-This is an alphabetic list of authors together with their books which have been reviewed on the weblog A Common Reader. An alphabetic list of titles can be seen here
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Abley, Mark
- The Prodigal Tongue
Achebe, Chinua
- Education of a British Protected Child, The
Ackroyd, Peter
-The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Adam, Olivier
- Cliffs
Ahmad, Imran
- Unimagined
Alderman, Naomi
- The Lessons
Alvtegen, Karin
- Shadow
Aronowitz, Richard
- Its Just the Beating of my Heart
Arscott, David
- A Sussex Kipling
Aymé, Marcel
- Beautiful Image
Bailey, Rosemary
- Love and War in the Pyrenees
Baker, Nicholson
- The Anthologist
- Human Smoke
Bakewell,Sarah
- How to Live, A Life of Montaigne
Balzac, Honoré de
- Père Goriot
Banville, John
- The Infinities
Barbal, Maria
- Stone in a Landslide
Bashford, Henry Howarth
- Augustus Carp
Batuman, Elif
- The Possessed
Baxter, Stephen
- Flood
Belloc, Hilaire
- The Four Men
Bellos, David
- Is That A Fish In Your Ear?
Berger, John
- Corker’s Freedom
Bernhard, Thomas
- The Old Masters
Blythe, Ronald
- Field Work
Bolano, Robert
- Nazi Literature in the Americas
Bologna, Filippo
- How I Lost The War
Boxall, Peter
1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die
Braithwaite, Rodrick
- Moscow 1941
Bruhns, Wibke
- My Father’s Country
Brijs, Stefan
- The Angel Maker
Briscoe, Paul
- My Friend the Enemy
Buckley, Jonathan
- Nostalgia
Burn, Gordon
- Born Yesterday
Camilleri, Andrea
- Age of Doubt
- Dance of the Seagull
Dance of the Seagull
Cherniak, Judith (editor)
- Poems on the Underground
Child, Lee
- 61 Hours
Christoper, John
- The Death of Grass
Clarke, Lindsay
- The Water Theatre
Coe, Jonathan
-The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Cook, Coleridge
- The Meowmorphosis
Cook, Jude
- Byron Easy
Conrad, Joseph
- The Secret Agent
Coren, Victoria
- For Richer for Poorer
Cossé, Laurence
- A Novel Bookstore -
Cross, Neil
- Burial
Crumb, Robert
- Introducing Kafka (with David Zane Mairowitz)
Crystal, David
- By Hook or by Crook
Cudbird, Terry
- Walking the Hexagon
Dasgupta, Rana
- Solo
Davenport Hines, Richard
- A Night at the Majestic
Davidson, Martin
- The Perfect Nazi
Davis, Lydia
- The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
de Maupassant, Guy
- Pierre et Jean
Dean, Louise
- The Old Romantic
Dehnel, Jacek
- Saturn
Delius, Friedrich Christian
- Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
Denny, Isabel
- The Fall of Hitler’s Fortress City
de Waal, Edmund
- Hare with Amber Eyes, The
di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi
- The Leopard
- Letters from London and Europe
Dickinson, Robert
- The Noise of Strangers
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Uncle’s Dream
Drabble, Margaret
- The Pattern in the Carpet
Dunn, Mark
- Ella Minnow Pea
Eastland, Sam
- The Red Moth
Egremont, Max
- Forgotten Land
Eichner, Hans
- Kahn and Englemann
Ellis, David
Enzensburger, Hans Magnus
- The Silences of Hammerstein
Faber,Michel,
- The Crimson Petal and The White
- The Fire Gospel
Fadiman, Anne
- At Large and Small
Fallada, Hans
- Alone in Berlin
- Little Man What Now
Fante, John
- The Road to Los Angles
Ferris, Joshua
- The Unnamed
Fitzgerald, F Scott
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Flaubert, Gustave
- Sentimental Education
Foden, Giles
- Turbulence
Fontane, Theodor
- Effi Briest
Ford, Richard
- Canada
- The Lay of the Land
Forsyth, Mark
- The Etymologicon
- The Horologicon
Foulds, Adam
- The Quickening Maze
Franzen, Jonathan
- Freedom
Furst, Alan
- Mission to Paris
- Spies of the Balkans
Fyfield, Frances
- Blood from Stone
- Gold Digger
Galgut, Damon
- The Quarry
Gardam, Jane
- The Man in the Wooden Hat
Gekoski, Rick
- Outside of a Dog, A Bibliomemoire
Genazino, Wilhelm
- The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt
Glavinic, Thomas
- Pull Yourself Together
Goffette, Guy
- Forever Nude
Gooden, Philip
- Idiomantics
Grandin, Greg
- Fordlandia
Granta Magazine
- Are We Related? The New Granta Book of the Family
Grass, Gunther
- Crabwalk
- Peeling the Onion
- The Tin Drum
Gray, John
- Black Mass
Gray, Simon
- Coda
- The Last Cigarette
Grossman, Vasily
- A Writer at War
Grushin, Olga
- The Concert Ticket
Guterson, David
- The Other
Hamilton- Paterson, James
- Amazing Disgrace
- Rancid Pansies
Hatoum, Milton
- Orphans of Eldorado
Hawes, James
- Excavating Kafka
Hein, Christoph
- Settlement
Hemon, Aleksandar (Ed)
- Best European Fiction 2010
Hemingway, Ernest
- A Farewell to Arms
Hiller Mischa
- Sabra Zoo
Himmler, Katrin
- The Himmler Brothers
Hodgkinson, Will
- The Ballad of Britain
Hoffman, E T A
- The King’s Bride
- Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl
Hoffman, Michael
- The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
Hogan, Edward
- The Hunger Trace
Holmqvist, Ninn
- The Unit
Homes, A M
- Music for Torching
Huelle, Pawel
- Castorp
- Cold Sea Stories
- The Last Supper
- Moving House
Hugo, Victor
- The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Hunt, Irmgard
- On Hitler’s Mountain
Hyland, M J
- This is How
Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Nocturnes
Jackson, Shirley
- The Lottery and Other Stories
Jacobson, Howard
- The Finkler Question
James, Peter
- Dead Like You
Jannson, Tove
- Fair Play
- The True Deceiver
Jauffret, Régis
- Severe
Jenkins, Michael
- A House in Flanders
Johnson, Adam
- The Orphan Master’s Son
Johnson, Alexandra
- A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs
Jones, Sadie
- The Outcast
Jungk, Peter Stephan
- Inheritance, The
Karinthy, Ferenc
- Metropole
Karski, Jan
- Story of a Secret State
Keillor, Garrison
- Liberty
Keilson, Hans
- Death of an Adversary
Kehlmann, Daniel
- Measuring the World
Kelly, Ian
- Casanova
Kelly, Susie
- Best Foot Forward
- The Valley of Heaven and Hell
Kennedy, A L
- The Blue Book
Kennedy, Conan
- The Colour of Her Eyes
Kerr, Philip
- A Quiet Flame
Keun, Irmgard
- After Midnight
Kim, Anna
- Anatomy of a Night
Kiss, Yudit
- The Summer My Father Died
Knausgaard, Karl O
- A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven
Koch, Herman
- The Dinner
Krauss, Nicole
- Great House
Laidler, Keith
- Surveillance Unlimited
Laing, Olivia
- To the River
Lanchester, John
- Family Romance
Lange, Hartmut
- Missing Persons
Larsson, Stieg
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Lelic, Simon
- The Facility
Lelord, François
- Hector and the Search for Happiness
Light, Alison
- Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Littell, Jonathan
- The Kindly Ones
Lodge, David
- A Man of Parts
Mabanckou, Alain
- Broken Glass
Mandanipour, Shariar
- Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Manguel, Alberto
- All Men are Liars
- Library at Night, The
Mann, Thomas
- Buddenbrooks
- Doctor Faustus
- The Magic Mountain
Marani, Diego
- New Finnish Grammar
Matar, Hisham
- Anatomy of a Disappearance
Mawer, Simon
- The Glass Room
McGrath, Alister
- C S Lewis, A Life
Means, David
- Assorted Fire Events
Melville, Pauline
- Eating Air
Mérimée, Prosper
- A Slight Misunderstanding
Michaels, Anne
- The Winter Vault
Miller, Andrew
- One Morning Like a Bird
- Pure
Miller, Henry
- Black Spring
Millar, Peter
- 1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall
Mills, Magnus
- A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked in
- Screwtop Thompson
Milton, Giles
- Paradise Lost
- Wolfram: The Boy Who Went To War
Milton, Richard
- Best of Enemies
Mitchell, David
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
Moore, Alison
- The Lighthouse
Moorhouse, Roger
- Berlin at War
Morais, Richard C
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
Muhlstein, Anka
- Balzac’s Omelette
- Monsieur Proust’s Library
Murukami, Ryu
- From the Fatherland With Love
Musil Robert
- The Man Without Qualities
Nesbo, Jo
- Headhunters
Nesser, Håkan
- Hour of the Wolf
New Europe Writers
- Ljubljana Tales
Nicholson, Geoff
- The Lost Art of Walking
Nicholson, William
- The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
O’Hagan, Andrew
- Be Near Me
Olmi,Véronique
- Beside the Sea
Oltermann, Philip
- Keeping Up With The Germans
Oxford University Press (reference books)
- New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary
Oz, Amos
- Rhyming Life and Death
Palahniuk, Chuc
- Pygmy
Parini, Jay
- The Last Station
Park, Ed
- Personal Days
Parks, Tim
- Teach Us To Sit Still
Paasilinna, Arto
- The Year of the Hare
Pearlman, Edith
- Binocular Vision
Pears, Tim
- Blenheim Orchard
- Landed
Peterson, Per
- I Curse The River of Time
- It’s Fine By Me
- To Siberia
Pheby, Alex
- Grace
Postgate, Oliver
- Seeing Things
Prichard, Caradog
- One Moonlit Night
Pushkin, Alexander
- The Bronze Horseman
Radford, Tim
- The Address Book
Rankin, Robert
- Retromancer
Rappaport, Helen
- Conspirator, Lenin in Exile
Reck, Friedrich
- Diary of a Man in Despair
Roach, Mary
- Six Feet Over
Robinson, Marilynne
- Home
Roth, Philip
- Exit Ghost
- Indignation
Ryback, Timothy W
- Hitler’s Private Library
Sagan, Nick
- Future Proof
Sam, Anna
- Checkout – A Life on the Tills
Sansom, C J
- Dominion
- Winter in Madrid
Scerbanenco, Giorgio
- A Private Venus
Schroder, Adolf
- The Game of Cards
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
- The Emergence of Memory
Sebald, W G
- Austerlitz
Sebestyen, Victor
- Revolution 1989
Segnit, Nat
- Pub Walks in Underhill Country
Seierstad, Ãsne
- The Angel of Grozny
Seymour, Gerald
- The Walking Dead
Shepherd, Lynn
- Tom All Alone’s
- Treacherous Likeness, A
Simsion, Graeme – The Rosie Project
Sjón
- From the Mouth of the Whale
Smith, Joseph
- The Wolf
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Apricot Jam and Other Stories
Stafford, David
- Endgame 1945
Stamm, Peter
- We’re Flying
Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Stewart, Chris
- Three Ways to Capsize A Boat
Stourton, Ed
- Cruel Crossing
Suskind, Patrick
- Perfume, the Story of a Murderer
Sutherland, John
- The Boy Who Loved Books
- The Curiosities of Literature
- How to Read a Novel
- Love, Sex, Death and Words (with Stephen Fender)
Swift, Daniel
- Bomber County
Swift, Graham
- Making an Elephant
Szabó, Magda
- The Door
Szerb, Antal
- Journey By Moonlight
Taylor, Andrew
- Anatomy of Ghosts
Taylor, D J
- At the Chime of a City Clock
Tenenbom, Tuvia
- I Sleep in Hitler’s Room
Theorin, Jacob
- The Quarry
Theroux, Marcel
- Far North
Theroux, Paul
- The Lower River
Thompson, Brian
- Keeping Mum
Thubron, Colin
- Shadow of the Silk Road
Tóibín, Colm
- The Empty Family
Tolkien, Simon
- Orders from Berlin
Tolstoy, Sophia
- The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
Torberg, Friedrich
- Young Gerber
Tsiolkas, Christos
- The Slap
Tyler, Anne
- The Amateur Marriage
- Digging to America
- Noah’s Compass
Ungar, Herman
- Boys and Murderers
- The Class
- The Maimed
Van Dis, Adriaan
- Repatriated
Van Dyke, Henry
- The Other Wise Man
Vann, David
- Caribou Island
- Legend of a Suicide
Various Authors
- Penguin Lines
Verhulst, Dimitri
- The Misfortunates
Vickers, Salley – The Cleaner of Chartres
Vitali Vitaliev
- Life as a Literary Device
Von Ditfurth, Christian
- A Paragon of Virtue
Von Rezzori, Gregor
- Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
- Oedipus at Stalingrad
– The Orient Express
- The Snows of Yesteryear
- see also my article, Gregor Von Rezzori – an appreciation
Wagner, Jan Costin
- Winter of the Lions
Waller, John
- A Time to Dance, a Time to Die
Walser, Robert
- The Assistant
- Institute Benjamenta
- Selected Stories
- The Tanners
Wassermann, Jakob
- My First Wife
Waters, Sarah
- The Little Stranger
Weihe, Richard
- Sea of Ink
Weiringa, Tommy
- Caesarion
Welch, Frances
- The Russian Court at Sea
Weller, Anthony
- The Land of Later On
Welsh, Louise
- The Cutting Room
Wilson, Richard
- Don’t Get Fooled Again
Winder, Simon
- Germania
Woodward, Gerard
- August - see In Praise of the Trilogy
- A Curious Earth, see also In Praise of the Trilogy
- Caravan Thieves
- I’ll Go To Bed at Noon
- Nourishment
- see also my article on Gerard Woodward’s Jones family trilogy
Wolf, Maryanne
- Proust and the Squid
Woolfson, Esther
- Corvus, A Life With Birds
Wright, Elizabeth
- Brief Lives: Virginia Woolf
Yallop, David
- The Power and the Glory
Yassin-Kassab, Robin
- The Road From Damascus
Zimler, Richard
- The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
- The Search for Sana
- The Seventh Gate
- The Warsaw Anagrams
Zweig, Stefan
- Amok and Other Stories
- Beware of Pity
- Chess
- Fantastic Night and Other Short Stories
- Burning Secret
- Post Office Girl, The
- World of Yesterday, The
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