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 11
11/22/63, by Stephen King
Arcadia, by Lauren Groff
The Financial Lives Of The Poets, by Jess Walter
Flimsy Little Plastic Animals, by Ron Currie Jr.
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
The History of History, by Ida Hattemer-Higgins
The Instructions, by Adam Levin
The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson
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
Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
The Book of Joe, by Jonathan Tropper
Citizen Vince, by Jess Walter
Everything Changes, by Jonathan Tropper
How To Talk To A Widower, by Jonathan Tropper
In One Person, by John Irving
Kafka On The Shore, by Haruki Murakami
Last Night In Twisted River, by John Irving
Nemesis, by Philip Roth
Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
NW, by Zadie Smith
One Last Thing Before I Go, by Jonathan Tropper
The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace
That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo
We Live In Water: Stories, by Jess Walter
The Zero, by Jess Walter
Hilarious Novels
The Ask, by Sam Lipsyte
Beat The Reaper, by Josh Bazell
Domestic Violets, by Matthew Norman
Fathermucker, by Greg Olear
How I Became A Famous Novelist, by Steve Hely
The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman
Lamb, by Christopher Moore
The Teleportation Accident, by Ned Beauman
The Thieves of Manhattan, by Adam Langer
Truth in Advertising, by John Kenney
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
Going Clear, by Lawrence Wright
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
The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer
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
Underworld, by Don DeLillo
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
All That Is, by James Salter
Angelmaker, by Nick Harkaway
The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro
The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
Bloodroot, by Amy Greene
Bond Girl, by Erin Duffy
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham
C, by Tom McCarthy
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
The Darlings, by Cristina Alger
The Dinner, by Herman Koch
Everything Matters!, by Ron Currie Jr.
Extinction, by Mark Alpert
Faith, by Jennifer Haigh
The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson
Fight For Your Long Day, by Alex Kudera
Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
Fobbit, by David Abrams
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 Heart Broke In, by James Meek
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
HHhH, by Laurent Binet
A Hologram For The King, by Dave Eggers
Hot Pink, by Adam Levin
How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Inferno, by Dan Brown
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
Let The Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
The Lonely Polygamist, by Brady Udall
The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
Love At Absolute Zero, by Christopher Meeks
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, by Teddy Wayne
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes
May We Be Forgiven, by A.M. Homes
The Middlesteins, by Jami Attenberg
The Might Have Been, by Joseph Schuster
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava
The Newlyweds, by Nell Freudenberger
New York: The Novel, by Edward Rutherfurd
Office Girl, by Joe Meno
The Omega Theory, by Mark Alpert
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
P-Z
A Partial History of Lost Causes, by Jennifer Dubois
The Passage, by Justin Cronin
The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
Reamde, by Neal Stephenson
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, by Jonathan Evison
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Room, by Emma Donoghue
Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shine Shine Shine, by Lydia Netzer
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
Sutton, by J.R. Moehringer
Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell
Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan
Tenth of December, by George Saunders
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
Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell
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
Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin
Woke Up Lonely, by Fiona Maazel
The World Without You, by Joshua Henkin
The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers
You Lost Me There, by Rosecrans Baldwin
Zone One, by Colson Whitehead
