-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
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
- Human Smoke
Bakewell,Sarah
- How to Live, A Life of Montaigne
Balzac, Honoré de
- Père Goriot
Banville, John
- The Infinities
Baxter, Stephen
- Flood
Belloc, Hilaire
- The Four Men
Bernhard, Thomas
- The Old Masters
Blythe, Ronald
- Field Work
Bolano, Robert
- Nazi Literature in the Americas
Braithwaite, Rodrick
- Moscow 1941
Bruhns, Wibke
- My Father’s Country
Brijs, Stefan
- The Angel Maker
Briscoe, Paul
- My Friend the Enemy
Burn, Gordon
- Born Yesterday
Child, Lee
- 61 Hours
Christoper, John
- The Death of Grass
Clarke, Lindsay
- The Water Theatre
Coe, Jonathan
- The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Coren, Victoria
- For Richer for Poorer
Cross, Neil
- Burial
Crumb, Robert
- Introducing Kafka (with David Zane Mairowitz)
Crystal, David
- By Hook or by Crook
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
Delius, Friedrich Christian
- Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
Denny, Isabel
- The Fall of Hitler’s Fortress City
di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi
- The Leopard
Dickinson, Robert
- The Noise of Strangers
Drabble, Margaret
- The Pattern in the Carpet
Dunn, Mark
- Ella Minnow Pea
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
Ferris, Joshua
- The Unnamed
Fitzgerald, F Scott
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Flaubert, Gustave
- Sentimental Education
Foden, Giles
- Turbulence
Ford, Richard
- The Lay of the Land
Foulds, Adam
- The Quickening Maze
Furst, Alan
- Spies of the Balkans
Fyfield, Frances
- Blood from Stone
Gardam, Jane
- The Man in the Wooden Hat
Gekoski, Rick
- Outside of a Dog, A Bibliomemoire
Genazino, Wilhelm
- The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt
Goffette, Guy
- Forever Nude
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
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
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
Huelle, Pawel
- Castorp
- 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
Jannson, Tove
- Fair Play
- The True Deceiver
Jenkins, Michael
- A House in Flanders
Jones, Sadie
- The Outcast
Jungk, Peter Stephan
- Inheritance, The
Karinthy, Ferenc
- Metropole
Keillor, Garrison
- Liberty
Kehlmann, Daniel
- Measuring the World
Kelly, Ian
- Casanova
Knausgaard, Karl O
- A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven
Laidler, Keith
- Surveillance Unlimited
Lanchester, John
- Family Romance
Lange, Hartmut
- Missing Persons
Larsson, Stieg
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Lelord, François
- Hector and the Search for Happiness
Littell, Jonathan
- The Kindly Ones
Mabanckou, Alain
- Broken Glass
Manguel, Alberto
- All Men are Liars
- Library at Night, The
Mann, Thomas
- Buddenbrooks
- Doctor Faustus
- The Magic Mountain
Mawer, Simon
- The Glass Room
Means, David
- Assorted Fire Events
Melville, Pauline
- Eating Air
Michaels, Anne
- The Winter Vault
Miller, Andrew
- One Morning Like a Bird
Miller, Henry
- Black Spring
Millar, Peter
- 1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall
Milton, Giles
- Paradise Lost
Milton, Richard
- Best of Enemies
Mitchell, David
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
Morais, Richard C
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
Musil Robert
- The Man Without Qualities
O’Hagan, Andrew
- Be Near Me
Olmi,Véronique
- Beside the Sea
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
Pears, Tim
- Blenheim Orchard
- Landed
Peterson, Per
- To Siberia
Pheby, Alex
- Grace
Postgate, Oliver
- Seeing Things
Prichard, Caradog
- One Moonlit Night
Rankin, Robert
- Retromancer
Rappaport, Helen
- Conspirator, Lenin in Exile
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
- Winter in Madrid
Schroder, Adolf
- The Game of Cards
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
- The Emergence of Memory
Sebestyen, Victor
- Revolution 1989
Seierstad, Ãsne
- The Angel of Grozny
Seymour, Gerald
- The Walking Dead
Smith, Joseph
- The Wolf
Stafford, David
- Endgame 1945
Stewart, Chris
- Three Ways to Capsize A Boat
Suskind, Patrick
- Perfume, the Story of a Murderer
Sutherland, John
- The Boy Who Loved Books
- The Curiosities of Literature
- How to Read a Novel
Swift, Daniel
- Bomber County
Swift, Graham
- Making an Elephant
Szabó, Magda
- The Door
Szerb, Antal
- Journey By Moonlight
Taylor, D J
- At the Chime of a City Clock
Thompson, Brian
- Keeping Mum
Thubron, Colin
- Shadow of the Silk Road
Tolstoy, Sophia
- The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
Tsiolkas, Christos
- The Slap
Tyler, Anne
- The Amateur Marriage
- Digging to America
- Noah’s Compass
Ungar, Herman
- The Class
- The Maimed
Van Dis, Adriaan
- Repatriated
Van Dyke, Henry
- The Other Wise Man
Vann, David
- Legend of a Suicide
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
Waller, John
- A Time to Dance, a Time to Die
Walser, Robert
- The Assistant
- Institute Benjamenta
- The Tanners
Water, Sarah
- The Little Stranger
Wilson, Richard
- Don’t Get Fooled Again
Winder, Simon
- Germania
Woodward, Gerard
- A Curious Earth, see also In Praise of the Trilogy
- Caravan Thieves
- I’ll Go To Bed at Noon
- Thursday
- see also my article on Gerard Woodward’s Jones family trilogy
Wolf, Maryanne
- Proust and the Squid
Woolfson, Esther
- Corvus, A Life With Birds
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 Sevent Gate
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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