This is a complete list of the books reviewed or featured on this blog since 2012. They are listed alphabetically by author’s surname.
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Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Ackroyd, Peter The Clerkenwell Tales
Adiga, Arvind Last Man in Tower
Kay, Adam: This is Going to Hurt: Memoirs of a Junior Doctor
Adichie, Chimamanda The Thing Around Your Neck
Adiga, Aravind The White Tiger
Alaux, J.P. & Balen, N Late Harvest Havoc
Alcott, Louisa M Little Women
Allende, Isabel The Japanese Lover (did not finish)
Allingham, Marjorie More Work for the Undertaker (did not finish)
Amis, Kingsley The Old Devils
Amis, Kingsley Take a Girl Like You
Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Arthofer, M A Complete Guide to World Fiction
Atkinson, Kate: Blue Sky
Atwood, Margaret An Edible Woman
Atwood, Margaret HagSeed
de Assis, Joachim Maria Mated Dom Casmurro
Austen, Jane .Mansfield Park
Austen Jane Sanditon
Aw, Tash Five Star Billionaire
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Backman, Fredrik Beartown
Bainbridge, Beryl Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
Bainbridge, Beryl The Bottle Factory Outing
de Balzac, Honore Old Goriot
Banville, John The Sea
Banville, John Ancient Light
Barbery, Muriel The Gourmet
Barker, Nicola In the Approaches
Barnett, Laura The Versions of Us
Bauer, Belinda Blacklands
Bauer, Belinda Rubbernecker
Bauer, Belinda The Beautiful Dead
Bawden, Nina Solitary Child
Bawden, Nina A Little Love, a Little Learning
Bawden, Nina The Ice House
Bedford, Sybille A Favourite of the Gods
Bodrožić, Ivana Simić Hotel Tito
Boileau, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac . Vertigo
Bolano, Roberto The Third Reich
Boyd, William Love is Blind
Borstinski, Leopold, The Bowery Slugger
Brown, William Wells Clotel or, The President’s Daughter
Brookner, Anita Latecomers
Brookner, Anita The Next Big Thing
Brookner, Anita Hotel du Lac
Brooks, Geraldine Year of Wonders
Brown, Tracy and Hanlon, Michael When Safety Rules Don’t Add Up
Buck, Pearl S The Good Earth
Bude, John Sussex Downs Murder
Bude, John The Cheltenham Square Murder
Bulawayo, NoViolet We Need New Names
Burns, Anna Milkman
Burton, Jessie The Miniaturist
Byatt, A. S . Possession
Bythell, Shaun, The Diary Of A Bookseller
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Cannon, Joanna Three Things About Elsie
Camilleri, Andrea The Dance of the Seagull
Camilleri, Andrea The Age of Doubt
Carpenter, Don Fridays at Enrico’s
Carey, Edward Little
Carey, Peter Oscar and Lucinda
Carey, Peter True History of the Kelly Gang
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Catton, Eleanor The Luminaries
Gabriel, Chevalier Fear
Capote Truman Breakfast at Tiffanys
Chevalier, Tracy: A Single Thread
Christie, Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Christie, Agatha By the Pricking of my Thumbs
Clarke, Rachel Dear Life
Clegg, Bill Did You Ever Have a Family
Coetzee, J, M Disgrace
Coetzee, J, M Life & Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J, M The Schooldays of Jesus
Collins, Bridget The Binding
Collins, Wilkie Dead Secret
Conde, Maryse The Tree of Life
Conran, Alys Pigeon
Conran, Alys Dignity
Correa, Armando Lucas The German Girl
Crace, Jim Harvest
Crofts, Freeman Wills The Hog’s Back Mystery
Cudahy, Paul Read all About It
Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet Waking Lions
Cunningham, Michael The Hours
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Danenbarger. John K – Entanglement – Quantum + Otherwise
Davies, Carys The Redemption of Galen Pike
Davies, Carys West
Davies, Peter Ho The Welsh Girl
Dickens, Charles Little Dorrit
Dickens, Charles The Old Curiosity Shop
de Rothsay, Isabelle Sarah’s Key
Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss
Diago, Evello Rosero The Armies
Doerr, Anthony All the Light we Cannot See
Dunmore, Helen Exposure
Dunmore, Helen The Greatcoat
Doestoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
Donaghue, Emma Room
Doyle, Roddy Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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Eagleton, Terry How to Read Literature
Eco, Umberto Numero Zero
Eddy, Carson Beaded Jewellery Stringing Techniques
Edugyan, Esi Washington Black
Egan, Jennifer Look at Me
Einion, Alys Ash
Eliot, George Adam Bede
Enright, Anne The Gathering
Enright, Anne, Actress
Euripides Electra
Euripides Medea
Evans, Margiad Turf or Stone
Ewan, Pamela An Accidental Life
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Farah, Nurradin From a Crooked Rib
Farrell, J G Seige of Krishnapur
Farrell, J G Troubles
Farooki, Roopa The Flying Man
Faye, Erik Nagasaki
Filer, Nathan The Shock of the Fall
Fink, Sheri Five Days at Memorial
Fitzgerald, Penelope Offshore
Flanagan, Richard The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Forester, C. S The Pursued
Forrester, Andrew The Female Detective
Forster, E.M A Room with a View
Franklin, Miles My Brilliant Career
Fraser-Sampson, Guy Miss Christie Regrets
Frayn, Michael Skios
Fuentes, Gabrielle Lucille The Sleeping World (Did Not Finish)
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Gaiman, Neil The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Gale, Patrick A Place Called Winter
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth Wives and Daughters
Gaskell, Elizabeth North and South
Gaskell, Elizabeth Mary Barton
Gaudé, Laurent Hell’s Gate
Ge, Yan The Chilli Bean Paste Clan
Ghosh, Amitav The Glass Palace
Golding, William Rites of Passage
Goldsmith, Oliver The Vicar of Wakefield
Goulding, Peter Slatehead
Grimwood, Jack Moskva
Greaves, Abbie The Silent Treatment
Greene, Graham The Heart of the Matter
Greene, Graham The Power and the Glory
Greene, Graham The Human Factor
Greenwood, Juliet The White Camelia
Grenville, Kate The Secret River
Griffiths, Rebecca The Primrose Path
Grossmith, George and Wheedon The Diary of a Nobody
Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet Waking Lions
Gyasi, Yaa . Homegoing
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Haddad, Joumana I Killed Scheherazade
Haig, Matt The Midnight Library
Hamer, Kate The Girl in the Red Coat
Hamid, Mohsin How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Hamid, Mohsin The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Harris, Jane Gillespie and I
Hartley, Sarah Mrs P’s Journey
Hawkins, Paula The Girl on the Train
Healey, Emma Elizabeth is Missing
Haruf, Kent Benediction
Hemmingway, E Farewell to Arms
Henshaw, Mark The Snow Kimono
Hill, Susan Woman in Black
Hill, Susan Howard’s End is on the Landing
Hodgson, Antonia The Devil in the Marshalsea
Hollinghurst, Alun The Line of Beauty
Holtby, Winnifred South Riding
Horne, Eileen Zola and the Victorians
Hosseini, Khaled And the Mountains Echoed
Howe, Katherine The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Did not Finish)
Hulme, Keri The Bone People
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Indriðason, Arnaldur Silence of the Grave
Indriðason, Arnaldur Reykjavik Nights
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Jackson, Shirley . We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Jansen, Leo & Hans Luijten Ever Yours: The Essential Letters of Vincent van Gogh
James, Henry Daisy Miller/Washington Square
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
James, Peter Dead If You Don’t
Jewell, Lisa Then She Was Gone
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer Heat and Dust
Johnson, Matt Wicked Game
Johnstone, Doug The Jump
Jolley, Elizabeth The Sugar Mother
Jolley, Elizabeth; Miss Peabody’s Inheritance
Jones, Cynan Cove
Jones, Dylan H Anglesey Blue
Jones, Dylan H Doll Face
Jones, Gail A Guide to Berlin (did not finish)
Jones, Jack Off to Philadelphia in the Morning
Jones, Tayari An American Marriage
Joseph, Anjali Saraswati Park
Joyce, Rachel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Juul, Pia The Murder of Halland
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Kabat-Zinn, Jon The Healing Power of Mindfulness
Kalanithi Paul When Breath Becomes Air
Kang, Han . The Vegetarian
Karlsson Jonas, The Room
Kavanagh, Emma To Catch a Killer
Keane, Mary Beth Fever
Keane, Molly Devoted Ladies
Keane, Molly Good Behaviour
Keneally, Thomas The Daughters of Mars
Keneally, Thomas Searching for Schindler
Kenney, John Truth in Advertising
Khadra, Yasmina The Dictator’s Last Night
Knight, Bernard Figure of Hate
Knight, Bernard The Witch Hunter
Koch, Herman The Dinner
Krasznahorkai, László Satantango
Kushner, Rachel The Mars Room
Kyung-Sook, Shin Please Look After Mom
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Lancaster, John Capital
Lane, Lexi Bloggers Survival Guide
Laurain, Antoine The President’s Hat
Laverty, Maura, Never No More
Lawrence , David Young Will the Real William Shakespeare please Step Forward
LeMaitre, Pierre Alex
Levy, Andrea The Long Song
Li, Yiyun Kinder than Solitude
Link, Charlotte The Other Child
Lively, Penelope Moon Tiger
Lively, Penelope How It All Began
Lloyd, Amy The Innocent Wife
Lovekin, Carol .Snow Sisters
Lovekin, Carol .Ghostbird
Lupton, Rosamund Three Hours
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Mabanckou, Alain Broken Glass
MacLaverty, Bernard A Midwinter Break
Macleod, Alison Unexploded
Mantel, Hilary Bring up the Bodies
Manning, Olivia The Danger Tree
Marani, Diego New Finnish Grammar
Marías, Javier The Infatuations (did not finish)
Marsh, Henry Do No Harm
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Matas, Enrique Villa Dublinesque (did not finish)
Matthee, Dalene Fiela’s Child
du Maurier, Daphne My Cousin Rachel
du Maurier, Daphne Jamaica Inn
Mawer, Simon The Girl who Fell from the Sky
Mazur, Anne Design and Sew the Perfect Bag
McCann, Colum TransAtlantic
McEwan, Ian Chesil Beach
McEwan Ian The Children Act
McGregor, Jon . Reservoir 13
McGuire, Ian The North Water
McInerney, Lisa The Glorious Heresies
McCleen, Grace The Offering
McCrae, Graeme Burnett His Bloody Project
Mda, Zakes The Whale Caller
Mead, Rebecca My Life in Middlemarch
Mengestu, Dinaw All our Names
Menmuir, Wyl The Many
Middleton, Stanley . Holiday
Miller, A.D The Snowdrops
Miller, Andrew Pure
Miller, Andrew Now We Shall be Entirely Free
Miller, Andy A Year of Reading Dangerously
Miller, Madeleine Circe
Mishima, Yukio After the Banquet
Mitford, Nancy Love in a Cold Climate
Mistry, Rohinton Such a Long Journey
Mistry, Rohinton A Fine Balance
Modiano, Patrick Paris Nocturne
Monroe, Alice Dear Life
Moore, Alison The Lighthouse
Moore, Brian, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Moore, Thorne, Time for Silence
Moore, Thorne The Covenant
Mosely, Michael The Clever Guts Diet
Mudimbe, V.Y Between the Tides
Mukherjee, Abir A Rising Man
Mukherjee, Neel The Lives of Others
Murakami, Huraki Norwegian Wood
Murakami, Huraki Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Murdoch, Iris The Sea, The Sea
Mukasonga Scholastique The Barefoot Woman
Myerling, Lars Sixteen Trees of the Somme
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Naipaul, V S In A Free State
Napolitano, Ann Dear Edward
Newby, P H Something to Answer For
Ness, Patrick, A Monster Calls
Newton, Jan Rather To Be Pitied
Ng, Celeste Little Fires Everywhere
Nothomb, Amelie Fear and Trembling
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Obama, Michelle Becoming
O’Brien, Anne The Shadow Queen
O’Brien, Edna The Country Girls
O’Brien, Edna The Little Red Chairs
O’Brien, Edna The Country Girl
Obioma, Chigozie The Fishermen
O’Farrell, John The Man Who Forgot His Wife
O’Farrell, Maggie The Distance Between Us
O’Farrell, Maggie This Must be the Place
O’Farrell, Maggie I am, I am, I am
Ogawa, Yoko The Housekeeper and the Professor
Ogawa, Yoko Revenge
O’Hagan, Andrew The Illuminations
Okotie, Simon Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon
Ollikainen , Aki White Hunger
Olsson, Kristina Shell
Omotoso, Yewande The Woman Next Door
Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient
Ondaatje, Michael The Cat’s Table
Ondaatje, Michael Warlight
Ørstavik, Hanne The Blue Room
Ørstavik, Hanne Love
Owens, Delia Where The Crawdads Sing
Ozeki, Ruth, A Tale for the Time Being
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Park, Yeonmi In Order to Live
Parris, S J Treachery
Patchett, Ann Bel Canto
Paton , Alan Cry the Beloved Country
Penny, Louise The Fatal Grace
Penny, Louise How the Light Gets In
Penny, Louise A Great Reckoning
Penny, Louise The Long Way Home
Penny, Louise Kingdom of the Blind
Penny, Louise The Cruelest Month
Pierre, DBC Vernon God Little
Pretorius, Michelle The Monster’s Daughter
Prichard, Caradog One Moonlit Night
Pulman, Philip Northern Lights
Pym, Barbara Quartet in Autumn
Pym, Barbara Some Tame Gazelle
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Quartey, Kwei Wife of the Gods
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Rahman, Zia Haider In the Light of What we Know (did not finish)
Ransome, Arthur Swallows and Amazons
Rendell , Ruth Wolf to the Slaughter
Reeve, Phillip Mortal Engines
Reve, Gerard The Evenings
Richards, Keith Life
Roffey, Monique Archipelego
Rogan, Charlotte The Lifeboat
Rooney, Sally Normal People
Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things
Rowling , J. K Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Rubens, Bernice The Elected Member
Rushdie, Salman Midnight’s Children
Ryan, Donal The Spinning Heart
Ryan, Donal From a Low and Quiet Sea
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Sackville-West, Vita All Passion Spent
Saif, Atef Abu (ed) The Book of Gaza
Saijie, Dai Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sansom C. J Dissolution
Sansom C. J Dark Fire
Sansom C. J Lamentation
Sansom C. J Sovereign
Sansom C. J Dominion
Savage, Vanessa The Woman in the Dark
Sayers, Dorothy L Strong Poison
Seethaler, Robert: A Whole Life
Schwabe, Will End of Your Life Book Club
Scott, Paul Staying On
Shaffer, Mary Ann The Guernsey Literary & Potato Pie Society
Shamshie, Kamila Burnt Shadows
Sharma, Akhil Family Life
Shahraz, Qaisra The Holy Woman
Sheers, Owen Resistance
Sheers, Owen I Saw a Man
Setterfield, Diane Once Upon a River
Sigurdardotti, Yrsa The Silence of the Sea
Simenon, Georges Maigret and The Headless Corpse
Sissay, Lemn My Name is Why
Škvorecký, Josef Miss Silver’s Past
Slimani, Leila Lullaby
Smith, Ali How to Be Both
Smith, Dominic The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Smith Eve, The Waiting Rooms
Smith, Zadie NW
Spark, Muriel The Girls of Slender Means
Spark, Muriel The Comforters
Staincliffe, Cath Letters to my Daughter’s Killer
Starnone, Domenico Trick
Steinbeck, John Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, R. L Treasure Island
St John Mandel, Emily Station Eleven
Stockett, Kathryn The Help
Storey, David Saville
Strachan, Carole A Song of Thyme and Willow
Strout , Elizabeth My Name is Lucy Barton
Summerscale, Kate The Wicked Boy
Swift, Graham Last Orders
Swift, Graham Tomorrow
Szalay, David All That Man Is
Sampson, Guy Fraser A Death in the Night
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Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife
Taylor, Andrew Bleeding Heart Square
Taylor, Elizabeth Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Taylor, Elizabeth Wreath of Roses
Taylor, Elizabeth A View of the Harbour
Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tey, Josephine The Daughter of Time
Tey, Josephine The Franchise Affair
Thayli, Jeet Narcopolis
Thien, Madeleine Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa Petals of Blood
Thierault, Denis The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Policeman
Thirkell , Angela High Rising
Thomas, Gwyn The Alone to the Alone
Thomas, Gwyn A Few Selected Exits
Thorpe, Adam Missing Fay
Tidhar, Lavie A Man Lies Dreaming
Toibin, Colm Brooklyn
Tomalin, Claire The Unequaled Self
Towles, Amor A Gentleman in Moscow
Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers
Trollope, Anthony The Warden
Trollope, Anthony Dr Thorne
Trollope, Antony Framley Parsonage
Trollope, Anthony Small House at Allington
Tulloch, Jonathan Larkinland
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Vickers, Sally The Cleaner of Chartres
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five
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Walsh, Louise Black River ( did not finish)
Waters, Sarah The Paying Guests
Watson, S J Before I go to Sleep
West, Rebecca Return of the Soldier
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence
Winn, Raynor The Salt Path
Witwit, May & Rowlatt: Bee Talking about Austen in Baghdad
Williams, Naill History of the Rain
Wolfe, Christa The Search for Christa T
Woolf, Virginia Mrs Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia A Room of One’s Own
Wyndham, John Chocky
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Xinran Good Women of China
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Yanagihara, Hanya A Little Life
Yamada, Taichi Strangers
Yasmina, Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul
Kawabata, Yasunari Snow Country
Yamusangie, Frederick Full Circle
Yoshimoto, Banana Goodbye Tsugumi
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Zafon, Carlos Zuin Shadow of the Wind
Zafon, Carlos Zuin The Angel’s Game
Zafin, Gabrielle The Storied Life of A.J.Fitkry
Zola, Emile L’Assommoir
Zola, Emile The Fortune of the Rougons
Zola, Emile The Ladies’ Paradise
Zola, Emile The Kill
Zongo, Norbert The Parachute Drop