Title index

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

61 Hours – Lee Child

A –

A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked in – Magnus Mills

Address Book, The – Tim Radford

After Midnight – Irmgard Keun

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 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

Austerlitz - W G Sebald

B –

Ballad of Britain, The – Will Hodgkinson

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

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

Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

Burial - Neil Cross

Burning Secret – Stefan Zweig

By Hook or by Crook – David Crystal

C –

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

Cliffs - Olivier Adam

Coda - Simon Gray

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

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

D –

Dead Like You – Peter James

Death and the Author – David Ellis

Death of Grass, The – John Christoper

Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy

Digging to America – Anne Tyler

Don’t Get Fooled Again – Richard Wilson

Door, The – Magda Szabó

Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

E –

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

F –

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

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 Mouth of the Whale – Sjón

Future Proof – Nick Sagan

G –

Game of Cards, The – Adolf Schroder

Germania - Simon Winder

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The – Stieg Larsson

Glass Room, The – Simon Mawer

Grace - Alex Pheby

Great House – Nicole Krauss

H –

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

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 –

I Curse The River of Time – Per Petterson

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 Just the Beating of my Heart – Richard Aronowitz

J –

Journey By Moonlight – Antal Szerb

K –

Kahn and Englemann – Hans Eichner

Keeping Mum – Brian Thompson

Kindly Ones, The – Jonathan Littell

King’s Bride, The – E T A Hoffman

L –

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

Little Man What Now – Hans Fallada

Little Stranger, The – Sarah Waters

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

M –

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

Moscow 1941 – Rodrick Braithwaite

Moving House – Pawel Huelle

Mrs Woolf and the Servants – Alison Light

My Father’s Country – Wibke Bruhns

My Friend the Enemy – Paul Briscoe

N –

Naming the Bones – Louise Welsh

Nazi Literature in the Americas – Robert Bolano

Night at the Majestic, A – Richard DavenportHines

Noah’s Compass – Anne Tyler

Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro

Noise of Strangers, The – Robert Dickinson

Nourishment – Gerard Woodward

Novel Bookstore, A – Laurence Cossé

O –

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

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

P –

Paradise Lost – Giles Milton

Paragon of Virtue, A – Christian Von Ditfurth

Pattern in the Carpet, The – Margaret Drabble

Peeling the Onion – Gunter Grass

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

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

Prodigal Tongue, The – Mark Abley

Proust and the Squid – Maryanne Wolf

Pub Walks in Underhill Country – Nat Segnit

Pure - Andrew Miller

Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk

Q –

Quickening Maze, The – Adam Foulds

Quiet Flame, A – Philip Kerr

R –

Rancid Pansies – James Hamilton-Paterson

Repatriated - Adriaan Van Dis

Retromancer - Robert Rankin

Revolution 1989 – Victor Sebestyen

Rhyming Life and Death – Amos Oz

Road from Damascus – Robin Yassin-Kassab

The Russian Court at Sea – Frances Welch

S –

Sabra Zoo – Mischa Hiller

Screwtop Thompson – Magnus Mills

Search for Sana, The – Richard Zimler

Secret Agent, The – Joseph Conrad

Seeing Things – Oliver Postgate

Selected Stories – Robert Walser

Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert

Settlement - Christoph Hein

Seventh Gate, The – Richard Zimler

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

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

Surveillance Unlimited – Keith Laidler

Sussex Kipling, A – David Arscott

T –

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

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes – Robert Louis Stevenson

True Deceiver, The – Tove Jannson

Turbulence - Giles Foden

U –

Uncle’s Dream – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Unimagined - Imran Ahmad

Unit, The – Ninni Holmqvist

Unnamed, The – Joshua Ferris

V –

Valley of Heaven and Hell – Susie Kelly

W –

Walking Dead, The – Gerald Seymour

Warsaw Anagrams, The – Richard Zimler

Water Theatre, The – Lindsay Clarke

Winter in Madrid – C J Sansom

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

X –

Y –

Year of the Hare, The – Arto Paasilinna

Z –