Reviews by Author (with links)

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A

Abrams, Douglas

• The Book of Joy

Adams, Sarah

• When in Rome

Addler, Amelia

Westcott Bay Series

Book 1: Saltwater Cove

Book 2: Saltwater Studios

Book 3: Saltwater Secrets

Albert, Susan Wittig

Pecan Springs Enterprise Trilogy

Book 1: Deadlines

Book 2: Fault Lines

Book 3: Firelines

Albom, Mitch

• The Time Keeper

Alda, Alan

• If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?

Alexander, Claire

• Meredith, Alone

Allen, Sarah Addison

• Other Birds

Altman, Mara

• Bearded Lady

Andersen, Neil A.

• The Divine Gift of Forgiveness

Anderson, Rebecca

• Isabelle and Alexander

Argent, Amy

• Come Back Tomorrow

B

Backman, Fredrik

• A Man Called Ove

Bailey, Robert

• Rich Blood (Jason Rich #1)
• Rich Waters (Jason Rich #2)

Ballard, Timothy

• Slave Stealers

Balogh, Mary

• Someone To Wed
• The Arrangement
• The Escape

Barker, Joanna

• A Heart Worth Stealing

Barnard, Sara

• A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Barnhill, Kelly

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon
• The Ogress and the Orphans

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

• Terrible Typhoid Mary

Basham, Pepper

• Authentically, Izzy

Berg, Elizabeth

• Range of Motion

Berry, Julie

• All the Truth That’s In Me

Bird, Charlie

• Without the Mask

Bolen, Jackie

• The Ultimate Guide to Menstrual Cups

Bowen, Rhys

• What Child is This
• Where the Sky Begins
• Her Royal Spyness Series
  1. Her Royal Spyness
  2. A Royal Pain
  3. Royal Flush
  4. Royal Blood
  5. Naughty in Nice
  6. The Twelve Clues of Christmas
  7. Heirs and Graces
  8. Queen of Hearts
  9. Malice at the Palace
  10. Crowned and Dangerous
  11. On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
  12. Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding
  13. Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
  14. The Last Mrs. Summers
  15. God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen

Boyd, Natasha

• The Indigo Girl

Boyle, Cookie

• Entitled

Brady, Ali

• The Beach Trap

Brennan-Jobs, Lisa

• Small Fry

Brent, Madeleine

• Moonraker’s Bride
• Stranger at Wildings

Bridges, Chris

• Seaglass

Brook, Rhidian

• The Aftermath

Brooks, Geraldine

• Caleb’s Crossing
• Year of Wonders

Brown, Carolyn

• The Family Journal

• The Ladies’ Room

Brown, Dwier

• If You Build It

Brunsvold, Sara

• The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

Burns, Olive Ann

• Cold Sassy Tree

Busboom, Leah

• Forever You

Butler, David

• Almighty

Buxbaum, Julie

• Tell Me Three Things
• What To Say Next

Bybee, Catherine

• When It Falls Apart

Byrd, Sandra

• Let Them Eat Cake (French Twist Series Book 1)

C

Cameron, Delaney

• Always and Forever

Cantor, Jillian

• Margot

Carey, Edward

• Plagues & Pencils

Carlson, Melody

• All For One
• As Young as We Feel
• Back Home Again
• Courting Mr. Emerson
• Dating, Dining, and Desperation
• Here’s To Friends
• Hometown Ties
• Lock, Stock, and Over a Barrel
• Love Finds You in Martha’s Vineyard
• Once Upon a Winter’s Heart

Carnarvon, Fiona, The Countess of

• Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey

Carr, Charmian

• Forever, Liesel

Carver, Raymond

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Center, Katherine (AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT)

• Happiness for Beginners
• Hello Stranger
• How To Walk Away
• The Bodyguard
• The Girl on the Plane
• The Guy at the Wedding
• The Lost Husband
• Things You Save in A Fire
• What You Wish For

Chamberlain, Diane

• The Last House On The Street
• The Stolen Marriage

Chaput, Alan

• Savannah Sleuth (Vigilantes of Justice #1)

Chenowith, Kristin

• A Little Bit Wicked

Chew, Ruth

• The Would-Be Witch

Cohn, Rachel (and David Levithan)

• Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

Costa, Annabelle

• The Time Traveler’s Boyfriend

Coughran, Katie

• Happy Scoops

Crittenden, Jane

• Worlds Apart

Crossan, Sarah

• Moonrise
• One

Curtis, Christopher Paul

• Bud, Not Buddy

D

Dahl, Roald

• Danny, the Champion of the World

Dailey, Kathi

Island Reunion Series

Book 1: Summerhouse Reunion

Book 2: Topsail Sundays

Book 3: Campfire Secrets

Daniloff, Nicholas

• Two Lives, One Russia

Dave, Laura

• The Last Thing He Told Me

Davis, Fiona

• The Spectacular

Deese, Nicole

• All That Really Matters

Denfeld, Rene

• The Child Finder

Dew, Sheri

• Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson
• Worth the Wrestle

Diaz, Hernan

• In the Distance

Didion, Joan

• The Year of Magical Thinking

DiMarco, Nyle

• Deaf Utopia

Doerr, Anthony

• All the Light We Cannot See

Donaldson, Julianne

• Edenbrooke

Donohue, Meg

• How to Eat a Cupcake

Doughty, Caitlin

• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

E

Eden, Sarah M.

• Seeking Persephone
• The Bachelor and the Bride

Edwards, Allison

• Why Smart Kids Worry

Engle, Margarita

• The Wild Book

Espach, Alison

• Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

Evans, Richard Paul

• The Walk

F

Fell, Blair

• The Sign for Home

Fellowes, Jessica

• The World of Downton Abbey

Felton, Tom

• Beyond the Wand

Finkel, Michael

• The Stranger in the Woods

Flagg, Fannie

• I Still Dream About You
• The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
• Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Fleischman, Paul

• Whirligig

Fluke, Joanna

• Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson #1)

Forbes, Sally

• Falling for the Guarded Duke

Ford, Jamie

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Fordham, Rachel

• Where the Road Bends

Fox, Michael J.

• No Time Like the Future

G

Gabriel, Susan

• The Secret Sense of Wildflower

Gael, Christine

Bluebird Bay Series (with Denise Grover Swank)

Book 1: Finding Tomorrow

Book 2: Finding Home

Book 3: Finding Peace

• Maeve’s Girls

Givens, Terryl & Fiona

• The God Who Weeps

George, Erica

• The Edge of Summer

Graham, Lauren

• Someday, Someday, Maybe

Grandin, Temple

• Visual Thinking

Green, John

• The Fault in Our Stars

Griffin, Deborah Ann

• Led By Example: The Missionary Influence of the Osmond Family

Gunter, Dr. Jen

• The Menopause Manifesto

H

Hafen, Bruce C. and Marie K.

• Faith Is Not Blind

Hale, Shannon

• Austenland
• Princess Academy

Hannah, Kristin

• Comfort and Joy

Harmel, Kristin

• How to Save a Life

• The Book of Lost Names

Harmon, Amy

• A Girl Called Samson
• Making Faces
• The Unknown Beloved
• What the Wind Knows

Harper, Ella

• The Years of Loving You

Hart, Emilia

• Weyward

Hatcher, Robin Lee

• I’ll Be Seeing You

Henderson, Julietta

• The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman

Henry, Emily (AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT)

• Beach Read
• Book Lovers
• Happy Place
• People We Meet On Vacation

Herriot, James

• All Things Bright and Beautiful

Hilderbrand, Elin

• The Hotel Nantucket

Hillenbrand, Laura

• Unbroken

Hoffman, Alice

• Faithful

Hogan, Ruth

• The Keeper of Lost Things

Hoge, Robert

• Ugly

Horowitz, Anthony

• The Word is Murder (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery Book 1)

Hosseini, Khaled

• A Thousand Splendid Suns

Hourly Histories

• Alan Turing

Hughes, Dean

• Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide
• River: Where Faith and Consecration Converge

Hunter, Denise

Riverbend Series:

• Riverbend Gap
• Mulberry Hollow
• Harvest Moon

Huston, Anjelica

• Watch Me

Hyde, Catherine Ryan

• Dreaming of Flight
• Just a Regular Boy
• So Long, Chester Wheeler
• Stay

I

Isaacson, Walter

• Steve Jobs

J

Jacobson, Melanie

• Scrooge and the Girls Next Door

Jimenez, Abby

• Part of Your World
• Yours Truly

Johnson, Abigail

• If I Fix You

Johnson, Maureen

• Truly Devious

Johnson, Spencer and Anne Donegan

• The Value Tales series

Jordan, William George

• The Majesty of Calmness

K

Kalanithi, Paul

• When Breath Becomes Air

Kaufman, Karin

Juniper Grove Mystery Series:

Book 1: Death of a Dead Man

Book 2: Death of a Scavenger

Book 3: At Death’s Door

Book 4: Death of a Santa

Book 5: Scared to Death

Book 6: Cheating Death

Book 7: Death Trap

Book 8: Death Knell

Book 9: Garden of Death

Book 10: Death of a Professor

Book 11: Still as Death

Kelley, Pamela

• Gilded Girl

Kemmerer, Brigid (AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT)

• Call It What You Want
• Letters to the Lost
• More Than We Can Tell

Kilmer, Val

• Val Kilmer: I’m Your Huckleberry

Kim, Lorrie

• Snape, A Definitive Reading

Korman, Gordon

• Restart
• Schooled
• The Unteachables

L

Lahiri, Jhumpa

• Unaccustomed Earth

Landay, William

• All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

Langa, Laura

• Hayley and the Yeti

Larison, John

• Whiskey When We’re Dry

Larkin, Allison

• The People We Keep

Layhew, Terrance

• Reason and Romance

LeCheminant, Dana

• In Front of Me

Lee, Hyeonseo

• The Girl With Seven Names

Lennox, Lucy May

• Love in Touch

Levithan, David

• Every Day

Levithan, David (and Rachel Cohn)

• Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

• Gift From the Sea

Lindsay, Shalissa

• Answers Will Come

Linden, Rachel

• The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

Loigman, Lynda Cohen

• The Matchmaker’s Gift

Longo, Jennifer

• What I Carry

Lotter, Jane

• The Bette Davis Club

Lowry, Lois

• Gathering Blue
• The Giver
• Number the Stars

Lund, Gerald N.

• The Coming of the Lord

Lyons, Annie

• The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

M

Macarthur, Autumn

• See Me

MacLachlan, Patricia

• Caleb’s Story
• Grandfather’s Dance
• More Perfect Than the Moon
• Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Skylark

Macgirven, Jackie

• The Designer Bag at the Garbage Dump

MacLean, Julianne

• Beyond the Moonlit Sea

Macomber, Debbie

• A Girl’s Guide to Moving On
• Starlight
• The Best Is Yet to Come

MacInerney, Karen

Dewberry Farm Mystery Series

Book 1: Killer Jam

Book 2: Fatal Frost

Book 3: Deadly Brew

Book 4: Mistletoe Murder

Book 5: Dyeing Season

Book 6: Wicked Harvest

Maloney, Alison

• Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants

Mann, Thomas

• Death in Venice

Mapes, Creston

• I Am In Here

Martin, Charles

• The Last Exchange
• The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd #2)
• The Record Keeper (Murphy Shepherd #3)
• The Water Keeper (More detail HERE.) (Murphy Shepherd #1)
• When Crickets Cry

Martin, Steve

• Born Standing Up

Matthews, Mimi

• Gentleman Jim
• The Lost Letter
• Return to Satterthwaite Court
• The Viscount and the Vicar’s Daughter
• The Work of Art

Maxwell, Neal A.

• All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

McCullough, David

• The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

McKevett, G. A

• Bitter Sweets
• Just Desserts
• Killer Calories

McIntyre, Mike

• The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America

McManus, Karen M.

• The Cousins

McQuestion, Karen

• 214 Palmer Street
• Half a Heart
• The Moonlight Child

Meserve, Dete

• Good Sam

Milne, Kevin A.

• Sweet Misfortune

Moeller, Bill & Jan

• RVing Basics

Monaghan, Annabel

• Nora Goes Off Script

Monson, Becky

• Just A Girl

Montgomery, Lucy Maud

• Short Stories, 1907-1908
• The Blue Castle

Moore, Helen H.

• The Secret of Willow Ridge

Moore, Kate

• The Radium Girls

Morris, Heather

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Mulhern, Julie

• The Country Club Murder series

N

Nack, Leslie Johansen

• The Blue Butterfly

Namey, Laura Taylor

• The Library of Lost Things

Nelson, Marilyn

• A Wreath for Emmett Till

Nelson, Wendy Watson

• Covenant Keepers
• The Heavens are Open

Ness, Patrick

• A Monster Calls

Nissen, Pamela

Rocky Mountain Series

Book 1: Rocky Mountain Match

Book 2: Rocky Mountain Redemption

Book 3: Rocky Mountain Proposal

Book 4: Rocky Mountain Homecoming

O

Oaks, Dallin H.

• Life’s Lessons Learned

Orlean, Susan

• The Library Book

Osborne, Bella

• The Library

Owens, Delia

• Where The Crawdads Sing

Oxford, Alana

• Scotsman in the Stacks

P

Pagán, Camille

• Good For You

Palmer, Diana

• Blind Promises

Pan, Emily X.R.

• The Astonishing Color of After

Parikh, Amita

• The Circus Train

Patel, Namrata

• The Candid Life of Meena Dave

Payne, Melissa

• The Night of Many Endings

Perry, Matthew

• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Poston, Ashley

• The Dead Romantics

Potok, Chaim

• My Name is Asher Lev
• The Chosen

Prejean, Sister Helen

• River of Fire

Q

Quick, Matthew

• We Are the Light

R

Rand, Ayn

• We the Living

Rawls, Wilson

• Where the Red Fern Grows

Raybourn, Deanna

• Killers of a Certain Age

Reede, Abby

• Carnations and Deadly Fixations (Fern Grove #1)

Richardson, Kim Michele

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Riggs, Ransom

• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Rivers, Bill

• Last Summer Boys

Roach, Mary

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Robertson, Phil

• Happy, Happy, Happy

Rocca, Mo

• Mobituaries

Rouse, Wade (see Viola Shipman)

Rose, Georgia

• A Killer Strikes

Roy, Jennifer

• Yellow Star

Ryan, Jennifer (AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT)

• The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir
• The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

S

Schmidt, Michelle

• Carried, How One Mother’s Trust in God Helped Her Through the Unthinkable

Scott, Kieran

• Regrets Only

Selznick, Brian

• Wonderstruck

Shaffer, Mary Ann (and Annie Barrows)

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shaffer, Meg

• The Wishing Game

Shipman, Viola (pen name of Wade Rouse)

• (Coming Soon!)

Singer, Michael A.

• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Skloot, Rebecca

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Smiley, Scotty

• Hope Unseen

Speare, Elizabeth George

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Springsteen, Kay

• Heartfelt
• Heartsight

St. John, Warren

• Outcasts United

Stein, Garth

• The Art of Racing in the Rain

Steinbeck, John

• The Pearl

Stoeker, Rebecca

• This is a Book for People Who Love the Royals

Strawser, Jessica

• The Next Thing You Know

Strout, Elizabeth

• Lucy By the Sea
• My Name is Lucy Barton
• The Burgess Boys

Sullivan, Sophie

• A Guide to Being Just Friends

Swank, Denise Grover

Bluebird Bay Series (with Christine Gael)

Book 1: Finding Tomorrow

Book 2: Finding Home

Book 3: Finding Peace

Swayze, Patrick & Lisa Niemi

• The Time of My Life

Sweat, Anthony

• Christ In Every Hour
• Repicturing the Restoration

Swinton, Heidi

• To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson

T

Taylor, Keary

• What I Didn’t Say

Taylor, Mary Ellen

• The Union Street Bakery

Thao, Dustin

• You’ve Reached Sam

Thomas, David

• How to Raise Emotionally Strong Boys

Thompson, Alicia

• Love in the Time of Serial Killers

Truss, Lynne

• Eats, Shoots, and Leaves

Turley, Jr. Richard E.

• In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks

Tyler, Anne

• The Beginner’s Goodbye
• A Spool of Blue Thread

U

Ulrich, Wendy

• Let God Love You: Why We Don’t, How We Can

V

Vail, Rachel

• Well, That Was Awkward

Van Den Hende, Carol

• Goodbye, Orchid

Van Pelt, Shelby

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

W

Wade, Becky

Turn to Me

Waite, Barbara Anne

• Elsie, Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916

Walker, Boo (aka Benjamin Blackmore)

• A Spanish Sunrise
• An Unfinished Story
• Off You Go
• The Stars Don’t Lie
• The Singing Trees

Walker, David F.

• The Life of Frederick Douglass

Walls, Jeannette

• The Glass Castle

Walsh, Courtney

• The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

Walton, Julia

• Words On Bathroom Walls

Walton, Leslye

• The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Waxman, Abbi

• Adult Assembly Required
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Webber, Heather

• South of the Buttonwood Tree

Webster, Jean

• Daddy-Long-Legs

Welch, Jenna Evans

• Love & Gelato

Wellons, Dr. Jay

• All That Moves Us

Wells, Bob
How to Live in A Car, Van, or RV

West, Kasie

• What I Didn’t Say

Westover, Tara

• Educated

Wilcox, S. Michael

• Face to Face: Seeking a Personal Relationship With God

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

• Farmer Boy

Wilding, Michael

• The Wilding Way

Wilson, Kevin

• Now Is Not The Time To Panic

Wilson, Sariah

• The Chemistry of Love

Wingfield, Jenny

• The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

Winspear, Jacqueline

• Maisie Dobbs
• Maisie Dobbs (2):  Birds of a Feather

Wodehouse, P.G.

• Leave it to Jeeves

Wood, Maryrose

• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 1 (The Mysterious Howling)
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 2 (The Hidden Gallery)
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 3 (The Unseen Guest)

Worth, Jennifer

• Call the Midwife

Wright, Jennifer L.

• Come Down Somewhere