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Norah Piehl

Norah Piehl is a former bookseller who has also worked for several publishing companies. Currently the executive director for Litquake, San Francisco's literary festival, Norah reviews books and writes interviews and features for a number of print and online publications. She lives with her family in Berkeley, California.

Books reviewed by Norah Piehl

Says Who? (04/17/24)
Headshot (03/20/24)
The Atlas of Us (02/21/24)
Around the World in Eighty Games (01/10/24)
Dayswork (10/04/23)
Thornhedge (09/06/23)
The Bee Sting (08/02/23)
The Puzzle Master (07/12/23)
Birnam Wood (04/05/23)
The Davenports (02/15/23)
Bloodbath Nation (02/01/23)
Pests (01/04/23)
I'm the Girl (11/16/22)
Shrines of Gaiety (10/05/22)
Inventing the It Girl (09/07/22)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (08/03/22)
The Favor (06/08/22)
The Impossible Us (04/06/22)
My Fine Fellow (03/02/22)
Suburban Dicks (08/04/21)
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano (05/19/21)
Rescuing the Planet (04/21/21)
Libertie (04/07/21)
No One Is Talking About This (02/17/21)
Super Fake Love Song (01/20/21)
The Mother Code (09/02/20)
The Distant Dead (07/15/20)
All Adults Here (06/03/20)
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness (04/22/20)
Weather (03/04/20)
This Is Happiness (01/22/20)
Marilou Is Everywhere (09/04/19)
We Contain Multitudes (07/10/19)
Underland (06/19/19)
The Confessions of Frannie Langton (05/29/19)
Memories of the Future (04/17/19)
After She's Gone (03/20/19)
The Heavens (03/06/19)
Unmarriageable (02/06/19)
Transcription (10/03/18)
Home After Dark (09/19/18)
Harry's Trees (08/29/18)
I Will Be Complete (08/01/18)
Planet Funny (07/11/18)
Lawn Boy (05/30/18)
The Place Between Breaths (05/02/18)
Look Alive Out There (04/04/18)
Speak No Evil (03/07/18)
Sunburn (02/21/18)
Love, Hate and Other Filters (01/24/18)
Landscape with Invisible Hand (09/20/17)
The World of Tomorrow (09/06/17)
New People (08/02/17)
Shadow Man (07/12/17)
Do Not Become Alarmed (06/21/17)
The Book of Joan (05/17/17)
Glass House (05/03/17)
The Dark Flood Rises (03/22/17)
Merrow (02/15/17)
The Sellout (01/18/17)
Harmony (09/21/16)
The Underground Railroad (09/07/16)
Another Brooklyn (08/03/16)
Everyone Brave is Forgiven (05/04/16)
Black Rabbit Hall (04/06/16)
Thanks for the Trouble (03/16/16)
The Dogs of Littlefield (02/03/16)
Not If I See You First (01/06/16)
The Emperor of Any Place (11/18/15)
The Making of Home (10/21/15)
Goodbye Stranger (09/16/15)
The Night Stages (08/12/15)
A God in Ruins (05/13/15)
Spinster (04/29/15)
Hausfrau (03/18/15)
H Is for Hawk (03/04/15)
Honeydew (02/18/15)
Sweetland (01/21/15)
The Story Hour (09/17/14)
100 Sideways Miles (09/03/14)
The Stranger on the Train (07/09/14)
The Watcher (06/04/14)
The Blessings (05/21/14)
Frog Music (04/09/14)
The Wind Is Not a River (02/19/14)
The Crane Wife (01/22/14)
Fangirl (10/02/13)
Tumbledown (09/04/13)
How to Create the Perfect Wife (05/08/13)
The End of the Point (03/20/13)
The Still Point of the Turning World (03/06/13)
Love Is a Canoe (02/06/13)
Me Before You (01/23/13)
Tenth of December (01/09/13)
Sweet Tooth (11/28/12)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (11/14/12)
Winter Journal (10/17/12)
Every Day (10/03/12)
Battleborn (09/12/12)
This Is How It Ends (09/05/12)
Vandal Love (08/08/12)
The Uninvited Guests (06/14/12)
Enchanted (05/16/12)
After the Snow (04/11/12)
Girlchild (03/07/12)
Ragnarok (02/01/12)
Life (11/03/11)
I Married You for Happiness (10/05/11)
The Map of Time (08/04/11)
Big Girl Small (06/15/11)
Tiger Hills (04/06/11)
You Know When the Men Are Gone (02/03/11)
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (11/03/10)
American Wasteland (10/20/10)
Fame (09/22/10)
Super Sad True Love Story (09/08/10)
What Is Left the Daughter (07/08/10)
Solar (05/19/10)
So Much for That (04/07/10)
The Unnamed (02/17/10)

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