Over our 30 years, we have featured many critical book reviews. Here is a selection of our favorites culled from Kenny's Publishers Weekly Shelftalker column, his Daily Bulldog Words on Words column, and older reviews from his Franklin Jounal column.
- Bob Kimber & Ted Nugent:A Comparison
- The Magician's Trilogy
- Seveneves
- Aubrey-Maturin: A balanced consideration
- Mal Peet's Enchanted Mirror
- The Sea Thing Child
- Love Always Patsy: Patsy Cline's Letters to a Friend
- The Dream and the Tomb
- Mr. Phillips
- If I Stay
- Layover in Dubai
- Tyger Tyger
- Dragonhaven
- Kazuo Ishigura Returns
- Maine Voices from the Civil War
- Harry Potter 7
- Real Giving
- Name of the Wind
- Maple Sugaring
- The Best Da Vinci Code Imitation
- Half a Chance
- First Among First Day of School Books
- James Frey
- The Hidden Messages in Water
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
- Unexpected Magic
- Eragon
- Amulet of Samarkand
- The Eyre Affair
- Uprooted
- The Bounty
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- The Heroic Adventures of Hercules Amsterdam
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Class Action
- Yo Vikings
- The Worst Journey in the World
- Arabian Sands
- Facing The Wind
- Wit
- Praise for the Feckless Narrator
- Johnson's Kingdom
- Island of the Aunts
- Ex Libris
- Fire Bringer
- The Amber Spyglass
- The Little Locksmith
- How to Read and Why
- River Town
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- The Delivery of Harry Potter IV
- The Secret of Platform 13
- The Chinese Garden
- His Dark Materials
- The Thief Lord
- Series of Unfortunate Events
- Three Men in a Boat
- Ahab's Wife or, The Star Gazer