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Written By: AMODINI

Here’s a complete list of all books reviewed on this blog, in alphabetical order. Numbers in brackets indicate the rating, out of 5 (see Rating Guide).

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5th Wave, The

A

Accidents of Providence (3.5/5)
After I’m Gone (2.5/5)
Age of Miracles, The (4.5/5)
– Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual
All Creatures Great and Small (5/5)
And Only to Deceive
Angelology
– Archetype (3.5/5)
Artist of Disappearance, The (3.5/5)
– Audacity of Hope, The (4.5/5)
Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree

B

Banquet of Consequences, The (5/5)
The Bees
– Best of all Possible Worlds, The (3.5/5)
Big, Little Lies (4/5)
Big Sleep, The (3/5)
Blood of Flowers, The (4/5)
Book of Lost Fragrances, The (2.5/5)
Book of Strange New Things, The
– Born Confused (3.5/5)
Bowl of Heaven
Breadwinner, The
Bridges of Madison County, The (2.5/5)
Broken Harbor (3.5/5)
Brutal Telling, The (1/5)
Bungalow, The (3.5/5)

C

Caleb’s Crossing
– Caretaker, The (3.5/5)
Case of the Missing Servant, The (4/5)
– Case of The Love Commandos, The (4/5)
– Chaperone, The (4.5/5)
Children of Paranoia (4.5/5)
– Circle of Wives, The (4.2/5)
– Cold and Lonely Place, A (4/5)
– Cold Sassy Tree (5/5)
Commonwealth
– Corpse Flower
Couple Next Door, The
Cut, The

D

– Dark Eden (4/5)
Darwin Elevator, The (4/5)
Devil wears Prada, The
Dog Stars (4.5/5)
– Door Into Summer, The (4/5)
Double Bind, The
Downstairs Girl, The (1.5/5)

E

Earth Unaware (4/5)
Eleanor & Park
Empire Falls
– Equal of the Sun (4/5)
Everybody’s Fool (4.2/5)
Everyone is Beautiful
– Everything changes (4/5)
Exogene (4/5)
Eyre Affair, The

F

Fadeaway Girl
– Fahrenheit 451 (2.5/5)
Faithful Place
Fearsome Doubt, A (3/5)
Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions, A (5/5)
Finding Nouf
– Fine Balance, A (5/5)
– Fistful of Collars, A
Flatshare, The (3.8/5)
– Flying shoes (3/5)
– Fortune’s Pawn
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (4/5)

G

Girl on the Train, The
Girl With All The Gifts, The
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The
Girl You Left Behind, The (3.5/5)
Golden Scales, The (4/5)
– Golden State (4.2/5)
– Goldfinch, The (4/5)
– Gone Girl (5/5)
Goodbye Vitamin (3.5/5)
Good Girl, The
– Great North Road
– Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (3.5/5)

H

Handmaid’s Tale, The
Harmless as Doves (4/5)
Heartburn
Heartstone
Help, The
– Honey Thief, The (4/5)
– Honor’s Knight (4/5)
– Hope Factory, The (4.2/5)
– House at the end of Hope Street, The (2.5/5)
House at Tyneford, The (2.5/5)
House Of Silk, The (4/5)
How it all began (4.5/5)
How To Be A Woman
– Husband’s Secret, The (4.5/5)

I

– I’ll take what she has
Imperfect Bliss (2.5/5)
Impersonator, The (4/5)
– Indian Tycoon’s Marriage Deal, The
In a Fix
– Inimitable Jeeves, The
In The Bleak Midwinter (3.7/5)
Instruments of Darkness
– Invasion of The Body Snatchers (4/5)
– Invisible City (4.2/5)
Invitation, The (3.5/5)
Ironskin (3/5)
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (4.5/5)

K

Kingdom of Ohio, The
Kitchen House, The
Kite Runner, The

L

Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, A (3.5/5)
– Lake of Tears
– Landline (4/5)
Last Chance Beauty Queen (2.5/5)
– Last Clinic, The
Likeness, The
Lilac House, The (4/5)
Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, The (4/5)
Lincoln Lawyer, The
Litigators, The (2/5)
Little Night (3.5/5)
– Lock In (4/5)
– Looking For Me
Lost Lake, The
Lost Man, The (4.5/5)
Love May Fail

M

Man Called Ove, A
– Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (4.5/5)
Magebane
Marriage Bureau for Rich People, The
Marriage Plot, The (1/5)
– The Martian (5/5)
Me Before You (4.2/5)
Midnight in Austenland (3/5)
Missing Presumed (4/5)
Mistress of Spices, The
Mountain Between Us, The
– Murder in Passing, A (3.8/5)

N

Never Let Me Go (3.5/5)
Night Film
Nine Perfect Strangers (2/5)
No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The
Nobody’s Fool (4/5)

O

One of our Thursdays is missing
Orbit
– Other Woman’s House, The (3.8/5)
– Over The Edge (3/5)

P

Palace of Illusions, The (4/5)
– Painted Hands (3.8/5)
– Pastor’s Wives (3.5/5)
Paying Guests, The
– Persuasion
– Pretty One, The
Punishment She Deserves, The (5/5)
Pure (4/5)

Q

Q: A Novel

R

– Rainmaker, The (4.5/5)
Rally Around the Corpse
Remains of the Day, The
Remarkable Creatures
River, The (4/5)
The Road (4.3/5)
Rules of Civility

S

– Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennett, The (2.5/5)
– Sense and Sensibility
Shadow Woman, The
– Shaman
Sharing Knife Series Book 1 : Beguilement
Sisters Brothers, The (4/5)
Skinny Dip (5/5)
Somebody to Love
Spark of Light, A (3.5/5)
Sparrow, The
State of Wonder (4.5/5)
Still Life
Study in Scarlet Women, A
Sunday Philosophy Club, The
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The
– Sycamore Row (3.5/5)

T

Teatime for the Firefly (4.5/5)
Testaments, The (4.5/5)
– Then and Always (2.5/5)
Then She Was Gone (3/5)
– The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic
Today Will Be Different (2.5/5)
Three Day Town (3.5/5)
Three Wishes
Track of Sand, The
– Trouble Has A New Name (3/5)

U

Unbecoming
Underground Railroad, The
Unincorporated Man, The
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The

V

Vanishing Acts
Venus
– Village, The (3/5)

W

– Weaver Takes a Wife, the (3.5/5)
– Weight of Blood, The (4.5/5)
We Should All Be Feminists (5/5)
What Alice Forgot (2/5)
What The Body Remembers (4/5)
When She Woke (2/5)
– Where’d You Go Bernadette?
White Tiger, The (4/5)
– White Trash (4.2/5)
Widow Waltz, The (3.5/5)
Wife Between Us, the (2/5)
Woman in Cabin 10, The
Woman Upstairs, The
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3 Comments

  1. Dhiraj Kumar says:

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    thank
    dhiraj

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