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Amy Reading

Amy Reading holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She is the author of The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con, published by Knopf (March 2012). She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children.

Books reviewed by Amy Reading

The Other Typist (07/10/13)
Joseph Anton (10/03/12)
Gillespie and I (03/07/12)
Below Stairs (01/11/12)
Wonderstruck (09/21/11)
The Family Fang (08/04/11)
Moon Over Manifest (04/06/11)
Swamplandia! (03/24/11)
Our Tragic Universe (10/06/10)
Mockingjay (09/08/10)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (07/08/10)
Anthropology of an American Girl (06/09/10)
The Changeling (03/17/10)
Union Atlantic (03/03/10)
Point Omega (02/03/10)
Invisible (11/05/09)
Strength in What Remains (09/02/09)
The Lost City of Z (03/08/09)
The Tourist (03/08/09)
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes (01/07/09)
A Mercy (01/07/09)
Death with Interruptions (11/12/08)
Home (09/18/08)
A Better Angel (09/04/08)
America America (08/13/08)
Slumberland (07/11/08)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (06/18/08)
Netherland (06/01/08)
Legacy of Ashes (06/01/08)
Unaccustomed Earth (05/15/08)
The Lazarus Project (05/15/08)
Fall of Frost (04/17/08)
A Fraction of the Whole (03/06/08)
Charlatan (02/21/08)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (01/10/08)
An Ordinary Spy (01/10/08)
Gentlemen of the Road (11/27/07)
The Shock Doctrine (11/27/07)
Bridge of Sighs (11/08/07)
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (11/08/07)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (10/17/07)
Brother, I'm Dying (10/04/07)

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