Note: this index does not include reviews of comics or art books that are simply a collection of pictures. It does cover art books that include biographical and analytical text. Most of these are books I enjoyed and would recommend, some more than others, of course. Books I didn’t like enough to finish are not here.
I’ve been reading and loving books since my childhood, and another place to find lots of short reviews of books and authors in my library is on this section of my website:
https://kleinletters.com/BooksRecommendedA.html
Adams, Douglas and Mark Carwardine
Aiken, Joan
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Akers, Dwight
Alder, Elizabeth
Alexander, Lloyd
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
Allende, Isabel
Andrae, Thomas and Carson Laqua
Walt Kelly: The Life and Art of the Creator of Pogo
Arden, Katharine
Asimov, Isaac
David Starr, Space Ranger (writing as Paul French)
Lucky Starr Book 2 (Venus and Mercury)
Atkinson, M.E.
Avi
Bacon, Thorn
Baker, Bill
Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy
Balliett, Blue
Baron, Mike
Bartlett, Allison Hoover
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Baum, L. Frank
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Beagle, Peter S.
I See By My Outfit, A Cross-Country Adventure
We Never Talk About My Brother
B.F. Beebe
Bell, Blake and Dr. Michael Vassallo
The Secret History of Marvel Comics
Bester, Alfred
Bester, Alfred and Roger Zelazny
Binns, Archie
Birdsall, Jeanne
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
Blackwood, Gary
Blakemore, Megan Frazer
Blish, James
Boston, L.M.
The Green Knowe novels (all six)
Briggs, K.M.
Brin, David
Brinley, Bertrand R.
The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club
Brooks, Walter R.
Freddy and the Perilous Adventure
Buckley-Archer, Linda
Burgess, Melvin
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
The Gods of Mars & The Warlord of Mars
The Mucker, The Return of the Mucker
Burton, Hester
Butterworth, Oliver
Cameron, Eleanor
The Mysterious Christmas Shell
Campbell, Hayley
Card, Orson Scott
Carleton, Barbee Oliver
Carey, M. V.
The Secret of the Haunted Mirror
Carroll, Jonathan
Chabon, Michael
Chance, Stephen (Philip Turner)
Septimus and the Minster Ghost
Church, Richard
Clarke, Pauline
The Twelve and the Genii / The Return of the Twelves
Clarke, Susanna
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories
Coatsworth, Elizabeth
Cole, Brock
Colfer, Eoin
Collins, Susan
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Cooper, Susan
Corbin, William
Couch, N.C. Christopher
Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics
Coville, Bruce
Creech, Sharon
Cross, John Keir
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Crowley, John
KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
Curry, Jane Louise
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Time, The Magical Cupboard
The Wolves of Aam, Shadow Dancers
Cushman, Karen
Davis, Lavinia R.
The Journals of Lavinia Riker Davis
De Camp, L. Sprague
Delany, Samuel R.
De Lint, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Di Filippo, Paul
Di Liddo, Annalisa
Alan Moore, Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
Dickinson, Peter
Fire, Tales of Elemental Spirits
Doyle, A. Conan
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Duane, Diane
Dunne, Pete
Dunsany, Lord
Eager, Edward
Engdahl, Sylvia Louise
Enright, Elizabeth
Spiderweb For Two, A Melendy Maze
Gone-Away Lake & Return to Gone-Away
Evanier, Mark
Farmer, Nancy
Farmer, Philip José
Farmer, Wendell (Lavinia R. Davis)
Fenner, Arnie & Cathy
Brush With Passion: The Art & Life of Dave Stevens
Fenton, Edward
Fletcher, Susan
Fraser. George MacDonald
Friesner, Esther M.
Fry, Rosalie K.
Funke, Cornelia
Gaiman, Neil
Blueberry Girl (with Charles Vess)
Interworld (with Michael Reaves)
The Ocean at The End of the Lane
A Walking Tour of the Shambles (with Gene Wolfe)
Gallico, Paul
George, Jean Craighead
Dipper of Copper Creek (with John George)
Gianni, Gary
Gopnik, Adam
Gordon, Roderick and Brian Williams
Goss, Theodora
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
Graham, Harriet
Grahame, Kenneth with Annie Gauger
The Annotated Wind in the Willows
Graves, Robert
Gregory, Robin
The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman
Guinan, Paul and Anina Bennett
Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel
Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention
Haahr, Berit
Haig, Matt
Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest
Hajdu, David
Heinlein, Robert A.
The Heinlein Juvenile series (the next 12 titles)
Helprin, Mark
Hesse, Karen
Hightower, Florence
The Ghost of Follonsbee’s Folly
Hobbs, Will
Holdstock, Robert
Hull, Katherine and Pamela Whitlock
Ibbotson, Eva
Jacques, Brian
Jansson, Tove
The Moomins and the Great Flood
The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My
Jemisin, N. K.
Far Sector with Jamal Campbell
Jones, Diana Wynne
The Islands of Chaldea (with Ursula Jones)
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
Jones, Julia
Jones, Raymond F.
Kanefield, Teri
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Keith, Carlton (Keith Robertson)
The Diamond-Studded Typewriter
Kelly, Eric P.
Kelly, Jacqueline
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Kelly, Kevin
Kendall, Carol
Kerr, Jake
Tommy Black and the Staff of Light
Kerr, P. B.
Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure
Children of the Lamp: The Day of the Djinn Warriors
Khoury, George
The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore
Image Comics: The Road to Independence
Kingman, Lee
The Secret Journey of the Silver Reindeer
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirby, Matthew J.
Kjelgaard, Jim
Kluger, Jeffrey
Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats
Knapp, J. Richard
Knox, Rawle, editor
Knight, Kathryn Lasky
Konigsburg, E. L.
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Kooiker, Leonie
Korshak, Stephen D.
From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul
Lampman, Evelyn Sibley
Langton, Jane
Lawson, Robert
Lebbon, Tim
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Other Wind and uncollected stories
Leiber, Fritz
Lenz, Rick
Levitz, Paul
Lewis, C. S.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lewis, Hilda
Link, Kelly
Llewellyn, Sam
Lyonesse: The Well Between The Worlds
Lofting, Hugh
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventures
Lowry, Lois
Macbird, Bonnie
MacDonald, George
The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie
Mahy, Margaret
Maltin, Leonard
Manning, Rosemary
Mantle, Winifred
Marshall, Dean
Martin, George R. R.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Martin, Rafe
Mason, Arthur
Mayle, Peter
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
McIlwaine, Catherine
Tolkien, Maker of Middle-Earth
McKinley, Robin
Fire, Tales of Elemental Spirits
Meader, Stephen W.
Meigs, Cornelia
Meloy, Colin
The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid
Milford, Kate
Miller Jr., Walter M.
Milne, A. A.
Mindlin, Helen Mather-Smith
Mitchison, Naomi
Molloy, Anne
Moorcock, Michael
The War Hound and the World’s Pain
Moore, Alan
Mowat, Farley
Murkerji, Dhan Gopal
Gay-Neck, The Story of a Pigeon
Myron, Vicki
Dewey, the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
N. A. Nelson
Nesbit, E
Nevala-Lee, Alec
Neville, Emily
Niffenegger, Audrey
Niven, Larry
Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle
Nolen-Weathington, Eric
Modern Masters Volume 22: Mark Buckingham
North, Sterling
Raccoons Are The Brightest People
Nortman, Karen Musser
Norton, Andre
Norton, Mary
O’Brien, Stacey
O’Dell, Scott
Ormondroyd, Edward
Time At The Top & All In Good Time
Ortiz, Luis
Arts Unknown: The Life and Art of Lee Brown Coye
Palmer, Amanda and Jason Webley
Evelyn Evelyn, a Tragic Tale in Two Tomes
Paolini, Christopher
Park, Paul
Paterson, Katherine
Patterson Jr., William H.
Robert A. Heinlein In Dialogue With His Century Volume 1 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Robert A. Heinlein In Dialogue With His Century Volume 2
Paulsen, Gary
Pearce, Philippa
Tom’s Midnight Garden Audiobook
Pepperberg, Irene M.
Piccirilli, Tom
Piekos, Nate
The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering
Platt, Kin
Pournelle, Jerry
Pratchett, Terry
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
The Wee Free Men: The Beginning
Pullman, Philip
The Book of Dust Vol. 1: La Belle Sauvage
The Book of Dust Vol. 2: The Secret Commonwealth
Pyle, Howard
Ransome, Arthur
Ringwald, Whitaker
Roberson, Chris
Roberts, Charles G. D.
Robertson, Keith
The Henry Reed Series:
Henry Reed’s Baby-sitting Service
The Carson Street Detective Agency Series:
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Robinson, Tom
Rodda, Emily
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
Schulman, J. Neil
Schultz, Mark
Segura, Alex
Seidler, Tor
The Revenge of Randal Reese-Rat
Selden, George
Selznick, Brian
Severn, David
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Frankenstein (with Bernie Wrightson art)
Simak, Clifford D.
Smith, Jeff
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
William S. and the Great Escape
Sperry, Armstrong
Springer, Nancy
The Enola Holmes Mysteries 1-6
Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade
Steele, William O.
Stewart, Trenton Lee
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of the Ages
Stroud, Jonathan
Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase
Lockwood & Co.: The Whispering Skull
Sturges, Matthew
Swann, Thomas Burnett
Talbot, Bryan
The Naked Artist: Comic Book Legends
Thornbury, J. A.
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham
Townsend, John Rowe
Travers, P. L.
About Mary Poppins: books, movie, musical
Trease, Geoffrey
Turner, Philip
Twain, Mark (with Charles Dudley Warner)
Twain, Mark
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
The Mysterious Stranger and two other short novels
Ullman, James Ramsey
Valente, Catherynne M.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Varley, John
Verne, Jules
Vess, Charles
The Queen of Summer’s Twilight
Voigt, Cynthia
Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things
Wagner, Hank with Christopher Golden & Stephen R. Bissette
Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Ward, Patricia
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Waugh, Sylvia
Westall, Robert
Whitney, Phyllis A.
The Mystery of the Crimson Ghost
Willans, Geoffrey
Williams, Tad and Debora Beale
Willingham, Bill
Willis, Connie
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
Wolfe, Gene
Wooding, Chris
Woodruff, Elvira
Wylie, Philip
Yolen, Jane
Young, Karen Romano
A Girl, A Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon
Young, Rob
Zelazny, Roger
Gabrielle Zevin