Loved: Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men Loved: Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls Didn’t: Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her There’s no surprise in a reader having enjoyed both No Country For Old Men and Valley…

Send the Grumpy Librarian two books you like and one you hate and she’ll tell you what to read. LOVED: Ben Lerner, 10:04 LOVED: Teju Cole, Open City HATED:Joseph O’Neill, The Dog This is the kind of communal bookshelf you’d…

Loved: Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye  Loved: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go  Hated: Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge  First: You’re incorrect about Olive Kitteridge; it is a near-perfect book and you are lucky the Grumpy Librarian is professionally obligated to not…

Loved: Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl Loved: Stephen King, The Stand Didn’t: Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections Another month, another Franzen frowner. Guys, just because a book is successful doesn’t mean you have to read it. Trust your own tastes, every reader…

?ÿLoved: Some Anglo-Saxon (also Seamus Heaney), Beowulfÿ ?ÿLoved: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote X Hated: Allan Gurganus, The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells Allÿ Related Articles The Grumpy Librarian The Grumpy Librarian: Alternate-history literary novels The Grumpy Librarian: Chardonnay literature…

?ÿLoved: Philip Roth, The Human Stain ?ÿLoved: Richard Yates, Revolutionary Roadÿ X Hated: Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections Related Articles The Grumpy Librarian The Grumpy Librarian: Alternate-history literary novels The Grumpy Librarian: Loved Beowulf and Don Quixote? Read this. Recommendation: No…

?ÿ Loved: Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stoneÿ ?ÿ Loved: Leif Enger, Peace Like a Riverÿ Xÿ Hated: Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances Related Articles The Grumpy Librarian The Grumpy Librarian: Alternate-history literary novels The Grumpy Librarian: Loved Beowulf and Don Quixote?…

?ÿLoved: Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stoneÿ ?ÿLoved: Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life X Hated: Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Related Articles The Grumpy Librarian The Grumpy Librarian: Alternate-history literary novels The Grumpy Librarian: Loved Beowulf and Don…

Few things are as endlessly entertaining as depictions of Philadelphia in pop culture, which is why we’re launching The 19102 Review, a new column devoted to Philly books. Flawless: A Pretty Little Liars NovelSara ShepardYA, 2007, HarperTeen, 352 pp. The…