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Are you looking for your next good read? Not sure what to read next? Check out The Running Bibliophile's book reviews listed alphabetically by author below by clicking on the book title to see if it is worth your time or not. Or, click on a year to see our book reviews by year. 


Book Reviews By Year:           

          2019          2018          2017          2016          2015


Book Reviews by Author:


Applegate, Katherine
   ✦ My Sister's Boyfriend (Changes, #9)

Ballis, Stacey
   ✦ Good Enough to Eat

Barton, Fiona
   ✦ The Suspect (Kate Waters, #3)

Caine, Rachel
   ✦ Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
   ✦ Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake, #2) 

Christie, Agatha
   ✦ Crooked House

Coben, Harlan
   ✦ Tell No One

Conklin, Barbara
   ✦ Falling In Love Again (Sweet Dreams, # 23)

Cusick, Richie Tankersley
   ✦ Trick or Treat

Donoghue, Emma
   ✦ Room

Evanovich, Janet
   ✦ Eleven On Top
   ✦ Plum Lovin'
   ✦ Lean Mean Thirteen 

Finder, Joseph
   ✦ Suspicion
   ✦ The Switch

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
   ✦ The Great Gatsby, The Authorized Text

Flynn, Gillian
   ✦ Dark Places
   ✦ Gone Girl

French, Tana
   ✦ In the Woods

Giffin, Emily
   ✦ Something Borrowed

Greene, Yvonne
   ✦ Little Sister (Sweet Dreams, # 5)
   ✦ Cover Girl (Sweet Dreams, # 9)

Hahn, Mary Downing
   ✦ The Time of the Witch
   ✦ Wait Till Helen Comes:  A Ghost Story

Harkness, Deborah
   ✦ A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy # 1)
   ✦ Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy # 2)
   ✦ The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, # 3)

Harrell, Janice
   ✦ Temptation (The Secret Diaries, #1)

Hawkins, Paula
   ✦ Into the Water
   ✦ The Girl on the Train

Hoover, Colleen
   ✦ It Ends With Us

James, P.D.
   ✦ Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8)

Johansen, Iris
   ✦ Mind Game (Eve Duncan, #22)
   ✦ No Easy Target

King, Stephen
   ✦ 11/22/63
   ✦ Desperation
   ✦ It

Lapena, Shari
   ✦ A Stranger in the House

Lutz, Lisa
   ✦ The Spellman Files (The Spellmans #1)
   ✦ Curse of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #2)

Martin, Ann M.
   ✦ Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club, #1)
   ✦ Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (The Baby-Sitters Club, #2)
   ✦ Little Miss Stoneybrook . . . and Dawn (The Baby-Sitters Club, #15)
   ✦ Jessi's Secret Language (The Baby-Sitters Club, #16) 

Martin, George R.R.
   ✦ A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
   ✦ A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)







 
Meyer, Stephenie
   ✦ Twilight (Twilight, #1)
   ✦ New Moon (Twilight, #2)
   ✦ Eclipse (Twilight, #3)
   ✦ Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4)
   ✦ The Host

Mitchell, David
   ✦ Cloud Atlas

Miranda, Megan
   ✦ All the Missing Girls

Morgenstern, Erin
   ✦ The Night Circus

Morton, Kate
   ✦ The Lake House

Moyes, Jojo
   ✦ Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
   ✦ Still You (Me Before You, #2)

Paris, B.A.
   ✦ Bring Me Back
   ✦ The Breakdown

Pascal, Francine
   ✦ Best Friends (Sweet Valley Twins, #1)
   ✦ Teacher's Pet (Sweet Valley Twins, #2)
   ✦ The Haunted House (Sweet Valley Twins, #3)
   ✦ Choosing Sides (Sweet Valley Twins, #4)
   ✦ Sneaking Out (Sweet Valley Twins, #5) 
   ✦ Second Best (Sweet Valley Twins # 16)
   ✦ Teamwork (Sweet Valley Twins, # 27)

Quin-Harkin, Janet
   ✦ On My Own (Changes, #10)
   ✦ California Girl (Sweet Dreams, # 6)

Riggs, Ransom
   ✦  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ross, Jennifer
   ✦ The Icing on the Cupcake
 
Roth, Veronica
   ✦ Divergent (Divergent #1)
   ✦ Insurgent (Divergent #2)
   ✦ Allegiant (Divergent #3)

Rowling, J.K.
   ✦ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

Smith, L.J.
   ✦ The Strange Power (Dark Visions, #1)

   ✦ Secret Vampire (Night World, #1)
   ✦ The Initiation (The Secret Circle, #1) 

Stevens, Chevy
   ✦ Never Let You Go
   ✦ Those Girls

Stine, R.L.
   ✦ Beach House

Swanson, Cynthia
   ✦ The Bookseller

Tremblay, Paul
   ✦ Disappearance at Devil's Rock

Tyler, Anne
   ✦ Clock Dance

Vail, Virginia
   ✦ Horseback Summer (Horse Crazy # 1)

Vernon, Rosemary
   ✦ The Popularity Plan (Sweet Dreams, # 2)

Ware, Ruth
   ✦ In A Dark, Dark Wood
   ✦ The Woman in Cabin 10

Weisberger, Lauren
   ✦ The Devil Wears Prada
 
Williams, Amanda Kyle
   ✦ The Stranger You Seek

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz
   ✦ The Shadow of the Wind

 






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