Books by Anonymous
THE BOOK OF DAVID by Anonymous
by Anonymous
Released: June 3, 2014
"Ten years (or more) ago this might have been an important book; but even with its positive close, today it is an embarrassment. (Fiction. 14-17)"
Texas high school senior and quarterback David has a secret no one can discover. Read full book review >
LETTING ANA GO by Anonymous
by Anonymous
Released: June 4, 2013
"A disturbing tale that feels meant to titillate rather than caution. (Fiction. 12-18)"
Anyone familiar with the sensationalist pseudo-diary Go Ask Alice knows it won't end well for an anonymous (fictitious) teen who chronicles her eating disorder. Read full book review >
THE HERO by Anonymous
by Anonymous
Released: Jan. 23, 2013
"A promising fantasy novel that struggles with awkward execution."

In this fantasy novel, a simple caravan guard's commitment to a dead friend leads him into a fight in an isolated town.

When bandit attacks on traveling caravans grow worse, Capt. Read full book review >

ELIMINATION NIGHT by Anonymous
by Anonymous
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"Anyone who has ever watched American Idol, and that will be almost everyone, will have the immense satisfaction of the "inside scoop," real or not."
Written anonymously (by an insider?), this thinly veiled account of American Idol's first season with Steven Tyler and JLo is a hilarious tour into the world of reality divas. Read full book review >
THE INCONTROVERTIBILITY OF RAINBOWS by Anonymous
by Anonymous
Released: Nov. 11, 2012
"Would be better delivered as manifesto, rather than from the mouths of unconvincing characters."
In this anonymous author's novel, a near-future United States is crippled by gerontocracy until the Young People Party comes to power and wreaks a terrible vengeance. Read full book review >
LUCY IN THE SKY by Anonymous
by Anonymous
Released: May 12, 2012
"Both engrossing and titillating; readers curious about drugs and readers who wouldn't dream of touching them will find satisfaction here. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
An unapologetic contemporary imitation of anonymous faux-diary Go Ask Alice. Read full book review >
O by Anonymous
by Anonymous
THRILLERS
Released: Jan. 25, 2011
"So who's Anonymous? Who cares? O is a worthy read, no matter who the author."
A gossipy, entertaining novel about presidential politics—and if this roman à clef got any more clef, it'd have to be printed on newsprint. Read full book review >
QUICKSAND by Anonymous
by Anonymous
HEALTH
Released: Nov. 1, 2009

Ten years ago, there was a dearth of recent books on HIV/AIDS for young people. Read full book review >

BELLE DE JOUR by Anonymous
by Anonymous
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: July 11, 2006
"Mildly alluring in the racy passages, but overall, an emotionally detached and disjointed effort."
The self-indulgent navel-gazing of a high-priced call girl. Read full book review >
ACADEMY X by Anonymous
by Anonymous
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: June 13, 2006
"Anonymously written by a Manhattan prep-school teacher, this debut aspires to social satire, but much of the humor is canned. Stick with the original, Lucky Jim."
A conspiracy to get a rich man's daughter into Princeton ensnares an idealistic prep-school teacher. Read full book review >
A WOMAN IN BERLIN by Anonymous
Kirkus Star
by Anonymous, translated by Philip Boehm
HISTORY
Released: Aug. 4, 2005
"Frank and affecting, a remarkable piece of war literature."
Complex, closely observed diary by a woman living in conquered Berlin at the end of WWII. Read full book review >
’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Anonymous
by Anonymous, illustrated by Matt Tavares
POETRY
Released: Oct. 1, 2002

In a full-page introductory note, Tavares (Zachary's Ball, 2000) details the origins of the famous poem (attributed to Clement C. Moore some years after its first publication in a NY newspaper in 1823), which spurred the tradition in the US of hanging up stockings to be filled by St. Read full book review >

LICENSE TO STEAL by Anonymous
by Anonymous
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Released: Nov. 1, 1999

The anonymous stockbroker author and journalist Harper (Moscow Madness, 1999) create fictional "Brett Burtelsohn" to trace an archetypical career in unnamed Wall Street IPO bucket shops where investors regularly feed the hands of those that bite them. Read full book review >

PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous
by Anonymous
THRILLERS
Released: Feb. 1, 1996

A marvelously down-and-dirty chronicle of a presidential campaign that will make your eyes water, and some more famous eyes burn, in recognition. His rivals for the Democratic nomination—a decorated Vietnam vet, a dinosaur populist, a ``neo-Martian'' egghead, the on-again/off-again governor of New York—may have stronger credentials of one kind or another, but none of them has put together the package Gov. Read full book review >