Sadie-Jean’s Book Blog

General Fiction:

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (3.5/5)
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (4/5)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (4.5/5)
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (2.5/5)
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1.5/5)
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (4.5/5)
• Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides (4/5)
• Bridget Jone’s Diary by Helen Fielding (2.5/5)
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (3.5/5)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (4/5)
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (3.5/5)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding(3/5)
• The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman (3/5)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2.5/5)
• I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (4/5)
• Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire (3/5)
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (3/5)
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (4/5)
• Where the Heart is by Billie Letts (3/5)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (2.5/5)
• The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (4/5)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (3/5)
• The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds (4/5)
• The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson (1.5/5)
• Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani (3.5/5)
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (3.5/5)
• The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert (3/5)
• Remember Me; I’ll be seeing you; Let me call you sweetheart; Moonlight becomes you; Loves music, Loves to Dance; Stillwatch; While my Pretty one Sleeps, Weep No More my Lady; You belong to Me; We’ll Meet Again; All Around the Town; On the Street Where You Live; The Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark
• Copy Cat by Erica Spindler (3.5/5)
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (4/5)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (5/5)
• Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston (3.5/5)
• PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern (2.5/5)
• Run Jane Run by Maureen Tan (3/5)
• AKA Jane by Maureen Tan (3/5)
• Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (4/5)
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (2.5/5)
• I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak(4.5/5)
• Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (3/5)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (4/5)
• Deception Point by Dan Brown (3/5)
• Blindness by Jose Saramago (3.5/5)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (4/5)
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (2.5/5)
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Soer (3/5)
• Neanderthal by John Darnton (3/5)
• The Crimes of Jordan Wise by Bill Pronzini (3.5/5)
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (4/5)
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (3/5)
• The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber (3/5)
• The Carousel by Richard Paul Evans (3/5)
• The Stand by Stephen King (4/5)
• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (4/5)
• The Ruins by Scott Smith (2/5)
• Hell House by Richard Matheson (3.5/5)
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (4/5)
• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (3/5)
• The Chrysalis by Heather Terrell (3.5/5)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (2.5/5)
• Codex by Lev Grossman (4/5)
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (4/5)
• The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth (4.5/5)
• Congo by Michael Crichton (2.5/5)
• Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth (4/5)
• The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield (5/5)
• The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton (3/5)
• The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen (4.5/5)
• In the Woods by Tana French (3.5/5)
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (4/5)
• Blasphemy by Douglas Preston (3/5)
• The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone (4.5/5)
• Jonathan LIvingston Seagull by Richard Bach (3/5)
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson (3.5/5)
• The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox (4/5)
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (3.5/5)
• The Plague by Albert Camus (4/5)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (5/5)
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (4/5)
• Hold Tight by Harlan Coben (3.5/5)
• Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg (3/5)
• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (3.5/5)
• The Girls by Lori Lansens (4/5)
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (4/5)
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (4/5)
• Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger (3.5/5)
• The Serpant’s Tale by Ariana Franklin (2.5/5)
• The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber (4/5)
• Twisted by Andrea Kane (3/5)
• The Likeness by Tana French (4/5)
• Tethered by Amy Mackinnon (4.5/5)
• Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (4.5/5)
• The Christmas Shoes by Donna VanLiere (3.5/5)
• A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans (4.5/5)
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (3/5)
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (4/5)
• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (4.5/5)
• The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker (4.5/5)
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell (4/5)
• The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares (3/5)
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (4/5)
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Bray (2.5/5)
• The House on Tradd Street by Karen White (4/5)
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe (4/5)
• Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton (4/5)
• Standing Still by Kelly Simmons (3/5)

Science Fiction/Fantasy:

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (3.5/5)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (2.5/5)
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring(4/5); The Two Towers (3.5/5); The Return of the King (3/5)
• The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (4/5)
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (4/5)
• The Lost World by Michael Crichton (3.5/5)
• The Loch by Steve Alten (3.5/5)
• MEG by Steve Alten (3.5/5)
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (3/5)
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman (4/5)
• The Trench by Steve Alten (2.5/5)
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman (4.5/5)
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (4/5)
• New Moon by Stephanie Meyer (3.5/5)
• Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer (4/5)
• Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer (4.5/5)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (5/5)
• Blood and Ice by Robert Masello (3.5/5)
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (5/5)

Historical Fiction:

• Maid Marian by Elsa Watson (3/5)
• The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease (3.5/5)
• The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow (1.5/5)
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (3.5/5)
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (4/5)
• Rasputin’s Daughter by Robert Alexander (4/5)
• Moloka’i by Alan Brennert (4/5)
• The Widow’s War by Sally Gunning (2/5)
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas (4/5)
• The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen (4/5)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (4/5)
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (3/5)
• The Terror by Dan Simmons (4/5)
• The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James (3.5/5)
• The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett (4/5)
• Plainsong by Ken Haurf (3/5)