Fiction Reviews

See the nonfiction page for more reviews.

 

* Fiction that says something about faith ... whether for better or worse.


GENERAL

• 10 Fiction Books Every Catholic Should Read (or at least try once) - OSV article
• Books for Beginners on Catholic Basics
• Big List of Lenten Nonfiction - good for any time, really.
• Big List of Lenten Fiction - also good for any time, really.
• Pope Benedict's Most Accessible Books — his teaching homilies series on the apostles, saints, fathers of the church, and more.
• The Hobbit ... and Related Reading (resources)
• The Lord of the Rings ... and Related Reading (resources)

AUTHORS

• Georgette Heyer
• Jane Austen and Me
• Robb Walsh: Legends of Texas Barbecue, The Tex Mex Cookbook, and The Texas Cowboy Cookbook
• Agatha Christie
• Robert Crais
• Rafael Sabatini
• Lisa Scottoline
• Mary Stewart 
• Elizabeth Cadell 

MYSTERY/THRILLER

• Abbey, The by Chris Culver*
• Angel of Terror, The by Edgar Wallace
• Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
• Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton
• Bleeder by John Desjarlais*
• Body in the Library, The by Agatha Christie
• Case of the Man Who Died Laughing, The by Tarquin Hall
  
• Case of the Missing Servant, The by Tarquin Hall
• China Trade by S.J. Rozan
• City, The by Dean Koontz*
• Cleek, The Man of Forty Faces
• Concourse by S.J. Rozan
• Cool for Cats by Andrew Ordover
• Countdown City by Ben. H. Winters
• Death of a Pope, The by Piers Paul Read*
• Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
• Dimiter  by William Peter Blatty*
• Dissolution by C.J. Sansom*
• Dutch, The by Les Roberts
• Feast, The by Margaret Kennedy*
  
• Fields of Wrath by Mark Wheaton*
• Haunted Lady, The by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Jack O' Judgment by Edgar Wallace
• Last Policeman, The by Ben H. Winters
• Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart
• Man Who Died Twice, The by Richard Osman
  
• Moonstone, The by Wilkie Collins
• Moving Finger, The by Agatha Christie
• Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett
• Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
• Once a Spy by Keith Thomson
• Onion Files, The by Major General Val Pattee (podcast)
• Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic
• Richard Hannah spy stories by John Buchan — The 39 Steps, Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast, The Three Hostages, The Island of Sheep
• Right on the Money by Emma Lathen
• Room 13 by Edgar Wallace
• Secret Cardinal by Tom Grace*
• Slow Horses - Mick Herron
• Sons of Cain by Val Bianco*
• Street of the Five Moons, The by Elizabeth Peters
• Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza
  
• Sweet and Low by Emma Lathen
• Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The by Alan Bradley
• Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
• Sucker Punch by Marc Strange
• Suspect by Robert Crais
• Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
• Trials of Rumpole, The by John Mortimer
• Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
• Valley of the Bones by Michael Gruber*
• Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett
• Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, The by Dorothy Gilman
• Viper by John Desjarlais*
• White Moll, The by Frank L. Packard (at SFFaudio)
• Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart

 SCI-FI/FANTASY

• 52, Parts 1 and 2 (audiobook)
• A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-Five Imaginative Tales About the Christ edited by Michael Bishop
• Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey
• Ad Limina: A Novella of Catholics in Space by Cy Kellett
  
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  
• Already Dead by Charlie Huston
• An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
• Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for Ultrahuman Protection by Alexander C. Kane
• Andrea Vernon and the Superhero Industrial Complex by Alexander C. Kane
• Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
• Assam and Darjeeling by T.M. Camp (podcast)
• Auralia's Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet*
• Bellwether by Connie Willis
• Big Book of Ghost Stories edited by Otto Penzler
• Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell*
• Blackout by Connie Willis
• Blue Sword, The by Robin McKinley
• Bones of the Old Ones, The by Howard Andrew Jones
• Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
• Bright Smoke, Cold Fire by Rosamund Hodge
• Buffalito Destiny by Lawrence Schoen
• Carnacki: The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
• Caves of Steel, The - Isaac Asimov
• Christus Experiment, The by Rod Bennett*
• Cinder Allia by Karen Ullo*
• City, The by Dean Koontz*
• City, Not Long After, The by Pat Murphy
• City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley 
• Crater by Homer Hickham
• Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
• Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
• Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold*
• Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp
• Curseworkers trilogy by Holly Black:
• White Cat (#1)
• Red Glove (#2)
• Black Heart (#3)
• Deacon's Tale, The by Arinn Dembo*
• Deadline by Mira Grant
• Deadly Education, A by Naomi Novik
  
• Desert of Souls, The by Howard Andrew Jones
• Deviant Rising by Alexander Barnes and Christopher Preiman
• Dog Days by John Levitt
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
• Earthrise by M. C. A. Hogarth*
• Eifelheim by Michael Flynn*
• Emperor of North America, The by John McNichols*
• Endless Water, Starless Sky by Rosamund Hodge*
• Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
• Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
• Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
• Feed by Mira Grant
• Galactic Pot Healer by Philip K. Dick
• Galaxy Outlaws by J.S. Morin
• Game of Fox and Lion by Robert Chase*
• Genesis by Barnard Beckett (at SFFaudio)*
• Giants of the Frost by Kim Wilkins (at SFFaudio)
• Gilgamesh the King (at SFFaudio)
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett*
• Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
• H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales edited by Douglas A. Anderson
• Halloween Tree, The by Ray Bradbury
• Hard Magic - Larry Correia
• Heaven's Hunter by Marie C. Keiser*
  
• High Crusades - Poul Anderson
  
• Hounded by Kevin Hearne
• Hunger Games, The by Suzanne Collins
• Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (as well as these thoughts upon finishing the book)*... their reimagining of Dante's Inferno, sci-fi style
• Infinite Space, Infinite God edited by Karen and Robert Fabian*
• Infinite Space, Infinite God II edited by Karen and Robert Fabian*
• Invisible Man, The by H.G. Wells
• January Dancer by Michael Flynn
• Jennifer Morgue, The by Charles Stross
• Jennifer the Damned by Karen Ullo
• Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry:
• Patient Zero (#1)
• Dragon Factory, The (#2)
• King of Plagues, The (#3)
• Assassin's Code (#4)
• Extinction Machine (#5)
• Code Zero (#6)
• Joe Ledger: The Missing Files (short stories)
• Johnny Maxwell trilogy by Terry Pratchett
• Only You Can Save Mankind (#1)
• Johnny and the Dead (#2)
• Johnny and the Bomb (#3)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke
• Jones, Diana Wynne
• Dark Wizard of Derkholm, The
• Dogsbody
• Fire and Hemlock
• Homeward Bounders, The
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Lives of Christopher Chant, The
• Magicians of Caprona, The
• Ogre Downstairs, The
• Ladies of Grace Adieu, The by Susanna Clarke
• Lamentation by Ken Scholes*
• Last Dance, The by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Lent by Jo Walton*
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
• Life of the World to Come, The by Kage Baker
• Light Fantastic, The by Terry Pratchett
• Lord of the Hollow Dark by Russell Kirk*
• Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg (at SFFaudio)
• Lost Gods by Drew Beatty (at SFFaudio)
• Love, Treachery and Other Terrors by Katharine Campbell*
  
• Man Who Was Thursday, The* by G.K. Chesterton
• March Up-Country by David Weber and John Ringo
• Markmaker by Mary Jessica Woods
  
• Martian, The by Andy Weir
• Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
• Mercury Rises by Robert Kroese
• Mirabile by Janet Kagan
• Mockingbird by Walter Tevis*
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
• Mucker, The series by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Mucker, Return of the Mucker, The Oakdale Affair 
• Murderbot Diaries, The series by Martha Wells: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect
  
• Murray Leinster Collection (Pirates of Ersatz, The Aliens, Operation Terror) by Murray Leinster
• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
• My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
• Naked Sun, The - Isaac Asimov
• Neeta Lyfe: Zombie Exterminator by Karina Fabian
• Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson
• Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko*
• Night Watch (#1)
• Day Watch (#2)
• Twilight Watch (#3)
• Last Watch (#4)
• New Watch (#5)
• Novels of The Company by Kage Baker
• Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz*
• Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, and Brother Odd (#1-3)
• Odd Hours (#4)
• Odd Apocalypse (#5)
  
• One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz*
• One Bright Star to Guide Them - John C. Wright*
• Owls Hoot in the Daytime and Other Omens - Manly Wade Wellman
  
• Poison Belt, The - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Reapers Are the Angels, The by Alden Bell*
• Return of the King, The by J.R.R. Tolkien*
• Secret Country Trilogy by Pamela Dean
• Seven Archangels: Annihilation by Jane Lebak*
• Smallworld by Dominic Green
• Space Prison by Tom Godwin
• Space Vulture by Gary K. Wolf and Archbishop John J. Myers
• Standards of Creation, The by James Campanella (audio book)*
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi
• Sword of the Lamb by M.K. Wren
• Tales Before Narnia edited by Douglas A. Anderson
• Tales Before Tolkien edited by Douglas A. Anderson
• Tales of Terror Collection, read by Victor Garber
• Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
• Territory by Emma Bull
• Third Eye by Felicia Day
• Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson*
  
• Through Darkest Zymurgia! A Ripping Yarn by William H. Duquette
• Tripods Attack!, The by John McNichol*
• Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith*
• Vampires by John Steakley
• Vikings at Dino's: A Novel of Lunch and Mayhem by Will Duquette
• Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
• War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
• What Monstrous Gods by Rosamund Hodge*
• Wolf-Leader, The by Alexandre Dumas
• Woodcutter, The by Kate Danley
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Boxers & Saints* by Gene Luen Yang

FICTION

• Ana Markovic by David Murdoch*
• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
  
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Canadian Nights, The by Katharine Campbell
  
• Caravans by James Michener
  
• Catholics by Brian Moore*
• Christ the Lord, The Road to Cana by Anne Rice*
• Civil Contract, A by Georgette Heyer
• Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton
• Crimes of Galahad, The by H. Albertus Boli*
• Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
• Crown of the World by Nathan Sadasivan*
• Comfort Food: a novel by Kate Jacobs
• Communion of the Saint by Alan David Justice*
• Damon Runyon Favorites by Damon Runyon
  
• Danny Gospel by David Athey*
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Devil's Advocate, The by Morris West*
• Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? by John Powers*
• Eating Crow by Jay Rayner
• Emma by Jane Austen
• End of the Affair, The by Graham Greene*
  
• Eyre Affair, The by Jasper Fforde
• Father's Tale, The by Michael O'Brien*
• Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden*
• Gentleman in Moscow, A by Amor Towles 
• Gift Counselor, The by Sheila M. Cronin*
  
• Great Divorce, The by C.S. Lewis*
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• High Spirits by Robertson Davies
• Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley*
• House of the Seven Gables, The by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• If You Can Get It by Brendan Hodge*
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Joyful Beggar, The by Louis de Wohl*
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• Ladies of Covington Send Their Love, The by Joan A. Medlicott
• Land Without Sin, A - Paula Huston
• Little World of Don Camillo, The by Giovanni Guareschi*
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simenson
• Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Miracle for St. Cecilia's, A*
• Missing Peace by N.K. Holt*
• Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene*
  
• Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly*
• Mrs. Appleyard's Year by Louise Andrews Kent
• Mystery of Edwin Drood, The - Charles Dickens 
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
  
• Night's Dark Shade, The by Elena Maria Vidal*
• Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos*
• Old Curiosity Shop, The by Charles Dickens
• Pickwick Papers, The by Charles Dickens
• Quiet Light by Louis de Wohl*
• Quo Vadis*
• Raising Demons - Shirley Jackson
• Restless Flame, The by Louis de Wohl*
• Rosie Project, The by Graeme Simsion
• St. Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
• Sad Kitchen, The by John Paul King*
• Save Send Delete by Danusha Goska*
• Set All Afire - Louis De Wohl*
• Summer Book, The by Tove Jansson
  
• Swashbuckling Adventure and Romance: Rafael Sabatini
  - Bellarion
  - Black Swan, The
  - Captain Blood
  - Hounds of God, The
  - Sea-Hawk, The
  - St. Martin's Summer
  - Scaramouche
  - Snare, The
• Tale of Two Cities, A by Charles Dickens*
• Third Testament, The by John Eklund *
• Thirteenth Tale, The
• Three Godfathers, The by Patrick B. Kyne*
• Tribune, The by Patrick Larkin*
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe*
• Uncommon Reader, The by Alan Bennett
• Unexpected Tales from A to Z by Robert Wenson
  
• unstable Felicity by Cat Hodge*
  
• Virginian, The by Owen Wister*

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• 13 Clocks, The - James Thurber
• Angels for Kids - Donna-Marie O'Boyle*
• Gospel According to ... Dog, The - Peter Ward*
• Halloween Tree, The - Ray Bradbury
• Hidden Princess, The by Stephanie Angelini
• Heidi by Joanna Spyri*
• Little Book About Confession for Children - Kendra Tierney*
• Little Princess, A by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Mr. McFadden's Halloween - Rumer Godden
• Princess and the Goblin, The by George MacDonald
• Women of the Bible - Margaret McAllister*