Book Review Index

 

A is for Bee by Ellen Heck

Ace by Angela Chen 
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley 

The Alliance of the Curious by Philippe Riche 

Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti  

American Zoo by David Grazian  

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie  
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie 

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway  

Aperitif by Rebekah Peppler, photos by Joann Pai 

Aquaman: Andromeda by Ram V, art by Christian Ward 

Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft 

The Armed Garden, and Other Stories by David B 

The Art of Cuphead by Studio MDHR 
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by MT Anderson, art by Eugene Yelchin 

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli 

 

 
Bad Dream by Nicole Maines, art by Rye Hickman 

Banding Together by Jennifer Lena  
The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox 

Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told 1 by DC Comics

Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told 2 by DC Comics 

Beautiful Useful Things by Beth Kephart, art by Melodie Stacey 

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa  

Berlin by Jason Lutes

Berlin Girls 1923 edited by Thomas Negovan

Berlin Girls 1925 edited by Thomas Negovan 

The Best American Comics 2009 edited by Charles Burns

The Best American Comics 2010 edited by Neil Gaiman 

The Best American Comics 2011 edited by Alison Bechdel 

The Best American Comics 2012 edited by Francoise Mouly

The Best American Comics 2013 edited by Jeff Smith

The Best American Comics 2014 edited by Scott McCloud 

The Best American Comics 2015 edited by Jonathan Lethem  

The Best American Comics 2016 edited by Roz Chast  

The Best American Comics 2017 edited by Ben Katchor  
The Best American Comics 2018 edited by Phoebe Gloeckner 

The Best American Comics 2019 edited by Jillian Tamaki 

Black Sea by Caroline Eden, photos by Ola Smit and Theodore Kaye 

Black Sun Rising by CS Friedman

Black Water Lilies by Frederick Duval, art by Didier Cassegrain

Blankets by Craig Thompson  

Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells edited by Graydon Carter 

The Book Tour by Andi Watson

The Bookstore Cat by Cylin Busby, art by Charles Santoso 

Building Stories by Chris Ware 

Burning Chrome by William Gibson 

The Burning House edited by Foster Huntington 

The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 

 

 

Capital without Borders by Brooke Harrington

The Cardboard Valise by Ben Katchor 

The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach 

A Case of Conscience by James Blish 

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino

Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang

Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold  

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig 

Children are Civilians Too by Heinrich Boll 

The Christmas Book Flood by Emily Kilgore, art by Kitty Moss 
Chrono Trigger by Michael Williams 

City of Folding Faces by Jayinee Basu  

The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe 

The Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan 

Clue: Candlestick by Dash Shaw

The Comet by Joe Todd-Stanton 

Crush by Richard Siken 

The Curator by Owen King

Cycle of Fire by Hal Clement 

 

 

Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom 

Dark Nights Death Metal by DC Comics 

Dark Nights Death Metal: The Darkest Knight by DC Comics 

Dark Nights Death Metal: Justice League Death Metal by DC Comics 

Dark Nights Death Metal: The Multiverse Who Laughs by DC Comics  

Dark Nights Death Metal: War of the Multiverses by DC Comics 

Dead Memory by Marc-Antoine Mathieu

Deadly Quiet City by Murong Xuecun

Decelerate Blue by Adam Rapp, art by Mike Cavallaro

Demon Days by Peach Momoko

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

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The Devil is Dead by RA Lafferty

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds 

DIE 1 by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans 
DIE 2 by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans 

Dirty Pair Omnibus by Haruka Takachiho, art by Hisao Tamaki

Discarded Science by John Grant 
Donald's Happiest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim, art by Nicolas Keramidas 

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by INJ Culbard

Ducks by Kate Beaton

Duckworth, the Difficult Child by Michael Sussman, art by Julia Sarda

 

  

Earthbound by Ken Baumann 

Easy Tiki by Chloe Frechette, photos by Lizzie Munro

An Editor's Burial edited by David Brendel

Engine Summer by John Crowley

Ex Libris by Matt Madden

Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau 
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 

 

 

Fables 18: Cubs in Toyland by Bill Willingham, art by Mark Buckingham 

Factory Summers by Guy Delisle  
Fakes edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer 

The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft

Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross

Fantastic Four: Grand Design by Tom Scioli 

Fantastic Planet by Stefan Wul 

Far Sector by NK Jemisin, art by Jamal Campbell 

Fear of Fighting by Stacey May Fowles, art by Marlena Zubar

Field Glass by Joanna Howard and Joanna Ruocco 

A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg 

The Fifth Science by exurb1a 

Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse 

The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint by Philipp Deines

For the Birds by Elizabeth Cherry

Foreign Bodies by Kimiko Hahn 

The Forest by Alexander Nemerov  

Forest Hills Bootleg Society by Dave Baker and Nicole Goux 

Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis, art by Hannah Templer

 

 

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod, art by Jess Taylor

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe  

Genesis by Jan Sapp 

Gentlemen Callers by Corinne Hoex

Geometric Regional Novel by Gert Jonke

Giantess by JC Deveney, art by Nuria Tamarit 

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Gigantic Worlds edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Giraffes on Horseback Salad by Josh Frank and Time Heidecker, art by Manuela Pertega 

The Girl from the Other Side 1 by Nagabe

The Girl from the Other Side 2 by Nagabe

The Girl from the Other Side 3 by Nagabe 

The Girl from the Other Side 4 by Nagabe 

The Girl from the Other Side 5 by Nagabe 

The Girl from the Other Side 6 by Nagabe

The Girl from the Other Side 7 by Nagabe

The Girl from the Other Side 8 by Nagabe

The Girl from the Other Side 9 by Nagabe 

The Girl from the Other Side 10 by Nagabe 

The Girl from the Other Side 11 by Nagabe  
The Girl That Can't Get a Girlfriend by Mieri Hiranishi 

Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg  

Goliath by Tom Gauld

Goldilocks by Laura Lam 

A Good Book, In Theory by Alan Sears 

Good Mail Day by Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler 

Green Dot by Madeleine Gray  

Gretel and the Great War by Adam Sachs 

Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock

The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Hossain

 

 

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys  

The Hard Switch by Owen Pomery 

Haunter by Sam Alden 

Heavenly Bodies by Paul Koudounaris 

Here by Richard McGuire 

Heroes Reborn by Marvel Comics

High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson 
The History of the Computer by Rachel Ignotofsky 

The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft

How College Works by Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs

How to be Ace by Rebecca Burgess 

How to Make Friends with a Ghost by Rebecca Green  

How to Read Chinese Ceramics edited by Denise Patry Leidy

 

 

Ice by Anna Kavan  

I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr Seuss  
I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Kodama Naoko 

Imelda and the Goblin King by Briony May Smith

Important Artifacts and Personal Property by Leanne Shapton

Impossible Views of the World by Lucy Ives  

Inside the Critics' Circle by Phillipa Chong 

In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster 

The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo 

Invisible Kingdom 3 by G Willow Wilson, art by Christian Ward  

Invisible Planets edited by Ken Liu 

Invisible Things by Andy Pizza and Sophie Miller 

Iranian Love Stories by Jane Deuxard, art by Deloupy 

I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tale art by Ramsingh Urveti 

Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn 

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood 

 

 

The Journey by Francesca Sanna

 

 

Karmen by Guillem March

The King in Yellow by INJ Culbard

Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu

 

 
The Lady Matador's Hotel by Cristina Garcia

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, art by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes 

Leina and the Lord of the Toadstools by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, art by Julia Sarda 

Lent by Jo Walton 

Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson

The Little One by Kiyo Tanaka

Little Witch Hazel by Phoebe Wahl

The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld 

Lost Letters by Jim Bishop  

Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, art by Yas Imamura 

Loveless by Alice Oseman

 

 

A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

The Many Deaths of Lalia Starr by Ram V, art by Philippe Andrade

Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison

The Medieval Machine by Jean Gimpel

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine  

The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos 

Mickey's Craziest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim, art by Nicolas Keramidas

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 

The Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos

Missoula by Jon Krakauer

Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kroger and Melanie Anderson

Moose's Book Bus by Inga Moore 

Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem 

Mudlark by Lara Maiklem

Murder is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens 

Mushroom Rain by Laura Zimmerman, art by Jamie Green 

The Musical Illusionist and Other Tales by Alex Rose 
My Dear Pierrot by Jim Bishop 

Mystic U by Alisa Kwitney, art by Mike Norton 

 

 

Nanotech edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois 

The New Champion of Shazam by Josie Campbell, art by Doc Shaner 

99 Ways to Tell a Story by Mark Madden 

Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock 

No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte 

Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino 
The Nude by Michelle Lindley 

Nutcracker Nation by Jennifer Fisher

 

 

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden  

The One-Bottle Cocktail by Maggie Hoffman, photos by Kelly Puleio 

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon art by Yoshitoshi, edited by Bas Verberk 
One Weekend in January by Carson Ellis 

The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp, art by Manuel Preitano 
Otto by Jon Agee 

 

  

Paintings of Japan - Autumn by Angela Pan

Paintings of Japan - Spring by Angela Pan

Pandora's Planet by Christopher Anvil  

Paper Girls 1 by Brian Vaughan, art by Cliff Chiang 
Paper Girls 2 by Brian Vaughan, art by Cliff Chiang 

Part of Your World by Stephanie Strohm, art by Kelly Matthews and Nicole Matthews   

The Pastel City by John Harrison  

Petra by Marianna Coppo  

The Phantom Scientist by Robin Cousin  

Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld 

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci, art by Jim Rugg  

The Planet in a Pickle Jar by Martin Stanev 

The Plastic Magician by Charlie Holmberg 
Playing with Books by Jason Thompson 

Pollen from a Future Harvest by Derek Kunsken 

Possession by Erin Thompson

Press Enter to Continue by Ana Galvan 

Pricing the Priceless Child by Viviana Zelizer 

The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City by Brandon Leach

The Pursuit of Attention by Charles Derber

Putin's Russia by Darryl Cunningham

 

 

The Queen in the Cave by Julia Sarda

A Quick and Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez 

A Quick and Easy Guide to They / Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson 

 

 

Radial Symmetry by Katherine Larson

Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney 

Radioactive by Lauren Redniss 

Rasputin's Bastards by David Nickle

Rat Rule 79 by Rivka Galchen, art by Elana Megalos 

The Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger  

The Real Dada Mother Goose by John Scieszka, art by Julia Rothman 

Re Bound by Jeannine Stein 

Reality Hunger by David Shields 

Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami

The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua

Retronaut edited by Chris Wild

Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld 

The Rider, the Ride, the Rich Man's Wife by Premee Mohamed  

Ringworld by Larry Niven 

The Royal Society by Adrian Tinniswood  

The Runaway Road by Stan Mack 

RUR by Karel Capek

 

 
Sabine's Notebook by Nick Bantock 

Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky 

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

Scent and Subversion by Barbara Herman

Sea of Stars 1 by Jason Aaron and Dennis Hallum, art by Stephen Green

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel 

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft 

Sensation by Nick Mamatas  

The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction edited by Isaac Asimov, Charles Waugh, and Martin Greenberg

7th Time Loop 1 by Touko Amekawa, art by Hinoki Kino

7th Time Loop 2 by Touko Amekawa, art by Hinoki Kino  

7th Time Loop 3 by Touko Amekawa, art by Hinoki Kino 

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe  

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black  

The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo 

Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" by Miles Hyman  

Short Life in a Strange World by Toby Ferris  

Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki 

Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner 

The Skull by Jon Klassen

The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme

A Small Miracle by Peter Collington 

Soviet Asia edited by Robert Conte and Stefano Perago 

Spelunky by Derek Yu 

Squire by Nadia Shammas, art by Sara Alfageeh

Star Wars Infinities by Marvel Comics 

Star Well by Alexei Panshin 

Status and Culture by David Marx  

A Steampunk Carol by Luca Frigerio, art by Lorenzo Pigliamosche

The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos 
A Storm of Wings by John Harrison 

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli  

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, art by Chip Kidd 

The Subplot by Megan Walsh

The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett 
Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi 

The Sun by Frans Masereel  

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King, art by Bilquis Evely 

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen by Matt Fraction, art by Steve Lieber

 

 

The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza  

The Tea Dragon Society by K O'Neill 
The Tea Dragon Festival by K O'Neill 

Teen Titans 1: Blinded by the Light by DC Comics 

Teen Titans 2: Rogue Targets by DC Comics 

Teen Titans 3: The Sum of its Parts by DC Comics 

Teen Titans 4: When Titans Fall by DC Comics

Temporary by Hilary Leichter

Terrarium Craft by Amy Bryan Aiello and Kate Bryant, photos by Kate Baldwin

There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm 
There's a Tiger on the Train by Mariesa Dulka, art by Rebecca Cobb 

These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed  
Thieves by Lucie Bryon 

The Third Person by Emma Grove

This is How We Fly by Anna Meriano  
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, art by Jillian Tamaki 

The Three Astronauts by Umberto Eco, art by Eugenio Carmi  

Time Salvager by Wesley Chu 

Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 

Tokyo Jazz Joints by Philip Arneil and James Catchpole

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer  

The Tourist by Robert Dickinson  
Tower Dungeon 1 by Tsutomu Nihei 

Tower Dungeon 2 by Tsutomu Nihei  

Toxic Flora by Kimiko Hahn 

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward

Trapped on Zarkass by Yann, art by Didier Cassegrain 

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Twee by Marc Spitz

 

 

The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies  

Underland by Robert MacFarlane

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

The Undressed Art by Peter Steinhart   

Une Semaine De Bonte by Max Ernst 

 

 

The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

 

 

Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea by CD Rose 

Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton 

We Have Never been Modern by Bruno Latour 

We Only Find Them when They're Dead 1 by Al Ewing, art by Simone Di Meo

Welcome to St Hell by Lewis Hancox 

The West Passage by Jared Pechacek 

What If, Pig? by Linzie Hunter

Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero by E Lockhart, art by Manuel Preitano 

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, art by Don Daily

Winnebago Graveyard by Steven Niles, art by Alison Sampson

A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos

Witch Hat Atelier 1 by Kamome Shirahama

Witch Hat Atelier 2 by Kamome Shirahama 

Witch Hat Atelier 3 by Kamome Shirahama 

Witch Hat Atelier 4 by Kamome Shirahama  

Witch Hat Atelier 5 by Kamome Shirahama 

Witch Hat Atelier 6 by Kamome Shirahama 

Witch Hat Atelier 7 by Kamome Shirahama  

Witch Hat Atelier 8 by Kamome Shirahama 

Witch Hat Atelier 9 by Kamome Shirahama  
Witch Hat Atelier 10 by Kamome Shirahama  
Witch Hat Atelier 11 by Kamome Shirahama 

The Wolf's Secret by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, art by Julia Sarda 

Wonder Woman: Dead Earth by Daniel Warren Johnson  

The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth by Rachel Ignotofsky  

Wuhan Diary by Fang Fang 

 

 

Yellow Kayak by Nina Laden, art by Melissa Castrillon 

The Yellow 'M' by Edgar Jacobs