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