Books

On this page you will find links to the books I have reviewed on Carole's Chatter.   Another way to find books you might enjoy is to head on over to this Pinterest board

List of Books Reviewed with Links to my posts about them

By Author
Fiction
Abbott, Rachel - Stranger Child
Ahern, Cecilia - One Hundred Names 
Atkinson, Kate - Case Histories 
One Good Turn 
Atwood, Margaret - The Testaments 
Anthony, Kate - Beautiful Day
Backman, Fredrik - A Man Called Ove , Britt-Marie Was Here 
Balson, Ronald H - The Girl From Berlin 
Barnes, Julian - The Sense of An Ending 
Barnett, Laura - Greatest Hits  
Bauermeister, Erica - Joy for Beginners  ;  The School of Essential Ingredients   ,
The Lost Art of Mixing
Belsky, RG - The Last Scoop 
Yesterday's News   , Beyond The Headlines ,
Berg, Elizabeth - The Story of Arthur Truluv 
Bignell, Meg - The Sparkle Pages
Bivald, Katarina - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Blackwell, Juliet - The Paris Key 
Bracewell, Patricia - Shadow on the Crown 
Branard, Lynne - Traveling Light
Brosh, Allie - Hyperbole & A Half 
Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code 
Brown, Karma - Recipe for a Perfect Wife
Burke, Alafair - The Better Sister 
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - A Little Princess  
Cabot, Meg - Royal Wedding  ;
Size 12 is not Fat 
The Boy is Back  
Center, Katherine - How To Walk Away  , Things You Save In A Fire 

Chadwick, Elizabeth - The Summer Queen , The Winter Crown , The Autumn Throne
Chamberlain, Diane - The Stolen Marriage 
 The Dream Daughter  Big Lies in a Small Town
Child, Lee - The Midnight Line, Blue Moon

Clark, Julie - The Last Flight
Clark, Marcia - Guilt by Association
Colgan, Jenny - The Little Shop of Happy Ever After 
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games ,Catching Fire  Mockingjay  , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Connelly, Michael - The Lincoln Lawyer  

Cousens, Sophie - This Time Next Year  
Dave, Laura - Hello, Sunshine  

Dawson, Maddie - Matchmaking For Beginners    , The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness , A Happy Catastrophe 
Delargy, James - 55  
Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul - The Reader on the 6.27,
The Rest of Their Lives
Dobson, Melanie - Chateau of Secrets
Donati, Sara - The Gilded Hour  
Dugoni, Robert - The Eighth Sister 
My Sister's Grave 
Eberlen, Kate - Miss You 
Egan, Elisabeth -  A Window Opens 
Ephron, Nora - HeartBurn  
Evanovich, Janet -
Top Secret Twenty-One 
Tricky Twenty-Two
Turbo Twenty-Three   

Fortune and Glory (Tantalizing 27)
Evanovich, Janet & Peter - The Big Kahuna  
Evanovich, Janet & Goldberg, Lee - The Scam
The Job ,  
The Chase
 

Evanovich, Janet & Hamilton, Steve - The Bounty 

Evanovich, Janet & Sutton, Phoef - Wicked Charms 
                                                  Curious Minds
Faulkes, Sebastian - Birdsong 

Feldman, Ellen - Paris Never Leaves You  
Fellowes, Julian - Belgravia 
Fforde, Katie - A Springtime Affair   
Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Finder, Joseph - The Switch  
Fitzhenry, Amy - Cold Feet
Flynn, Gillian -  Gone Girl  
Flynn, Kathleen A - The Jane Austen Project 

French, Dawn - Because of You   
Gabaldon, Diana - Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Galbraith, Robert - The Silkworm
                         The Cuckoo's Calling , Lethal White ,Troubled Blood  
Genova, Lisa - Every Note Played 
George, Nina - The Little Breton Bistro  
Gilbert, Elizabeth - City of Girls 
Gilley, Jane - The Woman Who Kept Everything  
Godden, Rumer - In This House of Brede  
Goldberg, Lee - Lost Hills  , Bone Canyon  
Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
Gregory, Philippa - The Taming of the Queen
                         - Three Sisters, Three Queens
The Kingmaker's Daughter  ,
The Last Tudor
Gruen, Sara - Water For Elephants  

Harmel, Kristin - The Book of Lost Names 

Harms, Kelly - The Overdue Life of Amy Byler  
Harris, Anstey - Goodbye, Paris 
Harris, Joanne - Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure
Hawley, Noah - Before The Fall  

Haywood, Sarah - The Cactus   
Hepworth, Sally - The Things We Keep  ,  The Good Sister
Heyer, Georgette - Frederica 
Snowdrift , Bath Tangle  

Higgins, Kristan - Always the Last to Know 
Honeyman, Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine  
Hornak, Francesca - Seven Days Of Us  
Humphreys, Helen - The Evening Chorus 
Hyde, Catherine Ryan - Allie and Bea   

Jaffe, Meredith - The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
James, Erica - The Dandelion Years 
Jewell, Lisa - The House We Grew Up In  
Johnson, Julia Claiborne - Be Frank With Me 
Johnson, Milly - The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew 
The Queen of Wishful Thinking  

Joyce, Rachel - The Music Shop 
Keyes, Marian - The Woman Who Stole My Life  , Grown Ups
Keirnan, Stephen P - The Baker's Secret  

King, Kerry Anne - A Borrowed Life , Closer Home 
Kinsella, Sophie - My (not so) Perfect Life
Kovac, Christina - The Cutaway  
Ladd, Sarah - The Heiress of Winterwood 
Larrson, Stieg - Girl with a Dragon Tattoo  
Laurain, Antoine - The Red Notebook  , 
The President's Hat 
Smoking Kills  
Lauren, Christina - Roomies 
Lee, Min Jin - Free Food For Millionaires  

Leigh, Judy - Heading Over The Hill , A Grand Old Time  
Loigman, Lynda Cohen - The Wartime Sisters 
Lundberg, Sofia - The Red Address Book  
Lynch, Sarah-Kate - The Wedding Bees
Manby, Chrissie - A Proper Family Holiday
Mansell, Jill - The Unpredictable Consequences of Love , Maybe This Time
Martin, Charles - The Mountain Between Us 
Mawer, Simon - Tightrope
McInerney, Monica - Hello From The Gillespies 
McTiernan, Dervla - The Ruin , The Scholar
Michaelides, Alex - The Silent Patient  
Moriarty, Laura - The Chaperone  

Moore Graham - The Holdout 
Moyes, JoJo - After You,The Ship of Brides,  Me Before You , Still Me
Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise  
Nixon, Rosie -  The Stylist 
Noble, Elizabeth - Letters to Iris 
Norton, Graham - A Keeper  
Oakley, Colleen - Close Enough To Touch
O'Brien, Deborah - The Trivia Man 

Paolini, Christopher - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars 
Patrick, Phaedra - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper  ,
Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone   
The Secrets of Love Story Bridge
Patterson, James & Clinton, Bill - The President is Missing 
Pearse, AJ - Dear Mrs Bird   
Pearson, Allison - I Don't Know How She Does It   How Hard Can It Be?
Pellegrino, Nicky - One Summer in Venice 
Penman, Sharon - The Land Beyond the Sea 
Piazza, Jo - Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win 
Picoult, Jodi - Small Great Things 
Potter, Alexandra - Love From Paris 
Prescott, Lara - The Secrets We Kept 
Quick, Matthew - The Silver Linings Playbook
Quindlen, Anna - Still Life with Breadcrumbs 
Quinn, Kate - The Alice Network , The Rose Code
Reid, Penny - Neanderthal Seeks Human 
Robinson, Tammy - Photos of You   
Robson, Jennifer -  Moonlight Over Paris  , Somewhere in France
Roland, Talli - The Pollyanna Plan  
Rosen, Renee - Park Avenue Summer 
Roth, Veronica - Divergent , Insurgent
Rowell, Rainbow - Eleanor & Park 
Rowland, Louise - The Girls' Book of Priesthood 
Rowling, JK - The Casual Vacancy 
Ryan, Jennifer - The Chilbury Ladies' Choir  , The Kitchen Front 
Sanderson, Jane - Mix Tape  
Schumacher, Julie - Dear Committee Members 
Semple Maria - Where'd You Go, Bernadette  ,Today Will Be Different
Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society 
Sharp, Margery - The Nutmeg Tree  
Shattuck, Shari - Invisible Ellen 
Shipman, Viola - The Summer Cottage , The Heirloom Garden
Shute, Nevil - No Highway 
Simons, Jake Wallis - The English German Girl
Simonson, Helen - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Simsion, Graeme - The Rosie Effect  The Rosie Project
Simsion, Graeme & Buist, Anne - Two Steps Forward  
Sparks, Nicolas - Every Breath You Take  
Spielman, Lori Nelsen - Sweet Forgiveness 
Spiers, Hilary -  Hester & Harriet,  
Love, Lies & Linguine
Stovall, Jim - The Ultimate Gift
Townsend, Sue - The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year 
Trollope, Joanna - Sense & Sensibility
Tunnicliffe, Hannah - Season of Salt & Honey
Tyler, Anne - Vinegar Girl ,    

Redhead by the Side of the Road
Digging to America 
Clock Dance  

Verant, Samantha - The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux 
Vincent, Bruno - Five Go On A Strategy Away Day , Five Go Parenting 
Wall, Cara - The Dearly Beloved
Watson, Winifred - Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Waxman, Abbi - The Garden of Small Beginnings , The Bookish Life of Nina Hill 
Weinstein, Rochelle B -
This Is Not How It Ends 

Weir, Alison - Katherine Parr, The Sixth Wife
Weir, Andy - The Martian   Artemis , Project Hail Mary ,
White, Gillian -  Rich Deceiver
Wiehl, Lis - The Candidate 
Wilhide, Elizabeth - Ashenden 
Williams, TA - Dreaming of Venice 
Woods, Eva - Something Like Happy  , The Lives We Touch 

Youngson, Anne - The Narrowboat Summer 
Zimmerman, Vicky - The Woman Who Wanted More 
Zusak, Marcus - I Am The Messenger , 
The Book Thief

Non-Fiction
Albom, Mitch - Finding Chika

Alexander, William - Flirting with French
Anselmo,  Lisa - My (Part Time) Paris Life
Ansley, Bruce &  Ussher, Jane - Islands 
Bailey, Jake - What Cancer Taught Me  
Baines, Emily Ansara - The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook 
Barnes, Darlene - Hungry 
Barnes, Julian - The Pedant in the Kitchen 
Bogel, Anne - I'd Rather Be Reading  
Booth, Martin - Gweilo  
Borman, Tracy - The Private LIves of the Tudors
Bryson, Bill - The Road to Little Dribbling
                   At Home: A Short History of Private Life  
Bythell, Shaun - The Diary of a Bookseller  
Canora, Marco - Brodo 
Colwin, Laurie - Home Cooking
Crowe, Kelsey & McDowell, Emily - There is No Good Card For This: What to say and do when life is scary, awful, and unfair to people you love 
Duhigg, Charles - The Power of Habit 
Eger, Dr Edith Eva - The Choice 
Fechtor, Jessica - Stir 

Flanagan, Kitty - 488 Rules For Life   
Flinn, Kathleen - The Sharper the Knife the Less You Cry
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School  
Foley E & Coates B - What would Boudicca Do? 
Gay, Roxane - Hunger 
Gawande, Atul - Better , Being Mortal,
The Checklist Manifesto
Gilbert, Elizabeth -  Big Magic
Giramonte, Lisa Borgnes - Novel Interiors
Gladwell, Malcolm - David & Goliath Talking to Strangers  
Gleeson, Erin - The Forest Feast for Kids  
Gompertz, Will - What Are You Looking At?  
Gottlieb, Lori - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone 
Graham, Katherine - A Personal History
Hanagarne, Josh - The World's Strongest Librarian 
Hanff, Helene - 84 Charing Cross Road  ,The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Harford, Tim - Fifty Inventions That Shaped The Modern Economy   
Hazan, Marcella - Ingredienti 
Henson, Emily - Be Bold: Interiors for the Brave of Heart  
Hood, Ann - Kitchen Yarns  
Jiang, Jia - Rejection Proof  
Johnson, Boris - The Churchill Factor   
Karbo, Karen - How Georgia Became O'Keefe , In Praise of Difficult Women
Kerman, Piper - Orange is the New Black
Keyes, Marian - Saved by Cake
Kondo, Marie - Spark Joy  
Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird 

Langbein, Annabel - Bella   
Le, Stephanie - Easy Gourmet
LeClerc, Julie - Hot Pink Spice Saga 
Lende, Heather - Find The Good   
Martin, Sasha - Life From Scratch
Mathias, Peta - Hot Pink Spice Saga 
McKeown, Greg - Essentialism 
Mohannadi, Kamin - Bella Figura
Moran, Caitlin - Moranifesto  , More Than A Woman
Mustich, James - 1000 Books to Read Before You Die  
Nosrat, Samin - Salt Fat Acid Heat 

O'Sullivan, Vincent - The Dark is Light Enough 

Pan, Jessica - Sorry I'm Late I Didn't Want to Come  
Pennac, Daniel - The Rights of the Reader 
Philpott, Mary Laura - I Miss You When I Blink  
Quindlen, Anna - Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir
Rajesh, Monisha - Around The World in 80 Trains  
Reichl, Ruth - My Kitchen Year
Delicious   , Save Me The Plums
Reilly, Winifred M - It Takes One To Tango 
Robertson, Nichole - Paris in Color 
Rosenberg, Liz - House of Dreams
Rubin, Gretchen - Happier At Home  , The Happiness Project
Ruhlman, Michael - Ruhlman's Twenty 

Russell, Helen - The Year of Living Danishly 
Sandberg, Sheryl - Lean In
Saunders, Jennifer -  Bonkers
Slater, Nigel - Toast 
Simmons, Sylvie - I'm Your Man   
Smillie, Justin - Slow Fires 
Stewart, Chris - Driving Over Lemons
Thorisson, Mimi - A Kitchen in France
Usher, Shaun - Lists of Note 
Usher, Shaun - More Letters of Note 
Verant, Samantha - Seven Letters from Paris, 
How To Make a French Family   
Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle 
Wax, Ruby - A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled
Weiss, Luisa - My Berlin Kitchen  
Westover, Tara - Educated  
Wizenberg, Molly - A Homemade Life  

Graphic/Comics/Illustrated
Andersen, Sarah - Adulthood is a Myth
Apse, Andris -  Spirit of the South 
Bantock, Nick - Griffin & Sabine
Bornholdt, Jenny - A Book is a Book
Chast, Roz - Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 
Going Into Town 
Chavouet, Florent - Tokyo on Foot 
Crouse, William - The Art Deco Poster  
De La Mare, Guinevere - I'd Rather Be Reading  
Dodd, Lynley - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
Dujardin, Helene - Plate to Pixel 
Feder, Tyler - Dancing at the Pity Party  
Friedlander, Marti - Self-Portrait   
Gaines, Julie - Minding The Store
Gleeson,Erin -
The Forest Feast Mediterranean
Green, Katie - Lighter Than My Shadow
Greenspan, Dorie - Around My French Table 
Grigson, Sophie - Spices  

Ha, Robin - Almost American , Cook Korean!
Hart, Tom - Rosalie Lightning 

Hattori, Yuki - What Cats Want 
Heald, Henrietta - La Vie Est Belle 
Hiassen, Carl -  Assume the Worst
Jaffrey, Madhur - Curry Easy  
James Martin's French Adventure 
Kalman, Maira - Ah-hA to Zig Zag , My Favorite Things , The Principles of Uncertainty,
Cake  
Kitchen, Leanne & Suvalko, Antony - The Real Food of China 
Knisley, Lucy - Displacement: A Travelogue , An Age of License,
Something New    
Relish
Laing, Sarah - Mansfield and Me
Macdonald, Kate - The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook  
Mackesy, Charlie - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse  
MacLeod, Janice - Paris Letters
A Paris Year   
Mount, Jane - Bibliophile 
Obata, Fumio - Just So Happens  
Pankhurst , Kate -  Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Patel, Meera Lee - My Friend Fear 

Pyle, Nathan W - Strange Planet 
Roux, Michel - Eggs  , Cheese 
Rowling JK - The Illustrated Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Risbridger, Ella - Midnight Chicken 
Ruhlman, Michael - Egg 

Sanders, Ella Frances - Lost in Translation 

Snider, Grant - I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf 

Sweet, Melissa - Some Writer!  The Story of E.B. White  , The Right Word
Swift, Vivian - Le Road Trip 
Szymanik, Melinda - Clever Moo
Tuck, Sarah - Coming Unstuck 
Tung, Debbie - Quiet Girl in a Noisy World  , Book Love
Webster, Jane - French House Chic  , French Ties