
This is an index of all books reviewed on this site, fiction and nonfiction, by author and title.
From highbrow to lowbrow, great classics to zombies, all my favorite novels have one thing in common: a good story. I don’t care how much of a literary artist an author is, or how bad their spelling may be. If they can tell a really good story and tell it well, I’m in.
It doesn’t matter if a novel’s story or plot lines stretch credibility so long as it succeeds in suspending my disbelief. Fiction doesn’t need to be hyper-realistic. Suspension of disbelief depends not solely on whether a plot line is credible, but on the overall credibility in terms of character, psychology, themes, setting, etc.
Build me a world I can believe in.
I also have a list of more book reviews I’ve posted on NetGalley, that I haven’t published on BelEdit Book Reviews.
American (21) Australian (2) classics (5) crime (41) dystopia (13) fantasy (2) feminist (1) fiction (2) France (1) futuristic (3) general fiction (44) historical (31) horror/fantasy (16) humor (8) Irish (11) literary fiction (35) N. IRL (2) New Zealand (1) nonfiction (14) politics (1) psychology (5) saga (2) self-help (4) series (18) society (1) TMS (2) UK (55) US (2) utopia (1)
- ABBS, Annabel – The Language of Food
- ADSHEAD, Dr Gwen and HORNE, Eileen – The Devil You Know
- ALLAN, Claire – Ask No Questions
- BAKER KLINE, Christina – The Exiles
- BANVILLE, John – Snow
- BARTLETT, Scott – Finished With Life
- BATEMAN, Colin – I Predict A Riot
- BAUER, Belinda – Exit
- BAYARD, Tania – Murder in the Cloister
- BOURNE, J.L. – Day By Day Armageddon
- BRADDON, Mary Elizabeth – Intro and works
- BRAY, Carys – When the lights go out
- BRENT, Katy – How To Kill Men and Get Away With It
- BRICHAUT, Fiona – Writing for Mobile
- BRINSON, David – Dead South
- BROOKS, Max – Devolution
- BROWN, Brene – The Gifts of Imperfection
- BRUCE, Camilla – Triflers Need Not Apply
- BURGO, Joseph – The Narcissist You Know
- BURTON, Sarah – The Strange Adventures of H
- COHEN, Julie Mae – Bad Men
- COLE, Nick – The Wasteland Saga
- CUTLER, Judith – Legacy of Death
- DAVIES, Alan – Just Ignore Him
- DAYKIN, Judy – Under Violent Skies
- DE BOTTON, Alain – The Course of Love
- DEFOE, Daniel – A Journal of the Plague Year
- DOWLING, Clare – Expecting Emily
- DOYLE, Roddy – Love
- DUFFY, Stella – Lullaby Beach
- EASTER, Richard – Don’t You Want Me?
- ELDRIDGE, Jim – Murder at Madame Tussauds
- ELDRIDGE, Jim – Murder at the Ritz
- ENRIGHT, Anne – The Gathering
- EUGENIDES, Jeffrey – The Marriage Plot
- FOWLER, Karen Joy – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- FRATER, Rhiannon – The First Days
- FRENCH, Tana – The Searcher
- GALSWORTHY, John – The Forsyte Saga
- GOODMAN, Alison – The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies | Alison Goodman
- GRACE, Celina – Death at the Theatre
- GRACE, Celina – Sanctuary
- GRIFFIN, Kate – Fyneshade
- HADLEY, Tessa – Free Love
- HAILEY, Carole – The Silence Project
- HALPERIN, James L. – The Truth Machine
- HAMILL, Ike – Accidental Evil
- HAMILL, Ike – Extinct
- HAMILL, Ike – Kill Cycle
- HAMILL, Ike – Spores
- HARRISON, Rachel – Such Sharp Teeth
- HART, Emilia – Weyward
- HEINY, Katherine – Early Morning Riser
- HEYER, Georgette – Penhallow
- HILARY, Sarah – Black Thorn
- HILL, Fran – Cuckoo in the Nest
- HODGSON, Antonia – The Devil in the Marshalsea
- HOROWITZ, Anthony – Moonflower Murders
- JUNIPER, LM – How We End
- KENNARD, Luke – The Answer to Everything
- KENNEDY, Emma – The Things We Left Unsaid
- KEOGH, Valerie – No Simple Death
- KERNICK, Simon – Die Alone
- KING, Stephen – Cell
- KNIGHT, Jodie – Darling
- LETHBRIDGE, Lucy – Servants
- LUPTON, Rosamund – Three Hours
- MANNION, Una – Tell Me What I Am
- MCCULLOUGH, Colleen – The Thorn Birds
- MOODY, David – Autumn
- MURPHY, Grainne – Where the edge is
- MYERS, Dr Rebecca – Inside Job
- NORTON, Graham – Holding
- O’CALLAGHAN, Billy – Life Sentences
- O’DONOGHUE, Caroline – Scenes of a Graphic Nature
- O’HAGAN, Andrew – Mayflies
- O’REILLY, Noel – The Darlings of the Asylum
- OSMAN, Richard – The Man Who Died Twice
- OSMAN, Richard – The Thursday Murder Club
- O’SULLIVAN, Suzanne – It’s All In Your Head
- OZANICH, Steven Ray – The Great Pain Deception
- PERKINS, Emily – Lioness
- POWER, Kevin – White City
- QUINN, Joanna – The Whalebone Theatre
- ROGERS, Michael – Email from the Future
- ROBINSON, Kim Stanley – The Ministry for the Future
- RYN, Jessica – The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside
- SCARROW, Alex – Last Light
- SETTERFIELD, Diane – The Thirteenth Tale
- SHRIVER, Lionel – Big Brother
- SHRIVER, Lionel – The Mandibles
- STAFFORD, David – Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons
- STAFFORD, David – Skelton’s Guide to Suitcase Murders
- STEVENSON, Benjamin – Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
- STEWART, Trenton Lee – The Mysterious Benedict Society
- SUMMERSCALE, Kate – The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- SUMMERSCALE, Kate – The Wicked Boy
- TALBOT, Catherine – A Good Father
- TARTT, Donna – The Goldfinch
- TROTT, Tom – You Can’t Make Old Friends
- VASSELL, Charlotte – The Other Half
- WARD, Michael – Rags of Time
- WARD, Michael – The Wrecking Storm
- WISE, Susannah – The Fragile Earth