Reviews

Please bear with us!  We’re revamping the REVIEWS page to make it easier for you to search. The below list is a compilation of the reviews that our staff has read since Stacked began.   All titles link back to their review on Stacked.  Once the new directory is in place we’ll let you know in our main newsfeed.  Happy reading!

001. Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy - Sarah Bradford (PURCHASE)

002. Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America - Cynthia Eller (PURCHASE)

003. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham (PURCHASE)

004. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation – Lauren Willig (PURCHASE)

005. The Masque of the Black Tulip - Lauren Willig (PURCHASE)

006. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife (PURCHASE)

007. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (PURCHASE)

008. The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett (PURCHASE)

009. The Children of Hurin - J.R.R Tolkien (PURCHASE)

010. The Seduction of the Crimson Rose – Lauren Willig (PURCHASE)

011. Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons (PURCHASE)

012. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon (PURCHASE)

013. Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players - Stefan Fatsis (PURCHASE)

014. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World - Eric Weiner (PURCHASE)

015. Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas – Sarah Brown (PURCHASE)

016. Be Honest – You’re Just Not That Into Him Either - Ian Kerner (PURCHASE)

017. The Summerhouse - Jude Devreaux (PURCHASE)

018. Here Be Dragons – Sharon Kay Penman (PURCHASE)

019. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime – Miles Harvey (PURCHASE)

020. Little Brother – Cory Doctorow (Download)

021. The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More (How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction) – Barry Schwartz (PURCHASE)

022. A Rather Lovely Inheritance – C.A. Belmond (PURCHASE)

023. A Rather Curious Engagement – C.A. Belmond (PURCHASE)

024. It Sucked and then I Cried: How I had a baby, a breakdown, and a much needed margarita – Heather B. Armstrong (PURCHASE)

025. What Would Audrey Do? – Pamela Keogh (PURCHASE)

026. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe (PURCHASE)

027. Tuscan Holiday – Holly Chamberlin (PURCHASE)

028. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates (PURCHASE)

029. Elegance – Kathleen Tessaro (PURCHASE)

030. Innocence – Kathleen Tessaro (PURCHASE)

031. The Flirt – Kathleen Tessaro (PURCHASE)

032.  Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits - Samara O’Shea (PURCHASE)

033. Txting: The Gr8 Db8 – David Crystal (PURCHASE)

034. Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella (PURCHASE)

035. A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books – Alex Beam  (PURCHASE)

036. The Icestorm – Rick Moody (PURCHASE)

037. Double Bind – Chris Bohjalian (PURCHASE)

038. The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monestary  – Janwillem van de Wetering (PURCHASE) 

039. The Year of Pleasures – Elizabeth Berg (PURCHASE)

040. Ulysses – James Joyce

041. In The Darkness There is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune – Louella Bryant (PURCHASE)

042. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (PURCHASE)

043. Love the One You’re With – Emily Giffen (PURCHASE)

044. Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris (PURCHASE)

045. A Killer Stitch – Maggie Sefton (PURCHASE)

046. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman (PURCHASE)

047. Machine Man – Max Berry

048. Whe Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry – Ian Stewart (PURCHASE)

049. Scott Pilgrim – Bryan Lee O’Malley

050. Beowulf  - John MacNamara transation (PURCHASE)

051. The Million Dollar Mermaid – Esther Williams (PURCHASE)

052. Dune – Frank Herbert (PURCHASE) alternative review by Marcelo

053. Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie (PURCHASE)

054. South of the Border, West of the Sun – Huruki Murakami

055. Johnny Hiro – Fred Chao

056. Twenty Wishes – Debbie MacCommer (PURCHASE)

057. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities – Amy Stuart (PURCHASE)

058.  The Reluctant Republic – Frederic Van de Water (OUT OF PRINT)

059. MoonShot: Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon - Alan Sheppard & Deke Slayton (PURCHASE)

060.  Percy Jackson and the Olympians – The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan (PURCHASE)

061. A Fatal Waltz – Tasha Alexander (PURCHASE)

062. White Light – Rudy Rucker

063. Percy Jackson and the Olympians – The Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan (PURCHASE)

064. Percy Jackson and the Olympians – The Titan’s Curse- Rick Riordan (PURCHASE)

065. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking (PURCHASE)

066. Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Julie Powell (PURCHASE)

067. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C O’Brien  (PURCHASE)

068 Without A Map – Meredith Hall (PURCHASE)

069. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle (PURCHASE)

070.  The Island of Doctor Moreau – H.G. Wells (PURCHASE)

071. Her Royal Spyness – Rhys Bowen (PURCHASE)

072. The Sexual Life of Catherine M. – Catherine Millet (PURCHASE)

073. Percy Jackson and the Olympians – The Battle of the Labyrinth – Rick Riordan (PURCHASE)

074. Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan (PURCHASE)

075. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

076. The Lost City of Z – David Grann (PURCHASE)

077. I Love, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti - Giulia Melucci (PURCHASE)

078. Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies) by Justina Chen-Headley

079. Mrs Astor Regrets – Meryl Gordon (PURCHASE)

080. Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby

081. A Mermaid’s Tale – Amanda Adams (PURCHASE)

082. Mein Kampf – Adolph Hitler (PURCHASE)

083. Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu,  Stephen Mitchell Translation (PURCHASE)

084. The Key to the Golden Firebird - Maureen Johnson

085. The Witches – Roald Dahl (PURCHASE)

086. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine – Lauren Willig (PURCHASE)

087. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer (PURCHASE)

088. The Moral Imagination – Gertude Himmelfarb (PURCHASE)

089. Lady Susan – Jane Austen (PURCHASE)

090. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine (PURCHASE)

091. A Royal Pain – Rhys Bowen

092. A Royal Flush – Rhys Bowen

093. Audrey, Wait - Robin Benway

094. Color – Victoria Findlay

095. First French Kiss and Other Traumas – Adam Bagdasarian

096. Christina: Queen of Sweden – Veronica Buckley (PURCHASE)

097. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – David Levithan & Rachel Cohn (PURCHASE)

098. Lady Vernon and Her Daughter – Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino-Bradway (PURCHASE)

099. Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud (PURCHASE)

100.  The Melting Season – Jami Attenberg

101. Seven Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer (PURCHASE)

102. Makers - Cory Doctorow

103. The Further Adventures – Jon Stephen Fink (PURCHASE)

104. The Dolphin People – Torsten Krol (PURCHASE)

105. Memories of the Future: Volume 1 – Wil Wheaton (PURCHASE) series of posts reviewing Star Trek TNG episodes with corresponding chapters

106. Swing that Music – Louis Armstrong (PURCHASE)

107. Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters – Jane Austen & Ben Winters

108. New World Monkeys – Nancy Mauro

109. Peter and Max

110.  Adam’s Curse