Book index

412 reviews, listed by book title.

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10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World — Elif Shafak
99 Nights in Logar by — Jamil Jan Kochai

A

Across — Peter Handke
Acts of Desperation — Megan Nolan
Adults — Emma Jane Unsworth
Against The Loveless World — Susan Abulhawa
All Our Names — Dinaw Mengestu
All That's Left Unsaid — Tracey Lien
All The Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
American Genius, A Comedy — Lynne Tillman
American Innovations — Rivka Galchen
An American Marriage — Tayari Jones
Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Anchoress — Paul Blaney
The Angels Die — Yasmina Khadra
Animal — Lisa Taddeo
Apeirogon — Colum McCann
The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson
Asking For It — Louise O'Neill
Assembly — Natasha Brown
Asylum — Marcus Low
Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
The Atom Station — Halldór Laxness
Attrib. and other stories — Eley Williams
Autumn — Ali Smith

B

The Ballad of the Sad Café — Carson McCullers
Beautiful World, Where Are You — Sally Rooney
Beauty — Sarah Pinborough
Behind Her Eyes — Sarah Pinborough
Behold the Dreamers — Imbolo Mbue
Beside Myself — Ann Morgan
Beyond the Sea — Melissa Bailey
The Bitch — Pilar Quintana
Bitch Planet: Book One — Kelly Sue Deconnick & Valentine De Landro
Black Sunday — Tola Rotimi Abraham
Black Swan Green — David Mitchell
Blackmoor — Edward Hogan
Blind Side — Jennie Ensor
Blood Fugue — Joseph D'Lacey
Blood Orange — Harriet Tyce
Blue Ticket — Sophie Mackintosh
Body of Stars — Laura Maylene Walter
The Book of Harlan — Bernice L. McFadden
The Book of Memory — Petina Gappah
The Book of the Crowman: The Black Dawn Volume II — Joseph D'Lacey
The Books of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin
Boy, Snow, Bird — Helen Oyeyemi
Brickmakers — Selva Almada
A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James
the brief history of the dead — Kevin Brockmeier
Broadcast — Liam Brown
Burntcoat — Sarah Hall
Butterfly Fish — Irenosen Okojie

C

Cain — José Saramago
The Cauliflower — Nicola Barker
The Cave — José Saramago
A Certain Hunger — Chelsea G. Summers
Chemistry — Weike Wang
A Child Called Happiness — Stephan Collishaw
Childhood: Two Novellas — Gerard Rose
The Chimes — Anna Smaill
The Choice — Edith Eger
Circe — Madeline Miller
The City Always Wins — Omar Robert Hamilton
Cleopatra and Frankenstein — Coco Mellors
Closing His Eyes — Luay Hamza Abbas
Coin Locker Babies — Ryu Murakami
Companion Piece — Ali Smith
Compass — Mathias Enard
The Complex — Michael Walters
The Confessions of Frannie Langton — Sara Collins
The Constant Rabbit — Jasper Fforde
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena — Anthony Marra
Constellations: Reflections from Life — Sinéad Gleeson
The Contortionist's Handbook — Craig Clevenger
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq — Hassan Blasim
Corregidora — Gayl Jones
The Cost of Living — Deborah Levy
Coventry — Rachel Cusk
The Cutting Room — Louise Welsh

D

Daddy — Emma Cline
The Dance Tree — Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Dark — John McGahern
Dark Neighbourhood — Vanessa Onwuemezi
The Death House — Sarah Pinborough
Death in Her Hands — Ottessa Moshfegh
A Death in the Family — Karl Ove Knausgaard
Declares Pereira — Antonio Tabucchi
Dele Weds Destiny — Tomi Obaro
Descent — Ken MacLeod
The Desert and the Sown — Gertrude Bell
Devilspel — Grigory Kanovich
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding — Jackie Copleton
Die, My Love — Ariana Harwicz
Diego Garcia — Luke Williams & Natasha Soobramanien
A Dinner Party in The Home Counties — Reshma Ruia
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Deepa Anappara
Doggerland — Ben Smith
The Doll Factory — Elizabeth Macneal
The Dollmaker — Nina Allan
The Dreamers — Karen Thompson Walker
The Drift — Hester Musson
Ducks, Newburyport — Lucy Ellmann

E

Eileen — Ottessa Moshfegh
Elmet — Fiona Mozley
The Emperor Waltz — Philip Hensher
The End of Days — Jenny Erpenbeck
The Essex Serpent — Sarah Perry
Europe in Autumn — Dave Hutchinson
Everybody: A Book About Freedom — Olivia Laing
Everything Under — Daisy Johnson
Everything you do is wrong — Amanda Coe

F

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soliders of WW1 — Lindsey Fitzharris
The Faculty of Indifference — Guy Ware
The Farm — Joanne Ramos
The Fat of Fed Beasts — Guy Ware
Father Melancholy's Daughter — Gail Godwin
Feebleminded — Ariana Harwicz
Feral Youth — Polly Courtney
Fever Dream — Samanta Schweblin
The Fifth Child — Doris Lessing
Fire on the Mountain — Jean McNeil
First Person — Richard Flanagan
The Fishermen — Chigozie Obioma
The Flame Alphabet — Ben Marcus
Flesh and Bone and Water — Luiza Sauma
Fragile Monsters — Catherine Menon
Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author — Paul Ewen
Frankenstein in Baghdad — Ahmed Saadawi
Fred & Edie — Jill Dawson
Friday Black — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
From Hell — Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
Fugitive Pieces — Anne Michaels

G

The Gallows Pole — Benjamin Myers
Gatekeeper — Kay Sexton
Ghostcloud — Michael Mann
The Giant Dark — Sarvat Hasin
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing — Eimear McBride
The Girl with the Louding Voice — Abi Daré
Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo
The Girls — Emma Cline
The Girls — Lori Lansens
The Girls Are All So Nice Here — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Girls in the Walls — A J Gnuse
Glitch — Lee Rourke
Gnomon — Nick Harkaway
The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
Good to Be God — Tibor Fischer
The Gospel According to Cane — Courttia Newland
Gospel Prism — Gerald Weaver
The Grace Year — Kim Liggett

H

Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell
Harvest — Jim Crace
Harvest of Thorns — Shimmer Chinodya
Hazards of Time Travel — Joyce Carol Oates
Helen and the Grandbees — Alex Morrall
Her — Harriet Lane
Her Body & Other Parties — Carmen Maria Machado
Here I Am — Jonathan Safran Foer
Herland — Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
His Bloody Project — Graeme Macrae Burnet
History of the Rain — Niall Williams
Hold — Michael Donkor
Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
Hot Milk — Deborah Levy
The Hour of the Star — Clarice Lispector
House of Names — Colm Tóibín
How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue
how to be both — Ali Smith
How to Be Human — Paula Cocozza
How We Are Translated — Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
The Human Script — Johnny Rich
The Humans — Matt Haig
Hurricane Season — Fernanda Melchor

I

I am the brother of XX — Fleur Jaeggy
I Remember — Joe Brainard
I Still Dream — James Smythe
If I had your face — Frances Cha
The Illiterate — Agota Kristof
In Great Waters — Kit Whitfield
In The Beginning was the Sea — Tomás González
In The Dream House — Carmen Maria Machado
In The Light Of What We Know — Zia Haider Rahman
In the Miso Soup — Ryu Murakami
The Infatuations — Javier Marías
Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
Intuition — Allegra Goodman
The Iraqi Christ — Hassan Blasim

J

J — Howard Jacobson
Jack — Marilynne Robinson
Judas — Amos Oz

K

Keeper — Jessica Moor
Kinder than Solitude — Yiyun Li
King Rat — China Miéville
Kudos — Rachel Cusk

L

Ladivine — Marie NDiaye
The Language of Dying — Sarah Pinborough
The Last Lover — Can Xue
The Last Novel — David Markson
The Last White Man — Mohsin Hamid
The Last World — Christoph Ransmayr
The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
Let The Great World Spin — Colum McCann
Life Ceremony — Sayaka Murata
Light — M. John Harrison
The Light Between Oceans — M. L. Stedman
Lightning Rods — Helen DeWitt
Lila — Marilynne Robinson
Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
Little Egypt — Lesley Glaister
Little Eyes — Samanta Schweblin
A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara
Live from Cairo — Ian Bassingthwaighte
The Lives of Others — Neel Mukherjee
The Living — Anjali Joseph
Lost Cat — Mary Gaitskill
The Lost Horizon — James Hilton
The Lost Time Accidents — John Wray
Love Life — Zeruya Shalev
Love's Dilemma — Walije Gondwe
The Lowland — Jhumpa Lahiri
Loyalties — Delphine de Vigan
Luckenbooth — Jenni Fagan
The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton

M

The Machine — James Smythe
Madame Zero — Sarah Hall
MaddAddam — Margaret Atwood
The Mall — S. L. Grey
The Man Who Saw Everything — Deborah Levy
The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047 — Lionel Shriver
The Manningtree Witches — A. K. Blakemore
Manual For A Decent Life — Kavita A. Jindal
Matrix — Lauren Groff
May We Be Forgiven — A. M. Homes
May We Borrow Your Country — The Whole Kahani
The Medici Mirror — Melissa Bailey
Men — Marie Darrieussecq
The Mercies — Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock — Imogen Hermes Gowar
The Mermaid of Black Conch — Monique Roffey
Milkman — Anna Burns
Minna Needs Rehearsal Space and Karate Chop — Dorthe Nors
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal — Dorthe Nors
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto — Michaela Coel
Mister Spoonface — Paul Blaney
Mockstars — Christopher Russell
Monster Love — Carol Topolski
Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World — David Moore & Jonathan Oliver
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter — Lizzie Pook
Mother — Hannah Begbie
Motherhood — Sheila Heti
Mrs Death Misses Death — Salena Godden
My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante
My Life As A Rat — Joyce Carol Oates
My Name is Monster — Katie Hale
My Sister, the Serial Killer — Oyinkan Braithwaite

N

The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
Neverhome — Laird Hunt
The Night Brother — Rosie Garland
Nightbitch — Rachel Yoder
Nightshift — Kiare Ladner
Normal People — Sally Rooney
The North Water — Ian McGuire
The Notebook — Agota Kristof
Notes On A Scandal — Zoë Heller
Nothing Holds Back The Night — Delphine de Vigan
Nudibranch — Irenosen Okojie

O

The Odd Women — George Gissing
The Old Drift — Namwali Serpell
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
Only Ever Yours — Louise O'Neill
Open Water — Caleb Azumah Nelson
Ordinary People — Diana Evans
Orfeo — Richard Powers
Orkney — Amy Sackville
Orlando — Virginia Woolf
Oryx & Crake — Margaret Atwood
Our life in the Forest — Marie Darrieussecq
Our Wives Under the Sea — Julia Armfield
Outline — Rachel Cusk
Owl Song at Dawn — Emma Claire Sweeney

P

Paris Echo — Sebastian Faulks
Peaces — Helen Oyeyemi
Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi
Pew — Catherine Lacey
Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
Pond — Claire-Louise Bennett
Poster Boy — N. J. Crosskey
Poverty Safari — Darren McGarvey
The Power — Naomi Alderman
Practicalities — Marguerite Duras
The Prophets — Robert Jones Jr
The Push — Ashley Audrain

Q

Quicksand & Passing — Nella Larsen

R

Rain Falls on Everyone — Clár Ní Chonghaile
Real Estate — Deborah Levy
Real Life — Brandon Taylor
Reconciliation — Guy Ware
The Remains of Love — Zeruya Shalev
Reservoir 13 — Jon McGregor
The Restraint of Beasts — Magnus Mills
A River Called Time — Courttia Newland
Rosewater — Tade Thompson

S

Salt — Jeremy Page
Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward
Satin Island — Tom McCarthy
Sealed — Naomi Booth
Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih
Second Place — Rachel Cusk
A Secret Sisterhood — Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney
A Secret Sisterhood — Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney
Seeing Red — Lina Meruane
Seesaw — Timothy Ogene
Seiobo There Below — László Krasznahorkai
The Sellout — Paul Beatty
seven steeples — Sara Baume
The Ship — Antonia Honeywell
The Silence of Scheherazade — Defne Suman
The Silence of the Girls — Pat Barker
Sisters — Daisy Johnson
Skin — Liam Brown
Small Country — Gaël Faye
Small Hours — Jennifer Kitses
The Snakes — Sadie Jones
So The Doves — Heidi James
Social Creature — Tara Isabella Burton
The Song of the Stork — Stephan Collishaw
Sorrowland — Rivers Solomon
The Sound Mirror — Heidi James
The Spinning Heart — Donal Ryan
A Spool of Blue Thread — Anne Tyler
Stay With Me — Ayobami Adebayo
Stoner — John Williams
The Story Keeper — Anna Mazzola
Strange Heart Beating — Eli Goldstone
Stronger Than Skin — Stephen May
Subjunctive Moods — C. G. Menon
Such a Fun Age — Kiley Reid
Such Small Hands — Andrés Barba
Supper Club — Lara Williams
Suspended Sentences — Patrick Modiano
Sweet Days of Discipline — Fleur Jaeggy
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain — George Saunders

T

Taduno's Song — Odafe Atogun
Tainted Love — Anna Chilvers
A Tale for the Time Being — Ruth Ozeki
The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah — Ian Muir Winn
Ten Steps To Us — Attiya Kahn
Tender — Ariana Harwicz
Tender is the Flesh — Agustina Bazterrica
Tenth of December — George Saunders
The Testament of Mary — Colm Tóibín
The Testaments — Margaret Atwood
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart — David Savill
The Thing Itself — Adam Roberts
Things Bright and Beautiful — Anbara Salam
Things I Don't Want to Know — Deborah Levy
This Book Will Save Your Life — A. M. Homes
A Thousand Ships — Natalie Haynes
Three Strong Women — Marie NDiaye
Tinkers — Paul Harding
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour — Joshua Ferris
Transit — Rachel Cusk
The Trick is to Keep Breathing — Janice Galloway
Twelve Days in Persia — Vita Sackville-West

U

The Undertaking — Audrey Magee
Unmastered — Katherine Angel
The Unseeing — Anna Mazzola
The Unseen — Roy Jacobsen
Unthology 7 — Ashley Stokes & Robin Jones

V

The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
The Vegetarian — Han Kang
The Visitor — Maeve Brennan
Vox — Christina Dalcher

W

Wahala — Nikki May
The Wake — Paul Kingsnorth
The Water Cure — Sophie Mackintosh
Water Shall Refuse Them — Lucie McKnight Hardy
Ways of Going Home — Alejandro Zambra
The Wayward Girls — Amanda Mason
We Are All Birds of Uganda — Hafsa Zayyan
We are all completely beside ourselves — Karen Joy Fowler
We Need New Names — NoViolet Bulawayo
We've come to take you Home — Susan Gandar
The Web of Belonging — Stevie Davies
The Weight of Things — Marianne Fritz
A Well-Behaved Woman — Therese Anne Fowler
What a way to go — Julia Forster
What Doesn't Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival — Elitsa Dermendzhiyska
What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky — Lesley Nneka Arimah
What Red Was — Rosie Price
When We Were Birds — Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Whereabouts — Jhumpa Lahiri
White — Marie Darrieussecq
White Hunger — Aki Ollikaine
White Lies — Lynn Michell
White Tears — Hari Kunzu
Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race — Reni Eddo-Lodge
Wild Swims — Dorthe Nors
The Witcher — Andrzej Sapkowski
Woman, Eating — Claire Kohda
Wounding — Heidi James
The Wrath of Napolo — Steve Chimombo
Written on the Body — Jeanette Winterson

Y

The Year of the Flood — Margaret Atwood
You Are Not You — Simon Rosenburg
You Will Be Safe Here — Damian Barr
Your Father Sends His Love — Stuart Evers

Z

Zeina — Nawal El Saadawi
Zero K — Don DeLillo