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Books reviewed by BookBrowse First Impression Reviewers

Becoming Madam Secretary (04/03/24)
Leaving (03/20/24)
Wild and Distant Seas (02/07/24)
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily (11/01/23)
All You Have to Do Is Call (10/18/23)
A Council of Dolls (08/23/23)
Banyan Moon (08/23/23)
King of the Armadillos (07/12/23)
The Wager (06/21/23)
Panther Gap (06/21/23)
Clytemnestra (05/03/23)
This Other Eden (04/05/23)
Once We Were Home (03/15/23)
Moonrise Over New Jessup (03/15/23)
Exiles (03/15/23)
Stealing (03/01/23)
Wade in the Water (03/01/23)
Ghost Season (02/15/23)
River Sing Me Home (02/01/23)
The Nazi Conspiracy (01/18/23)
In the Time of Our History (01/04/23)
Our Missing Hearts (10/19/22)
Dinosaurs (10/19/22)
Dirt Creek (08/24/22)
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden (08/24/22)
Some of It Was Real (08/03/22)
The Poet's House (08/03/22)
Jackie & Me (08/03/22)
The Lies I Tell (06/22/22)
Housebreaking (04/20/22)
Take My Hand (04/20/22)
Two Storm Wood (04/06/22)
Peach Blossom Spring (04/06/22)
The Last Grand Duchess (03/02/22)
Free (02/16/22)
The Family Chao (02/02/22)
Honor (01/19/22)
Beasts of a Little Land (01/05/22)
Flesh & Blood (10/20/21)
The Last Chance Library (09/08/21)
A Million Things (09/08/21)
At the Chinese Table (08/18/21)
When Broadway Was Black (08/04/21)
Crossing the River (08/04/21)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars (07/14/21)
The Personal Librarian (07/14/21)
Ariadne (05/19/21)
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman (05/05/21)
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World (03/17/21)
The Lost Apothecary (03/03/21)
The Prophets (01/20/21)
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie (01/20/21)
Stories from Suffragette City (01/20/21)
Piranesi (10/07/20)
A Girl is A Body of Water (09/16/20)
Migrations (09/02/20)
The Smallest Lights in the Universe (09/02/20)
The Last Train to Key West (06/24/20)
The Stone Girl (06/24/20)
The Paris Hours (05/06/20)
Miss Austen (05/06/20)
Afterlife (04/22/20)
The Women with Silver Wings (04/22/20)
The Mountains Sing (04/08/20)
The Splendid and the Vile (03/18/20)
The Yellow Bird Sings (03/04/20)
The Sun Down Motel (03/04/20)
Lady Clementine (02/05/20)
American Dirt (01/22/20)
Father of Lions (01/08/20)
Becoming (12/04/19)
The Seine (10/30/19)
Mighty Justice (10/30/19)
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt (10/02/19)
Yale Needs Women (09/18/19)
The Secrets We Kept (09/18/19)
Travelers (08/21/19)
Ellie and the Harpmaker (08/21/19)
The Volunteer (07/31/19)
The Last Collection (07/10/19)
The Guest Book (05/29/19)
Courting Mr. Lincoln (05/15/19)
Greek to Me (05/15/19)
The Last Year of the War (03/20/19)
American Princess (03/20/19)
The Night Tiger (02/20/19)
The Lost Man (02/20/19)
Sounds Like Titanic (02/20/19)
The Kinship of Secrets (01/23/19)
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (11/14/18)
A Ladder to the Sky (11/14/18)
Clock Dance (08/29/18)
Meet Me at the Museum (08/15/18)
America for Beginners (08/01/18)
A Place for Us (06/20/18)
The Girl Who Smiled Beads (05/02/18)
The House of Broken Angels (04/04/18)
Sometimes I Lie (03/21/18)
Only Child (02/21/18)
Next Year in Havana (02/21/18)
Mothers of Sparta (02/07/18)
The Chalk Man (01/24/18)
The Story of Arthur Truluv (11/15/17)
Never Coming Back (11/01/17)
Seven Days of Us (10/18/17)
Love and Other Consolation Prizes (10/04/17)
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby (10/04/17)
The Twelve-Mile Straight (09/06/17)
The Heart's Invisible Furies (08/23/17)
The Almost Sisters (08/23/17)
Happiness (08/23/17)
The Garden of Small Beginnings (05/31/17)
If We Were Villains (05/03/17)
Edgar and Lucy (04/05/17)
Mercies in Disguise (04/05/17)
Castle of Water (04/05/17)
Caught in the Revolution (03/22/17)
A Piece of the World (03/08/17)
I See You (02/15/17)
The Second Mrs. Hockaday (02/01/17)
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (01/18/17)
Cruel Beautiful World (10/05/16)
News of the World (10/05/16)
The Book That Matters Most (08/24/16)
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (08/24/16)
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko (08/24/16)
A Certain Age (07/13/16)
Miss Jane (07/13/16)
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper (05/04/16)
Tuesday Nights in 1980 (04/06/16)
The Midnight Watch (04/06/16)
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins (03/16/16)
What Lies Between Us (02/17/16)
The Opposite of Everyone (02/17/16)
The Forgetting Time (02/03/16)
The Things We Keep (01/20/16)
Fallen Land (01/20/16)
The Sound of Gravel (01/06/16)
When the Moon Is Low (10/07/15)
Jade Dragon Mountain (09/02/15)
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes (09/02/15)
Girl Waits with Gun (09/02/15)
Circling the Sun (07/22/15)
Fishbowl (07/22/15)
Letters to the Lost (06/03/15)
Whispering Shadows (04/15/15)
Lusitania (03/04/15)
The Same Sky (02/18/15)
A Kim Jong-Il Production (02/04/15)
The Nightingale (02/04/15)
Descent (01/07/15)
Vanessa and Her Sister (01/07/15)
The Book of Strange New Things (10/15/14)
Island of a Thousand Mirrors (09/03/14)
The Romanov Sisters (06/18/14)
The Devil in the Marshalsea (06/18/14)
Enduring Courage (06/04/14)
Mimi Malloy, At Last! (04/09/14)
The Race Underground (02/19/14)
Under the Wide and Starry Sky (01/22/14)
The Shock of The Fall (01/08/14)
A Man of His Own (10/02/13)
The Scavenger's Daughters (10/02/13)
How the Light Gets In (09/04/13)
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (07/24/13)
Amy Falls Down (07/24/13)
Her Last Breath (07/10/13)
The Lion in the Lei Shop (07/10/13)
The Laws of Gravity (05/22/13)
Fever (05/08/13)
Eighty Days (03/20/13)
The House Girl (03/06/13)
Calling Me Home (02/20/13)
The Aviator's Wife (01/23/13)
Bone River (01/09/13)
Illuminations (10/31/12)
The Art Forger (10/31/12)
Live by Night (10/03/12)
The Headmaster's Wager (09/19/12)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (08/22/12)
The Light Between Oceans (08/22/12)
The Secrets of Mary Bowser (06/28/12)
Oxford Messed Up (06/14/12)
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (05/30/12)
All Woman and Springtime (05/16/12)
A Land More Kind Than Home (05/02/12)
The Good Father (04/04/12)
King Peggy (03/14/12)
A Good American (02/15/12)
No Mark Upon Her (02/15/12)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (02/15/12)
The Orphan Master's Son (02/01/12)
Defending Jacob (02/01/12)
Three Weeks in December (02/01/12)
Across Many Mountains (10/19/11)
The Night Circus (09/21/11)
The Language of Flowers (09/07/11)
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (08/04/11)
Turn of Mind (07/13/11)
Jamrach's Menagerie (07/13/11)
A Good Hard Look (07/13/11)
Pearl of China (04/20/11)
The Beauty of Humanity Movement (04/06/11)
Ever By My Side (03/09/11)
The Paris Wife (03/09/11)
Raising Wrecker (02/16/11)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (02/03/11)
Little Princes (02/03/11)
Bury Your Dead (10/20/10)
City of Tranquil Light (10/06/10)
The Wave (10/06/10)
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise (09/22/10)
Juliet (09/08/10)
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici (08/04/10)
A Fierce Radiance (07/08/10)
Losing My Cool (05/19/10)
The Hand that First Held Mine (05/19/10)
Daughters of the Witching Hill (05/05/10)
The Scent of Rain and Lightning (05/05/10)
The Queen's Lover (05/05/10)
Heresy (03/03/10)
Making Toast (03/03/10)
The Bricklayer (02/17/10)
The Wives of Henry Oades (02/17/10)
Alice I Have Been (01/13/10)
The Crossing Places (01/13/10)
State by State (11/05/09)
The Lieutenant (10/07/09)
South of Broad (09/23/09)
Sweeping Up Glass (08/12/09)
The Angel's Game (07/08/09)
The Earth Hums in B Flat (06/10/09)
The Walking People (05/21/09)
Burnt Shadows (05/06/09)
The Last Secret (04/22/09)

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