Tales of a Female N...
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, by Rita Golden Gelman. Three Rivers Press (2001), 306...
The Idle Parent
The Idle Parent: Why Laid-back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids, by Tom Hodgkinson. Jeremy P....
Committed
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Viking (2010), 285 pages. The movie...
Finding Oz
Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz. Houghton Mifflin...
The Professor and t...
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by...
You Are Not a Gadge...
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, by Jaron Lanier. Alfred A. Knopf (2010), 209 pages. This is a very...
Neither Here nor Th...
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, by Bill Bryson. Perennial (1992), 235 pages. This was a gift from...
Bright-Sided
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara...

The Book Shark began as an independent book review website created by Cindy Blackett and Donna Long in 2002.
From the beginning our goal was not only to write great reviews, but also to recognize the most well-written books we read each year with an award...
The Gustine Awards were named in honor of the main character in one of our favorite books—The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman. Awards have been given out yearly since 2002 in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and memoir...
A book’s cover is as important as the writing within it. Yes, I really just said that. I am aware that this is a highly offensive statement to many authors who have toiled for years on their books and believe their words are the only thing that matters...
We want to know your choice for best fiction of 2011! Send us your review and if we choose it, it will be posted here through the month of March.