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Reviews by Priscilla Comen
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• Run - Ann Patchett
• ​Siracusa - Delia Ephron
• Swing Time - Zadie Smith
• Harmony - Carolyn Parkhurst
• ​Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson
• The Wonder - ​​Emma Donoghue
• ​The Way to the Spring - Ben Ehrenreich
• The Widower's Wife - ​Cate Holahan
• ​​Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
• Border Child - ​Michel Stone
• News of the World - Paulette Jiles
• The Moth Catcher - Ann Reeves
• The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - Joshua Hammer
• The Girl from Venice - Martin Cruz Smith
• ​Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
• Conclave - ​Robert Harris
• The Last Watchman of Old Cairo - Michael David Lukas
• Happiness - ​Aminatta Forna
• Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult
• This is How it Always Is - Laurie Frankel
• Barkskins - Annie Proulx
• They May Not Mean to But They Do - Cathleen Schine
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• Waking Lions - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
• Sleeping on Jupiter - Anuradha Roy
• A Thousand Naked Strangers - Kevin Hazzard
• Earthly Remains - Donna Leon
• Girl With a Camera - Carolyn Meyer
• A Separation - Katie Kitamura
• Defectors - Joseph Konrad
• Leopard at the Door - Jennifer McVeigh
• Lilli de Jong - Janet Benton
• Anything Is Possible - Elizabeth Strout
• Exit West - Moshin Hamid
• The Burning Girl - Claire Messud
• Still Here - Lara Vapnyar
• Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin
• Today Will be Different - Maria Semple
• A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
• Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
• The Fortunate Ones - Ellen Umansky
• Bears in the Streets - Lisa Dickey
• Live From Cairo - Ian Bassingthwaighte
• The Man in the Wooden Hat - Jane Gardem​
• ​Quiet Until the Thaw - ​​​​​Alexandra Fuller
• Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
• A Piece of the World - Christina Baker Kline
• A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
• A Good Country - Laleh Khadivi
• Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo
• There Your Heart Lies - Mary Gordon
• A State of Freedom - Neel Mukherjee
• Victoria - Daisy Goodwin
• No Time to Spare - Ursula Le Guin
• Beautiful Animals - Lawrence Osborne
• ​The Friend- Sigrid Nunez​
• The Almost Sisters - Joshilyn Jackson
• The Origin of Other - Toni Morrison
• Beartown - Fredrik Backman 
• The Round House - Louise Erdich
• Sunday Silence - ​​​​​Nicci French
• Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
• All Grown Up - Jami Attenberg
• The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter
• The Unforgotten - Laura Powell
• Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
• The Neighborhood - Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Golden House - Salman Rushdie
• The Perfect Mother - Aimee Molloy
• Homegoing - Yua Gyasi
• The Ninth Hour - Alice McDermott
• The Confusion of Languages - Siobhan Fallon
• The Wife Between Us - Sarah Pekkanan and Greer Hendricks
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - ​Lisa See
• Murder on the Left Bank - ​Cara Black
• Less - ​Andrew Sean Greer
• The Balcony - ​Jane Delury
• Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
• Sunburn - Laura LipmanReview 85 - A Long Way From Home
• White Houses - Amy Bloom
• Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
• The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason
• The Day of the Dead - Nicci French
• The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohajalian
• A Long Way From Home - ​Peter Carey
• Warlight - ​Michael Ondaatje
• Gone So Long - ​Andre Dubus III
• Baby Teeth - ​Zoje Stage
• A Legacy of Spies - ​John Le Carre
• Give Me Your Hand - ​Megan Abbott
• The Secrets Between Us - ​Thrity Umrigar
• The Epic City, The World on the Streets of Calcutta - ​Kushanava Choudbury
• A Shout in the Ruins - ​Kevin Powers
• The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - ​David Lagercrantz
• A Place for Us - ​Fatima Farbeen Mirza
• ​Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li
• The Final Solution; A Story of Detection - Michael Chabon
• There, There - Tommy Orange
• ​The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore - Kim Fu
• ​Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
• ​House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Temptation of Forgiveness - Donna Leon
• Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
• ​The Paragon Hotel - Lindsay Faye
• To Die But Once - Jacqueline Winspear
• ​The Weight of a Piano - Chris Cander
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
• How to Be Safe - Tom McAllister
• The Uncoupling - Meg Wolitzer
• The Quintland Sisters - Shelley Wood
• Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
• The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
• The Traveling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
• The Age of Light - Whitney Sharer
• To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
• Outside Looking In - T.C. Boyle
• ​November Road - Lou Berney
• The Storm - Ari Anwar
• The Shadow Killer - Arnaldur Indridason
• A Caravan of Brides - Kay Hardy Campbell
• The Wife - Meg Wolitzer
• Mala Vida - Marc Fernandez
• The Traveling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
• The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff
• A Woman of No Importance - Sonia Purnell
• Phantoms - Christian Kiefer
• Educated - Tara Westover
• Alternate Sides - Anna Quindlen
• The Body in Question - Jill Ciment
• The Lost Man - Jane Harper
• Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips
• The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
• The World According to Fannie Davis - Bridgett M. Davis
• Henry, Myself - Stewart O'Nan
• Biloxi - Mary Miller
• Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis
• In the Full Light of the Sun- Claire Clark
• Unquiet - Linn Ullmann
• Still Lives - Maria Hummel
• American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson
• The Liar - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
• Degrees of Difficulty - Julie E. Justicz
• Turbulence - David Szalay
• The Island - Ragnar Jonasson
• The Guest Book - Sarah Blake
• Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan
• The Electric Hotel - Dominic Smith
• The Marriage of Opposites - Alice Hoffman
• Rabbits for Food - Binnie Kirshenbaum
• The Stationary Shop - Marjan Kamali
• Patsy - Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Lady Clementine - Marie Benedict
• No One Knows - J.T. Ellison
• The Accomplice - Joseph Kanon
• The World That We Knew - Alice Hoffman
• Travel Light, Move Fast - Alexandra Fuller
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• The Chain -  Adrian McKinty
• Whiskey When We're Dry - John Larison
• Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase - Louise Walters
• Dorchester Terrace - Anne Perry
• Circe - Madeline Miller
• The Flight Portfolio (Part 1) - Julie Orringer
• The Flight Portfolio (Part 2) - Julie Orringer
• The Other Woman - Daniel Silva
• Learning to See - Elise Hooper
• The Library Book - Susan Orlean
• Hiding in Plain Sight - Nuriddin Farah
• The Tubman Command - Elizabeth Cobbs
• Night Theater - Vikram Paralkar
• Inheritance of Power: The House of Medici - Edward Charles
• The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
• The Ambassador's Daughter - Pam Jenoff
• Emma - Alexander McCall Smith
• Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
• Maigret’s Pickpocket - Georges Simenon
• The High Window - Raymond Chandler
• On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
• The Good German - Joseph Kanon
• The Stories of Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
• The Dry - Jane Harper
• Dear Edward - Ann Napolitano
• A Spark of Light - Jody Picoult
• And After Many Days - Jowhor Lle
• The Secret Chord - Geraldine Brooks
• Akin - Emma Donoghue
• The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
• Where'd You Go Bernadette? - Maria Semple
• Hysterical - Rebecca Coffey
• Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
• Maigret and the Old People - Georges Simenon
• A Live Coal in the Sea - Madeliene L'Engel​
• Her Last Flight - Beatriz Williams
• A Single Thread - Tracy Chevalier
• H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
• My Dear Hamilton - Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
• Snow - John Banville
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Becoming Jane Eyre - Sheila Kohler
• Simon, the Fiddler - Paulette Giles
• The Last Painting of Sara DeVos - Dominic Smith
• Monogomy - Sue Miller
• All The Devils - Louise Penny
• Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
• The Dressmaker - Kate Alcott
• Hemmingway's Girl - Erika Robuck
• At the Water's Edge - Sara Gruen
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCrullers
• The Queen of Paris - Pamela Ewen
• The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom
• The Engineer's Wife - Tracey Enerson Wood
• Dear Life - Alice Munro
• Amnesty - Aravind Adiga
• The Sea - John Banville
• We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry
• The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez
• The Bitch - Pilar Quintana
• The Boy in the Field - Margot Livesy
• Sarah Jane - James Sallie
• What Are You Going Through? - Sigrid Nunez
• Nora Webster - Colm Toibin
• The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue
• Chocolat - Joanne Harris​
• The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Ejmezi
• The Moment of Tenderness - Madeline L'Engle
• The Silence - Don DeLillo
• Zorrie - Laird Hunt
• The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
• Redhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler
• Three Hours in Paris - Cara Black
• Infinite Country - Patricia Engel
• Perestroika - Jane Smiley
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick - Zora Neale Hurston
• The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
• The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World - Laura Imai Messina
• The Mountain Sings - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
• The Best Man to Die - Ruth Rendell
• The Photographer - Mary Dixie Carter
• The Last Bookshop in London - Madeline Martin
• The Glovemaker - Ann Weisgarber
• Stargazer - Anne Hillerman
• The Arctic Fury - Greer Macallister
• The Color of Air - Gail Tsukiyama
• Better Luck Next Time - Julia Claiborne Johnson
• Ethel Rosenberg—An American Tragedy - Anne Sebba
• The Woman with the Blue Star - Pam Jenoff
• Girl in Disguise - Greer Macallister
• The Bohemians - Jasmin Darznik
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
• When the Stars Go Dark - Paula McLain
• Like Dust, I Rise - Ginny Rorby
• Transient Desires - Donna Leon

• Whereabouts -  Jhumpa Lahiri​
• Kindred -  Octavia Butler
• The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
• I Was Anastasia - Ariel Lawhon
• ​Bewilderment - Richard Powers
• ​The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo
• I'd Give Anything - Marisa de los Santos