Bibliophile's Review and Essay Archive



This archive is designed to make it easier to find reviews, essays and other stuff from Bibliophile's blogs, 52 Books and Another 52 Books.
Tblog, where I had my first book blog, 52 Books, disabled the static links in the blogs, so the only way to find something on 52 Books is to either go through the archives month by month, or trust to a search engine to find what you want. So I designed this archive to make it easier to find things.



If you have something to say,  drop by at Another 52 Books and leave a comment.



Note: I have edited and expanded some of the reviews from the blog edition.
Major edits and additions are shown in green.


Book lists, essays and etc. 

work in progress

Book lists: Books about books - Children's books - Food writing - Food in fiction - Love and romance
Essays about books and reading
Book and reading quotations and humour
Links to interesting book blogs, book review sites, free e-books, trading sites and booksellers.

The 52 Books challenge by week

Week 1; Week 2; Week 3; Week 4; Week 5; Week 6; Week 7; Week 8; Week 9; Week 10; Week 11; Week 12; Week 13; Week 14; Week 15; Week 16; Week 17; Week 18; Week 19; Week 20; Week 21; Week 22; Week 23; Week 24; Week 25; Week 26; Week 27; Week 28; Week 29; Week 30; Week 31; Week 32; Week 33; Week 34; Week 35; Week 36; Week 37; Week 38; Week 39; Week 40; Week 41; Week 42; Week 43; Week 44; Week 45; Week 46; Week 47; Week 48; Week 49; Week 50; Week 51; Week 52



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Ackroyd, Peter
Andahazi, Federico
Andersen, Susan
Anonymous
Bach, Richard
Barnes, Linda
Beagle, Peter S
Block, Lawrence
Braun, Lilian Jackson (3)
Bradbury, Ray
Brown, Amanda
Bushnell, Candace
Cabot, Meggin
Carter, Forrest
Christie, Agatha (2)
Coelho, Paulo
Crusie, Jennifer (2)
Davidson, Diane Mott
Dennis, Patrick
Dickens, Monica
Eliot, TS
Ellis, Monique
Emerson, Kathy Lynn
Fforde, Jasper
Gaiman, Neil (3)
Gibbons, Stella
Gibson, Rachel
Grayson, Kristine
Hamilton, Laurell K
Harris, Joanne
Harrison, Harry
Heller, Joseph
Heyer, Georgette (7)
Holden, Wendy
Indriðason, Arnaldur
Jackson, Shirley
James, PD
Kidd, Sue Monk
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Mason, Daniel
McCrumb, Sharyn
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Nath, Pratibha
Parrott, EO
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
Pratchett, Terry
Pullman, Philip
Pynchon, Thomas
Rendell, Ruth
Robb, JD
Sachar, Louis
Sayers, Dorothy L
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
Sepúlveda, Luis
Simmons, Deborah
Sjöwall, Maj, & Per Wahlöö
Smith, Alexander McCall
Spark, Muriel
Various authors (anthology)
Wallace, Christopher

Waugh, Evelyn
Weldon, Fay


ABC Murders, The (mystery)
Alchemist, The (audio book - spiritual story)
Amber Spyglass, The (fantasy, young readers)
Anne of Green Gables (coming af age story)
Auntie Mame (humour)
Bet Me (romance)
Bimbos of the Death Sun (mystery, satire)
Burglar in the closet, The (mystery)
Burglars can�t be choosers (mystery)
Cat Who Blew the Whistle, The (mystery)
Cat Who Played Brahms, The (mystery)
Cat who Tailed a Thief, The (mystery)
Catch 22 (war novel, satire)
Cereal Murders, The (mystery)
Chocolat
Circus of the Damned (horror)
Closed at Dusk (thriller)
Cold Comfort Farm (parody)
Convenient Marriage, The (historical romance)
Coraline (horror, young readers)
Corinthian, The (historical romance)
Cotillion (historical romance)
Cousin Kate (historical romance, gothic lite)
Cover her face (mystery)
Crazy for You (romance, thriller)
Crying of Lot 49, The
Dauntry�s Dilemma (historical romance)
Dead Heat (mystery)
Education of Little Tree, The (coming of age story)
Eyre Affair, The (sci-fi, mystery)
Face Down Upon an Herbal (historical mystery)
Flanders Panel, The (mystery)
Frederica (historical romance)
From Doon With Death (mystery)
Godmother, The (fantasy)
Going Postal (fantasy)
Golden Compass, The (fantasy, young readers)
Grand Sophy, The (historical romance)
Guy Next Door, The (romance)
Hat Full of Sky, A (fantasy, young readers)
Haunting of Hill House, The (horror)
Hawksmoor (mystery, horror)
Head Over Heels (romance)
His Dark Materials trilogy (fantasy, young readers)
Holes (adventure, young readers)
How to Become Ridiculously Well Read in One Evening (verses, humour, literary encapsulations)
Indian Folk-tales and Legends (folk-tales and myths)
Interpreter of Maladies (short stories)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (spiritual)
Kalahari Typing School for Men, The (detective story)
Last Unicorn, The (fantasy)
Legally Blonde
Letters to Alice, on first reading Jane Austen (novel, literary history, literary theory)
Loved One, The (satire)
Man of Many Talents, A (historical romance)
Man on the Balcony, The (mystery)
Memento Mori
Merciful Women, The (horror)
Morality for Beautiful Girls (detective story)
Murder Mysteries (fantasy)
Naked in Death (futuristic mystery)
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The (detective story)
Old Man Who Read Love Stories, The
Old Possum�s Book of Practical Cats (poetry)
Pastures Nouveaux (chick-lit)
Piano Tuner, The (historical)
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
Quiet Gentleman, The (historical romance)
Resurrection Club, The (horror)
Saga of Grettir the Strong, The (medieval saga)
Secret Life of Bees, The (coming of age story)
See Jane Score (romance)
Sex and the City (mating rituals and social intercourse)
Simply Irresistible (fantasy romance)
Smoke and Mirrors (fantasy, short stories)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (horror)
Sons of Earth (Synir Duftsins) (mystery)
Subtle Knife, The (fantasy, young readers)
Tears of the Giraffe (detective story)
The Stainless Steel Rat, The (sci-fi)
They do it with mirrors (mystery)
Twelve women detective stories (mystery anthology)
Whose Body? (mystery)
Zombies of the Gene Pool (mystery)


Bourdain, Anthony (2)
Brown, Dee
Bryson, Bill
De Blasi, Marlena
Dickens, Monica
Durrell, Gerald
Eco, Umberto
Ellis, Estelle & Caroline Seebohm
Fadiman, Anne
Fergus, Charles
Feuer, Jane
Frayling, Christopher
Goldstone, Lawrence & Nancy
Hanff, Helene
Hellweg, Paul
Hillenbrand, Laura
Holland, Patrick & Graham Huggan
Hughes, David
Kirkpatrick, EM & CM Schwarz
Koch, Maryjo
Kurlansky, Mark
Larson, Mark & Barney Hoskyns
Mayle, Peter (2)
McKee, Robert
Pavia, Fabienne
Pool, Daniel
Roach, Mary
Rothstein, Natalie
Rögnvaldardóttir, Nanna
Sale, Richard
Satrapi, Marjane
Stewart, Chris
Various
Waugh, Evelyn
Wight, Jim
Winchester, Simon
84 Charing Cross Road
At home with books
Book of Tea, The
Cod
Cook�s Tour, A
Down Under
Driving over lemons
Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, The
Encounters With Animals
Ex Libris
Four Hundred Years of Fashion
Gentle Tamers, The
Himself and Other Animals
Hollywood Musical, The
Icelandic Food and Cookery
In a Sunburned Country
Kitchen Confidential
Mouse or Rat?
Mullet, The
One Pair of Hands
Persepolis
Professor and the Madman, The
Real James Herriot, The
Seabiscuit
Seed Leaf Flower Fruit
Slightly Chipped
Stiff
Story
Summer at Little Lava
Thousand Days in Venice, A
Toujours Provence
Tourist in Africa, A
Tourists with Typewriters
Used and Rare
Vampyres
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words, The
Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms, The
World of Perfume, The
Xenophobe�s Guide to the Icelanders, The
Year in Provence, A




Art books & art history

Biographies and memoirs

Books, libraries and reading


Clothing, fashion, and costume history

Film, photography, theatre and music

Food writing, incl. cookbooks


(General) History

Literary & translation theory

Reference

Travel


Various subjects










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