Book Title: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
Edited By: Charlotte Mosley
Genre: Non-Fiction/Letters
# of pages: 804
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: A-
Short description/summary of the book: Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the legendary Mitford sisters dances with wit, passion ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Floating Book
Author: Michelle Lovric
Genre: Fiction/Historical
# of pages: 479
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: D
Short description/summary of the book: Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free-spirited sensualist, is the lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises. On the edge of the Grand ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Blind Assassin
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Fiction
# of pages: 637
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: A-
Short description/summary of the book: Ten days after the end of the Second World War, Iris Chase's younger sister, Laura, drove her car off a bridge. More than fifty years on, Iris is remembering Laura's ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Brothers Karamazov
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Genre: Fiction/Historical
# of pages: 974
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: A-
Short description/summary of the book: When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Dimitry, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his ( Read more... )

Book Title: Black Swan Green
Author: David Mitchell
Genre: Fiction
# of pages: 371
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: B
Short description/summary of the book: January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned ( Read more... )

Book Title: Pinkerton's Sister
Author: Peter Rushforth
Genre: Fiction
# of pages: 729
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: E
Short description/summary of the book: New York at the turn of the century, a city bursting with new life as the old century's order makes way for the new. But in the Pinkerton household a nineteenth-century ( Read more... )

Book Title: North and South
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Genre: Fiction/Historical
# of pages: 425
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: B-
Short description/summary of the book: When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted for her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of ( Read more... )

Book Title: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Genre: Fiction
# of pages: 326
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: A+
Short description/summary of the book: In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar finds a key. The key belonged to his father, he's sure of ( Read more... )

Book Title: Prep
Author: Curtis Sittenfield
Genre: Fiction
# of pages: 403
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: B-
Short description/summary of the book: Lee Fiora is a shy, fourteen-year-old when she leaves small town Indiana for Ault School in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Mill on the Floss
Author: George Eliot
Genre: Fiction/Historical
# of pages: 544
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: B+
Short description/summary of the book: Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tuliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and ( Read more... )