Books reviews listed alphabetically, by author.
A
Adamson, Gil - The Outlander
Adrian, Chris - Gob's Grief
Adrian, Chris - The Great Night
Alderman, Naomi - The Lessons
Allan, Clare - Poppy Shakespeare
Allende, Isobel - The House of the Spirits
Almond, David - Skellig
Amis, Martin - House of Meetings
Amis, Martin - Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence
Armitage, Simon - Seeing Stars
Atkinson, Kate - Case Histories
Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
Audeguy, Stephane - The Only Son
Audeguy, Stephane - The Theory of Clouds
B
Badoe, Yaba - True Murder
Bainbridge, Beryl - Master Georgie Ballantine, Poe - God Clobbers Us All
Barnard, Chris - Bundu
Barnes, Julian - A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Bayley, Robin - The Mango Orchard
Bennett, Alan - The Uncommon Reader
Bock, Charles - Beautiful Children
Boyne, John - The Absolutist
Brande, Dorothea - Becoming a Writer
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Brown, George Mackay - Beside the Ocean of Time
Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita
C
Camus, Albert - The Fall
Camus, Albert - The Outsider
Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda
Carey, Peter - Theft: A Love Story
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass
Carter, Angela - The Bloody Chamber
Chandler, Robert (ed) - Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
Chatwin, Bruce - The Songlines
Chesterton, G.K. - The Man Who Was Thursday
Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Coetzee, J.M. - Boyhood
Coetzee, J.M. - Diary of a Bad Year
Coetzee, J.M. - Disgrace
Coetzee, J.M. - Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J.M. - Slow Man
Coetzee, J.M. - Summertime
Coetzee, J.M. - Waiting for the Barbarians
Coetzee, J.M. - Youth
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne - Catching Fire
Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
D
Dahl, Roald - Matilda
Davies, Nick - Flat Earth News
de Kretser, Michele - The Lost Dog
Delillo, Don - Falling Man
Delillo, Don - White Noise
Diaz, Junot - Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Downham, Jenny - Before I Die
du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love
Dunthorne, Joe - Submarine
Dylan, Bob - Chronicles
E
Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose
Eggers, Dave - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ellis, Brett Easton - American Psycho
Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex
F
Falcones, Idefonso - Cathedral of the Sea
Farrell, J.G. - The Siege of Krishnapur
Faulks, Sebastian - Birdsong
Faulks, Sebastian - Engelby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Foer, Jonathan Safran (ed) - A Convergence of Birds
Foer, Jonathan Safran - Eating Animals
Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated
Foer, Jonathan Safran - Extremely Loud and Incredbibly Close
Foer, Jonathan Safran - The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning
Franzen, Jonathan - The Discomfort Zone
Frayn, Michael - Spies
Funder, Anna - All That I Am
G
Gaiman - Neil - American Gods
Gaiman - Neil - The Graveyard Book
Galgut, Damon - In a Strange Room
Galloway, Steven - The Cellist of Sarajevo
Garland, Alex - The Beach
Ginsberg, Allen - Howl
Grushin, Olga - The Dream Life of Sukhanov
H
Halfon, Eduardo - The Polish Boxer (Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, and Anne McLean)
Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road
Hanif, Mohammed - A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea
Hemon, Aleksandar -The Lazarus Project
Hemon, Aleksandar - Nowhere Man
Hoban, Russell - Kleinzeit
Hogg, Nicholas - Show Me The Sky
Homes, A.M. - The End of Alice
Homes, A.M. - Music for Torching
Hooper, Chloe - The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Houellebecq, Michel - Atomised
Howell, Simmone - Everything Beautiful
I
Ishiguro, Kazuo - An Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Nocturnes
Ishiguro, Kazuo - A Pale View of Hills
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
J
Jackson, Mick - Bears of England
Jackson, Mick - Underground Man
Jackson, Mick - The Widow's Tale
Jacobson, Howard - The Finkler Question
Jian, Ma - Red Dust
Jones, Lloyd - Mister Pip
K
Kadare, Ismail - The Fall of the Stone City
Kehlman, Daniel - Me and Kaminski
Kennedy, A.L. - Paradise
Kerouac, Jack - On The Road
Killen, Chris - The Bird Room
Kitamura, Katie - The Longshot
Kitamura, Katie - Gone to the Forest
Krakauer, John - Into the Wild
Krauss, Nicole - The History of Love
Kundera, Milan - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan - Ignorance
Kundera, Milan - Life is Elsewhere
Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kurkov, Andrey - Death and the Penguin
Kurkov, Andrey - The Good Angel of Death
Kurkov, Andrey - The President's Last Love
L
le Clezio, J.M.G. - The Book of Flights
Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook
Levy, Deborah - Swimming Home
Levy, Deborah - Black Vodka
Lewycka, Marina - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild and White Fang
Lukyanenko, Sergei - The Night Watch
M
Makkai, Rebecca - The Borrower
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Love in the Time of Cholera
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
McCullers, Carson - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
McEwan, Ian - On Chesil Beach
McGregor, Jon - Even the Dogs
McGregor, Jon - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
McGregor, Jon - So Many Ways to Begin
McGregor, Jon - This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
Miller, Kei - A Light Song of Light
Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance
Moore, Alan and Gibbons, Dave - Watchmen
Morpurgo, Michael - Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
Morrison, Toni - A Mercy
Murakami, Haruki - 1Q84 (Book One and Book Two)
Murakami, Haruki - 1Q84 (Book Three)
Murakami, Haruki - After Dark
Murakami, Haruki - Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood
Murakami, Haruki - Pinball, 1973
Murakami, Haruki - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami, Haruki - A Wild Sheep Chase
Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murdoch, Iris - The Black Prince
Murdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea
N
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
Ness, Patrick - A Monster Calls
Ness, Patrick - The Knife of Never Letting Go
Ness, Patrick - The Ask and The Answer
Ness, Patrick - Monsters of Men
Ness, Patrick - More Than This
Nix, Garth - Sabriel
O
O'Connor, Joseph - Ghost Light
O'Hagan, Andrew - Be Near Me
O'Neill, Joseph - Netherland
Olmi, Véronique - Beside the Sea (Translated by Adriana Hunter)
Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
Okri, Ben - The Famished Road
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Orwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four
P
Page, Martin - How I Became Stupid
Palliser, Charles - The Quincunx
Parispur, Shahrnush - Women Without Men
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei - Tail of the Blue Bird
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Paterson, Don - Rain
Peace, David - The Damned Utd
Proulx, Annie - Brokeback Mountain
Pullman, Philip - Once Upon A Time in the North
Q
R
Raisin, Ross - God's Own Country
Reed, John - Ten Days That Shook the World
Reeve, Philip - Mortal Engines
Reeve, Philip - Predators Gold
Reeve, Philip - Infernal Devices
Reeve, Philip - A Darkling Plain
Reeve, Philip - Fever Crumb
Reeve, Philip - Here Lies Arthur
Rhinehart, Luke - The Dice Man
Robertson, James - The Testament of Gideon Mack
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Rowling, J.K. - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Roy, Arundhiti - The God of Small Things
Rushdie, Salman - Fury
Rushdie, Salman -The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie, Salman - The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Rushdie, Salman - Luka and the Fire of Life
Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses
Rushdie, Salman - Shalimar the Clown
Rushdie, Salman - Shame
Ryman, Geoff - 253
S
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Saramago, Jose - Blindness
Saramago, Jose - Seeing
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis (Vol. 1 & 2)
Sebald, W.G. - Austerlitz
Seth, Vikram - An Equal Music
Shapcott, Jo - Of Mutability
Spiegelman, Art - The Complete Maus
Stoppard, Tom - Arcadia
Suskind, Patrick - Perfume
Swift, Graham - Tomorrow
Swift, Graham - Waterland
T
Tan, Shaun - The Red Tree
Tartt, Donna - The Little Friend
Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
Thompson, Craig - Blankets
Tinti, Hannah - The Good Thief
U
Unaipon, David - Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
V
Villalobos, Juan Pablo (Translated by Rosalind Harvey) - Down the Rabbit Hole
W
Wagner, John - A History of Violence
Warren, Frank - Postsecret
Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
Whittome, Candy - The Last Hunters: The Crab Fishermen of Cromer
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway
Wyld, Evie - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
X
Y
Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Roa
Z
Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Nocturnes
Ishiguro, Kazuo - A Pale View of Hills
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
J
Jackson, Mick - Bears of England
Jackson, Mick - Underground Man
Jackson, Mick - The Widow's Tale
Jacobson, Howard - The Finkler Question
Jian, Ma - Red Dust
Jones, Lloyd - Mister Pip
K
Kadare, Ismail - The Fall of the Stone City
Kehlman, Daniel - Me and Kaminski
Kennedy, A.L. - Paradise
Kerouac, Jack - On The Road
Killen, Chris - The Bird Room
Kitamura, Katie - The Longshot
Kitamura, Katie - Gone to the Forest
Krakauer, John - Into the Wild
Krauss, Nicole - The History of Love
Kundera, Milan - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan - Ignorance
Kundera, Milan - Life is Elsewhere
Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kurkov, Andrey - Death and the Penguin
Kurkov, Andrey - The Good Angel of Death
Kurkov, Andrey - The President's Last Love
L
le Clezio, J.M.G. - The Book of Flights
Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook
Levy, Deborah - Swimming Home
Levy, Deborah - Black Vodka
Lewycka, Marina - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild and White Fang
Lukyanenko, Sergei - The Night Watch
M
Makkai, Rebecca - The Borrower
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Love in the Time of Cholera
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
McCullers, Carson - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
McEwan, Ian - On Chesil Beach
McGregor, Jon - Even the Dogs
McGregor, Jon - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
McGregor, Jon - So Many Ways to Begin
McGregor, Jon - This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
Miller, Kei - A Light Song of Light
Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance
Moore, Alan and Gibbons, Dave - Watchmen
Morpurgo, Michael - Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
Morrison, Toni - A Mercy
Murakami, Haruki - 1Q84 (Book One and Book Two)
Murakami, Haruki - 1Q84 (Book Three)
Murakami, Haruki - After Dark
Murakami, Haruki - Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood
Murakami, Haruki - Pinball, 1973
Murakami, Haruki - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami, Haruki - A Wild Sheep Chase
Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murdoch, Iris - The Black Prince
Murdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea
N
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
Ness, Patrick - A Monster Calls
Ness, Patrick - The Knife of Never Letting Go
Ness, Patrick - The Ask and The Answer
Ness, Patrick - Monsters of Men
Ness, Patrick - More Than This
Nix, Garth - Sabriel
O
O'Connor, Joseph - Ghost Light
O'Hagan, Andrew - Be Near Me
O'Neill, Joseph - Netherland
Olmi, Véronique - Beside the Sea (Translated by Adriana Hunter)
Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
Okri, Ben - The Famished Road
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Orwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four
P
Page, Martin - How I Became Stupid
Palliser, Charles - The Quincunx
Parispur, Shahrnush - Women Without Men
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei - Tail of the Blue Bird
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Paterson, Don - Rain
Peace, David - The Damned Utd
Proulx, Annie - Brokeback Mountain
Pullman, Philip - Once Upon A Time in the North
Q
R
Raisin, Ross - God's Own Country
Reed, John - Ten Days That Shook the World
Reeve, Philip - Mortal Engines
Reeve, Philip - Predators Gold
Reeve, Philip - Infernal Devices
Reeve, Philip - A Darkling Plain
Reeve, Philip - Fever Crumb
Reeve, Philip - Here Lies Arthur
Rhinehart, Luke - The Dice Man
Robertson, James - The Testament of Gideon Mack
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Rowling, J.K. - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Roy, Arundhiti - The God of Small Things
Rushdie, Salman - Fury
Rushdie, Salman -The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie, Salman - The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Rushdie, Salman - Luka and the Fire of Life
Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses
Rushdie, Salman - Shalimar the Clown
Rushdie, Salman - Shame
Ryman, Geoff - 253
S
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Saramago, Jose - Blindness
Saramago, Jose - Seeing
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis (Vol. 1 & 2)
Sebald, W.G. - Austerlitz
Seth, Vikram - An Equal Music
Shapcott, Jo - Of Mutability
Spiegelman, Art - The Complete Maus
Stoppard, Tom - Arcadia
Suskind, Patrick - Perfume
Swift, Graham - Tomorrow
Swift, Graham - Waterland
T
Tan, Shaun - The Red Tree
Tartt, Donna - The Little Friend
Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
Thompson, Craig - Blankets
Tinti, Hannah - The Good Thief
U
Unaipon, David - Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
V
Villalobos, Juan Pablo (Translated by Rosalind Harvey) - Down the Rabbit Hole
W
Wagner, John - A History of Violence
Warren, Frank - Postsecret
Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
Whittome, Candy - The Last Hunters: The Crab Fishermen of Cromer
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway
Wyld, Evie - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
X
Y
Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Roa
Z
Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We
