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Dune by Frank Herbert

Cannonball Read / Blonde Savant

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Cannonball Read / Tyler DFC

Do You Like Women? Read This Book!

Cannonball Read: Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn / Lang

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker

Cannonball Read / Kelsy

They Call Me Mad Dog: A Story for Bitter, Lonely People by Erika Lopez

Cannonball Read / MySharona

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

Cannonball Read / Jen K.

It's No Good Pretending That Any Relationship Has a Future If Your Record Collections Disagree Violently

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby / Dustin Rowles

Once Again, Making the Incredible Seem Absolutely Believable

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger / Jennifer McKeown

Cannonball Read II: In My Pants

The Second Season Begins November 1st / Nicole Fuscia

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice

Cannonball Read / Rusty

No Sunshine and Rainbows Thursday!

The Pact by Jodi Picoult / Nicole Fuscia

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Cannonball Read / Sophia

Literary Xanax

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer / Nicole Fuscia

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Cannonball Read / Carrie

Ripped: How The Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot

Cannonball Read / Rusty

Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick

Cannonball Read / Jen

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Cannonball Read / Sophia

To the Brink of Death and Back Again

The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper / Nicole Fuscia

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston

Cannonball Read / Rusty

Ridiculously, Absurdly, Terrifically Craptastic

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown / Jennifer McKeown

Here's an alphabetical listing of all our Book Reviews:

"Look Me in the Eye" by John Elder Robison

Storm Front and Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

"Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer

"Skinny Bitch" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin

"The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell

"Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri

'The Female Thing' by Laura Kipnis and 'Full Frontal Feminism' by Jessica Valenti

2009 Book Preview

7th Heaven Book Review

A Certain Chemistry by Mil Millington

A Dirty Job Book Review

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Book Review

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Long Way Down Book Review

A Mercy Book Review

A Promise to Ourselves Book Review

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns -- Khaled Hosseini

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The

Across the Great Divide: The Band and America by Barney Hoskyns

Almost Moon, The by Alice Sebold

American Gods Book Review

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke

Anansi Boys Book Review

Anathem Book Review

Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan

Arkansas

Armageddon in Retrospect

Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Assassination Vacation Book Review

Assassination Vacation Vowell

At the Bottom of the Garden by Diane Purkiss

B is for Beer, by Tom Robbins, Book Review

Band Geek Book Review

Beat the Reaper Book Review

Beautiful Boy Book Review

Beautiful Children by Charles Bock

Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Beginner's Greek James Collins

Bel Canto Book Review

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian

Blaze by Stephen King

Blinded by the Right by David Brock

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Bonk by Mary Roach Review

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

Bram Stokers Dracula Book Review

Brasyl

Brasyl by Ian McDonald

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Book Review

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz

Brutal Language of Love

Bury Me Standing Book Review

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

Cannonball 5K Winner

Cannonball Leaders January 2009

Cannonball Read

Cannonball Read - Winner

Cannonball Read Season Two

Captain Freedom Book Review

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Catcher in the Rye Book Review

Caught Stealing Book Review

Child 44

Child 44 Tom Rob Smith

Cider House Rules Book Review

City of Bones by Michael Connelly

Closer to the Light by Melvin Morse

Clown Girl Book Review

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Confessions of an Ugly Step-Sister Book Review

Cross Country by James Patterson

Darkly Dreaming Dexter Book Review

Dead Star Twilight by Chez Pazienza

Dead as a Doornail Book Review

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

Death by Black Hole Book Review

Death with Interruptions

Definitely Dead Book Review

Dexter in the Dark Book Review

Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Last Straw Book Review

Dreams of my Father Book Review

Driving with Dead People Book Review

Drood by Dan Simmons

Duma Key

Dumbocracy Book Review

Dumbocracy by Marty Beckerman

Dune by Frank Herbert

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Eat Pray Love Book Review

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

Endgame 1945 Book Review

Enter the Zone by Barry Sears

Escape Book Review

Every Dead Thing Book Review

Everyday Drinking

Everything is Illuminated

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Book Review

Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin

Fall of the House of Bush, The

Firestarter by Stephen King

Five Trashy Romance Novels

Fool Book Review

Fool by Christopher Moore

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

Franny and Zooey

Fuzzy Navel

Ghost Story Peter Straub

Gladiator: A True Story of Roids, Rage and Redemption by Dan Clark a.k.a. Nitro

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Halting State by Charles Stross

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Heart-Shaped Fame Junkies

Hell House Book Review

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Review

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

History is Dead Book Review

Hit Man by Lawrence Block

Home by Marilynne Robinson

How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on the Earth) by Henry Alford

Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey

I Am America, And So Can You

I Am Legend Book Review

I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle

Ibid: A Life by Mark Dunn

Ice Station by Matt Reilly

If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell

If I Am Missing or Dead Book Review

In a Sunburned Country and Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson

In the Woods

Infinite Jest Book Review

Infinite Noose David Foster Wallace

Inkheart Book Review

Invisible Monsters Book Review

Jane Eyre Book Review

Juliet, Naked Review Nick Hornby

Just After Sunset

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Kavalier and Clay Book Review

Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori L. Tharps

Kissing in Manhattan Book Review

Let the Right One In Book Review

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Look Again Lisa Scottoline Review

Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

Lost Light Book Review

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Lowboy by John Wray

Lullabies for Little Criminals Book Review

Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews

March Book Review

Mars and Venus on a Date

McSweeneys Joke Book of Book Jokes

Mein Kampf Book Review

Men with Balls by Drew Magary

Michael Palin's New Europe

Middlesex Book Review

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Book Review

Miles to Go by Miley Cyrus Book Review

My Booky Wook Review

My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler

My Lobotomy by Howard Dully

My Sister, My Love

Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey

Naked Economics Book Review

Neil Gaiman, Norman Mailer, Pablo Escobar, and Child Prodigies

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Nickel and Dimed Review

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Not that Kind of Girl by Carlene Bauer

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

On Writing by Stephen King

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer

Our Lady of the Forest: David Guterson

Out of My Skin by John Haskell

Personal Effects: Dark Art by Jordan Weisman

Pest Control by Bill Fitzhugh

Pictures at a Revolution

Please Stop Laughing at Me ...

Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Book Review

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Prometheus Rising Robert Anton Wilson

Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America

Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich

Right Livelihoods Book Review

Ripped: How The Wired Generation Revolutionized Music

Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard

Road, The by Cormac McCarthy

Roasting in Hell's Kitchen Book Review

Rorschach's Ribs Book Review

Rosemary's Baby Book Review

Rule by Secrecy Book Review

Rust and Bone Book Review

Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball

Say You're One of Them Book Review

Scorsese by Ebert by Roger Ebert

Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Silent Bob Speaks Book Review

Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

Slam Book Review Nick Hornby

Slam by Nick Hornby

Small Gods Book Review

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Snuff Chuck Palahniuk

Some Like It Wicked

Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde

Soon I Will Be Invincible

Soon I Will Be Invincible Book Review

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Spy: The Funny Years Book Review

Still Alice Book Review

Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The

Straight Man Book Review

Strange Skies by Matt Marinovich

Such a Pretty Fat Book Review

Summers of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

Tale of Despereaux Book Review

Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

Tales of Beedle the Bard Book Review

Tesseract by Alex Garland

The Abstinence Teacher Book Review

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Book Review

The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman

The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson Book Review

The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson Review

The Answer is Always Yes

The Blade Itself Book Review

The Blonde on the Train Book Review

The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver

The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley

The Commitment by Dan Savage

The Confessions of Max Tivoli Book Review

The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt

The Development by John Barth

The Drive-In: A Double-Feature Omnibus

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

The Edge of Reason by Bridget Jones

The Enchantress of Florence

The Eyre Affair Book Review

The Fat Girl's Guide to Life Book Review

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

The Good Thief Book Review

The Grasshopper King by Jordan Ellenberg

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaima

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

The Handmaid's Tale Book Review

The Happiest Man in the World Book Review

The Haunted Looking Glass

The Haunting of Hill House and Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

The Keeper by Sarah Langan

The Last Oracle by James Rollins

The Laws of Attraction Book Review

The Lie by Chad Kultgen

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice

The Lost Symbol Review (Dan Brown)

The Love Dare Book Review

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Monsters of Florence Book Review

The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology by BC Sproul

The Name of the Wind Book Review

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Book Review

The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Other

The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

The Pact by Jodi Picoult

The Penelopiad Book Review

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve

The Plot Against America Book Review

The Poisonwood Bible Book Review

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith

The Shack by Wm Paul Young

The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

The Soul Thief

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale