New Dork Reviews

Below is a list of books I've reviewed since launching The New Dork Review of Books in October, 2009. Presumably, you're on this page to look for recommendations (even if you don't consciously know you are), so hopefully the following categories will be useful to help you browse — and hopefully you can find something here to tickle your fancy. 

The New Dork Top 10
11/22/63, by Stephen King
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Domestic Violets, by Matthew Norman
The Financial Lives Of The Poets, by Jess Walter
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
The History of History, by Ida Hattemer-Higgins
The Instructions, by Adam Levin
Let The Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett
This Is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper 

Novels By My Favorite Writers
After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
The Book of Joe, by Jonathan Tropper
Everything Changes, by Jonathan Tropper
How To Talk To A Widower, by Jonathan Tropper
Kafka On The Shore, by Haruki Murakami
Last Night In Twisted River, by John Irving
Nemesis, by Philip Roth
Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace
That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo 
The Zero, by Jess Walter

Hilarious Novels
The Ask, by Sam Lipsyte
Beat The Reaper, by Josh Bazell
Fathermucker, by Greg Olear
How I Became A Famous Novelist, by Steve Hely
The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman
Lamb, by Christopher Moore
The Thieves of Manhattan, by Adam Langer 

Nonfiction / Memoir
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc., by Jonathan Lethem
In The Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
Oh The Glory Of It All, by Sean Wilsey
On Writing, by Stephen King
Open: An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi
Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell 

Classics
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

Defying Category, or The Rest (A-Z)
(Please note: Just because these books landed in "the rest" category, doesn't mean they're bad. Some of the ones below are actually very, very good: Skippy Dies and Motherless Brooklyn, e.g.)
A-G
The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
Bloodroot, by Amy Greene
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham
C, by Tom McCarthy
Everything Matters!, by Ron Currie Jr.
Faith, by Jennifer Haigh
The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson 
Fight For Your Long Day, by Alex Kudera
A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
A Gate At The Stairs, by Lorrie Moore
Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
The Good Son, by Michael Gruber
The Great Perhaps, by Joe Meno

H-O
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Kapitoil, by Teddy Wayne
Juliet, Naked, by Nick Hornby
The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan
The Leftovers, by Tom Perrotta
The Lonely Polygamist, by Brady Udall
The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
Love At Absolute Zero, by Christopher Meeks
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
New York: The Novel, by Edward Rutherfurd
The Omega Theory, by Mark Alpert
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

P-Z
The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
Reamde, by Neal Stephenson
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Room, by Emma Donoghue
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray
Solar, by Ian McEwan
The Submission, by Amy Waldman
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, by Mark Leyner
Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart
Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell
36 Arguments For the Existence of God, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, by David Mitchell
The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht
Under the Dome, by Stephen King
The Unnamed, by Joshua Ferris
A Visit From The Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion, by Ron Hansen
West of Here, by Jonathan Evison
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander
When The Killing's Done, by T.C. Boyle
The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
You Lost Me There, by Rosecrans Baldwin
Zone One, by Colson Whitehead