The books below have not been specifically ‘book reviewed’ by me, but they have all been read by me and I’ve written about them in one post or another. Usually the posts listed below the book title uses the book to illustrate one opinion of mine or another. But you’ll still get a pretty good idea of what I think of the book.
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
Anne of Green Gables (the whole series), L.M. Montgomery
Artemis Fowl (the whole series), by Eoin Colfer
Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
- Luck of the First-Time Novelist
- The Other Side of the Story
- The Top Literary Couples as Bad Examples
Good Wives (sequel to Little Women), by Louisa May Alcott
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Harry Potter (the whole series), by J.K. Rowling
- A Meaningful Universe? – Defining Fantasy
- Breaking the 10 Simple Rules for Writing a Novel
- Famous Now, Famous Always? Not Necessarily…
- Writing Characters of Different Ethnicities
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Concerning Hobbits – Why We Love Them
- Talking Down to Readers
- Why The Hobbit Shouldn’t Work as a Children’s Book (But Does)
Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
- Do You Need to be Younger than 40 to Write Great Novels?
- Fantasy Round-up
- An Opening to Intrigue You
- That’s Not Shakespeare! Or Maybe It Is
- Top 5 Literary Couples
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
The Iliad, by ‘Homer’
- A Fighter or a Philosopher? Achilles Ponders
- Read The Iliad!
- There Will Be Superheroes
- Unicorns in the Streets: What is Genre, Anyway?
James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
Jane Austen’s books:
- Lady Susan
- Mansfield Park
- Persuasion
- Pride and Prejudic
- Sense and Sensibility
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Breaking the 10 Simple Rules for Writing a Novel
- Happy Endings vs. Sad Endings
- I Read the Appendices
- Just Do Something
- My Favourite Lord of the Rings Quote
- Talking Down to Readers
- Top 5 Literary Couples
- Why Scathing Critiques are More Fun to Read
Metamorphoses, by Ovid
Pygmalion (a play), by George Bernard Shaw
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
- Broken Genius: True Art is Flawed
- No Thanks, to the Guy Reciting Poetry Under My Balcony
- Secret Admirers Don’t Exist
- The Top Literary Couples as Bad Examples
Sherlock Holmes (in general), by Arthur Conan Doyle
Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking the 10 Simple Rules for Writing a Novel
- It’s the Readers’ Fault! Why Bad Writing is Called Good
- No Thanks, to the Guy Reciting Poetry Under My Balcony
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
Whew, quite a variety of books covered here! Books are not all I blog about though – check out my posts on writing, travel, learning languages, celiac disease, and Brazil.
