Rambles: fiction reviews

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J

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

Judith Janeway
• The Magician's Daughter

Anna Jansson
• Strange Bird

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)

Lisa Jensen
• The Witch from the Sea

David Jerome
• Roastbeef's Promise

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

Paulette Jiles
• News of the World

Craig Alan Johnson
• Wave Watcher

Deborah Johnson
• The Secret of Magic

Kij Johnson
• The Fox Woman
• Fudoki

Lauren Johnson
• The Arrow of Sherwood

Susan B. Johnson
• Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting

Sean Johnston
• All This Town Remembers

Dan Jones
• Essex Dogs
• Essex Dogs #2: Wolves of Winter

Diana Wynne Jones
• Charmed Life
• Dark Lord of Derkholm
• Deep Secret
• Dogsbody
• Howl's Moving Castle
• 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

M.J. Joseph
• The Lubecker

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

Mari Jungstedt
• Killer's Art

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
• Avoidable Contact
• Dead Man's Switch

Jeanne Kalogridis
• The Devil's Queen

Daniel Kamin
• Ruby of the Realms

Kurt Kamm
• One Foot in the Black: A Wildland Firefighter's Story
• Tunnel Visions

Michael Kanaly
• Virus Clans

Seth Kantner
• Ordinary Wolves

Phyllis Ann Karr
• Frostflower & Thorn

Leslie Karst
• Death al Fresco: A Sally Solari Mystery

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
• Witches & Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic Old & New

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
• Darkness on the Edge of Town
• 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

Asamatsu Ken
• Queen of K'n-Yan

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

Julie Kenner
• Carpe Demon

Alexander Kent (also see Douglas Reeman)
• Richard Bolitho #1a: Richard Bolitho, Midshipman
• Richard Bolitho #1b: Midshipman Bolitho & the Avenger
• Richard Bolitho #1c: Band of Brothers
• Richard Bolitho #2: Stand into Danger
• Richard Bolitho #3: In Gallant Company
• Richard Bolitho #4: Sloop of War
• Richard Bolitho #5: To Glory We Steer
• Richard Bolitho #6: Command a King's Ship
• Richard Bolitho #7: Passage to Mutiny
• Richard Bolitho #8: With All Despatch
• Richard Bolitho #9: Form Line of Battle!
• Richard Bolitho #10: Enemy in Sight!
• Richard Bolitho #11: The Flag Captain
• Richard Bolitho #12: Signal -- Close Action!
• Richard Bolitho #13: The Inshore Squadron
• Richard Bolitho #14: A Tradition of Victory
• Richard Bolitho #15: Success to the Brave
• Richard Bolitho #16: Colours Aloft!
• Richard Bolitho #17: Honour This Day
• Richard Bolitho #18: The Only Victor
• Richard Bolitho #19: Beyond the Reef
• Richard Bolitho #20: The Darkening Sea
• Richard Bolitho #21: For My Country's Freedom
• Richard Bolitho #22: Cross of St. George
• Richard Bolitho #23: Sword of Honour
• Adam Bolitho #24: Second to None
• Adam Bolitho #25: Relentless Pursuit
• Adam Bolitho #26: Man of War
• Adam Bolitho #27: Heart of Oak
• Adam Bolitho #28: In the King's Name
• (Read reviews of books by Alexander Kent's alter-ego, Douglas Reeman.)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Dark Hunter #7: Seize the Night

S.K. Keogh
• The Prodigal

Valerie Keogh
• The Dublin Murder Mysteries #1: No Simple Death
• The Dublin Murder Mysteries #2: No Obvious Cause
• The Dublin Murder Mysteries #3: No Past Forgiven
• The Dublin Murder Mysteries #4: No Memory Lost
• The Dublin Murder Mysteries #5: No Crime Forgotten
• The Dublin Murder Mysteries #6: No Easy Answer

Carolyn Kephart
• Ryel Saga #1: Wysard
• Ryel Saga #2: Lord Brother

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
• Software by the Kilo

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

Crystal Hana Kim
• The Stone Home

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

Amy Sarig King
• Attack of the Black Rectangles

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
• Gwendy's Button Box, with Richard Chizmar
• Holly
• Insomnia
• Joyland
• Lisey's Story
• The Long Walk (writing as Richard Bachman)
• Misery
• Pet Sematary
• Rage (writing as Richard Bachman)
• Roadwork (writing as Richard Bachman)
• The Running Man (writing as Richard Bachman)
• '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

Leslie Dana Kirby
• The Perfect Game

Peter Kirsanow
• Target Omega

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

R.J. Koreto
• The Turnbull Murders: A Historic Homes Mystery

Ted Korsmo
• Wayzata

Elizabeth Kostova
• The Historian (audiobook)

Mary Robinette Kowal
• Valour & Vanity

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

William Kent Krueger
• Heaven's Keep: A Cork O'Connor Mystery

Daniel Krummenacher
• Tierrazul

Ken Kuhlken
• The Good Know Nothing: A California Century Mystery

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
• Louis L'Amour
• 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
• Trio of Sorcery
• The Valdemar Companion, edited by John Helfers & Denise Little

Elizabeth Laird
• The Betrayal of Maggie Blair

Jay Lake
• Endurance

Soinbhe Lally
• A Hive for the Honeybee

Wally Lamb
• I Know This Much is True

Charles Lambert
• The Bone Flower

Mercedes Lambert
• Dogtown/Soultown

Dewey Lambdin
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #1: The King's Coat
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #2: The French Admiral
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #3: The King's Commission
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #4: The King's Privateer
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #5: The Gun Ketch
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #6: H.M.S. Cockerel
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #7: A King's Commander
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #8: Jester's Fortune
• The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie #9: King's Captain

Louis L'Amour
• Brionne
• The Burning Hills
• Crossfire Trail
• Dark Canyon
• The Empty Land
• Fallon
• The First Fast Draw
• Flint
• The Haunted Mesa
• Hondo
• The Key-Lock Man
• Kilrone
• Kiowa Trail
• Last Stand at Papago Wells
• The Man from Skibbereen
• Radigan
• Reilly's Luck
• Shalako
• Silver Canyon
• The Tall Stranger
• To Tame a Land
• Utah Blaine
• War Party
THE SACKETTS
• Ride the River
• The Daybreakers
• Sackett
• Lando
• Mojave Crossing
• Mustang Man
• The Sackett Brand
• The Lonely Men
• The Sky-Liners
• Galloway
• Treasure Mountain
• Ride the Dark Trail
• Lonely on the Mountain
THE CHANTRYS
• Ride the River
• Borden Chantry
• North to the Rails
• Over on the Dry Side
THE TALONS
• The Man from the Broken Hills
• Ride the Dark Trail

Margo Lanagan
• The Brides of Rollrock Island
• Tender Morsels

Mary Lancaster
• The Endless Exile

Geoffrey A. Landis
• Impact Parameter & Other Quantum Realities

Victoria Landis
• Jordan

Kelli Sue Landon
• Nightmare at Camp Forrestwood

Robert Lane
• Cooler Than Blood

John Lange (Michael Crichton)
• Binary
• Drug of Choice
• Easy Go
• Grave Descend
• Odds On
• Scratch One
• The Venom Business
• Zero Cool

Sue Lange
• Tritcheon Hash

Katherine Langrish
• Troll Blood

Jane Langton
• Homer Kelly Mysteries #16: The Escher Twist

Andrew Lanh
• Caught Dead

Joe R. Lansdale
• Black Hat Jack: The True Life Adventures of Deadwood Dick, as told by His Ownself
• Dead Aim
• Hyenas
• Leather Maiden
• 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

Stieg Larsson
• Millennium 2: The Girl Who Played with Fire
• Millennium 3: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

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

William Lashner
• A Killer's Kiss

David Laubach
• Witches & Rebels

Linda A. Lavid
• Paloma

Alan Lawrence
• The Continuing Adventures of HMS Surprise #1: The Massacre of Innocents
• The Continuing Adventures of HMS Surprise #2: The Fireships of Gerontas

Ann Lawrence
• Do You Believe?

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

Carol Lay
• Mythos

Richard Laymon
• Bite
• Resurrection Dreams

Steve Leadley
• Pirate Treasure of Cape May

David Leavitt
• The Page Turner

Whitney LeBlanc
• Shadows of the Blues

Tim Lebbon
• After the War
• Berserk
• Fears Unnamed
• The Last Storm

John LeCarre
• Absolute Friends (audiobook)

Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Linda Francis Lee
• The Devil in the Junior League

Sally O. Lee
• The Cake Thief
• 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

Con Lehane
• A 42nd Street Library Mystery: Murder Off the Page

Norma Lehr
• Dark Maiden

Rob Leininger
• Gumshoe Rock

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

Barbara Levenson
• Justice in June

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
• It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles
• 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