Reviews by Cathy Carmode Lim

• 101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
  by Terry McDermott

• Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The (book 1)
  by Michael Scott

• Along for the Ride
  by Sarah Dessen

• Amnesiac, The
  by Sam Taylor

• Angel's Game, The
  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

• As I Wake
  by Elizabeth Scott

• Atmospheric Disturbances
  by Rivka Galchen

• Austenland
  by Shannon Hale

• Beautiful Creatures
  by Kami Garcia

• Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery
  by Alex Kuczynski

• Becoming Kate
  by Dixie Owens

• Before I Fall
  by Lauren Oliver

• Bleeding Violet
  by Dia Reeves

• Blood and Ice
  by Robert Masello

• Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
  by Holly Tucker

• Blue Moon (The Immortals, book 2)
  by Alyson Noël

• Bobby Vs. Girls (Accidentally)
  by Lisa Yee

• Book Thief, The
  by Marcus Zusak

• Born Standing Up
  by Steve Martin

• Breaking Dawn (Book four in the Twilight saga)
  by Stephenie Meyer

• Calder Game, The
  by Blue Balliett

• Carpet Makers, The
  by Andreas Eschbach

• Casson Family series, The
  by Hilary McKay

• City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, Book Two)
  by Cassandra Clare

• City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, Book One)
  by Cassandra Clare

• City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, Book Four)
  by Cassandra Clare

• City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, Book Three)
  by Cassandra Clare

• City of Tranquil Light
  by Bo Caldwell

• Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer
  by J.T. Petty

• Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book One)
  by Cassandra Clare

• Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, Book Two)
  by Cassandra Clare

• Color of Water, The: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
  by James McBride

• Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
  by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
  by Laurie Viera Rigler

• Criss Cross
  by Lynne Rae Perkins

• Curse Dark As Gold, A
  by Elizabeth C. Bunce

• Cycler
  by Lauren McLaughlin

• Dark City, The (Relic Master, #1)
  by Catherine Fisher

• Dark Flame (The Immortals, book 4)
  by Alyson Noël

• Darklight (Wondrous Strange, book 2)
  by Lesley Livingston

• Dear American Airlines
  by Jonathan Miles

• Deception at Lyme, The (Or, The Peril of Persuasion)
  by Carrie Bebris

• Declaration, The
  by Gemma Malley

• Discovery of Witches, A (All Souls trilogy, book one)
  by Deborah Harkness

• Disenchantments, The
  by Nina LaCour

• Disquiet
  by Julia Leigh

• Distant Hours, The
  by Kate Morton

• Dog Called Grk, A
  by Joshua Doder

• Doomsday Key, The
  by James Rollins

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, book 2)
  by Diana Gabaldon

• Dreamhunter (book 1)
  by Elizabeth Knox

• Dreamquake (book 2)
  by Elizabeth Knox

• Dreams of Joy
  by Lisa See

• Dressmaker, The
  by Posie Graeme-Evans

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
  by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Eclipse (Book three in the Twilight saga)
  by Stephenie Meyer

• Edenbrooke
  by Julianne Donaldson

• Elegance of the Hedgehog, The
  by Muriel Barbery

• Emerald Atlas, The (Books of Beginning, book 1)
  by John Stephens

• Emperor of All Maladies, The: A Biography of Cancer
  by Siddhartha Mukherjee

• Evermore
  by Alyson Noël

• Fairest
  by Gail Carson Levine

• Fall for You (Jane Austen Academy, #1)
  by Cecilia Gray

• Falling for Me: How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love
  by Anna David

• Feed
  by M.T. Anderson

• Fever Crumb (The Hungry City Chronicles Prequels, book 1)
  by Philip Reeve

• Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season
  by Peter Nichols

• Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, The
  by Alexander McCall Smith

• First Contact: Or, It's Later Than You Think
  by Evan Mandery

• Flashes in the Night: The Sinking of the Estonia
  by Jack A. Nelson

• Flipped
  by Wendelin van Draanen

• Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, book 3)
  by Maggie Stiefvater

• Forgotten Garden, The
  by Kate Morton

• Forgotten Locket, The (Book Three in The Hourglass Door trilogy)
  by Lisa Mangum

• Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession, The
  by Adam Leith Gollner

• Girl in the Green Raincoat, The
  by Laura Lippman

• Girl Who Could Fly, The
  by Victoria Forester

• Girl with the Mermaid Hair, The
  by Delia Ephron

• Gods Behaving Badly
  by Marie Phillips

• Golden Spiral, The (Book Two in The Hourglass Door trilogy)
  by Lisa Mangum

• Good Thief, The
  by Hannah Tinti

• Graceling
  by Kristin Cashore

• Grk Smells a Rat
  by Joshua Doder

• Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
  by Jean Sasson

• Hand That First Held Mine, The
  by Maggie O'Farrell

• Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A
  by Dave Eggers

• Heartbroken Open: A Memoir Through Loss to Self-Discovery
  by Kristine Carlson

• Help, The
  by Kathryn Stockett

• Her Fearful Symmetry
  by Audrey Niffenegger

• Here Lies Arthur
  by Philip Reeve

• Heroines, The
  by Eileen Favorite

• Hidden Coronet, The (Relic Master, #3)
  by Catherine Fisher

• Historian, The
  by Elizabeth Kostova

• Host, The
  by Stephenie Meyer

• Hourglass Door, The (book 1)
  by Lisa Mangum

• House at Riverton, The
  by Kate Morton

• Hunger Games, The (book 1)
  by Suzanne Collins

• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
  by Alan Bradley

• I Now Pronounce You Someone Else
  by Erin McCahan

• I Think I Love You
  by Allison Pearson

• If I Stay
  by Gayle Forman

• Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The
  by Rebecca Skloot

• Immortalists, The
  by Kyle Mills

• Imperfectionists, The
  by Tom Rachman

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
  by Erik Larson

• In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
  by Arika Okrent

• Infinite Days
  by Rebecca Maizel

• Invasive Procedures
  by Orson Scott Card

• Invention of Hugo Cabret, The
  by Brian Selznick

• Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, The
  by Harry Bernstein

• Juliet
  by Anne Fortier

• Lace Reader, The
  by Brunonia Barry

• Lantern, The
  by Deborah Lawrenson

• Last Post
  by Robert Barnard

• Last Summer (Of You & Me), The
  by Ann Brashares

• Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, book 2)
  by Maggie Stiefvater

• Little Stranger, The
  by Sarah Waters

• Long Goodbye, The
  by Meghan O'Rourke

• Lost City of Z, The
  by David Grann

• Lost Gate, The
  by Orson Scott Card

• Lost Heiress, The (Relic Master, #2)
  by Catherine Fisher

• Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, The
  by Kelly O'Connor McNees

• Love the One You're With
  by Emily Giffin

• Lucy
  by Laurence Gonzales

• Magician's Book, The: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
  by Laura Miller

• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
  by Helen Simonson

• Margrave, The (Relic Master, #4)
  by Catherine Fisher

• Marrying Mozart
  by Stephanie Cowell

• Mary Modern
  by Camille DeAngelis

• Matisse on the Loose
  by Georgia Bragg

• Me, the Missing, and the Dead
  by Jenny Valentine

• Memory Palace, The
  by Mira Bartók

• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
  by Rhoda Janzen

• Midnight Palace, The
  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

• Midwife's Confession, The
  by Diane Chamberlain

• Minding Frankie
  by Maeve Binchy

• Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind
  by Heidi Ashworth

• Miss Julia's School of Beauty
  by Ann B. Ross

• Monster of Florence, The
  by Douglas Preston

• Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, The
  by Rodman Philbrick

• Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School
  by Steve Poizner

• Mr. Chartwell
  by Rebecca Hunt

• Mr. Knightley's Diary
  by Amanda Grange

• My Brain Made Me Do It: The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility
  by Eliezer J. Sternberg

• My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
  by Ariel Sabar

• My Stroke of Insight
  by Jill Bolte Taylor

• Never Let Me Go
  by Kazuo Ishiguro

• New Moon (Book two in the Twilight saga)
  by Stephenie Meyer

• Newes from the Dead
  by Mary Hooper

• Noah's Compass
  by Anne Tyler

• North by Northanger (Or, The Shades of Pemberley)
  by Carrie Bebris

• On Beauty
  by Zadie Smith

• On Canaan's Side
  by Sebastian Barry

• One Day
  by David Nicholls

• One for the Money
  by Janet Evanovich

• Other Life, The
  by Ellen Meister

• Outlander (Outlander, book 1)
  by Diana Gabaldon

• Palladian Days
  by Sally and Carl I. Gable

• Pandemonium (Delirium, book 2)
  by Lauren Oliver

• People of the Book
  by Geraldine Brooks

• Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, The
  by Katherine Howe

• Piggly Wiggly Wedding, A
  by Ann B. Ross

• Place of Secrets, A
  by Rachel Hore

• Please Look After Mom
  by Kyung-sook Shin

• Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance
  by Sara Poole

• Pretties (Uglies series, book 2)
  by Scott Westerfeld

• Pride and Prescience (Or, a Truth Universally Acknowledged)
  by Carrie Bebris

• Prince of Frogtown, The
  by Rick Bragg

• Princess for Hire
  by Lindsey Leavitt

• Rapunzel's Revenge
  by Shannon and Dean Hale

• Red Herring Without Mustard, A
  by Alan Bradley

• Reincarnationist, The
  by M.J. Rose

• Reliable Wife, A
  by Robert Goolrick

• Restoring Grace
  by Katie Fforde

• Resurrectionist, The
  by Jack O'Connell

• Room
  by Emma Donoghue

• Saving Juliet
  by Suzanne Selfors

• Secret Scripture, The
  by Sebastian Barry

• Secret Under My Skin, The
  by Janet McNaughton

• Senator's Wife, The
  by Sue Miller

• Shadow of the Wind, The
  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

• Shanghai Girls
  by Lisa See

• Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, book 1)
  by Maggie Stiefvater

• Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella, The (part of the Twilight saga)
  by Stephenie Meyer

• Significance
  by Shelly Crane

• Sister
  by Rosamund Lupton

• Sister, The
  by Poppy Adams

• Sisters Grimm, The: The Everafter War
  by Michael Buckley

• Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess
  by Jerramy Fine

• Song for Summer, A
  by Eva Ibbotson

• Spellman Files, The
  by Lisa Lutz

• State of Wonder
  by Ann Patchett

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  by Mary Roach

• Still Alice
  by Lisa Genova

• Story of Beautiful Girl, The
  by Rachel Simon

• Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The
  by David Wroblewski

• Summer I Turned Pretty, The
  by Jenny Han

• Sundays at Tiffany's
  by James Patterson

• Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island
  by Peter Rudiak-Gould

• Suspense and Sensibility (Or, First Impressions Revisited)
  by Carrie Bebris

• Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, The: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
  by Kate Summerscale

• Swan Thieves, The
  by Elizabeth Kostova

• Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The
  by Alan Bradley

• Tempestuous (Wondrous Strange, book 3)
  by Lesley Livingston

• Thanks for the Memories
  by Cecelia Ahern

• Thieves of Manhattan, The
  by Adam Langer

• Thirteenth Tale, The
  by Diane Setterfield

• Thousand Splendid Suns, A
  by Khaled Hosseini

• Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
  by Leonie Swann

• Tiger's Wife, The
  by Téa Obreht

• Time Traveler's Wife, The
  by Audrey Niffenegger

• To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom
  by Newt Gingrich

• Travel Writing
  by Peter Ferry

• Twilight
  by Stephenie Meyer

• Uglies (Uglies, book 1)
  by Scott Westerfeld

• Unaccustomed Earth
  by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Underneath, The
  by Kathi Appelt

• Unwanteds, The
  by Lisa McMann

• Unwind
  by Neal Shusterman

• Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The
  by Maggie O'Farrell

• Vanishing of Katharina Linden, The
  by Helen Grant

• Vintage Caper, The
  by Peter Mayle

• Walking People, The
  by Mary Beth Keane

• Warmth of Other Suns, The: The Epic Story of America
  by Isabel Wilkerson

• Web of Air, A (The Hungry City Chronicles Prequels, book 2)
  by Philip Reeve

• Weed That Strings the Hangman
  by Alan Bradley

• Whales on Stilts!
  by M.T. Anderson

• What We Have: One Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival
  by Amy Boesky

• When It Happens
  by Susane Colasanti

• When You Are Engulfed in Flames
  by David Sedaris

• Whistling Season, The
  by Ivan Doig

• White Giraffe, The
  by Lauren St. John

• Whitethorn Woods
  by Maeve Binchy

• Woman Who Can’t Forget, The: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science
  by Jill Price

• Wondrous Strange (book 1)
  by Lesley Livingston

• Wright 3, The
  by Blue Balliett