Book Reviews by Author, Q-Z

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• Vivaldi's Virgins by Barbara Quick

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• The Wonder Singer by George Rabasa


• The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe


• The Shakespeare Thefts by  Eric Rasmussen


• The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn


• Catch Me if You Can by Stan Redding & Frank Abagnale Jr.


• Tales of Woe by John Reed


• The Dracula Dossier by James Reese


• The Black Count by Tom Reiss


• Anne Rice
  
  
  • Angel Time (Songs of the Seraphim #1)
  
  
  • Of Love and Evil (Songs of the Seraphim #2)
  
  


• Above All Things by Tanis Rideout


• The Discovery of Jeane Baret by Glynis Ridley


• Rick Riordan
  
  
  • Percy Jackson
  
  
  • The Lightning Thief
  
  
  • The Sea of Monsters
  
  
  • The Titan's Curse
  
  
  • The Battle of the Labyrinth
  
  
  • The Last Olympian
  
  
  • Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Demigod Files
  
  
  • The Heroes of Olympus
  
  
  • The Lost Hero
  
  
  • The Son of Neptune
  
  
  • The Mark of Athena
  
  
  • Kane Chronicles
  
  
  • The Red Pyramid
  
  
  • The Throne of Fire
  
  
  • The Serpent's Shadow
  
  


• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach


• Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love by Chris Roberson & Shawn McManus


• Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts


• Fashion Victims by Michael Roberts


• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson


• Home by Marilynne Robinson


• Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch


• The Heartbreak Diet by Thorina Rose

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• Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco


• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


• The White Mary: A Novel by Kira Salak


• Tan Lines by J. J. Salem


• The Encore Effect by Mark Sanborn


• Paper: An Elegy by Ian Sansom


• Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos


• Museum of Human Beings by Colin Sargent


• Illusionology (Ologies #11) by Albert D. Schafer


• The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert


• The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert


• The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schechter


• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: A Graphic Novel by Danusia Schejbal, Robert Louis Stevenson & Andrzej Klimowski


• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff


• So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz


• The Candidates (Delcroix Academy) by Inara Scott


• Lisa See
  
  
  • Shanghai Girls
  
  
  • Dreams of Joy
  
  


• William Shakespeare
  
  
  • Henry V: The Graphic Novel
  
  
  • Macbeth: The Graphic Novel
  
  


• The Mermaid of Brooklyn by Amy Shearn


• Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley


• The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood


• Young Miss Holmes: Casebook 1-2 by Kaoru Shintani


• Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto


• Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell


• Intertwined by Gena Showalter


• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart


• The Anatomy Lesson by Nina Siegal


• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie


• Mummies in Nineteenth Century America by Robert Singerman & S. J. Wolfe


• American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld


• The Book of Nonsense by David Michael Slater


• Royal Mistress by Anne Easter Smith


• I, robot by Howard S. Smith


• Iago by David Snodin


• Strange Maine by Michelle Souliere


• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman


• Our Lady of the Potatoes by Duncan Sprott


• The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak


• Empress of the Night by Eva Stachniak


• An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage


• China Chic: East Meets West by Valerie Steele, John S. Major


• Dugald Steer
  
  
  • Dragonology (Ologies #1) with Dr. Ernest Drake
  
  
  • Egyptology (Ologies #2) with Emily Sands
  
  
  • Wizardology (Ologies #3) with Master Merlin
  
  
  • Pirateology (Ologies #4) with Capt. William Lubber
  
  
  • Mythology (Ologies #5) with Lady Hestia Evans
  
  
  • Monsterology (Ologies #6) with Dr. Ernest Drake
  
  
  • Spyology (Ologies #7) with Spencer Blake
  
  
  • Oceanology (Ologies #8) by Zoticus de Lesseps
  
  


• Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan by Aimee Major Steinberger


• Take a Shot! by Jake Steinfeld and Dave Morrow


• Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff


• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: A Graphic Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrzej Klimowski & Danusia Schejbal


• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl


• The Registry by Shannon Stoker


• Will Storr vs. the Supernatural by Will Storr


• The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) by Jonathan Stroud


• Keiko Suenobu
  
  
  • Limit Vol. 1
  
  
  • Limit Vol. 2
  
  
  • Limit Vol. 3
  
  
  • Limit Vol. 4
  
  
  • Limit Vol. 5
  
  
  • Limit Vol. 6
  
  


• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale


• Magical JxR Vol. 1 by Lee Sun-Young


• The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at Its Peak by Jason Surrell


• Verily, Verily: The KJV by Jon Sweeney


• Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado

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• Shigeyoshi Takagi
  
  
  • Flower in a Storm, Vol. 1
  
  
  • Flower in a Storm, Vol. 2
  
  


• Rin-Ne Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi


• Naoko Takeuchi
  
  
  • Codename: Sailor V, Vol. 1
  
  
  • Codename: Sailor V, Vol. 2
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 1
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 2
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 3
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 4
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 5
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 6
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 7
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 8
  
  
  • Sailor Moon, Vol. 9
  
  
  • Sailor Moon Vol. 10
  
  
  • Sailor Moon Vol. 11
  
  
  • Sailor Moon Vol. 12
  
  
  • Sailor Moon Short Stories Vol. 1
  
  
  • Sailor Moon Short Stories Vol. 2
  
  


• Short-Tempered Melancholic and Other Stories by Arina Tanemura


• Wormwood by G. P. Taylor


• The Girl Who Became A Beatle by Greg Taylor


• The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro


• Swallowing the Earth by Osamu Tezuka


• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Marvel Illustrated) by Roy Thomas, Oscar Wilde & Sebastian Fiumara


• A Curious Man: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley by Neal Thompson


• Where Am I Wearing? by Kelsey Timmerman


• The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien


• Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy & Ben H. Winters


• The Cavalier Mr. Thompson by Rich Tommaso


• The Day of Revolution Vol. 1 by Mikiyo Tsuda


• A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama


• The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama


• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Genevieve Tucholke


• Carolyn Turgeon
  
  
  • Mermaid: A Twist on a Classic Tale
  
  
  • The Fairest of Them All
  
  


• Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley

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• Tail of the Moon, Vol. 1 by Rinko Ueda


• Bunny Drop Vol. 1 by Yumi Unita


• Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth


• Mushishi Vol. 1 by Yuki Urushibara

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• The Wishing Thread by Lisa Van Allen


• Engines of the Broken World by Jason VanHee


• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde


• Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde


• Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent


• Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things (Mister Max #1) by Cynthia Voigt


• The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell


• Susan Vreeland
  
  
  • The Passion of Artemisia
  
  
  • Clara and Mr. Tiffany
  
  

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• The Bogie Man by John Wagner & Alan Grant


• The Ordinary Acrobat by Duncan Wall


• Fairy Garden Handbook by Liza Gardner Walsh


• Sea Enchantress: The Tale of the Mermaid and Her Kin by Arthur Waugh & Gwen Benwell


• Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner


• Alison Weir
  
  
  • Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
  
  
  • The Lady Elizabeth
  
  
  • A Dangerous Inheritance
  
  


• College Girl by Patricia Weitz


• Scott Westerfeld
  
  
  • Leviathan (Leviathan #1)
  
  
  • Behemoth (Leviathan #2)
  
  


• Jeane Westin
  
  
  • The Virgin's Daughters
  
  
  • His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
  
  


• The Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer by Lucy Weston


• Dr. Horrible by Zack Whedon


• Bound South by Susan Rebecca White


• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Marvel Illustrated) by Oscar Wilde, Roy Thomas & Sebastian Fiumara


• Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind by John Wiley Jr and Ellen Brown


• The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig


• Peter & Max: A Fables novel by Bill Willingham


• Fairest Vol. 1 (Fables) by Bill Willingham & Phil Jimenez


• Connie Willis
  
  
  • Blackout
  
  
  • All Clear
  
  


• Ben H. Winters
  
  
  • Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters
  
  
  • Android Karenina
  
  
  • Bedbugs
  
  


• The French Blue by Richard W. Wise


• Rain Song by Alice J. Wisler


• The XX Factor by Alison Wolf


• Mummies in Nineteenth Century America by S. J. Wolfe & Robert Singerman


• The Poison Diaries by Maryrose Wood


• Cindy Woodsmall
  
  
  • When the Heart Cries
  
  
  • When the Morning Comes
  
  
  • When the Soul Mends
  
  


• The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski


• Beautiful as Yesterday by Fan Wu

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• Gene Luen Yang
  
  
  • Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Promise, Part One
  
  
  • Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Promise, Part Two
  
  
  • Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Promise, Part Three
  
  
  • Avatar: the Last Airbender - The Search, Part One
  
  
  • Avatar: the Last Airbender - The Search, Part Two
  
  
  • Avatar: the Last Airbender - The Search, Part Three
  
  
  • Avatar: the Last Airbender - The Rift, Part One
  
  


• Dragon Road by Laurence Yep


• Not Love But Delicious Foods Makes Me So Happy! by Fumi Yoshinaga


• Evyione: Ocean Fantasy Vol. 1 by Kim Young-Hee

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• The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon


• The Girl Below by Bianca Zander


• Lunatics by Alan Zweibel and Dave Barry

ANTHOLOGIES/COMPILATIONS (by title)

• Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures edited by Mike Richardson


• Extraordinary Engines edited by Nick Gevers


• Maiden, Matron, Crone edited by Kerrie Hughes, Martin H. Greenberg


• Showcase Presents: Ghosts Vol. 1 edited by Murray Baltinoff & Ian Sattler


• Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black, Justine Larbelestier