Authors

-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

A –

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

B –

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

C –

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

D –

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

E –

Eichner, Hans
- Kahn and Englemann

Ellis, David

- Death and the Author

Enzensburger, Hans Magnus
- The Silences of Hammerstein

F –

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

G –

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

H –

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

I –

Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Nocturnes

J –

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

K –

Karinthy, Ferenc
- Metropole

Keillor, Garrison
- Liberty

Kehlmann, Daniel
- Measuring the World

Kelly, Ian
- Casanova

Knausgaard, Karl O
- A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven

L –

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

M –

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

N –

O –

O’Hagan, Andrew
- Be Near Me

Olmi,Véronique
- Beside the Sea

Oz, Amos
- Rhyming Life and Death

P –

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

R –

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

S –

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

T –

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

U –

Ungar, Herman
- The Class
- The Maimed

V –

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

W -

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

X –

Y –

Yallop, David
- The Power and the Glory

Yassin-Kassab, Robin
- The Road From Damascus

Z -

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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