Since 1997 I have reviewed new books for a local newspaper. Unless otherwise indicated, that is where all of these reviews first appeared. Canadian authors are highlighted in red.

The First Five Years: Reviews, 1997-2001
The Second Five Years: Reviews, 2002-2006

8 x 10 by Michael Turner The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj Anathem by Neal Stephenson Asylum by André Alexis Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen Automatic World by Struan Sinclair Axis by Robert Charles Wilson Bang Crunch by Neil Smith Black Man by Richard Morgan Blackstrap Hawco by Kenneth J. Harvey Boldface Names by Shinan Govani Bookweird by Paul Glennon Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert Beautiful Children by Charles Bock Can'tLit Ed. by Richard Rosenbaum Cherry Electra by Matt Duggan The Commons by Matthew Hughes Coureurs de Bois by Bruce MacDonald Dance With Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya Daniel O'Thunder by Ian Weir The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave Dog Eat Rat by Tom Walmsley Dragonflies by Grant Buday Duma Key by Stephen King The End of the Alphabet by C. S. Richardson Eva's Threepenny Theatre by Andrew Steinmetz Evidence by Ian Colford Exit Ghost by Philip Roth Fall by Colin McAdam February by Lisa Moore Filaria by Brent Hayward Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie The Flush of Victory by Ray Smith The Frankenstein Murders by Kathlyn Bradshaw Generation A by Douglas Coupland A Good Fall by Ha Jin Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino Hall of Best Knowledge by Ray Fenwick Heaven Is Small by Emily Schultz Hitting the Charts by Leon Rooke Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow Horror Story by Robert Boyczuk How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Just After Sunset by Stephen King The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards Man in the Dark by Paul Auster Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones The Mole Chronicles by Andy Brown Monstrous Affections by David Nickle The Murder Stone by Louise Penny The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumiere On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski Planet Reese by Cordelia Strube Poe's Children Ed. by Peter Straub The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 by Tim Hamilton Real World by Natsuo Kirino Remainder by Tom McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy Selected Blackouts by John Goldbach Shining at the Bottom of the Sea by Stephen Marche Solar by Ian McEwan Stripmalling by Jon Paul Fiorentino Stunt by Claudia Dey This Will All End in Tears by Joe Ollman Thought You Were Dead by Terry Griggs Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace A Week of This by Nathan Whitlock The World More  Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema Zero Gravity by Sharon English Black River by Kenneth Sherman The Essential Don Coles Ed. by Robyn Sarah The Essential George Johnston Ed. by Robyn Sarah The Essential P. K. Page Ed. by Arlene Lampert and Théa Gray Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets Ed. by Zachariah Wells Pure Product by Jason Guriel What if red ran out by Katia Grubisic   Second Opinions brief reviews of award-winning books The Gathering by Anne Enright The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Against Thought: Writing Iraq The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Age of Betrayal by Jack Beatty The Age of Confession by Neil Bissoondath Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker Angel of Vengeance by Ana Siljak The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter and David Everitt  Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet The Bandido Massacre by Peter Edwards The Big Short by Michael Lewis Black Mass by John Gray Blood River by Tim Butcher The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg Canadian Literature in English by W. J. Keith Carbon Shift Ed by Thomas Homer-Dixon Censored 2009 Ed. by Peter Phillips and Andrew Roth Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey Columbine by Dave Cullen The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen The Dark Side by Jane Mayer Dead Certain by Robert Draper Death in the Haymarket by James Green The Death of American Virtue by Ken Gormley The Devil's Gentleman by Harold Schechter Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton The Enemy at Home by Dinesh D'Souza The Ethical Imagination by Margaret Somerville A Fair Country by John Ralston Saul The Fall of the House of Bush by Craig Unger The First Family by Mike Dash The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi "Have You Seen . . . ?" by David Thomson Hitler's Empire by Mark Mazower The Hollywood Economist by Edward Jay Epstein How Fiction Works by James Wood Ice Passage by Brian Payton The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury Invaders from the North by John Bell I.O.U. by John Lanchester It's Not News, It's Fark by Drew Curtis The Lily Pond by Mike Barnes Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York Lost in Cyburbia by James Harkin Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn The Man Who Sold the World by William Kleinknecht Marx's Das Kapital by Francis Wheen McMafia by Misha Glenny The Mess They Made by Gwynne Dyer Novels in Three Lines by Felix Fénéon On the Wealth of Nations by P. J. O'Rourke Other People's Money by Neil Forsyth with Elliot Castro Plato's Republic by Simon Blackburn Poe by Peter Ackroyd The Qur'an by Bruce Lawrence Reality Hunger by David Shields A Report on the Afterlife of Culture by Stephen Henighan The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown The Schreiber Theory by David Kipen Selected Essays by Clark Blaise Shakespeare Revealed by René Weis The Sheikh's Batmobile by Richard Poplak A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense by Norman Baillargeon Shut Up He Explained by John Metcalf The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe Spent by Geoffrey Miller The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk Tear Down This Myth by Will Bunch The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn True Crime: An American Anthology Ed. by Harold Schechter The Truth About Canada by Mel Hurtig Uncivil Society by Stephen Kotkin Vanished Smile by R. A. Scotti Visual Shock by Michael Kammen Web of Deceit by Barry Lando What Is America? by Ronald Wright What Is Stephen Harper Reading? by Yann Martel Who Killed Jackie Bates? by Bill Waiser Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller by Jeff Rubin You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide by Glenn Kay