Lexacat's List

Having been a fan of Jon Ronson's writing for years, I was thrilled to read this collection of articles. They do go back some time, so ...

In Jensen's new novel, The Uninvited, children across the world are committing horrifying murders of adults, while somehow sharing drea...

While Gretel Erlich obviously feels deeply about Japan, and her experiences there both before and after the tsunami, I did not enjoy this b...

A singularly talented voice. Michelle Orange's propulsively readable essays take the reader across the globe, and through time, but al...

When murdered prostitutes start being found in Providence, made up to look like dead angels, Detective Danny Martell is on the case. But wh...

This was a tour de force of narrative nonfiction, somehow going into medieval dye-making history at the same time as being as readable as a...

This book, along with Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting and The Panic-Free Pregnancy: An OB-...

This book has gripping descriptions of the South Pole research stations, and the claustrophobic setting adds ambience to an already chillin...

The most paranoid man alive? or the most prepared? This entertaining and disturbing book is part confession, part how-to, part amusing nar...

Jen Lancaster's evolution from Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why Y...

This book is a fascinating glimpse into what the author argues is the most transformative time of Sylvia Plath's short life- the summer...

I was unfamiliar with Kelly Oxford's writing, but hoped to enjoy her work as much as I do other blogger-turned-authors, and she did not...

This was a very well written and well done book about how to see the food in front of our eyes, and how to go about eating it! Bill Heavey...

This was the best novel I've read this year, easily. When 2 young girls write to Yuri Andropov in 1982, neither could have known that t...

Vanessa Michael Munroe, a gender-bending bad-a** James (or Jamie?) Bond, is on the case of The Doll Maker- a human trafficker specializing i...

Reminiscent of Nelson De Mille, this is a great beach book. Young student George is thrilled to be invited to a party at the home of the not...

Thought provoking and disturbing, this novel raises questions about how one's childhood can determine one's future, and the seemingl...

This was charming, heart warming, and moving. This father, who writes with such love, sounds like a wonderful man, and I'm so glad he s...

Last one in the Matched series. good wrap up.

Post apocalyptic survival story- Yellowstone.

Talking, surfing wolves. WTF?

Preachy urban YA.

YA abduction trauma drama.

Soul selling nonsense.

Paranormal YA with First People legends and lots of blood harvesting.

Wonderful, funny YA about making a low low low budget zombie movie.

Evil twins!!! Stupid girl!!!

Mental illness, YA, basketball.

Young girl on Jersey Shore, lots of sex.

Teens trapped in an X, with diseases.

??? Surreal apocalyptic paranormal GLBQT YA.

Hist fic, paranormal YA.

Reality TV cooking show, father issues, romance.

Post-apocalyptic scifi with psi-powers.

Daft YA romance.

Fun YA scavenger hunt.

School shooting, trauma drama.

Paranormal YA.

Fantastic non-fiction examining the decline in quality of clothing, and the ethical and environmental damages wrought by disposable fashio...

Hauntingly beautiful post-apocalyptic adult fiction. Hig is a pilot who survived the flu that killed off most of the population, and he an...

Another absurdly enjoyable book in Shepard's increasingly absurd series. The Lying Game is no Pretty Little Liars, but it's still ...

Dark and bitter Amis, again mocking the "feral underclass" of England. Shooting fish in a barrell. Wish he'd attack his own ...

Adorable Anastasia book! Somehow I don't remember this one from my major love of Anastasia Krupnik, so had to give it a read. I love h...

Another fantastic entry into the Jack Reacher thriller series. Everything blows up, Reacher kicks ass, incredibly satisfying.

Excellent dark psychological thriller. Worst. Marriage. Ever. Flynn's elegant style and endless twists make her one of the most inter...

Another funny and sweet entry into the Meg Langslow Caerphilly series.

Disappointing book from Project Runway star Laura Bennett. Too many of the projects were simply adaptations of each other, and as leather ...

Decent mystery about a suburban madam. Good but not striking.

Set over the course of a 3 day WASPY New England island wedding, Seating Arrangements perectly depicts and skewers the faux-genteel worl...

I have to say, I do prefer cookbooks with lots of photos of the finished product, but in this case, I was almost glad not to see images ...

I have been a long term fan and reader of Kunstler, and felt that this was sadly his weakest book yet. He covers much of the same territ...

Very much in the tradition of Michael Crichton, 12.21 is a rollicking, fast paced thriller. Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American artifact res...

Excellent and interesting disaster tourism. Blackwell visits some of the world's most polluted areas, and tries to figure out what kin...

Excellent 4th book in French's Dublin Murder Squad series. Set in a lonely, half-built "luxury estate" on the coast, Detecti...

Post-apocalyptic ice age neo-feudalism in the woods, with a corrupt government dystopia in the cities. Well done. Willo's outsider ski...

ABSURD YA. Set among the Russian aristocracy in the 1890s, I thought this had promise, but the inclusion of vampires, zombies, witches and...

Wonderful and heartfelt collection of short stories. My favorite is the title story, but there were many stong ones among the 13 stories....

Wonderful thoughtful mystery. Charlotte and Nora were 11 when their teenage babysitter dissapeared, and they tried to 'solve' the ...

Absorbing sequel to The Damage Done, set in and around Macchu Pichu.

Excellent mystery with a powerful protagonist. one to follow.

Great sequel to Rot & Ruin. Zombies, etc.

Excellent YA zombie novel.

Phenomenal and inspiring book. Breathtaking.

Another positively miserable Nordic Noir, from the relentlessly depressing Karin Fossum. Bleak and unpleasant.

Very meta B-Book based on a fictional B-movie that has the power to turn viewers into zombies. Fast paced and fun horror, if that's no...

Wonderfully detailed historical fiction set in the days leading up to the eruption of Pompeii.

Pretty much my favorite zombie book, and I read A LOT of zombie books.

Another enjoyable Daisy Dalrymple mystery. Solid series, growing nicely.

Eh. She has some great finds, but obviously is in a large urban market, with a taste for midcentury, neither of which is true of me, so no...

Beautiful and inspiring pieces. So many great ideas and techniques in this, this is one I'd like to own.

expected a funny take on home renovation, similar in tone to The House on First Street  , but despite the fun looking cover and title, ...

Wildly unrealistic historical fiction set at the court of King Charles II. 3 Elizabeths, outspoken island girl Zabby, wealthy but bourgoi...

Cute but predictable and many-times-told story. After making a wish with a mysterious gypsy, Molly wakes up beautiful (seriously) and her...

This was a weird one. Felt like a cross between Hillary Jordan's When She Woke and Twilight, if you can grok it- near future right-win...

Excellent tense thriller set at Bletchley Park during WWII.

Great lusty bodice-y hist fic! I loved this for it's vitality and the realness of the characters as written- I don't know enough ...

Wow- well, this was one I've been so excited to read, but I can't help but wonder if something was (literally) lost in translation...

I was expecting something much more like The Mother Daughter Book Club series, but this had a bit of a darker side. Some really solid wri...

Cute summer romance, set in a historical re-enactment settlement in Maine. Awfully close in plot to Past Perfect, by Leila Sales.

Fantastic history of pre-Plymouth European contact with the Americas.

I still can't stand Palahniuk. This was loathsome.

Decent mystery with a huge red herring and a LOT of characters, but it was nicely done, set around the Chelsea flower show.

I LOVED both of the Carbon Diaries books, and had really high expectations for this one, but it felt like Lloyd, rather than keeping on wr...

Danny has always been close to his grandfather, Da, and during the summer after his senior year, Danny wants to spend as much time as poss...

This was a fast paced mystery, and a decent read, but the police were painted as being such obstructionist dolts that it was ridiculous...

Maria, desperate to leave the small Southern town she lives in, persuades her father and grandmother to let her go stay with her mother in...

Phenomenal thriller. When a ghostwriter is offered the chance to write the autobiography of a former Prime Minister, he jumps at the chan...

This was a really enjoyable, entertaining and moving novel. When Guy's best friend Anoop convinces him to join the school Forensics C...