Rambles: fiction reviews

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Joshilyn Jackson
• Between, Georgia

Liam Jackson
• Offspring

Melanie Jackson
• The Selkie

Shirley Jackson
• The Haunting of Hill House

Beth Jacobs
• Lizards in Sturgis

T.D. Jakes
• Cover Girls (audiobook)

Marie Jakober
• The Black Chalice
• Even the Stones

Cary James
• King & Raven

L. Frank James
• Mr. Inside

P.D. James
• Death Comes to Pemberley

Roby James
• Beyond the Hedge

Terry James
• The Rapture Dialogues: Dark Dimension

Stephan Jaramillo
• Going Postal
• The Scoundrel

Randall Jarrell
• The Animal Family

Claude Jasmin
• Pleure Pas Germaine

Patrick K. Jassoy
• It Isn't Easy Being Johnny Style

Stacey Jay
• Dead on the Delta

Jerry B. Jenkins
• The Youngest Hero (audiobook)

David Jerome
• Roastbeef's Promise

Jerome K. Jerome
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!)

Craig Alan Johnson
• Wave Watcher

Kij Johnson
• The Fox Woman
• Fudoki

Susan B. Johnson
• Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting

Sean Johnston
• All This Town Remembers

Diana Wynne Jones
• Charmed Life
• Dark Lord of Derkholm
• Deep Secret
• Dogsbody
• The Magicians of Caprona
• The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
• Witch Week

Frewin Jones
• The Faerie Path #3: The Sorcerer King

Kathryn Elizabeth Jones
• A River of Stones

Terry Jones & Brian Froud
• The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins
• Strange Stains & Mysterious Smells

James David Jordan
• Double Cross
• Forsaken
• Something That Lasts

Robert Jordan
• The Wheel of Time, Book 1: The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan & Teresa Patterson
• The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

Brian Joseph
• The Gift of Gabe

Graham Joyce
• Dark Sister
• Dreamside
• Indigo
• Requiem
• The Tooth Fairy

William Joyce
• Santa Calls

Theodore Judson
• Fitzpatrick's War

Okeyo A. Jumal
• Spiritual Shackles

Ernst Jünger
• The Glass Bees

Norton Juster
• The Phantom Tollbooth, illustrated by Jules Feiffer

mini index
• Guy Gavriel Kay
• Paul Kearney
• Susan Kearney
• Brian Keene
• Faye Kellerman
• Stephen King
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Ellen Kushner

Carrie Kabak
• Cover the Butter

Richard Kadrey
• Sandman Slim

Tammy Kaehler
• Dead Man's Switch

Jeanne Kalogridis
• The Devil's Queen

Daniel Kamin
• Ruby of the Realms

Kurt L. Kamm
• One Foot in the Black: A Wildland Firefighter's Story

Michael Kanaly
• Virus Clans

Seth Kantner
• Ordinary Wolves

Lauren Kate
• Fallen

Robert F. Kauffmann
• The Mask of Ollock

Guy Gavriel Kay
• Beyond This Dark House
• The Fionavar Tapestry #1: The Summer Tree
• The Fionavar Tapestry #2: The Wandering Fire
• The Fionavar Tapestry #3: The Darkest Road
• The Last Light of the Sun
• The Lions of Al-Rassan
• The Sarantine Mosaic #1: Sailing to Sarantium
• The Sarantine Mosaic #2: Lord of Emperors
• A Song For Arbonne
• Tigana

Marvin Kaye, editor
• The Dragon Quintet
• The Vampire Sextette

Paul Kearney
• The Second Empire
• Ships from the West

Susan Kearney
• The Challenge
• The Dare
• Midnight Magic, with Rebecca York & Jeanie London
• The Ultimatum

Mark Keating
• The Pirate Devlin

John A. Keel
• The Mothman Prophecies

Wayne J. Keeley
• Mahogany Row

Brian Keene
• City of the Dead
• The Conqueror Worms
• Dark Hollow
• Dead Sea
• Ghost Walk
• Kill Whitey
• The Rising

Sabine Keevil
• Guitars & Cadillacs
• Long Way Home

N.M. Kelby
• In the Company of Angels

Faye Kellerman
• The Garden of Eden & Other Criminal Delights (audiobook)
• Stone Kiss (audiobook)
• Straight into Darkness (audiobook)
• Street Dreams (audiobook)

Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
• Double Homicide (audiobook)

Marjorie B. Kellogg
• The Dragon Quartet #4: The Book of Air

James Patrick Kelly
• Strange But Not a Stranger

Richard W. Kelly
• Testament

Ronald Kelly
• Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Tales

James Kelman
• You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

Nic Kelman
• Girls

Chris Kemp, Byron Merritt & Ken Jones, editors
• Monterey Shorts 2: More on the Line

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
• Blackmantle
• The Deer's Cry

Julie Kenner
• Carpe Demon

Alexander Kent
• Richard Bolitho, Midshipman
• Midshipman Bolitho & the Avenger
• Band of Brothers
• Stand into Danger
• In Gallant Company
• Sloop of War
• To Glory We Steer
• Command a King's Ship
• Passage to Mutiny
• With All Despatch

Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Dark Hunter #7: Seize the Night

S.K. Keogh
• The Prodigal

Carolyn Kephart
• Wysard

Peg Kerr
• Emerald House Rising
• The Wild Swans

Philip Kerr
• The Second Angel

Jackie Kessler
• Hell on Earth #1: Hell's Belles
• Hell on Earth #2: The Road to Hell
• Hell on Earth #3: Hotter Than Hell

Larry Ketchersid
• Dusk Before the Dawn

Samuel M. Key (a.k.a. Charles de Lint)
• Angel of Darkness

M. Salahuddin Khan
• Sikander

Sue Monk Kidd
• The Mermaid Chair
• The Secret Life of Bees

James Kidman
• Black Fire

Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Low Red Moon
• Threshold

Susan Kiernan-Lewis
• Toujours Dead

Lee Killough
• Blood Games

Eric Kimmel
• Hershel & the Hanukkah Goblins

Haven Kimmel
• Iodine

Nanci Kincaid
• As Hot as It Was, You Ought to Thank Me

Patrice Kindl
• Goose Chase
• Lost in the Labyrinth

Dave King
• The Ha-Ha (audiobook)

Ron King
• The Quantum July

Stephen King
• Bag of Bones
• Black House, with Peter Straub
• Blockade Billy
• Carrie
• Cell
• The Colorado Kid
• The Dark Tower #1: The Gunslinger
• The Dark Tower #2: The Drawing of the Three
• The Dark Tower #3: The Waste Lands
• The Dark Tower #4: Wizard & Glass
• The Dead Zone
• Different Seasons
• 11/22/63
• From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness
• Insomnia
• Lisey's Story
• Misery
• Pet Sematary
• 'Salem's Lot
• The Stand
• The Talisman, with Peter Straub
• see also The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book

Karen Kingsbury
• Like Dandelion Dust
• A Thousand Tomorrows

Zinna Kingsley
• The Lord of Dream & Metal

Barbara Kingsolver
• Pigs in Heaven
• The Poisonwood Bible
• Prodigal Summer

Rich Kisielewski
• Da Bushes

Mindy L. Klasky
• The Glasswrights' Journeyman
• The Glasswrights' Test

Travis Klingaman
• The Battle Within

E.E. Knight
• Vampire Earth #1: The Way of the Wolf
• Vampire Earth #2: Choice of the Cat

Lorna Joy Knox
• Two Tales of Mystery

Karen Koehler
• Slayer

Joseph Koenig
• False Negative

Jackie French Koller
• The Keepers #1: A Wizard Named Nell

E.L. Konigsburg
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Elizabeth Kostova
• The Historian (audiobook)

Ed Kramer & Neil Gaiman, editors
• The Sandman: Book of Dreams

Justin Kramon
• Finny

Steven Krane
• Stranger Inside

Daniel Kraus
• The Monster Variations
• Rotters

Nancy Kress
• Crossfire
• Nebula Awards Showcase: The Year's Best SF & Fantasy 2003 (editor)

Susan Krinard, Tanith Lee & Evelyn Vaughn
• When Darkness Falls

Robert Kroese
• The Force is Middling in This One
• Mercury Falls

Daniel Krummenacher
• Tierrazul

Milan Kundera
• Ignorance

Kaoru Kurimoto
• The Guin Saga Book 1: The Leopard Mask

Katherine Kurtz
• Deryni Tales, editor
• In the King's Service

Allen Kurzweil
• The Grand Complication

Ellen Kushner
• The Fall of the Kings, with Delia Sherman
• The Horns of Elfland (editor)
• Swordspoint
• Thomas the Rhymer

mini index
• Mercedes Lackey
• Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
• Tanith Lee
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Gail Carson Levine
• Paul Levine
• Beverly Lewis
• Denise Little
• Morgan Llywelyn

Camilla Lackberg
• The Ice Princess

Mercedes Lackey
• Alta
• The Black Swan
• Brightly Burning
• Burning Water
• Exile's Honor
• Exile's Valor
• The Fairy Godmother
• The Firebird
• The Fire Rose
• The Gates of Sleep
• Jinx High
• Joust
• Knight of Ghosts & Shadows, with Ellen Guon
• Phoenix & Ashes
• The River's Gift
• Sacred Ground
• The Serpent's Shadow
• Sun in Glory & Other Tales of Valdemar, editor
• Take a Thief
• The Valdemar Companion, edited by John Helfers & Denise Little

Elizabeth Laird
• The Betrayal of Maggie Blair

Sionbhe Lally
• A Hive for the Honeybee

Wally Lamb
• I Know This Much is True

Mercedes Lambert
• Dogtown/Soultown

Louis L'Amour
• The Haunted Mesa

Margo Lanagan
• Tender Morsels

Mary Lancaster
• The Endless Exile

Geoffrey A. Landis
• Impact Parameter & Other Quantum Realities

Kelli Sue Landon
• Nightmare at Camp Forrestwood

Sue Lange
• Tritcheon Hash

Katherine Langrish
• Troll Blood

Joe R. Lansdale
• Dead Aim
• Hyenas
• Zeppelins West

Lori Lansens
• The Girls
• Rush Home Road (audiobook)

Kathryn Larrabee
• An Everyday Savior

Ward Larsen
• Fly By Wire

Ellen Larson
• The Measure of the Universe

James Richard Larson
• The Right Thing

Batton Lash
• Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre: Case Files, Vol. II

William Lashner
• A Killer's Kiss

Linda A. Lavid
• Paloma

Ann Lawrence
• Do You Believe?

Michael Lawrence
• Withern Rise #1: A Crack in the Line

Carol Lay
• Mythos

Richard Laymon
• Bite

David Leavitt
• The Page Turner

Whitney LeBlanc
• Shadows of the Blues

Tim Lebbon
• After the War
• Berserk
• Fears Unnamed

John LeCarre
• Absolute Friends (audiobook)

Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird

J. Ardian Lee
• Outlaw Sword
• Sword of King James

Sally O. Lee
• The Rabbit & the Snowman

Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
• Balance of Trade
• Carpe Diem
• Conflict of Honors
• I Dare
• Low Port, editors
• Scout's Progress

Tanith Lee
• The Claidi Journals #1: Wolf Tower
• Dark Castle, White Horse
• Gold Unicorn
• Piratica
• Voyage of the Basset #1: Islands in the Sky
• When Darkness Falls, with Susan Krinard & Evelyn Vaughn
• White as Snow

Ursula K. Le Guin
• Gifts
• The Other Wind
• Powers
• Tales from Earthsea
• Tehanu
• A Wizard of Earthsea

Norma Lehr
• Dark Maiden

Stanislaw Lem
• Mortal Engines

Elmore Leonard
• LaBrava

Peter Lerangis
• Antarctica: Escape from Disaster

Rebecca Lerwill
• Relocating Mia

Jonathan Lethem
• The Fortress of Solitude
• Motherless Brooklyn

Billie Letts
• Shoot the Moon (audiobook)

Steven Levenkron
• The Best Little Girl in the World
• Kessa

David Leviatan
• The Mummy

Alan J. Levine
• The Adventures of Short Stubbly Brownbeard

Gail Carson Levine
• Ella Enchanted
• The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Paul Levine
• Solomon vs. Lord
• Solomon vs. Lord #2: Deep Blue Alibi
• Solomon vs. Lord #3: Kill All the Lawyers
• Solomon vs. Lord #4: Trial & Error

Paul Levinson
• The Consciousness Plague
• The Plot to Save Socrates

Marc Joel Levitt
• Tales of an October Moon

Beverly Lewis
• Annie's People #1: The Preacher's Daughter
• Annie's People #2: The Englisher
• Annie's People #3: The Brethren
• The Courtship of Nellie Fisher #1: The Parting
• The Heritage of Lancaster County #1: The Shunning
• The Heritage of Lancaster County #2: The Confession
• Sanctuary, with David Lewis