Reviews (Author-wise) - L-Q

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L.E. Harper
Kill Your Darlings - ★★★.¼

L.H. Kronberg

L.J. Tracosas
Ultimate Greek Mythology - ★★★★

L.K. Pang
The Night Counsellor - ★★★★

L.V. Pires
The Fall of Whitehall Manor - ★★★★.¼

L.V. Russell

Laila Sabreen

LambCat

Lan Samantha Chang

Lana Vanderlee
I’ll Be a Chicken Too - ★★★★

Lata Gwalani

Laura Alary
All the Faces of Me - ★★.¾

Laura Burges

Laura Deal

Laura Jarratt

Laura Imai Messina

Laura J. Mayo

Laura Lippman
Slow Burner  - ★★★★

Laura McVeigh

Laura Pearson

Laura Pérez
Ocultos - ★★

Laura Spence-Ash
Beyond That, the Sea - ★★★.¾

Lauren Lee

Laurie Frankel
Family Family - ★★★★
This Is How It Always Is - ★★★★.½

Laurie Lico Albanese

Lavanya Lakshminarayan
(The) Ten Percent Thief - ★★★★.¼

Lawrence C. Cobb

Leah Henderson

Leah Vis
Love Is... - ★★★★.½ 

Lee Geum-yi
The Picture Bride - ★★.¾

Leesa Gazi
Good Girls - ★★★★.¼

Leila Seth
We, The Children Of India - ★★★★.½

Leisa Fail

Lena Anlauf

Lene Fogelberg
The Lightning Tree - ★★★.½

Leo Tolstoy

Lesa Cline-Ransome
For Lamb  - ★★★★.¼

Lesléa Newman
The Fairest in the Land - ★★★.¾

Leslie Colburn
Twinkle, the Littlest Star - ★★★★.¼

Leslie Garland

Liane Moriarty
Big Little Lies - ★★★.¾

Lili Hayward
A Midwinter's Tail - ★★★.½

Lillie Lainoff

Linthoi Chanu

Lisa Fox
Core Truths - ★★★.¾

Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Timoney/Kate Storey
The Memory Library - ★★★.½

Lisa Unger

Lisa Westberg Peters

Liz Flanagan

Liz Hyder
The Gifts - ★★★★
The Illusions - ★★★★.½
The Twelve - ★★★★

Liz Lee Heinecke
She Can STEM - ★★★★.½

Liz Tuckwell

Lola Jaye
The Attic Child - ★★★★.¼

Lorraine Dusky
Hole in My Heart - ★★★.¾

Lorraine Norwood
The Solitary Sparrow - ★★★.½

Louie Läuger

Louisa May Alcott

Louise Douglas
The Room in the Attic - ★★★★.½
The Sea House - ★★★.½

Louise Swanson
End of Story - ★★★★.½

Louise Kallona

Lu Fraser
The Littlest Yak - ★★★★.½

Lucie Pagé
Lost Dogs - ★★★★.¼

Lucy Brownridge

Lucy Chillery-Watson

Lucy Cooke

Lucy E.M. Black
The Brickworks - ★★★.½

Lucy Knisley

Lucy Menzies
A New Friend - ★★★★.½
We'll Be Together Again - ★★★★.½

Lucy Strange
The Mermaid in the Millpond - ★★★★.½
The Storm and the Minotaur - ★★★★.½

Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Mozart's Starling - ★★★★.¼

Lynda Cohen Loigman

Lynette Creswell

Lynn Plourde
The Man Who Saved Books - ★★★★.½

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Mr. and Mrs. MacLeod
How to Eat a Book - ★★★

Madhavi Johnson

Madhur Jaffrey

Maggie Knaus
Eleanor’s Moon - ★★★.¼

Maja Andersen

Malaka Garib

Mallika Appana
My Trip to the Fair - ★★★.¾

Mallika Thoppay


Mandy Robotham

Marcus Sedgwick

MarcyKate Connolly
A Breath of Mischief - ★★★.¾ 

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Verble
Stealing - ★★★.¼

Maria Augusta von Trapp

Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Amanda Gorman - ★★★★.¼

Maria McDonald
The Devil's Own  - ★★

Mariam Gates
Olive All At Once - ★★★.½

Marie Zhang
Gwen's Gratitude - ★★★★.¼
Leon's Lesson - ★★★

Marina Rubin

Marion Agnew
Making Up the Gods - ★★★★.¼

Mark Grist
Rhinos Don't Cry - ★★★★★

Mark Robson
The Genius Killer - ★★★

Mary Beth Keane
The Half Moon - ★★

Mary Hargreaves
Two Doors Down - ★★★.¾

Mary Roach

Mary Vale

Mary-Clare Terrill
Maplecroft - ★★★.¼

Mariah Fredericks

Mariajo Ilustrajo
The Spell of a Story - ★★.¾

Marianne Ratcliffe
A Lady To Treasure - ★★★.½

Marilee Joy Mayfield
Here Kitty, Kitty - ★★★

Mario Bellini
The Boy and the Mountain - ★★★.¾

Marisa Urgo

Mark Twain

Marnie Fogelson
The Girl Who Heard the Music - ★★★★★

Martha Hall Kelly

Marzieh Abbas
Awe-samosas! - ★★★★

Mary Annaïse Heglar
Troubled Waters - ★★★.¼

Mary Burton


Matt Coyne
Frank and Red - ★★★★.½

Matt Haig
The Midnight Library - ★★★.¾

Matthew Francis

Matthew Outerbridge

Matthew Perry

Matthew Silvestri

Matyáš Namai

Maureen Fergus
Petal the Angry Cow - ★★★★

Maurice Leblanc


McGarvey Black

Meena Kandasamy
When I Hit You - ★★.½

Meg Adams
Why Are You Like This? - ★★★.¾

Meg Grehan
The Lonely Book - ★★★.¾

Meg Shaffer
(The) Lost Story - ★★★★.¼
(The) Wishing Game - ★★★★.¼

Megan Bannen

Megan Clendenan

Meghan Grana
Call Me Penny Pickleberry - ★★★★.½

Meghan Quinn

Melani Sie

Melanie Dobson

Melia McClure
All the World's a Wonder - ★★★.¾

Melissa Baron

Melissa Dalton Martinez

Melissa Fu

Melissa Grey



Michael Wong
I Will Always Be Proud of You - ★★★★★

Michaelbrent Collings

Michele Amitrani
Bringer of Fire - ★★★★.¾
Darker Than Night - ★★★★.¾
King of Defiance - ★★★★
(The) Muse of Avalon - ★★★★.½
Not That Fairytale - ★★★★.½
Scion of Gaia - ★★★★.¼
Song of Forever - ★★★★.¼
Soul of Stone - ★★★★.½
Woman of Destiny - ★★★★.¾

Michelle Dunne
The Good Girl - ★★★★.½

Michelle Moran

Michelle Peck

Mihaela Noroc

Mike Gayle

Mike Shiell 

Mikki Brammer

Miles Hyman

Min Jin Lee
The Best Girls (A Short Story) - ★★★★.½

Mireille Messier

Mirka Andolfo
Blasfamous - ★★★.¾

Misa Sugiura

Mojgan Ghazirad
The House On Sun Street - ★★★.¾

Molly Aitken
Bright I Burn - ★★★

Monica Sudhir Gupta

Monika Utnik-Strugała

Monita Kumari

Morgan Lee Miller

Mr. Jay

Munashe Kaseke

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Nadi Reed Perez

Nadine Aisha Jassat

Nadine Brandes

Nadine Fonseca
Only a Trenza Away - ★★★★.½

Nalo Hopkinson

Namita Moolani Mehra
The Light Within You - ★★★★★

Nancy Armo
Doggie - ★★★★

Nancy Burke

Nancy Garden

Nandita Basu

Naomi Clifford
13 Park Lane - ★★

Naomi Lastrucci

Naseem Hrab
Otis & Peanut - ★★★.½

Natalie Griffin

Natasha Boydell

Nathalie Tordjman
The Book of Amazing Trees - ★★★.½

Nathan Whitlock
Lump - ★★

Neha Bansal 

Neil Alexander

Neil Clark
Walter the Wonder Snail - ★★★★

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nelly Buchet
Little Wolf's Howl - ★★★★.¼

Nettie Magnan

Nghi Vo

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Dust Child - ★★★.¾

Nicholas Carter

Nicholas Tana
The Little Lion That Listened - ★★★★.½

Nick Louth

Nick Spalding
Grave Talk - ★★★★.¼

Nicola Skinner
Crow - ★★

Nicolette Andrews

Nikhil J. Alva
If I Have To Be A Soldier - ★★★.¾

Nikita Gill
Animal Tales from India - ★★★★★

Nikki May
This Motherless Land - ★★★★

Nilanjana Haldar

Nilanjana Roy
Black River - ★★★.¾

Niloufar-Lily Soltani
Zulaikha - ★★★.¾

Nina LaCour

Nina Schuyler
In This Ravishing World - ★★★.½

Nishanth Injam

Nishioka Kyoudai

Nissa Harlow

Nita Prose
The Maid - ★★★★.½
The Mistletoe Mystery - ★★★.¼
The Mystery Guest - ★★★★.¼

Nnedi Okorafor
Kabu Kabu - ★★★.½

Nora Brech
The Last Rainbow Bird - ★★★★★

Nora Gold

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Octavie Wolters

Oliver Sacks

Olivia Hawker
Landing (A Short Story) - ★★★.¼
October in the Earth - ★★★.¾

Onjali Q. Raúf
(The) Star Outside My Window - ★★★★.¾

Ori Elon
In the Market of Zakrobat - ★★★★

Oscar Wilde

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'Pemi Aguda
Ghostroots: Stories - ★★★★

P.G. Wodehouse
Cocktail Time  - ★★.½

Pamela Holmes

Pamela Sparkman

Pang Shuo
Bear Loves Music - ★★.½

Pascal Khoo Thwe

Patanjali Patnaik

Patricia Angel
The Faraway World - ★★★★.¼

Patrick Horvath

Patti Calkosz
Olaf and Essex - ★★

Paul Biegel

Paul Gallico

Paul Indigo
Love Deleted - ★★★★

Paul Magrs

Paul R. Stanton

Paula McLain

Paulette Kennedy 

Pavittra Kalyan
The Broken Shadow - ★★.½

Peng Shepherd


Pete Jirles

Peter Bunzl

Peter Wohlleben
The Hidden Life of Trees - ★★★★.¼

Philip Bunting

Phuoc Thi Minh Tran

Piya Bahadur

Piyusha Vir
Just Another Day - ★★★★.½

Poornima Manco
Intersections - ★★★.¾
Six: Strange Stories of Love - ★★★★.¼

Prashanth Srivatsa
The Spice Gate - ★★

Prateep Roy

Priscilla Morris

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Quentin Zuttion



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