Books Archive: O

The O'reilly Factor for Kids

Author: Bill O'Reilly and Charles Flowers

(Harper Entertainment, 2004)

• Review by Rebecca Onion

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008

Author: Laura Furman (Editor)

(Knopf, 2008)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People who Led Extraordinary Lives

Author: Jim Sheeler

(Pruett, 2007)

• Review by Rachel Smucker

The Ocean At Home

Author: Bernd Brunner

(Princeton Architectural Press, 2005)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Odd Thomas

Author: Dean Koontz

(Bantam (US); HarperCollins (Australia), 2003)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Off With Their Heads

Author: Dick Morris

(Regan Books, 2003)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Oh Don't You Cry for Me

Author: Philip Shirley

(Jefferson Press, 2008)

• Review by Abby Margulies

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Author: Lydia Millet

(Soft Skull Press, 2005)

• Review by Anne K. Yoder

Old Clothes, New Looks

Author: Alexandra Palmer and Hazel Clark

(Berg Publishers, 2005)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Old Fishing Lures & Tackle

Author: Carl F. Luckey, Clyde A. Harbin

(Krause, 2002)

• Column: Hooked by Antique Lures

Old Gods Almost Dead

Author: Stephen Davis

(Broadway Books, 2002)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

The Old Way: A Story of the First People

Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

(Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

On Beauty

Author: Zadie Smith

(The Penguin Press, 2005)

• Review by Ratha Tep

On Chesil Beach

Author: Ian McEwan

(Nan A. Talese, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

On This Day

Author: Nathaniel Bellows

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Leah Hochbaum

On Writing

Author: Stephen King

(Scribner's, 2000)

• Review by John G. Nettles

On the Blue Shore of Silence

Author: Pablo Neruda

(Rayo/HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Andy Fogle

On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World

Author: P. J. O'Rourke

(Grove/Atlantic, 2007)

• Review by John Mark Eberhart

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

Author: Sari Nusseibeh

(Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007)

• Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh

Once in a Lifetime

Author: Gavin Newsham

(Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

Once in a Promised Land

Author: Laila Halaby

(Beacon Press, 2007)

• Review by Kathryn Masterson

One Good Turn

Author: Kate Atkinson

(Little, Brown & Co., 2006)

• Review by Susan Balee [The Philadelphia Inquirer]

One Man's Bible

Author: Gao Xingjian

(Harper Collins, 2002)

• Review by Nithya Krishnaswamy

One More for the Road

Author: Ray Bradbury

(William Morrow, 2002)

• Review by Lanny Gilbert

One Must Also Be Hungarian

Author: Adam Biro

(University of Chicago Press, 2007)

• Review by Yamile Nesrala

One Nation Under God

Author: James P. Moore, Jr.

(Doubleday, 2005)

• Review by C.H. Doyle

One Nation Under Gods

Author: Richard Abanes

(Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

The One Percent Doctrine

Author: Ron Suskind

(Simon & Schuster, 2006)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

One Thousand Beards

Author: Allan Peterkin

(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001)

• Review by Aaron Beebe

One for My Baby

Author: Tony Parsons

(Touchstone, 2005)

• Review by Roger Holland

The Onion Girl

Author: Charles de Lint

(Tor Books, 2001)

• Review by Steven Rausch

The Only Girl in the Car

Author: Kathie Dobie

(The Dial Press, 2003)

• Review by Kathryn C. DeVito

The Only Good Thing Anybody Has Ever Done

Author: Sandra Newman

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

The Open Road

Author: Pico Iyer

(Knopf, 2008)

• Review by Carlin Romano

  PopMatters Pick

  

  The Dalai Lama: Down-to-earth and intimate.

   
• Feature: Pico Iyer

Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier

Author: Joel Hafvenstein

(Lyons Press, 2007)

• Review by Jacqueline Loohauis-Bennett

The Opposite House

Author: Helen Oyeyemi

(Doubleday, 2007)

• News: Helen Oyeyemi: Home is where the magic is

Oracle Night

Author: Paul Auster

(Faber (UK); Henry Holt & Co. (US), 2004)

• Review by John Sears

Ordnung & Eccentricity

Author: Thomas Manss

(Die Gestalten Verlag, 2002)

• Review by John Sears

The Organ Donor

Author: Matthew Warner

(Double Dragon eBooks)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

Orientalism

Author: Edward W. Said

(Vintage, 1979)

• Defending the West by Ibn Warraq

Origin

Author: Diana Abu-Jaber

(Norton, 2007)

• Review by Amy Driscoll

Orpheus Lost

Author: Janette Turner Hospital

(W.W. Norton, 2007)

• Review by Claudia Smith Brinson

Oryx and Crake

Author: Margaret Atwood

(Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, 2003)

• Review by Bruce F. MacDonald

Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker

Author: Patrick McGilligan

(Harper, 2007)

• Review by Eugene Kane

Others Unknown

(PublicAffairs Books, 2001)

• Review by Kay Chirichigno

Otherwise Normal People

Author: Aurelia C. Scott

(Algonquin Books, 2007)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King

Author: Foster Hirsch

(Knopf, 2007)

• Review by David Cohen

Our Daily Meds

Author: Melody Petersen

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

  PopMatters Pick

  

  It's hard to read Our Daily Meds without thinking of Americans as shaven-head underground dwellers of THX-1138, shuffling through their twilight days in a prescription-drug-haze.

   

Our Lady of the Lost and Found

Author: Diane Schoemperlen

(Penquin, 2002)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

Our Land Before We Die

Author: Jeff Guinn

(Penguin Putnam, 2002)

• Review by Bernadette Adams Davis

Our Post-human Future

Author: Francis Fukuyama

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002)

• Review by Adam H. Cook

Our Story Begins

Author: Tobias Wolff

(Knopf, 2008)

• Review by Matthew Fiander

Our Story

Author: The Quecreek Miners, as told to Jeff Goodell

(Random House Australia/Hyperion/Ebury Press, 2003)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Our Votes, Our Guns

Author: Martin Meredith

(Public Affairs, 2002)

• Review by Robyn Sassen

Out Stealing Horses

Author: Per Petterson

(Graywolf Press, 2007)

• Review by Frank Wilson

Out of the Past

Author: Barry Gifford

(University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

• Review by Mark Dionne

Outland

Author: Roger Ballen

(Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 2001)

• Review by Robyn Sassen

Outlaw Woman

Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

(City Lights Publishing, 2002)

• Review by Jessica Bopp

The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

Author: Alexandra Robbins

(Hyperion, 2006)

• Review by Mary McCoy