Zee’s Book Reviews


Here’s a list of all the book reviews I have posted on the blog so far. If you would like to see any other titles here, please let me know! I’d be interested to hear your views.

- # -
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
2BR02B – Kurt Vonnegut

- A -
Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
Almost Transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami
A Man’s Head – Georges Simenon
Amulet - Roberto Bolaño
Angel’s Game, The – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Partisan’s Daughter - Louis De Bernieres
A Room With A View – E. M. Forster
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams

- B -
Beach, The - Alex Garland
Beginners - Raymond Carver
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Beowulf - Anonymous

Big Sleep, The - Raymond Chandler
Botchan – Natsume Soseki
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The – James Boyne
Bridges of Madison County, The – Robert James Waller

- C -
Calligrapher’s Night, The - Yasmine Ghata
Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, The – Peter Ackroyd
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Cellist of Sarajevo, The – Steven Galloway
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Civil War – Mark Millar
Color Purple, The – Alice Walker
Crazy: A Novel - Benjamin Lebert
Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories, The – F. Scott Fitzgerald

- D -
Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos De Laclos
Diary of a Nobody, The – George Grossmith
Devil and Miss Prym, The – Paulo Coelho
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
Disquiet – Julia Leigh
Diary of a Young Girl, The – Anne Frank
Doll and Other Stories, The – Daphne du Maurier

- E -
Esther’s Inheritance - Sandor Marai

 - F -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American
Dream
- Hunter S. Thompson
First Love, Last Rites – Ian McEwan
Florence and Giles – John Harding
Free Food For Millionaires – Min Jin Lee

- G -
Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The - Mary Ann Schaffer

- H -
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Hell Screen – Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Heroes and Villains
- Angela Carter
Hound of the Baskervilles, The - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
House of Pomegranates, The - Oscar Wilde


- I -

In The Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami

- J -
- K -
Kung Fu Trip - Benjamin Zephaniah
Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
Kite Runner, The – Khaled Hosseini

- L -
Lady and the Little Fox Fur, The – Violette Leduc
Lady in the Looking Glass, The – Virginia Woolf
Lost Estate, The - Henri Alain Fournier
Lost Souls – Poppy Z. Brite
Lost World – Patricia Melo
Lovely Bones, The – Alice Sebold
Lunar Park – Brett Easton Ellis

- M -
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Man in the Dark – Paul Auster
Marvels – Alex Ross & Kurt Busieck
Memoirs of a Master Forger – William Heaney
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Midwich Cuckoos, The – John Wyndham
Motorcycle Diaries, The – Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

- N -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
Night Circus, The – Erin Morgenstern
Nocturnes
 - Kazuo Ishiguro

- O -
Octopussy and the Living Daylights – Ian Fleming
One Day – David Nicholls
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

- P -
Paradise - Koji Suzuki
Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
Poe: A Life Cut Short - Peter Ackroyd
Point Omega – Don DeLillo
Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The – Muriel Spark
Prisoner of Zenda, The – Anthony Hope
Push – Sapphire

- Q -
- R -
Rape: A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates
Rapture, The - Liz Jensen
Room, The  - Hubert Selby Jr.
Rum Diary, The - Hunter S. Thompson

- S -
Salome - Oscar Wilde
Scent of Your Breath, The  - Melissa Panarello
Shadow Dance – Angela Carter
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Goose, The – Paul Gallico
Sorrows of Young Werther, The - Goethe
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Story of Blanche and Marie, The - Per Olov Enquist
Summer Without Men, The - Siri Hustvedt
Spy Who Loved Me, The – Ian Fleming
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood

- T -

Tales of Freedom – Ben Okri
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

- U -
- V -

Velveteen Rabbit, The – Margery Williams
Veronika Decides To Die - Paulo Coelho

- W -
Waves, The - Virginia Woolf
Winter Trees – Sylvia Plath
Wizard of Oz, The - L. Frank Baum
Woman in Black, The – Susan Hill

- X -
- Y -
Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, The - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

- Z -

3 thoughts on “Zee’s Book Reviews”

  1. Would like to see your review for Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. :D

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