The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

All Books Reviewed In These Here Hills

Here is a comprehensive linked list of all books reviewed on The Mountains of Instead. This list is in no particular order, mainly because we can't work out how to alphabetise it. Oops. 

Ballad - Maggie Stiefvater
The Demon's Lexicon - Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon's Covenant - Sarah Rees Brennan
Firespell - Chloe Neill
The Iron King - Julie Kagawa
The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Daykeeper's Grimoire - Christy Raedeke
Paper Towns - John Green 
The Radleys - Matt Haig
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer
Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce
Sea - Heidi R. Kling
Shade - Jeri Smith-Ready
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson
iBoy - Kevin Brooks
Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen
The Midnight Charter - David Whitley
The Children of The Lost - David Whitley
The Poisoned House - Michael Ford
The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting
Blood Feud - Alyxandra Harvey
Linger - Maggie Stiefvater
Matched - Ally Condie
The Eternal Ones - Kirsten Miller
I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore
The Dead Tossed Waves - Carrie Ryan
Restoring Harmony - Joelle Anthony
Immortal Remains - Rook Hastings
The Enemy - Charlie Higson
The Dead - Charlie Higson
The Legacy - Gemma Malley
White Cat - Holly Black
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
The Snow Spider - Jenny Nimmo
The Carrie Diaries - Candace Bushnell
Claire De Lune - Christine Johnson
Raised By Wolves - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly
The Dead Of Winter - Chris Priestly
Paranolmalcy - Kiersten White
Torment - Lauren Kate
Out For Blood - Alyxandra Harvey
Revolution - Jennifer Donnelly
Angel - L.A. Weatherly
Beautiful Darkness - M. Stohl and K. Garcia
Heroes Of Olympus: The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
The Deathday Letter - Shaun Hutchinson
Entice - Carrie Jones
Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
Frostbite - Richelle Mead
Shadow Kiss - Richelle Mead
Blood Promise - Richelle Mead
Spirit Bound - Richelle Mead
Last Sacrifice - Richelle Mead
Entangled - Cat Clarke
Finnikin of the Rock - Melina Marchetta
Froi of the Exiles - Melina Marchetta
Ballad - Maggie Stiefvater (r)
The Fault In Our Stars - John Green
This Is Not Forgiveness - Celia Rees 
The Book of Blood and Shadow - Robin Wasserman
Stolen Away - Alyxandra Harvey
Wither - Lauren DeStefano
Legend - Marie Lu 
Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver
Fever - Lauren DeStefano
Endure - Carrie Jones
Going Too Far - Jennifer Echols (r)
Fever - Dee Schulman 
Insurgent - Veronica Roth
Graceling - Kristin Cashore (r)
Ghost Flower - Michelle Jaffe
City of Lost Souls - Cassandra Clare
I Hunt Killers - Barry Lyga
Saving June - Hannah Harrington
Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
Grave Mercy - Robin LeFevers
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Pushing The Limits - Katie McGarry
The Peculiars - Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Intelligent Life - Neil Arksey
Post Apocalypse Dead Letter Office - Nathan Poell
This Is Not a Test - Courtney Summers 
Jane - April Lidner
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Slide - Jill Hathaway 
Breathe - Sarah Crossan 
Liminal States - Zach Parsons
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
Unwind - Neal Schusterman
The Last Echo - Kimberley Derting
Ex Heroes - Peter Clines
Raw Blue - Kirsty Eagar
Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
Shadows - Ilsa J. Bick
Hollow Pike - James Dawson
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Broken - A. E. Rought
Henry Franks - Peter Adam Salomon
The Diviners - Libba Bray
The Magic Cottage - James Herbert
Metawars - Jeff Norton
How to Save a Life - Sara Zarr
Grow Up - Ben Brooks
Redshirts - John Scalzi
Reached - Ally Condie
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares - David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Book Store - Robin Sloan
The Strain Trilogy - Guillermo Del Toro/Chuck Hogan
The Knife Of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness (r)
The Ask and The Answer - Patrick Ness (r)
Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness (r)
The Replacement - Brenna Yovanoff
Unearthly - Cynthia Hand
The Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa
The Iron Queen - Julie Kagawa
Long Reach - Peter Cocks
Across The Universe - Beth Revis
Going Too Far - Jennifer Echols
Rules of Attraction - Simone Elkeles
Dancing Jax - Robin Jarvis
Heavenly - Jennifer Laurens
Penitence - Jennifer Laurens
Absolution - Jennifer Laurens
When It Happens - Susane Colasanti
The Other Countess - Eve Edwards
The Queen's Lady - Eve Edwards
Firelight - Sophie Jordan
The Mockingbirds - Daisy Whitney
Jenna and Jonah's Fauxmance - Emily Franklin/Brendan Halpin
My Name Is Memory - Anne Brashares
Crescendo - Becca Fitzpatrick
Burning Secrets - Claire Chambers
Darkest Mercy - Melissa Marr
Divergent - Veronica Roth
Anna and The French Kiss - Stephenie Perkins
West Of The Moon - Katherine Langrish
Miles From Ordinary - Carol Lynch Williams
Chime - Franny Billingsley
The Piper's Son - Melina Marchetta
City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare
Tomorrow When The War Began - John Marsden
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness
The Dark and Hollow Places - Carrie Ryan
It's Not Summer Without You - Jenny Han
Plague - Michael Grant 
Shift - Jeri Smith Ready (r)
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Life: An Unexploded Diagram - Mal Peet 
The Rogue's Princess - Eve Edwards
Forever - Maggie Stiefvater
Wereworld: Rage of Lions - Curtis Jobling
Red Glove - Holly Black
The Iron Knight - Julie Kagawa
Bleeding Hearts - Alyxandra Harvey
Bloodlines - Richelle Mead
Dark Inside - Jeyn Roberts
Ashes - Ilsa J. Bick
Struts and Frets - Jon Skovron
Beautiful Days - Anna Godberson
Beautiful Chaos - K. Garcia and M. Stohl
Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan
Torn - Cat Clarke
The Enemy - Charlie Higson (r)
The Dead - Charlie Higson (r)
Crossed - Ally Condie 
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare (r) 
The Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare
Children of Winter - Berlie Doherty
The Children of Greenknowe - Lucy M Boston
Fracture - Megan Miranda
Cinder - Melissa Meyer
Gretel and The Dark - Eliza Granville 
Vengeance - Megan Miranda
After Party - Anne Redisch Stampler 
Finding Jennifer Jones - Anne Cassidy
Salvage - Keren Davi
Night Film - Marisha Pessl 
Half Bad - Sally Green
Sweet Damage - Rebecca James 
Reality Boy - A.S. King
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - April Genevieve Tucholke 
This Side of Salvation - Jeri Smith-Ready
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
Banished - Liz de Jager 
The Taking - Kimberly Derting 
Untold - Sarah Rees Brennan 
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
Amity - Micol Ostow 
Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
The Snow Spider - Jenny Nimmo
Sabriel - Garth Nix
Dangerous Boys - Abigail Haas
The Jewel - Amy Ewing 
#Scandal - Daisy Ockler
My Funny Family Gets a Bit Bigger - Chris Higgins
Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater 
Echo Boy - Matt Haig
Anna Dressed in Blood - Kendare Blake 

Lovely, Dark and Deep - Amy McNamara 
The Rook - Daniel O'Malley 
The Last Policeman - Ben H Winters
Ten - Gretchen McNeil
Black Heart Blue - Louisa Reid
Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig 
Undone - Cat Clarke
The Indigo Spell - Richelle Mead
Last To Die - Tess Gerritsen
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller Knopf 
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green 
The Gathering Dark - Leigh Bardugo
Fragments - Dan Wells 
The Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks
Looking for Alaska - John Green 
Quintana of Charyn - Melina Marchetta
Clockwork Princess - Cassandra Clare
The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart - Mathias Mazieu
Scarlet - Marissa Meyer 
Sixty-One Nails - Mike Shevdon
Requiem - Lauren Oliver 
The Night She Disappeared - April Henry 
The Fifth Wave - Rick Yancey 
Lola and The Boy Next Door - Stephanie Perkins
A Tale Dark and Grimm - Adam Gidwitz 
The Secret of Ella and Micha - Jessica Sorenson 
Stone Junction - Jim Dodge 
Reboot - Amy Tintera 
The End Games - T. Michael Martin
Nowhere - Jon Robinson
The Night Itself - Zoe Marriott
Stray - Monica Hesse
Angelfall - Susan Ee
The Shining Girls - Lauren Beaukes 
Wolfsbane - Andrea Cremer
The Humans - Matt Haig
Sorry Please Thank You - Charles Yu
Cruel Summer - James Dawson 
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman 
The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater
Sick - Tom Leveen
More Than This - Patrick Ness
Unravelling - Elizabeth Norris 
How To Love - Katie Cotugno  
Sex and Violence - Carrie Mesrobian


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