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David Michael Slater

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David Michael Slater is an acclaimed author of over 40 books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 1,250 ratings · 386 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Boy & the Book by David Michael Slater (Goodreads Author), Bob Kolar (Illustrator) 3.54 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Nonsense (Forbidden Books 1) 3.70 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing 4.61 avg rating — 137 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bigfoot (Mysterious Monsters, #1) by David Michael Slater (Goodreads Author), Mauro Sorghienti (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bored Book by David Michael Slater (Goodreads Author), Doug Keith (Illustrator) 3.69 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We're Doing It Wrong: 25 Ideas in Education That Just Don't Work and How to Fix Them 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fun & Games 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bear With Me 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Ate Nine 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Knowledge (Forbidden Books) 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Michael Slater (Goodreads Author)

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David Slater rated a book liked it The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1) by Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz offers an immediately "arresting" premise: the murder of a woman who, on the very day of her death, meticulously planned her own funeral. That hook carries the novel forward, propelled by an intricate plot in wh ...more
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David Slater rated a book liked it The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Art Forger is a literary-light mystery/thriller about Claire Roth, a recent art school graduate blackballed after revealing she—not her famous artist lover—painted a supposed masterpiece. Reduced to copying famous works to pay the bills, she beco ...more
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David Slater rated a book liked it Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) by Benjamin Stevenson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone is engaging for a while because of a fairly fresh twist: The narrator of this murder mystery is a self-help author, Ernest Cunningham, who has written books on how to write murder mysteries. He finds himself s ...more
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David Slater rated a book it was ok The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder #1) by C.L. Miller	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I picked up The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder because I have a superficial but genuine interest in antiques, but I'm sorry to say that the novel doesn't feel like it was written by an insider. More unfortunately, the writing is poor, and neither t ...more
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David Slater rated a book liked it The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman is a novel I admired more than loved. Egon Loeser, a sex-starved avant-garde set designer in Weimar-era Berlin, becomes entangled with a series of strange scientific projects, propaganda efforts, and speculat ...more
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David Slater rated a book liked it Audition by Katie Kitamura (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Katie Kitamura’s Audition is a complicated meditation on the performance of the self for both public and private consumption. The story, which is two stories, is narrated by a famous actress who, in the first part, meets a young man who claims to be ...more
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David Slater rated a book liked it The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Housemaid is an entertaining and original take on the Sexy-Housemaid-Destroys-A-Marriage story with a great twist. Unfortunately, it has a very weak ending. Fortunately, the epilogue surprises by setting up a series you didn't see coming, with a ...more
Nov 04, 2025 07:10PM · 2 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Housemaid by Freida McFadden <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
David Slater rated a book really liked it The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Winner of this year's Hugo, The Tainted Cup is an absorbing mystery set in a fascinating world in which the Empire consists of lands formed in concentric rings until they reach the Sea Wall, which precariously protects all the races of augmented peop ...more
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David Slater rated a book it was ok Flesh by David Szalay	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
David Szalay has been hailed as one of the best writers on contemporary masculinity, and his latest novel has been highly acclaimed. Can't say I understand either, having read Flesh, which is the rags-to-riches story of a young Hungarian man who drif ...more
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David Slater rated a book liked it The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Housemaid is an entertaining and original take on the Sexy-Housemaid-Destroys-A-Marriage story with a great twist. Unfortunately, it has a very weak ending. Fortunately, the epilogue surprises by setting up a series you didn't see coming, with a ...more
Sep 20, 2025 08:12PM · 2 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Housemaid by Freida McFadden <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">

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The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

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Reckless by Cornelia Funke

24 votes, 14.8%

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

23 votes, 14.2%

Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty

18 votes, 11.1%

Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs

16 votes, 9.9%

The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork

9 votes, 5.6%

Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena

8 votes, 4.9%

Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

7 votes, 4.3%

The Book of Nonsense by David Michael Slater

5 votes, 3.1%

The Sight by David Clement-Davies

3 votes, 1.9%

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