Reviews (Author-wise) - R-T

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R.F. Kuang

R.G. de Rouen
Books for Benjamin - ★★★.¾

R.G. Fraser-Green

R.S. Maxwell

Rabindranath Tagore
Mashi, and Other Stories - ★★★.¼

Rachel Burton

Rachel Chivers Khoo

Rachel Fordham
Beyond Ivy Walls - ★★★★
(The) Letter Tree - ★★★★.½

Rachel Greenlaw
One Christmas Morning - ★★★.½

Rachel Louise Snyder

Rachel Smythe

Radiya Hafiza

Rafaa Dalvi
Paasa Palat - ★★★

Rainbow Rowell

Rajani LaRocca
Midsummer's Mayhem - ★★★★

Rajasree Variyar

Ram Chandra Khatri

Rashin Kheiriyeh

Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Raven Howell
Blink and Glow - ★★★★ 

Raven Oak

Rea Frey
The Other Year - ★★.½

Rebecca Gardyn Levington
Whatever Comes Tomorrow - ★★★★★

Rebecca Klempner
How to Welcome an Alien - ★★★.½

Rebecca Roanhorse

Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Sheir
A Taste of Honey - ★★★.¾

Rebecca Stead
The Lost Library - ★★★.¾

Rebel Girls
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Inspiring Young Changemakers
Growing Up Powerful - ★★★★.¼

Reuven Fenton
Goyhood - ★★.¾

Rhea Ewing

Rhiannon Lee

Ria Rees

Richard P. Feynman

Richard Wagner

Rina Singh

Roald Dahl

Rob Albanese

Robert Dugoni
Her Deadly Game - ★★★★.½

Robert Tregoning
A Fairy Called Fred - ★★★★.¼

Robin Hawdon
Dinner with Churchill - ★★★.¾

Robin Waterfield

Robin Why
Trivia Book of Wow - ★★★.¾

Rochelle Strauss
The Global Ocean - ★★★★.¼

Roisin Meaney 


Rose English

Rosemary Mairs

Rosena Fung
Age 16 - ★★★★.¼
Living With Viola - ★★★★.½

Roshni Chokshi

Rosie Hewlett
Medusa - ★★★★.½
(The) Witch of Colchis - ★★★★.¼

Rosie Walsh

Ross Montgomery
The Thing at 52 - ★★★

Roxane Gay

Ruskin Bond

Rutger Bregman
Humankind: A Hopeful History - ★★★★.½

Ruth F. Stevens
Stage Seven - ★★★.½

Ruth Hogan
(The) Keeper of Lost Things - ★★★★.¼
(The) Phoenix Ballroom - ★★★★

Ruth Wielockx

S

S.A. Dunphy/Shane Dunphy
Her Lonely Soul - ★★★
Little Witness - ★★★★.¼
Only the Children - ★★★.¼

S.A. MacLean

S.M. Freedman

Saadat Hasan Manto
Mottled Dawn - ★★★★.¼

Sadeqa Johnson
The House of Eve - ★★★.½ 

Saadia Faruqi
The Partition Project - ★★★.½
Yasmin the Detective - ★★★★

Samira Ahmed

Sallie Cochren

Sally Hanan

Sally Hepworth
(The) Soulmate - ★★

Sally Page

Samantha Wilcoxson

Sandhya Parappukkaran

Sandra L. Rostirolla
Making Friends With Monsters - ★★★★.½

Sangu Mandanna

Sanjay Chandra

Sara Goodman Confino

Sara Nisha Adams
The Twilight Garden - ★★★.¾

Sara Sartagne

Sarah Adlakha

Sarah Alderson

Sarah Andersen
Fangs - ★★★★.¼

Sarah Bankuti

Sarah Beth Durst
The Spellshop - ★★★.½

Sarah Echavarre

Sarah Gilmartin
Service - ★★★★.¼

Sarah Penner

Sarai Walker

Sasha Lamb

Sayantani Dasgupta

Scott Gould
Idiot Men - ★★★.¾

Sean Dietrich
Kinfolk - ★★★★.½

Sean Dixon



Shameez Patel Papathanasiou

Shanora Williams

Shannon Bowring
The Road to Dalton - ★★★★.¼

Shari Green

Shari Low
One Moment in Time - ★★★.¾

Shea Serrano (with Larami Serrano)

Shehan Karunatilaka

Sheikha Helawy

Sheila Colón-Bagley

Shelly Jay Shore

Siân Hughes
Pearl - ★★

Sibylla Nash

Silas Wood

Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

sim core

Simon Crook

Simon Van Booy
Sipsworth - ★★★★.½

Simon Van der Velde
Backstories - ★★★★.¼

Siobhan Curham

Sirius Imnot (aka Federico DN)

Sita Romero
Words We Cannot Say - ★★★

Skye Wade
What Bug Am I? - ★★★★★
What Makes Bugs Beautiful? - ★★★★.½
Where is My Family? - ★★★★★

Smitha Das Jain
A Price to Love - ★★.½

Smriti Prasadam-Halls
The Very Best Hug  - ★★★★

Soman Chainani

Sonal Ved

Sophia Kolinas

Sophie Cameron
Away With Words - ★★★.¾

Sophie Escabasse
Taxi Ghost - ★★★★.½

Sophie Irwin

Sophie Kinsella
What Does It Feel Like? - ★★★★.½

Srivalli Rekha
Forests and Faeries - ★★★.¾

Stacy Willingham

Stanley Bellan

Steena Hernandez

Stefanie Parks

Stephanie Saldaña

Stephanie Seidler

Stephen G. Bowling
Simon's Tree Party - ★★★★.¼

Steve Cavanagh
Kill for Me, Kill for You - ★★★.¾

Steve S. Saroff

Steve Smallman
The Moose Fairy - ★★★★.¾

Steven Megson

Stevie Rae Causey

Sudha Murty

Sue Heath
The Secret Ingredient - ★★★★

Sue Lancaster
The Perfect One - ★★★★

Sue Lynn Tan 

Sumayya Usmani

Sundara Ramaswamy
The Tamarind Tree  - ★★★.¾

Susan Azim Boyer
The Search for Us - ★★★.¾

Susan Cain

Susan Stokes-Chapman
The Shadow Key - ★★★.¼

Susan Verde
Can You See It? - ★★★★.½

Susanne Pari

Susanna Leonard Hill

Susanna M. Newstead

Susie Bower

Susie Oh
Soomi's Sweater - ★★★★.½

Sussie Anie

Suzanne Feldman

Suzanne Sutherland

Suzette D. Harrison

Suzy K. Quinn

Szilvia Molnar
The Nursery - ★★★

T

T.J. Klune
In the Lives of Puppets - ★★★★.½

Tae Keller

Tamara von Werther
Only the Lonely  - ★★★★
Silent Night - ★★★★

Tamiko Pettee
Emily's Quills - ★★★★.½

Tamsyn Muir

Tara J. Hannon

Tara Lynn Still

Tatiana Christie 
Penny the Horse...Of Course! - ★★★★.¼

Tea Cooper

Tekeyla Friday
Prince Prickly Spine - ★★★★

Terri Tatchell
Adventures of a Pangopup - ★★★★.½
Aye-Aye Gets Lucky - ★★★★.¼
Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants - ★★★★.¾
Tarsier Sings His Song - ★★★★★

Terry Hayes

Terry Pratchett
Mort - ★★

Terry Varner


Tilmer Wright Jr.
The Bit Dance - ★★★.¼

Timothy Janovsky
The Merriest Misters - ★★★.¼

Timothy S. Currey 

Tina Konstant/Obediah Keane

Tina M. Cho

Tochi Onyebuchi

Tom Adams

Tom Read Wilson

Toño Malpica

Tonja Drecker
Music Boxes - ★★★★

Tonya Mitchell
The Arsenic Eater's Wife - ★★★★

Topher Payne

Tracey Rose Peyton
Night Wherever We Go - ★★★.¼

Trent Dalton
Love Stories  - ★★★★.¼

Tricia Cresswell

Trina Rathgeber



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