All My Book Reviews—The Archive
A compilation of all my book reviews, sporadically updated as I transfer from the old site.
Published November 12, 2020


When going through my entire blog history and library while re-building the site (and manually transferring all its content), I realized that I have hundreds of book reviews compiled over the last 13+ years of writing Words Like Silver from the thousands of books I've read since then—at least two thousand titles, if not more.
With that in mind, it may take some time to restore the review archive to its former glory, but I hope it'll be a helpful resource for you as you poke around and find your next favorite book. If the book you'd like to read isn't linked yet but is referenced, the search bar in the home page will take you straight to it, or you can also comb through the books page by category.
For now, I'll also link when I've referenced a book so you can explore related topics too.
Current number of book reviews live: 131.
A
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
- The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert
- Irresistible by Adam Alter
- Anatomy of a Breakthrough by Adam Alter
- The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
- Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
B
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Hate List by Jennifer Brown
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
- Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
- How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch
C
- How to Fall in Love with Anyone by Mandy Len Cantron
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- All Fall Down by Ally Carter
- The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter
- Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
- Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
D
- Bared to You by Sylvia Day
- On Love by Alain de Botton
- Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
- How to Be Multiple by Helena de Bres
- Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
- Wither by Lauren DeStefano
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism by Kristin Dombek
- Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
E
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Graces by Laure Eve
F
- The Financial Diet by Chelsea Fagan
- Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick
- Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the 20th Century by Kevin Fong, M.D.
- I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman
- This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
- Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
- History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
G
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- Make Good Art (speech, actually) by Neil Gaiman
- You, Again by Kate Goldbleck
H
- Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
- Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
- Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley
- Tonight, I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
- This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs
- Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday
I
J
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (& the show!)
- The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston
K
- Silence: In an Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
- Kiss and Tell by Adib Khorram
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Moonglass by Jessi Kirby
- You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
- Buzzed by Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
L
- The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
- Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
- Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
- The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
- Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-being by Brian R. Little
M
- Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
- Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Renegades by Marissa Meyer
- Gilded by Marissa Meyer
- Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills
- I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski
- A History of Glitter and Blood by Hannah Moskowitz
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
N
- Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols
O
- Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell
- Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
- Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
- The Reunion by Kayla Olson
- The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke
P
- The Ravens by Danielle Paige and Kass Morgan
- Even in Paradise by Chelsey Philpot
- How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
- The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink
- Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes
- The Fall of Butterflies by Andrea Portes
Q
R
- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (& the show!)
- If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
S
- Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
- One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
- I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
- All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
- Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater
- The Science of Storytelling: How Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
- The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
T
- The Incurable Romantic by Francis Talley
- Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
- In a Not-So-Perfect World by Neely Tubati-Alexander
U
V
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
W
- Good Old Neon (story) by David Foster Wallace
- The Summer of Broken Rules by K.A. Walther
- The Path of Most Resistance: Stories by Russell Wangersky
- SEAL Team Six by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin
- Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel
- What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood
X
Y
- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros