowell – How to Break a Dragon’s Heart (j) | How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm (j)
Sharon Creech – Walk Two Moons | The Wanderer (j)
Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
Chris D’Lacey – Icefire (j)
E.L. Konigsburg – The View From Saturday (j)
Ann M. Martin – Everything For a Dog (j)
Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows (j)
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (j) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (j) | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (j) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (j) | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (j)
Tui T. Sutherland – The Dragonet Prophecy (j)
Paul Zindel – Loch (j) | Raptor (j)
Wendy Mass – The Candymakers (YA)
James Patterson and Howard Roughan – The Honeymoon
Christopher Paolini – Eragon (j)
Wyatt P. (Wyatt P. went on to become a library staff member — check out his Staff Recommendations Reviewer Profile!)
William Golding – The Inheritors
John Green – The Fault in Our Stars (YA)
Deborah Harkness – A Discovery of Witches
Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga – The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
Lucas Klauss – Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse (YA)
Jonathan Maberry – Rot and Ruin (YA)
George R.R. Martin – A Game of Thrones
Maureen Doyle McQuerry – The Peculiars (YA)
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell – Beyond the Deepwoods (j)
Max Turner – Night Runner (YA)
Brenna Yovanoff – The Replacement (YA)
364.168 Old – Parmy Olson – We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
Michael Buckley – The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives (j)
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett – Good Omens (as an audiobook)
Peter Lerangis – The Colossus Rises (j)
Jennifer A. Nielsen – The False Prince (j)
Veronica Roth – Allegiant (YA)
(Longtime Lincoln Journal Star reviewer and Lincoln City Libraries “Book Blurbs” presenter Barbara Rixstine passed away in 2013.)
William Brodrick – The Sixth Lamentation
Caleb Carr – The Italian Secretary
Megan Chance – The Spiritualist
Clive Cussler – Raise the Titanic
Mark Dunn – Ella Minnow Pea
Tony Earley – Jim the Boy
Kim Edwards – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Selden Edwards – The Little Book
Beth Gutcheon – More Than You Know
Sophie Hannah – The Truth-Teller’s Lie
Joanne Harris – Blackberry Wine
Robert Hellenga – Philosophy Made Simple
P.D. James – The Lighthouse
Lynda LaPlante – The Red Dahlia
Stieg Larsson – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Laura Lippman – The Sugar House
Kate Morton – The Distant Hours
Jed Rubenfeld – The Death Instinct
George Shaffner – In the Land of Second Chances
Michael Stanley – A Carrion Death
Ross Thomas – Chinaman’s Chance
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Angel’s Game
362.3 Sim – Rachel Simon – Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True-Life Journey
394.12 Kur – Mark Kurlansky – The Food of a Younger Land
793.732 Rom – Marc Romano – Crossworld
796.352 Rei – Rick Reilly – Who’s Your Caddy? Looping for the Greats, Near-Greats and Reprobates of Golf
796.357 Hal – David Halberstam – The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship
915.6 Eag – Andrew Eames – The 8:55 to Baghdad
920.02 Orl – Susan Orlean – The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
Biography Hartwig – Michael Perry – Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway and the Road to Roughneck Grace
B R67m – Candice Millard – The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
Compact Disc 781.65 Gua – George Winston (performer) – Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi
Compact Disc 781.65 Had – Charles Hadley and Pat Metheny – Beyond the Missouri Sky
Compact Disc 781.65 Jar – Keith Jarrett – Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note
Compact Disc 782.14 Ber – Leonard Bernstein – Leonard Bernstein’s New York
(Longtime Bethany BooksTalk and Just Desserts group member Brandon Robertson passed away in 2018.)
Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana
Patty Blount – Send (YA)
Megan Miranda – Fracture (YA)
Dr. Seuss – Green Eggs and Ham (jF)
Kiera Cass – The One (j)
Caroline B. Cooney – The Face on the Milk Carton (j)
John Green – The Fault in Our Stars (YA)
Lois Lowry – The Giver (j)
Marie Lu – Legend (YA)
Dandi Daley Mackell – The Silence of Murder (YA)
Jodi Picoult – Salem Falls
Veronica Roth – Divergent (YA)
Sara Shepard – The Lying Game (YA) | Pretty Little Liars (YA)
Scott Westerfeld – So Yesterday (j)
DVD Emma – directed by Douglas McGrath – Emma
Rumiko Takahashi – Ranma 1/2 (YA)
Michael Morpugo – Private Peaceful (j)
Stieg Larsson – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables (j)
Compact Disc 781.62 IreA – Atlan – The Best of Atlan
John Grisham – Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (j)
Anthony Horowitz – Groosham Grange (YA)
Dean Koontz and Fred VanLente – Odd is On Our Side (YA)
David Lubar – Invasion of the Road Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (j)
Brandon Mull – Seeds of Rebellion (j) | A World Without Heroes (j)
S.A. Bodeen/Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen – The Compound (YA)
Avi – Poppy (j)
Joan Bauer – Close to Famous (YA)
Jack Gantos – Dead End in Norvelt (j)
Lindsey Leavitt – Sean Griswold’s Head (YA)
Rick Riordan – The Lost Hero (j)
L.E. Young – Storm: The Infinity Code (j)
Charlaine Harris – Dead as a Doornail | Dead Reckoning | Dead Until Dark
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
Ernest Cline – Ready Player One (YA)
Melissa Marr – The Arrivals
Suzanne Collines – The Hunger Games (YA)
Blaire Fowler – Beneath the Glitter (YA)
Veronica Roth – Divergent (YA)
Peg Kehret – Stolen Children (YA)
Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief (j)
Compact Disc 781.66 Pin – Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
B W1547 – Jeanette Walls – The Glass Castle
Kimberly Derting – The Body Finder (YA)
T.A. Barron – The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy (j)
Joseph Delaney – The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (YA)
James Patterson – The Kiss: A Witch & Wizard Novel (YA)
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